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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-16

CHICO, Cal, March 15.--Saturday night some
one maiciously placed twenty-five or thirty
pieces of giant powder on the railroad track,
just north of Chico and when the southbound
express came in nearly all were set OF, badly
damaging some of the car-wheels. The object
of the party or parties is unknown. 1t is the
general impression that it was done by tramps.
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WASHINGTON CrrY, March l5-Judge Lewis A.
Croft, commissioner of the general land ONCE,
said tonight he rendered his resignation TO the
president about thirty or forty days ago to take
effect today. His resignation has not yet been
aet,er,fed
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Yoax. Pa. March l5.-M schail has failed,
confessing judgments aggrczating $l4s.ooo He
is the head of the banking nrm OF schail q
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Strike I'm New Jersey Thread Works.

NEwARK. \. j.. March i5.-The committee OF
the girls employed in the Clark thread works.
decided 70 call all the girls out Tuesday evening
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Clearin~-Houae Returns.

BosToN, March l5-FoIlowing is . statement
of the clearing-h house returns for the week end
ing March IA, as compared with the correspond
ing week last year:
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Rio Grande western Wants the o. p.

NEW YORK, March 15.-It was said today by
Jacob Halstead, of New York, director OF the
Oregon Pacific railroad, THAI negotiations were
in progre ess for the purchase OF the road by the
Rio Grande Western.
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TACOMA. March 15.-fspscial lin discussing
theosophieal questions this afternoon one OF the
members of the Tacoma Theosophical Society.
Frank 7. Reid, In treating the vegetarian idea,
suggested that il would b better for people TO
cut up and eat supefduous babes that are cor
stantly coming into the world rather than eas
pigs and the like.
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GAY HEAD, Miss, March l5-Ths United
States steamer Galena and ting Nina are still
lying high upon the beach. broadside on. All
the valuable property can be moved ashore, tut
there 10 little hope OF saving the Galena
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CITIES.
Giant Powder Under Car wheels at Chico

Total leading cities OF
U. S. and Canada 905,S51, ,944 ...--t IL
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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30
Unique WAYS of suicide.

The shocking testimony at the state
house which went to show that we are
poisoning ourselves to death with our
wall paper, our paper boxes and a
dozen other articles of daily use which
contain arsenic has been talked about
a great deal lately, even at o'clock
teas, when people generally balance
their cups in the air and talk about
nothing at all. There is broad sug-
gestion for fiction writer's in this matter
For instance, the testimony at the state
house showed that a lady had been
dangerously poisoned by a green paper
box that she kept on a shelf in her
sleeping room. Now if one wants to
commit suicide quietly. what better
way than to have paper of undoubted
ly arsenic colors pasted upon ones
walls, and leave some green paper
boxes lying carelessly about ones
rooms and wear clothes that are dyed
with arsenic?
Or if any lady wants to murder an
other, for instance, let her send her a
present of handsome new bonnet in
green paper box which is heavily
charged with arsenic and SO prepared
as to transfer its deadly elements to the
atmosphere of the room at once. Oh
course the recipient of the bonnet
would keep the box around for several
days, and meantime the deadly work
would be done. 1t is rather strange
that this method of destruction has moi
been hit upon before. Murderers and
novelists are slow to utilize the resour
ces of civilization. Boston Transcript
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30
A Glad Fathers Gift,

Harbor Master Charles Lawrence,
who is also president of the schoolship
Saratoga, got a cable from Jamaica the
other day telling in code cipher of the
ships arrival with all well on board
He gave it out to the newspapers, but
one man up the state he thought need
ed special notice, and he sent him a
telegram telling him OF his sons safe
arrival. The man up the state was SO
delighted to hear from his boy that he
telegraphed Captain Lawrence, please
cable Captain Green, of the Saratoga,
asking him to place twenty-five dollars
to my sons account, and charge ex-
penses to me-"
Captain Lawrence got out a chart
showing the cable lines of the world
and having table of tolls to any place
reached by submarine telegraph. He
knew that $1.35 per word was the rate
on Captain Green's message from ia
maica and writing out message of in
struction to Captain Green, pursuant
to the fond fathers request, found that
the twenty-five dollars presented by
cable would cost the man up the state
nearly nineteen dollars to send. So he
telegraphed to the boys parents: 1T
will cost nineteen dollars to send the
order. You had better write to next
port. Philadelphia Press.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30
Military Reservation in Early Kansas.

