Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-01-15
GATHERINGS BY THB WAYsIDE.

vienna mas IVV female vOteTS.
The Emperor Of China is fifteen years
old. p
bridesmaids are becoming qniashioa-
able. 49, ,s
Lead ore has been found in southern
| Kansas.
London is using ice which reached
| there in 1866. a.,
The London Gazette is over two hun
dred years old.
Philadelphia has gilded stoves for
drawing.roon use.
Fargo, the cxprcssman, is building
glass palace in Buffalo. pig, t.H..'q:
"A negro has been elected to the Mas.
sachusetts Legislature.
There arc nearly 100000 Free Ma
sons in tho United States. .'', ftt
The United States revenue Office of
Boston boasts negro clerk.
Nobody but shoddyites now wear dia-
monds. Pearls arc worn instead. ..
England has a mine where the CALLER
les extend half mile under the sea.
Boston has sold for three years the
right to collect its swill, for $4,000.
ladies arc to be admitted to the med
ical classes of the University Of Edenbury.
A Bolivian Roman Catholic priest has
been accommodated for becoming Ma
son.
Gen. Sherman has bcep elected
member Of the London Army aud Navy
Club. ...
The Prohibitory Liquor Law was dc.
feated ut the last election in New Hamp.
shire. -.i..s .t '..
The California railways have Chinese
conductors to attend to the Celestial pas
sengers. ""
The women of Wyoming Territory
recently granted the right Of suffrage num-
Der about 100.
"A late issue of the London Times con-
tains $4,000 advertisements, from us many
different persons.
Havana papers predict that brown
sugar will be worth forty cents pound
before another year.
Louis Rcillc, the chief of the Red
River rebellion, was u clerk in St. Paul
grocery few Years ago.
A Utah correspondent says that Brig
ham " is losing his power over tho people
and very pcrceptibly."
The Pacific Railroad has six monster
locomotives which arc to be used expressly
for clearing off the snow.
Mrs. Mary Clemens, the last Revolu-
tionary pcnsioncr in Georgia, died lately in
Tclfair county, aged lO4.
The New York Post Office is the most
profitable in the country to the Govern
lnent. Chicago rates second.
Weddings are frequent at White
Pine. A single lady from the Fast was
married an hour after her arrival.
Not a single candidate for Office in
Kentucky, at the late election, who had
been in the Confederate army was defeated.
Tho remains Of John Bunyan, Daniel
Dcfoo and Isaac Watts are buried in one Of
the unconsccrated' graveyards Of Lon
don.
The fortune of William B. Astor is
now estimated at $50, O0O, 900; it having
increased forty million in the last twenty
years. ..I ..
Tho whole line of the railroud from
Marysville is not less than go miles, d.
vidcd almost equally between the two
States.
The English law has made it a misdc-
mcanor to use mineral colOrs in swectmeats
and candies, on account Of their poisonous
qualities.
The amount of the entries made on
Treasurer Spinner's books during his term
of office, eight years and half is over s44,-
600, 900, 900. "
The Marysville appeal says every
train from Sacramento brings heavy timber
for the bridges on the California and Ore
gon Railroad. ..|..
"A paper recently read before an East
crn society claims that conAagrations have
increased sixty per cent. siuce the intro
duction ofpetroleum. l. 44
-Vanderbilt offers to build frst-class
prison and give 100000 to boot for the
Sing Sing penitentiary property. He
wants it for railroad purposes.
There is girl in Shelbyvillc, Indi-
ana, who is nine years Of age and weighs
116 pounds. Ifshe keeps on growing she
will match the great Kentucky giant.
Great Britain pays nearly GOO, 900 .
year in pensions to tho twenty-six princes
and princesses Of the blood royal. This
sum will be considerably augmented when
some children Of the queen become Of age.
"A plan has been devised to bridge the
Straits Of Dover, between England and
France, and company organised for that
purpose. This win b gigantic under
taking, the length Of the bridge being over
twenty miles. f...fI a@,.,, ~ &
| New York has two hundred gambling
houses, eight thousand professional gam