davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-14

In the greatest Of all picturesque Southern
dramas Astounding In original and elaborate
scenic effects and mechanical devices and ilu-
sfons in SIX acts,
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-14

Week Commencing Monday. Sept IA.
OUR EXCELLENT DRAMATIC COMPANY,
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-14

Secretary of the \ american Section. and
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-14

SEATTLE OPERA-HOUSE,
TUESDAY, SEPT Is. AT p NJ
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-14

CORDRAY'S THEATER.
Corner Third and Madison Streets.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-14

Ol22222222222222s2.22 222222222222222e22 20
Wednesday MATTSEEs- saturday 2
ZZz22ez2. 222 2222222 2222z2 222222222 222222Z
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-14

Vice President of the General Society,
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-14

almost in
visi bles.
Spot hgur
,ings,in
hes
and toned
colorings,
com in
m a nyof
more par
upon solid,
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-14

The III
Sept
ightoT
.eartof
q save {
MISS.
ate stfJ
BURNING
be heav
lred, no
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-14

Irrig
:. Utah, |
ere will
on con
tions Ia
z the va
"a they
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-14

. Ava 4
Sept. 1
le Wonii
II the n
her tod
this
frances
she ha
q that
Is, she
ge for a
I'd Tetug
mgiyey
ether o.
The Coconino sun., 1891-05-30
A Washington War Incident.

Washington has a wealth of war recollections, says the Post, that prob ably never will all get into print One of the best known of the younger newspaper men of the city has face that bears many of the marks small pox leaves Il was lad of 8 during the war" he said, but I remember the soldiers being quartered here very well. One Sunday I was on my way homo from school with my brother, and we stopped to see the soldiers that were quartered in the city hall. There were hundreds of them there. The place was used as a hospital. an the criminal court and old circuit court rooms were full of cots occupied by sick soldiers. They got scarcely anything to eat, and l believe some of the poor fellows died for want of proper food. My brother and I were very sorry for them and when we got home we told our mother about it. She asked us if we were willing 10 go without our supper and give it to the soldiers. We were, and she filled a basket with food and l carried it to the soldiers. They ate what l had like beasts, they were so ravenously hungry. Some of them cried and one of the soldiers kissed me. I went home and in few days was down with tho smallpox. My brothers and sis ters all tools.it too and one of my sis. tors died from it.n
The Coconino sun., 1891-05-30
The Horse Trainer,. Work.

How many people who sit In the grand stand and see a horse run or trot mile, says the Turf Field and Farm, give thought to the anxious hours devoted to the preparation of the animal for the struggleP The trainer has for weeks and months been up early in the morning and watched over his charge all day and during the night snd he has asked himself a thousand times, what the result will be. Will victory come to him or will de- feat bend him to the dust? The spec tator is only alive to the rush and dash of the moment. He knows but little of the long and weary days of prepara- tion and he dismisses the flight of speed as something which filled up merely brief pause in his life which gratifed a passing fancy. If the spectator could be induced to think of all the hours of toll and anxie- ty probably he would be more gener- ous in his applause for the winner and fuller of charity for the beaten. The orange which bends the supporting branch does not ripen in day. The first stages are bud and flowers. Its growth i, typical in measure of the development of the horse.
The Coconino sun., 1891-05-30
AFRICAN HAIRDRESSING.
How Ladies of the Manganjas Do Ur
 Their Back Presses.

How Ladies of the Manganjas Do Cp
 Their Back Presses.
 A limited wardrobe such as befits the climate, may in brief manner be stated as the general characteristic of African dress. What little they wear is, however, in many cases peculiar enough to merit a few words, and is sometimes combined with an extraor- dinary furor for improving on nature by disturbing their otherwise not par ticularly handsome countenances. Among the Manganias, for example, says writer in Peoples of the World, it is the head upon which the greatest elaboration is bestowed.
 The favorite form of dressing the hair is to take a couple of pieces of wet, pliable hide and shape them into the form of OK or buffalo horns, after which they arc allowed to dry. They are then fastened to each side of the forehead and the hair trained over them and plastered into position by means of grease and clay. Two horns are the favorite ornament but some- times only one is used; in the latter case the wearer looks like black bi- pedal unicorn.
 Others vary this style of hair-dress- ing by twisting up number of locks all over the head into the shape of miniature horns, so as to cause DOT cupine-like appearance in the practices of this extraordinary style of head dress. Pigtails, 80 far as their short wool" will allow, arc also in vogue among some of this tribe.
The Coconino sun., 1891-05-30
WITHOUT A FOREIGN RIVAL.
An Observer Finds That American wo-
 men Arc Above Comparison.