All along the outer margin of the res
ervation were grouped the camps of en-
igrants: not many of them, but enough
to present curious and picturesque
sight. There were few tents, but
most of the emigrants slept in or under
their wagons. There were no women
or children in these camps, and the
hardy men had been so well seasoned by
their past experiences, journeying to
this far western part of the territory that
they did not mind the exposure of sleep
ing on the ground and under the open
skies. Soldiers from the fort, off duty
and curious to hear the news from the
outer world, came lounging around the
camps and chatted with the emigrants
in that cool, superior manner that marks
the private soldier when he meets civil
ian ON an equal footing away from the
haunts of men.
The boys regarded these uniformed
military servants of the government of
the United States with great respect, and
even with some awe. These, they thought
to themselves, were the men who were
there to fight Indians, to protect the bor-
der, and to keep back the rising tide of
wild hostilities that might, if it were not
for them, sweep down upon the feeble
territory and even inundate the whole
western country. -Noah Brooks in st.
Nicholas.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30
Cat Against Fox.

One early morning, during a snow.
storm, | was starting for the hills. ]
noticed the footprints of cat upon the
fresh snow. | guessed the cat was my
own, a strong, black tom. Curious to
know how far his peregrinations might
have extended, | made up my mind to
find out, if possible. had not, how,
ever, followed the track more than a
>sew hundred yards when l came upon
what appeared to have been a desper-
ate struggle, and which at first sight ]
took to be the marks of puss and an
unfortunate hare or rabbit, but upon
closer examination l found the antag-
onist must have been a fox.
The combat, as long as it lasted,
must have been a severe one, as it was
quite clear from the marks ON the snow
that one or both of the animals were
down several times. l am inclined to
believe that Reynard came off second
best in the affray, as it could be seen
that he retreated back the way he
came, whereas puss continued on his
wanderings until he entered a thick
plantation, where had to give up pur.
suit. When | got home I found the
cat had got home before me, and was
apparently none the worse for his morn.
ing's adventure. Land and Water.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30
eli! hi! Don't you see what you are
doing?"
"Oh, beg your pardon. I'll get off
until you get
A Cataract in Labrador.

The interior of Labrador undoubtedly
is the largest unexplored area on this
continent. Up the Grand river, which
empties into the Atlantic ocean at Ham
ilton inlet, are the Grand falls, which,
if everything is true about them that is
reported, are the most stupendous falls
in the world. They are only about 100
miles up the river, but only two white
men have ever seen them. Mr.. R. F.
Holme three years ago went from Eng
land to visit the Grand falls.
He organized little party to accom-
pany him inland, and arrived within
about fifty miles of the falls, when he
was compelled to return on account of
the failure of his provisions. The Labra-
dor Indians say these falls are haunted,
and they carefully avoid them, believing
that they will die if they look upon
them. The two white men who have
seen them are Mr.. Maclean, who, as he
was ascending the river in 1889, was
stopped by the falls, and Mr.. Kennedy,
who over thirty years ago had charge OF
Hudson Bay post, in Labrador. Mr..
Holme says the height of the falls is not
certainly known, but in some respects
there is little doubt they are the greatest
in the world. -Goldthwaite's Geographic
cal Magazine.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30

During the present century three girl
queens have, before the advent of Queen
Wilhelmina, almost simultaneously as
cended the throne of European ma
ton: Maria da Gloria of Portugal, Isa-
bella of Spain and Victoria of En-
gland. The two first had the mis-
fortune of attaining to the regal power
while still mere children. There has
been wide difference between the his
tories of the spoiled daughter of Spain
and the headstrong Portuguese damsel
and that of the grand and conscientious
maiden of IS who was called upon to
reign over Great Britain. By her close
affiliations, through her sister, the Ouch
ess of Albany, to the English court,
Queen Emma will probably profit by the
example set by the Duchess of Kent in
the education of her daughter.
Philadelphia Telegraph.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30

As we stand before a great landscape
by Rousseau like the "Ravines of Apre-
mont" lately in the collection of M.
Marmontel, or of the 'Hoar Frost" in
that of Mr.. Walters at Baltimore, one
must call up a powerfully built man of
middle size with full brown beard; a
wide, high forehead, which his friends
declared Olympian; shapely, straight
nose; hair worn rather long, after the
fashion of forty years ago; direct limpid
gaze from eyes of unusual largeness and
grayish blue in color, and mouth whose
lines indicate the absorbed man and the
reticent. He was an extremely thought
full man, not by any means smileless and
the furthest remove from stupid; he
was one of those who are hard to win
for friend, but once friend, eminent
ly the person with whom to pass weeks
in the pursuit of a worthy study. There
is the sympathetic man who talks, and
the sympathetic man who Is silent.
Rousseau was the latter. Yet he could
talk, and talk well, on nature, art and
music, and he wrote charming letter.
Charles De Kay in Century.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30
An Indiscreet Photograph.

