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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-12-26
EDIsoN's AIR SHIP IN FAVOR.
It Will Afford the Safest of All Nodes
Of Travel.

Mr.. Edison, it is announced, will
build an air ship. There is nothing
improbable in the idea that he will do
so, nor is it unlikely that his air ship
will be success. He has solved prob
lens which seemed on their faces more
difficult than that of arial navigation,
which is known to be at least thing
possible. 1t is a fact that he has for
years held that the time would come
when the air would furnish highways,
and it may be that he is ready to grap-
pie with the conundrum.
Some years ago, in an interview,
Edison said that the problem of navi-
eating the air was the same as that of
driving boat entirely under water,
which has been proven feasible, and
that as soon as certain horsepower
could be secured without the accom-
panying weight of machinery neces-
sary in the past difficulties would van
ish. His idea then seemed to be a
cigar shaped balloon with just floating
power enough to act as ballast to a
boat hanging beneath it. In the boat
would be powerful machinery driving
screws like those of a propeller and
beating with tremendous rapidity and
corresponding force against the atmos-
phere. The steering apparatus, he
thought, could be easily arranged for.
All that was wanted was some strong
but light material for balloon and boat
and the great driving power, as referred
to without much weight. Have not
these requisites already been attained?
In aluminium, now a metal obtain
able at one-fiitieth of its former cost,
is the strong and light material for
balloon and boat. In electricity, as
now stored and controlled, is the
great driving force, without accom-
panying weight Of cumbrous machin-
cry. The airship is in sight. 1t is inter
esting to note in connection with this,
a comment of the great inventor, in
reply TO some one who said that, even
were practical airship devised, people
would not travel in it, because of the
attended danger. The reply of Edison
was that the airship would afford the
safest Of all modes OF travel. The idea
thai a great height need be sustained
by such a conveyance was absurd. 1t
might skim along close to the ground,
and be so provided with pendant coils
of springs that, were its machinery to
give out, it would alight easily, while
at the same time the danger of COLI
sion would be almost nothing. Air
ships would not be bound down on the
same track like two railroad trains
meeting. In the event of a collision
in the air of two ships they would SIM
ply press each other aside and go on
their ways uninjured. Only q COLI
sion at nearly a right angle would be
dangerous. 1t is probable the air will
yet be utilized for travel.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-12-26

MANY years practice has given
Messrs. C. A. Snow & Co., Patent
Solicitors, opposite U. s. Patent Office,
Washington D. c., unsurpassed facili-
ties for obtaining patents. They give
the same courteous attention to a re-
quest for information from a stranger
that they do to their clients business,
which accounts for much of their sue.
cess.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-12-26

ARBUcKLE, the man who is known
throughout the land as the boss coffee
vender, has lately been hauled up by
Miss Campbell on breach-of-promise
suit, and has had his coffee ground to
the tune of $4,000. AS he is a mil
lionaire. it will be quite easy for him
to "settle," and, ease the wounded
feelings of his ariosa flame.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-12-26

THE Supreme Court of Washington
refuses to let women be School Super
intendents. At this rate we require a
State of Martha Washington, where
the ladies will get a few stray rights
S. +. Alta.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-12-26

A COMPANY of Victoria capitalists
are putting in water works at Port
Angeles.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-12-26

The steamboat trust will reduce
freight rates to Townsend.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-12-26

TOB PRINTING of all kinda.
~ NsatlZ executed 2 sehs oa1oe Of the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-22
Will NOT ALLOW 1T.

