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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-02-20

Seattle Lodge, no. :, T. o. o. r., has
decided TO erect new brick in North
Seattle, hetxeen Bell and Battery
streets. adjoining the Bellevue ho-
TEL The building viii be three
storie<d, with basement. and two store
rooms on the firss floor. On the Sec
ord floor are closet arrangements,
with an assembly room. 40xe8 In di-
mensions On the third floor are
banquet room, library, ante-roomS.
reception parlors. kitchen and lodge
room. 4nxt8. The plans, just finished
by Bird & D0rnbach, disclose a very
ornate structure 4 wide 81 sircase.
up which eight people can go abreast,
leads from tie ground floor. and the
interior arrangements are made vith
view 10 convenience and soiidity
The building will beof brick. with iron
columns. 1t will cover space OF
saxI0D feet, and viii cost about SO 600
Final arrangements for It's construe-
ton viii be made next week. ard il is
certain that work win be begun soon
thereafter.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-02-20
CLOTHING.

UlHlNU.
In business and working suits part cotton and all
wool. there 40 lines ranging in price from S7.5o
to $500
Black dress suits, strictly all WOOL diagonal and cork
screw worsted. sacks and cutaways from Sis to $50
per suit
Fine imported sik-mixed suits both sacks and cuta
ways. all WOOL from $40 to S35.
A fine line OF Prince Albert Coats and Vests. In
Ccrkscrew, Pquot and Widewale for coat and vest
S22. so to S775o-
Our first nstallment of spring goods has arrived and
we show some very handsome Spring Ovsrcoats
and New Styles in Trousers.
Our stock is still very complete. and we can show
elegant assortment Of all kinds of wearing apparel
Country orders promptly attended to. Goods
exchanged, or money refunded
Boys and Children's Suits at So. so. $500 $3.50
and $500 No shoddy. The finest bargains
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-02-20

Architects Bird & Dornbach hare
begun plating for brick for Mr..
Amos Brown at the northeast corner
OF Front and Spring streets. opposite
the present Y. NJ. C.. A. building. The
structure Will be four-storied with
basement, ts)xi2D, and viii be erected
in such shape that 6o-foot addition
can be built on 70 IL next year. Eie-
yators. steam heating apparatus. and
other first-class appointments viii be q
part of the structure. The lower floor
viii contain tso store roorns and the
upper stories viii be devoted TO Offices.
Mr.. Brown has definitely determined
to build. and work viii be begun as
soon as the plans are drawn and the
contract can he let. The cost Wiz be
about SIS. GO
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-02-20
Commercial Street.
Second Street.
Choice Building Lo $.

CT S0f-Forty feet frontage On SEC
xss0Oo ono street, near Pike: fhe
cheapest properry on the street
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-02-20

Vas He blushed ard anAEfv admitted
that Il wzs his -on and that bis wife
Was IN the East That Was the FIRST
knew that he was married. He tnfl
nse Their that be loved sae more fsaMr
he did bis wife Before that time
has learned 20 lore fim, A few dav@
after this / vent 20 TIE puraIIup Tasls.T
casyassing. Mr. Wigkerzhsns Fssslewssd
ssss and sAx FsSsn a. samner ard
other places
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-02-20
|TOKLAS, SINGERMAN & co.
'UNEQUALLED VALUES .
IN ALL
DEPARTMENTS
AN applies moi os,x %
eindivadnal bat families ndua the various
nations OF hs earth The one porce b<nlghsea savage
onse nature Jailed so make the Indicated
coast line The farmer he wae now ban
yields no return He heed by o season The
bat The wadeawake business sasy u il
be question
TIE SAN FRANCISCO STORE doe. ! l.u,e su,..-,,
the dun Forcing the Demand; Forcing It by
Reduced Prices, bring ea. even the most p.o.,o =
',-'' q he bargain. ''.''' Look at the List!
DRESS GOODS.
At English utings w.rh ,,see
At Iese-Dre goods in fancy checks worss *
Al oc-dnch ali wool dress goods fancy checks
AZ Back hsocaae velvet " 50
At ss-Faney striped veivs wo,,h ~ "a
AZ -eoored MORE silks si5s
At 5Qc-Eew ks va-,h<soa
French Combination Suitings at Half Price,
LADIES CLOAKS, JACKETS. COATS ETC

