Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-23
GATHERINGS BY THE wAYsrDE.
-Girard College has $40 pupils.

-Girard College has $40 pupils.
"A new diamond mine has been dis.
covered in Georgia.
Wine is cheaper than milk 10 the low.
er part Of California.
The Turkish postage stamps are the
most beautiful in use.
The women in Bristol, Tenn, take
their knitting to church.
There are about eight hundred pro.
fessional singers in France.
A breed of dogs that cannot bark has
been discovered in Australia.
Texas has over 500 miles Of railroad,
and is rapidly building more.
Seven sisters work their fathers farm
in Wright county, Minnesota.
England paid s35, 900, 900 to buy the
telegraph lines from their owners.
Twenty barrels Of silver coin were re-.
Gently received in New York from Canada.
All the principal hotels in San Fran.
cisco now have elevators in operation.
About onc.half the type.scttiug on the
Paris literary papers is done by women.
In Vauderburg county Indiana, an In.
dian is officiating as Methodist minister.
They have a baseball club called
" The Silent" composed Of mutes, at Iowa
City.
Stockings are now darncd by ma.
chihcry, and they are said to be darned
nice.
American sewing machines are to be
introduced into the national schools Of Ire.
land.
Five hundred dollars will rent q New.
port cottrge one week, if the family is
small.
A Philadelphia woman has eleven
hundred flower pots surrounding her
house.
A subaquatic pneumatic railway is
contemplated between Louisville and New
Albany.
San Francisco shipped one thousand
packages of tea, by rail, one day lately, to
Chicago.
1T is estimated that New York alone
sells four million dollars worth of dolls
each year.
William Everett, son of Edward Ev-
crett, delivered the grafton in Boston on
the Fourth.
Two months miscellaneous refresh
ments" for the City Council have cost
Boston $3.50 IS.
The New York Express complains of
the frequent and bewildering changes in
our postage stamps.
Thurman, of Ohio, continues to be
talked about as the Democratic candidate
for the Presidency.
The Albany Argus thinks that with
proper exertions the Democracy may carry
twenty-five States in 1872.
Governor Reid of Florida, vetoed near.
ly all the acts passed by the Legislature at its
recent special session.
An entire tribe Of gipsies are living
in comfortable shanties on Seventy. first
street, New York City.
Governor Geary is moving heaven
and earth to secure the Republican nomi.
nation for the Presidency.
-koopmanschap has contracted to fur.
nish l 500 Chinese to Alabama and Ten.
nessee in three equal shipments.
There was a single order received
from New York for 10000 tickets in the
Mercantile Library Gift Concert.
Three Chinese bows are in Wash.
ington to be educated in the Howard Uni.
versity among the negro students.
-Four George Waslingtons, six An.
drew Jacksons, five Henry Clays, and two
James X. Folks, reside at present in the
Louisiana Peniteutiary.
A labor and Capital Cooperative
Colony has been formed in New York,
which is to send out one thousand settlers
to Southern Colorado in August.
The Radical soldiers of Indiana are
complaining of that party excluding them
from the various tickets to be voted this
fall. 1t is all negro, no white soldiers.