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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-11

oakyille, TeH.. Sept. Io.--FIre de-
stroyed the saloon Of II. a. Guiiford;
loes 5000. r wclmer's loss on store and
building. 5000. There was no insur-
anoe on any Of the property. But FOR
the rain many other buildings would
have btirued
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-11

Houston. Tex. sept. lo.-The city
council met this evening and before
the mayor had an opportunity 70 pre-
sent his veto Of the paving contract
reselnded their former action. The orig
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-11

Guthrie. O r., sept. io.-puring the
niorm last night cloud burst occurred
at f.owrle. north OF here, The Santa
Ice track was wished out, church
carried on It's foundation and conaid-
cradle more damage dono.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-11
A MAssAcaE nEronrnp.
Government Surveying Party said 10
Have Bcen murdered.

San Francisco. Cal. Sept. 10.--A ru-
NOR Is current here that government
survey party has been inaasacred on
the Rio Grande below III paso. The
latter CITY hna beeu xyired for ,ar,ic,,-
lars
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-11

Washington. Sept l0.-At the close
Of business today the cash In the treas
ury amounted to si27ssO. SIC, OF which
500, 02s,705 represented gold reserve.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-11
FROM NORTH TEXAS TOWNS
xrwsY ITEMS FROM Our own
CORRESPONDENTS.

,.uc. Hudson. n Jockey. Meets with
probably Fatal Accident on the
yair Grounds ut Denton-A Liv.
mace In niiIsboro.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-11

Austin, Tex, Sept lo.--'rhc weasosr
Gotten on Misunderstanding and Cold
storage company q san Antonio. with
a capital stock Of slpoooo illed char.
ter today, with the following aisners,
George w. Sanders. Herman brendic.
Charles W. Ogden and j NJ. chntim.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-02
ABOUT PRISONS AND PRISONERS

Delaware has no State prison. State
convicts are sent to the three county
prisons, or to the Maryland peniten-
tiary at Baltimore.
In thirty-six State prisons in this
country solitary confinement is used
as punishment, and in twenty the
prisoner is handcuffed to the wall.
Four State prisons-those of Con.
necticut, Michigan, Montana and
Washington-use deprivation of relig
ious privileges as punishment.
The inmates OF English prisons are
employed in picking oakum, making
bags for the navy and mail bags for
the general postoffice.
Constantinople has 100000 people
who are kept in order by 1000 police
men. In 1880 only 1000 arrests wer'
made; but fifty for drunkenness.
Executions ceased to be public il
England in 1865. Before that timt
they were in the squares in front o
the jails and attracted thousands o
people from the country round.
Austria is the most lenient to mur
derers. In the ten years ending 1877
there were SIG criminals found guilt.
of wilful murder in Austria, of whom
only twenty.three were put to death.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-02
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

Germany has 100 cooking schools.
One-third of the teaching force Of
this country is male.
Teachers in Hamburg receive from
$11 to $28 per month.
Teachers in the Mexican public
schools are paid $50 to $40 per month
The first Berlin gymnasium for wo.
men has opened with sixteen pupils.
The salaries are 65.4 per cent. ol
total expense of schools in this coun.
try.
Western States have more than two
women to one man teaching-10,3 300
TO 1876.
South Atlantic States have about
as many men as women teaching
1854 to 20,276.
North Central States have about two
women to one man teaching-1l3,6S6
to 54,547. !
German school boys study harder
and play less than those of any other
of the great nations.
President Harper of the University
of Chicago, gives the average salary of
College Presidents as $3,O47, of College
professors as $2,O15 and OF instructors
as 81 ,47O.
1t is reported that there are 700 wo-
men practicing medicine in the Rus
sian Empire, and new school OF
medicine for women has just been
started in St. Petersburg, with four
years course of study.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-02
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
His First WOrk-Hts Ayidity for
Taking Cold.