The political situation in New Hamp-
shire has attracted mnch attention, and,
it is probable. will a good deal more next
month. Interest abroad will be chiefly
due to the fact that United States sem
atOr is involved. The Republicans
might steal the state government and
not disturb numerous presidents, not to
speak of the national incident of 1876.
They perpetrated a senatorial larceny
in Montana; but the New Hampshire
Democrats are not III the mood to be
Sandbagged politically. They do not
propose to sit with their fingers in their
mouths and see the clerk of the old house
carry out the CHANDLER programme, as
it is given out that he will. This is
to give seats to all those elected
under the rumored figures of the
new census and rule out about twenty
that are entitled to them under the old
census. If this conspiracy is carried
out by the clerk of oefnnct legisla-
ture, the Democrats will probably retire
and refuse to recognize the action, but
it is believed that there will be found
enough fairminded Republicans to de-
feat the outrage. 1t appears that the
governor has connived at the theft of
two state senators, issuing their GER
tificates hastily while a recount was in
progress which shows that neither of
them was elected. There may be some
regret at the disappearance from the
senate of so clever and laborious
crank as Senator BLAIR, but he can
still go on with his speech, and the
Democrats ought to have a turn there
once in lifetime.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-22
OLEo IN WISCONSIN.

The official exploration eff the compost
ton of articles that enter into the food
connections seem to be a new thing in
Wisconsin. The commissioner has just
made his first annual report, in which
he indicates that the disparity between
the seeming and the real is quite as
great in that state as in others about.
His most strenuous points i'll reference
to oleOmargarine. In his view the i'm
position upon the consumers is wide
spread and calls for relief. In not more
than one case in hundred does the
guest or boarder at any public place
have knowledge that the element
with which he facilitates conSump-
ton is oleomargarine, aud not the
honest extract of the good cow.
The dealers are not deceived; it is
shipped there in its true character, sold
by the local tradeSmen as such, and the
Indictment for the deception and inn
position rests entirely upon the board
ing house. restaurant and hotel keepers.
This is serious imputatlon upon these
useful classes in the Badger state, and
riay induce warinesS among visitors,
if at all faStidious. 1t has been supposed
that the element of faith was specially
requisite in the consumer in a public
way of bash and mince pie. The line
ought to be drawn at butter. The con-
Sumer who has not learned the ST CCI
method has right to have his oIeomar-
garine colored pink, blue, or some other
color by which he can recognize, if he
cannot tell it from butter.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-22
Even Republicans Are Now
Going Back on the McKin-
ley Monstrosity.
The Loss to the Government
$70,000.O0O on Free Sugar
and Sugar Bounties.
Henry A. Brown, the Sugar
Tariff Expert, Sounds a
General Alarm.
No Quorum Is Expected in
Either House OF Congress
This Week.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2'.-Henry A.
Brown. of Massachusetts. the noted
sugar tariff expert, has been in Wash
ington for several days comforting with
leading officials and members of con-
gress about the great cut in the duty on
sugar, to go into effect next April under
the new tariff law, and its effects Oh the
revenues of the country. Mr.. Brown
insists that the loss of revenue from
making sugar almost duty-free, together
with the bounty to be paid to sugar
producers in this country, Will amount
to S70,000,000 year. He is clearly OF
the opinion that it will be found adj
visable and that it will be the duty of
congress to restore fully three-fOurthS
of the present or old duty on sugar
and discontinue or repeal the bounty
feature of the new law. He has no doubt
that the rapid increase III production of
sugar in this country will very soon
cheaper permanently the price OF that
article to American consumers, and that
a sustained duty on sugar would be
powerful factor in trading with sugar
producing countries for reciprocity.
Mr.. Brown says his opinion and views
on this matter are shared by leading Re-
publlcans, in and out of congress. con-
versant with the subject. who are not
unmindful OF the demands that are
likely to be made upon the treasury to
meet the largely increased government
expenditures for pensions, the new
navy, e c., in the near future. More
money will have to be raised somehow
to meet this increased government eX-
penditure. and it need not be looked for,
he says, from customs revenues in view
of the reduction of tariff taxes Oh many
articles and the extended free list found
i'll the Mckinley bill.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-22
that no girl in the class fears to eat her
own connections.
IMPORTING SONG BIRDS.

