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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-09-24
Across the Continent on n wheel.

SAN Francisco, Sept. 2i.-Thonlas Roe,
the Chicago bicyclist, started from the Pal
ace hotel at noon today on his journey by
wheel TO Chicago. where he expeCt' TO az
rive in f,fty DAYS.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-09-24
CEATrLE TILE INSURANCE AND TRUST
- Company.
CAPITAL, s25o,ooo.
OFFICE WITH MOORE LAND co, SEATTLE.

Issues policies a insurance upon real estate
titles guaranteeing absolute protection against
loss by reason Of defective titles.
IL assumes al sts own expense the defense Of
all legal proceedings instituted IN the interest OF
adverse claimants, sGd relieves the insured
from all trouble, ANNOYANCE. anxiety, cost and
EXPENSE attending such litisatioDs
G. H. HASFORD. President and Counsel
EXSsoV. WATSON G. SQUIRE, yice-Pres.
HF BAkRE. Secretary.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-09-24

For suburban points ten trains daily each var
SUNDAY TRAlSs
For south Bend. sno-zral-s
nie. Gilman and way s5an sSpn
fos sroaonatsa and way 4Spn syar
FOR Suburban s.csats six trains each war.
tA4i or write Toy pocket tire carl
b. W RFyF Gen Pass AT
T. ". D. H0LRko0E, Maraxer
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-09-24
DAYS OF DEPARTURE FROM SEATTLE.
Tuesdays ard FrIdays.
DAYS OF ARRIVAL AT SEATTLE
Tuesdays and Fridays.

JOHN A. o'BRIEN, Master.
r. W. PARKER. Agent
JOHN IRVING, Manager c. p. y. Co, Id
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-09-24
CHANGE or TINE - THE NEW, FAST
STEAMER FAIRHAvEy

SAEAAEB FAIRHAVES
-LEArHs FOR
ussiady, Coupevilie. AnscoYtes Fairhaven Bel
nngnafn, sehome, Whatcom and way ports
monday, wednesday and Friday az p N.
Returning. leaves Seattle for Tacoma Wednes.
cay Friday and Sunday At 30 L. m from seattle
Warehouse Co.'S wharf
Seattle Warehouse Company. Agent Seattle.
=. NJ. WILSON. General Manager Ia soma
h. L. Cowgirl, Agent Fairhayen.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-09-24

Pof' Gamble. ssaheck and all points on Hooa's
taasi. VIII leave Mondays and FRIDAYS as
O'Clock y. m, from Schwabachers dock For
ifeignt or passage apply on board or ~ echwa-
baehers dock.
u TROf-TMAS Master
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-09-24
CTEAMER FLEETwoop-rAsr TINE BE.
~ tween
SEATTLE, TACOMA, OLYMPIA
AND WAY PORTS.
Carrying passengers. Northwestern and Wells
Fargo mail aud express and
fast freight.

TINE TABLE
ly Olympia. 6 90 mi Ly Seattle III 80 D N,
Ar Tacoma. aooa m Ar Tacoma - o IN
Nv Tacoma 20 a III LIZ Tacoma % n N,
Ar Seattle. IL 20 M Ar olymdia. m 50 D m
leave Olympia daily. except Monday.
This steamer departs strictly on schedule time:
only boat mskiug The round trip on Sunday
meals on board.
Leaves Yeslei's wharf, foo. of YeSler avenue.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-09-24
No. 10 Market ssr

GTEAAER KIRKLAND
Leaves Power Hc1se
Leaves at q m. for yesisr, Juanita and way
ports.
Leave At a. u and 30 p. N. for Newcastle
AID way pogss.
Leave ~ p. n. fe- yesier Juenita and way
poftx J. H. LoCGHEAp. Manager.
HOOPS CANAL RoUrE-sTEAMER DELTA.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-09-28

liver. The number of drugs that atfao+
the liver is very small, and thew 80
drugs that should not be taken b.,,
hazard. In nine cases out of ten wba,,
you begin to physic your liver Won
injure your digestion, but never to,,ob
the liver. OF course people will taLa
patent medicines; if they didn't manu-
facturers would starve. People will,
pay one dollar for bottle of STUFF thot
is worth not more than eight Giants
bottle and all. II it wasn't for patent
medicine takers a good many doctors
would starve.
A large proportion of the poople
that go to the public dispensaries in
winter have some kind of plaster on
their chests, whatever may be their
complaints. These plasters are Of no
use, and the doctors have to pull them
off to get at the patient. The onlv
way to get them off is to hook up a
corner and give sudden jerk; this
brings away plaster, hair and some
skin, and lifts the patient of his isst.
Chicago Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-09-28
A Russian Empress Watch.


