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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11
Too Thin.

A fat woman, with very red face,
got on a crowded Broadway car in New
York She was so exceedingly fat
that it was great effort for her to
stand at all, and young man, as thin
as she was stout, squeezed up out Of
his seat, and lifting his hat gracefully
invited her to sit down.
The fat lady looked him over with
contemptuous CLINT in her eyes, and
then, in loud and angry tone, said
Young man, suppose you thought
you was awful cunnin' to ask a woman
as fat as | am to sit in the six-inch
space that you have been occupyin'.
1 m fat, but L nj not foolish, and if you
thought you would mortify me before
all these people, why yer barkin' up
the wrong saplin'. I'll let you know
who's to be mortified.
The thin young man blushed Grim
son and muttered that he ''meant to
HARM" didn't notice." &c.
''Oh, you didn't notice, didn't you?
Well, this'll teach you to notice next
time and not insult respectable ladies
in such a way. I'm fat and I'm not
ashamed of it, but if l was as thin and
scrawny as you are l would go pad
myself from A to lizard"
The young man tried again to say
his intentions were the best, but she
cut him off:
shut up, you wasp wasted cavader.
or I'll pull you in two. Come back
here and sit down again in this crack,
you long-drawn-out link between a
hard Winter and hereafter"
She reached for him, but the young
man had wisely fed the car at the last.
crossing.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11

The first vessel that ever entered the
Mississippi from the sea was the
French frigate Renomnee and the Gil
ronde, January 6, 100, and these YES
sells proceeded as far as the Tensas,
which they reached April II. The
first vessel built on the banks Of the
Mississippi by white men was in 1541,
shortly after the death and burial Of
De Soto. The boatmen and early nav
igator5 Of the present century were
long in danger from Indians and pi-
rates. A notorious resort for these
was Crows Nest, or Stock Island.
and many flat boats and crews were
sacrificed there until these pests were
exterminated by mob law in 1902
Previous to the adoption of steam
navigation the whole commerce from
New Orleans to the upper country
was carried in about twenty barges,
averaging 100 tons each and making
but one trip a year, while there were
not over $50 keel boats on the upper
ONO, carrying about thirty tons each
and making the trip from Pittsburg
to Louisville and back in about two
months, or about three voyages in a
season. From 1911 to 1850 SIG boats
were lost, valued at over $1,000, 900.
in 233 cases the killed and wounded
aggregated 1900 The average age
of all the boats lost was five years.
From 1916 to 1871 there were SO ex-
plosions, involving loss of life in
each, varying from to 1860. Mr.
Gould gives the story of some eye
witnesses of most of the leadind disas-
ters and presents the most graphic
pictures of the terrible scenes sur
rounding these events. Nashville Her
oil
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11
NOT so OLD.
How the Average Man DlsIikes
Approaching Age


Approaching Age.
A woman grows old deliberately and
consciously, says the New York Ev en-
ing Sun. The process is without her
consent, to be sure, but not without
her knowledge. She watches every
whitening thread in her glossy locks
and knows better than even her dearest
foe each faint tell-tale line that creeps
under her eyes and about the corners
of her mouth. No, so, however, with
the blind and unthinking creature
catalogued as man. He goes blithely
on from boyhood into young man.
hood, passes comfortably enough into
maturity, and there he pauses. He
may be conscious in a vague and I'M
thinking way Of an increasing diff
Guilty in defining the precise spot on
his crown on viii ch he has located the
part OF his hair and of an added digni-
ty Of carriage which may have some
thing to do with the girtn of his waist;
but his sense of the passage Of time is
at rest. He was 80 when he last had
the leisure and the taste to observe
himself. He is still 30, though that
was twenty-five years ago. By and
by, however, the stroke comes; the
dreamer falls from his careless secur-
ity of youth plump into a conscious
middle age And it comes with a sud
denness that takes away his breath,
and leaves, perhaps, his rosy face
little whitened for an hour or two, and
considerably perplexed. 1t is unfortu-
nate when this experience comes to a
man when and where he is unable to
hide its first shock from the observant
eyes of the public. A few days ago
man in middle life entered crowded
Broadway car. His hair was whitened
at the temples, and there were crow S.
feet at the corners of his eyes; but
they were merry-looking crow's-feet,
and he was very vigorous and pleas
ing type of life at 80 or 55. As he en-
tered and stood contentedly enough
near the door brisk young fellow OF
IS or 20 jumped ostentatiously to his
feet. Take my seat SIR" he said.
A look of bewilderment overspread the
rosy face of the gentleman. Il can
stand, SIR" persisted the yOungster
with an insistent poIiteness that was
little less than brutal; Il am young,
you know"
The gentleman sank into his seat as
if his legs had suddenly refused to sup
port him. He looked hard into space,
but he saw nothing. His newspaper
lay untouched Oh his lap all the way
downtown. He was trying hard to pull
himself together and get back the easy
security of youth that he had a few mo-
ments before. But he never will
again.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11
CON CERNING THE EARS.

