Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-12-18
GATHERINGS BIZ THE WAfSTDR.

AO~' ASoouVu tuestseS uTe WouageO
by misses.
-Prussian women earn 40 cents a. day
harvesting.
Gladstone bus been thirty-6vc years
in public life.
Potatoes are so cheap iu Iowa that
many acres are left uudug.
George Peabody, with all his wealth,
never owned a horse or carriage.
The West Union Telegraph Co. now
owns lob, 5s3 miles Of telegraph.
Washington county, Maine, suffered
ssOO,0OO damages by the last storm.
-" Yellow citizens" is how Californian
candidates address Chinese audience.
We are likely soon to have three tele.
graphic cables from our continent to Eu.
rope.
The Lcgislature'of Montana Terrific.
ry, now in session, is almost unanimously
Democratic.
The only bachelor in the Cabinet is
the Secretary Of the Navy, who is bcset by
naughty girls.
The Gauris.nkcr, Of the Himmalaya
range, the highest mountain in the world,
is $500 feet.
Tho Post Office Department now re.
ceives, transmits and delivers 720, 1000, 900
letters annually.
Previous to her departure for Suez,
Euyenie insured her life in the sum of two
millions francs.
Millions of people in England live al
most entirely upon bakers bread, no meat,
no milk, no fruit.
A Tunnel sixty feet in length, the
work ofsix days would have prevented the
Avondale catastrophe.
A grape vine on the Lonley place
near Helena, Arkansas, is seven feet and
half in circumference.
Guests of the French bon ton are no.
tilted to an hour how long they are expect
cd to stay on their visit.
Two million sixteen thousand pins q
day are made by the New England Pin
Company at Winsted, Conn.
The Chicago rougcs' gallery has 1854
portraits. The rest of the population
hasn't yet been photographed.
Oregon City Wooden Mills have re.
ceved an order for waterproof cloth from
Northampton county, New York.
In San Francisco 81 so, 900 is annually
paid into the Treasury ofthe United States
by the various match manufacturers.
Utah expects 2, 300 more Saints from
Europe this season. Sex not specified,
but that Of the majority is presumable.
Alexandria, Va, is model city. It
has $4,000 people, and not billiard table,
tcnpin alley, roulette or gambling saloon.
To lay. off square acre of land-mea-
sure 200 feet for each side of your square,
and it will contain an acre within an inch.
There are now in the vaults Of tie
National Treasury S114,0O0,0OO in gold,
larger sum than has been on hand for
many years.
A sea she'll has been found, in n fos-
SLICED condition, on the mountain back of
Astoria, three hundred feet above the lev
ell Of the sea.
The whole Length of the railroad line
from Marysville to Portland is not less
than 600 miles, divided nearly equally be-
tween the two States.
Estimates place the cost of tin from
the new San Jacinto (Cal.) mine at Sl20
per ton laid down in San Francisco, where
it readily brings $500 per ton.
A miscr died on the 25th ult, in New
Jersey City, worth 100000. He had
taken but one meal day for FIVE years,
and his wardrobe was valued at twenty
five cents.
The Liverpool and Great Western
Steamship Company advertise to take pas.
sengers through from San Francisco to
Great Britain, Ireland and the Continent,
ria New York, at s75 cabin tickets, and
return tickets at equally low rates.
San Francisco papers say the first ar
ticle of tinware manufactured from the tin
mined in the United States, was lately
made in that city. 1t is case to contain
the Pioneers certificate Of honorary mem.
bership presented to Hon. WIN, H, Seward.
The Post Office Dcpa rtment has made
asclection of designs for new postage stamps
to take the place of the abominable ones
now in use. They are to be about one.third
larger than the present ones, and will be
copies ofthe best executed busts and stat
ues Of our distinguished countrymen, as
follows: One cent, Franklin. by Burton,
Of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia;
two cents, Jackson. by Powers; three cents
Washington, by Howden; six cents, Lin
coin, by Volk; ten cents, Jefferson, BY
Powers; twelve cents, Clay, by Hart /;
fifteen cents, Webster, by Chergoner;
twenty.four cents, Scott, by Coffey; thirty
cents, Hamilton family bust; forty cents,
Perry, by y. Wolcott.
ATTEMPTED MURDER.-We learn from
private source, that man named Wilson,
living short distance this side of Month
III a