Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-06-17
GATHERINGS by THE WAYSIDE.

California has 800 miles of railroad in
operation. -
The Montana mines yielded S44, ,000,.
600 of gold in 1870.
The sun passes over one degree of lon
gitudc in four minutes.
Over 10000 canary birds are brought
to this country annually.
1T is said that there is not a citizen of
Maine worth million of dollars.
A boat containing three young men
recently went over the Niagara Falls.
-Noank, Conn, boasts of thrce-eycl
cat, and inquiries how is that for eye.
Several prominent Iowa papers have
come ou: decidedly for woman suffrage.
A large number of London editors
purpose coming to America this summer
A snltpctrc cave, covering seven acres,
has been discovered in Boone county, Mo.
1t is stated that the average price of
good horse in Los Angeles, California, is
Sl3.
An Indiana woman married her affinity
within five minutes of her divorce from
her last husband
The tobacco manufacturers Of Chicago
paid $23S,S2l 32 tax, during the first
quarter Of this year.
The Grand Duke Alexis, of Russia,
it is said, has not relinquished his prof
of an American tour.
Tho only manufactory of hair,pins in
the United States make fifty tons of those
useful articles per month.
Tho average amount of money pos
scssed by each foreign cmigrant on land
ing in this country is S6S.
There are 5000 acres of oyster beds
in Chesapeake Bay, which yield about 25,-
100000 bushels annually.
"A new weekly comic paper, called
Puck, published in the German language,
has been started at St. Louis.
Minister Schenck left New York for
England May 25th. carrying the ratified
Washington treaty with him.
Three hundred lives were lost recent
ly in tho island of Rua, near Singapore, by
an earthquake and volcanic eruption.
Pennsylvania has the largest assessed
valuation of real and personal estate of any
State in the Union-$l ,634, ,219,936
There are said to be millions of pounds
of fossil ivory in Alaska. 1t is of excellent
quality, and is worth one dollar pound in
San Francisco.
The Vulcan Iron Works Company in
San Francisco have gone into voluntary
bankruptcy, and over 200 men are thrown
out of employment.
Governor Clafin, of Massachusetts,
has appointed Julia Ward Howe and Mrs
Stevens, of Cambridge, Justices of the
Peace for Suffolk county.
Military authority in Arizona states
that the recent killing of eighty Indians,
at Camp Grant, was brutal massacre of
peaceful and friendly Indians.
Iron immersed for few minutes in
solution of carbonate of potash or soda, will
not rust for years, although exposed con-
tinually in damp atmosphere.
The rite of circumcision is no longer
universally practced among the Jews. Six
ty.six Jewish physicians of Vienna have
published manifesto against it.
-Twenty-six thousand children are now
learning music in the Boston public schools.
Fifteen thousand of them arc so far ad.
vanced as to DO competent to take part in
musical festival.
Two American ladies', with single
man companion, recently made the trip
from the Sea Of Okhotsh across Siberia 10
St. Petersburg in sledgcs, a distance Of
seven thousand miles.
"A new Cable company in New York
proposes to lay cables to San Domingo and
other West India Islands, across tho
lsthmus Of Darien, thence down the west
cast Of South America.