The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-09-26

NOTE AND COMMENT.

The late commissioner of pensions insists
that Shakespeare was mistaken when he
said A tanner aii last you nine years. "
\ large and very important discovery of
uranium j. reported in Cornwall. IL is a
true assure vein, the ore containing an
averageof per cent OF the pure metal, GO
ing UP rs high in many places as 80 per
cent. The market price OF uranium is sl2,-
GO a ton.
4 race war az the South, saws the Chi
cago Jo8r7lai is hike a race war between a
pack OF wolves and flock of sheep the
woody side always gets the worst of IT, Yes.
aud IN the case Of the commercial article,
the Republican party will insist that the
wool shall be protected.
A grand fete out Of compliment TO
America and Corsica, " the latter as the
most formidable claimant to being the birth.
place OF Columbus. viii be given on the
18th OF October in Paris. for the celebration
OF the 591th Anniversary OF the discovery
of The New World shere Will be = pro-
cession OF delegates from all the American
states and from the West Indies
Colonel 5. II. Lucas. an experienced
miner, has returned 10 Los Angeles from
Alamo Lower California. He has Tnined
all over the West, but believes the Alamo
district the richest mining district in Amer.
lea In one OF the mines he says he struck
ledge that viii run siooo0 10 the ton
some OF the output Is so near pure gold
that there is hardly rock enough 10 hold il
together.
Miss Jennie slackwhich Is clearly a mis-.
nomer has this season planted and cuiti-
waited on a place Hear Niii.sea. Ia. thirty
FIVE acres of corn besides milking SIX cows
night aud morning. and in helping about
other work about the farm and household.
There is nothing slack about Jennie but her
name, and If she should come out To Wash
lngton she would End plenty OF chances To
change that.
Speaking Of London, Cardinal Manning
says There are Ic0 coo OF living aud
dying and dead souls. And If every church
or chapel or place OF worship OF every sort
and kind were filled three times To the full
on every Lord day they could not contain
more than about $40 GO. There must be
therefore $50 on who never can phvsic-
ally set their feet in any place OF divine
worship or any place where the name and
existence OF God are recognized"
John Roach $ vinaication. saws the New
Ncfk fat'fae. Is sloRly working Itself out
though la the minds OF multitude OF his
fellow citizens who admired and horored
him he needed none. The atlanta made a
fine record in last week. hurricane when
going from New York 10 Newport. fully
igsiifyiug the confidence felt in her sea.
woTth.uess by those who knew her heSi
Icisy Ne print an account u the poIphinf
trip around the world This is the vessel
whose alleged structural weakness waS
such bugt.car IN the ewes Of Secretary
Whitney. Her Cireumnavisatsou of the
globe has been accomplished without mis-
chance or delay. That structural weak
ness. Ike some other things of the perioa
IL which X Goar.shed in some Peoples
ninds has gone into permanent. if 10,
"ianocpeus desuetude"
The srtes.an wells ~ Dakota are pe~hans
the most remarkable exawple~ Of H.
S!g3 = aieb have ever been opeaed both a.
regard tBr pressure ana the volume ~ The
escaping WAteg- More than 10 wells f-o~s
5ssa % itso fse' deep are s; present IT, sue
ce>Sf2l operation n the district north az
J anktoa, and they yleld = constant strea-,
ot water, "a A4ea Is apparently never Affect
81 by any 81 the surrounding influence
The pressurc - the water = abnormal
hskh l0 many ia>,aucss. and up - u.
pounds Tscr s4aFe iach has been registered
ty gauges The poser Is uiiiisea IN the
F-arc Important toSns for vase- szpplv for
Profession irom erc. and sos driving ma
ehiusry, and a very considerable s4vlne :
a!ieete5 by the adoption a. hydr&nl.c ar
r&-aigs in place 81 the steAm engine In
tae soNu % ! anksoD soY instance. there il
Ve-v large tafbine Which operates A taw
utj ey day znd Az electric hshs plant by
a'rht- ani - IS 3gtyea eGgirely 6y wAter o.,-
tanned Boz fLis manner