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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-07

hesh-ouilder, and strength restorer
that's known to medical science, is
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis.
covery. For Consumption in all it,
earlier stages, and for Weak Lungs,
Asthma, Severe Coughs, and all
Bronchial, Throat and Lung affec.
tions, that is the only remedy SO
unfailing that it can be guaranteed
If it doesn't benefit or cure, you
have your money back.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-07
ELECTRIC SPARKS.

THERE are 1850 cities and towns in
this country which have electric lights.
OK an electric light wire in Reading,
Pa, woodcock alighted. In . few
moments the current WAS turned on,
and the bird dropped to the street,
dead.
The price Of private telepho ones in
London is to be reduced from one hum
ared dollars to fifty dollars . year. sub
iect to the condition Of . five-year
lease.
THE Automatic Telephone & Elec-
trical company Of Canada proposes to
run a copper metallic trunk line direct
from Halifax to Vancouver, q distance
If thirty-five hundred miles. Local
plants will also be established in towns
md cities along the line.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-07
LARGEST. SMALLEST. OLDEST.

THE highest falls in the world are
the Ribbon falls of the Yosemite
three thousand three hundred feet. ~
THE smallest bird is the West India
cumming bird. Its body is less than
an inch long and weighs only twenty
grains -
The oldest statue in the world is Of
the shiek Of an Egyptian village. 1t is
believed to be not less than six thou
sand years old.
THE largest cut stones in the world
are in the temple of the Sun at Baal-
bee. Many are more than sixty feet
long, twenty feet broad and Of un-
known depth. 49,
A SHEEP ranch in the counties of
Webb and Dimmet, Tex. gives pasture
to about 100000 sheep. 1t contains
over 1000 acres, and is considered
the largest in the world.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-07
Measuring the Great Wall Of Chi,s.

Measuring tho Great Wall OF Chlns.
The great wall of China was meas
ured in many places by Engineer I'm.
thank, the American who surveyed foy
the chief Monaghan railroad. His
measurements give it an average
height Of eighteen feet and . ton
width Of fifteen feet. Every few hum
dred feet the wall is widened md sur.
mounted by towers twenty-four feet
square and from twenty to twenty-five
feet high. The foundation Of the wall
is OF solid granite. and the bricks
which constitute the main part Of the
structure, are still good, even though
they are supposed to have been made
two hundred years before Christ. In
building this immense fence Is Q bar.
rier to the regular incursions Of the
Tartars the builders did not even At
tempt to avoid mountains or chasms
to save expense. For eighteen hum
dred miles the wall goes straight over
mountains and plains, hills and dales,
utterly regardless Of natures greatest
instructions. 49,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-07
A FOOEHOLD

A FOOEHOLD
for Consumption is
what you are offer.
ing, if your blood
is impure. Con-
sumption is simply
Lung Scrofula. A
scrofulous condi-
ton, with a slight
cough or cold, ID
all that it needs
to develop it.
But just as it
depends upon the
blood for its origin,
80 it depends upon
the blood for its
~,
cure. The surest
remedy for Scrof-
ula in every form,
the most effective
blood-clea nser,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-07
What Makes q Gentlemsu.

It Is well for womankind to be up 70
the national term gentleman" Mem.
bers Of the sex, when touring over the
world, may find it handy to under.
stand just what sort Of thing is meant
by this supposed refined degree Of the
''animal man." In Russia they say he
drinks like gentleman; in France, he
acts like . gentleman; in Spain, he
makes love like q gentleman; in Ger
many, he eats like gentleman; in
Turkey, he smells like gentleman
in America, he spends his money like q
gentleman.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-07

On the Austin ranch, near What.
com, there is a fir tree seven feet in
diameter growing over a hali-buried,
perfectly sound cedar which is five feet
in diameter. 1t is estimated that the
cedar must be several hundred years
old. Instead of sparing this arboreal
curiosity, the Isensee choppers cut the
fir tree off about 10 feet from the
ground.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-07

the emperor walks away without say
ing "rood-by." and the chief with
whom he has conversed must listen
for five or SIX minutes afterward to
make sure that the imperial orders
have been completed. Then he calls
back his assistants and the usual Ell.
Qucttc is resumed
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-07

For a perfect and permanent
cure of Catarrh, take Doctor
Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Its
proprietors offer $500 reward
for an incurable case of Ca
tarrh in the Head.
Costs only 50 cents.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-07
PIcKINGs THE WORLD OVER.