At $500 Black and brown Newmarkets
At $1,000 Plush jackets
At si6oo- Plush Modjeskas
At ssaeo- Plush coats
AT $500 Plush coats
At s. 0o-SeaIette NUTS. e.......
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-02-20

The following Saturday nr Brown
gave rae Sio ard told ms that Mr..
Hlekershaml hal given instructions
that shoaid go % Seattle and stop AZ
at the Eureka house. | came here
right away and vas taken i'll that
night. Or. Brown came the next dsy
IN response - telegram from gne
and STAYED with me that night and
the next day, Then be brought
IN a man named Buleer.
whom he said would stay
with me, and thss nothing l
might saw in Gesiy3um would be re-
pested. nr. Miller and Mr.. Wicker
sham also came ever and remained ali
night The next morning Dr. Miller
moved me To hoase on Cherry and
Third streets, where woman named
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-02-20

A bUSeN kfpE.
renamed in the office an hour. and
N the conversation he asked nae If
had father. | told him nay father
aad been dead long time, and that
ne had been a soldier. He wanted Ia
Know u my mother received a pension.
sha | told him she did not He said
as would help her, anu il ever need
~ any assistance | must call on him
NJ This time he made over
afes az n familiar nature, kiss
las and putting his arms around
he. objected ~ this ami lett
| met him afterwards ON Tacoma Ss.
eaae a. was going to Car,on's Tnill
- oetlver book. tie drove up with
piggy and insisted on me riding cot
S'sa nina. didn't want 10 80 with
sS.aas but he prevailed. He wouldn't
- ne out at the mill. bot drere ON
e. 70 hiS place, five miles from town.
-. ~ 1he return trip he TOOK isGproper
Issues With me. | struggled ard be
.ssaiss let IRE - and exea~ed his ac-
as es saving his feelings had
s;;sseome hin. tha: | Was a
hs Sifi ard that be had only
s,s se irving - nnd out Il / was
80 ssfgas or rot lie lecturesf me ard
- nae to never allow 4 nsan 10 30 as
se naa tried To do After this / called
s. - MI 10 AK his advice about taking
sne eAaSs that hal hx.eu damSged
~ sse express company. While
~ ho'leed the lsetase of little
III his desk and asked him who il
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-10

