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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-11-02
VOCAL LESSONS.

MRS. PKARLMAN, LATE OF SAN
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-15
Houses Built Of Cotton.

OF all substances apparently the least
likely to be used in the construction of
a frc-proof building, cotton would, per-
haps, take the first rank, andspaper the
second; and yet both these materials
are actually being employed for the pur-
pose indicated, and their use will prob
ably extend. Compressed paper pulp
is successfully used in the manufacture
of doors, wall panelings, and for other
similar purposes. with the result that
all risk of warpirg and cracking is OBJ
waited. while increased lightness is at
tanned and the fear of dry-rot is forever
banished. Papier-mache, after having
served = useful purpose in an unobstruct-
i've manner for years as a material for
small trays, paper-kniyes and other such
light articles, has now suddenly assumed
a still more important position in the
industrial world. A still more sudden
and striking advance has been made in
the employment of cotton as a building
material. A preparation called celluloid,
in which cotton is the leading ingredient,
has been used lately as q substitute for
ivory in the manufacture Of such articles
as billiard balls and paper-cutters, and
now Canadian manufacturer has in
vented process by which compressed
cotton may be used, not merely for doors
and window-frames, but for the whole
facade of large buildings. The enorm-
Gus and increasing demand for paper
for its normal uses as a printing aud
writing material prevents the. extended
use of papier-mache as building mater
ial, for which it is so well suited in SO
many ways; but the production of cot
ton is practically unlimited. and there
seems to be a large field available for
its use in its new capacity as a substitute
for bricks-or at least plaster-and wood.
Treated with certain chemicals and conn
pressed, it can be made perfectly fire.
proof; and material is thus produced
admirably adapted for the lining inter
nal or external-of buildings of which
the shell may or may not be constructed
of other material. while it easily lends
itself to decorative purposes.-Co Colonies
ard India.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-15

The largest diamond which has been
found this century was discovered in the
Kimberly mine, South Africa, and is
now on exhibition in London. 1t is
called from its discoverer the Porter
Rhodes diamond, and is of remarkable
wilderness.
Before it left the diamond-field five
hundred pounds (Which was placed to
the credit of the local hospitalD had been
paid by spectators admitted to see it,
and sixty-nine thousand pounds had
been offered for it in vain by syndicate
of London jewellers.
It weighs one hundred and fifty car
ats, is still uncut, but is SO cloven that
the table and one of the ..steps'' are
already formed, and it viii lose less than
most diamonds in the cutting, being
expected to produce a net weight of
one hundred carats when it assumes the
form Of brilliant.
Its great purity of color and compact
ness OF shape make it beautiful object,
even il its present rough state.
Mr. Streetor shows near it models of
other famous diamonds, the Koh-i-Neor
Zone hundred and six and one-sixteenth
carats). the Star of the South (the great
Brazilian stone), the Dresden Drop, etc,
together with the unique jewel, the
Mackel diamond, in which a smaller
stone has been embedded by some freak
of nature.
The diamond was shown to the Queen
and Princess Beatrice and the Duke of
Albany at Osborne, and Her Majesty
presented MIR. Rhodes on that occasion
with n watch, which he showed with as
much pride as his big diamond.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-15
"Old Kentucky Home"

Next to the words of ones mother,
the songs or music one has loved in life
are the surest visitors to his last mo-
ments. The Troy On. Y Times gives
this pathetic incident A company of
negro minstrels were playing in London,
and were softly singing one night to 8
crowded house the chorus in '-Old Ken
lucky Home
When the last notes melted away o
strengthening figure advanced q few
steps from his seat in dark corner, and
the auditors were startled at hearing q
voice say earnestly and distinctly
'TSing the dear old song again-sing
for me. I'm listening hard, boys, and
every word is friend to me; home to
everything. Say, will you sing it
Just once more?'
It was the figure and voice of an old
minstrel, who left this country several
years ago. and after playing in Australia
made his way, broken-down old man,
to London. Here be supported himself
by playing the banjo, but generally eked
out miserable existence.
The Ministries sang the chorus again,
and the figure sank back into its seat.
When the audience dispersed it re-
manned motionless, and when an attend
ant came to rouse the old man he found
he was dead
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-15