General George Pearson, ex-Gov-
ernor Beavers private secretary, is an
other victim of the photograph While
at Harrisburg he made frequent use Of
the instrument, and often entertained
his friends with cornet solos, Sousa
marches and operate airs. One day a
relative of the same cognomen visited
the governors office with his best girl
The secretary was out, and the young
man, who understood it, started the
photograph for the young lady's
edification. Securing a new cylinder
he told the maid to talk into the tube.
She did so somewhat in this vein, 81
love you, George" George kisses her,
and the photograph records the smack.
''Will you always be constant and
truel" lisped the maid, and another
kiss went on record.
That evening Secretary Pearson took
his wife and party of friends to his
Office. They listened to Levy play the
cornet, Gilmore's band, and heard DIR.
Talmage tell of his trip abroad. Then
the luekless secretary placed the cylin-
der used by the lovers on the instru
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30
THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 80, 1891

pride, what building up of new ideals !
For once the character of the sexes
seem to be reversed; the bravery of
adventure is tho woman's, the watch
ing for results tha mans.
Where can one find finer develop
ment of chivalry than in men, and
they are not few in number, who,
against their desires, against their
instincts, against their reason, are
letting their wives support them
selves in marriage, are even urging
them and aiding them to walk in direc-
tions which it pains them to see them
walk, because they are farsighted
enough or loving and loyal enough to-
leave even the woman who is dearest
to chem to work out her own salvation
The man who does this knows that he
is misunderstood, knows that he is
criticised, and his part-the silent part
is quite as plucky as many of the
most applarded displays of feminine
energy and enterprise. New York Re
corder.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30
Effect of Copper Salts on India Rubber

Effect of Copper Salts on India Rubber,
In a recent paper Mr.. W. Thomson, of
Manchester, England, said that it is
known that copper salts have most in
furious effect on india rubber, and as
copper is sometimes used in dyeing
blacks and other colors cloth SO dyed is
liable to decompose and harden the rub
Der put into it. A popularity investi-
gated by the author is that metallic cop
per placed in contact with thin sheets of
india rubber brings oxidation and hard
ening of it's substance, although no APP
preciable quantity of copper enters the
india rubber, while metallic zinc and
silver have no injurious effect.
All oils, except castor oil, have most
detrimental effect on india rubber,
which can best be kept under water, I'M
der glycerine, in coal gas or in vacuum.
The smell of india rubber is one of the
characteristics of its decomposition, and
it has been noticed that a piece of blot
ting paper placed over the decaying rub
Der is colored by certain volatile sub
stances resulting from the oxidation
that produces the hardening. Boston
Transcript
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30
ODDS AND ENDS.

Celestin Kaltenbach, who has Just
died at Dubuque, Ia, at the age of
seventy-eight years, apparently had
good grounds for considering himself
the Oldest postmaster in the United
States. He was appointed by Presi-
dent Pierce and had held the Office
continuously ever since.
The longest pedestrian tramp ever
attempted is that laid out for himself
by Lieutenant Bachmoutoff, of the
Fifth battalion of Siberian infantry.
He has started from Vladivostok, on
the shores of the Sea of Japan, for
Paris. He has arrived in Tomsk, and
starts thence to st. Petersburg. In
four months he has walked 726 miles,
battling with snow and wind.
A process has been recently invented
by which iron may be coppered by
dipping it into melted copper, the sur
face of the iron being protected by a
layer of melted cryolite and phosphoric
acid. 1t has been found that if the
article when immersed, is connected
with the negative pole of battery the
coppering is done more rapidly.
The number of thieves, housebreak
ers and burglars at large in England
and Wales is computed to be 81, us.
Every year these take part in over
5000 burglaries, and last year they
were ''had up" for 25,310 petty thefts.
A Wheeling journal announced that
the people of that town would soon
have the pleasure of seeing a certain
actor 'in his great role of King Lear in
Macbeth The paper has, however
since stated that it was misinformed as
to the particular role, and interest in
the approaching event has abated.
A man living in Talbot county, Ga,
it is reported, has never attended serv-
ices at church, has never ridden on a
train and never been to a city. Re-
Gently gentleman offered to pay his
fare to Columbus, but he refused to 60
The highest chimney in the world,
that at Halsbrucllner Hutte, near Fret
burg, Saxony, has been finished. 1t is
400 feet high. Its diameter at base is
SO feet and 16 feet at the top, the inner
diameter being s feet. 1t is built of
clay stone.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has a
passion for attiring himself in fashion
able and elaborate clothes of silk.
Some of his costumes are so snowy and
delicate that they would excite the envy
| of woman.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30
A Dead shot and Man of Peace.

E. f. Stanley, who recently died at
Milledgeville, it is said, had the reputa-
ton of having killed two men in duels
on the same day He was very old
man, and the duels were fought sixty
years ago. At the time of the duels he
lived on the line between this state and
Alabama. He got into controversy
with man named Halton and was
challenged He killed Halton, and on
the same day Halton's second chal-
lenged him, and the second duel took
place few hours after the first one.
Stanley was again successful. He was
a peacefully disposed man. Atlanta
Constitution.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30
A Cheering Word for the Husband.