An Observer Finds That American wo-
 men Arc Above Comparison.
 No other women in the world can compare with American women," said a man who has been living abroad for several years, 'in walking. The American woman walks by preference She seems to scorn carriage. And how she walks! Her head is held up, her shoulders are thrown back, and her step is firm and elastic Is it any wonder that she has a fine color and that her lips are fresh and eyes clear? In other countries women ride because they do not feel safe when they are on the street. Here they know that they have every man at tbeir command if they need him.
 'Iou find women in line after line thronging the streets where they go to do their shopping, or in Fifth or Madi- son avenues when they are returning home. They may not know what q blessing their independence is to them. but their own beauty and the health and vigor of their children in after years are in great measure due to this love of walking. Save in Eng land, perhaps, have seen nothing like it, and in England the women do not walk as they do here. They are more deliberate and grave. The quickness and strength and fire is missing. They walk for the sake of tradition, it seems to an American, but here our women walk because they like to walk"
The Coconino sun., 1891-05-30
Household Hints.

The best broom is of light green color; it is tougher than the yellow.
 Honey should be kept in the dark or 1t will granulate. The bees, knowing this, work in dark hives.
 White dishes can be marked with one's own name on the back with a common pen and ink, and it will not wash off for a long time.
 fdoughnuts are cut out an hour before they are fried, to allow little time for rising, they will be much lighter. Try cutting at night and frying in the morning.
 Rubbing a bruise in sweet oil and then in spirits of turpentine, 1t is said, will usually prevent the unsightly black and blue spots which not only tell tales, but deform.
 Put camphor gum with your new silver ware and it will never tarnish as long as the gum is there. Never wash silver in soapsuds, as that gives it a white ap- pearance.
 A croupy cough can often be loosened and prevented by swathing the throat with dry, warm fannels; a thick pack of them to sweat the throat and chest often helps so speedily that it is not necessary to sicken the child with ipecac or to wake the house kindling fires and preparing hot packs.
 The New York Sun pays a glowing tribute to salt. Tn all the range of ntdteria naedioa there is no remedy half 50 valuable as common salt, both because of its real curative qualities and of its imme- diate availability. It is recomm . ded for inflammation, congestion, toothache, ear ache, neuralgia, headaches, in various forms of application. Nose and throat specialists should use salt liberally."
The Coconino sun., 1891-05-30
SEEING IS BELIEVING.

The ground on which Yakutsk, Siberia, is built is perpetualIy frozen to Q depth O! 612 feet
 A Gloucester Pa, florist has under cul- tivation that rare production of nature, n green rose.
 T.ondon's Cleoratra's Noodle is decaying and, it is declared, will soon be nothing but shapeless stone.
 A sixty-seven foot snake of unknown species has been captured in Central Brazil It is variegated in hue, blue, green and pink predominating, has tusks like boar and horn two feet long on its forehead
 There is a curiosity near Cordele, Ga., in the shape of pine tree It begins from the ground as two separate and well. developed trees, and continues so for a distance of fourteen feet, when they join and go upward as one
 There is an old oak in the graveyard at Midway, in Liberty county, Ga, that measures eighteen feet six inches in cir conference three feet from it's base. This cemetery dates back to the first settle ment of Georgia as colony of Great Britain.
 The principal relic belonging to the Church of Sainte Gudule, in Brussels, con sists of thorn which is said to have formed part of the Saviour's crown Florent ILL, count of Holland, brought il to the Netherlands in the times of the Crusades.
 Something of Q curiosity has been on exhibition at Casper, Wyoming. It is an imprint of a monstrous palm leaf, caused by the leaf falling into clay and the clay afterwards potrifying. The rock was found on Salt creek, and indicates that ages ago, when the big coal beds were be. ing formed, Wyoming possessed tropical climate.
 There is curious freak of nature to be seen along the road leading from Atglen to Cochranville, Pa. Two good sized streams of water medt ct right angles or almost level ground, each having heavy fall in reaching the point. The water oi both streams meet, but neither is impedec in it's course. They cross like two road,
The Coconino sun., 1891-05-30
SIZE OF A THUNDERBoLT.
A Geologist Explains All About It fo
 Curious People.

