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, 1891-12-23
How NObIAmen Are Made.

Texas Siftings: Henry Lobouchere tells
a good story as to how European nobility
is created. He says: II was an attacne Of
a foreignScourt. Ny main business was To
acquaintance confded to me that he
wanted to be count. Nothing more
simple / replied: Bring me your old
passport and ! will exchange it for new
one, in which will dub you count This
l did, and, when it became known, had
so many applications for countships that |
ports, and must have created about one
hundred and fifty counts. Occasionally I
meet the son of one of my counts, and
from the height of his nobility he looked
down on me who made him. This last
touch is exquisite.
, 1891-12-23
TIMELY THOUGHTS.
SUGGESTIONS FROM CITY ENGINEER
MILLARD LEMON.
Recommendations on street Im-
provements and Assessments,
sewers, Etc, Etc.


City Engineer Millard Lemon has pre-
pared for presentation to the city council
an exhaustive report, in which he touches
upon many necessaries for the substantial
improvement Of the city's streets. In it he
shows that Of $4,000 expended on street
improvements since January, the average
contract price per cubic yard was % cents
The highest price paid for excavation, in
cluding clearing, was % cents, and the low
n est IL cents.
Mr.. Lemon urges that every street be
thoroughly finished before the winter sets
| in, and that contracts for the improvement
4 Of street should include everything nee.
essary to finished street, such as grading
grayeling, curblng and, in some instances
sidewalks. Then his idea is, when prop
1erly finished, to levy one assessment fol
all the expense incurred. In this way he
thinks the assessment will be more cheer
4 fully paid.
Gravel is the most available and eco
/ nomical surfacing for Streets, says MI
Lemon, "but the populous thoroughfares
IN the business portion of the city require
i other pavement.
laHhllS ~ HOG satisfactory ana mac
adam is doubtful expedient. Here the
streets are level, or nearly so, and for a
clean, well tested and satisfactory pave.
ment at moderate COST confidently rec
ommend asphalt. II is no experiment
and admirably suited to residence city,
such character as the capital is likely tc
assume
On the question of sewerage the engineer
states that the year '92 should be memorable
n the history Of Olympia for the construc
ton OF sewerage. He urges the advisable
ity of the city learning the exact value Of
the plans recently purchased for the new
1 system and says:
i II wish to enter protest against the
manner In which sewer pipe has been
4 buried during the present year. 1t is a
part OF the censurable day-labor proceed
ing and done at an extrayagant cost, done
at irregular times, and at no time put
under the direction Of the engineers office
where it, Of all work. should be placed.
The work was done by ordinary laborers
regard to grade, alignment or tight Joints,
and its existence should be ignored in the
sewer plan Of the city.
The drains now used as sewers through
out the city, whether Of wood or pipe,
without exception, are menace to health,
and should be abandoned as speedily as
4 possible. The careful construction Of
wisely planned sewers, to very considera-
BILE extent, will not violate the policy 81
strict economy likely to be OBJ
served during the coming year. Day
labor, under the direction Of the street
commissioner, should not, in my judg-
ment, compass work that can be done un-
der contract
Great economy and equal excellence can
always be obtained by labor performed un-
der carefully prepared specifications. In
support Of this opinion Twill cite any Of
the street grading done by day labor dur
ing the present year.
In various instances tIs cost has been
from 40 to so per cent. more than the same
! could have been done for by contract.
, 1891-12-23
A Bright Congressman.

Washington Post: Congressman John
~. O'Neill can say more bright, pithy
things in given time than most states
men you meet" said st. Louis admire,
of the popular M. G. in an uptown hotel
yesterday. "Some Of his epigrams have
got TO be as current as proverbs at his
home. Not long ago he met an elderly
lady of his acquaintance ON the street, and
after mutual salntations. she observed
What is this hear of you, Mr.. O O'Neill
Is it true that there is little baby at youl
house ~
"Quite true" was the reply; "theres
one about seventeen months old, and an
other that made its appearance week or
so ago."
"Ahlo said the lady, "and who would
Madame" was O'Neill's instant re-
loinder, "neyer say that man is old as
long as he keeps the cradle flled.u
, 1891-12-23
Four New Residences.

