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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-12-21

The Santa Fe Nec 5iexicaa Is growing
fastidious. and insists that when the time
OF the present school trustees shall expire,
the new board must be composed OF men
who aan read and write. Some people
want the earth.
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In Atlanta. ia, last year, the Union
street railway was assessed for taxes at q
valuation Of s57 ,000. A few months ago il
was purchased by q syndicate for $4,000,
and BY these purchasers has been sold in
New York for $500 CO.
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1t Is said that there was something truly
apostolic in the hearty laugh with which
Pope Leo greeted the New York Heraids
report that he and the holy Catholic
church were about TO embark in 9 banking
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-12-21

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bank. DO solemniy swear that the above state
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day of necenbcF. lisa
FRANK H WRESTLING. Notary Public.
coEkRCT~~Attest;
HERMAN CHAPLIN,
A a. BKOokE2 Directors
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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
London Dinner Customs.

/ was reading the other day in news
paper discussion as to the time of grace
allowed to guests who are late for din
ner. At present, it frequently happens
that guests come three-quarters of an hour
late. This is really too absurd. The din
ner is spoilt, and those who come at the
time at which they are invited, have to
hang about, bored and boring, waiting for
the laggards. That a quarter to eight
should mean eight, l can understand, but
why eight should mean half past eight or
a quarter to nine do not understand.
would suggest that hosts should state
in their Invitations at what hour dinner
will be served, and that guests or no
guests, it should be served at that hour
In no other capital in the civilized world
is it regarded fine and fashionable to be
unpunctual. In Russia, it is looked upon
as the correct thing to come to dinner in
advance of the time specified, so as to be
prepared to eat at the precise moment
named.
If eight be really deemed too early an
hour for dinner in summer land no donbt
it is nuisance for ladies to commence to
dress at seven), then why not make the
dinner hour nine? What the hour may
be is matter of unimportance. What is
mattee of importance is that there should
be some definite understanding as to the
time really intended indeed, considering
that it is not dark in summer until ten, |
am Sot certain that ten would not be a
more convenient hour than eight.-1ralth.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
Never Take a Lady's Arm.

''The question is often put to me" said
a lady whose opinion in matters of ETH
quette is wholly competent, whether it is
ever permissible to take lady's arm in
acting aRan escort on q promenade after
nightf.Sg Unhesitatingly and peremptor-
lily no. Not after nightfall, nor by day
light nor at any other time. An invalid
may lean upon q young woman's arm; a
grandfather, if he is infrm, may avail
himself of similar support, and q broad
way policeman seems to have acquired
the right to propel his charge in petticoats
across the thoroughfare by q grasp upon
the arm, but these are the only persons SO
privileged. For an acquaintance, a friend,
or one who aspires to still nearer place,
to take the arm of young woman when
walking with her ON public highway is
inexcusable. You may be sure that moth
ing will SO quickly offend her good taste,
although she may lack the social skill to
resent and avoid it, and the spectacle in
itself is most unpleasing. To see young
woman pushed along, little in front of
her escort, by his clutch upon her arm, is
neither suitable nor picturesque. It re-
verses all preconceived ideas of gallantry.
The fair should lean upon the brave.
Virile strength ought ever to support
feminine frailness. Offer her your arm
young man, every time, and do not COM
init the familiarity and ofense of taking
hers. "-Neso York Sun.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
Encourages Prevarication.
ONE OF THE UNPLEASANT THINGS TIL
TELEPHONE IS ACCOUNTABLE FOR.

ONE OF THE UNPLEASANT THINGS THE
TELEPHONE IS ACCoUNTABLE FOR.
Something new in the telephone line
has developed in France. A man called
up President Carnots ministers by tele-
phone and denounced them in most vigo-
rous and reasonable way. He was arrest
ed, but the French courts held that insults
offered oveEsa telephone wire are not penal
offences. lhis shows that criminal laws
do not keep pace with new inventions. 1t
is so the world over. Men lie over the
telephone every day. They telephone
home that business will keep them down
town and that they cannot be home to din
ner, and may be detained late at night.
There is no redress for wives in such cases
except to dress for dinner and dine without
husbands. Business transactions are car
ried on by telephone. A man has made q
bad bargain and does not wish to stand by
it. He says he did not telephone and you
cannot prove that he did. You did not see
him, and you cannot swear to the voice
that came in the buzz. No witness aheard
what he said. The law has provided
against obscene matter sent by mail. Tel
egraph companies rule out cuss words.
But man talking to you by telephone may
abuse you as if you were pickpocket.
You cannot smash his jaw and you must
stand it. A man like O'Donovan Rosa
would make the ear of England drop off if
he could get onto it with telephone.
Now Franc has opened the way for Bou-
LANCER to make the republic tired by tele-
phone. The law says let a man say what
he pleases if he says it ~ telephone. If
what he says offend your ear, take your ear
away.-N. 0. Pic0yatne.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
Ouarrels.

