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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-07


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The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
SUNKEN SIDEWALKS.
How Some of the Dangerous Depressions
Are Caused.


In order to avoid tearing UP the streets.
when laying small-pipe sewers, as was the old
custom, the District Engineer Department de-
cided some time ago to lay these pipes length
wise of the sidewalks. 1t is undoubtedly an
Improvement on the old method when the
work is well done. But, acting on the in
formation furnished by a resident of the
section, HERALD reporter made cursory
examination of the streets leading northward
OF Massachusetts, avenue between Ninth and
Thirteenth streets. In nearly all the streets,
where these pipe sewers had been laid the
heavy and continued rains had caused sinks at
intervals in the sidewalks. On Twelfth street
the sinks were numerous, many of them being
ten or more feet in length and a foot or more
in depth. These were evidently cansed by the
carelessness of the workmen who laid the
sewers in insuficiently tamping the earth
above the pipes before the brick pavement
was replaced. Some of these holes in the side
walks arevery dangerous traps for pedestrians,
in the night time, especially when by the al
manac the moon is supposed to be shining but
is not in reality, and accordingly under an
economical District regulation the gas is
turned off.
Complaint has already been made of this
state OF affairs at the District Building, and
the matter will be remedied as soon as possible
by the Engineer Department.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05

Special Correspondence of SUNDAY HERALD.
New YORK, April 3.-The circus has come
to town, and every man, woman, and ghost
feels at least twenty years younger, while
every small boy is at least assured that there
is some happiness to be gotten out of life.
The elephant is as stolid and as funny-looking
as GENERALIZATION has not added to the
length OF his tail or suited 1t better to his
size; the tigers glare at you and give you the
shivers in most fetching way; the lions look
as dirty and smell as bad as formerly; the
performing horses and dogs are as awe-inspir-
ing as they ever were.
It's marvellous how young the circus does
make you feel You return to your first am
bition. If you are woman, you long to be
the beautiful lady who wearing short skirts
of tulle, rides a white horse bareback and
jumps through paper rings like fairy-at
least, as you suppose fairy would do If
you are man, you don't know whether you
would rather be the clown or the ringmaster,
with his long whip, but you incline to the
ringmaster The circus is the one place on
earth where the rich and poor meet together
and enjoy themselves alike. Providence
made them all, and Barnum achieved the cir
Gus, at which the laugh of the beggar is as
keen as that of the millionaire, and the lion
and the elephant gaze with equal complacency
On velvet or rags, provided both are accom-
panied by an apple. You don't get one bit
more pleasure out of the riding, or the ponies,
or the dogs, or the trapeze performers If you
are in box than does the poorest ragamufin
on one of the highest seats. Talk about the
odors Of Araby They are simply nowhere
beside that OF the sawdust. While, If you
are real human being, the blood dances in
your veins, your eyes feel as If you wanted TO
see everything at once, and your heart gives
great throb of ecstasy when the first crack of
the ringmaster's whip is heard.
FEAST OF APPLES AND PEANUTS.
/ regard the circus as a great moral factor
in society, and think with me in this opinion
have every small boy and every large boy in
the United States One great JOY of the cir
Gus is that you can eat. All the men who
have studied Arabic, and know the secret of
the Sphinx and won't tell it, are yet unable TO
explain the reason why sawdust gives an ap-
petite; but you can consume peanuts by the
quart, apples by the dozen, and the most
dned-up sponge cakes you ever saw are eaten
as If they had been fresh and dainty and just
from the oven Of the gods. For myself,
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
Pocketbook snatohers.

The pocketbook snatcher is abroad in force
a half dozen of such cases having been re-
ported during the week. A detective declares
that as long as ladies will persist in the practice
OF carrying their pocketbooks loosely in the
hand while passing along unfrequented streets
the pocketbook snatchers will continue reap
harvest, almost with impunity, and all the
policemen in town cannot put stop to it. 1t
caught, because they are smart enough to bide
their opportunity to secure a safe line of re
treat
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05

