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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22
RETREAT FOR DOGS.
A Queer English Institution PatrOnized
by Queen Victoria.

by Queen NlcCOElds
Some twenty-seven years ago such a
home was made at Battersea, part of
London. by a benevolent lady. Since
her death it has been carried on by an
association composed of many of the
nobility.
During the last year IL, SS1 dogs have
been admitted to the home, most of
them being brought in by the police.
Over 1, 500 were restored to their own
ers, and an equal number found new
homes. Most of the animals are gath
cred from the streets, where they are
found wandering, and if sick or injured
are painlessly destroyed. The dogs to
be killed are placed in an air-tight
apartment large enough to admit 100 at
a time, for sometimes large number
must be disposed of at once. and by
means of apparatus chloroform IS intro
duced, and the poor creatures quietly go
to sleep never to waken.
A crematorium has been erected in
connection with the home, which is the
common grave of the dogs destroyed,
and the bones are afterward sold, the
proceeds being used toward the ex-
penses of the institution. One of the
waits, noble great Newfoundland, now
owned by lady who is interested in the
home, begs upon the wharves, and the
last wear collected in a box suspended
from his neck about twenty-five dollars,
which, no doubt. from a grateful heart,
he was most happy to present to the
home.
Connected with the dogs home is q
cats house, where stray Tommies are
cared for and pet Tables are boarded
to accommodate their indulr mt owners;
and as more than $3.50 dollars was last
year received for board, it is quite
evident that this institution is appre-
ciated.
The Queen and the Prince OF Wales
are the patrons of the home, the former
giving fifty dollars every year towards
it's support No dog is allowed to be
taken away from the Institution unless
it is claimed or sold; all who enter the
door of this home may reasonably ex-
pect forever after comfortable, happy
ife.-Well-Spring.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22
HE WAS FORGIVEN.
Wee Boys Mother Couldn't Stand Hia
Calm Resignation.

A Lewiston littlelboy declared phil
osophic independence and accepted the
consequences in SO matter-of -8aeta way
that it may make q story. even Il Is ID
not so very funny. His mother dressed
him up in new flannel shirt and sent
him to school. The shirt irritated his
cuticle, or, in other words he, itched.
When he came home that night he was
cross, and very cross for so small boy,
and he declared hf and ahe shaEt had
parted companY fpFsse by 49,
morning, as Chs mokHeE fepa sel aress
him for school the boy drew the Inc at
the shirt NO" said he, Il don't
wanter wear that shirt" A brief debate
ensued, in which the boy appeared to
have formed his opinion and to have de-
cided to stick to it. The question, when
put to the house, was carried by the boy,
who would not don the shirt.
''If you will not wear it," said his
mother, II will send you back to bed"
Back to bed he went. He got no din
ner. Afternoon came. A neighbo
went into see him, his mother telling
her that she had bad boy upstairs.
The boy lay there in bed wide awake,
his little cheeks flushed with the situa-
ton, but showing no sign of change Of
heart.
Don't you want to go to school?"
asked the neighbor.
SCHOOL," was the reply. 81 shall
never go to school again"
Don't you want top
''Yes, but l can't. I've got to stay
here"
''All your life?"
''Yes'm," was the reply, call my life.
/ shan't ever get up again, prob'ly"
What could a mothers heart do
against so philosophic an acceptance Of
the termination of career as this?
What but kiss him at tea and go and
buy the little bunch of pluck rsome
downy little undershirts that should
never tickle him.-Lewiston Me Jour-
nal
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22
KISSING CHILDREN.
A Practice That Is rs InconsIderate as re
Is Dangerous.


