The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-27

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graceful dancer, and loves TO be swung
twice around in the square dances by
pure man.
Miss Lulu Smathers, of CIan-na-Gael,
H., Is here temporarily for the climate.
She came here with hay fever and
shawlstrap for the summer. She has
been taken for Ella Wheeler Wilcox, but
was released soon afterw ard on her own
recognizance. Miss Smathers is the author
of How to. Keep Our Grandparents at
Home of Evenings" and other works. She
paints also. She has done in oils a view
of Pisgah and the Rat looking toward the
postoffice. 1t is great work. Quite a
number of people who saw it readily
pointed out which was the Rat and which
was the Plsgah, thus showing that she is
a master of her art. Monroe Stivers, who
came along while she was working, told
her that he knew what would take that all
off and leave her canvas as clean
as a whistle. She then sat her. re-
versible spitz dog on him, and he
is now seen occasionally in the woods,
running swiftly here and there, frothing
at the mouth and biting the cows Hy-
drophoba has also shown itself in Ashe-
vile lately, and eighteen valuable dogs
belonging to one man have lost their lives.
Miss Smithers is petite girl with bright,
piercing elbows and rosebud mouth. Her
father is winter, and makes the celebrat-
ed Peoria Plum Duff cooking whisky for
man and beast. She is a good horse
woman and takes care of her fathers team
entirely when at home. She is graceful
rider, and her only fault in getting the
rise in the saddle is, according to our best
rules. that when she hits the saddle she
does not grunt at the same time the horse
does.
Miss Birdie Nudge, of Vareoioid, O.,
gave Scotch plaid tea and marshmallow
roast day before yesterday and invited the
nf 10 nj nI or II Sc,
thought that he did not get the letter.
Dancing was had in the evening, which
was only marred by a cutting scrape. par
ticipated in by the first violin and the
mouth-organ man, both colored. Miss
Nudge was greatly panied over the out
come, but not so much SO as the mouth
organist, who accidentally exposed some
of his plans and specifications connected
with his digestive scheme. SO that il took
the entire string to sew him up with.
Birdie was greatly annoyed by the occur
renee, and sand that she was SO glad, as it
turned out, that the president did not
come.
AMIss Valerian Briggs, of Charleston,
whose father brought on the war and
who afterward regretted it, is stopping at
the Floating Island house. She is beau
tiful Southern girl of about 80 years, and
loves to discuss the war with people who
are engaged in other pursuits. In this
way she often empties hotel porch or
gets her choice of the hammocks. She
was well brought up, however, and before
the war her father was very wealthy. He
owned over 100 negroes. Now he hasn't
any hardly at all. He says If he had 1t TO
do over again he would be more conSery-
alive. Miss Briggs does not use tobacco
in any form.
For two days young man was at the
Big Hominy house, near Flat Rock, last
week. but young widow named Brans-
com, from Philadelphia flushed him pre-
maturely and his swallowtail remains as
Vet unsaited. His name was La Fayette
Miggs. tall and wiry man from Tennes-
see. His father was in the war and was
also a very spare man. He was in the hot
test of the fight. but never got a scratch.
Several noteheS were cut in him, but he
never got flesh wound. He had no place
for one. When he was laeerated he never
had gangrene He had necrosis.
The young man is heir TO a beautiful
marble quarry in Tennessee, and is quite
catch. but the widow eqSpered him on
hot afternoon when the IN could bring
out the bouquet of her SNewsome mourn
ing goods, and he paid his bill at eyentide,
ana, borrowing tent, Went as far into the
forest as he could go, rs the crow dies.
The evaporation of hot tears from the
meSheS of freshly dyed mourning apparel,
especially if the tears be shed for another
man, cast gloom over one whose victuals
might otherwise set well on ones stomach.
Thirty-eIght women, a fresh air fund ex-
cursion of children and a colored waiter
with the asthma are stopping at the Ozone
house.
The W. c. T. L. here has raised $50
towards building an opera-houSe at this
place.
stag dance was had at Glenn Sour
woods place last Friday was a week ago,
after which a watermelon was cut. Many
said it was the best doings ever they had
been at.