As age increases the ear becomes
angular and marked.
Small and thin ears usually denote
delicacy and refinement
The thin, angular ear is ) i'd to de-
note bad temper and cruelty.
People with musical tastes generally
have large and prominent ears.
Abnormally large, thick ears are as
ISOLATED with a sensual and course
nature.
Great philosophers and statesmen
have been noticed to have large and
sloping ears.
The ear of the great Napoleon was
rather small, we'll formed and with a
curved lobe.
The marquis of Salisbury's ear is
massive and well proportional and has
a sloping position.
Mr.. Gladstone's ear has a curved,
hanging lobe, lies close to the head.
and has sloping position. Pail Mall
Gazette.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11
How Camphor Is Made.

Camphor is made in Japan in this
way: After a tree is felled to the
earth it is cut into chips, which arc
laid in a tub or large iron pot partly
filled with water and placed over a
slow fire. Through holes in the bottom
of the tub steam slowly ris es and heat
ing the chips generates oil and
camphor.
OF course the tub with the chips has
closely fitting cover. From this
cover bamboo pipe leads to a success
sion of other tubs with bamboo con-
I nections, and the last OF these tubs is
divided into two compartments, one
above the other, the dividing floor be-
ing perforated with small holes to al
low the water and oil to pass to the
lower compartment.
The upper compartment is supp lied
with a straw layer, which catches and
holds the camphor in crystal in deposit
as it passes to the cooling process.
The camphor is then separated from
the straw, packed in wooden tubs and
is ready for market. The oil is used
by the natives for illumination and
other purposes. New York Star.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11
Burial in the Air.

Under the influence Of the mission
aries the Indians of Montana are fast
abandoning their old custom of placing
their dead on platforms, or hanging
them wrapped in blankets, to the
limbs of the big cottonwood trees
which grow along the streams; but
now and then the hunter or cowboy
still finds one Of their old platform
cemeteries or, it may be, only G tomb
standing in the solitude of the vast
grassy plains. The original object of
this odd way of disposing of corpses
was undoubtedly to protect them from
the wolves, which would speedily dig
us any grave such as the Indians could
mike without picks and shOvels. In
course of time the rude platform
would be upturned by decay and the
winds, but the Crow or Blackfeet kins-
men o. the deceased had done their
duty in the way of sepulture as well as
they could and were not responsible
for such accidents. After all, the main
thing was to satisfy the ghost OF the
departed so that he would go at once
10 the happy hunting grounds, con-
tent with the honOrs paid to his re-
mains. and not hang about to haunt
his relatives. Exchange.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11
STRANGELY CHANGEDB TIME.
Records of College Boys That

Records of College Boys That
Surprised Friends.
1t is rare source of interest to the
collegiate Of retrospective mind to
sit down some evening before a glow
ing fire and through the wreaths Of
smoke from the curling pipe recall the
old classmates as they were and as
they are, says Globe Democrat writ
er The brightest boy in my class,
one whose future any one would have
discounted on leading to fame and for
tune, is to-day dying hopeless mental
and physical wreck, and has for years
been a reproach to his family. The
dullest, sleepiest, altogether most I'M
promising one OF the lot, whom we
picked out for a career as a teamster,
ID one of the leading architects of the
country.
Our best Latin and Greek scholar is
to-day pork-packer. The most pious
boy of our crew, who seemed destined
for the church, is Il successful actor.
One whom knew very well was in
tended for a lawyer, and is now a
quarry man and contractor. Another,
who could not address ten words to the
class without stImmering in confusion,
is one of the most eloquent OF our
public men. And SO it runs-the twig
gives but slight indications OF the
tree
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11
POPULAR SCIENCE.

