Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-04-09

The wife Of the Peruvian minister at
weighs 800 pounds.
The ratio Of gro.ycrcs to churches
in New York city is Us ID! to /.
liver 100000 worth Of properly
was burned up in Philadelphia last year.
One hundred millions Of people in the
world speak English, or words to that Ct.
feet.
Losses hy fire in the United States
for the past fourteen years foot up $780,
000. 900.
Tho city council of Baltimore is taking
steps to prevent trapezc performances in
that city.
The ais1es Of the church are now
sfrewn with flowers at Dobby New York
weddings.
-Two.thirds Of the expert pickpockcts
in New York city are females under 30
years ofagc.
Rubber pens arc manufacture which
are said to combine the good qualities Of
all other pens in use.
A railway train was recently struck
by an avalanche, on Mount Gents, and
hurled down prccipicc.
Winchester, Virginia, during the war.
changed hands cighty-scvcn tincs-irc-
4ucntly as many as three times day.
In London, it is said, one million Of
men, women, and children profess no
creed, and never enter place of worship
Nav Hampshire farmers are sending
all over the country specimens Of their
granite carefully packed in the centre of
butter kegs.
The Philadelphia Star knows n young
lady that will give any man S300DD to
marry her. Will the Star please give the
lady's address?
oliver Wendell Holmes says that wild
ows who cry easily, arc the first to marry
again. There is nothing like wet weather
for tr,Dsplantns
The Female Printers Union, of New
York city, now numbers about - members.
The whole number Of women typc.scttcrs
in that city is $50.
a bin has passed. Congress allowing
tunnel t" be run under the Hudson river
between New York and Jersey City and
New York and Brooklyn.
"A two.hc,lcl Child was rcccutly
born in Tazewcll, Tenn. The father was
q full-hlUicd negro, and the mother u
Write w,n.an. Tic child was stillhorp
Il man narScl Speight, who claims
to be Jesus Christ. was solc on n,il out
OF Soa.hiDgtoD, Conn. lie had half
dozen women who followed after him
weeping
A Tennessee girl, in or,ler to make y
snre thin; Of it, allowed two young men to
take out a license to marry her. She
probably kept her matrimonial books Oh
the double entry system.
The ten merchants in England pro-
pose to get their supplies via San Fran-
cisco and the Pacific Railroad. 20 as to pre-
vent any loss Of favor through too grcas
change Of temperature IN the transit.
a Norman elder living in Salt Lake
city has buried one hundred and forty.
eight children. The tablet Of his monu.
ment, rs we'll rs tho tablet Of his me mory,
must be pretty large to contain all the
names.
a coiore,I woman Of Evansville, who
three years agu married. white man ut
Moant Vernon, Ind, applied to Judge,
% few days ago, for an injunction to pre-
vent her recreant lord from marrying
another.
The mixed jury, six women and six
n'cn, at Laramie, IN the Howic murder
case, Inadc another night Of it. They
could not agree, and consequently were
locked up again, making it over fifty hours.
Poor husbands:
Herman Culver, an Indiana school
teacher, recently gave one Of his pupils,
only thirteen years Of age, 175 lashcs. lie
was iued s25 and costs but more right
eous punishment, would have been the
State prison for life.
Ohio proposes to give $4,000 for a
monument to General William Henry
Harrison, and Maryland S25,OOO to fur
nsh it's Governors mansion Thus are to
be satisfied the claims of dead President
and living Governor.
The average time made by steamers
last year between Panama and San Fran.
cisco was fourteen days two hours; between
China and the same port, 33 days one
hour, and between Honolulu and the
same port, twelve days seven hours.
The st. Johns Masonic Lodge, No 3,
Of Glasgow, Scotland, lately celebrated the
eight hundred and twelfth anniversary Of
its existence. 1t was founded by King
Malcolm, in the year 1853, nine years pre-
vlous to the Norman conquest of England.
A Michigan man, while walking a
street in East Saginaw, was struck in the
face by one of small flock of flying
pigeons, and both fell. The man had his
cheek torn, one tooth Knocked out and
several others looscned. The pigeon
was killed.
Charlotte Guilliard was the first no.
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