The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-02

put some rozxurn al sle bow. ansfiie
looking about over he Sea of up.urned dry
goods boxes with = stern but beautiful side
expression, and shssi sweeping the strin e
with long. earnest strokes I soon struck
into the smooth eaienees of I'll Troya-
tori" and .Come. Thou Fount of Every
Blessing" arrange for nae by Chabb, the
fishing rod man.
Business began 81 show signs Of con-
gestion. Carts anG wagons stopped and
blocked mp the stree Some knew me BY
my truthful and faithful efforts TO look
like my cartoon. The blind man held his
hat, and the pennies were ever aud anon
dropped into it by smiling hands. as it
were. The crowd grew apace. Fully
500 people were gathered about me near
the ferry. They Were good natured and
generous. and the osa mans eyes twinkied
till feared he would forget himself and
see things. but as / wearied and the crowd
began TO ask for ether selections tall
man, with pompaaear hair, came in on
the Pennsylvania Rad, and every man.
woman and child deserted me TO follow
him away.
Need add tha. it sas Corbett. the trim
mer and eopas varnisher of my fellow
author. John L. Sullivan? They had come
there TO see him.
According to the report made by . very
well known paleolitlssc expert of France,
there are abundant signs of paleolithic
men all over that cog.atry- The region is
west of the Nile and toward the southeast
corner of tina. bels of virgin real estate
known as the Desert OF Sahara.
NJ. Chateiier says tAat the spoor of pale
olithic man points to the existence of
human beings here In the quaternary
period, and even back of that at 4 time
when the distributioa of land and waters
was far different. and when the Desert of
Sahara was little s4reak of sand where
the Egyptians came ID get material for
pIastering An Old Iigae kiln is still on the
ground. though some claim Ii IS a royal
tomb or sarcophagus red.
This scientist saws very truly, l think,
and am borne out IL this opinion, BIZ my
fellow scientist, Tuns Brady. author of
Ten Groggy Goes ard Ten Seconds of
Silence book thai had large sale
while Iunk was popular, but Is now ont
of print. that ''the paie oii;hic man appears
to have been succeeds without hiatus
by neoiithic communists who have deyei-
oped TO . high degree of perfection the art
of making stone implements" AS there
are no whiskers found il any of the graves
il is presumed by Huxley and that these
gree that even the king made ali kinds of
excuses TO leave the throne in order TO be
shaved twice per day.
NJ. Chatelier also saws that ''the most
striking features of tsfe prehIstoricai re-
mains are the megaiiti1ic struct1res-the
dolmans. the menhirs. the cromlechs. the
triilthons, stone circles, etc--which are
abundantly scattered over the soil from
Fec. in Morocco. TO tae Tripolitan cha.
team"
Unfortunately did not know this until
had furnished my helse. l would have
been pleased to LOOK over few OF those
myself
Discovery of Rosnaa coins in some of
these dolmans show. be says. that they
settlers of Beled Ell MeEgero; also that a
coin pocket in the dolrFaan has always been
regarded as a safe place to keep money
from the hand of man.
Similar megalithc remains have been
found in Palestine, and away back in the
early history of the cave bear, the three
toed horse and the ola settlers of Isiip.
The Amorites also left sraegalithic remains
and two or three Cornish jokes still bear
ing the marks of the clsmsy stone imple-
ment with which they we're hewn out.
1t must be great comfort to these peo-
pie to know that they have been success
full in leaving megaiithic remains. Wash
ington awoke one morning to find himself
the father of his counTry. but he left no
megalithic remains. Columbus discovered
the country of which Washington in a
number of we'll chosen remarks officially
became the father, but .ssen Chris left no
megaiithic remains whien would resist the
elements and the oversealous tooth OF
Time.
What may We learn from this7
One hundred dollars IN cash or farm
produce will be given to the first one who
discovers what We should learn from this
wrote to paper once that was trying
to boom its circulation ~ offering $l,OO0
to the first one who should write the cor
rect solution of a rebus published in this
paper and inciose 81 also for subscription
The editor sent me letter in which he
said that my solution wss correct, as also
were many others. Bat unfortunately his
wife. being right handy 20 the office, had
been the first one to solve it. and as she
was a very needy person and very well
connected by marriage lie had awarded
the prize to her.
Another correspondent writes from
Star Prairie. Wis. TO ask regarding a ques-
ton of law, as follows: Would you mind
taking the time TO answer, publicly or pri-
vately, as you may choose, for the benefit
of a young lawyer student, whether or not
the oyster Is, as rnatter OF fact, real or
personal property"
Oysters running wild or in a state of ma
ture are neither personal property nor real
estate. but upon becoming domesticated
and put TO bed, as / May say, they are
ruled by the New Jersey court OF chancery
to be real estate, and subject to the laws
regulating the taxation aai alienation of
real estate.
Judge Pierce, of Ellsworth, Pierce
county, Wis. and Judge Hough, of New
Richmond. 81. Croix county. have both
held that the oyester itself may be and
often Is real estate. but that the oyster bed
is personal property and NAV pass with
out regard TO the statute III limitation or
"A n-.l1 N ali nj e
The statutes under Jus:!cian held that
the oyster plant while growing was real
estate, bat when detached from the realty
1t became personal property, while the
oyster bed in this case. or The oyster plant
bed, becomes real estate.
Then comes the question of taxation OF
the oyster bed Shall we regard il as fur
niture or farm? These questions have
puzzled greater legal minds than mine,
and John Randolph and Daniel Webster
went down 10 their graves not knowing
whether the oyster bel should face the
north or be made up with the oysters head
toward the engine.
Another correspondent asks 10 know il
cholera Is known to exist III North Caro-
lima. and also whether the great hand 10
hand combat between Miss Lottie Collins
and the soEI shell crahbers of Fire island
will be renewed IN the future.
The sporadic case of cholera reported
from near my house at BacG Shoals, y. c..
turns out To have been brou sht on by the
use OF q indicated watermelon with
chemicals in il that had l,eesl administered
by these fair hands. /, grea in nv patch
and SO / fe.t tree 10 nlaripuiate is as
sgw liz.
The man Is now ont OF danger. but has
been quarantlned till can get my bulldog
20 give up his pants-not the bulldog
pants, bat the mans pants.
ne trouble 81 Fire islaad on the 18th
and 18th o. September was rather dis.