Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-11-12
GATHERINGS By TINE wAYSIDE.

GATHERINGS By TINE wAySIDE.
The "hotte.t Of the 6ght" is always
where the coolest courage prevails.
TO ascertain the weight Of . horne
pat your to- under the sniuIals foot.
The womaukind.of Iowa are behind
the other sex to the tune Of 10000 in
number.
The theatre of war Is about the only
theatre where the back seats are the most
desirable.
A man should think little Of the. evil
that is said Of him, Unless lie thinks much
Of him who says it.
-" Mamma" said a little girl to her
mother, "do you know how l go to bed
quick ?" "No," was the reply. well"
said she, 10 great glee, II step one foot over
the crib, and then l say rats, and frighten
myself right in"
"A teacher catechising his scholars,
put the following question: "What was
made to give light to the world ?" snatch.
es," cried one Of the youngsters.
A married lady being asked to waltz,
gave the following sensible and appropriate
answer: "No, thank you, sir, 1 can get
hugging enough at home"
"Three. and -sixpence per gallw cxclaim.
cd Mrs. Darlington, looking over the price
current. "Why, bless me what is the
world coming to, when gals are only worth
three and siYnence ?"
1T can't be said that there is lack of
religion among the Chinese, for they have
full thirty thousand gods.
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote to the
doctors of Berkshire, that if the pendu.
lum Of belief does not swing through a
pretty wide arc, the hands of progress will
hardly be kept going"
Mr.. Punch, IN English newspaper
man, making some pretensions to joculari-
ty, expresses the opinion that silk dress
should never be sat in. How is that.
"A school girl, in writing to her moth.
or, says: 81 get along nicely with all my
teachers except Miss il but I don't
blame her, because she accidentally shot
the young man she was engaged to, and it
naturally makes her feel kind Of cross,
especially on cloudy days."
"A young man charged with being lazy,
was asked if he took it from his father, "
think not, was the reply; fathers got all
the laziness he ever had"
AS regards expression, the three prom.
inent men Of Germany may be thus distin.
guished: King William says what he thinks;
Bismark says what it is polite to say; and
Moltke says nothing.
I'm ancient Betia, brides were carried
home in vehicles whose wheels were burned
at the door in token that they would never
again be needed to take them back.
Somebody has sent U. 8. Treasure,
Spinner ten cents, to be placed at Interest
until it shall accumulate enough to pay The
national debt. Will some Of our arithme
titians figure out when that will be.
-Owaha, an Indian orator, is on tn.
point of starting on lecture tour through
the United States. He has for his subjec
The Beneficial Results on the Human
Understanding Of Scalping, in Connection
with Liberal Provision Of Blankets fol
the Redman."
"A woman should always remember
that her clothes should be in expense ant
quantity proportioned to her own circum
stances, and not to those Of her neighbor
1t turns ont that at the battle Of Sc
dan, thirty per cent. Of the French officer
were killed, and only seven per cent. Of tn
men they commanded.
Forty thousand women are employed
a. outdoor laborers in England. A larg'
proportion Of them, however, would b
willing 70 abandon this fright" and e,
back to F." womau's sphere" if they could.
Brigham Young regrets the millio,
and half of women that are " wasted" a
he terms it, in this country, by being I'm
married. II ia sad.