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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-11-27
Automatic Delivery Of Letters.

An invention which is exciting a
good deal OF interest on the Continent,
where the fiat system is so much in
vogue, is an automatic electric letter
and parcel deliverer, produced by a
resident OF Geneva. As its name inn
plies, the apparatus is designed to dis
tribute automatically on each floor,
and to all the tenants of a house the
letters or parcels which may be ad-
dressed to them. A large box situated
on the 6; oand floor contains as many
apertures as there are floors or tenants
in the house. When letter or other
object is introduced into one of these
openings, the box rises and, in passing,
distributes in each of the receptacles
fixed in the antechamber of the ad.
dresses the articles intended for them,
each tenant being in turn advised of
the arrival OF the article by the ringing
of an electric bell. The working of
the apparatus is extremely simple, as
the following few details will show, and
its cost is insignificant. The object
introduced into the box on the ground
floor effects, at the top OF the house, an
electric contact, which opens the valve
OF O water tank. The water fills a cyl.
inder, which serves as counterpoise,
and raises the letter-box, which, while
in the act of passing each private box,
opens itself by an ingenious yet simple
and mechanical arrangement, and de-
posits the respective contents therein.
When the carrier box has arrived at
the top floor the cylinder empties it.
self, and the box descends to its place
and is ready for another trip.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-11-27

anu thcH went Oh. Indicators would
tell the men at the power-houses the
location of every train at every mo-
ment. There, you see, is an absolute
block system"
Then Mr.. Edison attacked the street
car subject with interest. "This was
the problem" he said; al have been
working on it for two years. AS |
told you before, any ell, ctrician can
get high speed. One thing was to get
low speed to run four or five miles an
hour when necessary. And then the
grades. Why, some street-car grades
are II per cent. With railroads the
highest is generally 2 per cent. And
then the mud. Well, I can pick the
current up out of two inches of mud
l have done so on my experimental
track down at Orange, but, can tell
you, it took all kinds of contrivances
to do it,"
" Is the system the same as that for
the railroads?"
mo; there was another difficulty.
The thing was to get system which
a man such as street-car lines have to
employ could operate without know
ing about it. To make it more simple
for him makes it more complex for us
OF course have the stationary en-
gines, but for simplicity's sake / have
abolished the central rail. The cur
rent passes along one side rail to the
motor and back to the stationary en-
gine through the other"
But in city street will not con-
ditions arise that will distract the cur
rent running along naked rail under
wagon wheels2"
The Wizard smiled again, as if to
say, " That's an easy one," and re.
piled: "There are four fire engines in
the city of New York which have iron
wheels and We have to look out for
them somehow. But those are the
only vehicles, so far as know, of the
thousands in use there which have
iron wheels. The rest are all wooden
and would not affect the current.
The system will be the cheapest
known. The plant will not cost hall
as much as the cable, and there will
be no tearing up OF the streets. Why
under pressure, 1 could lay a mile OF
track for this system in night.
i think" said the Wizard growing
almost enthusiastic, "that l have
really solved the great street-car prob.
lem. Elevated railroads are too ex.
pensive for most communities, SO is
the cable for most streets OF these
communities. Overhead wires the
people will have no more of. This is
cheap, swift and safe. In smaller
cities one OF its great advantages will
be to double the traffic. The men who
are now accustomed to lunch near
places of business will go home to
their midday meals"
But it was time to go, and the train
with its Old-fashioned steam motor
which Mr.. Edison's visitor seemed al.
ready to despise, began sliding down
the mountain side and the Wizard.
eyrie was lost to view behind an Octo.
Der veil OF yellow leaves and drifting
rain.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-11-27
Keep the Dog Silent.
Tacoma News.


