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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10

Skating expeditions Of great length
are not unusual features of the winter
In Holland. A popular feat is to visit
in one day the eleven towns of Fries
land, an aggregate distance of eighty
miles. 1t is necessary to have good ice,
practically clear of snow, q full moon,
bright sky and plenty Of previous prac-
tice. w. ]. H. Muller, of Haarlem,
accomplished this journey q few win
tiers ago in thirteen hours, of which
one hour and fifty-five minutes were
consumed in resting and nourishing.
Another remarkable feat is to skate
from The Hague to Leenwarden in
Holland. Its distinctive claim to no
toriety is due to the necessity of cross
ing the Zuyder Zee, which is only pos
sible after an exceptionally severe
frost. tits on record that one Reindert
Renders delivered in one day, during
the winter of 1864, a letter from
William Nv. to his mother at The
Hague and returned. The distance is
vaguely described by the phlegmatic
natives as q ''forty-hour walk" W..
koopmans made q similar journey more
recently with important state papers
in fifteen hours.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
FACTORIES FOR DOG FEED.
Place Where sustenance for Aris:ocrstic
CANNES IL Manufactured Wholesale.


One Of the two factories in this coun-
try for the making Of patent food and
patent medicine for dogs has been de-
scribed in the New York News. The
founder OF this establishment was
Scotchman. liewas employed in Lon
don kennels. studied the needs of
dogs. thought out special treatment
for them and finally took out patents
on foods and medicines. and in this
unique business amassed a fortune.
On the ground floor the visitor enters
the receiving room OF the raw materi-
ais. Thousands of pounds of butch
ers' scraps are brought here in the
course of a month. Oatmeal in whole
sale quantities and tons of herbs are
used The old-fashioned dogs bane,
boneset, catnip and beef-root, under
various scientific names, find use as
food or as medicine. The second floor
is occupied by four curious machines,
with great cylinder attachments. AZ
ter the fat and meat have been sorted
they are ground separately in these
machines and then placed in great
wooden tubs where various mixtures
are added.
The next process seems so much like
the ordinary bakers work that one is
quite disposed to taste things, and
when the round and square cakes of q
tempting brown have been taken from
the brick ovens one really envies the
aristocratie dog. After cooling, the bis
cults are packed in neat pasteboard
boxes. According to size these boxes
are labeled for pet dogs, for grey
hounds and st. Demands. There are
especially prepared dishes for cats.
Sufficient food to keep pussy for two
days may be had for FIVE cents. But it
costs a pretty penny to keep dog. A
large dog must have six or eight cakes,
besides quantity Of meat. The meat
costs probably about ten cents and the
cakes are four cents apiece. The most
interesting department is that Of the
patent machines, at the top of the
building. The mixtures of herbs and
chemicals are boiled in great kettles,
and the liquid is brought up to this
floor to be put in bottles OF various
sizes and labeled ''cure for mango"
Eminent for sprains," and to pre-
vent badness" Sure cures for seven
teen diseases, and pills as we'll as liquid
medicines, are made. This curious es-
tablishment also makes dog-collars,
dog soaps. crates for carrying or ship
ping dogs. dog brushes and combs,
blankets and macintosh waterproofs,
with hoods, for greyhounds.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
Tho Thirteen supersti ton.

. It is said this strange superstition
extends away back to the time of King
Arthur. When the good British king
founded the famous Round Table, he
requested Merlin, the enchanter; to ar
range the seats. Merlin arranged one
set to represent the apostles; twelve
were for the faithful adhcrents of Jesus
Christ and the thirteenth for the traitor
Judas. The first were never occupied
save by the knights distinguished for
their achievements, and when q death
occurred among them the seat remained
vacant until knight, surprising him
in heroic and war-likc attachments,
should be considered worthy to fill the
place. If an unworthy knight sought
the vacant chair he was repealed by
some magic power. The thirteenth
seat was never occupied but once. TIL
story goes that naughty and insolent
Saracen knight sat down upon it and
was Immediately swallowed up by the
earth. Ever after it was known as the
''perilous seat" and, brave as the cele-
brated knights Of the Round Table are
said to have been, not one ever had the
courage to sit on the thirteenth chair,
and the superstition against it still sur
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10

were spread and the hig ship was
waited away. The boys and sailors all
felt very sorry for the disappointment
the birds would meet that evening
when they returned and found the
ship had sailed. But before night,
when the land like a tiny green speck
faded from sight in the twilight. there
was suddenly a iiutter in the rigging
and the missing birds dropped down
and entered their cage. The hearts of
all the homeward bound ships com
pany rejoiced. Upon their arrival in
Brooklyn the pigeons showed them
selves as much at home in the air
around the great bridge and over New
York city a, al any foreign port.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
eULLeT-paOOF BREASTPLATk
The Invention of German Tailor to
Protect Soldiers.

