Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-09
GATHERINGS Ey TIE wiySlrr.

~ Wyoming girl want, to 90 to IVES,
Point.
Travel over The Pacific Railroad is in.
credsin..
Manchester, y. H., prohibits smok.
ing on Sunday.
california is sending dried fruit to
The Eastern cities.
One sixth of the people of Minnesota
are Sean inavans.
Eggs can be bouyh, for nine cents a
dozen in Missouri
There was no less than 2,056 English
vessels lost last year.
-Four prominent English magazines
are edited by women.
There are SIS inmates of the Indiana
State Insane Asylum.
Prof Dorclli, at Marseilles, has dis
covered new planet.
---Skillful frog hunters earn twelve dol.
lars day at Memphis.
The war debts of Europe are now
about lG,00o, 100000
to visit us this summer.
boston ships are loading with ice for
India, China and Japan.
Barney Williams, the actor, has a
daughter worth 100000.
--Dckens's novels are being published
in French, in new editions.
Singing is hereafter to be regularly
taught in the French navy.
Ten thousand Bibles are distributed
annually, in New Hampshire.
Three young Cinnamon, it is said, are
to enter Harvard University.
Posting bills on the sidewalk has
been prohibited in New York.
Texas is to ship north the coming
season 80, 900 head of cattle.
The first day of June was Brigham
lounss sixty-ninth birth day.
A recent act of Congress makes the
Both of Mays national holiday.
Twelve hundred emigrants left Lon
don for Canada, few days ago.
"A Cincinnati hotel keeper dresses all
his walters in full naval uniform.
There are 1900 windmlIs in con.
slant use in Holland for drainage.
Ten thousand people are said to die
annually. in India, of snakc-bitcs
The latest New York extravaganza is
to have diamonds set in ones teeth.
The Hebrews at Jerusalem are re-
ported to be in il starving condition.
"A Danvcrs man sold So 900 worth of
sage seed last year at $40 per pound.
A married couple in Maryland have
six children, all born deaf and dumb.
ten. Longstreet has been made Adiu.
tant-Gcneral Of the Louisiana militia.
From present indications, the next
Mayor OF Washington will be a negro.
According to the Fifteenth Amend
ment, Nevada will have 250 negro voters
1T is said an American offers $780,
600 for Dickens residence at Gad's Hill.
dayton, Ohio, claims to have the
heaviest mayor in tho Union-!00 pounds.
"A Newly orker has invented glass
coffin on the principle of selfscaing cans.
1t is stated that the lasha of Egypt
has offered a commission to Gen. Bcaure-
gard.
Tho Salt Lake Ne,us recommends
sending Mormon missionaries to San Fran
cisco.
Six carloads of Strawberries, or 81 ,617
pounds, were brought to Chicago, the 9TH
cr day.
Not satisfied with horse-hesh, the
Parisians now talk of importing kangaroos
for food.
The commerce of the Ohio river figures
up the immense sum Of 1914, 100000 per
annum.
There are 81 counties in the State of
Indiana, and 80 of these are reached by
railroads. .r
"A subterranean lake has been discov-
cred at Lancaster, Pa, seventy feet below
the surface.
English grocers use chromate of lead
to an almost fatal extent in the adultera-
ton of sugar.
Miss Anna Dickinson appreciates from
$4,000 to $4,000 income during the
lecture season.
Over hundred young ladies are at
present reading law in the various States
Of this Union. ..,
-" Christadelphians' is the title of the
latest new sect. The members live at
Jefferson, Ind.
The number of destitute persons in
Paris is 10l $40, or one in sixteen of the
total population.
The production Of petroleum in Penn.
sylvania for the past month averages H..
200 barrels daily.
The growing mulberry trees for silk.
worms food, in Southern California, are
estimated at 100000. ......
There are, in America and Europe
more than two hundred and fifty manufac.