At the time of her coronation at
Moscow, in 1924, Catherine l., En-
press of Russia, was presented with a
watch as wonderful in every particular
as the famous Strasburg clock; even
more wonderful when the delicacy of
it's construction is taken into consider
alton. 1t weighed seven ounces, and
was both a repeater and a musical time
keeper. On the opposite side from the
works or time-keeping part of the won
der there was an exact counterpart of
the holy sepulcher with a carved i'm
age of the Roman guard; this scene
could be viewed through the glass in
the case. Upon opening the case the
imitation stones would roll away from
the mouth of the miniature sepulcher,
the guard would kneel, angels appear
at opposite sides of the opening, and
about this time the music would start
up and play in soft, sweet strains the
Easter songs so we'll known to all Rus
slams. The maker of this wonderful
piece of mechanism is said to have
worked upon it almost unlnterruptedly
for a period of nine years.-Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-09-28
A Noted Female Pirate Dead.

The notorious character knowa as
Spanish Belle" who has fourished
on the Pacific coast since 1S49, has just
died in Idaho. There is scarcely
mining camp on the Pacific coast that
she has not visited. Her history, if
correctly told, would fill large vol
ume; and it would be volume of bad
deeds only, for no good deeds have
ever been attributed to her in the
knowledge Of those few who have
known her history for the past forty
years. 1t seems that she gloried in the
crimes she committed, and during her
convivial moments would relate some
incidents of her past life. From this
source it is gathered that at an early
age in her native land she became the
mistress of noted sea pirate named
Valzai. whose vessel was q terror to
the merchant ships plying the waters
her duty was when the ship anchored
at a port of prominence, to decoy rich
men aboard the vessel, where they
would surely be robbed and murdered.
She followed this criminal career until
the discovery of gold in California,
when she left her pirate paramour,
and landed in San Francisco in the
summer of 1849. At the time of her
death she was eighty-fve years old,
although she could pass for woman
twenty-five years younger. Fran
cisco Letter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-09-28
ABOUT TROUT-FISHING.
A Few Hints to Young Men Who Kno,
Nothing About the Sport.

A Few Hints to Young Men Who Know
Nothing About the Sport.
The following rules are believed to
be comprehensive; but if you don't see
what you want ask for it. If you don't
want what you see, you don't haze to-
In the first place, pick your sssI;ag=.
grounds. II you can pick som&osS
trout-pond, you are apt to have better
luck. In this case do not obtrude bur
self upon the owners attention. He
may have other fish to fry. Trelt in a
strangers private pond slwSs bite
better at night. So, sometime do the
dogs.
Before starting on your tput trip,
lay out most of your money n a rod.
This is de rigeur. A split bsmboo one
with gold trimmings and Q few dia-
monds in the butt, will do You will
not catch any trout With it, but it is
useful for catching sucker. of which
you are apt to do good deal more,
any how. When you go fishing you
can hide it in the bushes and borrow
bean pole from some country boy.
Trout are fonder of this s,rt of tackle.
Ubi 6ean ibt patria, is Their motto.
As to flies, don't be too fy-just mus
cous enough. You will need brown
rain-shackle, an ensangGned ibis, q
roller process miller and shoohy. These
are to stick in your hat. To fish, hor-
row some coclroaches from your hotel
and a few worms from the above-said
C. b. 1t is also important to carry the
customary bottled bait on your own
hook. The fisherman who can not await
bite with baited breath will not catch
any thing, and doesn't deserve to.
In fishing, do not talk. Trout are apt
to resent such familiarity on the part
of an utter stranger. Wait and do your
talking at the supper table. where you
can introduce them to yourself-fried.
Frying overcomes their clammy re-
serve.
Having fshed enough. you can en-
gage the boy from whom you borrowed
the bean pole to catch something to,
you. Then resume your diamond
hilted rod and return to the hotel with
it and your fish.
If you would be the most famous
fisherman that ever lived, you can DO
it very simply. In telling of what you
caught, say invariably that those
which got away were all small. This
may come hard at first, for every one
else will be telling but you ought to
have seen the one | hooked in the
Green Pool - four-pounder, sure. I
could have sworn when he got away"
But stick to your story and you will
be the hero of the summer. After
they have had you de lunaticoed and
pronounced not insane but just honest,
the mammas of lovely daughters will
besiege so model son-in-law, and all
the capitalists will be ready to take
you into partnership. Most informa-
ton mills would charge you about 500
for this pointer alone. but all l ask is
ten per cent. of the heiresses and the
partnerships. -Time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-09-28
INKS OE LONG AGO.
The Fashions That Prevailed in Ancient
Rome and Greece.

