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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31
RAPID MAIL SERVICE.
Mails to the Speed of 200 Miles
Der Hour.

IL Is Proposed to SExpedtte'- the
Mails to the Speed of 200 Miles
per Hour.
After half-dozen years OF expert
menting A. b. Crell, OF Iona, Mich,
has perfected a model OF postal car
which will attain a speed of 200 miles
an hour, and is designed by the in
ventor to carry mail between the
principal cities of the country. This
car is to he thirty-three feet long and
to run on a still elevated track
eighteen feet above the ground, and it
is estimated that the road will cost
$4,000 mile. The car is provided
with an apparatus for picking up and
throwing off mail, so arranged that it
will work automatically. The model
is provided with thirty-four apart
ments, and carrying out the scale OF
the model the bags to be dropped in
each place will be capable of holding
10000 letters. Under the patentee's
idea power houses can be supplied at
intervals of 200 miles, and the electric
current, sufficient to make the entire
run between New York and Chicago.
may be generated from the waste
power at Niagara Falls. 1t is so ar
ranged that the operator in the CEN
trail electric station will always know
the location of the car. Ex-Postmas-
ter General Bissell, vino has been
shown working model of the device,
has Endorsed it, as have many scien-
fists. Mr.. Crell's model weighs nearly
l 500 pounds. He is to give an exhi-
bition of it on thousand mile track
within the next month.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31

In ''Purchas, His Pilgrimage" rare
old-time book. very few copies of
which are now in existence. the fol-
lowing account is given of the pig
mics" OF Iceland: There are also Pig
miess or very little men and women here
who represent the most perfect shape
of men. but they are hairy to the ut
most joynts of the fingers. the mayles
having boards down to the knees; but,
although they have the shape of man,
yet they have little sense or under
standing. nor distinct speech, but make
a kind of kissing after the manner Of
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31
LAND OF BlG-NOSeD MEN.
Arizona 60 Named Because Of Facial
- I's,uliaritI.

Ii" would for moment suppose.
SAY TIA" - I."Uio Republic. THAI the
~"r'i "AriX"ua. which W. a~~uriatr
with h;tlmy hrrclc~. mu~ir. n.,,"nli.rht
nights and anaIun>. cnuld mean moth
ing more or less than "a great big
nose. The southwestern portion Of
what is now the Emitted States WAS
originally inhabited by a tribe of
natives noted far and wi,i, FOR their
prominent. hcak-likr noses. and. al
though nature had been extremely
lavish in her gifts when She conferred
nasal appcndagrN upon thrN,. queer
ab"rigin"N. they sought to enlarge
those organs 10y piercing the vertical
Septum or cristlc between the nu>trils
and wearing enormous ornaments
therein. One division Of this hir-n
tribe would wear a ri ny hammered
from native gold or silver: another an
ornamentcd she'll. while Il third were
content with sharp stick driven
through the cartilage in such n man
ner as to permit of the ends projecting
several inches To- the side of each nos
tril. To the early Spanish invaders
We're known as 1.-The Big Noses" In
the Spanish language nose" is rariz.
My authority says in that language
You can also express Il diminutivc or an
augunentativc by a termination to the
name word. Thus. narizito would
mean "a little nose" and narizon "a
great big nose" The feminine of
narizon would be narizona. The N"
having been eliminated by usage and
time. we have the name as it stands
to-day-Arizona. In much the same
manner the state of Oregon receives
its name from n tribe of Indians
noted for their enormous ears. They
pierced the auricle and enlarged the
lobe much in the same manner that
the Narizons enlarged their noses. In
the Spanish, ear" is oreja. Now at
tach on. the augmentative to the word
oreja, leaving off the final n from the
word meaning ear, and we have
OREGON. Time. which, like care, will
kill a eat, has changed the j" to ''g"
and given us the word Oregon"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31