Oregon is Setting an Example
which Older states may Follow.
The success which has attended the
introduction Of the German song birds
will be the means of bringing many
more birds here, and Oregon will be all
example for older states in this matter,
says the Portland OregonIan. The won
derful Increase of the Chinese pheasants
brought here by Judge O. n. Denny,
combined with the importation of song
birds, has done more TO call attention
to Oregon than anything else in which
the same amount OF money has been eX-
pended. The society for importing song
birds is preparing to have lot more
brought here.
Seid Back, the we'll known Chinese
merchant, who has been about twenty
one years here. and has prospered be-
yond his expectations. thinking he owes
some debt of gratitude to this state. has
ordered lot of song birds brought over
from China on the CoIoma, of which
vessel he is a part owner. He told the
steward to buy and bring over a lot last
spring, but the fellow was afraid to
chance ii, fearing that the bras would
die. "What difference would that make
to you?" said Seld Back, when told why
his birds did not come. IL told YOU to
bring them; pay for them; you take
good care of them on the passage, and
If they die it cannot be helped"
SO the steward has instructions to buy
and bring over all the chin chin birds
or TIenstin larks. and any other song
birds he can find in Hong Kong, and if
he has good luck and gets them here
alive. we shall have the descendants of
the birds whose sweet songs delighted
the ears of Confucius meeting here the
descendants of the bird which sang in
Il most heilige manner to the Germans
who destroyed Varus and his legions
long before America was invented or
even thought of. AS the Chinese birds
do not sing in Chinese they will proba-
bly, have no more sticks and stones
thrown at them than the German birds.
Our English, Scotch and Irish citizens
should follow the example of our Ger
man and Chinese citizens, and bring
out some specimens of the lark. cuckoo,
"linnet," mavis, merle and other fine
song birds we read of under different
names as natives of the British Isles.
not forgetting the banshee, which is
peculiarly an Irish bird.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-22
MEMBERS GOING HOME
And Leaving Congress Without a
Quorum.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-ltis unlikely
that any marked legislation will be
achieved in congress this week, and the
failure to take the usual holiday recess
is not expected to result in any meas
ureable advancement of the p ublic bus
mess. In the senate the elections bill
will probably continue to engross atten-
ton. and the list of prospective speak
erS now in the hands of the vice preSi-
dent is large enough to warrant the as
sumption that they will, if unlnterrunt
ed. consume the first three days of
the week. The possibilities of an
interruption hinge altogether upon
the result CT the negotiations now in
progress among Republican senators
upon the subject of the caucus financial
bill. Ii harmonious understanding to
support this measure is reached, the
elections bill may be laid aside in its
favor, and the discussion in the senate
turn on financial matters antil the day
before Christmas, when it is expected
recess will be taken until Monday. 1t
is probable that successive adjourn
mentS for two or three days at a time
will mark the course of the house dur
ing the Christmas holiday season. No
business of Importance is expected 10
DC UOne, as so many ueInDeTS OF Tie
house have left Washington for home
that quorum can hardly be
secured. The house is prepared
to take recess for the Gus
tomary ten days or two weeks.
but the temper OF the senate was found
averse to this, and at a meeting of the
ways and means committee yesterday
when Mr.. Mills recess resolution was
considered. a decided opposition was
manifested to placing the house in the
position of desiring ten days holiday.
when the senate wanted to go on with
its work. Monday is District of Column
bia day. and the house will probably
pass upon local legislation until some
measure is proposed upon which a
vote is demanded and the absence of a
quorum thereby disclosed. Such other
days in the week as the house is in ses-
sion will probably he voted to compar
atively unimportant measures, and to
roll calls or motions to adjourn. Sew
eral appropriation bills have been re-
ported, and an effort may be made to
pass some one of these.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-22
1T IS COMING.

a person who does not broaden out
i'll the Christmas time may be put on
the list that the world would be happier
without. When such are called away
to meet SITTING BULL and other good
Indians there is little occasion for hearts
to be touched with grief. A person in
a civilized, Christianized land, who basks
i'll the flood Of Christmas light and glad
ness, that he can only escape by being
a hermit or besotted brute, and does
not feel more kindly toward those about,
and laxity of the purse and heart
strings, must be an animated machine
rather than a human being. Who minds
now being Sandwiched among the bulky
and tell-tale packages on the Tor JOS
tied on the streets by them? They
mean Christmas coming. Their fire.
quency of late shows tibet TO financial
cramps are to be allowed to do churlish
and penurious duty and darken the ra-
dance of this bright and Joyous period.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-22

