The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-09-21

,aiss.nt shouxht they heard the screeching
"a ! dozen ahle- bodied locomotives hcxing
far The chan pionshir- The woman wno
handled tie reptile was probably ifign'-
ened-
The whole Of the sewage OF Paris VIII
soon h used for the purpose Of iaafke.
gardeners. Genneviilier NOW soscFss ana
pur;fses third Of the Paris sewage water.
Aehires and Merry vii soon utilize me
rest.
In one of tie counties OF Georgia there
il = torn Of so inhabitants OF whom less
than ! scare are subscribers 10 any news
rapey. Nsvbe it Is merely coincidence
thai the toxn is nearly unanimously LEM
ocraiic.
Mrs. Harriet Beccher Stowe lives recu-
liar existence 81 present She eats vesy
little. combining her diet almost altogether
% bread and butter ard fruit She sleeps
vel in the daytime, but Is apt to be wake
fGl az night
The peari excitement at Albany, Wis,
CONTINUES. and the banks Of the river are
dotted for miles with the tents OF clam
hunters. For the largest and best pearl
vet found s. 800 was offered and refused
Hundreds of small pearls are found and
sold daily.
A New JERSEY preacher recently likened
Ponfius Plate TO the corrupt sehemins
politician OF the present day. Nj. fua1e
is dead. but il is understood that his only
living relative in this country will sue the
New Jersey prescher for Eheiing an Old
member of the family.
Senator Evarts complains bitterly be-
cause the comic artist always portrays him
with q shabby hat. He declares that he
buys more hats than any other man IN
public life. The Senator attends many
ban9uess. and he is evidently always the
last to leave. That would explain the
shabby hats.
Last month o, i6l s;eerage passengers
and 1885 cabin passengers landed at New
York. In August last year . $40 steerage
passengers and ll,o5S cabin passengers
came The total Immigration UP to and in
Guiding August 81 amounted to 1880;
last year ii was o93 ,99l, decrease OF 73,0il,
or IS per cent
The Philadelphia Pres, says "the Penn
sylvania Democracy goes into the CAM
paign with water on one shoulder and
whisky on the other Nonsensel The
Pennsylvania Democracy never carries
whisky on the shoulder. Ii the party car
RES it outwardly at all, it is in the hip
pocket, properly corked.
Senator Fair, of California, has given or
deYs to have the monument of Frederick.
who was killed by the late Judge Terry,
renovated and cleaned. The monument Is
OF marble, twenty feet high, and stands on
the highest point of Laurel Hill cemetery,
overlooking the Golden Gate. Senator
Fair was an intimate friend of Frederick
and ife-opponent Of Judge Terry.
What weli-directed training schools can
accomplish is illustrated in the case OF the
dairy schools of Denmark. The govern
ment has for years spent over Sc, 900 yearly
for the maintenance of dairy schools. The
result has been an immense improvement
in dairy products, and lively demand for
Danish butter. Within twenty years Den
marks exports OF butter have increased
from s., 100 900 to $i3 600 600 per annum.
A slaughter of swallows has been organ
lied on large scale aleng the southern
seaboard of France. The poor creatures
alight on wires provided for the purpose,
tired out after long flights 10 or from Italy
and the East, and they are killed in thou
sands by means of electric currents. This
modern massacre of the innocents has been
ordained in the interests of fashion, the
slaughtered birds being used for the decor
alton Of bonnets. Humane people will
probably make an agitation on the subject,
and there is some talk of peti.ioning the
projects of the Southern department TO use
their authority to prevent the extension
and continuance of this pathological car