Out of population of 10000, 600 In
Prussia only ., 435, s5S persons possess an
income of over 900 marks year, which
is equal to about s225. This fact is
shown by the first years results in the
new income tax in Prussia. Two mil
lion one hundred and eighteen thou
sand nine hundred and sixty-nine pay
income tax on the lowest scale-that is,
on incomes Of between 900 and 5000
marks. Only 1O.96s persons have in
comes of over 10000 marks, or about
$1,000 a year. The highest income de-
clared is 6,760,O0O marks, and from the
locality where it was registered the per-
son is supposed to be Krupp, the gun
MAKER of Essen.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31
ANOTHER IDOL SHATTERED. .
The Iconoclast Deals a Blow at ono oil
Our Most Cherished Beliefs. O.,

The Iconoclast Deals Blow at ono Of
Our Most Cherished Beliefs. a
Countess Guiccioli. Byron's inamorata.
has her reputation for beauty sadly i'm
pugned by the author of Gossip of the
Century" That literary iconoclast
says that several people who had known
the countess told him that she was any,
thing but beautiful. lone assured me, 4"
he says, that her complexion reminded
him Of boiled pork (D and an
other asserted that her figure was alb
solutely shapeless; that she was not
beautiful, and that SO far from possess
ing any grace or elegance of style, she
had the appearance Of short bolster
with a string round its middle Worse
than this, it seems that Guiccioli wad-
died like duck; her feet, which were
as large and fiat as Nine. de Stael's-
immortalized by her enemy, Napoleon,
when he described her as standing on
her grand pied de Staer-aiding in
the suggestion of this simile. AS for
her manners, they were far from re-
fined"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31
Pneumatic Horse Collar.

Horses with sore shoulders will be q
rarity, it is said, when the pneumatic
horse collar comes into general use.
1t has been invented by a Londoner
and is being introduced in the leading
European cities. The patent consists
of the usual leather casing, but in.
stead of being packed with hard
non-yielding substance, the pneu.
matte principle is applied, a rubber
air chamber being substituted for the
packing, this in turn being covered
with leather, and when the collar
proper is inflated flexible and yield
ing surface is presented to the horses
shoulders. 1t must be apparent to
the most casual observer that the col.
lar in present use must cause and give
mans noble companion an immense
amount of pain. Owing to the horse
padding it is impossible for the collar
to adapt itself to the animals shout.
ders, and, therefore, chatting and sun.
dry other ills ensue. With the pneu.
matte collar, as before stated, chatting
is impossible, as, instead OF the horse
having to adapt itself to its collar, the
collar adapts itself to the horse the
moment it ia put on.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31

At Fort Madison, Iowa. reside probs
bly, the Oldest twins in the United State.
Mrs. Elizabeth Grescom Campton and
Mrs. Sophia Ii. Hildebrandt. They were
born in baltimore. January, 1906, and
they are consequently over eighty-four
years OF age. They are very spry old
ladies, and still very skillful at fine nee
die work. Their grandmother, Mrs.
betty Rose, made the first American
Gag.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31

Three bears, one female and two
cubs, have been killed by Indians at
the head OF the middle FORK OF the
Touchet during the past two weeks.
There is large camp of Indians on
that stream above Franklin's place.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31

mon Blotch, or Eruption. to the worst
Scrofula, are cured by it II invigorates
the liver and rouses every organ into
healthful action In the most stubborn
forms of Skin Diseases, such as Salt
rheum. Eczema, letter. Erysipelas, Boils
and kindred ailments, and with Scrofula,
in every shape. and all blood -taints, no
matter from what cause arising it is an
unequaled remedy.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31

The annual Epworth League con.
vention of the Puget Sound confer
ence will be held in Tacoma June Is,
10 and 20,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31

~ - - -" - 80 -
Co. ". Va, writes g!
took scrofuia, aud did
everything that doctors
and others prescribed.
but only got worse.
Several assesses formed
about my neck aud
breast. disharging a
quantity of matter. I
got So weak l could
scarcely walk about the
house. I read all the
medical works l could
get hold of. and. among
the test. read some Of
your works. You de-
scribcd my case. and
recommended Doctor1
Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery with his
nfoo-z.s n~tY.s.s g
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31