Protect Soldiers.
Projectile makers in recent years
have expended much money, time and
ingenuity in increasing the efficiency
of the various missiles that come with
in scope of their endeavors, and they
have undoubtedly achieved some Won
derful results. But of what use is it
all? No sooner is the projectile i'm
proved to the extent of demolishing
the likeliest object OF its attack than
some counter Improvement is made to
defeat the improved projectile. Armor
plate is made too strong to be pene-
trated by missiles of the greatest
known penetration, and then missiles
are made to penetrate the armor, and
stronger armor has to be made. So the
inventors in the two lines keep playing
seesaw with one another now one up
and now the other, until it seems as il
their rival efforts must produce about
the same result as if neither had ever
begun. and as if the best way to end it
all was to mutually agree to do moth
ing.
Here is a German tailor in Mann
helm, for instance, says the London
News, who had apparently defeated
the lately gained and much Landed in
creased penetrating power OF the Ger
man rifle ball. He has invented or dis
covered some substance which resists
bullets in way that greatly astonishes
military men, and the army magnates
are after his secret. Military commits.
sions have made numerous tests and
declared the results most satisfactory.
The inventor has made the material
into a sort of cuirass or breastplate in
tended to be fastened to the uniform at
the shoulders and the thighs and
weighing only six pounds. The sur
face of the breastplate is Of ordinary
military cloth, and the resisting sub
stance is put underneath. OF course il
leaves the head, arms and legs ex
posed At one of the tests a life size
dummy figure of a soldier was dressed
to be fred at. Not one of the bullets
that struck the figure went through
the material. They were found i'm
bedded in the coat, all of them fat
tened by the resistance offered. In or
der to find the probable effect Of thu
bullets upon human body the DUNN!
was covered with soft material unde
the breastplate, and the effect upon i
was but a slight depression, less thai
tenth of an inch beneath where tn
bullet struck. 1t seems likely, there
fore. that soldier wearing the armo
would suffer some pain on being strucl
by a bullet, and at a short distance
might even be rendered insensible, bu
it is thought he could not be seriousl.
I'M ured
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
SHE GAVE HIM THE GRIP.
And Thereby Caused . Commotion In the
Theator.

Tn6ot0fs
At the theater one night two gentle
men sat in the front row, next to the
orchestra. Directly behind them sat q
gentleman and his wife. A few mo-
ments before the curtain went up one
Of the gentlemen in the front row put
his arm on the back of his companions
seat,
While talking to his friend he felt q
slight pinch Oh the arm. On looking
around he saw that the lady behind
him had turned to look up to the bal
cony, and in SO doing had placed her
hand ON his arm. Realizing that she
had done SO uncOnsciously, he did not
move his arm, says the Rochester
Union-Advertiser.
Soon, however, he felt hard pinch.
Thinking that the best way to call the
lady's attention to what she was doing
would be to ask if anything was
wanted, the gentleman turned and
asked:
'What is it, madam"
"Sir?" said the lady, and immediate
1y the husband blazed up.
"What do you mean by speaking ia
my wife?" he demanded.
Don't mean anything" was the re-
ply, "but l would like to know wha,
your wife means by pinching my arm?'
Then both men looked at the lady,
hand, which still rested on the arm
Both smiled, became q little nervoul
and apologized. During the rest o.
the performance the lady kept hel
hand in her muff.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10