The first published work of Robert
Louis Stevenson was booklet in thin
paper covers, entitled "The Pentland
Rising" and brought out in Edin-
burgh in 1866. A copy of this small
and now rare pamphlet was lately
purchased by a bibliomaniac for $40.
The overcoming report concern
ing Mr.. Stevenson's ill health have
undoubtedly foundation. He is very
far from being well man, but proba.
bly, the out-of-door life he leads in the
delicious air of Samoa means much
longer lease OF life than could other
wise be his. Here Mr.. Stevenson and
his family go about in flowing gar
ments and barefooted like the natives.
Almost every Samoan, it is said,
would march through fire and water
for Stevenson-whose name, by the
way, they can't pronounce. Some
of them call him Tusitala, the teller
of tales"
One who has recently visited the
novelist says: Stevenson's talk is
as brilliant as can be heard anywhere.
His humor is so spontaneous, so per-
fectly natural and free from affection,
that you forgot how brilliant it is. In
these jottings there may be unpardon-
able indiscretions, but cannot resist
the temptation to commit another for
the benefit of those who dearly delight
in the tingling effect OF a witty ex-
aggeration. On being asked one day
what he thought was the matter with
him he replied that Seemingly his
system had passionate avidity for
taking cold On the Honolulu steam
er there was man who had the
faculty, which is only too common, of
unconsciously irritating his fellow pas
sengers. OF him Stevenson said: Il
don't know what it is about that man,
but he rouses within me passions that
would disgrace hell. He isa confirmed
cigarette smoker, and while he talks
his fingers are busy coiling a fresh
cigarette"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-02

A young lawyer, just starting in
his profession, hung out his sign in q
Connecticut town where there was
only one other lawyer, and aged Judge
A close-fsted oldlellow, thinking to
get legal advice for nothing, called
upon the young man, told him he was
very glad he had come into the town,
as the old judge was getting super.
animated, and then contrived in sort
OF neighborly talk to get some legal
questions answered. Then thanking
the young man, he put on his hat and
was about to leave, when the young
man asked him if he should charge the
advice, for which the fee was five
dollars. The old fellow went into a
violent passion, and swore he never
would pay. The young lawyer told
him he would sue him if he didn't.
So the old fellow went down to
see the Judge, found him hoeing in the
garden, and said:
"That young scamp that's just
come into town! dropped in to
make neighborly call on him, and
he charges me five dollars for legal
advice"
"Served You right" said the judge;
you had no business to have gone to
him."
"But have I got to pay for it, judge9"
"Of course you have"
"Well, them" said the man, "I sup
pose must" and he started off.
"Hold on" said the Judge; "arn't
you going to pay me-"
"Pay your What iorY"
I" For legal advice"
"What do you charger"
"Ten dollars"
The result was that the old fellow
had to pay..five dollars to the young
lawyer and ten dollars to the old one.
Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-02
why 1t Seemed Dark.


The fact that the kitchen door OF the
Collins cottage ut Pleasant Harbor wal
painted black led to an incident tha,
caused the Pleasant Harbor towns
people much Amusement. Miss Laurs
Collins, the elder of the two elderly
women who lived in the collage, uset
to tell the story thus:
My sister Emmeline is what yor
might call absentminded. She gets
her mind set on something, and ther
she doesn't pay real strict attention t.
what she's doing. One evening sh'
came into the kitchen where 1 wa
sitting and said, Pm going down Il
the corner to call ON Mrs. Stone.
And I said: II will go. It's ,
pleasant evening for a walk; moon
light, and the stars are out"
l noticed that Emmeline had on he
big sunbonnet, but didn't say any thin,
about it; everybody in the building
was used to see her wear it in th'
evening, and even on rainy days.
went on sewing and in a minute
heard Emmeline say: "Wby,it must
have clouded up suddenly. There
isn't a star to be seen. It's terribly
black night"
looked up, and there stood Emme'
line with the edge of her sunbonnet
pressed up against the door. She had
forgotten to open it before she looked
Fout to see what kind OF night it was,
and of course the door being painted
black that made considerable differ.
onca
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-02

an inch in thickness, at which point
The two materials are about equal in
THIS respect, and beyond this point the
value OF steel after punching decreases
rapidly as the thickness increases in
iron the percentage seems to be much
more constant.
Ihe character of the fracture after
punching is also found to be material.
~ affected by the thickness of the ma.
terlal. In view of these circumstances.
1t is proposed to limit to one-half inch
the thickness OF the metal subjected to
punching, excepting in the case. of
glrders OF more than fifty feet in
iength' when it may be nine-sixteenths
OF an inch; in top cords and end posts.
hve elghths OF an inch, and in shoes,
pedestais and bed plates, three quar-
tiers of an inch.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-02
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON FRIDAY EVENING FER 1904