The two houses belonging to the state
bank, which have been moved from the
reservoir, will be placed in POSITION on the
tennis grounds at Main and Ninth street,
by tomorrow The houses were moved
several blocks without any mishap until
this morning, when an accident occurred
to the hawser and the chimney Of one Of
the houses came in contact with telegraph
wire and was torn down. One of the dwell
ings will be placed at the corner of Ninth
street and the other to the rear facing on
Ninth. =. w. Andrews, contemplates the
erection Of four pretty cottages on Main
street, in the space between Ninth street
and the Masonic Temple.
, 1891-12-23
PLUMB'S BODY.
RECEIVED in KANSAS BIZ THE GOV
ERNOR AND PAIL BEARERS.
The official Escort at the state
Line and other Dele
cations.

KANSAS CIrY, Mo-, Dec. %. The train
bearing the body Of the late Senator Plumb
arrived here early this morning. Those
who formed the escort were Governor
Humphrey, Kansas; his staff and officers
Of the state; Timothy Mccarthy, Depart
ment Commander, g. A. r. Of Kansas, and
his staff, and delegation from various
posts of Kansas. The pail bearers were
Mayor Harmon and members of the city
council Of Kansas City Kansas; a com
mittee of representative men Of that city
and detachment Of metropolitan police.
Governor Humphrey formally received the
body from the sergeant-at-arms Of the
senate
, 1891-12-23
THE HOUSE CoMMIrTEET.
Mills Gets Left ON Important Conn
mittees-What Wilson Got.

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. The complete list
Of the house committees, as proposed by
Speaker Crisp, leaves out Mills on the
most important committees. William
Springer is chairman Of the ways and
means committee, with Mcmillan second.
O'Farrell, of Virginia, is chairman of
elections committee; merchant marine
and fisheries, Fowler; mines and mining,
Cowles; territories. Washington appropri-
atoms, Holman; coinage, Bland; banking,
Henry judiciary, Culberson; Pacific rail
roads, J. B. Riley interstate and foreign
commerce, Mills Of Texas; rivers and har-
bors, Bemarchard; foregn affairs, Blount;
military, Outhwaite; agriculture, Hatch I;
pensions, r. P. J. Wilson; naval affairs,
Herbert; postoffices, J. s. Henderson (;
(Wilson of Washington is on this commit
tee) public lands, McRae; Indian affairs,
Peet (Wison Of Washington is on this
committeeli railways, catchings; coIum-
bian exposition, Durborow; manufactures,
Page; leyees, S. M. Robinson. John L.
Wilson is also on the labor committee.
, 1891-12-23
PERSONALITIES.

Ex-Attorney General j. B. Metcalfe, OF
Seattle, was in the city this morning.
Clark Biles, Of Tumwater, who has been
i'll for several weeks, is slightly improved.
Jack Doane has been elected to member
ship in.the Young Mems Social club, which
has headquarters iii the Bettman building.
DR.. Fred r. Spaulding, health officer Of
Seattle, Lawyer Andrew r. Burleigh, of
Seattle, and James w. Currie, Of Edmonds,
are at the Olympia hotel.
+. "A. Bailey, Of the Seattle and North
ern, who will succeed J.C Phelps as as
sistant superintendent of the Port Town
send Southern, was in the city yesterday.
Mr.. Phelps will assume the duties of as
sistant superintendent of the Seattle a
Northern in few days and his many
friends in this city will regret to lose him.
, 1891-12-23
Christmas Decorations.

At the Congregational church this year
the Christmas decorations are exceedingly
tasty and pretty in design, and any
thing like it has not hitherto been at
tempted in the church. The walls are dec
grated with two scrolls with ivy green
borders, on which is written in gold,
panels at the top end Of the church are
beautifully inscribed in letters of gold on a
pink background with fir border. Pretty
green and gold baskets containing ivy and
choice eyergreens are prominent in differ
ent parts ofthe church. These, with pretty
stars and dianondssof lovely design, make
the place worth visiting. G. W. Hooper
superintended the work and was assisted
by the young ladies Of the church.
, 1891-12-23
BY WHOSE AUTHORITY.