Through the whole Of their impris'
onment they were in total darkness:
For nearly three weeks the Growing OF
the cock enabled them to distinguish
night from day; but at the end OF thus
term chanticleer died, and his comPan-
ions followed him one by one. Then
they literally took mo note OF time.
The donkey and the goats were rest
less for some time, but at length they
fell prey to hunger and exhaustion.
The milk OF the first goat gradually
diminished, but the kidding of the Sec
ond increased the supply, and as they
killed the kid, though with great re-
luctance, the supply held out until the
day OF their deliverance. The poor
goat became great solace to them, as
It was so tame as to lick their hands
and face. The poor creature was ever
afterward an object of great affection
in the family.
We need only add one or two inter.
esting facts. During their five weeks
imprisonment they suffered very little
uneasiness from hunger after the first
week. The effiuvia from the dead AMI
mails was far more disagreeable, as also
the vermin which infested the place,
and the great GOODNESS of the snow
water which trickled over them. The
constrained position was also source
of great misery. During the whole of
the time, Mrs. Roccia had no sleep, but
her daughter and sister had intervals
of repose equal to their nightly rest.
Their deliverance was a matter OF
great thankfulness to all concerned;
and many winters evening was spent
in relating around their humble hearth
the sufferings, the mercies, and deliv'
erance of that eyentful time.
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branches Of tAs t1ees aRs supported b
forked poles, which are notc6ed o - t.
form means Of ascent. The huts are
conicsl ore large enough to contain ten
persons conveniently. and look Ike Q
collection Of gigantic birds nests. Then
there are the rock-dwellers, the platform
men-in fact, the list Of strange homes il
illimitabls.
Just a. IN article on architectural Pc
culiarities would be imperfect without q
reference to the leaning tower Of Pisa,
SO it would be deficient without some
mention of the rock temples of Elephan-
ia. The island on which these temples
are situated lies about two leagues from
Bombay. It contains rows Of massive
columns cut out Of the solid rock. colos-
sal heads, thousands Of gigantic figures
of men and women, all heWn inch by inch
out of q mountain Of solid rock. On
the island Of Salsette, also contiguous
to Bombay, there is another excavated
mountain. The great temple chiseled
out Of the rock is upward of ninety feet
long, thirty-eight feet vide, and of pro-
portionate height, with q futed, concave
roof. The lofty pillars and roof of the
principal temple of Salsette are even
grander in appearance than the largest
at Elephanta, while the porti-
CO, of the same height and breadth as
the temple, is richly decorated. Besides
the temple there are indications that the
whole mountain was excavated so as to
form city capable Of containing many
thousands of inhabitants. The city OF
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the top, which is $50 feet in height, IL
falls sixteen feet from the base. The
thickness of the wall is 10 feet, and its
diameter so feet at the base, gradually
diminishing in size toward the summit.
It is assembled by $50 very easy steps,
very we'll lighted, and with q landing at
each round. There are seven bells in this
grand belfry, the sound being very soft
and musical. especially that of the great
bell, which weighs $4,000 pounds, and
which is placed upon the side of the
tower opposite to that which overhangs.
It was this bell which was formerly used
to give notice of public executions.
Whether the inclination of the tower was
accidental or Intentional it is evident that
the architect endeavored to counteract it
by balancing his materials. After par
ticular height the columns are higher on
the leaning side, and, of course. shorter
on the other. Notwithstanding its de-
parture from the vertical. the center of
gravity still falls within the base, and
the blocks of stone, now being firmly
united by cement, can not slide upon
each other; they, in fact, form one mass.
The walls are, moreover, fortified by iron
bars, and it is not now probable, seven
centuries after the erection, that anything
short of an earthquake can produce its
downfall.
The view from the summit of the tower
Is most splendid. The beautiful city of
Pisa is at its feet, and the spectator seems
in the very midst of it. The Mediterran-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-10

squire named Cook found one day an old
woman picking up sticks in his woods,
and, according to the custom of the times,
had her logged. The dame cursed the
squire and screamed between the lashes
that his son, then q child, should die by
the bite of viper before he was 81 years
OF age. Superstitious as we'll as cruel,
Cook ordered tower built in the fashion
described, and in it immured his son.
All his food, clothing and comforts were
drawn up into the single opening by
means of windlass and pulley. The
years passed and the squire was
chuckling over the clever way in which
he had outwitted the witch when his Mem
young mans majority. It was cold
sent up for the youths fire. He put out
his hand to draw in the fagot when viper
lifted its head from between the sticks and
struck him. Next day the father mount
ed the tower to release the young squire
and found him dead.
A contractor adds contribution to this
list of architectural oddities. When in
Nuremberg his attention was attracted by
the magnificent facade Of the Town Hall.
This facade is supported by q row Of
arches on line with the edge of the side
walk, while on the inner side Of the side
walk are a number Of stores, the space
between them forming o sort Of cloister.
What particularly struck him was the
fact that one of the supporting pillars
was missing. The capital was there, but
the column was gone, and the spring Of
the arch rested, like Mohammed's coffin,
on nothing. There seemed to be no SUI
perior arch to take the weight Of the
superimposed wall. and how the support
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-10
Cookey,s Awful Vengeance.