Prof. A. Graham Bell, inventor OF
the telephone, is now experimenting
along line which seems hopeless and
yet to such men as Bell nothing seems
impossible; Professor Bell believes
that dogs can be taught to pronounce
words and in time can be educated
sufficiently to carry on con?ersa-
tioR
Leibintz held to this opinion and
Prof. E. P. Evans, a distinguished
scientist, in support of this theory says
it must always be borne in mind that
they are and always have been bred for
special purposes, such as pointing, re-
trieving, running, watching, and Bit
ing, but not for general intelligence.
Mr.. Galton, who calls attention to this
fact, suggests that it would be inter.
esting as psychological experiment
to mate the cleve-est dogs generation
after generation. breeding and educat-
ing them solely for intellectual power
and disregarding every other consider
alton. In order to carry out this plan
to perfection and to realize all the pos
sibilities involved in such a compre-
hensive scheme, it would be necessary
to devise some system OF signs by
which dogs would be able to commu-
nicate their minds more fully and
more clearly than they can do at pres
ent. both to each other and to man.
That the invention OF such language
is not impossible is evident from what
has been already achieved in the train
ing of dogs for exhibition, as we'll as
from the extent to which they have
learned to understand human speech
by mere association with man.
If dogs can be taught to talk the ir-
reverent may suggest that after all the
famous addresses delivered by Bal
aam's ass was only miraculous in that
the ass was a little previous.
The poodle may in time become a
loqacious member of the salon and the
dachshund be able to explain the rea-
son for the shortness of his legs.
These possibilities irighten us. The
dog is really so good friend now be-
cause he cannot talk. Ones actions,
whether rational or not are heartily
approved by his dog and the comfort
is that the dog can never say, AZ told
you So" Fancy being harrassed by
the constant presence OF an intellect
ual dog! When dogs become able to
talk they will be killed off.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-11-27
WHOLE NUMBER 1865
TO RAISE BLACK CATS.
The Story Told to a Confiding Report
er in San Francisco.

| EAuuihcT NV. iS
A novel company has just been
organized on Puget Sound for the
propagation OF black cats. An island
is to he purchased, so that the cats
cannot intermix with the blue, gray,
white and spotted cats of the sur
rounding regions, and that the black
cat breed is to be perpetuated for all il
is worth.
The black cats will live on fish.
Thus the expense Of running the big
cat ranch will be reduced to a mini
mum. The cats are to be grown for
their fur, and the projectors expect to
make millions out Of it.
AS the felines multiply very fas. the
owners expect to have thousands Of
them in a short time. Most of the
original stock will be brought from
Holland, though runners will be sent
out to buy up all the black cats on
the Pacific coast.
Whoever has a cat OF this color can
now get good price for it. The COM
pany is composed OF C. w. Waldron,
President OF the Fairhaven National
Bank; l. Frankenberger of Fairhavan
and Phil Morgan, also banker, with
other rich men of Fairhaven, Wash,
and vicinity.
They got their cue from Holland,
where the business is carried on ex-
tensively. The company is said to
have 100000 paid in. An embassa-
dor is to go to Holland soon to. pur-
chase the first lot OF imported oats.
No cat showing any white whatever
will be purchased at any price. II Is
only the black skins that command a
price in the commercial world. They
are worth from $1.5O to 80 each.
"The consolidated black cat com.
pany of Fairhaven is in the business
for all there is in it," said James
Wardness OF Fairhaven yesterday at a
downtown hotel. Mr.. Warner is him.
self banker of Fairhaven, besides be.
ing one OF the owners OF the Blue
Canyon coal mine. and engaged heav
lily in other enterprises. He knows MI
the projectors intimately.
"They appear to be in dead earnest,
he resumed. "They have been look
ing up the statistics and find that not
less than 1000, 900 black catskins are
sold annually in the fur markets o.
the world. These, at $l.50 and ~
each, net very handsome dividends.
They have figured out that ther'
are only few places in the worlt
where the fur can be brought TO the
fullest perfection. Holland is one o
the places and the upper end Of Puget
Sound furnishes another.
"The world, too, it seems, has beer
a little short OF cats of this color.
More skins are wanted than HOLLAND
can we'll furnish. Mr.. Frankenbergel
has long been familiar with the bust
ness in Holland and it struck hin
that the climate was just right on tn,
Sound.
"There are many attractive islandI
in the lower Sound. They are NOR
or less covered with timber, yet viii
areas that are open to the sun. How
far cat can swim / do not know, bu
it is the intention to get an islant
a few miles in area, sufficiently re
mote from the mainland OF othe
islands, and there establish the blacl
cat colony"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-11-27

FomY.flyE thousand brick, valued at
s27O. rolled off the scow Occident into
sixty feet Of water, near Tacoma, and
cannot bc recovered. The scow had
hccn leaking AMI the swell from pass
inr Steamer turucd 1t nearly over.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-11-27
THE YEARS NEUROLOGY.
Celebrated People Stricken Down in
the Past Few Months.
New York Sun.

