Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-01-23
GATHERINGS BY TIE WAYS!DE.

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York average sl3 a week.
There are fifty-four hot springs in Ar
ksnsas. The State ought to be healthy
There remain bat three hundred
miles Of the Pacific Railroad to complete.
The greatest known velocity Of the
largest ocean wave was 800 milse sashour.
-Tammany Hall, New York has been
rented till 1880 for a place Of amusement.
The Utah postal service costs $751;
79S = year, and yields only $4,000 rcve-
nue..
"A ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS chimney
company has been organized in San Fran
| cisco. Z i ,lt.T T i(ffi
Wendell Phillips is of the opinion that
Grant will Adamise, Tyleriss aud John
sonize. ,,.
"A new Custom II ousc and Post Office
is to be constructed ut Astoria in the
Spring.
The average daily wages Of $4,000
Partisan women are two francs and fourteen
centimes.
In 1867 Hollands population was 8,
592, 416 souls. The women Outnumbered
the men 1882.
Over $4,000 persons have come to the
United States during the past year from
Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
The Prusian demi-monde have a
newspaper printed on rose-tintcd and scent
cd PAPER, which is called the Col~mbinc.
/ The new suspension bridge across the
Hudson will have q clear span of 1000
feet; the longest yet built On the conti-
nent.
King Louis, Of Bavaria. has an orchcs-
ira of seventy performers to play to him
alone, no others being admitted to tho audi
ence.
Austria has ordered the construction
Of more than 5000 miles of railway within
six months, involving an outlay Of $500,
O0O, 1000.
Double breasted frock coat, tight trow-
sers, Canadian hat and light gloves are now
the fashionable promenade costume for a
New York SWELL
Every house in San Francisco in
which small pox is known to be are guarded.
day and night, by sworn officers, who allow
no persons to go in or come out.
Tho late Baron Rothschilds left prop
erty valued at $40, 100000. Ills heirs
have legacy duty Of about 10000, 900
francs to pay on the property they inherit.
"A vessel is buildingat New York larg,
er than any other in the world except the
Great Eastern She will be named the
America, and is designed for the China
trade.
"A peculiar death occurred at Louisville
the other day. A gentleman wore tight
boots, which caused modification to set in
on the instep Of his foot, aud he died in
three days.
Newman, the silk weaver of San Jose,
intends to manufacture wholly of Califor-
mia material, splendid silk flag. to be pre-
sentcd to the State, to wave over tho new
Capitol at tho next session Of the Lcgisla-
ture.
The wreck ofthe United States steam
or Uate,ce which was stranded on the
coast of Peru last summer, at the time of
the Great Earthquake, has been sold-thc
hull for 1000 aud the guns, equipments,
etc., for 81 200.
Underground travelling in London in
crcascs at an astonishing rate. The num-
Der of passengers carried for the first half
Of the present year by the Metropolitan un-
foreground railway was l6,504, 395, against
,S23, 436 in 1868 and I, 462, $3.50 in 1865.
Some niggers down in Georgia have
memoralixed Congress, upon which occa-
sion they say, Sour only hope Of deliver
ance is in Congress" Tho rumps can re-
ciprocate, and should reply to the Georgia
gentlemen and say, "Our only hope Of de-
liverance is in the Niger" s.g ls.,.-.-,
General Grant owns 100000 house
at Washington, and farm Of thirty-eight
acres worth SO 900 per acre, withinthe city
limits. His real estate at St Louis, Ga
lena, and Philadelphia, Is worth 500, ZOO
more, and $500, 900 is said to be fair es-
innate Of his total valuation" Where
did he get his money!
The Radicals have very singular
way of economising. The expenses Of col.
lecting the Internal Revenss for the year
1865 was o. ,689, 700, for tho year 1867
1882 1856, and for the year 1868, e9,327 )
8Ol, each year growing greater while the
smount of taxes collected have been de-
creasing, - will be seen by the following
figures. The amount collected in 1866 was
e8lO, 500, 1874, ID, 1867, e265, 1910 ,474, in
1868, el8l ,l80, 584. AttAis rass, in ab0xl
three .es's he ssss:sss Of collecting the H.
fersal rsussss ,o;u jase about cover the re
oeipss, provided tho officers don't get &C
aocustumsd to stealing that they would
steal their own sahries and bring elaine
! against bankrupt Government for theil
loyal services. i, sH.,t u. .;4-.i .,