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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-21
CANADA'S GOVERNMENT.
The Dominion Supporting More LegislA
tors Than tho Mother Country.

The Dominion Supporting More LegislA-
tors Than the Mother Country.
Some person with taste for statist-
les has been examining the salary list
of the Dominion, and finds that the
small population of Canada pays enor-
mously to support a cumbersome Off
cial machine, of which it's more liberal
people are gradually becoming very
weary. 1t is often laughingly re-
marked in England that Canada must
have a vast deal of legislation to at
tend to, since she finds it necessary to
have fifty-six legislators more than
the mother country, and so many de-
partmental heads that no Canadian
outside of politics can tell their num-
Der.
The Canadian Commons consists of
215 members, who draw $1,000 per
session, and the Senate. which has lit
tie to do except to look wise, has
eighty members who receive $1,000
each annually. The Speakers of each
house of the immensely overpaid Ma
tional Legislature receive $4,000 an
nually; the Ontario members and
Speakers. $4,000; the Quebec Legis-
lative Council. Legislature and the
two Speakers, $4,000. Then the
country is saddled with a Governor
General, who receives $50, 600 an
nually and spends as little as posi-
BILE in the country, sending to England
for even the smallest articles of daily
wear and consumption. His chief
business seems to be not to comply
with the wishes of the people when
ever he has a chance to show his au-
thority. There are also Lieutenant
Governors of Quebec and Ontario and
Manitoba, Nova Scotia, New Bruns-
wick, the Northwest Territories and
Prince Edward Island, each of whom
receive larger salary than is given
to the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States. And as a
fringe around this circle of costly
officials, many of whom are utterly
useless. there is small army of paid
aides-de-camp, secretaries. etc, who
have abundant perquisites. The idea
of a country like the Dominion hay-
ing forty-seven political ministers
is certainly somewhat absurd. Boston
Journal.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-21
DEATH TO aRAssHopPERs.
An Apparatus Which Destroys the Insects
BY the Million.

nm apparatus w n1cn O<FtrOyh inc Ahsoctb
BY the Million.
Consul Mason, OF Marseilles. writes
that the injury to the crops OF A geria
BY the grasshoppers last summer was
so serious that the Government has
provided the means for their destruc-
ton which has been so successfully
used by the English farmers in Cyprus.
He says:
The apparatus consists OF long
pieces of cheap cotton cloth, yard IN
width, edged on one side with a strip
of oil-cloth six inches wide, and each
provided with strings by which it can
be fastened to wooden stakes. When
an invasion OF the locusts is announced
trenches are dug at right angles with
the direction of their approach. Inc
stakes are then driven in lines on the
side of the trench from which the ap-
proach is expected and the cloths
hung vertically. forming a curtain
forty-two to forty-four inches high,
fitting closely to the ground, and with
the oil-cloth edge uppermost. Be-
tween these curtains, at intervals OF
two hundred or three hundred yards,
open spaces are left two yards in width.
The march of the insects is in solid
phalanx, devouring every thing eat
able as they go. When they reach
the curtain the grasshoppers climb
readily to the point where they en-
counter the oil-cloth. On this they
slip and fall, and after several futile
attempts they attempt to clear the OBJ
struction at a jump. Such as succeed
fall into the trench on the further
side, and finding the ground barren OF
food usually make no attempt to go
further. The great majority fail to
Jump over the curtain and seek to cir
cumvent it. They thus pour by
myriads through the openings. At
these points the ditch is made deep
and wide and the further slope COW
cred with sheets of smooth zinc or tin
upon which they are unable to climb.
They are thus caught in masses,
beaten to death with large wooden
paddles, and their bodies used for
feeding hogs or for manure. In some
cases the hogs are turned into the
trenches to kill their own prey, but in
general the work is done by natives
shod with large wooden sabOts, with
which they trample the insects to
death."-N. Y. Sun.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-21
Fallacies About Night Air.