Did you ever see tie diameter of ( lightning flash measured" asked 2 geologist. Well here is the case which once enclosed flash of light. ming, fitting it exactly, so that you cur see just how big it was. This is call. ed a fulgurite,' or lightning hole, and the material it is made of is glass. l will tell you how it was manufactur. ed though t took only a fraction of a second to turn it out.
 When bolt of lightning strikes q bed of sand it plunges downward into the sand for distance less or greater, transforming simultaneously into glass the silica in the material through which it passes. Thus, by it's great heat it forms a glass tube of precisely its own size. Now and then such [ tube, known as a fulgurite, is found and dug up. Fulgurites have been followed into the sand by excavation for nearly thirty feet. They vary in interior diameter from the size of a quill to three inches or more, accord. ing to the bore of the flash.
 But fulgurites are not alone pro. duced in sand; they are found also in solid rock, though very naturally oi slight depth and frequently exisine merely as a thin glassy coating on the surface. Such fulgurities occur in astonishing abundance on the summit of Little Ararat in Armenia. The rock is soft and so porous that blocks foot long can be obtained, perforated in all directions by little tubes filled with bottle-green glass formed from the fused rock. There is small specimen in the national museum which has the appearance of having been bored by the toredo, the holes made by the worm subsequently filled with glass.
 Some wonderful fulgurites were found by Humboldt on the high Nevada de Toluca in Mexico. Masses of the rock were covered with thin layer of green glass. Its peculiar simmer in the sun led Humboldt to ascend the precipitous peak at the risk of his life"
The Coconino sun., 1891-05-30
vIrtrou. By Fit, and starts.

We go along and wink with bott eyes at the wrong-doings and short. comings of A and also of B, and eke oI c, and all the rest of them; but by the time we get to o or P we pull up and cry aloud that this thing has gone toe far, and we must make stand; and so we como down upon P, who is not a whit more guilty than any one else,
 his only crime consisting in tho fact that he chanced to be standing just in the place where the lightning struck; and we denounce P; we excoriate P; we ostracize P. Having done that our virtue, wearied with the unwonted ex- ercise, falls asleep, md all the other letters go along doing exActly the same thing, until finally by the time x is reached, we wake up asain and. go
The Coconino sun., 1891-05-30
HEARD THEIR EARS FLAP.
Strange Sounds in the Mighty Forest
 of Lower Burmah.


 lately made two shooting trips to the jungles of Lower Burmah, says ar English traveller and each time in the midst of the greatest hardship. The forest scenery had the power to force itself upon the notice as seeming each day more and more impressive and magnificent.
 At such times both the silence and the strange sounds of the jungles, each in their different way, combine to affect the sportsman; the occasional weird hootings of the moneys in the tree-tops; the distant flap, flap of an elephants ears breaking in upon the perfect stiffness as you approach the herd, or perhaps, instead, the penny trumpet-like squeak which announces its proximity, and, as the day wears on, the stiffness is suddenly broken in upon by the whir,.ing and soon almost deafening sound with which with one accord the insects revive after the heat of the afternoon. All these inllu- ences combine to produce an affect which those who have not experienced them will find difficult to imagine, and those who have experienced them must find hard to describe.
The Coconino sun., 1891-05-30