Rome and Greece.
According to the Roman naturalist.
Pliny, and other authors, the basis Of
the ink used by ancient writers was
formed of lamp-black, or the black
taken from burnt ivory and SCOT from
furnaces and baths. Some have also
supposed that the black liquor which
the cuttle-fsh yields was frequently
employed. One thing is certain, that
whatever were the component ingredi-
ents, from the blackness and solidity
in the most ancient manuscripts. from
an inkstand found at Herculaneum, in
which the ink appears as thick as oil,
and from chemical analysis, the ink of
antiq uity was much more Opaque, as
well as encaustic, than that which is
used in modern times.
Inks of different colors were much
in vogue. Red, purple. blue and gold
and silver inks were the principal
varieties. The red was made from
vermilion, cinnabar and carmine; the
purple from the mureX, one kind of
which, called the purple encaustic. was
appropriated to the exclusive use OF
the emperors.
Golden ink was much more popular
among the Greeks than among the
Romans. During the middle or dark
ages the manufacture both of it and of
silver ink was an extensive and lucra-
tive hropnh IF troda and tho jllumin.
ated manuscripts which remain are a
striking proof of the high degree of
perfection to which the art was car
ried. The making of the inks them
selves was distinct business; and an
other connected with it, and to which
it owed its origin, was that of in
scribing the titles, capitals, as well as
emphatic words, in colored and gold
and silver inks.-N. Y. Mail and Ex-
press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-09-28
BEAUTY AND HEALTH.
Tho Effects of Tight Clothing on the Per-
son of Its Wearer.

Tho Effects of Tight Clothing on the Per-
son Of Its Wearer.
Now that rational ideas as to dress
have acquired definite place in pub
lie esteem. it may be imagined that the
practice of tight lacings and customs
of like nature, if known at all, are
not what they used to be. A case of
sudden death lately reported from
Birmingham proves that it is still to
early to indulge in such illusory ideas.
The deceased, a servant girl of excita-
BILE temperament, died suddenly in an
epileptoid fit, and the evidence given
before the coroner respecting her death
attributed the fatal issue to asphyxia,
due in a great measure to the fact that
both neck and waist were unnaturally
CONSTRUCTED by her clothing, the former
by tight collar. the latter by a belt
worn under the stays. We have here
certainly those very conditions which
would lead US to expect the worst pos
sible consequences from a convulsive
seizure. There is no organ Of the body
whose free movement is at such times
more important than the heart. Yet
here we find, on the one hand, its
movement hampered by tight girdle
so placed that it could with difficulty
be undone at a critical moment; on the
other, u continuance admirably adapted
to allow the passage of the blood to
the brain, while impeding it's return.
This is no isolated case as regards it's
essential character, though, happily,
somewhat singular in its termination.
Minor degrees of asphyxiation, we
fear, are still submitted to by good
many of the self-torturing children of
vanity. The tight corset and the high
heel still work mischief on the bodies
of their devoted wearers. Taste and
reason, indeed, combine to deprecate
their injurious and vulgar bondage,
and by no means unsuccessfully. Still,
the evil maintains itself. Cases like
that above mentioned ought to. if they
do not, open the eyes OF some self-wor-
shippers of the other sex who Needless
ly strive by such means to excel in a
sickly grace. We would strongly i'm
press on all OF this class the fact that
beauty is impossible without health,
and would advise them, in the name of
taste as well as comfort, to avoid those
methods of contortion, one and all, by
which elegance is only caricatured,
and health may be painfully and per-
manentlJ injured. London Lancet ,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-09-28
THE TIPPING NUISANCE.
1t Has Become a Greater Infiiction
America Than in Europe.