An extraordinary fallacy is the
dread of night air. What air can we
breathe at night but night air? The
choice is between pure night air from
without and foul air from within.
Most people prefer the latter-an I'M
accountable choice. What will they
say if it is proved to be true that fully
oue-half of all the diseases We suffer
from are occasioned by people sleeping
with their windows shut. An open
window most nights in the year can
never hurt any one. In great cities
night air is often the best and purest
to be had in twenty-four hours. One
could better understand shutting the
windows in towns during the day than
during the night for the sake OF the
sick. The absence of smoke, the quiet.
all tend to make the night air the bes'
time for airing the patient. Always
air your room, then, from the outside,
if possible. Windows are made to
open, doors are made to shut-a truth
which seems extremely difficult OF ap-
prehension. Every room must be aired
from without, every passage from
within.-Sanitary World.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-21
HE FIGURED !! OUT.
why John Cracker Desired to BE Kicked
All Over South Carolina

All Over South Carolina.
While we were smoking on the YER
anda in front of the hotel u native in
backwoods dress came up and sat down
on the steps without addressing Gny-
one, and during the next hour he SEEM
ed to be asleep. When he reused up
it was with an exclamation of "Hu!'
and he danced around so lively that the
Colonel asked him if he'd been stung
by I'm insect.
mo, sah-no sah!' was the vigorous
reply.
do yon always wake up that way?'
mo, sab. but : dun fggered it out
and l want to be kicked"
What is it2'
Last April" said the man. as he
turned to as, Il was a-drivin' my ole
mewl and cart along that road down
thar, and when we come to the railroad
that mewl quit on me. He jist stood
right thar and wouldn't pull pound. :"
i see"
al heard the train coming and l
pulled and pushed and whipped, but it
was no use. He stayed right thar and
let the mime hist him half a mile
high
We'll. what have you figured out?"
"Why. sab. l orter onhitched that
mewl and driv' him off the track, and
then backed the cart off. | hev felt all
along that skipped a cog somewhar,
but | couldn't tell whar. | see it now.
| kinder fell into doze as I sot thar,
ard it cum to lie like a flash. Thar l
stood with mouth wide open and my
legs a-shakin' and saw $75 mewl flung
sky-high, to cum down among the
splinters OF $50 cart, when l might
a-saved both as easy as mud. Gentle
men, please excuse me. I'm a-going
around to the dollhouse to find an
onery niger and give him that mewl 8
harness to kick me all over South Caro-
linar Free Press
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-21
The FIRST Chinese Railway.

The first railway in China was con-
structed by the shrewd and progressive
Prince Lin Ming Chuan rs miniature
affair. carrying the people on a circle
of two or three miles for a small sum
in order to familiarize them with the
snorting monster. This being accom-
plished, road is now laid Of about
seventy-fve miles. on which the Vice
roy makes tours without exciting the
prejudices of the natives. The rail-
way is coming" is the prophecy of a
high official at Pe.1in. 1t is the only
way to meet the pressure Of outside
nations. But what is most interesting
is the result in the way of unifying the
dialects spoken in China There are
now not less than three hundred dia-
lects, and they differ as much as French
from German. There are also five diff
ferent weights, or scales of weights, and
in Pekin alone, while no standard of
time whatever exists. foreign clocks
are sometimes found. The first step is
to facilitate intercourse. in order to
unity the vast people -Glnbe-Demo-
Erat
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-21
ANTIQUITY OF SHOES.
Thebes an Ancient shoe Center of Great
Importance.


