Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-10-15
GATHERINGS by TIE WAYSIDE.


enuc states the value of the leading indus
tries of the United States as follows: As
riculture S3. .2S2 .95) 900; cotton manufac
turc. S71 ,500,000; wooden manufacture
S66. 6.O00, 900; iron production, Sll9,950,. :.
600; leather manufactures. S226. .G60. 600;
railway service. $500 900 ; fisheries. 500,
100000; making total of Sl,223 900,
900.
vMrs. Williams. late Mrs. Senator
Douglas, has commenced an action against
the executors ofthc Douglas estate, alleging
fraud in the management. She seeks to
recover $50 900 wronsrully held.
eylufanity never did any man the
least good. n" man is the richer, or hap
pier, or wiser for it. 1t comnends no one
to any society. It is disgusting to the re-
fined abominablc to the good insulting
to those with whom We associate; degrading
to the mind Improbable, needless, and
injurious to society.
GA worthy Quaker thus wrote: I
expect to pass through this world but once.
II, therefore, there be any kindness can
show, or any good thing can do to any
fellow human being, let me do it now. Let
me not defer or neglect it, for will not
pass this way again
tVA Southern Judge refused to accept
the plea Of n newly appointed juror that
ho was not frccholicr, on the ground
that he had kept bachelors hall six months
and "no man could keep bachelors hall
that length Of time who had not dirt
enough in his room to make him free
holder"
VA Western paper says that General
Grant as failure is a great success.
swWc asked young friend Of ours
the other day what he was doing, aud he
replied that he was going to boarding
school. We subsequently discovered that
he was learning the carpenters trade.
TA gentleman in Oswcgo, being saved
from drowning the other day, rewarded his
preservcr with five cent piece.
TA Dutchman thus describes an acci-
don't: " Vonce. n long vile ago, vent into
mine abbie orchard to climb bear tree to
get somc beaches to make my vrow plum
pudding nit; gets on the tobcrmost
rranch and vail from the lowermost limb.
NIT Won leg on bof sidos Of de fence, and
like to shove mine outsides in."
VA school committeeman, not over a
thousand miles from Newark, in making
some remarks ut the close of an examina
ton of school, thus complimented and
criticised the scholars: "You read we'll,
and you spell we'll, but you haint sot still. ."
GA hotel keeper at Wortsboro, Sulli-
van county, Indiana, lost his wife very
suddenly, and was mighty mad because the
doctors analysed her stomach and found
poison therein. Ho said he never knew
she carried poison concealed about her
person in that way. They have arrested
him for fun.
NJ George Augustus Sala has been
studying the philosophy of drunkenness
and argues in late ma gazine article that
the spread Of cigar smoking is one Of the
chief causes of the decl'n, Of intemperance
iu respectable and refined society. He ad
mits chat this looks like paradox, but as
serts that it is not, and supports his asser
ton BY saying: ga drunken man cannot
enjoy a cigar at all; and sober one car
not appreciate any wine save thin clare
while he is smoking" A doubter asks i
Mr.. Sala has determined the relative
amount Of pleasure to be derived from
smoking and wine-sipping.
EAt Columbia, Tenn, John Cool
went masked to the house Of Eli Ashton t.
frighten him. The result was, Ashtol
shot and killed him.
TThe man who got wise by eatin:
sage cheese, has brother who proposes Il
become skillful in the fashionable dancin;
by dieting on hops.
EThe women think they have gainet
great point, because when acting as cen
sus clerks they have the right to admins
ter oaths.