, 1882-08-05
Editorial Spinnines.
GRANT, the great National bessar, il
before Congress this week.

GRANT, the great National beSsar, il
before Congress this week.
CHICAGO papers keep this standing
head, Died of Toy PISTOL" Fifteen
boys died of it since the Fourth.
BESIDE the calm still sherry cobbler at
Long Branch, the Tariff committee cook
the Protection goose.
THE chief end and aim of .ome of the
young ladies' here is to get a No. Z too,
into No. q shoe. 1t creates the xab-
| bIes.
The Pnstmaster General hss decided
that there Is no law or ruling prohibiting
woman from carrying the mail Or the
| male, either, for that matter.
THERE are so few issues before the
Washington Territory people that the
average ofhce-seeker does not find it diff
cult TO keep on the fence.
A NEW idea in hotel arrangement is
broached BY a crank in San Frane,seo. It
Is to have q three-inch pipe from the
snow-capped Sierras to each room in the
house In tha. city, through which pure
air is pumped He says it VIII prevent
guests from leaving for the summer re-
sorts.
AMONG the evils transmitted to this
country by the Chinese is that of the hor-
rible disease of leposy. A San Fran
cisco physician says: The disease has
not few victims among the whites. Es-
pecially is it revealing itself about the lips
and tongues of boys who smoke cheap
cigarettes made by Chinese lepera. This
disease, though fatal, is slow in giving
tokens of its first approaches. The doc
tor knows of ITO cases, largely Mongol-
ian. The disease is highly contagious;
sleeping in bed-clothes handled by in
fected Chinese servants, even sitting on
the chairs they have used, handling the
same things, ETC., Is dangerous The dis
ease is often not observable for four or
FIVE years, and then only by physicians
accustomed to examining such patients.
In the Sandwich Islands, where it pre-
walls, an island is set apart for lepers.
The hospital has at this time 800 lepsrs
IT begins to look as though Springfield
rifies as well as statutes, will have to be
used in Utah this fall
ULEMA is a word often met with in the
dispatches from Alexandria, and many
do not understand its reaning. 1t is the
plural of the Arabic word calm"
Earned man 1t is body of learned
men Il: Turkey; learned in law and divin-
ity.
HOWEVER many recommendations Wal
la Walla may offer for the establishment
OF manufacturing enterprises, all our ad-
vantages will be passed over unless our
people offer liberal inducements to any
one preparing to come here with business
Of this nature.
The following preliminary statement
for the fiscal year ending June 80, covers
all C. R. An lines, railroad, river
steamboats, and ocean s'eamers- The
June earnings and expenses are partly
estimated.
The earnings for the year were as fol
lows:
Gross earnings .-..---- s., ,aa3, ,OOl 1878, ,245
Expenses .............. 2,526,5I5 2W5,5S4
Net earnings s., ,4os.426 sl,666, SCI
We canardly believe it-that Col Nash
of Spokane Falls. intends to enter the
race for the delegateship.
The government does nothing to en-
courage cleanliness and economy. A man
has had to go to jail for washing postage
stamps SO that they could be put back on
the envelope
We have Just finished reading an &C
count of the house Vander-built, and we
admire his taste SO much tha: when We
erect our palace on Alder street, We In
tend to have Simonds 4 Young paint our
bedroom ceiling to represent the day
break with Phoebe dressed in crescent
moon.
THE Idaho Democrat favors Hon w. 1.
Baker as the Delegate to Congress, from
that territory. Mr.. Baker is not only .
thoroughly good democrat, but an estim-
able gentleman, well up in the needs OF
that territory, and would represent the
best interests of Idaho, at Washington