Importance.
The furtherest historical search, IN
regard to shoes, informs us OF some
sort of clothing, either OF woven mats,
slippers or sandals, for the human loot.
Dating back to the earliest civilization,
lashes, thongs, scraps, belts and strings
were the common fastenings of the
primitive shoes then worn by the
peasantry of Egypt, also by the Greeks
and Hebrews, while more genteel styles
and shapes were worn, especially by
the ladies, and also by the rulers OF
men in those days Fifteen hundred
wears before Christ shoemaking had
become a great and distinct trade under
the reign OF Thothmes Ill, and this is
the time OF the fight of the lsraelites.
Shoes were constructed from we'll
known vegetable plant called papyrus,
which was used by the inhabitants
then, not only for the manufacture oil
shoes. but for many other purposes,
such as ropes, boxes, headgear, boats.
papers, etc. At the above date the
ancient city Of Thebes was great
center for the manufacture OF shoes
and sandals, straps and thongs, and
all the appliances then in vogue for the
protection and comfort OF the feet,
when in the flush Of her glory, instead
of going after her enemies as Pharoah
went for the Israelites with 600 char
fAn+h ar nf M -
900 war chariots against her foes, but
Cambyses, the bloodthirsty son Of
Cyrus, at the conquest OF Persia sub
dued Tyre and Cyprus, demanded
and received $4,000, 900 as tribute
from Thebes, destroyed its monu-
ments, it's towers and public
buildings broke down its political
influence, and soon its glory and
grandeur began to depart. while Cam
byses. becoming dissipated. cruel and
tyrannical, died in Syria, while march
ing against his foes. In those days the
shoemakers of Thebes and the sur
rounding cities were in the constant
practice of tightening the thread in the
sewing of shoes by their teeth. How
differently the adjusted needle and
shuttle tighten the thread to-day pro-
PEELED by steam! In ancient Rome the
streets were crowded with small stalls
on the corners and in alley-ways, where
sandals and shoes were made, and
from scripture accounts much attention
was then paid to the adjoining of the
feet, especially ladies' feet, hence we
read, How beautiful are thy feet with
shoes" Over EdOm VIII | cast out
my shoe" We learn from scripture
also, that servants We're required to I'M
loose the thongs and latchets from the
shoes OF their superiors. So from
Ruth iv: we learn that testimonial
in israel was to pluck off a shoe and
hand to a neighbor, and from these and
many sayings of like nature may have
sprung the custom of throwing WORKOUT
shoes after newly married couples from
the marriage ceremony to their future
homes: and here let me say, if any of
the good people of our city are minded
to search the scriptures sufficiently
they will find that slavery and servitude
were symbolized by the unloosing Of
sandals and shoes from the feet. Shoe
and Leather Review.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-21
FADS IN JEWELRY.
Elaborate Bracelets with watch Settings
and Poetic Quotation.

Elaborate Bracelets With Watch Settings
and Poetic Quotation.
So long as the beauties of a woman
wrist endure, bracelets will be made
and sold, bought and worn and admired.
The fancy of the hour is watch brace
let made OF sterling silver. the band
consisting of sufficient length of game
chain to clasp the arm. Set in medal
ion is the watch case, for which there
are jeweled works of French, English
Or American make. You can have a
hunting or crystal case, select your
own design to be applied to the shell,
or find in the collection of novel and
antique decorations something both
beautiful, artistic and enduring. The
watch is warranted to keep accurate
time, and so delicate is it in conStruc-
ton that no annoyance is felt in wearing
it, nor is there any difficulty in keeping
it balanced.
Suggested by the Shakesperian
bracelet, silversmiths have set 10 work
making poet bands in white and black
ened silver and are ready to fill out
orders for any number of quotations.
The fair buyers make out list of
favorite lines from witty and wise men,
which is sent TO the jeweler to be cut in
silver, each selection calling for brace
let Such lines as graduates select for
class mottos are ordered by the hundred
Proverbs adages and guiding lines of
life have been engraved for school
people and presented to the pupils in
lieu Of medal. Then there are in stock
Shelley, Swinburne, Whitman, Lamar
tine and Hugo bracelets, a cluster Of
twenty Shakesperian quotations with
reference and myriad Of Biblical ex-
tracts with the book, chapter and verse
indicated, By way,of study and wager
and thought, Il miscellany OF familiar
extracts has been brought out in oxi-
died silver which are certain to be
popular with young and sentimental
ladies, and which, if worn, will play an
important part in the fiirtations by the
sea-shere, at the morning concert and
along the shady lanes.
Here are some of the tender poetic,
thoughtful and suggestive sentences
calculated to challenge and captivate
or puzzle and please man:
ION fancy's wild and rowing wing ]
sail, When that my mood is sad, u
Fool, not to know that love endures
no tie, ''All love is sweet given or re-
turned" The mystery of iniquity,"
Come, give US a taste of your quail.
ty." My love is as deep as the sea and
as pure as its foam. N Y. World.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-21
ApuLTERATED TEAS.
Dangerous stuff shipped From China to
the United States.