and, please goodness do give your baby such
things to play with, and not what are known
as educating toys'-let them be blissfully
ignorant for little while, at least. Just
fancy hearing one child say to another, 81
like you, Madeline, but l can't talk to you,
because my mamma is afraid that you will
have bad effect on my English" Ofcourse,
Iwant children to speak good English. OF
course, think the oaly way for them to learn
is to hear it; but when the hearing of it con-
tinually makes nasty little prigs like this l
should prefer that my daughter spoke darkey,
or Bowery, or even Sixth avenue. The chill
dren and the people who never have days of
ignorance never know days of happiness. Isn't
that so?
WILL THIS CATCH HIS EYE?
With the spring young womap's fancy not
only turns to thoughts of love and Easter
bonnets, but it drifts again to the fortune
teller, and parties are made up to see what
will be the result Of the summer campaign.
Mine proved rather disastrous. Unlike the
last woman, who told me that / ought to have
been an artist, this one insisted that ought
to have been a musician. Now, love to
listen to an old ballad sweetly sung. do not
care for the opera, even with Adelina Patti In
1t. | would much rather hear good hand
organ doing the popular airs of the day. She
also told me would marry very late in life
very rich man, who would die and leave me
large fortunes and l am going to spend my
time In future looking for him. | don't see
why he should wait until / am so very old, and
IL he is anywhere in reach of this letter / can
assure him that / am much more desirable
now, before the bloom of time has aggravated
me too much, than will be when / am very
aged. She also told me that | reasoned my
self out of great deal of good luck. | have
never thought that either women or monkeys
had reasoning powers, consequently this was
difficult to believe; but still one does get a
great deal of information from fortune
teller, and far be it from me TO appear to jest
at profession which makes some sort of a
living for such a number of women; but
should like to know, and ask this with all
respect, what fortune telling has tc do with
wax flowers They are invariably present in
the room, and they seem as entirely to belong
to it as does the dignifed and impressive man
ner of the woman who, for your silver, conde-
scends to look into your future. It's larky
world, my friend, a very larky world.
A PLEA FOR LESS SCENT.
Is there a female Anthony Comstock who
will arise and protest against the use of
patchouly and musks II there isn't, is there
male one Or, indeed as long as it ends
the thing, don't care whether he is male or
female, or even sexless. Why are innocent
men and women forced to endure these sick
ening odors, strong enough to be called
smellsF Why is man who has very healthy
taste for eau de cologne, and who abominates
everything else, forced to suffer from these
oppressive scents Why should whole
stage-load of people have to endure them and
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
Factories in Residence Quarters.

Said resident: "Factories or workshops
where machinery is operated by steam is used
ought not to be permitted to be established in
near proximity to residences. The escape of
the steam and the clang and rumble of the
machinery are enough to disturb the quiet of
an entire neighborhood. Several complaints
have been made to the Commissioners of late
in this relation, and if the matter were carried
into the courts there is but little doubt that
establishments SO situated would be declared
nuisances which must be abated You rec
ollect it was so decided in the case of Frank
Wards dairy business on Third street north
west some years ago.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05

become the victims of some atrociously dressed
woman, who confdes to the woman with her
that she uses pints of musk every week, pour
Ing 1t on her underclothng until every part is
thoroughly impregnated with it Carbolc
acid would be delightful beside 1t; benzine or
varnish are heavenly compared with such
suffocating stuff. I like good perfume, and
little on one's handkerchief ora few sachets
among ones lingerie is all right; but the abuse
OF good thing is a blunder, blunder is a
crime, and the proper place for criminals is
the penitentiary Hard hearted? !? Not bit
OF 1t. Ask your husband or your brother how
he likes this vile stuff in the sreet-cars, or the
hotel corridors. or wherever he may chance to
meet the woman who Is bad form enough to
use It, He would prefer that such woman
should be drowned in cask of the extract
she is fool enough to adore, her head held
down until she choked, and then over her
grave should be written, ''Here lies fool
drowned In her own folly"
woMAN's HARBINGER OF SPRING.
The season has now arrived when the
woman who is not fool takes sulphur and
molasses. She wishes physically and men
tally to be in good condition. she wants to
have perfectly constructed digestion, that
something that is better than heart. Hearts
have nasty little way of being incurably
hurt, and digestions can generally be mended
either by sulphur and molasses or by good
doctor. Sulphur and molasses and flannel
wash-cloth will do more to keep the complex
lon OF the average woman In good order than
anything else. BY the by, she doesn't wash
her face with the sulphur and molasses, she
takes it internally, and then she uses
the wash-cloth well soaped to keep her
face clean. clean face is joy forever 1t
is pretty apt to be associated with cheerful
ness, and 1t convinces mankind at large.that
everything in life is not stale, flat, and un-
profitable, nor is everything painted red and
white in streaks like barber's pole, or in
spots like calico pattern.
THE JOYS OF THIS WORLD.
There are good many joys in this world.
A man who knows how to be perfect com
rade, and not yet make love to her, 10 joy.
A woman who can be friend, and yet not
expect man to cater to her vanities, is a joy.
A thoroughly good detective story, that is
possible, and written in good English or read
able French, is Joy.
A great big bunch of spring flowers bright
OF hue and sweet Of perfume, is Joy.
A dainty dinner with somebody you like
very much is a joy.
A box of Sweets pleasant letter, or a new
magazine, each is a joy.
A dear baby, an affectionate dog, and a
chirpy little bird. each is joy.
A sunshiny day, when the air seems clear
and good, is Que OF Gods own joys.
And can't you be little gallant ana say
that another Joy is BAB?
White dress and neglige shirts, special
STYLES. lowest DripaR The Model Q09 Savaut1
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
CIothes-Line Thieves.

