Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-09-04
GATHERINGS BY THE WAYSIDE,


in Florida.
-t;arilmlli's daughter writes most of
his maniicstocs.
A Chicago girl is making her fortune
as house-paintcr.
st Petersburg has had an intcrnaton-
al convention of botonists.
A black girl is sucing white man
in Chicago for breach promise.
Oil wells are still sunk in Pcnusylva-
MIA. but they are usually failures.
Providence, Rhode Island, refuses to
license any liquor shops this year.
A forty years engagement in South
Carolina has eliminated in matrimony.
Only one newspaper in Texas sup
ports the regular Republican nominations.
-Nictoria's eldest daughter is to be the
patron Of II womans newspaper in London.
The Gar is afraid of the women.
He has intcrdictcd Sorosis at ST. Peters
burg.
Forty seven thousand acres of prairie
will be broken in one county Of Ohio this
year.
A negro boy has been fined in New
Orleans for telling fortunes without Il H.
ccnsc.'
Minnesota is going crazy over soft
naples. Every farmer in the State is
planting them.
But 100 of 800 applications made at
Washington for vclocipedc patents have
been granted.
Loyal English ladies' scramble for the
cherry stones left ON the Prince of Wales
plate after desert.
slippery elm bark is peeled in Min
nesota in large quantities and shipped to
Eastern druggists.
An English physician of good stand
ing has been fined for refusing to have his
children vacc;nated.
A statst estimates that America con-
sumcs 34?,52l kegs of gunpowdcr in get.
ting through lhc " Fourth"
The New York Board of Health. be-
Ing afraid Of pestilence, is pouring carbon
ic acid in the unclcan places.
Sir Rounded Palmer. the d>tin.
guished English Chanccry lawyer, makes
Sl25.O a year by his practice.
OF the eighty four steamers which ply
between America and Europe but five are
owned by the American companies.
| Canada has sent out to the Northwest
Territory a large force of men to work on
the roads so as to induce settlement.
"A crazy lnlianian cvinccs his insani-
ty by buying collins for all his friends. and
sending them ON with his compliments.
1t costs $40 in Matches, Miss, to get
drunk and indulge in the pleasing sport of
shooting down citizens indisctminatcly.
The Berlin TnLnne says that Count
Bismarck will shortly send his two sons
for several months to the United States.
Mrs. Daniel Bean is the name of the
woman in Concord, New hampshire, who
is peddlng antiwoman-suilrage petitions.
-Ex-Prc,idcnt Pierce remains mem
Der Of the law firm "r Pierce Il Minot,,
which was formed about twenty-five years
ago.
Chicago is projecting monster must
cal festival for next year, which is expect
Cd to take all the shine out Of the Boston
ians.
In some parts of Minnesota thousands
of geese are raised simply for their ieath
crs, and it is said to be u very profitable
crop.
Sugar plumS, rich food, wine and
beer are among the things which the roy
al children Of Prussia are never allowed to
taste.
"A cooperative housekeeping cstab-
lishmcnt, containing bakery, kitchen and
laundry. will soon be started in Cambridge,
Mass
| Deer are so numerous in the vicinity
of Santa Cruz that travellers have to whip
them out of the road. So says the Pajar-
Ontan.
Many cattle in Iowa have been killed
by eating too freely of clover, which has
become poisonous by growing too rank
since heavy rains.
The Russian literary ladies want to
form stock company to publish their
works, but tho Government won't allow
such strong-mndedness.
The sum of $3.50 900 was recently
paid in Paris for legacy duty on property
left by the late Baron Rothschild in the
Department of the Seine.
AT Mobile Episcopal church, after
the collection all the contributors rise, and
the pastor consecratcs the Offering with
prayer Everybody gives something.
The operatives in the Montmorcncy,
Canada, sawmill have struck because
Yankee has introduced an instrument for
setting saws which allows too much work
to be done.
A swarm of bees settled on the front
of locomotive on Vermont railroad
few months ago, and the engineer not dar-
ing to disturb them, they got free ride
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