The tea-drinking millions in the
United States must have been impressed
by the recent report of our Consul al
Annoy, China, upon the quality of some
of the tea shipped to the American
market He told of the extent to
which it is adulterated. and of the
means employed to palm it OFF upon
American consumers. The question is
of Importance to all men and women
who ouaff the Chinese beverage, for
the stuff of which our Consul speaks is
undoubtedly detrimental to health
Some years ago We learned from an
English paper that ten million pounds
OF adulterated tea held il bond in Lon
don had been condemned as unfit for
consumption, and not long afterward il
was ascertained that large quantities OF
it had actually been sent to the New
York market, though the British in
spectors had declared that it was doc
tored in an evil way. Now, this is not
a thing of slight account. If the teas
outlawed in London are to be shipped
here, the people ought at least to be
made aware of the fact. so that they
may make up their minds what to do
about it. There are some kinds of tea
exported from China that might prop er
ly be labeled ''slow poison" They do
harm to those that consume them, pro-
ducing stomach and kidney complaints,
interfering with digestion and irrita-
ting the nervous system. The Chinese
merchants found out long ago that it
was unsafe to send spurious tea to the
British market, but they have been
sharp in hunting up other fields This
country is. next to England, the great
est tea market in the world, and we are
uot sure, as we have not the recent
comparative statistics at hand, that the
Americans ara not larger tea cOnsuna-
ers than the English. We now import
large quantities of tea from China by
way of San Francisco, and it is through
that port and New York that we get
our supplies. 1t would be well for
every body to steer clear OF adulterated
tea, even though it is cheap
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-21
saw YORK FASHIONS
Ty/ Popular Marie Antoinette Scarf
Partisan Trimmings, Etc.

TyI Popular Marie Antoinetts Scarf
Partisan Trimmings, Etc.
Z A novelty for covering the head,
shoulders and arms at lawn parties ia
a lace scarf with cdpuchon, or hood,
that can be worn with the Iow-throated
corsage and short sleeves of full-dress
toilettes. This scarf resembles some
what the mantilla worn by Spanish
women, but Parisians attribute it to
Marie Antolnette, who delighted in
scarfs and hchus when she and the la
dies of her court played at dairy-maid
and shepherdess in the pleasure
grounds of France. 1t is simply a long
straight scarf OF lace, with the middle
gathered under a bow of high loops,
like those on the crown of toque, a
scalloped edge dropping over the front
hair, and the wider edge over the back
of the head while the long ends cover
ple shoulders, one end crossing the
chest, and being fastened on the left
shoulder with fanciful pin. Such
mantilla accompanies a lovely gown,
all pink and black, made OF pink crepe
de Chine and black marquise lace, that
is placed as a transparent over pink
silk. The half-low corsage has snort
sleeves. one black and one pink, and
the front of the bodice is also of pink
Grape on the right side, draped diagon-
ally across the black lace which forms
the left side. The chemisette directly
in front is like baby waist Of the pink
Grape drawn together on ribbon, with a
tiny standing ruffie at the top The
SKIRT is of pink Grape. draped TO show
the black net on the left side and down
the back, with ladder of black MORE
bows on the left of the front, and jabots
OF the Grape beside the lace panel of the
back. A black gauze fan drawn on pink
ribbons, a black lace parasol, black silk
stockings, and low patent-leather shoes
are worn with this gown and scarf.
Parisiennes carry the use OF black
trimmings on coIored dresses to the ex
treme of having black mutton-leg
sleeves added to blue, green or pink
gowns that are trimmed with black
ribbon and lace. They also wear much
smaller toques than those in vogue
here, consisting of a long, slender
crown, only two inches high in 'front.'
and receding toward the back, band
of straw forming the low side, or else
it is of shirred lace. and the open wired
crown merely covered with a layer OF
tulle on which rest vines or clusters OF
foliage, with one or two flowers placed
near the irons. or standing high on
long stems that nod before the breeze,
The hats chosen here for out-of-dOor
entertainments are as low as those just
described, but usually have a wider
blim, projecting in front, and tapering
narrower on the sides. -Harper' Bazaar.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-21

