The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-04-18
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Professor James Bryce, having
rested from the heavy labors Of his
t0Figal research, has found time TO
WOO and win the daughter of Mr.. Ash
Ton. gentleman well known in Ian
cashire.
TIE late Cant. LonsdaIe PoudeH,
left sJ90es1 10 iis grandson. and
only 4 lie interest ia hair that sGra 10
his daughter. the grandson mother.
The yoaHg man has istst made an aD
80 ute gal Dl 81 10000 TO his mother.
Pat Feenes. a popular Irish com
edian. who nos ago gave 600 10 the
Dacness OF Marlborough fund for
tine relief OF misery in Ireland is now
so reduced in csfcunis ances, owing to
Illness, that he is tiepenasng upon the
proeeeas OF a beneiiE at Dublin 10 keep
him from starvation.
An unreporsed answer from the
postmaster general 10 the British
house of commons has brought ont
the fact that during the past year
900 600 was sent from Australia 70
Ireland in the shape of postal orders.
This shows large increase, but does
not equal the amount sent from irish
men in the United States TO their reia-
tives. Over f1 go COO was sent from
America in the same period.
Sir Edward Arnold, the author OF
the Light of Asia, never sat for his
photograph till recently. He has all
bis life been afflicted with a large
iieshy growth as big as two fists on his
forehead, which obliged him to wear
skull cap drawn well down over his
eyebrows The specialists whom he
consulted always told him that the
growth was connected with the brain.
and that its removal would probably
prove fatal. But about three weeks
ago Sir Edward Welded to the persua-
slams of the family physician, who re-
moved the growth with success, leav-
ing only scar, the trace of which ia
easily obliterated from a photograph.
So Sir Edwin went to a photographer
in London and sat for his photo for
the first time in his life.
In refusing TO join dinner party to
which Mr.. Labouchere had been in
yited, the lord chancellor makes this
explanation. He does not refuse to
meet the honorable member for
Northampton socially on account of
his general political heresies: these
I.oro Halsbury cares nothing about
he can understand them, though he
feels sorry for the misguided holder of
such fatal views. His lordship has
declined to meet Mr.. Iabonchere be-
cause of what he holds to be the lat
ter's personal attacks upon him and
his family. As he said. REALLY, one
cannot be expected to sit at the same
dinner table with man who has ac-
eused you of nepotism and designated
you The High Chief Jehber of En-
gland So Lord Haisbury and Mr..
lsabouchere are not likely 10 be again
invited to dine together.
A correspondent of the Boston Tran
script objects to the notion that "a cat
sucks away child's BREATH 1t is
merely the expression, erroneous in
its form, of a physiological fact. All
the feiidu possess the poisonous
breaths intended by nature to act as
an annsthetic upon their prey. III any
adult will inhale but once the breath.
even of cat, he will at once recognize
the fact. Watch q cat playing with A
mouse. The mouse does not suffer.
but il is stupefied as If by ether. Liy-
ingstone, the African explorer. states
in bis Life that, when be was seized
by lion and his arm broken. the
crunching of the broken arm gave him
no pain. so bennmbed were all his
senses by the animals breath. Now.
cats like rest, warmth. eompanionship
and a soft couch. A cat seeks the
the child, its soft bed and the warmth
of its body, and lies down upon the
chestof an infant It's weight impedes
respiration, its breath anasthetizes
the child, ard that the death OF small
infants has actually occurred from
this cause medical records have con-
cinsisely proven.