The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-24
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Mr.. and Mrs. whitelaw Reid nave gone
to Phoenix. Ariz.. TO spend the winter.
Jane Cakebread's record is surpassed by
that Of William Onions. who has been
convicted S26 times for drunkenness in
London courts. In his case a small guam
tity OF liquor that would have no effect on
ordinary persons makes him violent and
gets him into trouble and "gaol."
Samuel Staples. a sober citizen of Deer
Isle. in the prohibition state OF Maine.
AYERS that the other day he dug out OF
and sizes. There were green, and striped,
and brown snakes. and they measured
from two and a half inches to eighteen
inches In length
Senator David Il. Hill says he has leased
the mansion on Lafayette squar Wash
ington City. so that he can have more
privacy. and have his social and political
friends visit him without having the usual
accompanying publicity. REGARDING the
rumor that he ~contemplates matrimony,
the senator is very much disturbed, and
denies 1t emphatically.
Microbes lave their uses after all. Prof.
Kiianizin, of Kew, has been experiment.
ing or small animals, keeping them in
sterilized air and feeding them on ster-
ilized food. with the result that many died
in a few minutes and all within a few
hours or days. They became rapidly
emaciated and s~ecreted abnormal amounts
OF nitrogen and carbonic acid.
Sir Charles Upper, speaking at New
castle-on-Tyne. defended the policy adopt
ed by Canada in her relations with En-
gland. He contended that Canada's sys-
tenn OF incidental protection resulted in
Immensely Increasing instead of decreas-
ing her trade with Great Britain. En-
gland, he said. was the only country which
in respect 10 trade treated her colonies as
foreigners. and he thought the time had
arrived when this subject should be dealt
with I'm a manner likely 10 prove 10 the
advantage Of both England and her col
onies.
A little less than 30 years ago, when
John Churchill. Earl TAT the time) OF
Marlborough. was confined In the Tower
of Londo for having displeased William
III. a certain Jan Derbildt was serving
elter. as the king OF England was always
called In his own Netherlands. A great
grandson of Corporal Jan Derhildt was
one Of the many sturdy Hollanders who
went in search of work and wealth in the
new world. Somehow his name became
twisted into Vanderbilt" and 1t was the
grandfather Of the American girl re-
Gently married to the Duke of MARI
borough of TODAY who made the first
OF the manv millions OF the Vanderbilt
family of New York.
There is a vessel sailing under the Turk
monks. 1t Is called the Holy Prophet lila
(Eliiah). and is Of about 900 tons burden.
The captain is a J~eromonach. a monk
ranking higher than a friar. and all the
sailors are expert seamen. as well as
monks. or brothers. The pilot. Father
Iraklif Geracliusl. has sailed over all the
oceans. having c.rcumnavigated the globe.
The entire crews speak both Russian and
Greek. and service on the ship a~lternates
with services in the little church in the
connected with the ship Is that Of the
monks IN their religious costumes climbing
up the ~ratltnes and out on the vardarm,
reefing sails and doing other work aloft.