I procured some and commenced using them and
soon began to mend. In six months my sores
were all healed up. am forty five years old
and believe l am as stout was in my
life. l used about one dozen bottles of the
Golden Medical Discovery with the Pei
lets. and used nothing else after began using
your medicines"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31
The Worlds Most Famous People,

Kings Queens Statesmen Heroes Actors and distinguished
and in all the ranks of life full description given of each
object of interest and brief biographical sketch of the people
whose portraits embeish this choice volume.
This book will be given free for three cash subscribers
Standard for So with years subscription All sub
this magnificent volume retailing ST. for IS cents in addition to the
price the paper limited number of copies ready delivery
the office of the STANDARD Call and see it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31
. LOOK OUT FOR BREAKERS AHEAD

W hen pimples.
eruptions. boils,
and like manifes-
tations of impure
blood appear. They
wouldn't appear if
your blood were
pure and your sys-
TEN in the right
condition They
show you what you
need "a good blood
purifier; that what
you get when you
take DR.. Pierce 5
Golden Ne dical
Discovery.
II carries health
with it. All Blood,
Skin and Scalp Dis
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31

Recent discoveries have demonstrated that
all the organs OF the body are under the con.
troll Of the nerve centcrs located i'll or near
the base of the BRAIN and that when these are
deranged the organs which I hey supply with
nerve fluid are also deranged When IL Is re-
membcrcd that IA serious injury To the spinal
cord will cause paralysis OF the body below
the injured point, because the nerve force Is
prevented by the injury from reaching tho
paralyzed portion. it will be understood how
the arrangement of the nerve ccntcrS VIII
siu-,. the arrangement Of the various organs
which they supply with nerve force.
Two-thirds of chronic diseases are due to
the imperfect action of the nerve centcrS at
the base OF the brain, not from dcranre-
mcnt primarily originating in the organ IT.
self. The great mistake OF physicians In
organ rather than the nerve ccntcrS which
are the cause of the trouble.
lQt. FRANKLIN MILES. the celebrated spc-
cialist has profoundly studied this subject for
over 20 years, and has made many important
discoveries in connection with IL, chief among
them being the facts contained in the above
statement, and that the ordinary methods OF
treatment are wrong. All headache, dizzi-
ness. dullncsS. confusion, pressure. blues,
mania, melancholy, insanity, epilepsy, st.
tituS dance. etc, are nervous diseases no
matter how caused. The wonderful success OF
Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine is due to the
fact that ii Is based on the foregoing principle.
DIR. MILES RESTORATIVE NERvINE Is sold by
all druggists on a positive guarantee, or sent
direct by DIR. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart,
Ind, on receipt of price. 81 per bottle, SIX
bottles for So express prepaid. IL Contains
neither opiates nor dangerous drugs.
For sale by all druggists.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31
SPLENDID SHEEP IN ENGLAND.
The Finest OF All Are the Dainty and
Pretty-Fsatured south Downs.

The Finest OF All Are the Dainty and
Pretty-Fsatured south Downs
The naturalist who is not too proud
70 know the history of the domesti-
Gated animals which are now as native
to the soil as any of the ancient wild
races could name any district in which
he found himself by glance at the
sheep upon the hills. says the Spectator.
Not even the cattle exhibit such marked
differences as are to be found in the
iocks which century of careful selec-
ton has fitted to thrive best in the
varied soils Of England. The big Lei
cester sheep, with long gray wool and
white faces, are as different from the
"Cotswald's" as Newfoundland from
. white poodle. In the "Cotswolds"
will be found the original of the 'baa-
lamb" of the nursery. These sheep are
tall, with white wool in locks. and with
tufts upon the head and forehead. The
Lincolnshire sheep are more like those
Of Leicester. but heavier in the fleece,
coarser and more fitted for life in the
marshes. They have, perhaps, the
most intelligent faces of any sheep but
the refined South Downs. We noticed
Lincoln eve endeavoring to open a
sack of cakes by putting her foot into
the mouth and drawing out the con-
tents as it lay on the ground in the
next pen. Romney marsh has its own
breed Of sheep, something like the Lin
coins. But of all the focks of England
the South Downs must win the palm.
Their short-clipped and delicate wool is
felted together like moss. The hand
sinks into it with difficulty. The form
Is beautiful and rounded, and though
apparently so finely built, their weight
is great. The close yellow-gray fleece
fits over the head like a cap, disclosing
the face and nose, covered with short
gray hair-not wool. The features are
extremely dainty and the movements of
the mouth,I as the sheep nibbles its
fragrant supper Of trefoil and clover,
resemble those of some delicate foreign
rodent. Their heads are far prettier
than those of deer-almost as refined as
that of the gazelle. These sheep I'M
dergo an elaborate toilet every morn
ing. Clipping them is an art in which
few excel. Their coats are trimmed,
brushed and damped, and pressed fat
with setting board and finally tinted
for the day. The IIampshires, black.
faced and Roman-nosed. are also rouged
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31
AN EXTRAORDINARY HALIBUT.
It Weighed 245 Pounds and Was Speared
by u Fisherman.

