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Morris tribune., 1899-06-03
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The successful solution of the pro-
blems of efficient conversion of fuel
energy into electric energy and OF
electric energy 2into%$heatfess light,
would produce a social strain that
would threaten the very art ofgovern-
ment, sinking into nothingness the
social and industrial changes wrought
by the steam engine, Such is the
veiw of Prof. r. B. Owens of @McGills
University. Even now power distri7
button by electric motors, though
first developed in conjunction with
the electric light, has becomes one of
the largest commercial enterprises of
the glode. In 1898 more than a mil
lion electric horse power was employ
ed in the United States in transporta-
ton alone, conveying more than
5000, 0OO,0OO passengers, and earn
ing something like $l25,OOO,OOO.
When we consider further the @thous-
ands of motors used. for other pur-
poses, to say nothing of the transmit
ting apparatus, we begin to form some
idea of the influence ofthisnev agent,
The most astonishing late develop
ment is the electricacarriag e business,
which has brought, SlE5,000,0O0 of
orders to America from Europe in
recent months. Electro chemical
progress alsoisrapid. German electro
lytic alkali works alone having pro
duced 10000 tons in 1897, while last
year 30O0OOO00 pounds of copper
was electrolyticalIy refined, with
100000 pounds Of aluminium. . -.
Morris tribune., 1899-06-03

oew tineprr.. and insulating ma
ii r. ~ ,de # grtnite chips, which
ar~ uuv~rrzpd "."lded, and fused
s.pthar at 5000 F. It can be
fhtown red hot mo water without
iuilry, r. s5tn he 4ction of acids and
nikales, i unaffected by tempera-
r. of $500 b,t>w zero, and has very
high crushing strength and such insu-
lating effect tina, $1,000 volts was re.
Morris tribune., 1899-06-03

A novelrsteam dryer hes been il
vented by NJ. E. .Leppik, of Warsaw
The steam is passed through tur-
bine fixed in drum, centrifugal force
throwing the particles Of water
toward the outer part Of the cylinder,
while the lighter steam acquires a
rotating motion in the middle part,
and reaches the. engine quite div.
The water descends 5thpeughaa tubs
to boiler.
Morris tribune., 1899-06-03

. ApIan of.tbe Universal ii Aber
deem is to form loan collections of
natural history fcf instruction IN
school. These win be- supplied Ito
teachers, who will make use Of them
in their classes and will 'aafterwa1rld
return them. a53IasJ To 9ut1 lIul I
Morris tribune., 1899-06-03

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Morris tribune., 1899-06-03
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the material. - .~

A novel steamboat propeller for an
Irish lock is designed not only to
drive the vessel but also to destroy
tie sea-weed that obstructs an ordiaa
Morris tribune., 1899-06-03
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES !..t,d!;!! l.. !JAgAtB.! u. kt.!;l!.

driven by accumulatOrs, easily runs
IS mites an hour; and has very-satis-
factorily stood the tests thus far made.
The use of the electric furnace IN
making glass, as tested in
trial plant at Cologne, is reported
to have given superior results. The
melting is attended with no risk OF
getting carbon and ashes into the
glass, the necessary appliances are
more simple than with ordinary fur
naces, and in addition to this there
is large saving in fuel. The heat
usually transmitted 70 the ground
or ladiated into the air is largely
saved. Only an electric arc is neces-
sary for fusing the materials, and a
small quantity at time may be
melted, while work may be stopped
at any time as on Sundays and holi-
days-without loss of energy.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08
THINGS ALL PEoPLEDON'r KNOW

That Macbeth was u real person !;
that Hamlet was not.
That Columbus died thinking Amer
lea was part OF Asia.
That golf Was played long before
America was discovered.
That the word "bedlam," a mad
house, came from the word Bethle-
hem, the birthplace Of Christ.
That Gear, Tar and Kaiser are de-
rived from the Cesar of the Romans.
That pagan" really means belong
ing to the country, while civil means
belonging to the city.
That "knave" once meant boy, with
no implication Of dishonesty.
That boom" was first used in the
political sense OF "going with rush"
by st. Louis editor in 1878.
That "girl" originally signified a
child of either sex.
That California trees are taller thar
the capital at Washington and live
over thousand years.
That VILLAIN" originally meant
family servant.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON: FRIDAY EVENING, DEC. 8, l899

