Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-03-19
GATHERINGS ~ THE WAYSIDE.

A negro has ust died in Brazil at the
age of l5o years.
The situation in Mexico grows moro
critical every day,
! Miss Dix is visiting the jai.s and State
prisons of the South.
brooklyn. the city of Churches, -
contains 2U6 churches.
The University of Edinburg has five
lady students Of Medicine.
Three thousand servant girls are out
of employment in Chicago
Henry Ward Beccher drinks Sherry
for breakfast in lieu of coffee
-Quecn Isabella pays $4,000 a year
in gold for her palace at Rome.
There are three negroes in the Texas
Senate and eight in the House.
Burns the poet, always dincd at two,
and hated tarts, pies and buildings.
The .: Hug Ne Tight" is the name of
a new jacket which the ladies' wear.
A new town in Newton county, No.
rcjoiccs in the name of Jolltication.
Queen Isabella, it is said, is writing
a novel, Of which she is the l.croipe.
The British government has decided to
employ women as telegraph operators.
-"To-nigh you git or danslc," is the
notice served on the thugs Of Wyoming.
South Carolina is Illustrating in green
peas and Niger on the Supreme Bench.
-Gerrit Smith has given $1,000 to the
fund for promoting Cuban independence.
The wiie's inability to make good
bread is ground Of divorce among the
Arabs.
livery man, woman and child in
America uses on an average 800 matches
year.
A number of the mechanics discharged
from the Brooklyn Navy Yard are to be
rcinstatcd
Mcclellan or Hancock will be at the
head of the Democratic Grand Army Of
the Constitution.
-Four hundred cords of white beach
wood are annually cut up into shoc-pegs
at Wilton, Maine
1T cost Boston at the rate Of nearly
81 900 per hour to receive and entertain
the President at the Jubilee in June.
The niger Senator, Reycls, has a
regiment of relatives in Indiana, where
he once resided, and they all want Office.
--Galcna where Grant used to tan
skins, has never recovered from the set
back, and cant pay the interest on her
debt
"A hotel-kcepcr at Munich toll DIR.
Osgood that he had less trouble with one
hundred Americans than with ten French
men.
The reason why Ben Butler is not
candidate for the Spanish throne. is said to
be because the crown jewels arc already
stolen.
The War Department has issued an
order forbidng the use Of coal oil for ilu-
minaing military posts. Lard oil will be
substituted.
The clergy cost the United States ST.,
900 600 per annum the criminals $40, 0OJ,-
900. the lawyers s70,oJo,0oo, and rum
$500. 100000.
An astronomer predicts for this year
comet Of such brilliancy and so near the
earth that our nights will be almost as
bright as our days.
Two mulattoes have been travelling in
Egypt pretending to be American Indians.
They arc not travelling now, because they
cant get out Of Jail.
A wcll-known bachelor in New York
has beoucathed 500, 900, his entire fortune.
to Mr.. Bergh's society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals.
The colored members of the Georgia
LEGISLATURE arc parting their hair in the
middle, an indication Of their rapid ad-
yancoscnt toward civilization.
The rascal in New York who advcr-
tised "small sewing machines " for sale at
one dollar each. sent to the applicants a
shoemakcr's awl, worth about fifteen cents.
Milton Page, of Alexandria, n. H.,
is the champion egg eatcrof New England.
Recently he stretched himself outside of
cightyGve of the largest eggs that could
be selected.
When the long handled collection-dish
was passed around in Boston church, a
little girl reached out for some of the pop
corn. She thought the deacon had a
coru-popper."
According to late dictionaries "gone
where the woodbine twineth' means aus
ka spiel" or sup the spout For III
stance Buffers honesty has gone where
the woodbine twineth.'
The papers say that Nellie Grants
costumes are of the rarcst and most costly
kind, and yet her father is too poor to pay
express charges on dog sent him by a
friend '.Vat country
Ground glass windows are said to be
destructive of health, because they dlmin-
ish light. The difference Of light trans
mitted through clear and ground glass is
about fifty per cent. in favor of clear glass.
Its rumored that ifa pension is grant