The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-16
KIDD AXIS.

Several OF the higher apes share with man the
involuntary habit OF bIushing. Indeed, they
seem TO possess 1t III higher degree than we do.
for the blush OF an ape extends over larger pofs
ton oil the body than that of a human being.
The first writer, in English at least, TO intro.
duce glacier right into the thick of one of his
tales is Frank Il. stockton, whose ingenious
hero actually declares his passion in my
Terminal Moraine" through the center of a bS
block of ice.
1he professors of Yale college are greatly
pleased that the prophet Totten has been re.
leved from duty there, but there are lamenta.
tons among those OF the wicked students who
found daily stock of Jun in Totten's waiiings
and warnings.
The new hunting lodge of the German en-.
peror al Pots1am is to be Norwegian villa. !:
is 10 be constructed of tinbers imported from
Norway and put up by workmen imported from
Norway-a circumstance which naturally fails
to please the unemployed workmen of Berlin.
Attention is called to the fact of the great in
crease of the number OF women astronomers
None OF them have thus far achieved high
reputation Marie Mitchell made for herself ss
Vasser, though the work of Miss Rose o. Hal.
lorau in san Francisco is said to be most excel
lent
Samuel Lane, of Gardner, Me-, ought to know
something about rural justice, for he has been a
justice of the peace and quorum for fifty years
meut from Governor Fairfield, and at the age OF
50 he has been rcappointed to deal out moro
justice.
The nawest American prima donna OF prom.
Use is q California girl, Miss Sedohr Rhodes, OF
San Francisco. She is pupil Of the famous
Nine. Marchesi, of Paris, and recently she made
her first appearance on any stage in "La Son.
nambula' 1T florence, where she scored a re-
markable and instantaneous success.
A farmer in MaDche Ne ia raHpclinO
row.ully upon the maxim that "Honesty Is tbs
best policy" Several years ago, in order 70
avoid paying some debts, he conveyed his farm,
worth 1900 TO his wife. The wife died re-
! Gently, aud according TO law the property goes
TO her children, the widower's right of dover
| excepted. The children refuse to reconvey TIE
| farm to their father.
! Senator Sawyer is said to have an fnfallibe
way OF keeping straight on roll calls. "Pve scs
/ just before me, says he, "a steady, STRAIGHT
voting Republican, Senator Sanders. IfJIe
votes yes vote yes too, and IL he says mo
follow MS example and always feel safe. But
that isn't all. Right after me is the same kind
of Democrat, Senator Turpie. | listen to hnd
out what he votes, and if he votes opposite from
Sanders am doubly sure l voted the right
! way"
| Cramp, the shipbuilder. thinks his son bas
good memory, aud gives this Illus
tration of it: When some Russian off,
| GERS came over 10 Inspect the vessels
| Mr.. Cramp built for their government the con-
tractor gave reception In their homer.
Meantime his con had become tolerably
well acquainted with the foreigners, a.
though he could not speak their language
GAS they came in ION the evening q
the receptionl. says Mr.. Cramp, az thought
! OF their names with fear and trsInb-
ing and concluded to make no a..
tempt at pronouncing them. But nv .son
stood right behind my shoulder and IS the nrss
| one came by he spoke his name in my ear III
tmo for me to repeat it. That didn't
| astonish me, but tina. young man
| went on and repeated every one of us
names Of those officers without a single &.
taEe. There were eighty OF them, and he had
| even all the accents correct. got quite a rep.
| utation Tor my Russian but was only the psr.
| rot