than justified in adopting extreme
precautions with the cases now preva.
lent at quarantine off New York. 1t
we're. far better to burn the infected
steamer in the stream and to send
every man aboard her back to the
point of embarkation than to run the
risk of contagion and death in a coun-
try which has heretofore been singu-
larly fr,e from such plaques. The
ease with which loathsome epidemics
spread has been demonstrated in the
northwest. In neighboring State
health authorities have finally stamped
out smallpox introduced by laborers
coming from distant points. One or
two men who carried the germs Of dis
ease in their clothing have been the
means of stopping business, suspend
ing schools and filling pest houses in
more than one town of the Inland
Empire. No laws are too rigid in bar
ring this class of people and there is
justification at times for the shot. gun
patrols one hears of when epidemics
are raging. This ship laden with bu-
bonic plague will once again put peo
pie OH their guard.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08
GOOD SEASONlNGS.

A fine seasoning for chicken salad
is to slice an onion on the top of the
prepared chicken and let it marinate
two hours or more, adding ut the same
time few drops Of prepared chervil.
Be sure that every particle of onion is
taken from the chicken before adding
the dressing.
Small pickles, olives and capers,
minced very fine, are an excellent sea-
soning for salad dressing.
When boiling chickens for salad or
pressed loaf. put in quarter of a
pound of good salt pork-it is an ex-
cellent seasoning. Let chicken cool
in the water.
Put sugar in the water used for
basting meats of all kinds; it gives a
good flavor, to veal more especially.
To give fine flavor to corned-beef
hash, use coed stock for moistening,
with pinch OF salt, sugar and cayenne.
Three tablespoons of freshly made
Japan tea, with bit of nutmeg, give
an indescribable flavor to an apple pie.
Boston baked beans can be greatly
improved by adding a cup of sweet
cream the last hour of baking.
When making tomato soup add a
raw cucumber sliced fine, boil soft and
strain with tomato. 1t gives season.
ing quite taking.
Add cup of good cider vinegar to
the water in which you boil fish. espe-
cially salt water fish.
Make snow cake with arrowroot
-four; the flavor is delicious.
When boiling ham put in cup of
black molasses, one onion. few cloves
and pepper corns. adding a bunch OF
hay; it seasons finely. Let the ham
cool in the water in which it was
boiled, skin, rub with brown sugar
and brown in slow oven for an hour,
basting every fifteen minutes with
some of the stock in which it was
cooked. Epicures like the last basting
Of sherry.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08
MISCELLANE

Protect the stoves from rust, by
painting them over occasionally with
turpentine and black varnish.
The backs OF brushes of silver or
nickel can be kept bright by rubbing
with flannel dipped in ammonia.
Never use soda in washing baby's
clothes, for, if not carefully rinsed out,
it is source of irritation and chafing
to the delicate skin.
To Clean Looking Glasses.-Remove
the fly stains by rubbing with cloth
dipped in methylate spirit. Then
polish with a woollen cloth and pow
dered blue.
For the Destruction of Cockroaches.
"A correspondent sends a simple re-
cipe which he says has been most sue
cessful in his house: Plaster up the
holes with carbolic soap, and make a
strong solution OF the same with boil
ing water, and pour it into holes in
floors, wainscot, etc.
A Furniture Varnish.-To half a
pint of spirits OF wine add one ounce
of gum-sandarach, half an ounce of
shellac, quarter of an ounce of mas
tic, quarter of an ounce of gumben-
jamin, and half an ounce of Venice
turpentine. When those ingredients
are all dissolved, add sufficient saffron
to color.
Furniture Polish.-Two useful re-
cipes for this: D Put one gill each
of turpentine, spirits of wine, and vim
egar into a bottle with one-third Of a
pint of linseed oil; cork tightly, and
shake the bottle briskly in order to
mix the various ingredients thorough
ly before using. Dust the furniture
carefully, apply the polish with piece
OF soft, old flannel, and rub it we'll
into the wood, and polish off at once
with a soft duster. II only small
quantity of polish is used, the furni-
ture will brighten much more easily
than when the mixture is laid on
thickly. (2) Place two ounces of
finely shredded beeswax into a jar,
adding to it one ounce OF yellow soap
cut small, and enough turpentine to
cover. Stand the jar on the stove till
all is melted. When cold, the prepar-
alton is ready for use, and a little
should be applied to the furniture,
then polished with cloths.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08
FACTS AND FIGURES.

