Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-06-11
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| -ChicaSOclainl ,UUU cOnnrmed opium
eaters.
-squarc-toed boots arc once more fash
ionablc.
The capital Of Nebraska is removed
to Lincoln. g.
Sweet potatoes are used in making
whisky
Platinum has been found in Trinity
river, California.
Fort Sumter is in danger Of being
carried off by tourists.
Grass seeds for croquet lawns form
a London trade specially.
-Polygamy is practced by only 1000
Of Brigham Ioungs followers.
The propretrcss Of a drinking saloon
in Philadelphia weighs 600 pounds. ..-.---
john Graham receives $4,000 for
his services in defending Mcfarland.
OF all the school teachers in the
United States, two.thirds are women.
Chicago has 1900 drinking saloons
open on Sundays, with 10000 visitors.
The Mormons are organizing a corps
Of women to depict the glories Of their
faith.
The dealers in kerosene in Vermont
town have agreed not to draw any oil after
sunset.
The number Of casualties BY the
Richmond disaster amount to 2S5 killed
and wounded.
Moro snow has fallen this winter in
Wisconsin than in any previous season for
twenty years.
A tiger was recently shot in India,
which is supposed to have dcvoured III
human victims.
Prolific gold mines and vast salt
fields have been discovered on the table.
lands Of Thbet.
There arc on one square mile in Lon
don $4,000 children growing up entirely
without education.
The young ladies' of Council Bluffs,
to the number of 30, want to join one of
the fire companies
Over fomrand quarter millions of dol
lars were paid last year for duties on sugar
imported into Boston.
The first ten locomotives ever built
in Russia have just been completed ut
Colomna, near Moscow.
The New York Herald il claimcl to
lie worth So .00O, 900. the Tribune 81, 250,-
900, the Times Sl,OOO,UO0.
Prince Arthur has accepted an invi.
tation to visit Whcatland, the residence of
the late cx-Prcsident Buchanan.
"A long autograph letter from George
Washington on agricultural matters was
recently sold in London for el75.
The Empress Eugene has AZ female
attendants, among them two mistresscs OF
ceremonies, and II ladies Of honor.
Mr.. Dalrymplc. the great farmer Of
Minnesota, is said to have made $780,
600 clear gain in three years Of farming.
Wall paper is printed in all colors ut
u single operation and so rapidly that n
single machine viii print fourteen miles Of
paper in day.
A correspondent of the Rrrolu';on
has discovered that there will be u great
rush Of women toward Wyoming this
spring and summer.
--Cassius NJ. Clay has the patent in
this country for a perpetual candle" y
Russian invention. lie is having the az
.:cle manufactured at Waterbury, CT.
Mrs. Albeit, of Kentucky, has, by
her own efforts. established - Sabbath
Schools for The poor and destitute people
living among the mountains Of the State.
&C rant is going to visit his farm near
ST. Louis soon. There is a MIN there
that owes him seven dollars for wood
which Ulysses sold him, taking part of the
pay in whisky. The man insists that
Grant drank it all out, and the President
says he will have the money, if he has to
call out the troops to enforce his claim.
We sincerely hope this matter may be
settled without bloodshed.
bS- Prosch is exceedingly anxious to
have celebration of the Fourth of July
here and more than anxious that Garfelde
shall be the orator. With him the two
propositions appear to be inseparable
He appears to think that there would be
no Fourth Of July if it wasn't for Gar
ficlde, and that there wouldn't have been
a Garfelde if there hadn't been Fourth
Of July. He therefore urges our people
not to delay or some other community
may secure our orator" Well, let them
who cares? We don't want a sermon,
a temperance lecture, a secession speech
nor an essay on Oregon Railroads, and
We have already enough knowledge Of
the science of pokcr-playing, the virtues
of asthmatic bitters, and the villaiuy of
political plotting to last awhile. How
true it is that if you put beggar on
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