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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23

Toward the middle of the fifteenth
century poor Arab was travelling in
Abyssinia. Finding himself weak and
weary he stopped near a grove. Being
in want of fuel to cook his rice he cut
down tree, which happened to be
covered with dried berries. His meal
being cooked and eaten, the traveller
discovered that these half burned ber-
ries were fragrant. He collected a
number, and on crushing them with a
stone he found the aroma increased
to great extent.
While wondering at this, he acci-
dentally let the substance fall into a
can which contained his scanty sup.
ply of water. Lo, what a miracle
The almost putrid liquid was partially
purified. He raised it to his lips. 1t
was fresh and agreeable, and after a
short rest the traveller so far recovered
his strength and energy as to be able
to resume his journey.
The lucky Arab gathered as many
berries as he could. and having visited
at Alden, N Arabia, he informed the
Mufti of his discovery. That worthy
was an inveterste opium smoker,
who had been suffering for years from
the influence OF the poisonous drug.
He tried an infusion OF the roasted
berries and was so delighted at the re.
covery of his former vigor that in
gratitude to the tree he called it cam.
uha, which in Arabic signifies force.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23

Sunday schools new organ, inciden-
tally carrying off the regalia of the
Good Templars' lodge.
Representative Wilson writes that
he will go before the appropriation
committees of both houses OF Congress
and urge that the $4,000 required for
the proposed North Pacific pilot chart
be granted.
Mrs. Peter Severson, residing on
Summit Hill, one mile south of Knab,
Lewis county, gave birth to three
babies, two of them being Siamese"
twins. The single child was a boy.
None OF them lived.
Everybody in Dayton men, women
and children-belong to some society
or other, to the great CONSERVATION of
the Chronicle, which finds that home
life is all broken up. Instead Of bask-
ing in the family circle, the entire
population of the town is Off each
evening to its club.
The Oregon Improvement Company
is preparing to develop the whole OF
the Mckay basin, which is tapped by
its Franklin mine, and to that end is
sinking a new slope to connect with
the present workings. This slope is
at the northern outcrop of the vein
and will extend about 1000 feet, at a
dip of about Is degrees, to reach the
farthest point of the old workings.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23
Harvard and Yale.

These two venerable schools now
have 5,313 students. Harvard having
$3.50 and Yale 2,l53. OF this number
Massachusetts, furnishes Harvard 1,765
and Connecticut has 6S5 in Yale, leav-
ing Harvard's outside representation oil
1885. and Yale l,46S.
The South, which used to furnish a
very large part Of the students in these
schools, now sends but very few. All
of the old slave holding States east oil
the Mississippi river now send but 79
to Harvard and Is to Yale.
Harvard is the most popular
throughout the west, having 517 from
the States commencing with Ohio and
extending to the Pacific, while Yale
has but 407 from the same States.
Yale, however, has strong support from
New York, New Jersey and Pennsyl.
vania, having 73l from these States,
while Harvard has 436. Outside OF
the New England States mentioned
Harvard men predominant except in
Vermont.
Washington has five men in Yale
and two in Harvard. OF the five in
Yale two are credited to Olympia
Pendleton and William Winlock Mil.
Ter, both members of the academic
class OF 1894.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23
INTERESTING INFORMATION.

Persons of weak intellect are apt to
succumb to acute diseases OF every
kind.
Cambria is believed TO have been so
called because it was first made at
Cambray.
Puss, the common name for cat, is
a corruption of the Persian word pers,
cat.
Turquoise takes its name from
Turkey. 1t was originally called the
Turkey stone.
Blankets were invented by Thos.
Blanket, who made them at Bristol in
1910.
Jefferson suggested the plan Of
decimal coinage in 1885, and it WAS
adopted by congress.
Georgia's superior criminal court
has discontinued the kissing of the
Bible in the administration of oaths.
DR.. H. h. Carroll estimates that OF a
population of G. ,622 ,25O in the United
States 6,992 900 are Christians.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries nearly all the rulers OF
Europe were bitten by the alchemist's
mania.
"Rip Van Winkle" has been on the
stage for sixty-iive years. The first
play was produced at Albany May &c,
1928.
The number Ct medical women in
Great Britain is now 1S6, and OF these
twenty have become members OF the
British Medical Association.
The dominion immigration depart
ment has determined to pursue .
vigorous policy the coming year.
Agents will be sent into the Western
States to induce farmers and others to
settle in the Canadian northwest.
According to latest reports there are
in the world 140.344 nautical miles oil
submarine telegraph cable. OF this
total the various governments own IA ).
4S0 miles OF cable and 81 $50 of wire
the balance is owned by private com
panies.
Egypt is about to submit to the
European powers the project of FORM
ing a reservoir for storing the water oil
the Nile, and, during the season when
the water is at its lowest, utilizing the
reservoir for irrigation, thus adding
enormously to the wealth of the land
by extending its cultivated area.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23
Poor Presidents.