| bored at all early age, anu larger and
| larger pieces OF stick being inserted, I'M
| til the aperture was capable of taking in
one of the larger bones of q pelican,s
wing-fve or six inches long, carved in
rllde style, and decorated at the end
with crimson feathers-whieh is worn
permanently. The back hair of the
men is fastened up in net, and made
fast by q pin of wood pushed through
both hair and net, the large end being
ornamented with crimson feathers, OBJ
tanned from the head of the .scarpen-
tere'' woodpecker, and sometimes, also,
with the tail feathers of an eagle. The
women, before the advent of the whites,
wore no hair nets or ornaments. Before
being corrupted by the rude gold-dig-
gers and lumbermen, they were not
bad kind of people on the whole.
The men were treacherous, but. unless
in-treated, were harmless enough, and
the girls frank and even confiding-per-
haps quite as much as young grizzly
bears. But then the men always were
+ ill-treated, and the children could
scarcely be expected to be very confid-
ing to a pale-face, when from infancy q
white man was the bugbear used to
brighten them into submission to the
maternal will. A California bow could
no more tell you when he first learned
to swim than he could say when he re-
membered to have first walked. The boy
has bow and arrow put into his hand as
soon as he can use them; while girls
learn to weave blankets and make bread
of acorns. They are much more famil-
lar with the points of the compass than
their northern neighbors. IL ball or
an arrow is lost, instead of searching
about in all directions for it, the one
who saw it fall will say: ITO the east;
little north; now three steps northeast"
and so on. Even in the darkest night
an Indian will fetch water from spring
by following the directions of a COM
panion who had been there previously
Three hundred steps east and twenty
north.''
They are excellent crackers of game,
and say it is impossible to mistake
white mans foot, even If bare, for it is
deformed by the pressure of boots or
shoes; while the Indians foot, never
trammelled by any such foot-gear, is so
formed that he can use his toes to hold
arrows whilst he is making them. They
roam about from place to place, as the
attractions of game or other food may
incline, and hence are generally well ac-
quainted with wide range of country.
From ''Ihe Peoples Of The World" By
DR.. Robert Broacf.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-15

In manufacturing printers ink from
cotton waste NJ. Baslond subjects the
waste to the action of bisulphide of car
bon or any other liquid having great
affinity for oil, and capable of evaporat-
ing at a low temperature. Bisulphide
of carbon is however, to be preferred,
on account of its cheapness. 1t should
completely saturate the cotton contain
ed in the vessel, and run off with the oil
or grease of the waste into a suitable re-
ceptacle, where the mixture is subjected
to the action of heat. The bisulphide of
carbon is evaporated and condensed so
that it may be used over again, while
the oil and grease serve admirably for
printers ink, and the renovated and puri-
fed cotton waste can be used as before.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-15
The Digger Indians.

When California was first invaded by
the crowd of gold-diggers in 1849. be-
yond thsbfew thousands who had collect
ed round the Spanish missions in Lower
California, and were in state of the
most abjeet subsection to and depend
ence on the priests, there must have
roamed over the wide region more than
100000 Indians, living in state OF Tree
dom and of nature. as complete as tho
elk, antelope or sage rabbit, which furn-
ished their then by no means precarlous
livelihood. A headdress OF feathers,
with a scanty coat of paint on his face,
was the full dress of q brave, while .
fringe Of bark or grass suspended from
her waist furnished q complete wardrobe
for his squaw TO this day the males
90 naked during the summer, If living
at distance from the whites
The men have no beard, this being
plucked out by the squaw with couple
of shells as soon as it appears. They all
wear ornaments In their ears -or, at
least, they did. The children had theirs
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-15
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-15

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something. Glitter, tinsel, brilliant col
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-15
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-15
STOCK SPECULATION,

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Wall Street, New YORK, buy stocks ON reasonable
margin, ana, when desired, will advise when ana
to 800 can be probably invested. Opportunities
ornation application, sra Weekly Report sent
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-15

The two debutantes most admired in
society this season are the little Senorifa
Mabelle Pacheco, of California, and
Fraulein Emile Deuster OF Wisconsin
The two seem to have exchanged the
type of race-the Spanish girls style Of
beauty beng the purest Saxon, while the
German bellies complexion might have
ripened in the genial sunshine OF Ands-
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-15


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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-15

It takes eight hundred full-blown roses
20 make tablespoonful OF the famous
perfume, and yon can get enough per-
furne out of an onion to drive a dog on
a galIop out of a slaughter-house. And
vet we admire the rose more than we do
the onion.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-15
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and
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-15
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-15

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-15
Poetry and Prose.


