Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-07-24
GATHERINGS Bf THE WAYsIDE.
New York is twelve miles long.

New York is twelve miles long.
-Ph;ladelphis is twenty-five miles long
Texas has ffty-ive female pos.mas-
ters.
The population Of San Francisco i.
l47 $50.
George D. Prentice has almost sbau-
doued writing.
Sixty Cashmere goats have been tax.
en- to Colorado.
The annexation feeling is On the in
crease 10 Nova Scotia.
Fashionable wedding tours are four
months long in Europe.
The Illinoi. State University declines
to admi. female students.
California expects to clip 10000 900
pounds Of wool this year.
Jane Swissbelm has buried herself
in Pennsylvania village.
-Longwor,h is to turn his Cincinnati
wine house into brewery.
Georgia is harvesting its whea.-ore
of the finest crops for years.
-Vic,ora's daughters appear atthe op-
era in very low ncckei dresses.
Numbers Of firmcrs in Vernon. are
cultiva'ing the poppy for opium.
A grand, daughter Of Daniel Webster
wac married at Westfeld lately
"A Richmond paper proposes Rober.
Lincoln for the Spanish throne.
The Continental Universities are es-
timated to have IS 900 students.
There in in one Of the Partisan gar
dens a camellia with $500 buds.
In Sal. Lake City suit of cloths ma =
be bough. for six bushels Of oats.
-One.half the population Of Feejee
Islands are Wesleyan Methodists.
A German colony has bought 5000
acres of North Carolina for $4,000.
Detroit has lately voted aid to four
railroads Of Michigan. s959, 900 in all.
The caoutchouc. or India rubber tree,
fourishes in Santa Barbara county, Cal.
A colored division of the Sons of Tenn.
pcrance has been organized in Rochester.
1t is anticipated tina, we shall have an
unusua! immigration Of Swedes this year.
Tho Government We. owes between
four and five millions Of unpaid bounties.
About fifty Texans appeared before
the Reconstruction Com mittee On the Goth
ult
Indianapolis is to have an "Ugly
Club" and the ugl;es: man is to be Presi-
dent.
California boasts Of an ox-hide con-
tanning one hundred and forty-fve square
feet.
The Newport Herald suggests Secre-
tary Boutwell, as candidate for the Presi.
dency.
Hon. John c. Breckenridge is to be
the orator in the Forthcoming Boone Cen.
tenn;al.
Wendell Phillips is glad that the H.
dams are tearing up the rails on the Pa.
ci6c road
Fred. Douglas has applied for the ad-
mission Of his younges. son to the Naval
Academy.
st. Petersburg was recently deli lighted
by song in Russian from pretty little
Patti-Caux.
-" Hotel De Horse" was the name chos-
en- for his establishment by New York
stable keeper.
Clubs Of tourists are forming in Der.
lin, Leipsic and Hamburg to visi, the
United States.
A New Albanian has been two years
constructing checker-board containing
6,43l pieces.
From Bunker Hill Monument may be
seen two chimneys equal in heigh, to the
monument isseii..
The first cargo Of gypsum ever re.
ceiTed a: San Francisco recently arrived
from The Sandwich Islands.
The Chinese Empire has 100000
temples, containipg3 900 idols. These
half million houses Of the gods" are val
ue1 a, 81 900, 100000.
Chicago has been selected as the grand
distributing post-office for China. Japan
and Sandwich Island mails that come and
70 By the Pacific Railroad.
The Government allows the whisky
thieves to steal hundreds of millions, and
then removes few of the female clerks ia
the departments and call it economy.
WHO'S REspoNsIBLE2-The Citizens