It is still true, even in these days OF
great fortunes undreamed of when ii
was founded, that the American Presi.
dency may be aspired to by men who
are not rich. Our wealthiest Presi.
dents have been the first and the last
elected-Washington and Cleveland.
Washington was one of wealthiest
men in the country in his time.
Adams was worth one hundred
thousand dollars at his death. Jeffer-
son was Gland poor" and in straits.
Madison and Monroe had comfortable
estates for those days.
Jackson, according to the New York
Recorder, was born in abject poverty
and never became wealthy. Van
Buren was the son OF a tavernkeeper,
and had fight with poverty.
Johnson's youth was even more un-
fortunate than Lincoln's. He was ap-
prenticed to tailor, barely learned to
read in his minority, and was taught
to write by his wife after marriage.
Grant was born only moderately
poor and never became rich. So oil
Hayes. Cleveland's youth was one OF
privation and toll.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23

The following incident occurred.
while General Butler was practicing
law. In the case the prisoner was
charged with murder; Butler was for
the defense, and E. lockwood Hoar,
at one time Attorney General, was for
the people. Butler was urging
vociferously a plea OF manslaughter
and took the jury to task for taking q
mans life and quoted, as he said, from
the Bible: And the Lord said,
Skin for skin; yea, all that a man
hath will he give for his life." When
Hoar rose. he reached for the Bible
turned to the fourth verse, second
chapter, of the book of Job and read
"And Satan answered the Lord and
said, Skin for skin; yea, all that man
hath will he give for his life." He
sat down amid the cheers and laughter
OF the whole courtroom.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23

While many skilled mechanics can
command from 81 200 to 81 500 year,
working from seven to nine hours
daily, clerks and accountants seldom
reach that income, and many young
professional men, ministers and doc.
tors, pass some of their best years in
attaining it. The assertion is all very
we'll that a person cannot live on such
q sum rs 81 a week, for instance; the
cold fact remains that people do just
that, and live we'll, too. OF course a
number associated can fare better than
two or three persons, for every house.
wife knows the advantage of relying
upon the appetite or dietetic peculiar
tiles OF many individuals to strike a
balance in table accounts.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23

quietly thrusting her head over his
shoulder, she seized him by the throat
and literally tossed him over her
back. The other lions in the den fell
upon him, and though he was rescued
from the den he died within an hour.
1 asked the trainer why he never
armed himself with more than cane.
Tanners rarely did, he said. There was
no use. A lions attack was like a
thunderbolt. One bite, one blow with
the claw was deadly. The men sta
toned outside with carbines and red
hot irons are there only to drive the
lion off the body OF HE victim, so that
he can be got out OF the den alive, and
the spectators saved the horror of see
ing him devOured.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23
Out Of Proportion.

