Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-09-17
GATHERINGS by TIE WAYSIDE.


BE not offended at jest. If one toss salt
on thee, thou wilt receive no harm unles thou
hast sore places.
-Loafers do not toll, neither do they spin
hut they manage to keep body and soul togcth-
er without working, which is n very fine art.
-"I can marry any girl please" said a
young fellow boastingly. every true" re.
piled his wagsish companion" for you can t
please any"
--Sckcs has been favored by a merciful
providence with persistent climate of lOi
degrees at Madrid, by way OF uccustomng him
gradually to high temperature.
A man who wants to be- on the safe side
says he shall not undertake to say which is
right, France or Prussia until he finds out
whi' is left when they get through fighting.
A London letter, describing Minister Mot
lcy's Fourth of Jul" party, says: The singular
beauty of some of the American ladies was
more talked about by the English guests than
the Declaration of Independence.
Some ono sent to a Richmond paper, as
origin A. an extract from the Songs Of Solomon,
aud the editor published il as fair specimen
of the poetical etiu Sions which are daily thrown
into our waste basket
The Georgia Radicals are very much dis
hrar.encd at the conservative position which
Judge Akerm,n has taken on the Georgia
question. aud declare that the election this fall
will hand the State over to the Democrats with
at least forty thousand majority.
Stephen Curry, a well to do farmer Of Sui
li,an county, New York. has just celebrated
his one-huudrcdih birthday. He has six sons
living, one being ex-thief Justice Curry of
California, aged seventy, and another Rev.
Daniel Curry, editor of the Chrlsiian -idroeate,
aged 60.
The workiugmeu's League of New York
have denounced the introduction Of Chinese
liborcrs into the United States, and called up.
on the working men to support In the coming
election only the candidates who would pledge
themselves TO leg isiate against the importation
ofChincse.
The Governor of the work-house at Pleas
ton, Eugls md. recently ordered a lad named
John barring To be " duckcd' for sofling his
clothes. lie was dueked 20 thoroughly that
he was drowned or. as the Coroner's jury hath
it, met " death by missdyenture."
A Western editor has hit upon plan bt
which the ''ontrages on the American flag,
which have been so frequent OF late, can he
avoided without resorting 10 bloodshed. lie
advices all American ship ma sters not to carry
any dAg, and then no outrage can be pcrpetra-
ted upon the precious emblem Of liberty.
The greatest friend to journalist an
enemy, although this is not true OF othe'
people. George Alfred Townsend, the grea,
journalist, writes " There is no friend to a
Journalist like an enemy. The meaner the at.
tack the more inevitably it becomes . benefit
VIM Corbcit once said Every mean enemt
brings me a new thought, two new friends and
five new subscribers.
The Island OF Jamaica has been visited
.,,. ,
has not experienced for the past forty years
In wcstmorcland a pie. Of land, with all its
houses aud trees. slipped down hillside into
another parish, without doing much dana y
to either houses or grounds thus displaced
Some impor tant questions Of title are likely te
arise out OF this somewhat novel change.
The Milwaukee Senfiaei says that there
We're forty strokes OF lightning in Wisconsin
fatal TO life or destructive Of property, betweer
the sth aud ?9ih of July, inclusive. Twent,
men, women aud children were killed and Il
injured. several so seriously that they can nev
er entirelv recover. Two hundred and thir
teen horses. cattle. sheep and swine were kill
ed; eight dwelling houses and six barns wer'
destroyed, and six houses aud nine barn.
burned.
Suppose a brother and sister-ihe man 3:
years old. the girl s-ths makes the mau sew
en- Zines as old as'the girl: they lise sscarthe'
sn,ii tn. girl is 10 yesrs-this makes him -
years old and four times as old as the girl
they attn kve sasl ste 10 ! 8. the man beisi
4s-,his makes the mau three times as old
thew still live until she is 20 years old-ihi
makes ;he man 60. only twice as old. and q
on. Now how long would they have 20 live q
make the girl as old as the mani
The Army bill having abolished the mill
tag Indian agents. the Secretary Of the luterio
has made arrangements with the Indian Ba
resu for restoring the agencies to civil control
More attention than heretofore is to he paid q
moral qualifications aud capacity, and, uherev
er practicable snrh agents, before appoint
meat. are resaired to have the endorsement q
,h- religious bodies IT, xhifs they may respec
lively belong. as in ease Of the Friends yea
ego nader the Indian peace policy Of Presidsn
Grant;