The acuteness of taste, smell and
hearing in criminals has been found by
Italian observers to be below the aver
age, Sig. Gradenigo explains the in
feriorily by unhygienic living and
vicious habits.
Experiments communicated TO the
French Academy indicate that disease
microbes may be not only attenuated
until nearly harmless. but may be re-
vivified by degrees and given the most
virulent character.
Among those who have worked out
the problem Of procuring aluminium by
electrolysis NJ. Minet is one OF the most
successful. The electrolyte used by
him is a mixture from thirty to forty
per cent of cryolite with from sixty to
seventy per cent. of common salt.
The recent discovery by New Eng
land chemist OF cheap method OF dis
solving zinc by combining it with n.y.
drogen is regarded as a most valuable
one. The product is solution called
zinc-water and has the property of
making wood to which it has been APP
piled absolutely freproof, and at very
low cost.
The Canadian government keep
pushing forward their surveys into
what is known as the old Hudson Bay
territory. The Mackenzie river has
been found to be far larger body of
water than formerly supposed. More
accurate surveys as regards the size OF
some of the great lakes of those re-
gions are being made.
A German experimental has found
that the human eye Is more sensitive
to green rays of light than to red rays.
and to red more than blue rays. Since
the red rays are those of longest wave
length, and the blue those Of shortest
wave length. it follows that the eye is
most susceptible to the rays OF medium
length.
The circle around the moon, or lunar
rainbow, shows the presence of mois-
ture in the air. Moisture at a high
altitude produces large bow and at a
low altitude small bow. The smaller
the bow, therefore, the nearer the
moisture, and. consequently, the SOON
er will the storm develop. The old
saying that the number OF stars to be
seen inside of the circle indicates the
number of days before the arrival Of
the storm is not reliable, as the posi-
ton of the moon in the heavens may
make the number great or small, with
out regard to storm conditions. All
attempts at predicting the weather for
months in advance are mere guess
work
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11
Got an Awful Scare.

A small, one-man riot disturbed the
quiet Sabbath evening serenity in the
freaks clearinghouse on West Mad i,
son street, near the museum, las t
night. No one was hurt, but very
pathetic incident occurred during the
reign OF terror.
The house is patronized exclusively
by museum people, freaks and actors,
and the place was full of tn EN-. Among
the actors was a wild and woody cow
boy with hairy pants, sombrero, and
spurs, who had been playing in mu-
scum wild west company. About IL
o'clock p. m. this desperate individual
got drunk and went charging through
the house flourishing big gun ard a
knife two feet long. He said he was
going to Stay a few tenderfeet for
breakfast, and. fearful lest he should
carry out his design, the landlady sent
for policeman.
In the meantime the tough cowboy
charged into room occupied by
Young male albino one OF those fell
lows with bushy head of white hair
where he commenced to hack the
furniture with his knife and shoot at
the gas jet. The frightened albino
hoped out of bed and plunged into
the hall, where he ran into the arms OF
the policeman, who had just arrived.
"Good Lord. man." exclaimed the
officer in feeling accents as ne gazed
at the trembling albino's bristling,
snow-white hair, ''but you must have
GOT an awful scare. Chicago Herald.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11
THE MAN THEY WANT.
The Kind of a Husband They
Would Choose.

