Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-08-07
GATHERINGS BIT THE WAYSIDE.

A Georgia freedman has invented q
cotton pillow.
A gentleman in Los Angeles, CAL,
is about to start coffee plantation.
OF the 1000 varieties Of pears, only
20 or 80 are considered Of any value.
Anna Smith. aged 10, owns and works
farm of 100 acres in Mills county, Iowa.
To complete the Geographic circuit of
the globe requires three thousand miles of
wire.
A palace, costing 100000 francs, is
going up for Eugenic's residence while in
Egypt.
in San Francisco there have been re-
turned niDety-twO incomes in excess Of
$4,000.
A redwood tree in Santa Cruz county,
California, is 200 feet high and rs feet in
diameter.
Lewis Dingcrs Is the name of Minnie
Warmers husband-his show name Com
odorc Nut.
The failure of the crops in Norway
and Sweden is sending many emigrants
to America.
"A. T. Stewart 4 Co. are Introducing
saleswomcn into their establishment. as
selling clerks.
Paper pctticoats arc now sold in Lon
don at sixpeuce each. Shoes are made of
the same material.
Matches are now being made with So
dunn instead Of phosphorus. 1t ignites as
easily, and is free from offensive odors.
Sugar is largely manufactured from
pumpkins in Hungary, by the same pro-
cess as the extraction Of sugar from beets.
Crops in Texas arc very promising, and
the negroes are more willing to work than
at any previous time since the war closed.
Over one thousand Cinnamon are now
employed a. laborers building a railroad
from Memphis, Tennessee, to Salem, Ala
bama.
A man backed out being married the
other day, in st. Peter, Mimi, because the
marriage ceremony would cost him five
dollars.
The Japanese, in bringing living
plants to this country wrap the roots in a
mixture of earth and carrots ground to-
gcther.
The citizen. of Omaha, the new born
city in the centre Of the American CONT.
nent are raising Sl50,000 to build mag
niiccnt hotel.
Frank p. Blair is about to take up his
residence in California. He will locate in
San Francisco as the agent of Missouri
Insurance company.
"A Frcnchman has obtained possession
of some of ex-Quccn Isabella's letters to
her tavortes. and is to have them printed
in fac simae for sale.
A storm in Iowa carried four thous-
and feet of lumber distance of about three
miles, tearing the boards to bits as they
flew through the air.
The joint committee of the Connccti-
cut Legislature to whom was referred the
selection of single capital Of. the State.
have reported in favor of Hartford.
Miss Sallie Banks has been appointed
Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for
the District of Sumptcr IS. C.l Miss Banks
has been for some time teaching colored
school.
The Connecticut House of Reprcsen-
tatives has passed bill to strike out the
word white" from the suffrage clause in
the State Constitution, by vote Of 116
yeas to IS nays.
The Boston Post says the lesson the
Democratic party has learned ought to be
pro6'cd by and it points out the new path
"a liberal platform, living issues, prudent
speeches and right nominations.
Dissertations by physicians in some
parts Of Texa show that while the natural
growth of the white race has been unim-
peded, the eolored people have diminished
by mortality and emigration about ten per
cent. in four years.
A Mr.. Paine, of New York, says he
has invented an electro magnetic appara-
tus, the battery of which can be fed with
acids and zinc for dollar day, and pro-
duce force of twenty-horsc power for the
propulsion Of machinery.
In Italy and Sicily the finest and
sweetest grapes grow on the rocky rubbish
Of volcanoes, and on the loose soil along
rocky hill-sides. The facts would seem to
indicate that rich soil is not necessary to
produce the sweetest grapes.
CHINESE MISUNDERSTANDING the
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