The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-13

not be too arbitrary one way or the other
A man residing in the canton of Consta-
bie's Hook lost the sale of a barrel of low
necked clans because of the quarantine
which was issued tor the protection of
g., 900 600 of lives, and he made quite
little war over it. creating general panic
In the country and great inconvenience
to Mr.. A. NJ. Palmer.
1--WE have no more right to measure the
great economy of the universe by our little
two-doilar horizon than we have to estab-
lish a law that no man shall be admitted
to the Authors Club who writes with his
tongue out. We cannot all think alike,
and that is the reason why we now and
then run across an original thought ex-
pressed in an original way.
"lf more people fancy that the present
tariff arrangement is more beneficial TO
them than the other, more people will
vote that way. If more people vote that
way, and experiment should be made sue
cessfully with q purified ballot, the side so
voting in the greatest numbers will elect
their candidate. Then the horizon will
clear up again. another prizetight viii be
brought to our notice, and the march of
improvement will be once more resumed.
"And now if you will explain that
method Of enumeration to me We may so
on board our train"
Eyes, indeed" said the studious man as
he carefully folded his napkin, thereby re-
vealing the fact that he lived simply when
at home. and that his wife attended to her
own work ''You see l have TO be very
careful about my health; otherwise l shall
be taken from you before the great work
Of finishing my collection is done. l am
making a very large and fine collection of
jew de SPIRITS. so / must be very careful of
my general health. for no one else could
ever finish the collection. Many of them
are my own. put them in to give color
10 such men as Lamb. am the mint
sauce on Lamb, as you might say. am
the author of the maxim that the cucum-
Der fights better when il is down.
II read some time ago that Mr.. Glad
stone owed his long life to the fact that he
used great care and method in masticating
his food, counting the number OF bites
carefully, giving thirty-two, for instance,
to steak, and from that down to two tor
ice cream. l have had to raise the rate on
steak good deal on this trip and lower it
on tea. At home we have very careful
method of masticating, as has Mr.: Glad
stone at warden, and child who
swallows his pie even without giving 1t
the regular number of bites has to pay
penalty of twenty-five chews on our beau
tiful climate. 1t is very CHEEKY to sit at
our table and watch and listen to the con-
versation mingled with the enumeration.
Sometimes We have concert at the
table, and the counting is done to music.
lead on the violin. / have written an
accomplishment for fried tripe which
would please you, / know; also little
nocturne for shad. with half and three
quarter rests for taking out the bones. 1t
is beautiful. The grapeskln polka is also
very fetching, and a soup somnambuia in
b fiat is popular. My children are thus
learning music, mathematics ana n.y.
giene."
With that he unbuttoned his coat SO As
to let his whiskers out for q few moments
to surprise and delight the Virginia
breeze. / decided that if Mr.. Gladstone
really had sliding scale of enumeration%
like child who is binding in the game of
.hide and go seek" he will wait many
long, weary day before he is invited to
come and stay over Sunday at our house.
An Englishman got on at Greensboro.
Evidently a Pullman sleeping car was
new thing to him. 1t probably just hap
pened so accidentally, but one could see
that he was not familiar with it. The
berths were not yet made up, and it was
clear that he could not figure out how
one might sleep there three dollars
worth. He begged my pardon. but was
this the sleeping car? said that it was
SO regarded.
Then he did not say anything for quite
awhile. Finally he begged pardon again
and inquired if that car went through to
New York. l said that from the talk
had with the railroad authorities / sus-
pected that it would do so.
JUST tncl tuC POISCl OpChcu tHo bCibh Va
No. 8 in such a way as to squat the life out
of lady's new butterfly bonnet, and my
friend saw at once that the car could be
what is called metmorphosed in moment.
When his berth had been made up l saw
him take his satchel and go to the dressing
room, but thought nothing of it till later
on l was aroused from my brown study,
which was then at, by the entrance of
figure and the pattering of bare feet along
the aisle of the car. At first l thought the
car was haunted, for / hardly recognized
the Englishman, as he had removed his
eyeglass and thus in measure disguised
himself. He also wore o nightcap, and
that disguised him, for the American
nightcap comes generally from Kentucky
and is worn on the inside.
He had an upper berth, and so the por-
ter got him the stepladder. AS he held
the stepladder in place for the man l think
/ never saw porter.color up so.
The Engfshman slowly assembled the
ladder, looking like delayed seraph re-
turning from seraphic rally somewhere
with large Etruscan feet. As he carefully
crawled into his bunk an observing palm
list could read on the soes of his feet that
his life line was crossed and intersected by
the head line and the Piedmont Air line.
When he entirely disappeared in his
little beddie there was low murmur OF
applause, which grew into a perfect ova-
ton. but he seemed to have nothing ready
10 OucT III the way Vi all Shtoics anu oo uAA
not reappear until the next morning.
He was nice, kindly man, and well in
formed, too, withal. He is going to lecture
in this country this season, and while he
was taking his tub in the morning he told
ali of us what he thought of America. He
was constantly interrupted by applause
and by people who got on at Washington
CITY and who came into that end of the
car. forgetting to close the door. thus call.
ing forth on the surface of the speaker a
large crop of robust and highly appropri-
ate goOse-hesh.