Has Become q Orodt6r
America Than in Europe.
It used to be remark of our own,
and of foreigners also, that main
comfort of an American hotel was that
when you had paid your bill you were
free from all obligations, express or
implied. In fact, the nuisance of tipping
is now more affecting in this country
than it is any where else, for two or
three reasons, which may perhaps be
summed up in the explanation by which
Herbert Spencer accounted for so many
of the phenomena of American life
the fatuous and criminal good nature
of the American character. In the first
place, the fees that one pays at foreign
hotels or on board foreign steamers are
moderate in amount and regulated by
custom. and they are paid but once
and to one set of fuuctionaries on the
departure of the guest. In this coun-
try, the practice having grown up
of late years through the unabashed
greed of one side and the weak COM
pliance of the other, there is no tariff
and every service has to he paid for
by ITSELF Things that one could do
much better for himself, and that he
would much prefer to do for himself,
are officiously and impudently done for
him in order to put the doer into a
position to demand backsheesh, or,
rather, to levy blackmail. There seems
ka-be u conspiracy among bell boys that
no bell boy shall answer the same bell
twice in succession. Where African
servitors are employed the summoner
may take refuge, when a second bell
boy appears, in the Caucasian inability
to distinguish colored persons casually
seen, but oftener he gives his assailant
the benefit of the doubt, and the cOnse-
quence is that he pays for ice water
very nearly the price of champagne,
and much more than the price of more
wholesome and palatable beverages
than itself. If he appears in the COR
ridor in spotless raiment the odds are
that he will be bounced upon by per-
feet stranger bearing that dire instru-
ment of extortion, the whisk broom.
and beaten between the shoulders until
he buys of his tormentor.
Apart from the costliness OF these in
flictions, many Of them are real inflic-
tons, and would be if they were done
gratuitously. Abroad, if the traveller
fails to do the conventionally proper
thing, the servitor continues to be dis
family civil to him, but the fierce Amer
lean servitor regards him rather in an
ger than in sorrow, ignores his wishes
explicitly and ostentatiously and puts
him to an open shame.-N. Y. Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-09-28
RIOGRAPHIcA PoEIICA.

Book Which, When Published, Will
Create a Profound Sensation.
We are about getting out book to
contain biographies of all the occiden-
tai and accidental poets of the hemi-
sphere. Applicants will, please, write
out the answer to the following ques-
tons:
What is your full name?
Your name when you are not full?
The name you maintain in the COM
munityP
When you were born, and why?
Male or female? Don't give an
hasty answer.)
Where were your grandparents born.
in this country or any other?
What asylum do you reside IMP
We're you born in the city or in the
woods?
Did you early lisp in great numbersP
Is yours very bad attack?
Are you educated or not?
What colleges didn't you attend?
What is the color of your red hair?
The estimated length of your feet?
Did you ever have a poem printed?
Did you ever have any other kind of
fits?
What do you think your station is
among the great bardsP
How often does the spasm come onP
Are you saddest when you writeP
Have you ever consulted physician
If male, how old? (We know the
poetic age of all female writers.)
Do you effect the present style of
trousers?
How often do you change your style
Of stockings?
How were you brought up and what
editors brought you DOWN.
Are you married, and how often?
Do you consider divorce a failure?
What do you think of onions as soul
food?
Do your poems come in kind of
spontaneous combustion, as it wee?
What is your height-when you see
your name in your village weekly pa
per?
How many poems, in the course of a
year, do you turn and have returnedP
What is the extent of your poetical
works, and what trade do you follow
for pastime?
What publications have your effu-
sions disappeared in?
We're any of your ancestors ever
burned for writing poetry?
What other renowned poet do you
think you resemble?
What soap do you use, if any?
Do you ever have to rewrite any OF
your poems?
Can you compose poetry and the
baby at the same time?
Do you consider one or all of your
poems the best?
What is the size of hat required after
you finish a poem?
Write answers to the best of your
ability and don't sign your name with
cross. Send photograph of yourself
or your next best friend and five dol
lars, not for publication, but as a guar
antee of good faith.-A. w. Bellaw, in
Time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-09-28
MADE a COMPROMISE.
How an Unfortunate Man Got a Fres
Start in Life.


How an Unfortunate Man Got Fresh
Start in Life.
"Can l see you moment in private?"
queried middle-aged stranger of Off
cor Button at the Third street depot a
Jag or two ago.
"You can, sir. What is it?''
alt is the first time was ever placed
in this position, and feel very much
embarrassed.
"Exactly.'
..But the truth is I've been robbed
and want to ask you for the loan of
dollar"
"Where were you robbed?"
"On the train"
"How much?"
"Just 1928, 900 in cash."
"Was that all you hadP"
every dollar. If you could now
lend me dollar would try and get a
fresh start in the world"
at wouldn't be business" replied
Button, after little reflection. You
might accumulate another fortune and
AGAIN be robbed of it, and it would be
encouraging crime"
ayes, that's so. l hadn't taken that
view of it before. Suppose you give ne
a quarter l will give you my word
not to attempt to get a fresh start on
that and expose any one to temptation.
I see how very wrong it would be, and
I'm determined never to accumulate
another fortune"
On his solemn promise to this effect
Button compromised with him for ten
cents. Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-09-28
Yankees the Best Canvassers.