"This is queer town, this Boston"
said an old country gentlemen who ar
rived from a remote rural district for
a visit to a friend in Roxbury. al
had to pay % cents down town for q
little dish OF white ice cream, and then
/ rode miles and miles on one of the
new tangled cars for 5 cents. gave
the man so cents, and l shouldn'
have thought anything OF it if Ia go,
back no change at all. 1t was worth
80 cents just to hitch up to 20 so far
Only 5 cents for all that ride, and %
cents for two spOonsful of white ice
cream! Queer town, thisr'
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23
TANNING LIONS.
Nerve ana Judgment Required In
This Dangerous Task.
Harper's Younp people


Harper's Young People.
There are tanners and trainers. A
tanner is simply man of unlimited
nerve. A trainer has nerve and judg-
ment. My friend tells me that a
trainer can teach lion about as many
tricks As can be taught dog. Some.
times the lion himself will uncon.
sciously suggest q new trick. l had
to train four lions to jump a gate.
One of them was so stubborn that l
determined to leave him for the last.
When came to him he was lying in
= corner. began striking him. He
sprang up and came toward me. He
had wicked look, so / hit him q
sharp blow from below on the end of
his nose with my cane, the only
weapon / ever take into a den. The
blow stung him so that it turned him
around, and, as if to escape another,
he jumped up to the bars and re-
mained with his fore feet upon one Of
them. He gave me look which said
plainly. I'll stop here if you won't do
1t again." He looked superb standing
there drawn up to his full height.
So | sat down on the gate. lit cigar
ette, and kept him in that position till
had finished. 1 trained the other
lions in the act, and fine appearance
the four made standing against the
bars.
Another friend OF mine was in the
audience when a lioness killed a
trainer in the Paris hippodrome. She
had been trained to approach him
from behind, rise on her hind legs
and place her front paws upon his
shoulders. She did 80 this time. Then
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23
RAILROADS
NO CONDUCTOR EVER ENTERS
THE CARS.
The NewsbOy Il Prohibited-Ths
Government Controls and Regu.
lates the Roads.

The NewsbOy Is Prohibited-The
lates the Roads.
The railroads OF Japan are solidly
constructed and carefully run. The
gauge is feet 6 inches, and the cars
are generally Is feet long. There are
first, second and third classes, and the
fares are for several classes-1,2 2 and
3 sen Gents q mile. The Japanese
are great travellers, and more than
nine-tenths of the travel is OF second
and third class. The rate OF speed is
uniformly about 20 miles an hour.
The trains are run on what is known
as the STAFF system, and train is
not allowed to leave a station where it
meets another until the conductor has
received from the conductor of the
other train a symbol called "staff,"
which is his evidence that lie is entitled
to leave.
In the first-class carriage, which is
either one room, like our drawing
room cars or in three compartments,
like the English, one finds cushioned
seats, wash hand bowls and water.
closets, and generally a teapot and
cups, the former occasionally re-
plenished with hot water. If this is
lacking, says the Evening Telegraph
the passenger can buy on the platform
at any station teapot full of tea and
cup for 2! cents. The teapot is
pretty enough to bring quarter in
this country, and the cup would be
cheap at 10 cents. You buy the
whole "outfit," and could carry il
away if you pleased. AS rule, the
pot and cup are left in the car, and
about 60 per cent. of them are re.
covered by the vendor.
The railroads in Japan are partly
owned by the government and partly
by private stockholders, but the rates
and rules for the government roads
govern the others also. At all the
stations are overhead bridges, and
crossing the track is prohibited. as in
England. The stations are roomy and
neat, the platforms ample, and at botl,
ends OF the platform the name of the
station is conspicuously posted. The
passenger shows his ticket on going
through the gate to his train, and
surrenders it at the gate on leaving
No conduc. or enters the cars. W.
also miss the familiar visits OF the
enterprising young man who sells
newspapers and popular books, and
who loads our seats at home with
lozenges, photograph albums, comic
periodicals, vegetable ivory, matches
chewing gum and other merchandise.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23
STATE NEWS.