Big rivers and big quarrels arise from a
flowing together of many little streams,
each of which taken separately might be
diverted into another channel, but alto
gether make resistless food. "Take care
of the pennies, and the pounds will take
care of themselves" Take care of the lit
tie grievances, and the big ones will not
come. Parents have many opportunities
of teaching their children, both by precept
and example, how to differ from others
peaceably. how to adjust clashing inclina-
lions, how to wear the laurel of the victor
without vainglory, and to pass under the
yoke without degradation.
Differences will arise between children as
they will between grown folks. 1t is well
that they do. Children need to learn how
to quarrel without losing their tempers,
without breaking friendship, without being
embittered by defeat or over elated by vic
tory, without taking unfair advantage, with
out feeling that might makes right, without
ignoring the 'finalienable rights" of their
antagonists. They need to learn to stand
for themselves, to think for themselves
within limits, and correct their thinkings
by reference to right standards of thought
and actiof:: Aggressive children need
toning down, timid and retiring children
need toning up. The parent has an oppor-
tunity in the quarrels his children may
have to lay down principles of action and
policy that will be of immense service when
their social and civil quarrels will be of
moment.-IHe Waterman.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
Let Us Make Our Own Chairs,

While the Southern people are passing
through transition state-from an agri-
cultural to a manufacturing people-it may
profit us to consider the propriety of
making chairs as profitable industry.
The civilized human must have something
to sit on. It makes no difference whether
he be the most industrious and energetic
business man or constitutionally 'stired"
loafer, he spends most of his time sitting,
and wants q comfortable seat. Chairs are
indispensable. It is rare sight to see a
family so poor as not to own more chairs
than children. A dozen chairs for family
of FIVE is fair average.
Chairs are made Of wood entirely when
intended for use outside lunatic asylum
or prison. They are made of many
shapes and styles, to suit the comfort and
tastes of every class Of people, and for all
purposes The demand for them is as
steady and certain as is the demand for
cofins
In the south, among some of our many
woods that are not now in demand, are
many that are well adapted to chair
making. For bent wood work nothing
will excel our blackberry, elm, cottonwood,
or mountain birch. For rustic work we
have the willow and swamp birch in pro-
fusion. For Windsor bottoms we can
furnish the lightest, clearest, and hand
soonest of woods. Will it not profit some
one to investigate this subject The South
buys nearly million dozen chairs yearly.
Who makes them Southern Zimmerman.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
Orchard and Garden

Good fruits and vegetables are now con.
sidered necessity in every well-regulated
family, and no farmer can afford to neglect
their cultivation. They promote health
and comfort, and ought to be largely sub
stituted for the everlasting hog and
hominy," especially in warm weather.
Watch both the orchard and garden this
month, and do whatever work therein may
be necessary. Look after the small fruits,
and don't stint the family in their use, even
if you can market them proftably. After
much discussion most pomologists agree
that July is the best month for pruning, as
the wounds heal more rapidly. Thin out
the apples and pears and nip off the ends
of grape vines. Fight the borers and all
other fruit destroyers.
The vegetable garden demands strict
attention, for weeds will grow apace while
you are busy haying and harvesting. and
insects also multiply rapidly at this season.
Go Tor the former with steel rake, hoe and
cultivator, and do it presistently. Protect
plants and vines from insect pests by the
use of Paris-green and London-purple,
or other insecticides, not forgetting that
constant vigilance is the price of choice
fruits and vegetables. A very little ARISEN
ical poison is enough to kill, if it is eaten
by the insect. Prof. Barrow tells US that
very common error is the using too much.
ga lavish use of these poisonssis unneces-
sary, expensive, injurious to plants, and
often dangerous to poultry, stock or even
the operator himself" The Professor
states that at first he diluted Paris-green
with so then with 100, then with $50, and
then with 200 parts by weight of plaster.
Finally he found one pound of London
purple thoroughly mixed with barrel OF
| plaster, strong enough.
Several crops may yet be planted in the
garden, among them quick-growing vari-
cites of sweet corn and Refugee beans.
Transplant late cabbage, and, if you grow
them, caulifower and celery will soor
need attention, and turnips little later
Keep the tomatoes from the ground by
using trellises as formerly advised. Othel
things may be done to advantage about
now, and they should not be neglected, for
as already intimated, choice vegetables arr
fast becoming an indispensable family in
stitution. -IndeDendent
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
Some Quaint Old Riddles.