An original method of wreahng ven
geance on an unfaithful lover has been
adopted by deceived damsel. The
man was q tailor and the woman q
cook, who, when she heard that the gay
deceiver had given her up for a spruce
dressmaker, armed herself with pair
of big scissors and bottle of vitriol
and proceeded to the lodging of the
false-hearted swain. What she would
have done had she met the tailor in the
flesh can only be conjectured in q vague
and speculative manner, but it hap
pened that he was out, SO she set to
work ON his Sunday clothes. These
she pulled out of the wardrobe wherein
they lay, strewed them on q table and
cut them into ribbons with her scissors.
She next sprinkled vitriol over the lot
and treated the tailor's socks, shirts,
and pocket handkerchiefs to vicious
touches of the same corrosive sub
stance. Then she went away satisfied,
but was arrested the next morning, 40
cording to legal phrase rather appro-
pirate to the circumstances, at the
suit" Of the tailor.-London Tege-
gr4pA
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LEANING TOWERS OF Bo1oGNA.

RES since, settled in this vicinity. and that
yearly he, with eight Of his cousins. cele-
brated the memory of some ancestor. and
that on each occasion quarrels arose as to
who should take precedence. until finally
John invented method of settling the
difficulty. He constructed a house with
nine sides, with a door in each side.
These doors, in turn, led to a nine-s sided
room, In which was set nonagonal table,
80 that all the nine kinsmen presided in
common.
T. Natural obstacles are sometimes the
cause of what looks like an architectural
freak. This is, for instance, the little
church Of Gunwalloe, away off in the
west of Cornwall. It was built by pious
Spaniard who was there saved from be-
ing drowned. He insisted on building q
votive church on the exact spot where the
waves cast him up, and so it was done,
but when the church was completed it
there was no place left for the tower. So
they built the tower on the other side Of
the rocks, where there was another little
sandy angle.
In the quaint old town Of Rennes,
once the capital of Brittany, there is to
be seen the still more curious sight of
church tower with no church at all be-
longing to it. There was church, but it
was burned down in the great fire of l720,
which lasted seven days, and which con-
sumed nearly every building in the town.
The tower, piece of massive masonry,
was preserved, and it stands to-day as q
monument of the confagration.
Coming across the British channel and
steaming up the lovely Avon toward Bris-
toll the traveller will have the opportunity
of seeing house known as Cooks Folly.
1t is q solitary tower set up on an almost
inaccessible hill and is remarkable for
having but one opening, serving as door
and window combined, and that set fully
sixty feet from the ground. The story Of
its construction is as follows: A wealthy
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-10
The Englishman Was Silenced.

An Englishman was being enter.
tanned in Beacon street parlor one
evening, when the conversation turned
upon the difference between English
and American cities.
Zone thing is very shocking to US,
the Englishman observed, "and that is
in the many cases of violence in the
streets here. That, you know, is so
different in the English city"
Different exclaimed one of the
young ladies who was entertaining the
guest; II never saw half the violence
in the streets here that have in Eng.
land. Why, when we were Liverpool
last summer we started out one day to
take walk, and We had only got across
the street from the hotel when a hor-
rible great drunken fshwife came up
to me without any provocation and
offered to fight me for sixpence. I
never was SO frightened in ali my life"
"What did you do? Call the police ?"
she was asked.
Gall the police ?" she echoed, "there
were no police in sight to call. I don't
know what I should have done if a
coal-heaver hadn't come along and
volunteered to take the quarrel off my
hands by fighting the horrible creature
for nothing"
"And you got away without harm?"
eyes; but I never had anything like
that happen to me on the streets of an
American city.
''No," the visitor responded dryly,
1T conldn't, you know. An American
coal-heaver would have charged you at
least double for taking the affair off
your hands"
Every likely" coolly put in q young
lady who had not yet spoken, 'tfor the
truth is that only in England are even
fond of fighting with
The conversation was found to be
taking turn that would on the whole
not prove conductive to social harmony.
md the subject was therefore dropped.
Boston Courier.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-10