Of the lesson, asked-by way oi recapitulation-why it was advisable that we should always eat fair pro- portion of fat meat with our lean.
 was somewhat surprised to observe ono lad thrust out his hand very pre- cipitately, since I knew that he was by no means endowed with 6 specially scientific turn of mind, However, 1 called upon him for m answer.
 Because sir, the fat makes tho lean slip down betterl" he cried, roll Ing hls eyes with satisfaction and smacking his lips with lively relish. l looked at him as who should say, "What is the use of endeavoring to entice the feet of such urchins into the mystic groves of the occult sciencesP" and he, on his part gaped back upon me as who should say, Well, sir, you are maxim them easy this morning. Why, that was almost as nice and straightforward as taste of the gen uine article. Keep the pot a-boiling, sir!"
 The following essay on Winter is an effort by boy who was eleven years of age at the timo of examina- tion. He came from miserably poor home; for his father was dead, and tho mother had to support little family of three by the labor of her own hands.
 Winter is the 4th season of the year, and therefore it is the coldest, It is so cold that we have fine red fires in the schoolrooms, big enough to boil a sheep on them. You never see such fires anywheres else, not even In church. They are fires, them are, and no mis- take. Whenever l see the school keeper come in with that big skuttle of his, and tipple the coals on, always think how pleased my mother would be only to have one of them Jumps. Why there's more coals In that one skuttle than there ever is in all our coal bin at home. do wish that my mother was the school board, so as she could make good fires for her and me and my two little sisters. never cry with the cold, not me, but our little Han nah does. But then l get so regilar warm at school, that 1t seems to stick to me for ever so long"
The Coconino sun., 1891-05-30
Live Stock and Farm Notes.

Plan to secure plenty of forage for win ter feeding.
 An animal raised on the farm will rarely bring disease.
 A patch of early maturing corn will sf- ten help to commence feeding early.
 Early planting and thorough cultivation is the best protection against drouth.
 With stock raising it is steady go-ahead- ativeness that secures the best success. Sowing millet is good remedy when there is a short crop of hay in the mead ows.
 Always breed to improve; never take O step backward, and especially so with horses.
 In an average season, shallow, level 'cultivation will give the most profitable results. , Plan the work ahead, so that as nearly as possible, everything can be done in good season.
 The condition of the wool when sent to market will make 6 considerable difference ip the price.
 In localities subject to drouth it will pay in many cases, to cover late potatoes with wheat straw.
 A few acres in some special crop, given special attention, will pay the most profit of any on the farm.
 The advantage in using commercial fer tilizers is that generally a larger per cent of them is readily soluble.
 The form of the animal and the quality depend upon the breed, but the growth and development depend entirely upon the feed.
 A sandy, loamy soil is best for root crops of all kinds, and with good prepara- ton and cultivation very large yields are readily possible.
 There is no better place to raise good colts than on an American farm, where the mares can work the greater part of tho time and also raise good colts.
 Clean, thorough cultivation is just as necessary with fruit as any crop grown On
The Coconino sun., 1891-05-30
Guinea Fowls.

It is pity that more guinea fowls are not kept by farmers. Their quaint call and shy habit show that they are not far removed from game birds, which almost everywhere are disap- bearing. No kind of fowl lays so many eggs. Their meat is dark colored, and to those unaccustomed to game it is sometimes not thought good; but this wild flavor is just what very many like. and more would if they tried to overcome prejudice. The guinea fowl in any yard is one of the best defences of domestic fowls from hawks or other feathered enemies. They see. such marauders very quickly, and instantly give the warning which the instinct of every bird in the yard has taught it to recognize and heed.
The Coconino sun., 1891-05-30
Poultry Notes.