The Everett smelter has started up.
Eggs are II cents a dozen at What
com.
Dayton gets its flour for so cents q
sack.
There is a prospect OF an iron plant
OH Bellingham bay.
Two Pomeroy burglars have started
in on seven-year terms.
A shingle mill is being added to the
plant of the Tulalip sawmill.
Observer Alciatore is working ON a
school textbook on meteorology.
They think now at Spokane that
Judge Kinnaird drowned himself.
The Chehalis and Castle Rock chess
champions are having it out by mail.
They lock the opera.house doors be-
tween numbers at Whatcom concerts.
Phil Wright, OF Sumner, was crippled
by the bite OF a stallion he was lead
ing.
The verdict in the Barr case, at
Whatcom, was murder in the second
degree.
Five carloads of Waitsburg potatoes,
crop OF 1894, have been contracted for
at so cents sack.
Superintendent Bean thinks the
March school apportionment will be
about so cents a scholar.
The payroll of the Medical Lake in.
sane asylum for the month OF January
was $2,053.31 for Al employees.
The purchasers OF the Tekoa water
bonds have expressed the opinion that
the town Incorporation is legal.
The total city registration at Seattle
up to date is $3.50. The books will be
closed on the night of February %.
The Spokane child so much trouble
has been made over, was given by the
court into the custody OF her father,
Frank NJ. Robertson.
The l4-year-old daughter of William
Fry, near Dayton, went home Satur-
day morning from dance. ate hearty
breakfast and fell dead.
DIR. Bill, the Klickitat Indian who
recently escaped being burned at the
stake by his compatriots, has applied
for the Office OF Klickitat county ply
sician.
Tom Leo fell during trapeze act
at Spokane. He struck on the
shoulders of Jimmie Shields, q spec
tator, and both will recover from their
injuries.
Rev. Mr.. Zellers, of Covello, ties the
marriage knot SO impressively that the
young people are sacrificing them.
selves freely, just for the enjoyment of
the service.
Some unknown person with micro
scopic soul and a screwdriver went
into the Columbus schoolbouse by
night and destroyed the reeds in the
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23
Seattle Press-Times.

Annie Pixley Fulford, whose death
in Europe some time ago has led to
the charge by some of her relatives
that she was foully dealt with for the
purpose of securing her property. was
native of Olympia, where, in the late
fifties she romped with the Siwssh in
fants while her father consumed fire
water, and in his most lucid intervals
played a tattoo upon her mothers
features. The dead actress is we'll re-
membered by old pioneers hereabouts.
She always claimed to have been horn
in California. The estate which she
left behind is worth about 5000, 600. A
sister, who at present resides in Port
land, was bequeathed $1,000 in cash
by the dead actress.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23
WHAT SOME MEN EARN.
II Pays Better to Be Warrior
Than a Minister.

1t has been said that the world pays
most to those who kill, generals and
great lords; next most to those who
amuse, singers and actors while those
who preach, teach and write for the
papers come along somewhere near the
bottom Of the list. There's a good
deal to bear out the theory, remarks
the New York Recorder. Marlbor-
ough, for his victories, got the mag
nificent estate OF Blenheim and lots
besides. Wellington became extremely
wealthy. Napoleon's generals were
rewarded with crowns. Won Moltke
was made rich, and might have had
much more money if he had cared for
it. Even little Lord Wolseley has
made heap OF money in second-class
wars.
The number of actors and singers
who have accumulated half a million,
besides living expensively, is quite
large. Sir Walter Scott made as much
as ,h,t by his pen. Mr.. Gunter has
made nearly as much by lightweight
novels. Mark Twain has made more
than that on his copyrights, and some
from investment. Bronson Howard
must soon reach the half-million mark.
Zola, Sardou and perhaps Daudet long
since passed it.
About the top notch of income for a
New York law firm is $3.50, 600 a year,
half of which may go to the head man.
Some firms may run rather above this.
But the most responsible Judgeships
pay only from $4,000 to $4,000.
Ex-President Grevy, of France, in
the Dreyfus guano case, received fee
pf 100000. The Lackwar Of Baroda
paid $96, 900 to Mr.. Paterson as fee.
Sir Charles Russell once received
$1,000 for three hours work.
Methodist preachers in sparsely set
tied districts frequently receive 500
a year from each of three churches,
preaching three times day.
Pupil teachers in British board
schools earn at first Is. to As. a week.
A Mexican pcon gets 26 cents, up
ward; a Chinese or Indian coolie at
home receive I or 8 cents a day.
Hard work on the Manchester ship
canal paid 624 cents day. Chain
makers on Cradley Heath and hobnail
maker. at Bromsgrove, Eng, earn %
to $3.50 week by working overtime
and live on bread and tea.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23
A Giant Pulley.