Petra is another of these wonders of e1.
cavation. It is approached through an
awful chasm cut by the Wady Mousa,
just wide enough for the passage of two
horsemen abreast, with perpendicula,
sides rising from 400 to 700 feet on each
side. This chasm opens to an amphithe-
ater of rock cut in colonnades, pediments,
and ranges of corridors. The amphithe-
alter is between two and three miles in
circumference, encompassed on all sides
by rugged mountains 500 or 600 feet high.
The sides of the mountains are cut
smooth in perpendicular direction, and
are filed with long and continued ranges
of dwelling houses, temples and tombs,
with vast labor out of the solid
rock, and while their SUBMITS present
nature in her widest and most savage
forms, their bases are adorned with all
the beauty of architecture and art.
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right, but which lacks that subtle es-
sence SO readily felt, yet so hard to
describe.
The true fisherman is a whole
souled fellow. When his favorite pur-
suit is under discussion light springs
to his eyes and ring comes to his
voice, which proclaims to the listener
that here is natures handiwork.
It is not necessary that man shall
catch fish to be fisherman. Many a
hard das's tramp has been taken and
streams whipped wishou. the slightest
success, yet he has watched the shad-
ows chase each other across the meadow
and listened to the signing breeze
among the pines and the hemlocks;
the birds song has been his, from the
dark-green of the cedars to the gentle
lap-lap of the wind-kissed waves that
beat against the pebbly shore; all has
told him in natures harmony that this
worlds greatest success does not al
ways consist III being successful.
When the angler has been rewarded
for his trouble and skill, with what JOY
he exhibits the spoil of his rod. Let
us take day when the sun is overcast.
A slight breeze starts from the head of
the lake, just sufficient to ripple the
water. Take your seat in the stern of
the boat. The eight-ounce bass rod
lightly lies across your knees. One
hundred feet of lirse is on the reel. We
will bate with live minnow to-day.
There, cast over the side; now we will
o1ou,1y n ;ft 70 fba fook of fbo 1o1-o A.
we watch the receding willows on the
shore memory flows back to other days
like this; the faces of old friends come
before us across gllf of years that we
hardly care to look upon. The mirror
of retrospection holds up many views
for our reminiscent thoughts. All! the
line goes out with whirr from the
reel as the tautened silk swishes
through the water, which at once
brings us from the past to the eager
present. How the toughened lance
wood tip springs under the dash of the
fish. See what graceful arc it de-
scribes as We put on the drag. Care
full, now, he heads toward US; don't let
him saw off the leader against the keel.
Snub him! Snub him!- That's right;
turn him-run. Now he turns across
the lake, and for the first time, as with
a mighty rush he springs clear of the
water, We see our prize Heated imagi-
nation pictures him as weighing some
thing near ton; later we shall know,
If we have luck, how much he will pull |
down. Keep him taut; take up the
slack, quick; steady, nowhere he
comes, get the landing-net ready; now i
bring him alongside. That's it Hardly !
yet-he is not quite exhausted, but
this dash for liberty is the last he will |
make" Now he comes slowly toward |
the quivering tip, and as we get the net
under and lift him into the boat, mer-
cifully striking the back of his head
against the reel-plate to put him out
of pain, We realize that we have un-
dergone considerable tension of the
nerves, but his two pounds of flesh
fully repays us for all the mental
strain, and as we gloat over the victim
of our cunning we can fully under
stand that Man was given dominion
over the beasts of the field, the fowls
OF the air, and the fish that inhabit
the waters of the earth.
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HU EsTHErIC VIE
BIZ ANNA CERES Ya1rscu.

SIZE.
sRouse thee, lovei Aurora's fingers
Paint in roseate hues the sky;
Lunas disk. reluctant, fingers;
Hear tho robin q morning lay'
sCan't 70 let i'm yawp, wonder?
Yesterday washed them sheep;
I'm dog ttredi Why in thunder
Can't 70 let Teller sleep?'
sCome, my precious, let rs wander
Where upon the lakelet's breast
Eilvery stars their sweet light squander,
Now the day kings gone to rest.
Through the huahed air hear that moaning,
Weird, uncanny melody
Is it lovesick Undines groaning,
Or the banshee's waiting cry?"
sSoon's the light o. day is dawnin',
must ship load o hogs,
What's the use ter stand hare yawninI,
Listenin' to owls an frogs?
On her cheeks the bright tears glitter,
Kissed away before they fall;
"Why, you silly little critterl
declar, she's going to squalli
EalIy don't We pout nor sputter,
Ef our notions don't jest meet;
I must arm the bread an butter
You an them six young ones eatl-