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

Mr.. Edisou's patents now number 30S:
more than were ever before grapts TO
one man.
Christine Nf;0oa changed hotels at
Omaha bee luse the landlord refused 70
furnish her with a lunch In bed.
The iimft Of interest on money II
South Caroliua has been raised by the
Legislature from seven 70 ten per cent.
The London Spectator admits. in tie
matter of Christmas cards, III IL England
is fairly beaten out of the field by
America.
Among the nov drugs in use are ALI.
gator pear seeds, corn silk, elephants
foot, and chews:lck, all In the form OF
fluid extracts
Puplls in a Philadelphia institution
for feebl e-minded children gave per
formar - of "PInsfore," and proved
equal - the requirements.
The old Rothschild house In the Jud-
enstrasse, Frankfort, has been sold TO
the city, but will be held on lease by
the family until demolished.
The recent Lord Mayors procession
was probably the last. With the re-
moval of the Law Courts there will be
no excuse for the visit TO Westminster.
A porcelain max r of kiyoto, in jap
an, who studied photography in Paris,
has succeeded in making photographs
In c0lOrs on porcelain, with perfect
perspective.
The wealthiest London
are believed to be Mr.. Winans, Sir Cur
tbs Lampson, MIR. Junius Morgan and
Mr.. Russell Sturgis, who has Just re
tired from Barings's.
Vanity Fair says a Colonel in the
Guards, who was under fire for Just i've
minutes, has got for 1t the Order of the
Bath, Turkish order, and the English
and Egyptian war medals.
Two ninety foot lathes, said to be the
largest in the world, have been made by
the South Boston Iron Works. Each
lathe contains 6O0, coo pounds of iron..
They are to be used to bore out cannon.
A Charlottesville, Va, printer has
written 2452 legible words on a postal
card with lead pencil, reserving IN the
center of the card space the Size of "a
gold dollar, on which is inscribed the
Lords Prayer.
Mr.. Mayer has laid before the French
Academy of Sciences a new mode VI
buria,, VIZ, glass collins, the air pumpsd
out, and filled with anti>eptic gas. Inus,
he claims, the body could Ue indefinite
ly kept interrupted.
A subterranean telegraph wire is be-
ing laid between Paris and Marseilles.
Nearly 800 woIkmen are employed on
the undertaking, which will cost 49,
wv, GU. The wire is to be connected with
the Atlantic and Mediterranean cables
The works of the harbor of Genoa are
going on speedily. The Duchess of
Gaiiiera has already paid all the 10
49, UO lire bequeathed by her late hue
band, and the Government will spend
next year 3,OUO.OUU more, and l6,OUO,UOU
from 1884 to 1891.
At the late review Queen Victoria
looked well as she stood on the balcony
OF Buckingham Palace. with her hand
some sons and daughters around her
SEE has grown stouter in figure but no
thinH2Ddln face. save perhaps that
her - Is more expanded than
fof ~ 1zGlaps too, Is de-
So GDoGo o&0111uE 81 1xom this
the LOnd01n A6oo4 80 -
winter than us1al. s 8.
At the opening of a sale q - -
strong theatrical attraction in Pkila0
phia, dozen distinct messenger boys
were On hand with commissions to buy,
and they went into the struggle for
places at the head of the line with such
vim that even the managers own ''spec-
ulatOrs," who were to have secured the
best seats, were forced aside. The con-
test was like football match or a STU
dents rush, and was witnessed by an
amused crowd.
An account is given in the English
journals of the performance of loco
motive on the Great Norther n Railroad.
which recently carried the Duke of
Edinburgh from Leeds to London, 1861
miles, in three hours, or at the rate vi
sixt, two miles per hour. Ibis speed
has frequently been equalled and some
times surpassed for short distances.
The engine had driving wheels eight
feet in diameter, or two feet larger than
the wheels of American engines.