Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1868-12-05

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GATHERINGS NJ me wAHMDE.
Calico hals are all The 60 il Calisss.
MIA.
-EuWrean ladies sP"ss s"bby valkiss-
canes.
A SIN cf Santa Anna II svhAes chief
in Mexiro.
-Srain call. &c German and Eaxi.A
Immigrants.
-Ri>sorii's daughter refused a yoanr
Wall-strcct brYker.
Partisan ladies xcar gilt champagne
bottles fr earrings.
With the Parisians Saturday i the
favcrite day for marrying.
The New York servant girls hare
given $4,000 Ia the P.re.
Lady Franklin, n"v eighty, has re.
turned frvm Asia to Fr..cc.
The Portuguese Queen Is su6crin &
from an incur.bIe br.is di-ca.e.
Austria has given Lia.a. ID.lmaiian
island in the Adriasic, 20 England.
The popal.tiM Of I'll the British pc.-
sessions is upwards IT zoe, 900, 0O0 -oul-.
The San F,nci.co Heysld is to be rc-
vived under the control Of John Nugcnt.
liver eighteen hundred persons died
last year ut Madras from bites Of rerpents
1T is estimated that the wheat crop oi
Oregon will yield million barrels Of -four.
Two shocks Of an earthquake were
felt at st. George, Utah Territory, Oct.
the 18th.
Queen Isabella mourns that she can
not put on pautaloons like man and re-
turn to Spain.
The elder Dumas il writing n romance
from the incidents of Idxh Isaac Mcnken' 5
melancholy life.
There is an establishment for canning
peaches Mt Atlanta, Ga, which employs FIVE
hundred hands.
go ablcgram." thalagram" and sea-
agram" are new words, coined us names for
cable messages.
The negro population of San Francis-
co are becoming discontcntcd with their
school facilities.
Snow fell To the depth Of one foot in
Portland, Maine, October the 18th, and
slcighing was lively.
A remarkable cave has been lately
discovered in Connecticut. 1t has been
explored for over mile.
The John Stewart horse trottcd in
Boston, twenty miles in ffty.ninc minutes
and twcnty-thrce seconds.
-Twenty-six Cinnamon arc being taught
in the Ems lish language at the NJ. T..
Church, Santa Clara, Cal.
1t is said that the fashion at weddings
this Winter will be to give the groom
presents as well as the bride.
-Nincty-thrcc Aocks Of sheep were suf-
focatcd in Switzerland, by thunder cloud
which passed over the country.
1T is said that the demand for passage
overland to the Fast is sogreat that all the
seats are engaged weeks in advance.
over million pounds Of tobacco, on
which the owners arc unable to pay the
taxes. arc now stored in Richmond.
Florida is the orange State; $4,000
trees were planted last year on the Flint
river alone. Each tree produces $500
oranges.
brighton, England, is to have an inn
mcnsc marine aquarium, twelve hundred
and fifty feet long, aud with proportion.
ute width.
Lace drapcry, falling low at the sides
and caught at the back Of the rh;gSOs by
bow and ends, is u graceful feature of the
winter bOnncts.
The largest sawmill in the world but
one, is at Clinton, Iowa, and when under
full way employs 1000 men. Its engine
is 9OO-horsc power.
Tho Massachusetts, Homeopathic Med
ical Society declare against the use Of but
ter. which they aver contains no element
of food required by the human system"
The man who invented the ink with
which grcenbacks are printed, made AZ
immense fortune, asthc chemicals Of which
it is made can neither be photographed nor
turned black.
The Cabinet has ordered the statute Of
Washington belonging to New Orleans,
aud stored in tho Patent Office since the
beginning Of the war, to be returned to
New Orleans.
Boot sugar cultivation is growing in.
tcrcst in tho Western States. At Mont
gomcry, ILL.,, a company has purchased this
season 500 acres, on which they are raising
bcets for sugar.
A fish known - the oolachen il found
in great abundance on the coast Of Alaska.
This ash 10 70 fat that whom dried and
lighted It burns and makes - good light -
. sperm candle.
Ono Of the curiosities q the Elmira
Fair vas . pickle nineteen yean Old, which
Alk the bottle. Il was put into the bottle
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