Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-06

already begun, a matchmaker in SPRING
Held. Mass, pawned all the watches be
had in hand TO repair.
Lady G. Douglas and her baker hus-
band are doing good work by SELLING
sound bread at fair weight in a ysry
poor district of London.
The increase of Baptist churches in
the United States duriag the last half
century has been at the rate of 42l
every year, or rather more than eight a
week.
Ninety-fhree thousand acres bayes
been planted under the new arboricuI
ture act IN Kansas. Preference is given
to the cottonwood tree because Of its
rapid growth.
The Danish Minister of Justice will
Introduce bill in the Legislature pro-
viding for the use of the gniliotine, and
that executions shall take place within
the jsils, as in England.
A st. Louis clergyman was brought
into a scandal, which has led to law
suit, chiefly because he bought set of
false teeth for girl whom he was be-
lieved to admire.
The lighting Of the Royal Library at
Brussels by electricity shas not been
successful. Tie fiickering of the lamps
was found very trying to the sight, and
on one occasion the reading room was
left in sudden darkness.
II struck Colorado Springs cor
respondent of the Sprin yfield Reps5li-
can as q little singular that the man
VINO described the place as "a paradise
for inv.lids" was making a living by
burying the invaIids who died there.
That there had been deterioration
in ST. Louis society is denied by the
Post Dispateh. Drunken men are not
now tolerated at weddings in that city,
whereas formerly nobody was permitted
| to keep sober on such an occasion.
In the Old World marriage often
makes a greater difference in ;he lot of
sisters than here. Thus, one of the late
Bernal Osborne's daughters is a Duchess
and the other the wife of an Irish police
magistrate in moderate circumstances.
An Ohio pastor had to announce to
his congregation that the marriage GER
eDony announced for that morning WAS
postponed, as the prospective bride
groom was in Jail for larceny. Then he
preached n sermon from the text, "Thou
| shalt not steal"
Since July, 1856, there have been
forty nine fatal accidents among Alone
climbers. MIR. G. 4. Matthews, late of
the Alpine Club, says that there is
scarcely one of the number which
might not have been prevented by prop
or care and caution.
The Academy of Sciences decides that
raw meat is easier of digestion than that
which is cooked. In prescribing it pre-
ference should be given to flesh that has
been frozen. as very low temperatures
destroy the eggs of the many parasites
| which often infest meats OF all kinds.
There are twenty-nine Roman Cath
olic peers Who have seats in the English
House of Lords; there are four Roman
Catholic Privy Councillors; there are
forty-ssven Roman Catholic Baronets,
the Premier being the .infant" Sir
Henry Alfred Doughty Ticaborne, and
the last in rank Sir Maurice O'Connell.
DR.. Benson, Primate- designate, had
the reputation of u champion Gamer at
Wellington College. and was the terror
of the small boy He is man of most
austere manners, middle hight, fair
hair, brushed back, yellowish complex
ion, large intellectual forehead. His
suc0eesas head master was not extra
ordinary.
The Lancet succumbs TO the belief
that the electric light must soon become
the common illuminating agent, but in
sists that some method should be de-
| vised 10 mitigate its intensity. For
true comfort" continues the writer re
gretfully. .thero is nothing like the
light given by the old fashioned pure
wax candle"
| nj. Plet, an actor of the IPalais- Royal,
known for his great powers OF niimicry.
has had the good fortune to gain the
| 100. 900 francs prize in one of the draw
ings of the Paris loan. Although
drawn on the lst of last MAY, M. Plet
money changer on whom he had called
| to cash some coupons.
No great difficulty has been found by
those firms whose places of busiress
| were destroyed by the recent great fire
| in the city OF London, in obtaining suit
able premises. Within few days one
firm had offers of twenty places all
standing empty. The fact is not sign
of prosperity, or tho city of London,
| like the suburbs, must DO oyerbuilt.
| Sarah Stokes, on trial at Little Rock
| for homicide, is a professional beauty.
| She told a reporter who viewed her IN
cell, that she was not looking her best,
| as trouble had injured her complexion
and expression of girlish sweetness,
| but yet she impressed him as almost
| perfect, and he has no doubt that she Is.
rs she claims, the most beautifnlwonan
| in Arkansas.
A movement among TexsD stock men
| to disarm their cowboys wRs deridsd at
first, but is now said to be making co,t-
siderable keadway. Several stock men
announced that they would not employ
anybody who carried deadly weapon.
| Ii was predicted that they would soon
| be compelled to rescind this oider, but
| the Stock JoarDai says that they find no
| difficulty in getting and keeping en-
| ployees, and that as soon as the plan Is
| put on tr,al on adjoining ranches. the
| cowboys will become its strongest advo-
Gates.
| During the trial of case in Louis
vile, kentucky, a witness persisted IN
trstifying to what his wife had told
him. To this. of course, the attorney
objected. and it was ruled out by the
judge. He would proceed to tell "shust
how il vas" when the attorney would
sinc out, "How do you know that ~
my wife told me" was the answer.
This was repeated several times Pres
entity the Judge. being unable to con-
tain himself longer, said: sSupposs
your wife were 10 tell you that the
heavens had fallen. what would yon
think I" 'veil, dink dey vas down."
A dreadful thing has hsppened 10 a
Baptist minister. He has been seen
sitting on a sofa with his wife. both
eating from the same banana, and the
church has promptly and properly asked
for his resignation. How could any
church expect to prosper spiritually
under shepherd who s;ts On sofa
with his wife and eats bananas! For
long time the possibilities Of the ban
ana ia the way of throwing people
down on ulciean sidewalks have been
widely recognized, bus this Is the first
instance, AS far ~ we know, that any
minister has fallen from good and reg
ular standing on ACCENT Of tbs banana.
The recent visit of the Emperor and
Empress TO ST. Petersburg was attended
with extra precautions on the part OF
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