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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-08-13

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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-08-13

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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-08-13
TO INVALIDS.

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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25

Probably the most wonderful time
piece ever heard of, is clock described
by Hindoo Rajah as belonging to a
native Princess Of Upper India. In
front of the clocks disk was a gong.
swung upon poles, and near it was a
pile of artificial limbs. The pile was
made up of the full number of parts
for twelve perfect bodies, but all lay
heaped together in seeming confusion.
Whenever the hands Of the clock in
dicate the hour of l, out from the pile
crawled Just the number of parts to
form the frame of one man, part join
ing itself to part with quick metallic
click, and when completed the figure
sprang up, seized small mallet, and
walking up to the gong struck one, the
first hour. When 2 o'clock came, two
men rose up and did likewise; and so
through all the hours of the day, the
number of figures being the same as
the number of the hour, till at noon
and midnight the entire heap sprang
up, and marching to the gong struck
one after another each his blow, max
ing twelve in all, and then fell to
nieces again.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25

Budapest" says Nine. Adam in her
ecent work on Hungary, lis town at
once very old and very new. On leav.
ing the station by which l arrived we
crossed the tunnel of Buda, a gigantic
work of an English engineer, which
reminds one of the Grotto of Pansilippe.
We crossed the Danube, which here
separates Buda from Pest, By an iIu-
mense bridge. of bolder construction
than can possibly be imagined 1t re-
poses only on two piers, though 400
metres long. Superb lions guard ths
extremtes Of it. concerning which the
following anecdote was related to me:
The bridge being finished, it was pub.
licly opened by the Municipality. Tbs
architect, proud of his wo'', waitei
patiently for his success The sculptor
who had decorated the bridge hal the
following announcement placarded in
the town: "Whoever finds defect in
my lions shall receive 5000 aorins'
The crowd came and admired lhs
superb animals, which, with their paws
outstretched AMI mouths half opened,
appear to be holding the Danube in
their power. All at once a cobbler
advanced toward the sculptor. whom
everybody was praising, and said, I
see somethingp They thought he was
mad, and hooted him. What do you
,ee9' asked the sculptor laughing.
These beasts have a mouth, and teeth,
but no tongue 1T is trur.' repeated
The crowd, they have no tonguer
They've given it to the dogs cried
one. The crowd laughed at The sculp.
:or, and applauded the cobb er. Upon
which the artist, mad with despair,
umped over the bridge into the
Danube. Every year, on the 22l of
september, the anniversary of the
'culptor's death. the lions are covered
with Grape. The birds make their
aests in the lions mouths, and never
complain because these are empty"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25

A French paper gives a graphic
sketch of the manner in which nearly
one-half of Paris was built upon the
hollow ground beneath. The cata,
combs are old quarries, some of which
had a ceiling solid enough to buildup.
on. But in many other cases the top
ground had to be blown down before
the work of building could be begun
and it was necessary also to fill in or
bank up the soil. In other cases the
houses were reared on the top of veri-
table piles, like those of Amsterdam.
The uses to which these hollow tun-
nels have been put include not only
the storage of dead mems bones and
mummies, and the accommodation of
sewers, but also the storage of wines
and the growth of mushrooms. 1t is
not perhaps generally known that the
thing which people were most afraid
of in Paris during the latter days of
the Commune was the fact, whether
real or supposed, that the leaders of
that desperate insurrectiOn had filled
the catacombs with gunpowder and
dynamite, and could at any moment,
if provoked to extreme measures, pro.
duce the effect of an earthquake up
on both banks of the Seine.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25
Forest Fires.

The Lumber World makes the aston.
ishing assertion that the loss to this
country through forest fires is now not
less than S300,000,000 year, simply
through the destruction of available
timber. without counting the addition.
al loss from the annihilation of tho
seeds scattered on the surface, and the
scorching Of the ground, which often
renders it sterile for a generation. This
enormous sum, about equal to the
interest on the public debts Of all the
civilized nations of the world, is, ac
cording to the report of experts,
annually thrown away forever by the
people Of the United States, without
the smallest return in the way of com.
fort or satisfaction, but, on the lontrary
at the cost of many lives each year,
simply through the carelessness of boys
and hunters, and of those more intelli-
gent persons who ought to know
enough to keeps sharp watch over thess
destructive animals. Next to human
beings of feeble intellect, railway
locomotives do most injury in forest
countries, and the Lumber World
inquiries seriously whether the owners
of such locomotives should not he com.
PEELED, in the public interest, to furnish
them with spark. k.arrcsters during the
dry season. The idea that railway
companies are responsible for the value
Of timber destroyed by fires set from
their locomotives undoubtedly has
some effect in preventing legislative
interference with their management;
but it is 50 difficult to fix the kindling
of forest fire with certainty upon
locomotive sparks, to say nothing of
the obstacles in the way Of collecting
large debts from newly established
railway corporations, that the safer
way would be to provide as far as pos
BILE against raising the question of
responsibility by compelling the use of
spark-arresters. Against animated
incendiaries forest patrol might be
tolerably effective, but it would be still
more useful toprovide in some way for
the removal of unIerbrush from the
woodland. Trees by themselves are
not easily kindled, and the mischief is
usually done through the ignition of
dry leaves, ferns or bushes, which
burn long enough to char, and at last
to kindle the branches of the trees
above them. m.-American Architect.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25
The Little MOusekeepers.

