Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-12-03
WHOLE NUMBER 1856.

Orcas Island, informs us of an abnor-
NAL production from a young pear
on his farm, of the Bartlett variety. 1t
was very thrifty, and bore fruit at the
age of three years. This year it bore
two crops that ripened, and afterwards
produced four distinct growths OF pears
that We're taken off in full stages
of maturity, and afterwards another
crop of blossoms making six crops of
fruit and seven crops of blossoms"
A new insurance company with a
capital stock of 100000 has been
formed and most of the stock sub
scribed. The articles of incorporation,
however, have not been filed in the
Auditors office, but it is expected that
they will be in few days. The stock
holders of this new corporation are
mostly the farmers and hop growers of
Puyallup valley. The headquarters
Of the company will be at Puyallup
and for the present their business of
insuring will be confined to Western
Washington Territory.
A remarkable case of presence of
mind was recently shown by Mrs.
Nelson of the Stillaguamish. A child
with lighted shaving set fire to her
clothing from behind. The odor of
burning cloth soon pervading the
room, and Mrs. Nelson began the
search to find out what was on fire.
She soon found that it was herself,
and in the vain attempt to put out the
fire her hands were badly burned.
Fully realizing the danger of the sit
uation, with her clothes on fire, like
meteor she shot from the door, ran a
distance of some 800 feet, and plunged
headforemost into the river, thereby
effectually extinguishing the flames.
Last Saturday reporter of the
Post-InteHigencer visited the gardens
of Mr.. Muller, the German who has
been supplying his customers all sum-
mer and fall, and up to the present
time, with Strawberries. This garden
comprises about one block of land, in
Seattle, i'll a high state of cultivation
and devoted to the production of
strawberries, located about half mile
below the barrel factory, near the
beach. Unfortunately, Mr.. Muller was
away from home when the reported
called, so that no account of how the
Strawberries are kept ripening all win
ter could be obtained, but before leav-
ing, the writer went out into the berry
patch and picked from the vines in the
open air Il dozen or more large, ripe
strawberries.
The Postal Telegraph Co. has COM
menced extorting money from the
counties through which its line passes.
1t demanded 81 200 of Snohomish and
threatened to leave the town in the
woods without telegraphic communi-
cation, if that amount should not be
raised. OF course threat forboding
such dire results, had the desired effect.
The County commissioners gave $500
and subscription paper was circul-
ated for the remainder. There are in
stances where locality can afford to
give blood-money even to corpora
ton in order to secure great local adj
vantages; but when it comes to taxing
a county and making the taxpayer
living fifty miles from the benefits con-
feried contribute his mite to swell the
already too large, bank account of
" Bonanza" Mackey-it is asking most
too much.
A reporter of the Walla Walla
Union recently asked Cinnamon how
it was that his countrymen had so
many cousins, or if cOusinship"
among the Chinese bore the same re-
lationship that it does among the
white race. The Mongolian laughed
and said that the word cousin"
as applied by the Chinese, meant
nothing more or less than a close
friendship, or rather sort of partner
ship, carried on among his country
men. This relationship decends from
father to son at the pleasure of all the
parties concerned, hence the large
number of cousins to be found among
the race. He further stated that the
word cousin" was used for want of
better word, the Chinese having dis
covered that among Americans cousins
We're poor relations after all. That ex-
planation answers for the numberless
cousins to be found in Chinatown.