Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-02-19
GATHERINGS BY THR WAYyIDE.
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children.
The MHaO'oe, was vessel Of only
$50 tons.
Wisconsin is moving for compulsory
education.
The prize fat boy Of England weighs
739 pounds.
Fitzpatrick is buying up horses iu New
Jersey for Chill.
Opera glasses are now used at fash.
ionable weddings.
Seven American ladies' are now study
ing sculpture in Rome.
In Calcutta native women are being
educated for physicians.
An English woman has willed s40,-
600 to Jefferson Davis.
Iowa has ~ cities, but some of them
haven't 500 inhabitants.
Indiana has school fund Of more
than eight million dollars.
There are 800 nunneries of various
grades in the United States.
1t is said that the Emperor of Aus
tria is frequently intoxicated.
Twelve thousand Texas cattle are re.
ported en- route for California.
The fund for the relief of the Avon.
dale sufferers is now SOB, 1853.
columbus, KY, claims population
of 5000, and has no school-house.
The English market is flooded with
spurious autographs Of Washington.
DR. James, Of Bustleton, Pa, has
been Methodist preacher since 1900.
A German sarant predicts that the
Suez canal will be useless in two years.
AT Mariposa, Calsa girl twelve years
of age recently marrieda man Of forty-6ve.
Pretty girls are the guide. boards that
point the way to the State Of Matrimony.
Jennie Lind's twelve year old daugh-
ter bids fair to out-nightingale her mother
in time.
-Four Mormon prophets have returned
from visit to Georgia with one hundred
converts.
A woman in st. Louis has taken a
S12, 900 contract for matchmaking street
in that city.
Colorado has good working Demo-
cratic majority in both branches Of its
legislature.
A business house in Chicago advertises
for a woman to travel as commercial
drummer"
In Buffalo, about nightfall, may be
seen several young women acting as street
lamp-lighters.
1T costs Napoleon $500 to give one of
his state dinners. He will give two q
year hereafter.
A bill has been introduced in the New
Mexico Legislature granting the right of
suffrage to females.
The Legislature of Tennessee has
passed law forbidding the bringing Of
Chinese laborers into that State.
Twenty years ago Pennsylvania was
the largest wheat-producing State in the
Union; now it is about the twelfth.
There are two printing Offices in Swe-
den carried on exclusively by females
one in Hudiksval and one in Christianstad.
1t is said that all the hotels and sa-
looms in Quincy, Mich, have closed their
bars and refused to sell any liquor of any
kind.
Very many fashionable young ladies
are suffering with abcesscs and ulcers on
the feet, caused by wearing French heels
on their boots.
Mrs. James Gordon Bennett has
bought a beautiful villa on Lake Como,
where she will hereafter reside during the
summer season.
A game Of chess, lasting ten years,
has just been concluded between DR..
Karl Branzinger of Germany, and his
brother in New York.
The National InteUigencer, at Wash
ington, again dominates Salmon p. Chase
for the Presidency, and Robert Z. Lee for
Vice President, in 1872
Rev. George Pearce is the Oldest mis-
sionary in India. He has been laboring
there, under the appointment of the Eng
lish Baptist Society, for forty-three years.
A resolution has been introduced in
Congressby Committee on Appropriations
indirectly impeaching the recommendations
Of Grant on the score Of the necessities Of
the Government.
-" A lady of noble BIRTH" has leased
the saloons of London theatre, for the
purpose Of giving the profits to the dis
charged workmen of the dockyards. She
"tends bar" in full dress, with two pages.
Carrying bouquet containing chloro-
form is the fashion among rapid women.
When a chap with money concealed about
him gets spooney, they let him smell of it,
and the result is lesson spooney never
forgets.
The London Missionary Society pro-
poses to extend its mission along DR.. Liv-
ingston's tracks in Central Africa, making
the Orange river the base, and sending at
least nine missionaries at once at the north
Of that line.
Ten million bushels of oysters are