Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-06-01
nlsCELLAxrers ITEMS.
Children are poor mems riches.

| The Methodist church extension boar
AIDED 4io churches the past year.
Wells, Fargo Il CO. sexpress line take
IN :. .uO miles, over which are scattere
1000 agents.
A tame wolf, presented to Prince Biz
marck by Russian, has arrived a
Friedrichruhe.
A Rlutton died at Clinton, ILL.,, afte
winning wager that he could eat
specired quantity of food in AN houl
The wild horses pasturina in the pam
pas OF the Argentine Republic are esti
mated to number two and q half mil
lions.
An Italian colony has been establishe,
near GAINESVILLE, in Florida, for the cul
tivation Of oranges and lemons on {
large scale.
There il extraordinary activity Jus
now In the shipbuildina yards Of tn.
Tyne. The weekly pay roll of one aru
was lately within IS of $4,000.
A resident of Belfast, Ohio. has beer
put under bonds of $500 to appear before
the grand jury on the charge of OPENING
letter from his wife to her father.
A colored preacher and three Of his
congregation are under arrest in Mont
gomery county, Nd. charged with tear
Ing down and haul NJ away their meet
ing house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mcdonald had a street
fight with pistols st New Lexington. O.,
over the possession of their child. Tley
had agreed to separate, but neither
wished to give up the caild.
A Boston congregation have urged
their minister to take years vacation.
No matter how greatly exhausted they
may be, they ought to fully recover
their strength inside of a year.
Scattered through the classes in the
Wesleyan University are sixtesn young
women, the standing of every one of
whom for scholarship is above the aver
age, while several are close to the top.
Tho delusion of an otherwise sane
Chicago man was to believe that his
cane was possessed OF spirit. He
talked to 1t, never let it be out of his
sight in walking, and kept it by him
when asleep.
A Minnesota mob did not lynch the
man whom they had intended SO to pun
ish. He argued with them while, and
then gave them s. to buy beer. They
were convinced that he was not SO bad
as they had supposed him to be.
The French War Minister has resolved
to abolish the three-cornered hat of the
gendarme, and will replace 1t with Il
helmet. This will be sad blow to the
poor eendarme. who relied SO much on
bis headgear to impress the populace.
Gen. George Mcdonald is called the
father" of the English army. He is IN
his Seth year, and entered the service in
1915. He fought in the war of 1872, and
was three times wounded at Waterloo.
Admiral Robert Loney of the British
navy entered the service in 1897,
The rope with which convict de-
scended from the window of his cell and
ESCAPED at jackson, Mich, was made of
small pieces of tarred twIne, taken from
bundles of slaves in the cooper shop.
10 gather the material and form the
rope required months of sly, hard work.
An important modification in the use
Of the Vatican has been decided on by
Leo XIII. Ills holiness intends to Gel
citrate all Pontitical ceremonies Is the
Loggia of st. Peters, where the canoni-
cation was recently solemniZed, leaving
the famous Sixtine Chapel to become
monument of religious art.
There was nothing peculiar about a
recent Toronto wedding up to the point
when the married couple Quilted the
church. Then the bride dropped her
husbands arm, got into her fathers
carriage, and returned home alone. She
refused either to see him again or to
make any explanation of her conduct.
After ten years debate the German
Legislature has decided to create a per-
manent Parliament House, on a scale
worthy the nation, on the konigs PlatZ,
little to the north of the Brandenburg
Gate, not far from the end of the I'm
ter-den- Linden. The cost will be about
81 COZ, 600 for the site, and So, zoo, 600 for
the building. Funds for the purpose
are already at the disposal of the Par
lament.
The gayety of Pau this winter has been
almost xampled-hunting, lawn ten
mis-, cricket, polo, balls, concerts, ba-
zaars, afternoons. and golf. About the
town arc seen drags, tandems-nay,
even very much tandems, in thu shape
of three horses in line. The weather
fires, open windows; and yet, until quite
lately, skating, with the spectators on
the banks with parasOls up.
Lizzie Marcellus, the circus rider who
was lost with Stoves show on the burn
cd Mississippi steamer Golden City,
went off with Dan Rice when only six
years of age. Dams circus passed
through rural town near Schenectady.
and Lizzie rode a short distance with
the clown in his buggy. Shs WAS re-
MAJ kably pretty and bright child. and
on leaving her at her parents door lie
gave the family tickets for that evenings
performance. She was infatuated with
the circus. and begged to be taken along.
Dan and his wife offered to adopt her,
aad the parents gave her up. She was
soon put into training for horseback
riding. at which she became expert. At
the time of her death, at the age of y.
she owned most of the horses in the
Stowe establishment, six cages of wild
animals, and 5000 worth of dresses aud
diamonds.