Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-07-31
GATHERINGS by THE WAYSlDE,

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In England there issaid to be an aqua
rum of performing fishes.
Cinnamon are applying for admission
to the public schools Of Boise.
The ccroWony of opening the Suez
canal will occur November 18th.
Twelve hundred estates belonging to
rebels have been coniiscatcl up to the pres
cnt date.
Chicago now claims to be an Eastern
city, as it is My 800 miles to the Atlantic
coast, while it is 2250 10 the Pacific.
Charles, brother of Henry Ward
Bccchcr, also Il Reverend is reported to
have played a fiddle at the Peace Jubilee.
Anna Dickinson says that she expects
to vote within five years, and that within
ten years she will be Il member of Con-
grcss.
"A person living in Jackson county,
Oregon, recently found ten bce-trccs. One
tree contained one hundred and fifty pounds
of honey.
1t is rumored that Grinncll is about to
resign the Collectorship of New York on
account Of i'll health, and the earnest de-
sire of his family.
Prentice thinks the Radicals have no
cause to complain of Grants appointing
incompetent men to Office, since they set
the example last November.
The Emperor Napoleon has been in-
vited by the Gar to be present at the in
auguratoh of the Universal Exhibition
which is to be held at st. Petersburg in
1870.
California is to have japanese colo
ny, and the members will bring bamboo,
mulberry trees, wax plants aud tea seeds,
so as to establish miniature Japan on our
shores.
Before the completion Of the over
land railroad the Government paid 81, 100
year per mile for transportation of the
mails. The price now paid is $lCO a mile
per annum.
A man lately appeared in an Indiana
town, wearing Il vest made out of the
skins of ten rattlcsnakcs, part Of a nest Of
l06 snakes killed in one day by u Ken
lucky farmer.
"A fearful and unknown malady is now
raging among the inhabitants OF the intc-
rior of the State of Vera Cruz. People
arc dying by hundreds, and the towns and
villages are deserted.
In Paris. low shoes are coming into
fashion for ladies', of the same color as the
stocking and the stocking the same color
as the dress also the ladies are adorned
with large sailor collars
singular, but true: OF the seven
members Of l.incolns Cabinet. at the COM
mcncemcnt of his administration, there is
only one who now sustains the Radical
party, and that is Simon Cameron.
-Adviccs from South America to June
2'd state that the revolution in Uruguay
was increasing. The President had re-
turned from Montcvcdio without hazard
ing an engagement with the insurgents.
The Austrian Minister Of War has
ordered vclocipcdc schools to be started in
the various regiments Of the Imperial ar
my. The bicycle is to be used extensive
lyby ordcrlics, bearers of military Dispatch
cS, cue, cue.
Several prominent Democrats arc at
Saratoga arranging plans of the campaign
for the Fall elections. 1t is rumorca they
will have less conservative policy than
heretofore. They accept reconstruction as
an accomplished fact.
Tho award has been made in the case
of the concession of Reuters Photographic
Company to the British Government. The
total amount of compensation claimed was
II .243 600; but the amount awarded was
$4,000, the company to pay its own
| costs
Mrs Cady Stanton puts it thus:
"Whcn the highest Offices in the Govern
mcnt are bought in Wall street, it is mere
chance who will be our rulers? Whittier
is a nation tending when brains count for
less than bullion, and clowns make laws for
queens"