A single human hair will support
four ounces without breaking.
Professor Proctor asserts that one
hundred million people lived and died
in America before Columbus discov-
cry.
A writer in the Arena declares that
five hundred thousand men now do
the work, with the aid of machinery,
which needed sixteen million persons
to do few years ago.
The Sultan of Turkey has just built
at Mecca the largest house in the
world. 1t is intended for the accom-
mediation OF pilgrims, and is capable
of sheltering six thousand persons.
Wheat can he grown in the Alps at
an elevation of three Thousand six
hundred feet, in Brazil at five thou
sand, in the Caucasus at eight thou
sand, in Abyssinia at ten thousand,
and in Peru and Bolivia ut eleven
thousand.
The Queen of Italy weighs 176
pounds, Queen Victoria 17l.6 pounds,
the Queen of Spain 147.4 pounds, the
Queen of Belgium 143 pounds, the
German Empress 1864 pounds, the
Queen of Portugal 1872 pounds, the
Czarina 1898 pounds, the late En-
press of Austria 1868 pounds.
1t is asserted that liquid air has
twenty times the explosive force of dy-
Mantle. During experiments at vi
emma, in the firing of cannon, the
liquid air was exploded by an electric
spark, and the results were extremely
satisfactory. No heat was developed
in the guns, and the range of the pro-
jectiles was much increased.
The Parisian taste for horsefesh
continues to increase. During last
year Paris ate over 10000 horses, 800
donkeys, and few unconsidered
mules. The donkey and mule are evil
IDENTIFY declining in favor, as in 1852
the official retnrns showed the con-
sumption to have been S66 donkeys
and 81 mules, while only 5000 horses
figured in the Paris meat bill.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08

The camel's hair brush used by ar
lists has nothing OF bacteria in it.
There was time when real cameps
hair was used for this purpose. The
ship of the desert, however, has long
been superseded by the homely squir-
rel. Not only is squirrels hair very
much less costly, but it is better, soft
er, more pliable and more durable.
At the present day it is doubtful If
you could find a bushel of camel's hair
in all the brush factories in the world.
However, there is no cause for fear
that the graceful little squirrel will be
exterminated. 1t is the European
squirrel that furnishes the hair for
the brushes, the covering of the Amer
lean squirrel being too furry and soft
for the purpose.
It is somewhat the same way with
the coarser brushes. The bristles most
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08
BubOnic PLAGUE.

The presence in New York harbor
Of ship bearing the germs OF bubonic
plague will probably alarm few besides
the health authorities and medical
profession, but the danger is more
menacing that would be the guns of q
hostile fleet trained on the metropolis
of the continent. The scourge is so
terrible that it makes towards OF the
bravest men, depopuIates cities and
more effectually suspends trade and
industry in sections where it has hold
than the cyclone or prairie fire. Once
it gets footing its eradication is more
difficult than yellow fever or smallpox.
Squator and poverty help to spread
the germs OF this plague, but it quickly
seizes upon the cleanly population.
Health authorities thoroughly under
stand these dangers and are more
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08

rine, one of the numerous by-products
of the gas-maker's refuse, whose
sweetness is three hundred times
more intense than that of cane-sugar,
reads almost like romance.
DR.. Fahlberg had entered the Johns
Hopkins University in America in
order to devote himself exclusively to
the study of the chemistry of coal.tar
derivaties. Some months had passed,
when one evening at teatime he de-
tected an intensely sweet flavor upon
his bread and butter. He traced the
sweetness to his fingers, to his hands,
and to his coat sleeves; and it dawned
upon him that it must have been de-
rived from one of the new compounds
which he had that day succeeded in
producing. He promptly returned to
his laboratory and tasted the contents
of every vessel with which he had
been working. His idea was correct.
One of his beskers contained the
sweet material.
Prof. Roentgen came upon his mar
velous X-rays-which have opened
out new fields of research in physical
science, besides being of far.reaching
practical utility in surgery and other
departments-quite by chance. He
was experimenting in the dark with q
Crookes vacuum tube, which was COW
cred with some sort of = cloth. A
strong electric current was passed
through it, while close by was some
prepared Photographic paper, but no
camera. Next day he noticed several
lines on this paper for which he could
not account. BY restoring everything
to exactly the same condition as on
the preceding day, he way able to as
certain the real origin Of these mys.
teriOus marks.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08
A HYDROGEN SHELL.
Chemist lnvsnts an Explosive Proiectile that
will be FrishtfuI in Its Execution.