One of these days things may work
round again to an appreciation of tie
Present Man as distinguished from tie
Coming Woman, who makes so large
figure in literature. Take him all in all
the Helpful Husband is about the finest
character of the day. There has been
a certain exhilaration for the woman in
stepping outside her home, but for the
man, what patience, what subduing of
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30
The prummer,s Little Story.

Il never felt myself fioored but once
in my life" said the drummer, with the
air of a man who thinks he has some
thing worth the telling. 1t was down
in Maine" he continued, after waiting
long enough to set curiosity on an edge.
'Td been living on railway sandwiches
for a week, and l just longed for a
square meal. Well, we had to stop at
a way station for couple of hours on
account of hot box or something o
that sort, and one of the brakemen
put me on to what he said was first
class restaurant. | looked it up and
ordered a steak.
1.-The steak came, but it was dis
appointment. | sawed away ON it till
my arms ached. 1t was out of the ques-
ton to chew the small bits l tore of
from it, though l tried hard. gave il
up finally, and as paid my score l said
incidentally, That's about the toughest
eating / ever experienced. He took the
money, swept it into the drawer, and
without quiver he coolly remarked,
You don't seem to consider how much
good it'll do you in the way of exer
ciser" Boston TRANSCRIPT.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30

ment, to see what it was, and heard
So did Mrs. Pearson and her friends
1t took Mr.. Pearson n week of Sun
days to explain the matter to his wife's
satisfaction. He has never used pho
nograph since. Philadelphia Record.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30

When you are troubled with dizziness.
your appetite all gone, and you feel bad
generally. take few doses of DIR. Hen
nv Baxter's Mandrake Bitters, and you
will be surprised at the improvement in
your feelings. Every bottle warranted to
give satisfaction.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30
PEDIGREE.

Young TRIcEPs is years old; Is 3-4
hands high; weight l,O30 lbs, chestnu-
color with plenty of bone and muscle,
can show a fine trotting action; was sired
by TRCEPs, horse standing 16 hands
high, weight l.l50, bright bay and fine
trotter. Showed three heats at Cambridge
in 2:3S, :36 and 2 "a without break
Trotted race at Hoosick Falls the fol-
lowing week over new track and won in
straight heats, and logged down the
stretch, time 1886. IRICEPs has five
colts thai can trot in 2 40 or better, all
from common mares. There is one in
Greenwich that can trot low down in the
30's.
Young TRICEPs' dam was Nellie Has
kins; sired by young Ethan, he by old
Ethan her dam by Darkey, the sire Of
old Highland Grey.
F. A. RUSH, Owner
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30
Liked Going Out.

What part of the service did you
like besta' queried Mrs. Reredos after
church.
aThe recessional," returned Mr.. r.
Puck.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30
RELIGIONS TRANSFORMATION.


Again, religion is superior to the
crystal in its transformations. The
diamond is only capitalization of
coal. Carbonate of lime rises till it be-
comes calcite of aragonite. Red oxide
of copper crystallizes into cubes and
Octahedrons Those crystals which
adOrn our persons, and our homes and
our museums have only been resur-
rected from forms that were far from
lustrous. Scientists for ages have been
examining these wonderful transforma-
tions. But tell you in the gospel of
the Son of God there is more wonder
full transformation. Over souls, by rea-
son of sin black as coal and hard us
iron, God by his comforting grace
stoops and says, ''They shall be mine
in the day when make up my jewels "
What" say you, will God wear
jewelry2" If he wanted it he could
make the stars of heaven his belt and
have the evening cloud for the sandals
of his feet, but he does not want that
adornment He will not have that
jewelry. When God wants jewelry he
comes down and digs it out of the
depths and darkness of sin. These
souls are all crystallizations of mercy.
He puts them on and he wears them
in the presence of the whole universe.
He wears them on the hand that was
nailed, over the heart that was pierced,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30

This
is fine
type
but like the SITTER
it"gits thar
every time,
and
read it through,
and
only to learn that the SITTER Office
is
the
place
to get your Job Printing.
That's all!
And
what's
the use of
spinning out great long yarn about 1t?
Anything
from an
address card
toa
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-30
Young Triceps
Owned by
F. A. RUSH,
PERU, Vermont.
This well known Stallion will stand
The ensuing year at the
s. NJ. Aldrich Farm, Peru, VT.

Ten Dollars to insure a foal, payable
March LIST 1892. Should any one lose
their Colt within that time they can re-
turn the mare free the following season.
All Mares disposed of will be consid-
cred with foal