Editor Tribune:
A bill will come before the city council
tonight for painting street signs. This
work was ordered by Boss Sickles without
any authority of the city council whatever.
What right has the chairman of the street
anybody to furnish street signs or any
thing else and then ask the city to pay the
bill. Isn't it about time to stop such fool
ishness2 Look at the cheap signs that
have been stuck up over the city. Many
of them have already been defaced. A
good indestructible sign made ofIron could
have been secured at but little cost. The
point is however, who gave Boss Sickles
any permission to spend the peoples money
for the signs. If he has the gall to order
signs for the city, why not order street to
be graded, graveled or paved
A TIRED KICKER.
, 1891-12-23
II777T 7
FRESH STATE NEWS.

were $141.9o4; Seattle, $l20 1868. Balances:
Tacoma, $25 1886; Seattle, $4,000.
Griggs & Heustis have 900 men EMPLOYED
on the Northern Pacific branch between
Chehalis and South Bend. The men Will
be kept at work all winter
\ G. III. Stackpole, Of Coupeville, saws:
I'VE have more potatoes than we know
what to do with. For example, 70. J. Han
cock planted this season twenty-three acres
of new land and raised 1000 bushels of DO
tatoes, or over 600 to the acre"
or ninety-seven divorces granted by
Judge Beverly in Tacoma thus far this
| year, sixty-seven were asked for by women
and thirty by men, and seventeen
were contested Cruelty, desertion and
abandonment are the principal causes.
The Northern Pacific railroad has ar
ranged through tariffs on lumber and
shingles with two more Eastern connec-
tions, which will open the way for Puget
Sound lumber into much new territory at
largely reduced rates.
Senator Allen has introduced a bill to
provide for the purchase Of site for a
public building at Walla Walla referred to
| the committee on public buildings and
| grounds. He also introduced bill to pro-
vide for the purchase of site for public
building at Tacoma; referred to the com
mittee on public buildings and grounds.
George Parke, the Gilman postmaster
who has twice been tried upon the charge
OF unlawfully withholding letter that
came to his office last May addressed to
! Deputy y nited States Marshal Charles Al
Lampkin,. was acquitted by tiIc jury III
the second trial at Seattle.
Two hundred and fifty men and teams
are now employed in the construction Of
the last eight miles of Katz q Smiths
contract on the Northern Pacific and
Yakima canal through the Sunnyside
country, Yakima county. The canal is GA
feet wide on the top and sufficient depth to
float good sized barges.
Court Commissioner Clifford, Of Tacoma.
has been appointed to take evidence on tie
motion Of Insurance Commissioner Weir
for the appointment of receiver for the
North Pacific Company. The principal
question to be settled is whether the valu-
alton placed on the company's assets, by
which valuation an impairment of capital
stock is shown, is correct. The hearing
will occupy one week.
William T. Ewing has brought suit
against the city Of Tacoma TO recover his
salary of 5000 as policeman. He alleges
that he was appointed policemen in No
vember, 1890, and the appointment was
duly confirmed in the same month, but for
some reason, he was never assigned to
duty. Ewing is colored man.
H. r. Keylor, of Walla Walla, secretary Of
the state medical examining board has noti-
| fed DR.. Powell Reeves, of Tacoma, that
Pr. H. W. Dewey, Of Tacoma, had petit
toned the board to revoke his license. Dir.
Reeves was notified to appear before the
board at Seattle at its January meeting,
where the petition will be considered. DR..
Reeves has placed the matter in the hands
Of Lawyers Calkins, Shackelford q Calkins,
and will contest the petition. In a similar
way, he claims, the California statutes on
this point have been proven unconstitu-
tlonal, and he believes the Washington law
\ lis also unconstitutional
, 1891-12-23
Large Crowds.

The attraction Of the day is Rose & God
ards jewelry auction. Hundreds Of peo-
pie visit the place at each sale, and large
amount of stock, seemingly, is being
turned into cash. 1t is shame to see high
grade goods being knocked off away below
cost; but such sacrifices have to be made.
, 1891-12-23
See those photo cases at starr's.
The Carleton Opera Company.