Many a reader of Byron's beautiful
poem, 1.-The Prisoner of Chillon,a has
been filed with tender pity for the poor
captive. The long confinement; the dark
ness, broken only by glimmer of light;
the damp floor under the waters of Lake
Leman; the helpless prisoners, chained
to a massive pillar; the two brothers,
dying in confinement, make a touching
story.
But Byron used a poetic privilege of
creating his facts. Downward, the pris
oner, was no martyr for religion. He
was one of the most frivolous thinkers
and writers of his age. The sufferings
of father and brothers were simply in
ventions of the poet. There were no
chains TO bind him, nor was the prison.
floor beneath the surface of the lake,
nor was he confined for many years in
the cell. He was shut up in the cell
four years, with no special privations
and sufferings, and spent his time in
writing Latin and French verses, so lax
in morals as to be unfit for publication.
But Byron viii keep the field for years
to come, and majority of readers viii
take their facts from the poet rather
than the historian.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-24
ingn in November. The parts are strongly cast.
Mrs. Langtry's Rosalnd tonight Is causing an il-
meuse amount of interest.
FINAL SCENES OF THE WAR.

THE BRITISH TROOPS IN DAMIETTA-sURRENDER OF.
ABDELLAL PACHA-THE KHEDIvE ISSUES A
MANIFEsTO-GENERAL WOLsELEY TO REPRE-
SENT HIM IN RESTORING ORDER.
DANIETTA, Sept. 23,-General Wood, with two
regiments, arrived in Damietta to-day. Abdellal
surrendered at the railway station. The British
troops occupied the town Oh their arrival. The ne
gro garrison, instead of surrendernG, fed, taking.
besides plunder quantity of ammunition. The sur
rounding country is quiet. The crops are in spen-
did condition.
ALEXANDRIA, Sept. 23.-General Wood on his
march to Damietta. reached CIibin last evening.
The railways were blocked by dcserters from Alb
dellaps camp. General Wood telegraphed that AD-
delals troops continued TO desert OF 1000 orlgI-
nalv in garrison only 800 blacks remained, and
they had plundered the barracks, the Governors
house, many private residences and the Exchanges.
The Khedive has issued manifesto, declaring
that England has great interests in Egypt, both IN
regard to finances and traffic through the Suez
Canal and that Tor the protection of those interests
she was compelled TO interfere but that she has no
intention OF annexing the country. The Kh dive
announces that he has authorized General WOlscley
TO represent him III restoring order and punIshlng
the rebels. All loyal Egyptians are called upon to
give General Wolseey every assistance. Anyone
refusing to do so Will be treated as a rebel.
It's disgusting 20 witness the attitude and en-
thusaSm of the natives for the khedive and to hear
the expressions of loyalty of many who have been
notorious friends of Arabi Pacha. The khedive,
however, isnot deceived by this lip-lOyalty, lhe
fact that several partisans of Arab still hold
Government appointments under the protection OF
certain Ministers is much commented upon.
Two men who were implicated in the June mas
sacres here were hanged to-day.
CAIRO Sc t. 23-Thc British cavalry marched
through the city to-day for the purpose OF making
n demonstration to ntirnidae the natives and pre-
vent disorders IN the Arab quarter.
General Macpherson and stall arrived here last
night Indian troops and mule battery viii leave
ZaCazig tonight to march hthcr
LONDON, Sept. 23.-A Paris dispatch to The
Times saws certain directors of the Suez Canal have
taken alarm at the view expressed by The Times III
an article on the SueZ Canal published on Septem-
bcr2I In order to dispel any anxiety III regard to
England starting second canal, they seem inclined
toencct an understanding whchwould give England
full satisfaction and perfect security Tor the 1utre
while guarding the general int rests az stake Inns
will probably be the way IN which the question oil
the settlement OF the canal will be disposed OF.