l suppose you know that nearly all
kinds Of birds take their flight to a
warmer part of the country in the far
distant South, upon the approach Of
cold weather, and come back to US
again with the opening days Of spring.
Among these are the bia,.ihird4. But
one winter, not many years ago, in
logging camp, away up in the Mime
sofa pineries, where the weather is
very cold in midwinter, two blackbirds
remained all winter, making their
home in the building used as a stable
.or the oxen. The rough lumbermen,
who had never known of case like this
before, were pleased and were kind to
the little birds; the man who had
charge of the camp and cooked for the
Btalwart choppers scattered crumbs for
them in generous quantities near the
camp door, and the birds soon learned
to expect their food at regular times
each day.
When the weather was extremely
cold the little birds kept in the stable
Tor, as the men call it, "hovel," J all
through the day. That is, they would
"sit in the barn to keep themselves
warm and hide their heads under their
wngs-poor things And when the
oxen We're driven home from their
work in the evening, the birds would
hail them with cries of welcome, and
alght on the warm backs of the oxen
and nestle down in the thick bushy
hair, probably to warm their toes. And
every night they slept on their chosen
perch. nestled down snugly on the
backs of the gOod-natured beasts, whr
either did not care or were unawa of
their presence. In sunny days they
dew about, alghting in the tall pine.
and on the big log building-which
the men call the "camp but never
during all that long winter, did they
go far away from their chosen home,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25
His Delicate Musical Mission.

"Does yer old man work on the dock
nowp"
"N-a-a-w. He is musician"
ais he the man that swallys the
clarinet in the band?"
"N-a-a-w; he don't swally the clar-
met in the band. He stands on the
sidewalk and keeps time wild his fut."
SVtin3s,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25
Light Jet.

"Such nonsense" said the teacher to
Johnny Crimsonbeak, when that young
man had informed him that he had
seen jet when it was not black. ~
tell you jet is always dark"
"Well, tell you we've got light jet
up to our house, and if you'll come up
there tonight III show it to you"
"What kind of jct is ?" at length
asked the pedagogue, beginning to
think the boy knew what he was talk.
ing about.
"Gas jet!' fairly yelled Johnny, as he
passed out of the open window sill,
YonkeiS statesman. :.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25

The japanese appear to have hit
upon the eXpedient Of providing fire
proof stoIehouses for the reception of
furniture and other valuables. AS a
security against the vast cOnaagra-
tions which, during the winter
months, are 50 prevalent in Japan,
the most perishable and valuable
articles are kept in lireproof store
houses known as mud godowns."
These structures are built of mud, or,
to speak more correctly, of clay.
Some of them take as many as three
years in building; a double frame
work Of bamboo or slight boarding is
run up, and the intervening space,
about eighteen inches or two feet
wide, is filled in with mud, which is
gradually packed and allowed to dry
by the action of the atmosphere. AT
a great fire which occurred at Toxic
lat month, and ragged for nine hours,
destroying large number of houses.
not one of the "mud godowns" s"-and
there were several hundred of them
was injured throughout the entire
area of from two to three miles in
extent laid waste by the conhagration
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25
WOODSTOCK WEDNESDAY, MARCH %, 1885.
man Simms back. as John won't need
him any more to look after his dogs
and horses

man Simms back, as John won't need
him any more to look after his dogs
and horses
"When John was forbidden the
house, you see, he put up a job with
Simms, his factotum, to find employ
ment with the farmer, and carry on
the desired correspondence between
him and Margaret, and arrange for the
elopement. j. Simms received her
early on the morning of September
18th, dressed in boys clothes, with
cloak around her, which she at once
removed, and drove her in a gig to a
spot near the station, where John
Joined them. On reaching Hull, John
said to himself: The old man will
have the police after us, and 1 don't
want to travel to far away Then
down he went to the police head
quarters, and got the address of half a
dozen detectives. The second one he
visited suited him, and he took rooms
and board for himself and Margaret.
Then he got the license, and they were
married. The next was to make a
clean breast of it to the detective, and
as John paid good price for his
rooms, and round sum in addition,
he determined to see him through.
When information was given by me to
the police, the detective was one of the
first notified, and with great acuteness
he planned what followed, getting his
father-in-law-an old retired officer
to take the first hand, and skillfully
introducing his own son to fill out the
story, which, of course, was the sheer,
est fabrication"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25