It is sometimes necessary to assist ducks out of the shell, but rarely if ever chickens
 The tendency of wheat fed whole is to produce healthy growth and to aid mate rially in laying eggs.
 In a majority of cases it is impossible to compete with incubated chickens as TO- gards earliness.
 Size and condition count more in mar ket than any particular shade or color, es. pecially with young poultry.
 Ducks and geese can be picked whenever their feathers are ripe; there is no advant- age in letting them go to waste.
 After they are three weeks old cracked wheat can be fed to young poultry to good advantage, especially as a change.
 The best breed of geese for feathers is the Embder They are entirely white, and white geese feathers bring the best prices
 In many cases hens can be more easily induced to set if they are placed upon tho eggs as soon as it is dark, rather than in the morning.
 If the young growing turkeys show signs of leg weakness mixing little bone meal with their food will be found an advant. age.
 Ducks do not have the cholera, croup or gapes and hawks do not bother them; they will lay more eggs and the eggs will hatch better than hen eggs.
 The advantage of matching guineas undex common hens is, that properly managed, they are usually more gentle than if the guinea hens are allowed to hatch them out and raise them.
 While old hens usually lay larger eggs than bullets the shape of the egg has little or nothing to do with the life germ, and if the broad end is smooth and the egg is properly fertilized it will hatch.
The Coconino sun., 1891-05-30
MARRIAGE HY LOTTERY.
It Was Tried in England, but Was Dis
 aStrous Failure.

10 Was Tried In EnRianus put was b1s' astrous Failure.
 Most people, says an English ex- change, have heard of the offer made by Pearson's Weekly to the ideal en- gagged couple But what became Of the matrimonial lottery which was ad- vertised as "A Prize of Wife and a Hundred YearP" After many nib- blings at the bait by young persons of either sex desiring to marry, 1t came to nothing. Mir. and Mrs. PSsSon (who, 1t seems. are young couple them,elves) never doubted that their power of selection from among the ap- plicants would result in presenting with n dowry some thoroughly eligible young lady. There by Mir. Pearson's account they succeeded. From among a bureau full of photographs and testi- moniils they picked out several who were to present themselves for person. al inspection, fares paid. From among these select few, sorted as as by an- other Zeuxis at Crotona the happy bride was at length arrived at by an- other judgment at Paris. The next thing was to introduce to her suita- ble party. But here came the hitch: Hundreds of would-be husbands (so Woman tells the tale) had sent in their names-retired officers of both ser- vices, ex-Indian civilians and de- cided preponderance of parsons. A certain number of gentlemen were selected-were introduced to the young lady, and entertained at tea by her mother in one Of the suburbs of Lon don. Pints of tea and pounds of cake were thus consumed. Still the suitors came; but the right man came not, and seemed never likely to come. After weeks of interviewing and re-. jecting by the chosen lady, and an ex- penditure of large sums in travelling expenses, Mir. Pearson was obliged to withdraw the offer, and admit that his novel form of matrimonial agency had proved failure.
 I'm not at all disappointed, Mir. Pearson says, "because am satisfied that we made an excellent choice of a wife-.in fact too excellent one for our scheme. The young lady is so thoroughly sensible and self-respecting that she would not throw herself at the first, nor indeed the twentieth elegible man that offered himself, even for the Gl00 year. In fact, she is so good that no husband is good enough for her"
 But think of the waste in tea and cake, and fares, and trampled hearts and futtered nerves! Think of the wear and tear in feelings! Picture that doleful procession of lonely Ango-In- dians en queue past that suburban villa--dream of that terrace in Sur biton or avenue of Brixton black with rejected parsons! is not encouraging for General Booths matrimonial bu- reau. But perhaps the general will treat his young ladies more cavalierly, and after certain number of swains have been reviewed without effect will come down in the Do what you're told and don't argufy'' style. ''Now, young woman no more nonsense. Take three more tries, and just suit your self.m
The Coconino sun., 1891-05-30
APHORISMS s.

Some cullid folks would rudder go to a horse-trot on Sunday dan to quarterly meetin'.
 De mo reads de less I feels my igno runce, an de mo- l feels my ignorunce dc less l reads. Dey ain't muffin like it to make q man feel proud.
 Elf de bell-punch was maniperlated in some clutches whar' de ungodly deacons pass the sasser, de parstor might hev br'ilcd chicken for his Sunday dinner in. stead ob rice.
 The man doan' lib dat kin mix religion an bizness Ef hits q mans bizness to split kin'lin' wood and fill his ice house on Sunday, dar you ar Religion an re. ligion, an bizness am bizness.
 De fines po'try dat was ever writ ain't in de hymn. book or Lord Bayrum's poems. Oar is mo- true po'try in bill of fair an . good meal ob vittles dan you kin find on all the grabestones in tirst-class seminary