Housekeepers win do well to look out just
now for clothes-line thieves. A dozen cases
have recently been reported to Police Head
quarters by persons who had lost all the
weeks washing from the lines in their back
yards in broad daylight. The police say that
there are evidently Slick thieves at work, and
there is but little hope of recovering the arti-
cles stolen owing to the difficulty of identify
ing them.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05

feel like calling out, ''Give me liberty to eat,
or give me DEATH" 1 generally get the lib
erty to eat-at least, always have.
WHY IS THE CIRCUS EDUCATING?
will tell you. You see there all the animals
that meandered around In the ark, and you get
to know great deal from the acrobats about
balancing yourself in moments of uncertainty,
as, for instance, when you are on top of
ladder which is not firmly poised. You learn
the value of pleasant manner when you sec
the most famous rider in the world kiss her
hand and smile at the boys all over the house,
and then hear the applause that follows;
and you learn how valuable 1t is to be generous
when you circulate among the elephants
distributing apples, for the next elephant,
who is expecting one, has his mouth open
wide, and gives you the most expansive grin
you ever saw
NOAH AND THE TURKEY
In your early life did you have an intimate
acquaintance with Noah's Ark? And In the
best-populated one did you ever see a turkey
There are ducks, beautiful ducks, some red,
with blue spots on them, and some a brilliant
orange dotted in a minute way with purple;
but never, never did you see a turkey. That
miserable, driei-up bird wasn't recognized as
worth saving in the days of Noah. Without
any exception he is the most tasteless and the
ugliest beast that ever lived; and Noah showed
that he was man who knew a good thing
when he saw 1t when he excluded the turkey
from the ark. However, perhaps he didn't
exist in those days, and he may be the result
OF civilization, 1t has faltered so many offensive
things. | have always had an idea that Noah
was the sort of man who would know how to
order dinner
You remember how he looks? In any we'll
regulated ark he has on a yellow frock, while
Shem wears green one and Ham is radiant
in pink one. He would call them in and he
would say, "Let's have a good dinner to-
nightw And they would say, "You order it;
you have got good taste;' and they would
have little oysters on the half shell, turtle
soup, oyster crabs, chicken livers e1, Jrochette
an underdone duck, green salad with bit Of
cheese, cup of coffee; he would drink good
bottle of Burgundy during his dinner, and he
would finish up with glass of cognac. Now,
most of these things were on the ark, SO they
didn't have to go to market, and what they
hadn't on board Shem and Ham could fish for
overheard. You see, there was great deal
OF forethought about arranging the ark-it is
pity people don't give as much nowadays to
the possibilities OF flats. | don't believe the
boy or girl has had half childhood who didn't
possess Noah's Ark. 1t figured largely In
mine, and that is the reason love it. have
seen numerous brothers made sick by their
efforts to get all the sweetness possible out of
the Noah family when the German oymakers
put movable paint on them, and green mouths
and blue ones, and tongues of lurid red re-
suited. They never seem TO hurt anybody;
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
ON A SPRING SPREE.
BAB GOES TO THE CIRCUS AND TO
A FORTUNE-TELLER.

New York's Population at Barnum's-
Where Every One Feels Young and
Eats Apples and Peanuts-DeIights
of Childhood's Greatest Toy = The
Spring-Time Fortune-Teller.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05

White dress and neglige shirts, special
styles, lowest prices. The Model, 90s Seventh
street northwest.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
Corner Of Eleventh and I SITS. Northwest.
BEST OFFICE ROOMS IN THE CITY

draw the line at mint-sticks, but, once within
the odor of the sawdust and the animals,
feel like calling out, "Give me liberty to eat,
or give me DEATH" 1 generally get the lib
erty to eat-at least, always have.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-03
Spit STONES OF SAHARA.