The activity displayed in inventing
means for the destruction of human
life, particularly of enemies in war
time, is as ceaseless as the efforts to
prolong life and create for it tolerable
conditions. The latest ingenious de-
vice for the former purpose is a ten
inch shell that has hydrogen for the
explosive. The inventor is Chemist
Walter 7. Forbes, and he announces
that the authorities at Washington
are about to give his shell trial. In
appearance it is similar to the gas
tank in the ordinary soda water foun.
tain. Hydrogen can be exploded by
fire, and as the pressure in the shell is
about 5000 pounds to the square inch,
thus making it impossible to keep a
fuse or percussion cap in place, Mr..
Forbes was confronted with the diff.
cult problem of designing some way to
set the gas off. This device is the one
secret about the shell.
Mr.. Forbes says that the 5000
pounds pressure is multiplied instant
ly, when the shell strikes, 2OO-fold,
thus giving the enormous explosive
force of 100000 pounds, which
would annihilate everything within
many yards of the spot that was
struck.
The inventor says that the shell
weighs about one-tenth as much as
the regular tcn-inch shell and can be
made for about one-twentieth the cost
of the other. If Mr.. Forbes isn't at
fault, says the Oswego IN. W Times,
he will doubtless find that he has
done much to avert war by making it
too dangerous q function to engage in.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08
KINGS, QUEENS AND NosLES.l

Italy's king is vegetarian.
Princess 0! Wales makes pickles.
Prince of Wales weighs 2O7 pounds.
The Duke of Saxeburg wears brace
let.
China's emperor is never seen walk.
ing.
The salary of Greece's king is $10,-
coo year.
Princess Czartoryski wears a $751;
QUO gown.
Ell Hung Chang has $780, 900 COL
lection of furs.
Italy's queen possesses $4,000
handkerchief.
Russia has $4,000 princes and other
hereditary mobiles.
The carewitch's widow was a teleg-
rapher before her marriage.
Prince August of Coburg has now
shot 5000 chamois on his estate.
In China it is summer only when
the emperor says it is summer.
The kaiser's previous visit to Lord
Lonsdale cost the latter $25O,OCO.
Queen Victoria and the czarina of
Russia have forbidden the use of to-.
bacco in their presence.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08
Ills Opinion Of Shakespeare.
Washington Post.

There is story going about town
just now concerning q famous man OF
letters who visited Washington re-
Gently. He appeared at but one din
ner party. There he sat next the
young daughter of a noted naval of.
ficer. Her vocabulary is OF a kind Pc
culiar to very young girls, but she
ratified away at the famous man with
out a moments respite. 1t was dur
ing pause in the general cnnversa-
ton that she said to him:
"I'm awfully struck on Shake
speare. Don't you think he's terribly
interesting?"
Everybody listened to hear the
great mans brilliant reply, for as
a Shakespearian scholar he has few
peers.
"Yes," he said, solemnly, "I do
think he is interesting. think he is
more than that. / think Shake
speare is just simply too cute for any
thing"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08

priced come from Russia and India,
and the wild hogs of Germany furnish
their quota. The great American hog
runs to fat and puts forth practically
no bristles. In the countries above
mentioned the collecting of bristles is
quite an important industry among
the peasantry of certain districts. In
comparatively few cases are they
stripped from the dead body of the
hog. The method usually employed
is to discover the haunts OF the ami
mails and then to gather the bristles
from the trees against which they rub
themselves.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08

THE African Methodist Episcopal
Church in New Jersey is startled by
the fact that while in that State there
is only one white criminal to every
1,463 of population there are negro
criminals in the ratio of one to every
16O. The African Methodist Episco-
pal Church has set itself earnestly to
the task of reducing this extraordinary
record of crime by systematic labor
tor reformation and morality. Power
to its preachers!
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08
Don'ts for All Women.