Some of the following riddles remind US
of another one. Twelve travellers came at
night to an inn, where they were told that
only eleven rooms are at their disposal
Each traveller insisted upon having his
own room, and the landlord was at his
wits end Finally he solved the problem.
He put the first man and the twelfth man
into the first room. That made two out OF
the way. The third man he then put into
the second room, the fourth man into the
third room, and so on to the eleventh man
whom he ushered into the tenth room.
That left the eleventh room vacant, so he
took the Twelfth man from his temporary
resting place in the first room. and be-
slowed him in the eleventh. Thus each
traveller was provided with a separate
room. How?
Says the New York Graphic:
"Humpty Dumpty on the wall" is one
of the best-known examples of the old
style riddle.
Some of the antique riddles are perfect
gibberish. Take this, for instance 81
went up wiltry and looked out of jiltry-
joltry and saw a hakem pakem taking
away company. l called for my hansen
chanchany to shoot the hakem- pakem that
was taking away company" Now this is
supposed to detail the discovery of a fox
in the act of running away with goose,
and the subsequent shooting of the thief
with blunderbuss.
"Two legs sat on three legs, with one
leg picking in his hand. In comes four
legs and runs away with one leg. Up
jumps two legs, throws three legs after
four legs, and brings back one leg" When
it is said that the one leg is of mutton, and
the two legs are those of man sitting on
three-legged stool, and that the four legs
belong to dog, the depth of the riddles
ingenuity may be solved.
One of these time punning riddles
runs in this wise:
As was going over London Bridge met West
minister scholar. !
He took off his hat and Grew off his glove, now
what was the name Of the scholar?
1t was Andrew, but no one is supposed
to guess his hidden combination of words
until after much bordering.
Very similar in character is the follow
ing arithmetical proposition
Eliza Elizabeth Bette and Bess,
Went over the river to get a birds nest.
A nest was found with four eggs in it.
They took one each, yet left three in it.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
To Business Men.

Some business men measure the value
of an advertisement by the direct returns
they get from it, and after a short trial
withdraw it from their trade journal on
the ground that it does not pay. The in
direct benefits derived from keeping the
name before the trade are out of all pro-
portion to the direct returns received, and
the most successful advertisers are those
who keep themselves so constantly before
the trade that their names become as ia
miliar as q household world. The manu-
facturer or jobber who does not let the
trade know what he has for sale and where
it can be procured, will soon find himself
out of the race.-EcchGnge.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
Funeral Ceremonies of Burman Prince

Fifty bamboo frames covered with strips
of white cloth, tarlatan, white jackets,
cotton and silk skirts and silk handker-
chiefs. The strips of white cloth, colored
cotton and silk are used for making the
skirts worn by the men and women:
Those worn by men are called 'pasoes.
The tarlatan and silk handkerchiefs are
worn as turbans.
The frames of each, carried by two men,
and those covered with snowy white cloth
came first then those covered with tarla-
tan, which had grayish tinge, as 1t hut
tered in the breeze; next came the frames
covered with yellow and white plaid, and
red and white plaid cotton pasoes; next
frame covered with orange-coiored SILK
handkerchiefs another with cherry, an.
other with part red and part orange, ana
the last frame, of handkerchiefs OF two
shades of pink. Others followed, of bril-
liant colored soft silk pasoes. These
frames were followed by golden bed
stead. upon which the coffin had stood
while in the house. 1t had canopy made
of white tarlatan spangled with gold and
silver tinsel and this was succeeded by
huge frame of red and gold. Then came
two elephants, and after them twelve men,
each bearing some article belonging to the
dead man then several long poles covered
with red, and gilded, split at the top into
three parts, and goblet or small box or
CUP was inserted into the aperture, and
held by the three splints.
The coffin was carried by men dressed
in white, and to it were attached strips OF
bluish tarlatan from each side. From
thirty to fifty men and women took hold
of this, as if they were drawing the coffin
By the side six white umbrellas were car
RED, while two were used to hold over
some article carried to the grave. Whl1e
is the royal color. None but the king or
queen could carry white umbrellas until
the British took the country now all may
carry them. Thousands of people thronged
the street and followed the procession,
ssher on foot or in OK carts. Very early
IN the morning the street was filled with
ox-carts, which were engf ,ed to carry Of
ferings to IT, priests. Seventy carts went n
with presents for seventy priests. -SeEected'
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
Mending Broken Articles.

Shellac cement is made of two parts
shellac and one part of Venetian thrpen-
tine, fused together and formed into'sticks
In mending glass or china, warm the lat
ter enough to melt the stick on the edges
of the piece to be mended. Diamond
cement is also used for mending glass,
china and earthenware, and is made by
adding a little gum ammoniac to isinglass
dissolved in weak spirits. Put it in bot
tie and keep it well corked. The handles
of knives and forks can be mended with
resin. The hollow in the handle is filled
with powdered resin, the iron stalk is made
red hot and thrust into the handle, where
it will remain firmly fixed after it has
cooled. Plaster of Paris should be kept IN
every household, as it is excellent for
mending lamp stands, spar. bronze, etc.
In mending lamp which has become
loosened from it's metal socket, thoroughly
wash and drip the socket and the reservoir.
Remove the old cement, and see that the
plaster is finely powdered. Mix it with
water until it becomes the consistency OF
thick cream, then line the socket with 1t
and press the reservoir into it's place he
move with knife and rag any plaster that
has overhowed, and let the plaster set
thoroughly before using the lamp.-do0a
housekeeping.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
To Be Built by Englishmen.