A few days ago there was landed at
Stromness, Orkney, halibut of extraor-
binary dimensions, measuring eight
feet ten inches in length and weighing
no less than two hundred and forty
five pounds, says the London Field.
The fish was discovered by two lads
who were engaged in hauling lobster
creels at the back of the Holms, dis
lance of about a mile and half from
Stromness pier 1t was observed on
the sand apparently asleep, and as
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31

1hos f. Cakes, Henry c. Payne Henry C. Rouse, aete'er
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31
SCROFULOUS ASSESSES.

Mrs. BELLE SWEENEY, of Fax Top. MryoSr
Co. ". IA, writes About four years ago
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31

OF the majestic and imposing in Nature; the beautiful and inspiring
in art; the gany scenic eventually historic and skngy descrp
tive; including impressive heroic and famous achieve
which mark human progress and distinguish the nations of the
earth 1t also contains photographs of
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-05-31
MYSTERIES!
The Nervous System the Seat
of Life and Mind. Recent
Wonderful Discoveries.

mystery has ever compared with thai OF
human life. 1t has been the leading subject
If professional Research and study in all ages
But Notwithstanding this fact il is not Eencr-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-30
WOMEN TN FRANCE.

Women are the stronger as well as the
better half of France. They do every
thing but build houses. The best in
spector in the French custom house is a
woman. She is in the TIarve office and
she has a nose that can detect dutiable
goods without opening a lock. She is
naturally amiable and slow to anger,
but woe to the foreigner or c~ountryman
who provokes her Ere. There is no sad
der spectacle in the Republic of France
than the woman shoe polishers, who
doze under the sheds of the markets and
quay, one eye shut and t'other fixed on
the boot box over the way, patiently
waiting for trade. They ask 5 cents and
accept 2 cents for their unworthy work.
At Theirs. the BLACKLIST town in
France, the women sit outside the grinly
little machine shops mating scissors
blades and polishing knife and scissors
handles. The stream that Turns the TO-
600 little mill wheels is blacker than the
Chicago River. and, as the furnaces
never burn without belching. the toll
ers and their devoted lifelong ,appren-
tees are sometimes Malay and some
times Monaghan, but seldom Caucasian
went down to Theirs to teach school for
the Winter. The promise of eighty pu-
pills was q temptation, but on reaching
the colony of s-oot-begrirned and smoke
stained smlthies she found the position
paid s. a month, and the teacher was
expected to Furnish the fuel for the Win
ter~-Exchange.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-30
A CONSISTENT OLD GENTLEMAN

There are so many sham misogynists
about in this affectedly cynical age that
one can hardly help extending a measure
of admiration to the th~oroughness and
consistency of a certain rich old Vienn-
csc bachelor whose death was announced
the other day. In the case of this high
ly eccentric old gentleman, horror and
dread of our unfortunate sex had be-
come a positive mania, for it is re-
corded of him that whenever he went
to a place of public entertainments he
seated himself, leaving those on each
side vacant, SO as to avoid all risk of
being obliged to sit next to a woman!
He even carried this extraordinary craze
beyond the grave, by leaving instruc-
tons that no woman was to be buried
either to the right or left of him, wen
II 1T should be necessary to purchase
three graves in order to insure the car
rying out of his strange behest.
One can not help suspecting that there
must have been some painful romance
in his Life to account for this extraor-
binary attitude of mind. Perhaps the
most curious thing in the whole strange
story IS the statement that this agree
large, bundle of letters, which he had
my family to put me under the yoke of
matrimony." AS he appears to have
been a very wealthy man, this alleged
action on the part of his relatives
seems by no means easy to explain
The LADY.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-30
BOARDING HOUSE THIEF CAUGHT