That girl has yet to learn that u
dancing man and handsome man is
not man to be desired, and the plain
est features and the most awkward
manners, if they go hand in hand with
kindness of heart and soul of honor
and integrity, are worth far more than
a Turvydrop and handsome face,
which, in man, seldom fails to be
, insipid.
Another would be satisfied with q
man of high position whom the world
delighted to honor, the reporters
to interview and the people to stare at
and point out, while she, as his wife.
shone in his reflected light Does not
that girl know that such men rarely
have time to give to their wives, and
do not think of those little everyday
attentions which are to true, loyal
woman what the dew is to the flowers,
and without which love will wear itse If
out in hot rebellion against the ambi-
ton and it's fruition which have come
between itself and happiness?
Another wants learned man, who
has read so much and knows so much
that when he speaks, words of wisdom
drop from his lips like raindrops in a
summer shower. All this sounds very
| fine, or would, if the man of erudition
ever talked TO her or any one else, but
nd
self-absorbed, and in their abstraction
and reticence are apt to become selfish
| and exacting, as was Carlyle, growing
over his toast and tea in that not very
happy home at CraigenputtOck. He
| was a man of learning and fame, and
| his wife was proud and fond of him,
! but, like Dorothy in "Middlemarch, :"
! who, while honOring CasaubOn, still
had laundering after his scapegrace
| nephew, with his magnetism and frank,
genial ways, she would have liked him
more and been happier with him had
| he found time for those little attentions
, and courtesies which women prize, and
which keep love fresh and young down
to ripe old age. Said a sad-eyed
| woman, whose husband has been dead
| for years: He was Il gentleman in
every respect, but l loved him most
nor his kindness and thoughtfulness,
! which never allowed him to forget that
I was his wife, and always made me
feel that l was as dear to him as the
first day he called me by that name"
And she, | think, sounded the key
note of the whole matter A woman
| who is worthy to be the wife of good
| man likes to know that, however
learned or wise, or great, or busy he
| may be, there is still in his heart a
spot where she reigns supreme, and
from which neither business, nor
! greatness, nor fame, nor learning can
| dislodge her; that she is his queen, to
whom he pays homage, whose presence
he recognizes and whose absence he de-
| plores. She may be proud of his tai
ents, proud of his name, and proud of
his looks, but if TO these he adds
neglect of herself, whether Intentional
/ ly or not, there must always be a
hidden palma want of something
withheld, marring what might other
wise have been perfect. Mary j.
| Holmes.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11
HowTo KEEP A STRANGE CAT,
Cut Off Its Tail and Bury 1t Under
the Doorstep.

the doorstep.
A lady in Washington has recently
taken possession of an old house. To
her great sorrow, says the post, she
found the place Overrun with rats and
mice. Rats and mice of the wariest
and most suspicious kind, too. Traps
were set in profusion, and in vain.
She dared not use poison, for fear the
rodents would die in the walls. Her
kitchen was presided over by her old
nanny, Il colored woman of ample
proportions and great age.
II don't know what | AN to do,
Maum Becky, with these rats and
mice, '''said the lady in despair.
"NNhat matter wild er cat:?'
But we have no cat and before we
raise kitten large enough to catch
rats they will have eaten us out Of
house and home"
What matter wild SEN Jim out err
alley, ketch strange cat? Plenty of
cat in alley. Nobody keefHbout one
cat?"
But what is the use of talking such
nonsence, Maum Becky? A strange cat
wouldn't stay in the house five minutes,
if Jim should catch one"
Miss Lizzie, Maum Beck's 'sprised
N 'shamed to year you talk so. l Is
done raised you fun lii baby, n den
year you Tess such ign'ance? Not kip
strange cat in e house minute? You
don't know how kip strange cat in
house! Lemme tell you, an don you
nebber forgit. Fus' you catch de cat.
Den you TAX er OF boot laig. N put
de cat head fus' dowd e boot laig.
Pull de cat him laigs froo de straps,
des so he kyarn' use he claw. Den
you put cat haid un'r 20 ahm, so, an
walk BACKYARD to the frs step ob
pooh Den tex err kvarvin klllfe er a
sissors m snip off end err cat tail. Den
TEX 70 finger m dig ill hole un'r step
m bury tip er tail in e hole. FO' God,
dat cat nebber Leah err place so lang
dat cat tail stay in e hole
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11

the road-track of the desert where, az
far as we knew, no rain had fallen.
cannot tell; l only know that it was
there, and that it saved our li7es. A
fire was made and the kettle set on it.
1t was boiled to free it from impurities
and germs it might contain, afterward
pouring it all into porous pitcher we
had with us and encasing that again
with a strip of wet flannel, we placed
the pitcher in the sun, where the
evaporation of the steaming flannel
cooled the water inside to delicious
freshness though it could not improve
the flavor.
We drank a large cupful each-it
was the color of polished mahogany
and put the rest into the wagon, slak-
ing our thirst as we drove on. just
before the sun set, a globe of crimson
fire in an empty, quivering sky, we
saw before us, touched by his last
beams, a distant fringe of trees, and
we knew we were nearing our
journeys end, for Verbeck's farm lay
behind that distant foliage.
At midnight of that same day we
walked our weary horses up to the
farm-gate, and were met by the hospi-
table farmer Verbeck and his family,
heralded by the troop OF dogs that are
invariably to be found hanging about
the Dutch falmhouses. Our journey
across the Karroo was accomplished.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11
Wounds Dressed With sawdust.