rouse some years ago, is paid 26,0O0
tlorins (SS,l25) for season OF nine
months. NJ. Van Dyke gets about
$4,000 florins, but he sings only seven
months OF the year in Austria. Frau
Materna, who is soon to retire, to be
replaced by Frau Kllfsky, gets the
same amount for the whole year, and
Frau Schluger, the dramatic soprano,
receives 10000 ilorins per annum. The
tenors thus get more than the So
pranos.
Mile. Zelie, OF the Theater Lyrique,
at Paris, weile singing at concert in
the Society Islands, in the course of D
tour around the world, was to sing an
az ssenas- =" Marina, and few other
songs and bargained for third of the
receipts. She found that her share
consisted OF three pigs, % turkeys, A
chickens, 5000 cocoanuts, and a con-
siderable quantity of bananas, lemons
and oranges.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-02
WHOLE NUMBER 1.779.
WEALTH OF THE WORLD.
An Authority Estimates IL to He
100000 Million Dollars.
Edinburg Review.

| Edinburg Review.
Few people, even among professional
politicians, have much idea of tn,
wealth of the world, or of the manne,
In which that wealth is growing. Still
fewer have any notion of the poten
TALLY of wealth TO increase. M. Jan.
net quotes the elaborate calculation OF
an ingenious author to show that loo
francs, accumulating at 5 per cent
compound interest for seven centuries
would be sufficient to buy the whole
surface of the globe, both land and wa
ter, at the rate of 100000 francs
($2OO,OOO the hectare. The actual
growth of riches has not hitherto as.
sumed such inconvenient proportions.
nj. Jannet cites various authorities
to show that the wealth of the United
Kingdom exceeds $5O,OOO,OOO,OGO; ;
that of France, $4,000, 100000; that
of all Europe 5000. .OOO, ,OOO, 900; that of
the United States, $70,OOO,O 900, 900,
If we place the wealth of the rest of
the world at $l3O,OOO,OO 900 we shall
arrive at an aggregate of $4O0 ,00O, ,OOO,- :
OOO. We should have, we may add, to
multiply this vast sum 10000 times
before we reached the total to which
according to NJ. Jannet's ingenious au-
thority, 100 francs accumulating at 5
per cent compound interest for 700
years would grow.
The figures are 80 vast that they
convey no appreciable idea to the Or
binary reader. 1t may assist the ap-
prehension if it be added that France
on an average possesses more than
1000. the United Kingdom more than
81 200, for each member of the popula-
ton. Just 200 years ago Sir w. Petty
estimated the entire wealth of Eng
land at only 81 ,25O, 100000. Two GEN.
turies, therefore, have increased it
forty-fOld. But the chief additions to
it have been made in the last fifty
years, and We believe that we are not
far from wrong in saying that the sum
which is annually added to the United
Kingdom amounts to $1,000, 600, 900,
or, in other words, is nearly equal to
its entire wealth at the time of the
Ravnlntinn nf 1919.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-02


An American doctor who has taken
up his residence in Mexico is now in
Houston, Tex, visiting his former
friends. He has become somewhat
Mexicanized in his dress and other.
wise.
How do you like it in Mexico?
asked one OF his friends.
"It's fine country for a doctor"
81 should's think you would like to
cast your lot in such an out-of.the-
way place."
"I know there are objections to an
American living in Mexico, but, as I
said, for q doctor it is the best country
in the world"
How so?"
You see, if you manage things
right you are never blamed, no matter
whether the patient gets well or not"
"How do you arrange it2"
Every simply. If patient is sick,
no matter whether he is seriously Ill
or not, I always tell his friends to send
Tor priest and have him prepared ior
DEATH"
"But how does that help you?"
"In this way: If the patient dies
everybody says. " What good doctor
that American is. He knew from the
very start that the patient was going
to die, and how considerate the doctor
was to send for priest and have the
poor mans spiritual interests looked
after"
"But suppose the patient gets we'll.
How then?"
"If the patient RECEIVERS, his friends
say: what capable physician that
American doctor is. The poor patient
was in the last extremity, the priest
had even been called to prepare him
for death, and yet the American doc
tor saved him. So you see in either
event I'm solid with the people, and
consequently 1 have q splendid prac'
| tice.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-02