A fall, as q rule, Injuries q drunken
man much less than a sober one, be-
cause the controlling power of the
mind being rendered nil through intox-
ication, the body falls as an inert mass,
and thus the chances of injury are less
ened, for, strange though it may ap-
pear, it is no less a fact that the most
numerous cases of injury arising from
q fall are caused by the effort, volun-
tary or otherwise, to avert the conse.
quences, thus straining the muscles
and tendons. Very rarely are injuri-
GUS effects from a fall known in q luna
tic asylum, for the same simple reason
the mind has no influence over the
action Of the body. And it is a re-
markable and well-known fact to those
who have to deal with such cases, adds
the Boston Herald, that whatever in.
juries are SO caused heal much more
rapidly than in the case of sane peo-
pie, the mind having more to do with
retarding or assisting natures efforts
than is generally known or realized.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
CALLING UP TRAVELLERS.

A Brace Of Odd Experiences in Western
Village Towns.
Every travelling man has had his ex-
perience with the intelligent bell boy
who "calls" for the early train.
II was pounding my ear pretty live
ly one night in Texarkana hotel"
said Texas man to a st. Louis Globe
Democrat reporter, when q big
humping on my door brought me up
sitting in bed.
"'What is it?' asked.
J "'Boss" said the darby, is you de
man what wants to go on de two
o'clock train to Big Sandy?'
II had left no cali and made that
darby understand so in few short
words. He tackled the next door, and
heard him ask again:
to 60 on de two o'clock train to Big
Sandy?"
"The answer was terrific. The
darby was awed. For about five min
utes he was still, rs if absorbed in
thought. Then l heard him say to
himself in an argumentative tone:
Oars some 'un in dis hall who
wants to go on de two o'clock train to
Big Sandy. l dun forgot de number ,
He went down the line repeating
the performance at seven doors before
he reached the man who wanted to 20
ON de two o'clock train to Big
Sandy"
An Illinois man thought he could
parallel this evidence of sagacity. He
said:
~ stopped one night in the hotel at
Shawneetown, and left a sure CALI
for the boat which was expected along
about four q. IN. / went to bed and
slept peacefully until the racket at
the door aroused me.
"'All right l said.
'Mr. Jones! Mr.. Jonesv sang out
the darby. You wanted to catch de
Padooky boat? Well, dey amt no use
O. you getting up. De boats done
gone, sah.'"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
A Civilized Gorilla.

At the aquarium in Berlin there is q
big gorilla whose habits are about as
correct rs those of the most of his dis
tant relatives. He gets up at eight in
the morning, takes a bath, and uses
soap without hesitation. When his
toilet is completed he takes q cup of
milk, after which he eats two loaves
OF bread with Frankfurt saussges and
smoked Hamburg beef, all of which he
moistens with a glass of weiss beer.
At one p. m. he takes q bowl of SOUP.
with rice and potatoes, and a wing Of
. chicken. He uses his knife and fork
and his napkin; but when he thinks
that his keepers are not observing him
he discards the impedipents Of civil.
zation and plunges his muzzle into the
bowl, as if to give evidence Of the mel.
sncholy fact that even . gorilla can be
. hog. --- -
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
ARITHMETIC LOSING GROUND.
The Principal of a school Notes Change
I'm Fayorite Studies.


