The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-03
RIPTs.

II Is no longer Il want to be an angel"
bat want 10 DC receiver.
They can turn the pugilists down, but
they can't shut OF the gas.
From the way the KafHr boom holds out
Il must be made CT Puget sound tir.
Mayor Pingree. Of Detroit, may not be
thing OF shreds. but he is OF patches
The advice Of the United States attorney
general that meetings in sympathy OF
Cuba are out OF place does not sound much
Ike harmony.
From the way Lord Sackvlle is being
snuboed, il becomes evident that he, like
his recent pamphlet, VIII be for private
circulation only.
One difference between the governors Of
Texas and Arkansas and Corbett and Fitz-
simmons is that when tn governors talk
they mean what they say.
A man with his hat Knocked in is an OBJ
ject Of r.dicule, but the more extraordin-
airy shapes You can punch woman hat
into the more fashionable it is.
David r. Hill does not say 81 am a
Democrat any more, probably because he
what Democrat is nowadays.
With water at such low mark IN ST.
Louis IL would be more appropriate for
that city to ask for the Democratic rather
than the Republican convention.
They are accusing Secretary Olney Of
negiectlng his official duties in order TO
play tennis, but the chances are he is do
Ing IL TO give somebody the deuce.
II never before. the breaking UP IN
China was brought to the particular at
tention OF the housewives of the Middle
West during the recent earthquake.
The Duke of Marlborough is three inches
shorter than his fiancee, but this is not
strange. because If he hadn't been a little
s-Ort he would not have proposed to her.
The speculative gambling instinct IS not
unusually strong on Puget sound, and vet
more people here probably take a FLYER
than in most any other part OF the coun-
try.
There is proof now that the people OF
Brooklyn are not onto the eternal fitness
Of things, for man by the name of Lush
has been put at the head of the Prohibition
ticket.
she soldier VIII be thirty ounces to one man,
with prospects OF making II stu lighter.
Probably the soldier would not object TO
IS to /.
Tnasmuch as the sale Of Philadelphia
bonds in that city In small amounts did
not affect any Of the banks. it is very pro-
bable there was quite run on the old
stockings.
No sooner do we get over the shock of
parting with s12o0oo 0o for the benefit Of
the Duke of Marlborough than Paderewski
comes along 10 gather up what small
change we have left.
It is said that few days ago there was
stacked up on the comptroller's desk
great pile of kilograms from Tacoma ask
ing for the rece!vership Of the bank that
recently closed it's doors. It is to be hoped
that the stack was all read.
The London Post congratulates the New
York papers In maintaining the position
that the American at heart is with Bri-
tain. but the Post evidently doesn't know
that the average New Yorker is five
tenths New Yorker. four-tenths English
man, and one-tenth anti-American.
An Eastern paper saws that the Cleve-
land girls viii be very aesthetic. that their
eyes have been allowed to rest only upon
the choicest works Of art. and as soon as
they could point their tiny fingers were
directed towards Nadonnas and shapely
angels. Their papa in his n.ghtdress pre-
sumably came under the last named head.
The Kansas City Times says San Fran
cisco would be all right as a convention
city If there was no population In the
United States east Of the Mississippi. This
IS true, as IS likewise the fact that San
Francisco would he all right II the people
east Of the Mississippi did not labor under
the hallucination that there Is no popu-
lation west Of that river.
There was a man in our time
Who thought he'd tarius spurn,
And easily expenses meet,
With surplus funds to burn.
But when he cut his duties down,
Receipts began 10 fall,
And soon he found to pay his bills
He had no wherewithal.
He couldn't his expenses meet,
II he'd his life TO save,
And so politically died.
With this marked on his grave:
Deficit"