Don't begin the day blue in spirit,
believing there is no luck for you at
either end of the road.
Don't grumble, look cross, and rise
ill-tempered; irritability is one of the
objectionable sins.
Don't fail to see the good qualities
of your neighbors. They may have
faults, but they have good points, too,
if you are only shrewd enough to see
them.
Don't affect youth. Every age has
its own individual charm, and lines in
the face do not always mean ugliness;
to many they give character. A wo.
man is as old as she looks, and even
when beauty is gone there arises an
other quality equally attractive, which
supplies its place.
Don't be critical with those you love-
Home folks like praise as well as other
people.
Don't deluge yourself with per-
fumes. A subtle odor of some good
sachet powder is more inviting.
Don't make yourself troublesome
visitor. Don't contradict or be over
assertive. Repress your opinions, and
recollect that for time only you are
a temporary member of the household.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08

NECESSITY compelled recently lis
tening to an old, familiar air whose
opening line is often quoted, but the
succeeding ones, by far the most at.
tractive, seem to be little known.
The whole of the first stanza runs:
"she was bred in old Kentucky,
She was 1asses in Orleans,
She was sausage in Chicago,
And In Boston she was BEANS"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08

A GIVE solicitors wanted everywhere
"A for The Story OF the Philippines'
by Murat Halstead, commissioned by the
Government as Official Historian to the
War Department. The book was written
In army camps At San Francisco, on the
Pacific with General Merritt, in tho
the American trenches at Manila, in the
insurgent camps with Aguinaldo. on the
deck of the Olympia with Dewey. and in
the roar Of battle at the fall Of Manila
Bonanza for agents. BTimful Of origina.
pictures taken by governments photog-
prices. Big profits. Freight paid. Credit
given. Drop all trashy unofficial war
hooks. Outfit free. Address. F. r.
Barbar. Sec'y., Star Insurance Bldg,
Chicago
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08
Dr.. Holmes Joke,

1t is said that Doctor Holmes was
once entreated to furnish letter for
"the post Office" at . country charit.
able fair. He put a one-dollar bank
note between the leaves of a sheet of
paper, and wrote on the first page:
d" Dear lady, whosoeer thou art.
Turn this poor page with trembling care:
But hush, oh. hush. thy beating heart.
The one thou lOv'st best will be there"
Turning the page and finding the
one.dollar greenback, the finder read
further on the opposite page:
Fair lady. lift thine eyes aud tell
Ifthis is not a truthful letter.
This is the one thou lowest well,
And naught (O) would make thee loveit
better"
PLANS are being matured for the
laying of the Pacific cable, which will
connect the United States with the
Philippines and points beyond. 1t
will run from San Francisco to Ha.
waii; Hawaii to Wake Island; Wake
Island to Guam; Guam to Manila.
In all nearly 1900 miles.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08

BRIDE (throwing her arms about the
bridegroom's neck)-You are my pris-
oner for life. Bridegroom-Its not
IMPRISONMENT for life. love; it's capi-
tai punishment.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08

WANTED--SEvERAL BRIGHT AND HON.
~ est persons to represent US as Managers
OF this and close by counties. Salary $500 Q
year and expenses. Straight, bona nde. no
Our references, any bank in any town. Il is
mainly Office work conducted at home Refer
ence. Enclose self. addressed stamped envelope.
The DOMINION COMPANY,
Dept. 3, Chicago.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08

In 1896 Mckinley received I'll elec-
toral votes and Bryan 176. In that
year Kentucky gave Mckinley II
votes, Maryland 9, and West Virginia
6. These three States may be safely
counted for Bryan in 1900. If, in
addition, the % votes of Ohio should
20 for Bryan, as the election last
week indicates that they will, and he
holds his former strength, he will re-
ceive a total of 225 electoral votes,
which would leave 222 for the Repub.
licans, and Bryan would be elected
President of the United States.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-12-08
ACCIDENT
AND
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