CENTRAL AMERICA has ninety active
volcanoes.
A STEAMSHIP line, to run from st.
Louis to ports in Mexico and South
America, is projected.
JAPANESE doctors never present bills
to their patients. They await the pa
tents inclination to pay, and then
thankfully accept whatever sum is Of
fered.
In Bengal, India, there are three
harvests reaped every year; peas and
oil seeds in April, the early rice crop
in September and the great rice crop
in December.
BEFORE the new parliamentary legis-
lation, turning them over to the chart
ties commissioners, the London guilds
enjoyed-and generally wasted-in-
comes, ranging from the MERGERS an
nual 5000, the diapers $3.50, 900 and
the goldsmiths' $500, 900 down.
THE island of st. Helena, where Ma
poleon was held a prisoner, has an
area of "a square miles. Its population
is more than 1000, but 200 emigrants
leave it annually. The whale fisheries
there are under American manage.
ment and amount to about 800, 600 q
year.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-07
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

ONE-FIFTH Of the families in Glasgow
live in single rooms.
LONDON has forty restaurants in
which only vegetable food is served.
In Norway persons who have not been
vaccinated are not allowed to vote at
any election.
In Manchuria dogs are raised for
their skins. A fairly prosperous Man
churian dog farmer will own 1000 or
more dogs.
PERFORMANCES at theaters of ancient
Greece sometimes lasted twelve hours
Seven o'clock in the morning was the
time for the rising of the curtain, so to
speak.
DURING the reign of Henry VIII. H.
400 persons were legally executed in
England, the larger portion of whom
were guilty of no offcnse worse than
misdemeanor. In one year 300 starv-
ing beggars were hanged for asking
aims.
The imperial canal of China is the
longest in the world and greatest in
point of traffic. Its length is 2,10O
miles, and it connects forty-one cities
situated on its banks. 1t was COM
pleted in 1850, after 600 years spent on
its construction,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-09-07
FOREIGNERS OF NOTE.


AMONG the official family of the new
Corean ministry at Washington are
Messrs. vi Hum, Chow Chick and Chang
Bong Whang.
KAISER WILHELM has conferred upon
William Steinway. the great piano
maker of New York. the cross of the
Order of the Red Eagle.
A FRENCH journalist. NJ. Lardeaux,
proposes to walk from Paris to Chicago,
by way of Siberia. 1t is his intention
to cross the Behring straits on the ice.
THE ex-Empress Eugene exhibited
some amiability of character in Paris
the other day by climbing five flights
of stairs in an apartment house to call
on Victor Duruy, the academician, who
was i'll in bed. Duruy was one of Ma
poleon Ill ministers and the devoted
friend of his family.
THE emperor of Russia has very I'M
expectedly announced his intention of
sending the czarewitch to represent
the imperial family at the English
royal wedding, having probably been
induced to do SO by hearing that Prince
Henry of Prussia was to attend on the
part of Emperor William.
NINE. CALLIRRHOE PARREN, who came
here as the Greek delegate to the
woman's congress. is recognized in her
native country as the first woman there
who tried to make way for the entrance
OF women in the various trades and
professions. She represented ten So
cieties at the late congress, all philan-
thropic or educational, and most OF
them under the protection of the queen.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-08-15
The Tornado'S Twist.