EdItOF TTIbuHe.
! see that Manager Hanna, Of Seattle, not
only induced Manager Murphy, of 0lym-
pia, to have the Carleton Opera Company
go back to Seattle on Christmas instead of
Olympia, but that the opera company re-
duced the prices of admission for the Sc
attic people. So kind. OPERA LOVER.
, 1891-12-23

The maximum temperature today was
A degrees and the minfmum34. Maximum
speed Of wind, 20 miles per hour, from
west. Amount Of rainfall, IL inches
(for twenty-four hours ending at p. m.
Amount of rainfall since July /, 1891
81 .23 inches average (for several years)
since July /, 1891, 22.39 inches; excess
since July |, 1891, 1884 inches. Light show
ers for Thursday
e. B. OLNEY, Observer.
, 1891-12-23
a New Photographer.

w. Duckering, the new photographer,
comes to Olympia, with the reputation Of
doing frst-class work. He has facilities
for dong the largest portrait work of any
photographer in Olympia, having camera
14x17. Call and give him trial. Seventh
and Main streets. SilsbY block d-23tf
, 1891-12-23
More Theatrical Criticism ssRot.v

The play of "Mr. Potter of Texas'' was
seen at Seattle last night. The Post-Intel-
ligencer critic says:
Miss Jefreys Lewis was extremely effect
ive-and slightly, it may be added-as
Lady Annerly. In the title role Joseph
Wheelock was picturesque, dramatic, hui
morous and pathetic perfect, for he is one
Of the finest character actors now on the
American stage.
, 1891-12-23
IA Big Coal Consignment.

Three scow loads Of coal, containing 100
tons each, from Newcastle and Franklin
mines, have arrived for the firm Of Hey
cock & Glover.
, 1891-12-23
Grand ARMY BOYS.

eve have very good post of the Grand
Army Of the Republic here in Olympia 4
said Commander Archibald Adams today.
fWe have eighty-three members, with four
oofblu ~
, 1891-12-23
A Christmas Cantata.

On Christmas night the Sunday school
Of the Methodist church will be made
happy by cantata of Santa Claus, which
will be accompanied by musical pro-
pramme. The children will then receive
their Christmas gifts
, 1891-12-23

LONDON. Dec. 2S.--A dense fog prevailed
in Yorkshire yesterday. All the traffic
had to be suspended. In Leeds two men
lost their lives in consequence
, 1891-12-23
Four Men Killed. /.

KANSAS CRY. Mo, Dec. 23.--An ammo
MIA tank in the Armour packing establish
ment exploded this morbing, killing four
men.
, 1891-12-23
CLOSING Nnt Sale.

The firm Of fConachy and Cormier, dealers
In groceries and provisions, will close out
their stock in the next thirty days. Call
and see our stock and get bedrock prices.
CoSAcHY & CoRMIER,
dec21tf 518 Fourth street.
, 1891-12-23
Bargains in Presents.

Remember M. o. Connor's stock of toilet
sets. manicures, collars and cuffs and
are new and in good order and are
going this week at Chicago wholesale
prices. Toys below cost. d2l-6t.
, 1891-12-23
dec21tf

Vean Hunter Of Oakesvllle, and Abbie
A. Esham, of Thurston county, have been
granted a marriage license,
, 1891-12-23

Don't buy worn out samples, but get the
best goods at Van Epps' bazaar tomorrow
at 80 cents discount.
, 1891-12-23
Wanted.

Holiday goods are not out of sight in
price at Stars
, 1891-12-23

To buy city warrants at once.
dec22-5t LACEY & FORREST.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-10-03
OBSERVED BY SCIENTISTS.

EXPERIMENTS lately made in Hart
ford, Conn, show that light can be seen
through a clean cut opening of not
more than one forty-thousandth of an
inch.
A MAN inhales one pint of air at each
breath. While standing, the adult res
piratio1 is twenty-five times per min
ute; while lying down, thirteen. To
save your breath, lie down.
The zinc-tannin process of prepar-
ing wood to resist decay is proving a
great success. 1t hardens the wood and
makes it far more useful, especially
when used for railroad ties.
A GERMAN biologist says that the two
sides of the face are never alike. In
two out of five the eyes are out of line;
one eye is stronger than the other in
seven persons out of ten, and the right
ear is generally higher than the left.
WHILE plants are taking in carbon
and throwing out oxygen, they are at
the same time, though only to slight
extent, doing exactly the reverse. taking
in oxygen and throwing out carbonic
acid. This is very similar to the act of
breathing in animals.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-10-03
s;oner NAV safely be challenged to pro-