A seientihs Explanation o. 90 Notable
Roaks of the Great Desert.
Those parts Of the great desert OF
Sahara called the Hamadas. which
are anon the most desolate parts Of
the region, are strewn with innumer-
able s]iliciOus pebbles which are literally
broken into thousands If fragments
presenting sharp edges and clearly de-
fined angles, as though recently broken
with a hammer. Sometimes fragments
Of these pebbles and powders can be
found lying together with their tract
ured sides facing zach other. fitting
perfectly when brought in contact.
For two centuries the split stones Of
Sahara bafled the scientists. who were
at a loss for an explanation Of the phe-
nomenon. At last the long looked for
explanation has come.
NJ. J. Brun read an elaborate article
before the Scientific Society Of Heneva
IN which he stated and proved Slat the
stone were actually split b. a curious
combination Of chemical and mechan-
cal actions. He found by analysis
that the sand OF the desert was com
posed Of quartz, gypsum and mari, with
traces Of salt. Tie quartz grains acted
under the influence OF the suns rays as
burning lenses upon the gypsum. rem
dering it hydrous. The sand and fine
anhydrous gypsum dust are driven
about by the winds and cover all the
stones large and small. the dust pene-
tratea the little cracks in the stones,
whe'eupOn il is wet by the dews. which
causes il 20 swell With continuous
accessions Of gypsum and repeateS
heavy dews the accumulation of plas-
ter goes on increasing, the cracks en-
large, and in time the stones split as,ln-
der.
J~enekyns, whose ''Tryp to Ye Burn
ing Sandes of Africk'' is among the old
est English narratives of adventures in
the great desert, also noticed the split
stone phenomenon. Translated into
modern English his account, under
heading of Another Of Gods Won
ders, Is as follows: From the river
we Travelled nine days due west oveF
the same monotonOus stretch of sand
and pebbles. The natives Of these
parts say that it once rained small
stones for eleven days and nights, COW
erng many towns and much fertile
ground that afterward the witches
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-03

The following story 3, told 81 Sh
Arthur sullivan some little time ago,
when "a change in thr cas-; had been
made, Sir Arthur. who happened 10 II
dining az the Savoy hotel. slipped away
for a few minutes from the table. and
went into the theatre 10 the upper cir
Gle. there O. hear aud judge for hiIuseli
the capabilities % the new artists
A. the play proceeded. and "A favor
tie IN the opera was taken, the
talented co@Ipu,1r Uucuu>riously com
menced % hum the refrain as he de
sired IL o. Doe rendered. This outsider.
ably annoyed his next door neighbor.
who abruptly remarked
Excuse me. .r. IL ! mention the
fact that / have p2il my money to hear
Sir Arthur Sullivau's charming opera
as given by the coiupany and not your
cCnfOunded LuLuiuing,'
Sir Arthur returned 60 his dinner.
and related the incident with great
gustO -Pit-sburg Pres
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-03

"hNa ~ >NNhA >h@AANt - fNAh
Mrs. Cornelia VI. Stewart. widow Of
the millionaire \. +. Stewart. was the
successful defendant in a notable
negligence ease in which the court Of
appeals reversed its own decision
There was a man named Thomas II.
Stringham working for Mrs. Stewart on
the farm at Garden City ia September.
lST9.and both of his legs were fractured,
the right leg in two places, and one arm
was bruised by the fail Of gn elevator
In the farm storchouse. On the tirSt
trial the case was dismissed al the end
Of the plaintiffs story.
Then the plaintiff carried il 10 the
court Of appeals, where il was held that
there was a question for the jury, and
the case was sent back for trial. The
trial occupied three days. in January,
lSS6. and the result was that the plain.
Ut got a verdict for Si2, 500. Then
tlc defendant. through Asa Bird Gard
ncr. appealed To the court of appeals.
which reversed it, own decision. and
held that the case should bee dismissed.
Interview ia New York sun.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-03

Turkey has apparently become rec-
onciled o. her Fate She no longer
wakes any effort 70 match her great
uyal. Russia. upon he water. while
ambitions Greece "a, for a slice Of
the Sick Mans territory and is
strengthening her fleet for the struggle.
The old armorclads with which Turkey
made such a brave stand against Rus
sia are now rapidly becoming obsolete.
and there IS no infusion Of new mate
rial 70 make up for the growing weak
neSs.-New York Herald.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-03

\ floating ~disinfectant which has
come into use appears 10 possess the
three very essential advantages Of efn-
cheney, simplicity Of application and
uniform solution. 4 mixture Of car
bolic acid and other di>infectants in a
solid form is : prepared that il will
doat in water This melts slowly in
the water. and : always visible and
accessible The uniform rate Of solu.
zion adapts il specially for use in
closets. All that j. necessary = TO
place a block % il in the water cistem
supplying the c.oSets. All danger Of
blocking up the pipes is avoided. ~ tho
.disinfectant i always on the top Of the
water. New York Commercial Adver.
ti~pr