Mr. Walter Besant has gone to italy to
rest He is one Of the very hardest working
literary men In London
1t fs probable that the president and MrA
Cleveland will visit Lenox this summer a.
well as the Adirondacks.
A son Of Justice Harlan Is connected with
the law Office at Chicago of Melville W. Full
Ter, the new chief iustice.
The honorary degree Of LII D. VIII be con-
ferred upon Prince Albert Victor by the
University Of Cambridge.
The king OF Spain Is IS months old, and
has salary Of 81 900, 900, with prospect of q
raise as soon as the business will warrant it
Sir Joseph Chitty, the we'll known English
judge was at Oxford in 1852 captain Of ths
finest boat crew ever known at either UNI
versity.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-21

In Is calculated that the pope's jubilee pres
ents are worth $20,0O0,000
The Duke of Buckingham is contemplating
an early visit to the United States
Lester WaIlack, the actor, owns 300 suits
of clothes, and none of them need patching.
Mr. John Boyle OReilly has set out on
canoeing voyage through the Dismal Swamp
Balfour never goes anywhere in London
without q couple Of plain clothe- detectives
after him
~ de Rothschild spent e., 900 for flowers
for farewell entertainment he gave Nellie
Farren recently.
Lord Lucas spent $500, 900 to keep a rail-
road from crossing the place where Matthew
Arnold is buried 1880
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-21

At the first sign OF the separation
of the butter from the milk. rinse the
sides of the churn ard the cover with
water at the churning temperature. As
soon as grains of butter as large as
mustard seed, and not larger than kerr
nels OF wheat. appear, stop the churn
and reduce the temperature to fifty
eight degrees or below, by pouring in
cold spring or iced water. 1t is better
to let the churn stand fifteen minutes
or so, after pouring in the water for
the granules of butter to harden. as fat
cools slowly because a poor conductor
of heat
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-21

Prof Wood of the University
of Pennsylvania made a statement at
New Haven that was rather remark
able when he said that not % per cent
of the graduates Of American medical
colleges could pass the examination re-
CURED in Germany for license to
practice. This is very hard on our
colleges. but the worthy professor
meant. perhaps, that the reason the
young doctors could not pass those ex-
aminalions was because not 20 per cent.
OF them w'7N efficiently familiar with
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-21
SADDER THAN DEATH.
A Telegraph Messenger Boy Threatened
with the Loss of His Inertia

A Telegraph Messenger Boy Threatened
with the Loss of His Inertia
Last Friday afternoon district tele
graph messenger, who was speeding
along the street with telegram valued
at fifteen cents a minute, was run over
and seriously injured by blind MAJ
named Standfast. Standfast is Grip
pie, having a wooden leg. He had
taken this leg off to rest it while he sat
by the wayside and begged, and some
mischief loving boys had taken the leg
and hid it. Standfast missed it, was
cropping along the sidewalk feeling for
it, and inadvertently moved directly in
the messenger boys wake. Several
persons seeing that he would run the
boy down, shouted to the latter that
the blind man was after him, and the
boy, realizing his peril made desper-
ate sprint for his life and for few feet
gained on his pursuer, but before he
was far enough ahead to turn out with
safety the cripple was upon him and
ran clear over him before he could BIZ
stopped. The boys injuries were very
serious, as he fell upon his wrist,
spraining it so that it will probably be
two weeks before he can hang on to
the step OF an omnibus going in the
wrong direction. 1t was reported late
that night that, owing to his inability
to utilize his favorite official time killer,
the boy had delivered one message
nearly on time, but the rumor was in'
dignantly denied at headquarters, the
superintendent offering to prove by the
books that such thing had never &C.
Cured since the invention Of human
speed. At a late hour this morning it
was feared that the boy was recovering
his inertia, which had been seriously
disturbed. - Burdette. in Brooklyn
Eagle
If a mai tas aquarrelsome temper,
let him alone The world will soon
find employment. He will soon meet
with some one stronger than himself.
who Will repay him better than you
can A man may fight dueIs all his life
if he is disposed to quarrel
Infinite toll would not enable you
to sweep away mist. but by ascend
ing little you may overlook it alto
gether. So it is with moral improve
ment; we wrestle fiercely with vicious
habit which would have no hold upon
us il we assembled into higher moral
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