Is Dangerous.
OF the practice of kissing children
when one has sore throat, a Dussel-
dorf physician says in German medical
journal: Speaking mildly, would call
this practice horrible, although the
term ''murderous" was on my tongue.
Yes, indeed, dear madam, ''murderousp'
You will remember, perhaps, that four
teen days ago you, with great shawl
wrapped around your neck, made visit
to Mrs. S, and as the little Hans came
running into the room, did you not
snatch the little one in your arms and,
apparently overlooking with tenderness
for him, kiss him to your hearts con-
tent. Then you began to relate what
horribly inhamed throat you had. so
that the day before you had to decline
an invitation to the concert You had
no designs on the life of that child. and
yet you killed him just as surely as
though. instead of your tender kisses
you had given him sttychnine or arsenic.
Your tenderness was fatal. Two or
three days later the boy began to COM
plain OF sore throat. and, when the
physician came, the one word ''diph-
liberia" made all clear. To-day little
freshly-decorated mound in the church
yard is the only reminder of your
visit. The mother has, of course,
not the slightest suspicion of you; she
ascribes her bitter loss to Providence.
The physician did nothing to disturb
this belief, for this would have been as
unwiSe as unkind: but | will say it that
to your folly alone, my dear madam, the
death of little Hans is due. 1t is hard
to determine how great a part of the
prevalence of that horrible disease,
diphtheria, is to be attributed to such
thoughtlessness: it is well-established,
however. that adults have diphtheria in
so mild form often. that it is regarded
as only a simple cold and as cold is
not infectious. there is no idea that the
breath may harm any one. As diphthe-
ria, in the majority of cases, is commu-
nicated by direct contagion, as there is
no surer way of communicating the dis
ease than by kissing, and as kissing has
boone SO much the custom on all occa-
sions. it is certainly not surprising that
this disease so easily becomes epidemic,
although in this there is no wish to say
that all cases of diphtheria originate
thus. One thing should be remembered:
1t is sometimes a greater kindness TO
children to show them less tenderness
in this respect.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Mica is now being used as an cleo
trical insulator.
France protects its match industry
by prohibiting the importation of
matches.
The opacity of steam issuing from a
nozzle is greatly increased by bringing
electrified points near it, and its color
is changed to orange brown.
The new metallic packing for piston
rods permits the rods to move freely
within it; it is simple and strong, and
may be removed and taken to pieces
with ease.
Corn husks are utilized in Austria
in the manufacture of paper. The
husks are boiled with an alkai in tubu-
lar boilers. The glutinous matter is
pressed out from the fibers.
In Lawrence Kan, a comparison by
means of a photometer between the
brightness of the full moon and that of
the arc lights in use in that city, showed
that at an average distance of 100 feet
from the light of the lamp the bright
ness was twenty-five times that of the
full moon.
"A new artificial stone according to
Invention) is coming into use in Ger
many, which, instead of the dull, darkish
gray, inseparable from the compounds of
Portland cement, is almost perfectly
white, being made of white sand and
new white cement
The spark struck from two pieces of
flint will not ignite finder In order to
get fire by the use of flint it is necessary
that piece of pyrites, iron or steel, be
used. As no one ever found piece of
flint together with a piece of pyrites, it
is safe to say that the Indians knew
nothing of this method of making fire.
OF tree species there are over six
hundred kinds listed by the census re-
port for the United States alone-three
times the number existing in Central
Europe, This list includes all that grow
with a single woody stem, regardless of
size, this being the technical character
istic of a tree.
According to German architectural
paper, wash of paraffin-wax dissolved
in heavy solvent naptha in the pro-
portion of one part of parafin to two
and a half or three parts of naptha is an
excellent preventative of damp in walls.
The wax is melted by the application Of
a little heat, and kept fluid during use
by dipping the vessel of wash in warm
water.
DR.. Wilhelm, of Gustrow, Ger
many), strongly recommends that in
cases of lead poisoning small quantity
of blood should be taken from the arm.
He has practiced this treatment in
twenty-five cases, and speaks warmly
of the success he has met with, the
patients in some cases expressing them
selves as greatly relieved Immediately
after the operation, and the affection
taking marked change for the better
from that time.
The Dahl process of preserving milk
by sterilizing it and excluding atmos-
pheric germs is stated to have come into
use only in n orway but efforts are now
being made to introduce it into England.
In this process fresh milk is placed in
cans. which are Theoretically sealed and
then alternately heated and cooled until
every organ ism or germ is supposed to
have been destroyed. Milk thus treated
may be kept in the unopened cans for
an definite period, and has been found
after three years osbave the taste and
appearance at the best fresh nilk.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22
4be hoaies 81 Two more we're pushed out.

the bodies of two more were pushed OUT
side.
This ended the fighting. The rabble
went off, and for the next ten days not a
native came near US. At the end OF that
time me got word that the British had
the upper hand again at Sultanpoor' and
we left our fort and returned there. Not
one of us was the worse off, and yet we
had done considerable toward reducing
the number of mutineers. One OF the
natives wounded in the last tight told
me that the General" who ordered the
charge against the fort told his men
that it was no use to longer bother us,
MS all Americans were in league with
Satan, and that His Majesty would pre-
vent their bullets or swords from harm
iuU ne N Y SIM,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22
WELL-MADE BRICK.


