Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-05-11
"SMART GIRL THAT!'-Good old

being somewhat advanced in years.
Her daughter Lydia was bonnie lass,
who loved a good frolic, and knew well
how to get one up. Lydia had ar
ranged private party of her own, and
the young men and maids had arrived.
In the midst of the fun in popped old
Dea .on Lewis to see how the widow
Jared. This was wet blanket upon
the mcrrimcnt, and the deacon hung OH
till Lydia was out of all patience. She
kept wishing and wishing he would go,
and by-and.bye he gets up to depart.
"Oh, deacon, deacon" said Mrs. Call,
don't think of going before supper!
oh, do stop to supper, won't you!"
The deacon so strongly urged, re-
piled, "Well, I rather think will, rs
the folks will not expect me home ear
ly."
"What did lie say, Liddy?" asked
the widow.
Lydia had ready answer. "Hc
says he will not to-day, as the folks
will expect him home early. Why
how deaf you grow, mothcr!"
"Oh, we'll, some other day, deacon |;
now do, won't you?" said Mrs. Call as
she bowed the deacon out.
"Smart gal, that" said the deacon
as he trudgcd his way along home !;
she'll find her way through the world,
I'll warrant"
PARsoN BRowNLow ON THE RESULT
IN TENNEssEE.-Parson BrOwnlOw
takes big crow over the result in
Tennessee. He says:
cold Tennessee has said at the bal
lot box that her interests are in the
Union, and that under the Stars and
Stripes her penple shall live. Tennes-
see has said, in thunder tones, that she
will not act with Yancey, Rhett and
Davis, and that she will not render her.
self infamous by giving countenance
to treason -
b0y- There is a Chinese legend to
the effect that in the third century a
pious hermit, who, in his watchings
and prayers, had been Overthrown by
sleep so that his eyelids closed in holy
wrath against the weakness of the flesh,
cut them off and threw thcin on the
ground. But god caused tca-shrub
to spring out of them, the leaves Of
which exhibit the form Of an eyclid
bIrdered with lashcs, and possess the
gift Of hindesing sleep.
REMARKABLE. "A newspaper pub
lished at Niagara Falls, called THE
Mute and the Blind, has the following
paragraph: elbow this paper is pub
iished: THE editor is blind man, the
compositors arc deaf and dumb, the
prcsswork is performed by the blind,
the papers are folded by the blind, and
wrapped by mutcs.
SIGNIFIcANr.-The gunners at Fort
Moultrie, one day, anchored rice
tierce cquidistant from Moultrie and
Sumter, and fired between twenty and
thirty shots at it, without effect. Maj.
Anderson watched their proceedings
for some time, and then aiming and
firing one or his large guns, shivered
the tierce at the first shot.
n6y- Mrs. Partington says that
"whcn she was gal she used to 60 to
parties, and always had a beau to ex-
tort her home. But now," says she,
"the gals undergo all sorts of declivi-
tics; the task of extorting them home
revolves on their dear selves"
How TO oDoIT.-A writer asks through
the Farmers Department Of the DOL
lar Newspaper, if any one can inform a
poor man the best way to start a little
nursery? The Houston Times says,
g ''ccrtainly-git married"
ssJ Never marrya girl who treats
q mother or sister unkiudly.