Far In green and wooded dell,
Where the maple boughs do meet,
Rustles-shall I truly tell,
Gentle whispers low and sweetl
o, sounds most dear,
What songs you sing,
What tales you bring
OF summers coming near.
Every leanet sings in praise,
To the leaf its neighbor;
All breathe deep in their own ways,
Gay and free from labor,
Breathe the holy air OF peace,
Perfume ne'or was rarer,
Nor sping day ftirer,
E'en in storied Greece.
Birds and leaves on every bough
Sway and toss in splendor,
Upward scars my soLl-till now,
Oh, so weak and tendor,
Summers sun brings lasting balm,
Gone is winters biting blast,
Rain is now all over past,
Following storm-the calm.
From The German.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25

The United States has $1,000 dentists,
who use a ton of gold and five tons of
other metals and make 100000 arti-
ficial teeth annually. Only one Amer
ican in eighty is found to have perfect
teeth, and one.third of the population
make more or less use of the artificial
product.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25

The latest phase astronomy has as.
sumed Is rather humorous one. 1t
relates to the computation of the
comparative power Of sunlight and
moonlight, The poet has told us that
moonlight unto sunlight is as water
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25

Last year over a million and half
of cats were killed for their skins,
which have become valuable as fur
lining. The industry of cat skin col
Letting is of very recent growth. II
within so short a space of time the
casual destruction for their hide Of
few stray cats has assumed the respec-
table Dimensions of solid traffic esti-
mated in round numbers at hundreds
of thousands of skins, what will it be
a decade hence? About the superiori-
ty of cats skins over rabit, rat, or
squirrel skins there is no question.
The cost Of production, too, cannot DO
called excessive, seeing that each skin
is stolen, and the whole original out
lay is one stout stick for despatching
puss and sack to carry her home in,
while the total working expenses are
the wear and tear Of shoe leather In
tramping the streets for prey.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
Can't Rub IL Out.

Can't huD IL Out'
Don't write there" said father to
bis son, who was writing with a dia-
mond on the window.
"Why not?"
because you can't rub it out"
Did it ever occur to you, my child,
that you are daily writing that which
YOU can't rub out?
You made a cruel speech to your
mother the other day. 1t wrote itself
on her loving heart, and gave her
great pain. 1t is there now, and
hurts her every time she thinks of it.
You can't rub it out.
You whispered wicked thought
one day in the ear of your playmate.
1t wrote itself on his mind, and led
him to do wicked act. 1t is there
aow; you can'trub it out
Sorry.
"Oh, dear! what shall l do? I've
:orn my pants, and my mamma will
;cold so." and Robert cried pretty hard.
Poor little fellow! He was chasing
a butterfly, and stumbled and fell. He
struck his knee against sharp stone
and hurt it quite badly; but his great
trouble was that he had cut hole in
his pants.
Never mind Robbie tears won't
mend it. Run home and tell mamma
about it right away, and be sure you
tel! her you are sorry. If little boys
only knew how that little word "sorry"
helps the matter with mammal II
makes her feel sorry, too, right away.
Instead of being vexed and scolding
her little boy, she pities him. But
when boy goes home with a great rent
in his clothes, aud doesn't seem to care
anything about it, why, then mamma
will very likely say,"You naughty, care
less boy. you don't mind at all how
much work you make for your poor
tired mother"
Robert is good boy and loves his
mother. He went home and said, IL
didn't mean to, mamma, and I'm 50
sorryw He said the word $50" very
hard.
"You dear little make-work," said
his mamma, catching her little boy
right up in her arms and giving him a
good hug. "As long as yol are so
sorry mamma doesn't mind. I'll have
to put some leather caps on your knees.
so you won't scrape aholein your pants
when you tumble down"
That will be first rate laughed
Rob.-Sunbeam.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25

The states whose banks have been
counterleited are Vermont, Massachu-
setts Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois. Michigan and Wis
c0nsin. OF these New York has the
largest number (lfty-three) J, or nearly
fifty per cent. Illinois comes next
with twelve. The finest counterfeits
are a s. bill on the Merchants Ma
tional Bank of New Bedford, Mass; a
500 bill on the Pittsburgh National
Bank Of Commerce, the old $50 green
back, and a $40 Treasury note, series
of 1875. Counterfeiting in America
has been reduced to practical science,
and is the most completely organized
system Of rascality on earth. Its
members include both sexes, all ages,
and natonalities Counterfeit money
frequently passes current for years,
but in the end some one has to lose it,
and it generally falls on those who are
least able to bear the loss.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