These facts about the decline OF
arithmetic as an educator were gath
cred from the principal of one of the
Detroit public schools by writer for
the Free Press. What he says applies
only to the Detroit schools, though it
would seem that the failure of what
was ten years ago regarded as the
most important grammar school study
might not be confined to the city
limits Of the place named. In the lat
ter part of the '70s, and well along in
the sos, he says, the pupil who was
quickest and surest in arithme-
tic was also the quickest and
surest to gain the esteem and
influence of the teacher He
might be an ignoramous in geography,
an undecipherable penman, slow to
perceive the principle of grammar,
and a miserable speller. but if he
grasped the point and pith of a catch
problem in decimals or in fractions,
his future promotion to 4 higher class
was assured. But a change. gradual
and sure, has been going on in the cur
riculum of the common school. The
arithmetical despot has taken seat
in the rear, while the young fellow
who seeks after real information in
the form of history of lands. peoples
and government, correct spelling and
speech now sits on front bench. The
human mind is unsettled in it's youth
full stage. 1t requires training. and
the school exists only for this purpose.
Arithmetic was once supposed to be
the best form of Undertaking. 1t
brought into full play the powers Of
reason, and was placed first in impor-
lance. But experience proved that
while the reason was to a certain ex-
tent exercised the memory was neg
lected. Again, the longest time and
hardest work were devoted to arithme-
tic. and the other studies were disre.
garded. With all of these concessions
the arithmetic lesson was not more
than half learned. To-day the pupil
delves deeper into the more intellectual
researches of civil government, gram
mar, geography and reading. He can
tell you now something about the des-
TIMES of government and people that
hinge about n presidential election.
He takes an interest not only in the
doings Of Mayor Pingree in Detroit,
but of Mr.. Cleveland at Washington,
Mr.. Gladstone in England, Senior Cas-
telar in Spain, Premier Crispi in Italy,
and the young emperor in Germany.
He knows all about the late Hawaiian
incident, and with delightful accuracy
describes to you the location and inn
portance of the islands, their climate,
people and government. He has begun
to read the standard authors, and with
assurance that is attractive, because
an evidence Of bright mind, he COM
pares Thackeray. Scott and Dickens,
and tells you where this one leads and
the other lacks. =. 49,.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
PIGEONS ON BOARD SHIP.
Carried Out of Sight Of Land. They 500,
Become Tame Pets.

Become Tame Pets.
On the return of the training ship
Portsmouth to the Brooklyn navy
yard from voyage to the Mediter-
ranean she had a large number of
pigeons aboard. The birds were of the
common variety and lived in coop on
the hurricane deck near the forecastle.
The boys had procured them at some
port while the vessel was still cruising
about. One day at sea, when all traces
Of land were lost, the birds were re-
leased from their prison. The crew
gathered on deck to see what they
would do. Some thought they would
not leave the ship; others expected to
see them take their bearings and then,
like carrier pigeons, fly landward. All
were mistaken, says the Youths Com
panion, for after joyous sail over the
blue ocean they returned to their cage
and settled down to everyday life.
They became tame at once and fond Of
the sea men and boys, who fed them
from their hands. They constantly
fitted about the decks, at times even
causing annoyance by walking about
the gangway under the busy sailors
feet. AT other times they would perch
In the rigging seemingly content with
their nautical lives. In port they would
fly ashore, but always returned at
night to rOost in their coop. When at
last the orders were given to hoist an
chors for home many Of the pigeons
we're out on their dailv fv. The sails
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
CURE OF SEAsIcKNESS.
Many Things May Palliate the Miser,
But There Is No Pansces.

Many Things May Palliate the Misery.
But There Is No Panscea.
Most Of those who have experienced
the miseries of seasickness, however
they might differ in minor details Of
statement, would agree in ascribing
this most dispiriting malady to one
main cause.-the motion of the ship. In
20 far the whole medical faculty would
concur in their decision. This, then, is
the central fact which confers upon
the disorder its unique position. 1t il
really not pathological, but q physio-
logical disturbance, concludes the Lon
don Lancet.
1t has no natural connection with
dyspepsia. The robust and healthy, by
| . strange contradiction, suffer from it
for the time hardly less than the weak
and ill. Its variations of intensity are
felt to be counterparts Of mere bodily
oscillation. Some find relief from it in
change of posture, others in active occu-
patton, all more or less when their
storm tossed vessel sails under the lee
Of land. Custom and use commonly
secure immunity. These are circum,
stances which one and all point to
mechanical causation as q source of the
discomfort.
1t is the unaccustOmed rise and fall,
the jerk and relaxation of loosely at
tached abdominal viscera, mainly, per-
haps, but not alone, of the stomach,
acting upon the central connections,
which must bear the brunt of accusa-
ton. 1t follows that successful treat.
ment cannot be guaranteed by any one
method or panacea. Redundancy, pure
deck or, moderately firm bandaging Of
the body are all useful. Drugs have
their place and their partial utility;
but, as we have already suggested,
there is no remedy equal to lee shore.
Nothing can be much more depress-
ing than seasickness, and for this reason
we should strongly advise all weak
persons not to encounter, if possible.
the risk of its occurrence. It is aston
ishing how soon and how completely
those who are favored with q fair
measure Of constitutional elasticity re-
cover from its depression. In their case
the benefits of a sea trip may thus,
with compensations Of air, diet and
appetite, be even enhanced by few
hours Of mechanical nausea It is, in
truth, for such persons only that tour
Of this kind are advisable.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
>1T7I61I
I \