e, The tornado and the cause Of its for
nation seem to be less perfectly under
stood than even the ever mysterious cleo
tricity. That tornado has a violent
spiral motion and distinct ascending
movement is we'll established. The rapid
rotary motion tends to form a vacuum
in the center of the funnel shaped vol
ume, and this sucking force brings about
devastation. When tornado surrounds
a house, the air inside of it forces the
walls asunder instantly.
But the inception of a tornado and the
causes which lead up to it have not yet
been discovered. The scientist tells us
that the air of valleys becomes heated
and rises, cold air rushes in to take its
place, the wind hits against a hill, is
changed in its course and goes cavorting
down the valley, and that makes tor.
nado. Bnt what gives it the twist? And
there are no mountains in the Missis.
sippi valley, but cyclones form there.
Weather bureaus, with all their costly,
delicate instruments, have never yet
satisfactorily explained what gives the
tornado its twist. The world is looking
for a man who can discover the tornado
in its native lair and definitely define,
distinguish and describe it. All this is
for the benefit of our neighbors Of the
east, for the tornado never visits Cali.
fornia.-San Jose Mercury
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-08-15
Higher Education.

We have now high school for the
culture and development of feminine
beauty. At this beauty college the fair
pupils are taught the science Of impart-
ing the highest degree Of graceful ex-
preston to their features and move
ments. The young ladies are taught
how to speak,. e., without pulling
faces-and how to pronounce difficult
words in the most bewitching manner:
One of the most difficult words is the
simple ''potato. - Two hours are barely
sufficient to acquire q correct and agree
able pronunciation of the name Of this
homely tuber. The professors at the col
lege have discovered that music lends
a peculiar charm to the expression of
the countenance. But the difficulty lies
in the choice Of the compositions La
dies Of fair complexion grow melancholy
as they listen to Chopin. Wagner is
specially adapted to dark ladies' His
"polychromatic music imparts the req
uisite softness to brunettes, rendering
them charming and pliable. The lar
gest attendance is found, however, at the
lectures where the pupils are shown how
to sleep-that is to say, with sweet
expression and in a graceful pose. IN
fortunately we are not told by what
means this delightful accompi shment is
to be acquired. -Frankfurter Zeitung.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-08-15
When the World Was q Cube.

To a person who reads modern books
and modern literature in general, and
who has never had either time, Opportu-
nifty or inclination to strike off into the
bypaths which were SO frequently and
industriously followed by ancient writ
ers, thinkers and dreamers, the heading
of this mote" will be an enigma.
Without further speculation, however,
and following the desire which should
always be uppermost in every writer's
mind-that Of at once getting the sub
ject itself before the reader-I will say
that there was time, centuries since,
Of course, when the learned men of the
world really taught that the world was
square, not merely flat, but that il
was cube The primitive geographers
of Egypt, Assyria and China all taught
that the world was ''square plane"
evidence Of which may be found on
thousands Of ancient monuments in the
countries mentioned, as we'll as in their
ancient manuscripts, upon their in
scribed tablets Of clay and other early
literary remains.
One of the most curious discoveries
ever made in Central America concern
ing Toltec belief, symbols, etc., is that
they also had a similar idea concerning
the form of what we now speak of as
the "globe.' - A late writer on the dis
coveries made among the monumental
ruins Of that country says, ''They
(meaning the Peruvians, Toltecs and
Quiches) believe the world to be a cube,
suspended from the heavens by cords of
gold fastened to each Of its corners. -
Exchange.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-08-15
A Comparison In Years,

How strange our ideas of growing old
change as we get on in life! To the girl
in her teens the ripper maiden Of rs
seems quite aged. Twenty two thinks
IS an "old thing" Thirty-fve breads
40, but congratulates herself that there
may still remain some ground to be pos
sessed in the Is years before the half
century shall be attained.
But so does not by any means give
up the battle of life It feels middle
aged and vigorous and thinks old age
is a long way in the future. Sixty re-
members those who have done great
things at threescore, and one doubts il.
Parr, when he was married at 100, had
at all begun to feel himself an old
man. London Tit Bits.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-08-15
ORDERS VERSUS scRUPLEs.
a Soldier Punished For Refusing to Prac-
tice Target Shooting on Sunday.

