Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-08-13
GATHERINGS by THE WAYsIDE.

hopeless invalid.
Minnesota is introducing fruit trees
from Russia.
Minnesota has a dog that has been
taugh to sing.
Chicago has three hundred and forty.
six policemen.
New York has a baby violinist less than
three years Of age.
Free baths in New York decrease the
weekly death-ratc.
jet jewelry is.very fashionable East
the present season.
Andrew johnson is candidate for
Governor of Tennessee.
The style of ladies' hats in Paris is
what it was lO5 years ago
The Central Pacific Railroad owns
nine thousand frei ght cars.
There are 659 Young Mems Christian
Associations in the country.
Cincinnati is the fourth manufacture
ing city in the United States.
"A French Presbyterian congregation
has been organized in Chicago.
An Indiana young lady boasts of hav-
ing two hundred correspondents.
Illinois boasts of canine population
of three hundred thousand dogs.
Chicago has benevolent burial asso-
citation with capital Of 100000.
-Pere Uyacinthc is out with a letter
condemning the dogma of infallbility.
A Chicago couple celebrated Tndepen.
dence Day by getting married in a balloon.
"A. T. Stewart reports an income of
three millions five hundred thousand dol.
lars.
Wisconsin is attracting more emigrants
this year than any other Northwestern
State.
William Cullen Bryant is writing his
- Eecollcctious," to be published after his
death.
Chicago has horse which dotes on
tobacco and steals it from the hostlcr's
pockets.
Charles Dickens. in his will, declines
monument, preterrins to rest his fame on
his works.
An exchange says that st. Louis is
soon to have acolorcd theological seminary
What color?
A California lady has taken to silk.
worms as pets, and raised large colony
for amusement.
"A majority of the shares of the
Thomaston National Bank, in Maine, are
Owned by women.
Mrs. Lincoln, with fortune in he,
own right of 100000, gets pension Of
$4,000 per annum.
Miss Nellie Raymond, the late En-
crossing Clerk of the Missouri Senate, i.
not yet sweet sixteen.
The hairdrcsscrs' shops Of Madrid arc
crowded with povcrty-strick, Spanish
girls anxious to sell their hair.
A cabinet-makcr of London, Ont
challenges the world to match him at cab
met making for 81 900 Il side.
They propose, in New York. to com
memorate the dead novelist by erecting a
:" Dickens Drinking Fountain
Tho German ladies of Chicago have
formed a Prussian Sanitary Society, and
intend holdings great fair soon.
Thirty thousand dozen eggs were re
Gently received at San Francisco, in the
shipments Of one day from Oregon.
The difficulty between Peru and Boil
via have been settled, and the securities Of
hath in ar v
A new South Carolina plant yields &
large supply of honey, clear as spring wa
ter" and is as ornamental as useful
Senator Spraguc says that negro vot
ing in Rhode Island will so disgust Radi
Gals that the State is certain to 60 Demo
cratic.
An Indiana maiden and matron arc tc
have foot race to determine whether the
single or married women of the State arc
fieetest.
A farmer at Abba, Monroe county
Iowa, is employing Chinese field hands
and says they are worth more than their
weight in tea.
Mr. j. G.. Ford, editor and publisher
of the Greensboro, KY, Shield, announces
that Mrs. Ford is admitted as full part
ner in the concern.
"A proposal to buy and preserve the
Gad's Hill house and grounds as national
memento to Dickens, has been set on foo,
in English literary circles.
The workingmen of Madrid made q
public demonstration on the 18th ult., de
handing employment. The people arc
said to be dying of hunger.
There is girl residing in Boston who
is not quite eight years old, and weighs
two hundred pounds. Around the calves
of her legs she measures twenty four inches
and half
1t is reported from Paris that fashion
able girls have appeared upon the streets
this summer, wearing sandals of such form
as to leave the rosy sides and upper por.
ton Of the instep bare.