MAKES ITSELF FELT
the great, gripping, old-fash-
toned pill. Not only when
you take it, but unpleasant,
from first to last, and it only
does a little temporary good.
The things to take its place
are DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pei
lets. One of these at a dose
will regulate the whole system
perfectly. They're tiny, sugar
coated granules, scarcely
larger than mustard seeds.
They act in Natures own
way. No reaction afterward.
Their help lasts and they do
permanent good. Constipa-
ton, Indigestion, Bilious At
tacks, Sick or Bilious Head
aches, and all arrangements
of the liver, stomach, and
bowels are prevented, re-
lieved, and cured.
They're the cheapest, for
they're guaranteed to give
satisfaction or money is re.
turned. Nothing can be "just
as good"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
Story About tho Psnsy.

A pretty fable about q pansy is cur
rent among French and German chill
dren. The flower has five petals and
five sepals. In'mostpansies, especially of
the earlier and less highly developed
varieties, two of the petals are plain in
color and three are gay. The two plain
petals have q single sepal each, and the
third, which is the largest of all, has
two sepals. The fable is that the pansy
represents . family, consisting of hus.
band. wife and four daughters, two Of
the latter being stepchildren of the
wife. The plain petals are the step
children, with only one chair; the two
small gay petals are the daughters with
q chair each, and the large gay petal is
the wife with two chairs. To find the
father one must strip away the petals
until the stamens and pistils are bare.
They have fanciful resemblance to an
old man with a flannel wrap about his
neck, his shoulders appraised and his
feet in q bathtub. The story is probably
Of French origin because the French
call the pansy the stepmother.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-08-10
MAKING OLEO.
How Uncle Sam Watches 1t and How 1t
Ia Made.

How Uncle Sam Watches 1t and How 1t
Is Made.
Hidden away in dark and cobwebby
corner beneath the roof of the treasury
at Washington is a room filed with
mysterious assemblage of queer-look-
ing apparatus which has the aspect of
an alchemist's laboratory. Yet the
work done there has to do not with the
making of gold or vital elixir, but
with the analysis of food and drink,
says the Kansas City Journal. It is
the chemical division of the internal
revenue bureau, and one of the mat
tiers it has in charge is the detection
of fraud in the sale of oleomargarine
for butter.
1t seems startling to learn that the
consumption of oleomargarine in this
country has doubled in the last five
years. The people of the United States
eat four million pounds of it every
annually. Nearly all of it is put up by
the great meat packers of Chicago,
Cincinnati. New York, Providence and
Kansas City. The manufacture of it
is lawful, but it is not permitted to
masquerade as butter in the market.
Suspected samples are pounced upon
by revenue agents and submitted to
chemical tests.
Three-fourths of the hotels and
nearly all of the restaurants and
boardinghouses in the United States
use oleomargarine. For their purposes
this artificial product is excellently
adapted. Whereas butter quickly
spoils, oleomargarine always looks
nice and remains fresh indefinitely.
Some of it which has been kept at the
treasury for three years is as good as
ever to-day. 1t is better in flavor
than any except first-rate butter. PEG.
pie who buy rancid butter for cooking
would do much better to purchase cleo
margarine. The best of the latter is
not cheap, costing as much as twenty
five cents a pound, thus approaching
ordinary grades of butter in price.
The peculiar flavor of butter is due
to the presence of forty-five per cent
of fatty acid. These acids are volatile
and rapidly decompose, hence the
rapidity with the substance spoils.
Oleomargarine contains very little OF
such destructfble material. It is made
from beef fat, which is removed from
the animal in the process of slaughter
ing, washed and placed in cold-wstel
bath. Next the fat is cut into small
pieces by machine and cooked until
the liquid portion has separated from
the tissues.
The liquid fat is settled until per.
fectly clear. Then it is pressed to ex
tract the stearine, leaving a pure
''oleo OIL" which, churned together
with milk and butter. becomes cleo
margarine. The fat being almost
tasteless, butter is put in to give the
requisite favor, the best oleomargarine
having twenty per cent. of the fines,
butter