Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-12-26
WHOLE NUMBER 1876.

Aside from being seasick the little fel-
low stood the trip we'll and seemed to
be favorite of the passengers. He
will make a good citizen.
Realizing that good roads build up
cities as we'll as people new countries,
the residents of Gray's Harbor are tax
ing vigorous measures for the con-
structing of new thoroughfares to va
rious sections of Chehalis county.
1t is reported that a well-known
county official visited one of the What
com gambling rooms a few evenings
ago and lost 500 in cash, and believ-
ing that he could win back his losses,
cashed in $1,000 in county warrants,
which also went into the jaws of the
tiger.
The Excelsior Pile Coating company
is about to establish a plant at Seattle
for the coating of piles with q new
composition invented by F. E. LAM
pert and A. s. Levake. The compost
ton consists of asphalt, tar, oxalic acid,
oxide of copper and saline. The piles
are dipped in vat of this boiling solu-
ton, which is kept hot by a coil of
steam pipes. Mr.. Lampert says that
it costs about Is cents q lineal foot,
and makes the life of the pile twelve
to fifteen years, being indestructible
by the teredo. The composition is
being tested on the Northern Pacific
coal bunkers at Tacoma, and will be
tried on the Northern Pacific work in
Seattle. Boilers and furnaces are now
being made at Seattle, and works will
be erected in that city, Fairhaven and
Tacoma. A movable plant will also
be put on a barge for dipping small
quantities OF piles.
"Mrs. Abbott, the Georgia Wonder"
is an attraction at Seattle just now.
The Post-Intelligencer says of her:
"She weighs only ninety-eight pounds,
but four men cannot lift her. Can
lift one thousand five hundred pounds
without physical or mechanical effort.
Two strong men cannot draw a stick
through her hands. By placing her
fingers on their heads she will raise
two men from the floor. Standing
upon one foot it will be impossible for
two men to throw her off her balance.
Lifts whole baseball nine at once.
Challenges the strongest athletes to.
raise her from the floor. Mrs. Abbott,
by resting the palms Of her mighty
hands into those of 10-year old boys
hands, transfers the mystic force to
him, and no two men can lift him
from the floor and does many other
feats equally explainable."
The WASHINGTON STANDARD has
been published continuously for 81
years at Olympia, and the editor in.
dulges in retrospect three-quarters
of column long in loaded bourgeois.
It is an occasion worthy. XXI
years is a long time in any country,
particularly 70 in the far Northwest.
There is but one older paper than the
STANDARD on the upper Coast. The
Orcgonian is past 40 now. The
Olympia paper has witnessed . great
many changes. There is only one re-
gretable circumstance in the whole
matter. The STANDARD lie still
Democratic paper. Surrounded by
great transformations, both physical
and social, it has stuck 10 the Demo
cratic ship with tenacity unworthy
of its intelligence. However, the
Press hopes that the hand which
wrote the retrospect of 81 years may
be able to judge the changes of tho
next 80 years through the same
STANDARD.-Seatts Prcss.
George Theodore Johnson, Dane,
attempted suicide in q Tacoma pawn
ship, Wednesday night. He fired
four shots at his right temple with the
muzzle of the revolver so near his
head that his hair and eyebrows were
burnt, but none of the bullets took ef-
feet further than to Craze the skull.
When asked his reasons for attempting
suidide, Johnsaid said: "I had no
thought of killing myself until I was
walking past the pawnshop and saw
the revolvers in the show window,
when I was seized by . mania to kill
myself. I went in, secured the revolv-
er. had the cartridges put in it, and
deliberately tried to end my life, but
was 30 weak and nervous from sick
ness that could not hold it right and
pull the trigger" Johnson is about
80 years old, is married man, and
has twelve children living in Dem
mark, but his wife is dead. He has
been in the United States several
years, and at one time kept hotel at
Denver, Col. He was well.to-do at
that time.
A NoN-BURsTINa FLY WHEEL
In the works of the Mannesmann
Tube Company, in England, there is q
heavy fly wheel ingeniously designed
to be absolutely free from any danger
of bursting. As this wheel is about
twenty feet in diameter, weighs over
seventy tons and runs at 240 turns
per minute, it was feared that q cast
iron wheel would be unable to stand
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