The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-09

states last year was 81, ss5 OF bushels. an
increase OF Ia. 900 GO bushels over 1874. and
OF 172.ee.Go bushels over 1895. Southern
agriculture Is in excellent shape. and
grows In proportion as il Is intellisentiy
diversified. This fact is now so clearly
proved that ii should no longer be neces-
sary TO harp upon II.
II Is said that the interstate commerce
commission Is after the railroads, but that
is no surprise. for that commission, al
though ten years old. has never been any,
where else.
PoSTsCRIPTS.
The only surplus troubling Grover Is one
OF ducks.
The campos downfall seems to have been
followed by an uprising.
1t should be White House tender. ana
not lighthouse tender.
II Is TO be hoped that this pickering over
Yale going to Henley win break Up n .
row.
Probably Dan Stuart wishes II was a.
easy 10 pun OF fight as stranded steam
ship.
This year Il was Harrison. and not Cleve-
land. who prepared for bonds by secret
negotiation
When John Bull tried to hew to the
Schomburgk line he found the chips fell
from Uncle Sans shoulder.
IL the office seeks the man, Morton stands
good show, for he can't run away as fast
as he could forty years ago.
When Dunraven had so much TO say
about the Defenders pig lead. it Is evident
he had the wrong pig by the ear.
With Frye presiding in the senate and
Reed in the house, Ii Is certainly worth
while to look out for the Maine chance.
Tillman slyly styled Carlisle a JUDAS"
perhaps because in the past the latter gen.
tleman was supposed to be friendly to sill
yer.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says that Presi-
dent Kruger has two cousins in Kansas.
One of them must be PETER. He Is first
class bore.
The Democratic convention will meet at
Chicago in the Coliseum. and no doubt II
viii be with all the attractiveness of a
hippodrome.
Sullivan claims to have retired from the
ring. but he has his regular set-to with
John Barleycorn. and as regularly gets
knocked out.
Emperor William is constantly telling
his people to trust in God, but II is notice.
able that as for himself. the army is good
enough to rely on.
II they want TO put to test the new
process for photographing invisible objects.
let them try IL on the splendid Great
Northern depot which was erected here
year or more ago.
Gladstone says the solution of the Ar
menian question rests with the Almighty.
IL he had said with the almighty dollar.
we might expect a British protectorate
over the distracted land.
There is some little rivalry in the Middle
West between the irrigating conventions
and the dairy meetings. There should not
be. for has 1t not been shown time and
again that they go hand in hand?
Josiah Quincys first veto as mayor OF
Boston was against the night lunch stand.
As this is an underhand blow at the baked
bean. 1t is evident Quincy has given up
hopes of political preferment in Massa-
chusetts.
IT is now announced at Yale that the
Bob" Cook stroke VIII have to be changed
so as TO conform TO the necessities of the
Henley regatta. 1t is also probable that
the necessities Of Henley will also require
a change In Yales vicious practice of IN
variably coming in ahead.
What no! Arise! The clock strikes twelve;
The city's wrapped In sleep:
The lighthouse tenders at the wharf,
The ducks call from the deep.
Why fret and fume the livelong day.
Why give ones self TO care.
When creaking pinions charm the ear.
And ffocks whirr through the air?
By alleys, byways, through the gloon.
In silence gain our ship.
And. by our love Of syndicates.
Give ev'ry one the slip.
Ahead. full speed. away we so.
And down the river glide,
And many a widower drake there'n be
Before another tide.
Line up, same thing, these city toys
For huntsman's garb we'll doff.
The nations wheels must stop a day
IT'S Growers Sunday off.
Is your name on the registration booksf