The use of fine sawdust as ADDRESSING
for wounds and as vehicle for med
icaments or anUiseptics is suggested.
1t is said that the dust freed from
splinters and sharp pieces of wood by
sitting, when used alone and dry, makes
a clean and grateful dressing; that it
readily takes up and holds the dis
charges without packing or adhering,
and that it is easily rendered antisepic
by any of the methods used in prepar-
ing antiseptic cotton or wool. A we'll
known medical authority also suggests
that our yellow pine sawdust, rich as
it is in turpentine, would prove of
itself valuable antiseptic application.
N Y. Herald
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11
hMinsral Fibre.

A Honolulu paper thus describes
curious substance thrown of by the
molten lava and found close to the
lakes OF fire at the volcano: at clings
to the adjoining rocks in fbre-like
threads OF a faxen color, and has the
appearance of human hair, but mixed
with it are sharp particles OF black
lava. Considering that this substance
is minor production it is wonderfully
flexible and tough-bending easily. but
not ductiIe in its present state or capa-
BILE of being heightened II is peculiar
to this volcano. and it is certainly a
singular production. "
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11
Rapid Flight of Bundle Bees.

A writer in Gleanings in Bee Gull
ture asks the question "How fast do
humble bees fly" and answered by
relating an experience in England
many years ago, on an engine which
was going at the rate of nearly sixty
miles an hour, which was chased by
a humble bee that found no difficulty
in going around the smoke stack sever
al times at this almost incredible rate
OF speed. While the bee was going
with the engine it must exceed the
mile-a-minute rate. The report says
this was kept up for six or eight min
utes, during which time the engine
passed over as many miles. This
seems an incredible story, entirely at
variance with our experlen ce with
humble bees. We have often outrun
them, and, in fact the bee rarely chas-
es any one more than fifteen or twenty
rods, usually much less distance. 1t
is also easily thrown off the track. Per-
haps the bee lighted On the smoke
stack, and was carried by II without
being seen. II this occurred for even
five minutes while the train was going
at such rate of speed, the humble
bee would never reach its home, but
be hopelessly lost We cannot believe
that bee OF any kind can fly as fast
as is here reported. Probably with
bee in full purs nit the observer be-
came excited, and did not distinguish
between the bee trying its sting
against the smoke stack, and an in
furiated enemy pursuing him with
greater velocity and ferocity than bees
ever did before.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11
Wanted Pie in the Hereafter.

1t used to be said that the French
converted the Indians with their cook
ing. A story is told Of one Indian who
when dying seemed to care little about
what was told him of heaven. ''Are
you sure will find as good pastry
there as your cooks have made for me?"
he asked the priest, and when he was
assured that the things OF heaven were
far superior to those of earth he closed
his eyes and died content
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11
A Paculiar Predieament.

Said a man to his bosom friend, who
was about to get married: Il suppose
l ought to wish you both much hap
piness; but, as l don't know the bride,
l cannot congratulate you. On the other
hand, as know you only too well l
cannot congratulate the bride. "--M
Peru Illustrado
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11
The Art Of Milking.

Suburban resident: Eyes, | want a
useful man about my country place.
Can you milk?" Applicant: 'Yis,
sor.m (Which side of COW do you
sit on when milking?" 'Wull, sor,
Oh niver MIXED but wan COW an she
waz a kicker. sor, an. bedad, a good
dale av the toim Oh was on both solids
av her, sor." New York Weekly.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11
Unexpected Comment.

Jimmy Tuffborn Ito minister who
is dining with the family): Didn't
you say III your sermon this morning
that there wasn't anything in this
world perfect9" Minister: Eyes, be-
lieve so; why 90 you ask?" ''Oh, l
heard ma say before church time that
you were perfect bore. Epoch.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-01-11
One Way of Solving the Indian Question.

Our uncivilized wards,
Who, whene'er chance affords,
All hold big powwow and lay fierce plo
Deserve to be fought
With the plans they have sought
And given theirfill of pow wow-der andshot-