NeW ! Ork sun.
This year has been remarkable fol
the large number of deaths of fameu.
men and women January 9 Alexan
der William Kinglake, the historian
died in London. Emma Abbott died
in Salt Lake City, Jan. 5. Jan II the
death of Baron Georges Eugene Hauss
man at Paris was announced. Five
days later George Bancroft died in
Washington at the ago Of 80.
January Goth David Kalakaua, king
OF the Sandwich Islands, passed away
in San Francisco. Another ruler, Alb
durrahman Khan, ameer OF Afghanis.
tan, died January 2Sth. The follow
ing day William Window, Secretary of
the Treasury, was stricken at the
chamber of commerce dinner in this
city. January Goth Charles Bradlaugh
died. MISSIONER died in Paris Janu-
ary 31st.
The list for February is long one,
too. 1t bears these names: Admiral
David d. Porter, in Washington; Gen.
William T. Sherman, in this city;
Gen. H. H. Sibley, ex-governor of
Minnesota; United States Senator
Ephram X. Wilson, of Maryland, and
Senator George Hearst, of California.
March Sd Leonard Jerome died
and March 10th, John F. Swift, United
States Minister to Japan, died in Toxic
March 18th, Prince Napoleon Bona
parte died in Rome; Lawrence Barrett
died here March goth; Gen. Joseph f.
Johnston of the coHfederucy, in Wash
ington, on the following day; ex-Gov.
Lucius Robinson, of New York, in Ell.
mira, March 23d; the Rev. Howard
Crosby, in New York.
April Z Phineas 7. Barnum died in
Bridgeport. Among the other deaths
of the month were: Gederal F. B
SpinOla, Congressman from this city
Rear Admiral Alfred Taylor; Field
Marshal Won Moltke, in Berlin, Apri
"a, at the age of 80; Grand Duke
Nicholas, uncle OF the czar, in St
Petersburg. the following day. Tht
Very Rev. William Connor Magee
archbishop of York and primate o
England, died May 5th at York. Nine
Blavatsky, head of the theosophists
May 9th, in London; the Rev. DR.
Henry ]. Van Dyke, in Brooklyn
May 26.
Benson ]. LOSING, the historian
and Sir John Macdonald, premier o
Canada, died in June. Hanniba
Hamlin, vice-president under Lincoln
passed away July 4th, at the age OF 81
James Russell Lowell and Georg,
Jones, editor of the New York Times
died August 18th. September 18Th
the Marquis de Chambrun died in thi,
city. September 10, Balmaceda, th'
defeated president of Chill, committed
suicide in Santiago, and Septembe
18th, General Boulanger took his Owl
life.
October 9th, King Karl of Wurtem
burg and William Henry Smith, Eng
lands first lord of the treasury, died
To-day the Sun publishes the news o
the death of Charles Stewart Parnel
and Sir John Pope Hennessy, NJ. P.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-11-27

Ma Sarah y. Cogswcll. wife OF l..
X 'pgswcll, died at her home at Che
hali. few days ago, after long and
painful Illness. She was the daughter
oi the Rev Mr. Millctt, an Episcopal
clergyman widely known in the State
ol Wisconsin, and the sister of Daniel
& Mllclt Of Chehali-.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-11-27

THEoDoRE Myerburg, recently q sail
or on the bark Cowlitz, now lying ut
Port Gamble has brought an action in
the United States Court at Seattle to
recover 81, 900 for being " Shanghaied."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-11-27


