Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-02-18

GATHERINGS BY THE WAYSIDE.

What is it that Adam never saw, new
er possessed. and yet gave to each Of his
children? The answer is APPARENT.
In book sellers catalogue appears
the following article =" Memoirs Of Charles
l., with head capitally executed.
-" Say, Smith. where have you been for
a week back ?" "I haven't been. anywhere
for it. I haven't got weak back"
la England and Wales there are ST.
7l3 people Of unsound mind, under the
cognizancc Of the lunacy commissioners.
Father. won't you buy me h.pole ?"
said pious boy. You know the Bible
says:' Spare the rod and spoil the child"
There is a lad of our acquaintance
who regards hunger and the chastising rod
as about the same thing; they both make
him hollcr.
"A man out west who offered bail for
friend, was asked BY the judge If he had
any iucumbrance on his farm. "Oh ycs,"
he said, "my old woman"
Since Queen Victoria took her place
on the English throne, thirty three years
ago, every other throne in Europe, from
the least to the greatest, has changed oc.
cupants. .t..
A western editor, speaking of rogue
who lives in his vicinity, says: "The ras-
cal has broken every bank and Jail and
Sabbath we had in the country for the last
five years."
The wealthiest people in the world
are the Usage Indians, in Kansas. The
tribe numbers 5000, aud have, after all
expenses arc paid, l60 acres of choice land
per capita, and also $4,000, 900 in money.
or the 25S, ,027 who left the shores of
the United Kingdom in 1869, sc, ,41G were
English, 22,559 Scotch, 1895 Irish,
Is, ,752 foreigners; the nationality of the
remaining 5,975 is not distinguished 10
the returns.
The Chinese begin another cycle of a
thousand years 10 their calender early in
February, and those of the race in Califor-
MIA will devote two weeks to festivity in
celebration Of the passage from the old
cycle to the new. ..-. .r..
Tho packing trade of Baltimore is
enormous. The canning of oysters, fruit,
and vegetables, gives annual employment
to about 20, 900 hands; 10000, 900 cans
are packed, and the amount realized aunu-
ally is put down At 100000 ta aa
There is 70 be another beet sugar
mandatory started in San Leandro, Ala.
media county, Gal. A number Of the mo.
MED citizens Of that place have been visit.
ing the Alvarado factory with view to
ascertain the cost Of machinery, etc. ''a
"A gentleman once advertised for a
valet who did not mind confinement, and
who had lived for some time in bis last
place. He was applied to by person who
had borne confinement in his last place for
several years. His last place was in Sing
Sing. JOY
The official statistics show that for.
eigu vessels carried nearly 60 per cent Of
the whole imports into the United States
in 1869, aud 81 per cent iu 1870; of the
total exports, % per cent in 1869, and 81
per cent in 1870; and Of the whole, 81
per cent iu 1869, and GIL per ceut in
1870. ........'..'.. .','1 ~
The sixty minutes between eleven and
twelve o'clock on the night of the 31st Of
December were memorable as the last hour
of the last day of the last week Of the last
month of the last year of the last decade
ending with 1870. Such coiucidenes
will not OCCUR again in over eighty ysars!
There are in the eleven Territories Of
this country, including Alaska, nearly one
thousand million acres ofland which, owing
to the sparseness Of the population may be
described a. unoccupisd. If the forty mill.
ions who inhabit the States were diifused
through this vast land-ocean, they would
be almost as few and far between as the
sails which, according to popular idea,
"whiten every sea-"