eXaggerate the peril to society
involved in that assumption. 1t
would be an immeasurably greater
menace to criminal administration
and personal responsibility for crime
than the pleas of mental derange-
ment, emotional insanity or the other
dcdges so frequently successful. There
is suggestion of the old phases of SUI
perstiuon better suited to the Sioux
ghost dancers than the most enlightened
Jurisprudence. Still, there are jntelli-
gent believers In the thing, and it is the
observation of ordinary experience that
some rong minds do come perilously
near absorbing the motive center of the
weak. But the defense set up by the
man probably weakened that of til e
woman, by illustrating the danger to
which 1t tended. This is his statement:
No sane person, L presume, doubts that 1
strangled GoUFFE. Yet. am guilty: Was it
/, or some will stronger than mine, which
brought this man TO his death: AS | domi
mated GABRIELLE BoMPARD, an unseen power
dominated me. l know it; l feel it; there
are times when am unaccountable for my
actions. In my soul know that have two
natures. One, the good, l control myself:
another, the bad Is beyond my mastery. In
one character l am good husband, good
father: in the other am an assassin.
1t is not so very uncommon for people
to attempt to live dual lives. Many
have good demeauor in the one and 4
very bad one in the other. The good of
society, however, demands that the
man shall be Judged and punished in
the exercise of the vicious role. In this
case the bad man, the assassin, will
have his head cut off in the guillotine,
and the good husband, good father"
will have the misfortune to be without
a head also. The conclusion of the
Paris court is the only one in the pres
ent development of alleged mental III
fluences that the welfare OF society
warrants.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-22
THE STORY OF ADAY.

murder IS reported from Neche, \. D.
Mayor-eleet Winston returns TO Minneapo-
lis
Parnell and others make speeches in Kill
kenny.
Robbers wreck Southern train, but fail to
get any Doodle.
1t is said thousands of Mormons are to
move to Mexico.
The Indians at Fort Berthold agency catch
the Messiah craze.
No quorum is expected in either house of
congress this week.
Canadian police are sent out to watch
American Indian runners.
A New York woman pays $1,000 for
husband and then tries to get rid of him.
One hundred lives are lost by the bursting
of Il canal at Cordova, Argentine Republic.
Several people are injured by the derailing
of a train on the Burlington d Cedar Rapids.
Expert Brown says the loss to the govern
ment on free sugar and sugar bounties is
e7O.O0O.OO0.
Chicago man kills his wife because she
sat UP 10 knit Christmas stockings and then
cuts his throat.
Timothy Harrington asserts that there are
several cloudy moral characters among the
Irish politicians.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-22
PARNELL'S CAREER.

1t was III 1879. The critical moment in the
history of the home rule movement had been
reached. The party wanted leader. 1t had
been practically controlled by William Henry
Shaw after the death of Isaac Butt. The
Nationalist members were thirty-three.
Thirty-two of these assembled in a commit
tee room in Dublin. Shaw, the member for
Cork, presided. Two candidates for the
leadership presented themselves, namely,
Charles Stewart Parnell and William Henri
Shaw. vote was taken. Sixteen shouted
shaw" sixteen "Parnell.' There was a
moment Of suspense as the tie was an
nounced. But at that instant the door
opened and in strobe the thirty-third MEM
Der of the party. He was Capt. O,Shea, The
chairman called tor his vote Charles
Stewart Parnell,'' was the answer
Thus was the great leader launched upon
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-22
MARRIED ON THE RUN.
Pluck and a Fast Horse Com
bine to Win a Beautiful Bride.