1t Is without Question the Safest of
Building Materials.
In spite of all that has been said of
other building material brick is still
and is likely to remain the favorite
except Wedgewood crucible that will
withstand fire nearly as well, and the
smoothness and sharpness with which
good bricks for fronts can be produced
with cheapness and dispatch, puts this
material further in the lead of it's COM
petitors in their respective processes.
Iron is confessedly unfit for building
purposes where it may exposed to the
weather or fire, and is rapidly going out
of use. Stone will always have it's uses
III cOmbina ton with brick and terra
Gotta, but stone will not weather any
better in this climate than well-burned
brick, nor does it begin to withstand
fire as we'll; besides, even with every
improvement in the manipulation of
stone, It's SO much deareras to leave it
ont Of Competition with BRICK for the
heavy portion Of the walls The use Of
various materials is wise ami thesefleet
upon the architecture Of the city is
handsome, but when enthusiasts in one
nf tile othef materials assert supre-
macy Of heir favorite over brick, they
reckon Without their host. Egypt, the
land of all others where stone was most
available, dealt yet more heavily in
brick. Along with her ruins of stone
are yet to be seen imposing piles of
brick, and sun-Daked brick at that, not
more time-worn than the massive stones
around them. While the sun-baked
brick of the cities of Assyria under the
damp, hot climates becomes, in course
of ages, shapeless mounds, the kiln
baked face bricks are as sharp and clean
as ever, and testify to the indestructi-
bility of a well-made brick. Parts of
the walls of Rome built by Aurelian,
of brick, still remain practically perfect
in the ruins of those walls not utilized
in the building of modern Rome. But
it is hardly necessary to cite instances
of the durability of brick. Its friends
can not add to it's durability, nor its
enemies say more against it than that
brick wall or building is not artistic
ClaV-WOrl<er
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22
AT HEART.

Where shall we roam, when ways are sere,
and gray
The sky looks down, and sounds cf revel are
As breezy means upon a lonely moor;
When musc's harmonies bring tears, and all
The faces of our friends grow cold with life
That, like ghost, appears and vanishes?
Space holds no spot SO gentle and so bright
That there we lose the chillness of the mock
That we shall never know our origin,
Nor whittier bound, nor grander lore than
yet
Heroes of intellect have fought to win,
BY inches measuring the universe.
No region seen nor answer heard can bring
Peace and brave pride; but in the soul and
heart
Are powers for miracle and healing Joy,
Are telescopes more subtle than for stars,
Are answers without words to all our love,
Though not sign for blasphemy or fears.
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, in Harper's
Monthly.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22
UNPARALLELED NERVE.
A Utica u. W Woman Who Apparently
Is Made of Brass.

Is Maue OF brass.
Yesterday morning lady walked into
an uptown doctors office and asked
permission to use his telephone. The
gentlemanly physician acquiesced with
pleasure, but was somewhat astonished
to hear his visitor call up another doc
tors office She had some difficulty
with the telephone, and requested the
doctor to do the talking for her. First
she wanted him to tell his brother prac-
titioner, DIR. c., that she was sick
and that she would Immediately be
down to see him. Great Scott, ejacu-
lated the latter, don't send her down
here. She has hung up every doctor in
town. Tell her | have an urgent call
and won't be in again to-day. Send her
to DIR. B In terms the most suave
the doctor told his visitor that DIR.
c. would be unable to see her,
but that she might do we'll to
see DIR. b. But tell him
that it is serious and that / must see
him, she said. The doctor made an
other effort, but he heard the man at
the other end of the line hanging up
his receiver in most desperate fashion.
The woman finally confided to him that
she guessed she would go up street and
see another Doctor c., who she was
sure would comfort her ills.
The doctor whose office was thus in
yaded found it necessary to take long
rest to recover from the shock which he
afterward said was given to him by wit
Messing so severe and aggravated case
of ''nerve." He subsequently found
that not long before the same patient
had gone into one DR.. is office and
secured his services to telephone drug
store to see why the medicine pre-
scribed for her by DR.. B had not
been sent up tica N. " Herald.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22
ST. DIsTAFFs DAY.
Thread It's Miles in Length Spun From
One Pound of Cotton.