1t is said that during the last twenty
years there has been taken from the
Sierra forests on Lake Taboo and the
Truckee basin timber amounting in
value to s80,000.000, and paid for at
the Virginia, Nevada, mines.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25

A Methodist elder of Fort Worth,
Tex., recently whipped bully, and
the Methodist of that town thus ap-
preciatively describes the incident
"The elder took him one square blow
between the lockers without stopping
his pace, and it took twelve rowdies,
three dippers of water and two quarts
of whisky to revive the patient and
get him off the grounds"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25

Korti, the headquarters of Gen.
Wolseley, is situated on the left bank
of the Nile, 1000 miles south from.
Cairo. That point is just south of the
Big Bend in the Nile. which there
runs to the westward, turning soon,
however, to the northward. Ascend
ing the Nile from Kort, the direction
is northeast to Abu Hamed, where the
direction is again southerly.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25
WHOLE NO. 22l2.

unto wine, but Sir William Thompson
has gone more definitely into tue
matter and informs us that sunlight is
about seventy thousand times greater
than the light Of the full moon. This
is all right, we presume. Sir William
goes further, however, and lets US
know that, if the face Of the moon
were painted black and covered with
candles standing packed in square
order touching one another, and all
burning normally, the light received
at the earth would be about the same
in effect as it really it.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25

One English clergyman has just de-
clared that he leaves house as soon
as he sees a novel in it, believing that
no spiritual good can be there effected;
while another has committed himself
to the statement that the permission
given to the Japanese to worship their
idols in the japanese village now ex-
hibiting in London will bring down
the curses of heaven upon the city.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25

Here Is significant historical remi-
niscence. Six hundred and ten years
before the Christian era Nechos, liking
of Egypt, attempted to make a canal
between the Gulf of Arabia and the
Mediterranean Sea, The essay was
abandoned in the following year, after
costing, according to IIerodotus, the
lives of $4,000 men. Another Egyp-
tian canal, and the rights appertan-
ing to it, seem likely to lead to the
sacrifice of many more lives after the
expiration Of twenty-five centuries.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25

DR.. J. Fl. Roberts writes from Libe-
ria, Africa, to the Boston Medical and
Surgical Journal that he is convinced
that the medicinal herbs grown in GER
tain climates are especially adapted for
the cure of diseases which prevail in
them, though they may be useless else,
where. He finds the plants of Liberia
much more successful in African fever
than the best of drugs prepared in
more highly civilized countries.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25

A club at Bolton, England, is known
as the Wife-Beaters' Club, and applies
its revenues to paying the costs and
fines Of members tried for thrashing
their wives. In a recent case it fur
nished $40 to defray the expenses of a
gentleman who had been amusing
himself by jumping on his helpmeet.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25
An agriculturist of Oakland, CAL, is

An agriculturist of Oakland, Cal, is
making a determined effort to intro"
duce the cultivation of tea in that
State. He has over 1000 tea plants in
a very thriving condition, and when
they arrive at the age Of four years he
will obtain Japanese labor and pick
and cure. He does not entertain
doubt of success. He has also a num-
Der of camphor trees that are growing
well.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25

The Chinese in Colorado are likely
TO become partly civilized through the
efforts put forth in their behalf by
philanthropists Of Denver A great
many of the Chinese in that city at
tend Sunday-school, and night schools
have lately been established where
they are taught to read and write. A
teacher is required for every pupil,
and each teacher must possess an in
Unite fund of patience and persever-
ance, for most Cinnamon are rather
dull. A man greatly interested in the
Chinese recently gave large number
of them party at his house. They
came in their Sunday best, nearly all
wearing the American costume, and
were far more self-possessed and easy
in their manners than one would sup.
pose they could be.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25
Rutland siness Cards.
BERWICK HOTEL,

O f RICHARDSON, Prop'r,
RUTLAND VERNON /
Heated Throughout by Steam,
Good Sample Rooms, Billiard Room AMI
Livery Stable connected with the Hotel
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25

The New York Sun says much of
the fine comb honey exhibited in glass
boxes in New York city merely repre-
sents Yankee skill. The comb and
the honey never saw bees. They were
manufactured by human hands. the
comb of parafline or beeswax and tho
honey, which is also false, blown in by
machinery. Another kind of honey
which is put up in glass cups, with
small piece of comb in the centre, is
made from cane sugar, glucose or syr-
up. We hope New York city will mo-
nopolize all of this class of honey.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-03-25
Your loving daughter,
MARGARET MAJOR

GLOW did feel? Can't you guess? !?
Why, Of course, I'd been done-regu.
.lrly done. | was there when the
iouple arrived and the old man re.
eeived his daughter with open arms,
nd shook John heartily by the hand.
"We are coming to live with you,
athcr,' Margaret sai., and John is
o.ng to manlge the farm for you, and
y are going to have that nice young