Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-12-22
Oddities ) Guidditics
There are More Things in Heaven and Earth,
Horatio.
Than are Dreamt OF in Your Phil osophy."

An instance in which a man marries
his step mother comes from Cairo, Ill.
10 that city, on the 4th inst, James
w. Darden and Mrs. Lizzie f. Wat.
wood OF Wicklitie, KY, were married
at the courthouse, by Judge Dewey.
The bride is the stepmother Of the
groom, her first husband having been
the father Of Darden, who is her third
husband.
Professor c. L. Hathaway OF Brock
ton, Mass, recently upon his return
from Europe delivered a lecture in
Boston and made the statement that
the earth is fiat and the sun only 5000
miles away. DIR. +. E. Ladd of Brock.
ton supported the professors conten-
ton, and said that the whole astron.
omical ideas Of the world were about
to be revolutionized.
Francis Marion Hughes, Of Grange.
vile, Idaho, was born in Bunkum
Co. N. c., on Oct. II, 1883, which
makes him over lit years of age. Up
to about ten weeks ago Mr.. Hughes
was seen daily upon the streets. After
the decline began, he became mentally
weaker and he is now at times IRA
tiOnal. He came west in the memoir
able gold rush to California, in 1S49,
and has ever since lived in some one
of the Pacific States.
\
Verify we live in an age OF progress,
but whether it is upward or downward
must be decided by the test.light Of
experience upon the cold deductions
of theory. One of the latest labor.
savers reported, is machine for max
ing pies, but the enthusiasm of pie
biters" will doubtless be somew hat
moderated by the almost simultan-
eous proclamation by Chicago doc.
tor that pie is exceedingly unwhole.
some food, and should never enter the
stomach of a rational being. This
machine made its appearance, . short
time ago, in Philadelphia, and the
Scientific american says that by its
use man, three boys or girls and the
machine may turn out eighteen pies a
minute. The machine is about ten
feet long and twenty inches wide. An
electric motor supplies the power and
Q gas jet keeps the forming-die warm.
A tank overhead holds the. filing"
for 400 pies, and in it an agitator re-
wolves to keep the material from
blockin & the outlet. The dough for
the crusts is weighed and cut into
proper pieces by a divider and a tray
load of these Jumps for the lower
crusts is placed at one end of the ma
chine, and another farther along con.
tanning material for the top crusts.
Near by, is q stack OF plates automat-
ically fed by q rachel, and magne-
tiled arm takes up each one and places
it on die made to receive it. A lump
of dough falls upon the plate and it
passes under q stamp which forms the
lower crust. Then, as it passes farther
on, a supply of filling passes from the
tank. BY this time another lump Of
dough has been fattened and stamped
with the initial "a" for apple, "M"
for mince, or Il" for lemon, a. the
Guards" OF each batch suggest, and
An automatic bellows blows q puff Of
flour over the paste to keep it from
sticking. The next movement brings
the pie and the upper crust together
and the product passes under the
edging device, somewhat like the mill
ing machine used in the minis for
finishing the edges of coin, which cuts
off all scraps, and places, if required,
the old time key-marks, without which
no mince.pie half . century ago would
pass muster. After 400 pies are
stamped into existence, they 60 to the
oven, and after the regulation time for
baking. pass out into circulation as
perfect pies, without, as that eminen
authority - the S. A. observes, a
" concentrating hand" touching them,
from their initial state of douginess
till ready to be taken from the oven.
And If il be true, as it asserts, that
"therein lies their chief virtue" why
not use another late continuance, the
bread Cor dOugh) mixer, whereby the
kneading process is done by turning
crank, thus eliminating almost entire.
ly all hand labor.