Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-16
GATHERINGS BLYTHE WAYSIDE.

| -Hays lily, Kansas, mas Icmalc con.
stable.
The cholera is making dreadful rava-
ges in India.
Tho smallpox still continues its rava-
ges in Paris.
-(ieneral Lee is advised to 90 again to
Europe for his health.
A great musical festival is being held
at Belvilderc, Illinois.
The Rothschilds are said to have
lately lost enormous sums of money.
--Scvonty-six million dollars are invest.
ed in newspapers in the United States.
-" Mud, with the juice squeezed out"
is what little Minnesota girls calls dust.
San Francisco is shipping peaches
and grapes Of the new crop to New York.
III. w. Scott, has been confirmed as
Collector Of Customs at Portland, Oregon.
Ono man in Champlain county, ILL.,,
planted $500 acres in corn this spring in
one piece.
Miss Ann Cary, niece of General
Samuel Cary, of Ohio, is preparing to car
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Madame Krietzoff is the name of the
Russian female lawyer who is beginning to
practice at St. Petersburg.
Senators Sumner and Ferry are very
severe upon President Grant for his course
on the San Domingo treaty.
Spain has joined England and Holland
in an expedition organize. FOR the extermi.
nation of piratecr III Uccanica.
-:cnator Sprague, has sent an agent
to Americas, Ca, with view of making a
selection, of a site for a cotton factory.
The Spanish authorities are proceed
ing with great vigor against Free Masons
in Cuba All Lodges there are prohibited
by statue.
The regulars" at Milwaukee beer
saloon have their own private glasses fur
nished them, and no other nose is allowed
to enter them.
The Chinese are being discharged from
the Mission Wooden Mills, San Francisco,
and their places filed white girls and boys.
That's rational progress.
-Koopmanscfap has agreed to furnish
one thousand five hundred Chinese to
Alabama and Tennessee. Five hundred
have been shipped already.
A vcritablc Chinese junk, built by
Cclestials, for the fishing trade, was launch
ed at Victoria, Vancouver Island, on the
Goth ult., with Chinese cercmonials.
"A congress of biologists, of Switzer-
land, France, Italy, Germany and Aus
tria. engaged in studies on the Alps, will
be held in Geneva on tho 3lst of August.
At one place in San Francisco within
radius of 100 feet there are either fin.
ished, or in process of erection, 3 jewish
Synagogucs, II Christian churches and a
Chinese Joss house.
-" Father" said Thackcray's little
daughter, "why cant you write such sto-
RIGS as Mr.. Dickens? ?" And the humorist,
magnanimous to all, told the incident Of
his own disparagemcnt.
For the year ending May Both, one
hundred and seventy four vessels laden with
wheat, sailed from San Francisco for En-
glish ports, carrying two hundred and thir.
ty-six thousand tons Of wheat.
The 4th in San Francisco was sue
cess. The procession was estimated at
three miles in length, nowhere less than
four abreast, while the military occupied
the entire street. The weather was pleas
ant, and not too warm for comfort.
Three gentlemen of science, from the
Netherlands, are in San Francisco, prepar-
ing to start on five years excursion up
the Columbia and through Alaska, collect
ing specimens for the national museum Of
the Netherlands. They have magnifi-
cent outfit.
"A drama entitled 4" The Fiend of New
Orleans" is runningin one of the cities of
Southern France. Gen. Butler is the
fiend, and among the stage properties are
dozen enormous spoons made Of highly
polished tin, and by gaslight much resem-
bling silver.
The jewelry Of the Etruscans, some Of
which made over 1000 years ago, was re-
Gently worn in public by an Italian lady, is
declared by competent judges to be superb
or in workmanship and finish to any made
at present in Paris. This rather upsets our
exalted notions about modern progress.
A Massachusetts, town has imported
seventy five Cinnamon, who will work for
nothing and board themselves the first ten
years, till they get their hands in to work
in boot and shoe mandatory. The
only cause for apprehension on the part of
the proprietors is that the pigtails would
eat pair of boots for lunch, if the rats
got scarce.
par Mr.. Flint, Chief Engineer of the