One of the most exciting weddings
OH record occurred here yesterday,
writes Newport, KY, correspondent
OF the New York Press. w. p. Weldin
and Miss Lulu Bever drove forty miles
from Williamstown at break-neck speed
to get here ahead of the girls angry
father. who opposed the marriage.
They went Immediately to the court
house, where they were refused q
license. A hack was secured, and the
anxious couple drove to Dayton. KY,
to the residence of County Clerk Jones.
After some persuasion the old gentle
man agreed to issue license. Squire
Hallen was found, and the quartette-
Sqqire, hackman and loverS-Started for
this city.
While EN- route the bride espied her
father down the road driving like mad.
The squire could not marry the couple
until he got inside the corporation lines.
The hackman had his horses going in
a wild gallop. AT last they approached
the line. The couple stood up and
clasped hands. Squire Hallen braced
himself against the seat, and, clasping
the fond hands, watched for the line.
By this time the father was within ten
feet, yelling as the hack dashed across
the line, and. while it was rocking like
a boat in q storm. Hallen married the
pair.
The father concluded to forgive the
couple, and the party returned home
this morning.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-22
A Horrible Example Given the
Chinese.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21.-Chinese
advices report the execution of the SEN
fences on the villagers near Shanghai,
China, for the cruel murder of four
teen salt inspectors and the burning of
the bodies of the wounded and dead.
Last March the salt inspectors made a
raid on village. They wore no uni
form and the villagers mistook them
for pirates. The inspectors seized a
pile OF contraband salt which they
found by the side of house, and while
removing it to their boats they were
attacked by villagers and oYerpowered.
Nearly all were only stunned by blows,
but visit to their boat showed the
villagers that they had attacked gov
eminent officers, and, fearful of the Sc
we're punishment. they decided to burn
the boat and with it the bodies of the
wounded inspectors to remove all
traces of the crime. So they carried
the injured men to the boat and, de-
spite their entreatieS, set fire to it and
burned the whole. The chief criminal
was sentenced to decapitation, but COM
mitted suicide before the day arrived,
and. according to the law, his body was
eXhumed and the head struck off and
exhibited as warning to the public.
-Four others were strangled and four
eXlled after heavy fines.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-22
THE ONLY SAFE VIEW.

The murder trial in Paris that has
Just concluded with the sentence of
death for the man and twenty years
for his female participant has been
greater sensation in France than anv
other recent event, and, by reason of the
novelty of the defense, has attracte d
attention in all other countries. The
incidents of the tragedy were unique
enough to pleasantly shock the volatile
Parislan public, and the attempt 10 utl-
lie the much bruited influence known
as hypnotism enlisted the attention of
other peoples. There was no denial of
the murder, or the share taken in it by
the convicted parties. The woman,
named GABRIELLE BoMPARD, en-
ticed GoUFFE, the victim, to her
room, and held his arms while
her lover, EYRAUD, with cord
about his neck, strangled him to death.
Tie subsequent diSlovalty of the woman
to EYRAUD aided in the discovery of
the facts, which they both agreed to so
far as the acts were chiefly concerned.
The woman took from her waist the
cord with which the man was choked to
death. Her defense was that she was
peculiarly sensitive to the hypnotic in
tiuence, and was put in that condition
by her lover, and was so completely un-
der his control that she could exercise
no volition. She was conscious but
involuntary agent in his hands, and.
therefore. not responsible There
was testimony to show that she was
sensitive subject to this potency.
and had been repeatedly made
to do the bidding of manipulators. both
before and after the murder. 1t was
denied by the prosecution that the
hypnotic control could be so complete
as to overcome determined will and
destroy responsibility; and the expert
ments of an expert were adduced in
evidence. But there was much in SUD-
port of the possibility of such danger
Gus control. The government, however.
would make the concession in theory.
and deny the probability of its exercise
in this case. 1t did not probably
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-22
GETTING TOO LATE.

All the old signs of the ancient
weather seers concurred in providin
a severe winter. The goose bone. the
fur of squirrels, coons, the corn nusks,
the provident beaver, and other ami
mails have been credited with anticipa-
ton of regular lce-palace winter.
Then the philosopher came in with his
law of averages, and found that the
cOons and other sagacious bruteS were
quite right in their prescienee. 1t has
been understood that while the govern
ment weather discernerS and the self
anointed prophets were not quite liz
fallible. these natural influences and
the creations looked down to as guided
by instinct, and not re ason, would do TO
pin implicit faith upon. But not a sug-
gestion has yet been had of the winter
of the fathers, and there is not time for
full sample. A winter that does not
get good start before Christmas can
not get in much tedious work.