Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-05-20
GATHERINGS by THE WAYSIDE.

Washington has siXty.hve churches
Gum chewing matches are frequent in
Vermont
Female ushers are employed in the
London theatres.
Brussels aud Vienna are n,w furnish.
ing the fashions instead of Pari:.
Over twelve hundred churches were
built in the United States last year.
Over 200 girls have graduated from
various American colleges this year.
The Quakcrs in this country have
G5,O0O pupils in their Sunday schools.
Brigham Young has ordered special
prayers against the srasshoppers this Sum
mer.
An Indiana paper announces lee.
ture by a" converted Episcopalian minis
ter"
A colored man from Charleston s. c.,
is practising mediciue with great success
in Egypt.
The inhabitants of Mariposa Go. Ar.
izona arc suffering all the horror of
Iudian warfare.
There arc about $3.50, 900 commuai-
cants of the Roman Catholic Church in
the United States.
King Victor Emanuel's morganatic
wife is said to be SO illtcyatc that she is
barely able to read.
The New York Sun styles the Ku
Kluk bill :" the joint product Of partisan
ship and hypocrisy"
The portals of Allegheny College,
H., have been opened to womcn 1t is a
Methodist institution.
The Oregon steamers out of San
Francisco have to refuse freight, more offer
ing than they can carry.
"A San Francisco girl not only bit a
burglars ear almost off, but tied him to a
bed until the police came.
A Richmond writer advocates charg,
ing an admission fee to church service in.
stead of selling pcws yearly.
Brigham Young has undertaken the
sturcndous job of presenting each of his
wives with sewing machine.
There are said to be 6l 900 clergy.
men in the United States, their average
pay being about 500 year.
In India there are 26O, 900 Protestant
Christians, 1000 native preachers and
twenty-five missionary presses.
Nearly one thousand dollars have been
expended by q gentleman in New York in
cataloguing his private library.
There are one hundred and seventy.
three newspapers in Wisconsin, having a
reported circulation Of 2S1 ,6S5.
1t is stated that 100000 is being
raised as q capital for starting new
Democratic paper in Brooklyn, N. Y.
-Beecher excuses Grants frolics by
saying that Providence thinks twice before
damniug man in such an exalted posi-.
ton.
Lady Stuart, of London, says if wo.
men become politicians and voters, she
will cease to care for the morals of her
daughters.
The largest valley in the world is the
Mississippi. 1t contains 100000 square
miles, aud is one of the most fertile regions
of the globe.
The young ladies' who have arrived at
tho age of twenty-one now have the right
to vote for school directors in the State of
Pennsylvania provided they are tax payers.
Since 1860 no fewer than thirteen
daily papers have been started in San Fran
CISCO, but one Of which is still published.
ihe amount of money sunk in this enter.
pnse Is estimated at from $SOO,OO to 81.
100000. ~ W.
Starr King when asked to define tte
difference between Universalists and Uni
terlans, replied that" Universalsts believed
that God was too good to damn men eternal.
~, and the Uniterians believed that men
were too good to be eternally damned"