a Soldier Punished For Refusing to Rrac-
tioe Target Shooting on Sunday.
Charles Q. Cedarquist, private, Com
pany a, Second infantry, stationed at
Omaha, has been found guilty Of dis
obeying his superior officer in refusing
because Of religious scruples to attend
target practice on Sunday and sentenced
to be confined at hard labor for a period
Of six months and to forfeit to the Unit
ed States SO per month Of his pay for
the same period. This is the first time
such a case has arisen in the annals Of
the army, and the decision and finding
Of the court martial established prec-
edent for future cases of a similar ma
ture The case has attracted great
deal Of attention in army and religious
circles. =
The defense was practically limited
to the contention that the order, in re-
spect Of which disobedience was charg-
ed, was an unlawful one in that-frst,
it enjoined duty to be performed on
Sunday in violation Of orders and regu-
lations limiting Sunday labor in the
army to the measure of strict necessity,
and, second, that the act required to be
done would have been violation of
section 241 of the criminal code of Ne
braska. The decision says:
''That a commanding officer has dis
cretion under existing orders to require
target practice by his command on Sun
day in case Of necessity is undoubted.
The evidence in this case fails to fix up
ON the commanding officer any abuse of
discretion in the issue Of the order COM
planned Of by the accused. The legality
of that order and the obligation Of the
accused to obey it when duly transmit
ted to him cannot be questioned. twas
not for him to judge Of the necessity for
the issuance of the order. The discre-
ton pertained to his commanding Off
Ger as to whether one existed, and,
whether enormously or not, it was the
duty Of the accused to obey. It is conced-
ed that soldiers stationed at Belleview
rife range, Nebraska, who, as individ-
uals, engage in hunting and shooting
on Sunday, would be within the provi-
sions Of the sections referred to and liza
bic to its penalties, but after careful
consideration the reviewing authority
is Of the opinion that the state could
not make, nor has it by this section or
any other legislation to which his at
tention has been called, attempted to
make the performance on Sunday of
target practice or any other duty per-
tanning to the instruction and discipline
Of the army a criminal offense. - =
The occasion is deemed opportune for
inviting the attention of the depart
ment to the fact that the obligations of
military service will never permit sol
der to refuse obedience to an order be-
cause in his judgment it is unneces-
sary.-S@. Louis Globe Democrat.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-08-15
They Have It In Atlanta.

Atlanta is quick to catch on to all the
latest curves. It was announced not
long ago that the milkmen of London
in order to alleviate all suspicion Of
adulterated milk drove their herd of
mixers through the streets and extract
ed the tactical fluid in front Of the resi-
dences Of their customers. An Atlanta
milkman has started in the footsteps of
the Londoners. Every morning soon aft
er daybreak milkman may be seen
moving along Pulliam street with a
herd of five fine mixers, stopping here
and there in front of the residences long
enough to milk one Of the cows. The
cows are well drilled and have learned
the home of every customer. The sight
is a unique one, and it serves to illus
trate the statement that Atlanta is keep
ing pace. Atlanta Constitution.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-08-15
TATTOO THE WEDDING RING.
a British Social Reformer Suggests Brand
ing Both Bride and Groom.

4 British Social Reformer Suggests Brand
ing Both Bride and Groom.
DEAR SIR wish in all earnestness to
make known a suggestion that would
save many a broken heart among the
sensitive and many a breach Of promise
case among the mercantile, and would
considerably tighten the labors of the
police courts and law courts. Ny sug-
gestion is that every married man and
every married woman should have a cir
Gle tattooed around the third finger Of
the left hand in place of or as well as
the wedding ring. This would be a sign
that could never be taken off or efaced
and would therefore leave lesser mar
gin for the treacheries and tricks of ,biga-
mists and other great and small ofenses
against law, society and individuals.
To make this proposition practical and
distinctive, of course certain rules would
have to be made. For instance, any I'M
married man or woman tattooing their
third finger to be heavily fined. Every
widow and widower to add distin-
gushing mark to their ring. Every
married man or woman disunited BY
law W udV0 o. UdI VI eIdSuIo ACROSS GQG1T
wedding ring, and those who marry two
Or three times to add the extra circles
accordingly. - --
The operation of tattooing could with
all reverence be performed by an ex-
pert in the vestry after the church serv-
ice, or at the registrars Office for those
who only go through the civil ceremony.
This tattooing may seem a return to
barbarism, but our much Wanted civ.
ilizatiom has introduced such numerous
aids to deceit that safeguard and a
warning, such as tattooed wedding
ring, would become practical prevent
i've of much sham, folly and wrong.
Only those who have sympathy for un-
lawful liberty will demur against the
idea being realized. shall be pleased
to hear from all who approve of my
scheme and are willing to assist in form
ing a society to influence others in bring
ing about q custom that would help to
insure peace, respect and happiness to
many homes and hearts. Yours faith
fully, B. T. KNoLLYs.
Letter to Pail Mall Gazette. y
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-08-15