TONER may safely be challenged to pro-
duce records of sales on that subject,
for retail dealers are perfectly aware
that readymade clothing is now sold in
every part of the land as cheaply as it
was one year or two years ago. and do
not dare by publishing statements to
the contrary to place themselves on
record as cheating their customers.
There is one firm in this city which has
retail stores in many cities rast and
west, and in not one of them las
penny been added on account of the
tariff to the prices of clothing it sells.
Evidence of the same sort can be found
everywhere.
Facts are knocking out the free trade
theory effectually. Another objector
in Maryland wanted to know whether
the cost of canned fruits was not en-
HANGED by the duty on tin plates. The
answer came in statement from one
of the largest canning establishments
that as yet it paid no advance whatever
on the cost of caus, but if it should be
obliged to pay an advance equal to the
entire new duty on all tin plates used
in its business that would amount to
thirteen hundred dollars yearly, while
the decrease in cost of canned goods
through removal of the duty on sugar
by the same tariff was three thousand
dollars a year in the same business.
Maj. Mckinley made shrewd and
clear exposition of the effect of duties
on consumers in one of his recent re-
Vii Ho chnxroA fhc{ H,tfu
on articles not produced largely in this
country was added to the foreign price
and paid by the consumers. But pro-
tective duty, when it had developed
production here so that the domestic
price was fixed by home competition,
was paid by the foreign manufacture
ers or dealers for the privilege of sell
ing at all in the protected market.
Thus it comes to pass that foreign
woolens and cutlery are actually sold
in this country to-day at exactly the
prices charged before the advance of
duties. -
The good work of education will go
on until the election with constantly
increasing power. Every day the
minds of men are being opened by ir-
resistible facts to perceive the falsity
of theories upon which free traders
rely. The deluge of falsehoods about
the higher cost of every article need
ed from the cradle to the grave"
Sc rived its purpose for one election
only, and now the millions who find
that they have been cheated by these
democratic untruths are preparing to
make their answer.-N. Y. Tribune.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-10-03
THE VICTORY OF FACTS.
Developments Revealing Democratic De.
lusiOns.

lusiOns-
Major McKinley's canvass in Ohio
brings out many interesting facts. He
is a brilliant leader, student and
thinker, and his part in any discuss ion
must needs be full of meat. His OPP
ponents are in sore trouble about the
silver question, and therefore make the
utmost exertions to turn the discus
sion and divert public attention from
that issue, and local editors and politi-
clans wherever Mr.. Mckinley is to
tions about the tariff to be discharged
at him. His answers are instructive,
but hardly more so than the questions
themselves, which disclose democratic
dread of the silver issue, an amazing
ignorance of facts and a stupid and
stolid reliance upon Mr.. Cleveland's pet
theory that ''the duty is always added
to the price and paid by the consumer. .
One question put to Mr.. Mckinley
was about the price of suit of clothes
supposed to have cost twenty dollars
before the change of tariff and thirty
dollars since. The republican leader
answered by proving that suits of men
clothing were advertised in democratic
papers in that very county at lower
prices than ever before, and that such
clothing had never been as cheap at
any previous time in this country.
There is no such suit of clothes
in the United States as this
alleged suit, which cost twenty
dollars once and costs thirty dollars
now. Any democratic editor or ques-
Huntsville gazette., 1891-10-03
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Cleveland was president four
years. What new foreign market did
he open? Where did he do anything
for the American hog?-Sioux CITY
Herald.
eB The last debt statement shows a
reduction of twenty millions in the
national Indebtedness and surplus in
the treasury of fifty-three million dol
lars. A new and fresh democratic and
mugwump howl is now in order.-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
GB Any obscure individual can OBJ
tain temporary notoriety in the west
by announcing that he has forsaken his
former party affiliations for the peo-
pies party. When he happens to be a
republican, the democratic press falls
into line to sound his praises. --Toledo
Blade.
70 With Roger Q. Mills vociferating
for an income tax in Ohio, with Harter
jumping on the free silver plank of the
democratic platform, and with the i'm
mediate prospect of Brice's taking per-
sonal charge of the democratic cam
Poi6u 1ooJ hchiulcy ID iHuecu lOrtu-
nate in his enemies.-N. Y. Mail and
Express.
q Gray, Boies and Campbell are the
new lights ambitious to show the way
through the wilderness to the demo-
cratic party in 1892. What is the mat
ter with Winans, Of Michigan, that he
should be left out? Winans is the
most unique and original bit of execu-
tive timber now in use by the democratic
party He knows less about the duties
OF his Office than any man now in Off
cisl life.-Chicago Inter Ocean.