The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-16


still falling.
Perhaps one OF the best signs OK the
times is the gradual death of the practice
of would-be funny people sending these
scurriious colored valentines.
FOsTsCRIrTs.
Bsyard has not. but is resigned-to re-
naming In London till his term IL out.
II Nansen reached the pole. he can prove
II only by bringing q part OF 1t back with
him.
From the affinity Grover has for the
Chesapeake bay marshes. he must Be =
reed man.
The longer Cleveland stays In once the
less reason has he to say, Save me from
my friends"
The only complaint the new Northern
Pacific receivers have TO make is that they
do not receive.
If the prizef1ght Is called or 1t VIM prob
ably be because Maher got sand instead OF
fists In his eyes.
Judging from the amount OF talk in con-
gress last week silver 10 really the "sound'
money of the country.
Gen. ]. B. Weaver has sent q congratu-
iatory letter to Tillman, and yet some pa
pers insist that Tillman is not a Popuiist.
Cleveland occupies a peculiar position.
He was the first Democratic president In
twenty-four years. and probably the last.
The cost per plate for the loving cup
dinner recently given in New York to Rich
ard Croker was $40. What q thirst Tam
many has.
The senate Is a-ailng
In the throat, throat, throat
And It's awful hard to bring Il
To a vote. vote. vote.
The new German ambassador has only
one thing to overcome. He pronounces
his name You'll. while the Germans will
pronounce Ii Dol.
Now Morrison will take II.
II they ask him: yes. he VII.
But II must be understood. SIR,
That he Is no silver Bill.
You see a great many handsome bicycle
pictures in the magazines. but just wait
until this new photography shows some
OF the wheels in peoples heads.
Friend weyler has come here to knl
The Cuhans who have sinned.
And all the indications are
His campaign will be wind.
A correspondent in Kentucky writes
that blood will flow like water before the
senatorial fight is settled. The Kentuc-
kians don't know what he means.
The Kansas City Journal suggests that
the only way to quiet the sultan Is 10 send
the new poet laureate to Constantinople,
and thus meet atrocity with atrocity.
They may photograph our vitals.
Or by rays find what we've stole:
But they never can convince us
That Doc. Nansen's reached the pole.
A dispatch announces that Is barrels of
beer were consumed at a wedding In Pitts
burg recently and only one person was
killed. What capacity he must have
had.
They are settling the Armenian question
In about the same way as they settled the
buffalo question. The reason they have
let up on massacres is that there is no
game.
Sousa has recently defined classical nlu-
sic, and he evidently does not agree with
Puck. which says that classical music is
the kind you have TO Ike whether you
like IL or not.
They say that Schlatter, the healer. has
died OF exposure IN the mountains OF Nav
Mexico III so, Il is because OF the fact that
when the command came 70 heal thy
SELF he had to draw the line.
A deliver into antiquities has found out
that the term bowling swell was orig
inally given TO the first dude. who. while
counting. was kicked out OF doors by an
irate father at l IN the morning.
An Eastern paper dominates william L.
Wilson for president because he IS a clean
man" II this is so. II Is evident he can
never be In sympathy with the great mass
of his party. so far as cleanliness Is con-
cerned.
There IL quite n dispute IN the East-as
20 who IL the bigger individual. the mar
riei man who is always telling what his
baby says or the unmarried man who Is
always telling what fine Welsh rarehits
he can make IN a cha1nE dish.