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Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-08
NEWS BREvITIES

w. r. Hearst, proprietor of the San
Francisco Examiner, contemplates
erecting in Washington, i'm the vicinity
OF newspaper row, "a cOmmodiOus build
ing which will cost nearly $1,000, 900.
1t will be named the Examiner build
ing and will be designed and built with
a view to accommodating press associa-
tons and newspaper correspondents
with rooms purposely adapted to their
business wants, and to make il the
headquarters of the correspondents OF
Washington.
Mrs. Eliza Simonton died i'm New
York Sunday. She was the mother of
the late Joseph w. SimOnton, at one
time general agent of New York As
ISOLATED Press. She was 80 years old.
Fire broke out at the Dalles again
Saturday night, and again the follow
ing evening, each time in a livery
stable, burning two valuable race horses
an one and three work hores i'm another.
The citizens are greatly excited and de-
mand martial law.
The large car shops at Port Huron, of
the Chicago IL Grand Trunk railway,
were partially burned Sunday after
noon. Eleven cars were DESTROYED, be-
sizes a large quantity of lumber and
the carpenter shops. Loss, 100000.
Two hundred men are thrown out of
employment.
Melbourne, the eastern rain producer,
who has been attempting to produce
rain at Cheyenne, has so far failed. He
attributes his failure to Fridays wind
storm.
Gen. T. NJ. Harris, of Richie county,
w. Va, a member of the court martial
which Investigated the death of Lin
coin and condemned Mrs. Surratt. has
just finished a history of the assassina-
ton of President Lincoln, compiled
from stenographers' notes in General
Harris possession. In the book Harris
boldly asserts that JEFF Davis and GER
tain members of his cabinet were inter
ested in and encouraged the assassina-
zion of Lincoln.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-08
Graceful Men.

Mr.. Nesbit fell in love with Ceylon, but
seems to have got mixed up as to details:
A pleasant place to idle In is this pearl
drop" of India, and altogether novel to the
English eye, with its temples and palm
groves its cinnamon gardens and ever
changing groupings of gentle faced ma
fives. / thought myself an adept at telling
the difference between male and female
until | landed at Colombo, but now nv
ideas on the subject are vague and doubt
full, for, like the lady who came here and
took a maid, trusting to external appear
ance, was forever making mistakes and
vowing that the men were women; the
oaly difference being that the men are more
graceful and beautiful, having the least
work to do and dressing finer, while the
women work in the fields and look coarser.
Pail Mall Gazette.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-08
ONE ENJOYS
Lions Harnessed to Chariots and Racing

Lions Harnessed to Chariots and Racing
The most noted lion tanners this
country has ever produced up to the
present time, were the famous Van
Amburgh and Herr Driesbach. Both
died years ago, and are only remem-
bered by those past middle life. Both
achieved worldwide fame; but nothing
that either of these two celebrities ever
accomplished i'll the way of lion train
ing can compare in daring and marvel
BUSINESS with the performances given by
Colonel Boone and his horde of liberat-
ed lions.
Boone does not perform his lions i'm a
cage where the animals can be con-
trolled by fear and are forced to execute
certain routine acts, as was the case
with the Old-time lion trainers. He
gives his lions, five in number, their
entire freedom; the shaggy and blood
thirsty monsters are all let loose in the
circus ring, completely filling it, and
in entering the arena, accompanied by
the beautiful and brave little lion queen
CarlOtta, and the magnificent patrol
dog "SaXon," these liberated lions are
made to dance, posture, balance, leap,
and are harnessed to chariots, and en-
gage in spirited races. These are edu-
Gated lions in every sense of the word,
and with myriad other novel features,
can be seen in the Adam FOrepaugh
Shows, which are to exhibit at Fair
haven on Wednesday, Sept. 9.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-08

The Emperor Maximin is said to have
once eaten thirty pounds Of sweetmeats in
the course OF single banquet; but the i'm
perial glutton had the excuse of being a
giant in size, and his feat has been edualed
If not surpassed by the carnivorous hunters
of Cafiirland.
A swamp otter, weighing about twenty
pounds, Will eat about ten pounds of fish
the spermophile. or California gray SOUR.
rel, will eat ten ounces Of fresh wheat in a
day, though its own weight rarely exceeds
eighteen ounces.
But the champion gluttons Of the nam.
anal kingdom are the frugivorous bats OF
the tropics. The kalong or flying fox of
the Sunda islands is frequently brought to
New York, where the Chatham street pet
dealers sell him for three or four dollars
apiece, and actual experiments have estab-
iished the fact that the potbellied little
barpies can eat twice their own weight in
bananas and boiled rice between morning
and Observation-Disclosures Times.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-08
The World enriched