When the 700 ton Austrian bark
Villa was picked up at sea by the Nor
wegian fruit steamer Breidablik and
brought to New York couple of
months ago much curiosity was ex.
pressed as to what could have caused
her crew to desert her. With the
exception of being partially dismasted.
she is in perfect condition, says the
New York Tribune, and the loss OF her
masts might have occurred after her
crew left her. She had sailed from
Egypt with a cargo chiefly made up OF
old bones, and no word was heard oil
her until she was picked up off Hat.
teras by the Breidabilk. All the bark's
papers and every scrap of food had
been taken from her, and the fate oil
her crew is mystery. The expert.
ence OF the three masted schooner
Wallace ]. Boyd, which recently ar.
rived at Philadelphia from Montevideo
with a similar cargo of old bones, may
afford an explanation of the mystery
surrounded the Villa. The crew of the
Boyd says that nothing could ever in
duce them to ship again ON a bone
laden vessel. Within few days after
leaving port the vessel became infested
with scorpions and other pestiferous
bugs, which came out OF the cargo and
penetrated every nook and corner oil
the craft. The men were driven fr ON
their hunks in the forecastle, and
every effort to rid the schooner of the
plague was unavailing. Five or six
times day all hands were compelled
70 strip, bathe and change their cloth
ing, but smaller insects hung on in
spite OF this.
On day which was damp and warm
the torment was aggravated by the
appearance of large, green bugs, which
swarmed over everything and contin
ued their ravages until port was
reached. 1t is believed that the crea.
lures were in the bones when they were
gathered on the Argentine plains, and
the excessive heat OF the hold during
the voyage through the tropics caused
them to breed in enormous numbers
and forced them on deck. 1t is posi-.
BILE that the crew of the Villa was
driven from her by a similar cause and
met q worse fate.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-02
Regulating Her Temperature.


A lady residing in the older part OF
the city, fond OF all the comforts af.
forded by the latest discoveries in the
arts and sciences, holds a theory re.
gartiing hcuithf1l temperature of the
body which she has carried out in q
practical manner. During the sum.
mer she wears what she calls "pulse
coolers" her theory being that the en-.
tire blood circulation may be raised
or diminished in temperature by the
proper appliances at the wrist. The
"pulse coolers" are composed OF
spheroids Of rose quartz about an inch
in diameter, linked together with
filagreed silver and forming a hand
some bracelet. The spheroids wert
cut by local lapidary and their quail
ity OF absorbing cold in preferenc,
to heat is remarkable. For winter tn,
pulse-warming bracelets consist of ,
strip of asbestos, noted non.conduct
or, an inch wide. enveloped in gold
embossed velvet, buckled with looI
of diamonds. The lady claims tha
when wearing these she is proc
against any suffering caused by ex
treme variations OF the weather.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-02
WAGES OF THE WORLD.

"A teamster in Peru makes $I2 a
week.
A Persian cook can earn So % a
month.
A native painter in India earns 40
cents day.
A mule driver in Morocco earns 10
ceuts day.
A Mexican mason earns from rs
cents to 81 day.
A railroad conductor in Turkey gets
$27 a month.
A boss mason in Ceylon can earn
$3.50 per week. -~~----
Policemen in Saxony receive $261
year as salary.
A thrasher in Turkey can command
40 cents day.
Farm laborers in Belgium receive 46
cents day.
Music teachers in Hamburg are paid
Il cents an hour.
A blacksmith in Jerusalem can make
$l.92 per week.
Shop girls in France receive an ay.
erage of 500 year.
A camel owner and his beast in Pal.
estine are worth 81 day.
In Mexico seamstresses are paid 81
cents day; weavers so cents.
Railway clerks in Germany are paid
an average of 80 cents a day.
Chinese soldiers get 81 a month and
have to board themselves.
Walters in Turkey, if they have good
places, can make SIT month.
Builders in London receive 25 shil.
lings week and work so hours.
Glasgow ship builders receive 16
shillings week and work 81 hours.
Freight handlers on Prussian rail.
roads make an average of 25 cents a
day.
In Strasburg bricklayers are paid
N.l5 per week of GO hours; hod car
riers, 1921.
The total weekly expense of Ger
man family OF seven persons is gener-
ally about $3.57.
Native laborers in Palestine work
Tor 10 cents a day and nav all thai-
own expenses.
The average weekly wages paid to
female laborers of all classes in Ger
many is $2.17.
Women coal carriers at the Lisbon
docks receive 30 cents q day; male
carriers, so cents day.
Wages in all departments of labor
have steadily increased since the be-
ginning Of this century.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-02

THERE is . church war in Kettle
Falls that threatens to finally disrupt
and terminate the existence of the
Presbyterian church there. 1t grows
out OF the objection OF part of his
congregation to the Rev. J. ]. Nc cMillan
The reverend gentleman, when he
first heard of the objection to him
resigned. Subsequently he withdrew
his resignation, and now intends to
fight it out.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-02
Punching Steel and Iron.
New York sun.

