Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-08-06
GATHERINGS BIZ the wAYslDE.

Wyoming Territory has only 700 wo.
men.
Milwaukee, Wis, has three female
BARRIERS.
Greeley, the Nevada town, is growing
rapidly.
Peanuts are being grown in Massa-
chusetts.
-"Cousin John" is the name Of town
in Georgia.
Virginia fears smut will diminish her
wheat crop.
Red Cloud is an able and scholarly
poker player.
Liquor is distilled from sweet potatoes
in Tennessee.
There are 10000 maiden ladies in
Massachusetts,.
There are 29,5l2 German Methodists
in this country.
-Napoleon's State dinners cost 5000,
or $50 per plate.
The new Grand Hotel at San Francis.
co cost 100000.
There are 100000 Good Templars in
the United States.
-Methodism claims in the world g.
1888 me,nbew.
They trained dogs to skate in Paris
to skate last winter.
Catholic missionaries in China have
made a million converts.
Kansas College has among its students
eight intelligent /" red men"
The male snobs Of New York wear
gold bracelets on both arms.
Chicago real and personal, figures I'D
valuation of S266 OH $3.50.
Wilmington, Del, now employs only
female public school teachers.
Washington folks are making a sum.
mer resort of IIarpcr's Ferry.
The Montgomery, Ala. Nail Ina, a
lady for its chief local reporter.
There are eight young ladies' in the
Michigan Agricultural College.
Alaska has not one Protestant or
American missionary or preacher.
The silver mines in New Mexico are
said to be the richest in the world
A recent New York wedding had
$4,000 worth of floral decorations.
A train of 400 passengers passed over
the Central Railroad the other day.
An International Maritime Exhibi.
ton is to be held in Naples next fall
-Georgia is excited over the discovery
of u rich diamond lode in that State.
A Chicago paper advises the Princess
Alexandra to send over for divorce.
The State Of Kansas is about to place
portrait of John Brown in its capitol.
A complete road wagon has been
built weighing only sixty eight pounds.
Conductors on the Central Pacific
Railroad are to wear a uniform hereafter.
The New York Sun says that Gen.
Grant has a brilliant future behind him"
1t is announced that false chignons,
plaits and curls can be made of spun glass.
The Reformed Presbyterian Church
Of New York proposes to fight secret soci.
ties.
In Los Angeles county. CAL, one
thousand horses were lately sold at IS per
head.
There are seven public libraries at
Jacksonville, His, containing 1880 vol,
umcs.
The cvergrccns throughout Central
Illinois arc dying from some unexplained
cause.
Quaker meetings have been re .cstab.
lishcd in Boston after cessation for many
years.
The champion divorccr lives in Ak
ron, o. lie has just secured his eleventh
divorce.
The Chicago Board Of Trade is con.
sidering petition. for the admission Of
women.
Last year Detroit excluded 1000
children from its public schools for want
Of room.
The President has signed the bill to
erect market to cost q million dollars in
Washington.
Salt Lake, in Utah, is seven feet high
er than it was ten years ago and is con.
stantly rising.
Salt Lake City is the coming Ameri.
can watering place, according to an enthu-
siastic tourist.
A free.love colony is said to have pur.
chased large tract Of land in Kalamazoo
county, Mich.
A native of South Africa has transla-
ted the Pilgrims Progress" into the
Caffre tongue.
France has warned Greece that if
brigands capture Frenchmen, Greece shall
pay the ransom.
An anchor that belonged to Americas
vespucius and bears his name, is now one
Of the sights Of Brussels.
-Twenty-one millions Of dollars are
ooont oupu,1l,, hv tho I.;n b o.s 90 loro.