A Thread L Is Miles in Length Spun From
One Pound of Cotton.
The 18th OF January is day in which
the elderly maidens, who are sometimes
called spinsters, should take a peculiar
interest. In old times it was known
and observed as st. Distaff's day, be-
cause it was generally then that the
women resumed, after all Christmas
holidays, the distaff and spindle. When
the spinning-wheel was invented, along
in 1888, those ladies' who used it began
to be called spinsters. This. afterward,
in legal Technology, came to be applied
10 all unmarried women, but the name
was an honored one until the employ
ment of spinning was considered too
mental for women of rank. Then it was
used contemptuously, and gradually it
came to signify, more particularly, sim
gle ladies of mature years. Before the
spinning-wheel was relegated to the
garrett some extraordinary feats were
accomplished, or. as people nowadays
would say, records were made, by those
expert IN its use. In the year 1745 a
woman at East Dereham, in Norfolk,
spun single pound of wool into a
thread of $4,000 yards in length, wanting
only eighty yards of forty-eight miles.
his, at the time. was considered per-
Torrance of sufficient Importance to
merit place in the Proceedings of the
Royal Society," very high honor, in
deed. Afterward, this feat was eclipsed
by another English lady, living at Nor
wich, who spun pound of combed wool
into thread of 1880 yards: and she
actually produced from the same weight
Of cotton a thread of 203, 900 yards, equal
to about 115 miles. This last thread, if
woven, would produce about twenty
yards of yard-wide muslin
Could we know that we were GER
tainly making the entire character of
single individual, and that we alone
must bear the responsibility, how great
trust we should deem it, and how care
fal should we be- Yet, in truth, we are
doing far more than that. Every one
who approaches us owes something OF
his character to our influence; and the
effect does not stop there. Like mag
netic current, it passes on from one per-
son to another, and no human power of
computation can ever measure its
strength or its extent.-Once a Week.
Getting Even. = Miss Clincher-
Yes, Maude, your family tree can not
boast of the lofty branches that charact-
erie oars. Your grandfather lived near
nine six months and" Miss Plncher
unterruptingly) - believe grand
isther did reside near the old Taunton
lsll about that length of time" Miss
N-"What. do you insinuate?' Miss r.
Not at all, dearest. merely eorro-
eOrated your last statement" -Drake's
Magazine.
Talk about being ready for an
emergency" writes a seaside resorter
"nO passed through the tidal wave
s'orm' The people here have to be
n Guy Tor submergency."-ChicagS
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22
Lilies for Culinary Purposes.

In lecture to girls assemblage,
not long ago, Prof. Ames, of Columbia
College, said that in some parts of India
the lily is actually used as an article of
diet. 1t has been found by the bota-
nists to be highly nutritious article of
food, being peculiarly rich in nitrogene-
Gus compounds. The poor Indian, who
evidently considers the lilies from a
astronomical point of view, either eat
them as a vegetable or kneads them
with dough and makes them into cakes.
In either form they are declared to af-
ford most substantial and nourishing
tepast, and the aesthetics of ten years
ago, when accused of Giving on lilies"
would certainly nave been enabled to
return the laugh against their torment
ors if they had known the culinary at
tributes of their cherished flower.
Mark the result of the professors in
formation: At stylish luncheon re-
Gently given by an enterprising belle
stewed lilies were one of the novel
dishes. They tasted like an amalgam
of spinach and cabbage and were not
very dainty, but they are bound to have
vogue for awhile, anyhow.-Chicago
Herald.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22
A cynical man saws: 'Tf YOU wa

"A cynical man says: IF you want
TO keep friend never do business with
him. If he takes advantage of you you
will hate him. If you discover that you
have missed an opportunity to trick him
you will hate yourself Texas Sift-
ings.
Thou mayst be sure that he that
will in private tell thee of thy faults is
thy friend, for he adventures thy dis
like, and doth hazard thy hatred; for
there are few men that can endure it,
every man for the most part delighting
in self-praise. which is one of the most
universal follies that bewitch mankind.
Sir Walter Raleigh.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22
How slIicate of Soda Is Obtained.