The giant of the pulley family is
now doing service at the Willimantic
thread mills, Willimantic Manufactur.
ing Company, Connecticut. Thi,
monster wheel is 2S feet in diameter,
and weighs 70 tons. The face of the
wheel, which is made for series OF
belts, each separated by crib" is
nine feet across. 1t was cast in 26
different parts, including the hub.
The metal in the spokes alone weighs
$4,000 pounds and that in the rim,
which is in segments, each segment
carrying spoke, weighs 81. 900 pounds.
The 26 pieces of this gigantic piece OF
mechanism are fastened together with
lSO bolts OF varying length and size.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23

MAMfcO representative for our
WAN 6Ug Family Treasury. the great
est book ever offered to the public.
Christmas Present for both old and
young.
selling this great work, enables each pur'
chaser t. get the book FREE, so every
one pure bases.
For hi, first weeks work one agents
profit is Sl68.00. Another $l36. A lady
has Just cleared Sl20 for her first week
work.
Write for particulars, and if you can be-
gin at once send 81 90 for outfit. We give
you exclusive territory, and pay large
commissions Oh the sales of sub-agents.
Write at once for the agency for your
county.
Address all communications to
RAND, NcNALLY & co.,
Chicago.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23
Amber.

The uninformed would often mis-
take the cheapest amber when made
up into commercial forms, for the
most expensive. Many long and
beautifully clear pipe stems are made
from amber chips, the waste product
OF amber caring. These are melted
and nodded into shapes that are sell
dom or never seen in the costly carved
amber. These nodded amber articles
are extremely durable, and it is diff
cult to see why they should not be
esteemed by practical persons as
valuable as carved amber.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23
Following An Apparition,s Advice

At Albany, Georgia, night or two
ago a negress dreamed that an Indian
angel appeared and, lowering over her
couch, impaired to her the spot where
golden treasure was hidden. When
she awoke she told her husband of it
and described the spot as being on the
east side OF Flint river, about a hun.
dred yards below the bridge. Together
they repaired to the spot, the husband
armed with pick and shovel. and as his
wife located the spot he set to work
and has dug large mole. He has not
found the treasure yet, and is still
digging. While he digs his wife sits
on the bank praying devoutly and ear
nestly.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23

THE w. & C. railroad people paid
Walla Walia county $1,000 in taxes
Thursday, the largest amount yet re.
ceiyed from a single taxpayer.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23
Charlotte Cu.hmau,s Art.

Henry Irving's story of Charlotte
Cushman gives q better idea Of the
methods and style Of this great artist
than q dozen impersonal and we'll
padded essays would. She was play
ing Meg Merrilles. In one scene, in
answer to her appeal for money, he,
personating an important character in
the piece, hands her his purse filled
with the broken crockery which is gen.
orally used for stage gold. One day
Miss Cushman suggested gently to
him the superior realism of opening
the purse, selecting coin and giving
it to her. No matter how magnificent
it might look, it was hardly natural
for a gentleman to hand over purse
full of money to crazy beggar.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23

The machinery has been purchased
for South Bends cold storage plant,
which is to cost $4,000.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23

AN aggravated case of larceny was
that of the tramp who stole the
Chehaiis Bee editors account, and the
$25 fine Was quite inadequate.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23
WASHINGTON STANDARD
:----.cc E-E2! ...::-A- E---G.:E; sY
JOHN MILLER MURPHY,
Eiitor and Proprietor.

Advertising, four Squares or upward
by the year, at liberal rates.
Legal notices will he charged to the at
torney or officer authorizing their inser-
ton
Advertisement sent from distance
and transient notices must be accompan-
led by the cash.
Announcements of marriages, births
and deaths inserted free.
Obituary notices, resolutions of respect
aud other articles which do not possess
general interest will be inserted at one
half the rates for business advertisements
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q s. DEPUTY SURVEYOR

nesidence, sixth Street, swans Addi.
tion to Olympia, Wash.
SURVEYING of all kinds promptly at:
y tended to. The re-establishing of old
Government lines a speciality. TOwnsites
surveyed and plated. Railroads located,
and levels run for drains. Lands exam.
ined and character reported.
OLYMPIA, April 1e. 1894.
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