Mr.. and Mrs. Jacobs live at No. 1o6
Third street, Hoboken, and have a spare
bed room in the house, which they rent
out. The other day William McHugh,
an innocent looking, mild hammered
young man, applied for the room, and his
appearances were so mucn in his favor
that Mrs. Jacobs gave him the room
without ever inauiring into his charac-
ter.
Mr.. Hugh is the Slick. young gentle
man who passed a number of worthless
keeper Hugo Ochs and others. He had
not been in Mrs. Jacobs house more
than a night when he helped himself to
a suit of her husbands clothes and
pawned them in Meyers shop on Wash
ington street. Mrs. Jacobs caused his ar
rest. and Recorder McDonough this
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-30
CRAZED BY BABY'S FATE.
Size Left 1t Sleeping and Found Ii
ead-Cut Her Throat.

NEW YORK, July 80, 1S95.-Mrs. Mary
Rinaldi, a young Italian married wom-
an, about 81 years of age, is in the Hud-
son Street Hospital suffering from an
incised wound of the throat, s~elf-infict-
ed. and hysteria.
About half past eight o'clock this
morning Mrs. Rinaldi left her three
year-old boy Joseph sleeping on the bed
of her apartments on the third floor OF
the tenement, No. 122 Washington street,
while she went out to get some milk
for breakfast. She had been gone bu-
who live in the same tenement came
running up to her and told her that
her little Joe had fallen out of the Win
dow and was killed. Upon hearing this
she ran to the scene and when she saw
her babe lying dead on the flags of the
yard in the rear of the mouse she be-
came hysterical from grief. h stood
over the lifeless body of he: child Tor
a moment, then realizing ta4
happened, hurried to the barber shop of
her husband of what had occurred.
ON entering the shop, without utter
ing a word, she went to the razor case
throat With it before her dumfounded
husband could ivine her purpose. The
mother was removed to the hospital,
where, it was said, her wound was not
dangerous.
From what could be learned from the
excited Italians as to how little Joe fell
from the window, it appears that after
his mother left him in bed as she sup
posed sleeping, he crawled out anu went
over to the window and lost his bal
skull was fractured and death must
nave resulted almost instantly.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-30
CITY NEWS T

The Fourth District Republican Club
will meet tonight at Wilber's Hall, Cam
bridge avenue and Hutton street.
,The Hudson Republican Club held a
short meeting last night at Groeschels
Hall. Beacon and Oakland n
Andrew Seaman, 63 years old, of No.
1874 Hutton street, while walking near
the west end of the Delaware, Lackawan-
IA and Western Railroad, yesterday af-
ternoon. fell and dislocated his shoul-
der. He was removed to the City Hos
pital in the patrol wagon.
The street sweepers made their APP
pearance on Summit avenue this morn
ing.
The Excelsior Club of Hudson County,
composed chiefly of business men, with
hold a meeting at Pohlmann's Hotel,
on the Heights, next Monday night, to
make inal arrangements for their out
ing on Labor Day to Old Point Com
fort.
Trolley car No. 3o5 of the Newark line,
running at a rapid speed, struck a wag-
on driven by Patrick Cunningham, on
Grand street, e johnson venue yes
terday, breaking the springs of the wag-
on, and also the harness. Fortunately
no one was hurt. The horse and wagon
is the property of John Smith, a butcher,
of Grand street and Mill Greek.
Next Friday will be the last day OF
court in the Special Sessions until the
September term of court opens.
The Merry Maids Social hub of the
Heights will hold one of their pleasant
lawn parties this evening at No. sc
Waverly street.