l employ scores of men IN my bust
ness, and they are constantly chang
ing. | am obliged to select from the
applicants who come to me the bright
est and most alert of them, and l have
reduced my rules of selection 10 sys-
TEN. "Where were you in business
lastP" l always ask, and then the an
swer prejudices me. If the man has
been working in a small Western own,
he's no good, and l don't want aim.
Ten to one he's got into lazy and reck-
less habits and doesn't caro- a snap Tor
small profits. l can't do any thing
with a man who doesn'e know that a
dollar is made of 100 cents. If the
man tells me he's been working in a
large Western city, I'm better salts
fed, but still this class doesn't suit
me. Their ideas are too large, and
they're too independent for their own
good. Their address is not insinuat-
ing, they are likely to be above their
work, and they are fonder of talking
to the people they visit on business
than they are of canvassing. The
clever young man who has been brought
up in small Eastern town makes a
good canvasser, but the best of them
all is the man who has drifted about
from business to business in large
Eastern city like New York or Boston.
They've got enough knowledge of the
world to make every edge cut in can
yassing, and they are plausible enough
to sell q clock to jeweler. They can
make five dollars while the Western
man would be ringing the door-bell.-
st. Louis Democrat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-09-28
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-'Puppyism grown up was child's
definition of dogmatism.
Everything about rattlesnake
keeps cool in time of danger except
its tail. That gets ratified.
"A woman generally does not know
how to drive a nail, but she knows
how to wheedle man into driving it
for her.--Somerville Journal.
About the only birds that have not
been driven out by the English spar
row are the dude, the eagle and the
jail-bird.-Munsey's Weekly.
Husband, | don't know where
that boy got his temper; am sure not
from me-" mo, my dear, for 1 don't
find that you've lost any,
"A rural correspondent speaks of
Fishermen lying about the banks of
the brook all day." They generally
do that. They don't begin to lie about
the fish until they get me.-Norris-
town Herald.
-He-"That seems to be remarka-
bly, cross dog of yours" She-"Yes,
he is little ill-tempered, but l can
overlook all that. He saved my life
once" He did? Then of course, you
feel grateful toward him, if no one else
does. "-Terre Haute Express.
IL never pretend to know thing
that | do not" remarked Brown.
when 1 don't know thing, say at
once, II don't know" "a very
proper course" said Fogg. "But how
monotonous your conversation must
BEL"
An Austin woman says it takes
some men a whole lifetime to learn to
carry ten-dollar bill home without
breaking it. And when they do get it
home it doesn't take some wives fifteen
minutes to spend the whole business.
Texas Siftings.
Fanny - "The Browns are still
lovers, although married ten years."
Frankie, don't talk that kind of
rot" Qndignantly)-"Rot, indeed! 1
saw her run down the steps last night
and kiss Mr.. Brown when he came
home" 'Pshaw! She wanted to find
out what he'd been drinking. Lowell
Citizen.
Your husband was great suffer-
err in his last illness, Mrs. Kooley?"
Eyes, an awful sufferer. But, do you
know, think it is mercy he died. If
he'd lived, he'd never got through
fol hot i1lnaca nf
it would have been great pleasure to
him, poor man; but think how all the
rest would have dr'-Boston
Transcript.
First Old Lady-"Conductor, raise
this window; l shall smother to deathn'
Second Observation-Disclosures lower this
window or I'll freeze to death" First
o. L., again-"Conductor, will you
raise" Irate Passenger Gnterrupt-
ng)--"Conductor hoist that window
and freeze one of those old women to
death; then lower it and smother the
other one." Silence in the car.-Wash-
ington Capital.
Mrs. Billus (while giving Mr.. B. a
curtain lecture at a late hour)-"Hark!
What's that? | hear a noise in the
cellar. John, I'm sure it's a burglar!'
Mr.. Billus getting out of bed)-''rll
fix him!" Mrs. Billus-"What are you
going to do. John? You haven't your
revolver" Mr.. Billus Desperately
I'm going to open the doors all the
way down to the cellar so the Internal
scoundrel can hear you talking!'-
Chicago Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-09-28

mo man can afford to write bad
ly," says somebody, but the tired com
positor knows better. - Somerville
Journal. ...