Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-12-16
Gatherings by thu Wayside.

! for weather signal stations.
Alexis will be the guest Of Mrs. Colo
mel Colt at Hartford, Conn.
The Prince Imperial is studying me.
chanics in Kings College, London.
-" Uxorcide" is what the Philadelphia
Pseas called i theA.a slxa jnsi only kil,ed
his wife. .Sa,3 t.4-.
The Norwich Adscrtiser considers E
Pluribus Unum a good name for the son
of Mormon.
1t is computed that Milwaukee sew
ing society eau blast u persons reputation
in sevenOminutes. +
An Indiana groom kissed the bride
SO loudly as to extort round OF applause
from the congregation. re
"A Freuchman said of Shakespeare,
''Ven you find any zing. you no undcrstan',
it is always somezing 6ne."
When Charity walks into the lowest
places of want, we see the beautiful purity
Of her robes more distinctly.
A Schenectady infant terrible ex-
claimed: "Aunt Mary, wish had
copper-toed teeth like yours" ..r
-In sinking a shaft for coal, lately, in
Kansas City, a vein Of what is believed to
be pencil slate was discovered. t4.,
The King Of Dahomey attended
grand feast the other day, wearing a guam
tity Of druggists labels as decorations.
An English woman, resident in AL
giers, has married Bedouin Arab, stating
that she did so in the interest Of science.
Fanny Fern tells of an aged famale
who thought she was " as young as she
ever was, aud as handsome as she never
was"
A rural paper remarks "Cold nights
have put stop to gate sparkling. Ii she
dosen't ask you to come in now, you had
better quit" .r. .. ....
A Terre Haute girl thinks it about
time some young fellow proposed, as she
has been bridesmaid eight times, and tan
talized enough.
-Brevity is, in writing, what charity
is to all the other virtues. Righteousness
without the one is worth nothing, nor au-
thorship without the other.
Tho National censua shows that, for
one person who dies in Tennessee or Flor
ida of consumption, thirteen die in Mass
achusetts, and two in Minnesota.
The Williams college Revier opposes
the admission of girls into the institution,
but says if they insist on coming the stu
dents will receive them with open arms.
A man ought to carry hi,nselfin the
world as an orange tree would if it could
walk up and down in the garden, swinging
perfume from Oery little censor it holds
up to the air.
| Butter was first male as a cosmetic,
and was once used for Illuminating pur-
poses. 1t was not known as an assistant
in dispatching bread, much, if any, before
the Christian era.
= A grocer of Lowell, Mass, has sa-
gacious dog who never sees anything being
weighed on the scales without putting one
foot on the platform and innoceutly look
ing out Of the door.
A victim of DR.. Greeley's hand.writ-
ing says: " If Horace had written that in.
scription on the walls of Babylon BEL
shazzar would have bccn good deal worse
scared than he was" 4..
/ Josh Billings cannot see what women
want any more rights" for. She beat
the first man born into the world out ola
dead sare thing and she can beat the last
one with the same cards. .s
"A strictly business, like young lady Of
Vermont laid her damages in breach Of
promise suit at $50, charging the value of
her time spent in listening to her lovers
courting at nine shilings week. ~
Some of the St. Louis papers don't
like it because Chicago has won the worlds
championship for big frcs. They ask the
suspension of public sentiment until they
get ready to show what they can do.
In Lawrence, Mass, manufacturers
have agree to pay their hands hereafter by
tho day, leaving it at the option Of the
latter whether they will work less than
eight or more than ten hours per diem.
Item from Georgia paper "A me-
bridge He was restored to conciousness
by an unsympathetic friend, who spriukled
him with the short end of buggy trace.
"A historic terrapin has just been
caught in the mud Of Chickahon,iny
swamp, near Richmond, upon the she'll Of
which was the following inscription
"July, 1868. A. Byron; Company G, cd
Ohio"
--Apothecaries in England, when they
sell poisonous drugs, put themin peculiarly
shaped bottles. so very distinctive 10 shape
that they connot be mistaken in the dark,
or their contents used by mistake. The
use Of these bottles is general.
A young married man was remark
ing to some ladies that it was always the
women who ran after the men, when his
wife indignantly said, You know, my
dear, I never rau after YOU" That may
be-" he replied, "but you took mighty |
good care not to get out Of the way!
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