This salt is obtained by fusing one
part of silica and two of dry carbonate
of soda, mixed in powder, in an earthen-
ware crucible, and pouring the fused
mass on stone slab to cool. This is
then pulverized and treated with boil
ing water to dissolve the soluble part.
The solution is filtered and concentrated
by boiling, so as to form crystals on
cooling. These are again purified by
dissolving them in tepid water, tiltering
the solution and boiling, that it may re-
crystalize This form of soda is some
times used in fine laundry work
Christian at Work.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22

% me me Willamette Investment Company
t;os Sai s has FL art ces of incorpora-
IL ne lnoorpara ors are r II. Boise.
a, Manning. j I. Patterson and
in,o ~ mlihert capital, $4,000, divided
'1'0 zoO Shares Of $40 each.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

/ -He-.'WGll, you know Judge others
by myself" She-''But isn't that a
rather low standard of judgment?"-
Boston Transcript.
-Adoring ''Masher'-''O, how l wish
l were that book you clasp so lovingly"
She-''How | wish you were, so that
could shut you up!''-N. Y. Ledger.
Il am quite surprised, Mr.. Meeker,
to account for your wife's knowledge
of parliamentary law" 'She? Great
Caesar. Hasn't she been speaker of the
house for the last fifteen years?"- Rich
mond Dispatch.
The foresighted maiden.-Urgent
suitor-"With any sort of management
we could certainly keep alive on $500
year" Shelves, dear, but l would
sooner be comfortably dead. Life.
-Dashaway TAT the table, sarcastical-
ly) II think that Brown-Sequard's
elixir might be applied with great effect
to this chicken" Mrs. Slimdiet (the
landlady) Dyes, and it might be APP
piled to your account."-N. Y. Sun.
Wife Ito husband at the end of a
''spat'' 1.-THE fools amt all dead yet.
Husband They amt eh?" Wife
mo, or would have the amount of your
insurance policy before this. Boston
Courier.
-Sisterlv sweetness.-M Minnie "Mr.
Blink actually proposed to me last night
never was so surprised in all my life.
Mamie. You needn't have been. His
sole ambition is to be thought eccentric"
-Terre Haute Express.
Patient Ito unsuccessful physician)
-"Doctor, you are not experimenting
on me. are you?" Physician Certainly
not, sir ''Well, then, doctor, won't
you please experiment on me little?'
Time.
Tommy Ito the bashful young man
calling on sister)-"Hello, Mr.. Blush.
You amt caught yet, are you?" Mr..
Blush Caught. Why, what do you
mean. my little man?" Tommy Moth
ing. only sister said the fool-killer would
catch you one of these days. "-Kearney
Enterprise.
Eyes. said Smiggins, who was in
reminiscent mood, Il had very narrow
escape earlier in life" 'Indeed?'' said
his wife. "A narrow escape; | was kid
naped.' lis it possible!' But po-
Iceman rescued" so, dearl There
isn't day passes nowadays that there
doesn't something turn up to reflect on
the police. Merchant Traveller.
Why She Would Oh ,nge Her Sex.
I heard a charming young married
woman make singular remark the
other dav. IF were man" she said,
81 think | would be a bachelor. Not
because | would admire the life or be-
cause | would prefer it to the joys OF
hearthstone, but because, in the whole
list of nv acquaintance, | don't know a
girl whom | would marry. What are
nv reasons? | can't tell you exactly.
There are some girls who are faulty one
way and some another, but they all faH
so far below what / would desire in
wife. were man, that unless | were
blinded to much that / now know, or un--
less / could find somebody different from
all the girls had ever known, | would
not marry You think that remark
able utterance? Well, perhaps it is;
and an unkind one, too, since ! am a
woman. but ! can't help it. 1t is the
way feel. &C Chicago Mail.
a mans faith in his fellows bears
little or no relation to his own moral
character. the best men being often the
most distrustful. and not always Ins
most agreeable companions.