According to D. w. Herring, our consul
at Tegucigalpa, the English have under
taken an enterprise which looks like an
English colonization of Honduras with
possible annexation in The future.
zone of the great questions of the time,
saws the consul, ''is that of effecting inter
oceanic. communication across the Ameri-
can Isthmus, and thus opening to the
world the most important highway for the
trade and commerce of all countries. One
of the possibly practical solutions of the
great problem is, it seems, about to be
Undertaken by the construction of rail-
way across the republic of Honduras, from
Puerto Cortez on the Atlantic to Amapala
on the Pacific. An English syndicate last
wear obtained concession to build this
interoceanic railroad and organized in Lon
don with a capital of S,000,0 900. The en-
gineer of the English company has given
the assurance that the road will be COM
pleted in three years.
"What a pity" says Consul Herring,
sthis great work will not owe it's compile
ton, as it does it's design, to American
| genius and enterprise. If our people are
to lose by failing to grasp the Importance
| of the enterprise, it is not the fault OF
their government or representative here,
for all necessary information thereon was
given years ago by E. G. Squires, who was
then our charge daffairs in Honduras and
who designed this road and published to
the world it's superior advantages over all
others for transisthmian railway.
"Aside from the Monroe doctrine" he
saws. land however little interest England
as government may feel in the enterprise
and however well may be guaranteed its
complete neutrality and equality of freight
charges to the people of all nations,
though nothing is mentioned about either
in the concession, the mere fact that Eng
lishmen are to control the enterprise will
give to their country advantages over the
trade ar traffic of Central America which
will be of great commercial Importance tc
their country. The financial, political ano
commercial influence of the syndicate will
be concentrated in London. This vii
bring to Honduras, to Central America anc
to all contiguous localities, an increased
and increasing number of Englishmen
They will have their connections, estab-
lished credit affiliations and preferences II
the old country, and will, of course, ap.
preciate the natural and manufactured
products of their own country. More THAI
this, it is we'll known that this people, lik'
all Spanish American people Il am nov
speaking of the masses), are strongly at
fected by appearances and demonstration
of influence and power. Therefore, thu
mere fact that it is publicly known tina
such an important railway is to be bull
by Englishmen will raise them and thei
government in the estimation of the Hon
duranean people Men York World.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
One of the Wonders of cottonseed.

There is an..astounding statement printed
elsewhere to the effect that 'sThe hulls
of the cotton seed of the cotton States will
produce more obeef, butter, milk, and
cheese, more wool and mutton, than all
the clover and bluegrass of Tennessee,
Kentucky, and Ohiog And yet it appears
to be true. An Atlanta firm fattened $500
beeves last year on cotton-seed bulls at a
profit of 5000 Two train. loads of these
beeves were shipped from Atlanta to Phil
adelphia and sold there in competition
with Chicago beef. This same firm will
fatten 10000 steers next winter.
Mr.. Joel Chandler Harris, an authority
on fox-hounds, bees, and Jerseys, is feed
ing his herd on cotton seed hulls, and says
the result in milk, butter, and beef is
amazing. In the Southern Farm Mr.. w.
M. Towers, of Rome, writes of test be.
tween corn, cotton seed meal, and cotton
seed hulls, in which the latter produced
vastly better results.
And yet until year ago cotton. seed
bulls were used as fuel for engines or cast
away as worthless. Of all the plants that
grow, cotton is the miracle, and it's won
ders are not yet tried. It's little black
wrfnkled seed Is as full of meaning as an
old Hebrew verb. AtEaata Constitution.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-07-27
An Irish Mockiug Bird.

A valuable hooking bird was stolen from
q Savannah gentleman while ago. After
many unsuccessful efforts to recover 1t its
owner casually heard that a Northern visi-
tor who had been in the city all winter
was returning North with remarkable
bird, and hurrying off to the sailing vessel
he found that the bird in the passengers
possession was his own lost treasure. The
new owner, however, would not admit his
claim, and it was finally arranged he
should make complaint before magis-
trate and prove that the bird was his.
When before the magistrate he said that
he would whistle an air, and it was agreed
that if the bird took it up and followed
him that should be convincing evidence
He then began to whistle est Patrick s
Day." the bird listened moment, took
up the air and finished it, That settled
the question, and the bird was given up.
1t is said that the Northerner offered $1,000
for it, but this was refused.