Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-01-02
GATHERINGS BY THE wAYSlDE;

iii British India u famine is anticipated.
Tea has been success .futly grown in Maine.
The Suez Canal is to be regularly opened
| next October. z . --
Italians are cmigrating to South America
BY thousands. h
Italians die younger than any other Euro
pean people.
Gen. Grant has four childrcn-thrcs SO ms
and one daughter.
| The hsndsomcst won eli on the Paris
prOmenades are Americans.
! A beet weighing seventy pounds is on ex-
hIbition in San Jose, California.
Charleston negroes make II livinL by digging
up, exploding and selling shells for old iron
| Thieves arc committing many deprcdations
about Boise City and other points in Idaho
Territory.
Chinese hemp is successfully grown in
Kentucky. The longest stalks measure over
sixteen feet.
Three girls Joined hands and jumped OF a
London bridge, recently, committing suicide
in company.
Portland is afflicted with the small pox
and the Grecian Bend. Misfortunes never
come singIy.
No President of the United States up to
the present time, has had child borE in the
White House.
| American women annually wear $50, 0oJ,-
600 yards Of calico, and nearly as many dollars
worth OF silks.
| Lawrence (Mass.) factory bands have a
free rcading-room, and FIVE thousand volumes
| in their library.
Chief Justice Chase is probably the largest
man. physically, in prominent public life in
the United States.
There IRE over 600 wooden mills in the
States Of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin,
Iowa and Minnesota.
The vote of Sopoma, county CAL, this year is
precisely the same as that ofIast yenr-being
in each instance 4,20l.
"A bat WAS killed in Nevada county, the
other day, that measured fifteen inches from
tip to tip Of the wings.
"A Frenchman has invented a kind of q
safe, which when fraudulently opened, will
kindle brilliant Bengal light.
The Swedish North Pole Expedition has
returned, after having penetrated as tai north
| as the eighty.sccOnd degree Of latitude.
--Becves are so plentiful in Texas that a
stock raiser near Brownsville kills his for the
hides and tallow Ind gives away the meat.
J A fountain in private grounds at Benning-
| ton, VT, throwing stream 1853 feet high, is
| the second highest in the world. 1t costS26,-
900.
Figs grown in California, the size of n
man $ fist, an weighing a quarter OF pound
each, are displayed in the market of San Fran
cisco.
"A machine for harvesting corn, by taking
the cars from the stalks while standing IN the
field, was exhibited at the recent State Fair in
Illinois.
There is report TINT Brigham Young is
going to retire to private life with three mil
lions which lie has made in his profession ~
prophet.
Prentice says that il Butler is the head of
the Republican party and Forney the tail, he
would advise the party to shake its head and
switch its tail.
There is said to be great mortality in India
from snakc-bites. Last year, in the Madras
Presidency alone, 800 persons lost their lives
from this cause.
The tidal wave from the Peruvian earth
quake was felt with tremendous force in \ US
tralia and New Zealand, though no serious
damage was done.
colorado has produced four large cab
bages weighing $50 pounds twelve turnips
that fill "a barrel and a squash five and n half
feet in circumference
--Gencral George b. Mcclellan has declined
| to accept the position Of President Of the Uni
vcrsity Of California, rendered to him by the
Regents Of the Institution.
One seal skin is worth in Alaska from Is
to 30 cents, four of such skins costing 60 cents
to 81. Aner beng properly dressed, a cloak can
be made Of four skins, and these clOaks are
sold at 500 to Sl25 each in the market.
Tho smoke from the recent volcanic erup-
.: :re ka c. Irvsc all I
miles from tho Islands, and At half that dis.
lance was so dense that officers Of ships were
prevented from making astronomical observa-
ton.
The New York Herald has communica-
ton relative to discovery by J. H. Mower Of
q new method Of suh.aqueOus electric cOmmu.
nication, without the use Of cable or other
conductor, by means Of the water alone. He
proposes to establish a line between here and
Spain at a cost Of only ten thousand dollars.
~ A letter from an eminent San
Francisco physician appears in the Alta Of
that city. The writer gives it as his opiu-
ion that the pestilence now scourging that
city is new disease, possessing character
istics both Of the smallpox and the Chi
ncse black measles. Its ruvages continue
undated; death sometimes supervenes in
few hours, and water exudes from the
skin after death. Vaccination will prevent
the disease, but the lymph must b Of the
purcst kind. rrn, ..i - ii sss.s iIu-
masonic ELEcrIoN.-The following
list Of the newly-cleeted officers Of Olym-
pia Lodge No. l, A. F. and A. NJ, held on
the evening Of the 21st ult, was unavoid-
ably omitted in our last issue: Rufus VIII
lard. w. NJ; M. Z. Hartsock, s. w.;
Louis Bettman, j. w.; @. T. Williama
Treasurer; Rev. P. E. Hyland, Secretary;
A. Farquahr, T. Chas. E. Williams, B.