*'Show me an UMBRELLA says a manu-
facturer, THAT has holes worn in the silk
about the ring at the top, while the body
of the material is still intact throughout,
and will show you the owner of an UNI
brella who doesn't deserve to own one,
if It is good one. And show me an um-
brella that has holes in along the ribs be-
fore natural use of it should make them
come there, and will show you an own
er who carries his umbrella more for the
sake Of appearance than for utility"
A wet umbrella placed handle down
drips the moisture from it at the edges
Of the frame, and the material with which
it is covered dries evenly and leaves no
spot still soaked with water. If the
handle is upward, the water runs down
to one spot at the top, where the strong
cloth lining about the ring holds good
deal of it and in comparatively short
time rots the material, and it breaks
easily.
The man who carries his umbrella
swathed in it's case when it is not called
into use by rain will soon find it wearing
out from top to bottom.
This is because Of constant friction be-
tween the case and the silk, and no mat
ter of how good, quality it may be the
holes will appear in it long before they
should. and the provider of the umbrella
will of course be blamed for selling in
ferior Ior damaged goods. There are
many people so ignorant Of the proper
treatment Of an umbrella that they will
actually roll it up when wet and leave
it to rot and mold until the next time
they want it for use.-New ork World
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-08-15
RAW BEEF FOR WRINKLES.
"A Girl Who Used 1t Lost Her Lover, bu
Didn't Give Back His Presents.

Didn't Give Back His Presents.
Joseph Slavinski, tailor of Browns,
vile, Brooklyn, was to have been mar
ried to Rosa Marks, neighbor, with
whom he had kept company for nearly
year, in about a month. Rosa is
known all over Brownsville for her good
looks and had many admirers before
she met Slavinski. One day last week
Slavinski received an anonymous letter
saying his afianced was in the habit
Of using raw beef to beautify her face,
and that she used paint to blacken her
eyelashes. Slavinski made an investi-
cation and is alleged to have discovered
that the girl had wrinkles in her face
and for long time had used raw beef
to take them away.
Slavinski wrote to Rosa breaking off
the engagement and requesting her to
return diamond ring and silk UNI
brella which he had given her. She re-
fused, and Slavinski had her in the Sec
ond district civil court in Broadway,
Williamsburg, on summons to explain
why she refused to return the articles.
When Justice Peterson was told that
raw beef had caused the engagement to
be broken, he said to the girl:
eff you have used raw beef on your
face, it's had good effect, for it undoubt-
eddy has drawn out some hidden beau
ty."
The justice added that as long as Sla-
vinski had given the ring and the UNI
brella to Rosa they were her property.
New York Dispatch.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-08-15
No Onense.

A boy was once brought before old
Steady" Baker, the mayor of Folkestone,
for stealing gooseberries. Baker turned
over Burns {. Justice" but not being able
to find the article he wanted in the book,
which is alphabetically arranged. he lift
ed up his spectacles and addressed the
culprit thus: $ Ny lad, it's very lucky for
You that, instead of stealing gooseber-
ries, you were not brought here for steal
ing a goose. There is statute against
stealing geese, but can't find anything
about gooseberries in all Burn, SO let the
prisoner be discharged, for I suppose it is
no offense. ." San Francisco Argonaut.