According TO paper read before the
Engineers club, of Philadelphia, on
the proper limit OF thickness to steel
which may be punched, the statement
is made that the thicker the steel the
greater the damage caused by such an
operation. Recent tests made to de-
termine this matter are declared to in.
dicate that punching Injuries steel less
than iron up to, say, three-quarters of
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-02
BITS OF INFORMATION.

The deepest coal mine is in Belgium
5,442 feet.
The oldest collection OF poetry is in
the book OF Psalms.
The deepest artesian we'll is in
Pottsdam--5, 500 feet deep.
Sierro means saw, and its applica-
ton to a range OF pointed mountain
peaks is very apt and poetical.
Germany has the greatest number
OF depositors in the savings banks
over 100000, but the aggregate OF
their deposits is not given in the gov
ernment report.
In Switzerland 800 inhabitants in
the 1000 have money on deposit in
the savings banks; in Germany, 1SO;
in France, 10; in Great Britain, 1876
in the United States, 81.
China is making great preparations
for fair to be held within a year or
two, which occurs every sixty years.
Her subjects from all over the world
are expected to attend.
The public debt of the Austro- Hun.
garian Empire is $500, ,135 900 fiorins,
mostly contracted by the French war
OF the early years of this century and
the seven weeks war with Prussia.
The navy OF Great Britain has Co.
600 men; France, $4,000; Germany,
10000; Russia, 10000; Austria, 5000;
Italy, 1900; Spain, 1900; Holland,
5000; Turkey, $4,000; the United
States, 10000.
During the six weeks war in 1866
between Prussia and Austria 300 900
Prussians and 800, 600 Austrians took
the field. OF the former 2O,774 were
killed or disabled and S4,160 of the
latter, a total loss of 104, 1884 men.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-02
SOME THOUGHTS.

Detroit Free Press.
Marriage is loves sacrifice.
Slsnder is vaporized venom.
A kiss is song without words.
Sunshine is the heaven OF living.
A torpid liver is twin to despair.
Speech is deformity in some
people.
1t is not the longest life that has
the most in it.
An ounce of realization is seldom
worth pound of hope.
A rosebud of girl sometimes turns
out to be thorn of a woman.
We rarely find as much in a dollar
as we think there is.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-02
FACTS ABOUT PRECIOUS STONES

The best rubies come from Burman.
The finest turquoises come from
Persia.
Jet is a specie of bitter, bituminous
coal.
The emerald is now one of the rarest
of precious stones.
The black diamond is so hard that
it cannot be polished.
The best opals are obtained from
Hungary and Honduras.
Black, pink and golden pearls are
more valuable that white.
The star sapphire shows in its depth
white star with five rays.
The emerald has long been regarded
as specific for sore eyes.
Every gem in the lapidary has been
found in the United States.
The play of calor in the opal is due
to the minute assures in the stone.
An uncut diamond looks very much
like bit of the best gum arabic.
The best pearls are found on the
Ceylon coast in the Persian Gulf.
The diamop4, in a sufficient heat,
will burn like piece of charcoal.
The Orion diamond is believed to
be responsible for sixty-seven murders.
The Island of Ceylon is the most
remarkable gem deposit in the world.
Pliny, in the first century, was the
first writer to describe the diamond.
The carat, used in estimating the
weight OF gems, is grain of Indian
wheat.
Diamonds so small that fifteen hun.
dred 60 to the carat have been cut in
Holland.
The pearl is only carbonate OF lime
is readily affected by acids, and burns
into lime.
The sultan of Turkey has the richest
collection OF gems and regalia in tn,
world.
The pearl is the only gem that doel
not require the lapidary's art to brini
out its beauty.
The largest diamond ever knowr
was the Great Mogul, which weighed
in the rough 1893 carats.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-02
An AfterthOuRht.

"Bill" called the old farmer to the
hired man." go and feed them pigsr ?"
"I've done fed 'em."
EGO an feed the cows"
"I've done fed 'em."
"Go an feed the horses"
ave done fed 'em."
"Go an feed the chickens"
"I've done fed 'em."
"Well, go and feed yourself, then
seems to me somethin' ought to be
hungry round here" and the way
Bill got in to where the eating was
was marvellous specimen of speed