The facilities of the present day for the
production of everything that will con-
dGce to the material welfare and comfort
of mankind are almost unlimited and
when Syrup of Figs was first produced
the world was enriched with the only
perfect laxative known, as it is the only
remedy which is truly pleasing and re-
freshing to the taste and prompt ana
effectual to cleanse the system gently in
the Spring time or, in fact, at any time
and the better it is known the more pop.
Gar it becomes
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-08
The Worlds Trade

The worlds trade in 1889, according
to good statistical authority amounted
to SIS, SS5, i 100000. OF this two-thirds i:
beyond the reach of American compe
tition. The remainder is to be found
in ASA, Africa, Australia and North
America outside of the United States
One-fifth of this is in South America
Mexico and the West Indies. The
commerce of this field may be largely
possessed by the United States if we
choose to engage in active competition
for it. 1t lies at our very doors, invit-
ing our enterprise and it will be ouI
own fault, now that reciprocity is made
possible, if we do not avail ourselves OF
the opportunity to appropriate it our
selves.-E'rank Leslie's.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-08

Mr.. M. r. Staight, formerly one of
Fairhaven's most energetic real estate
men, came down from his home at
Lynden yesterday. "Lynden,n said
Mr.. Staight, 'is growing steadily, and
there are few empty houses TO be found
there. The normal school has begun
its regular session and many families
are locating in Lynden for the educa-
tional facilities which it affords. Hop
picking is in full blast, and those who
have never seen hop field filled with
hop pickers have lost a most interesting
sight The damage done by the hop
louise will not be very extensive, but
many of the hop growers had to spray
the vines in order to save the crop.
Other crops are looking first-class, and
the Nooksack valley may be quoted as
being exceedingly prosperous"
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-08
Chamber of Commerce Tonight

No quorum was present when the
chamber of commerce meeting was
called to order last evening, ow-
ing, doubtless, to the fact that
the annual meeting of the
Cascade club was called at the same
hour, and many members of the cham
Der who are also members of the club
attended the club meeting with the UNI
derstanding that the meeting of the
chamber would be adjourned until this
evening, which was done. All MEM
bers are urged to be in attendance this
evening promptly at s O'Clock, at the
titN hall
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-08
He Was Discharged

Frank Elar, Lummi Indian, was
arrested yesterday afternoon on war
rant issued by justice Gallaher of New
Whatcom, and charged with having
dead ducks in his possession, and offer
ing them for sale during the close sea
son. Frank stated emphatically that
he killed the birds in British Columbia,
and just then flaw in the complaint
was discovered and he was discharged,
and not again re-arrestad.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-08
Big Vegetables

If any one in Fairhaven doubts the
prOductiveness of Whatcom county
soil, a glance at some specimens Of cab
bage, rutabagas and tomatoes exhib-
tied i'm the windows of G. w. Lysle q
Co.'S office, will convince them that the
soil beats the world. The vegetables
shown are not full grown either, and
i'm a few more weeks would have at
tanned prodigious size. They attracted
much attention from passers-by yester-
doV
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-08
The Underwriters to Organize

The insurance brokers of Fairhaven
will meet this afternoon to form them
selves into an organization for the pur-
pose of protecting their interests and
discussing matters relating to the city
fire department. The frequency of fire
alarms of late has led to this step on
the part of the underwriters.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-09-08

Through tickets to all points East cost
the same from Bellingham Bay cities as
from Seattle, Tacoma or Portland. We
also check baggage through from here to
any point East.
We give special attention to steamship
business on all lines on the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. If you . ave friends com :
ing from the Old County. call and get
rates. j. W. ALTON,
Cor. Dock and Holly SITS, New Whatcom