Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-03-02
GATHERINGS BY LIE WAysInE.

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last year, as against 1lj in 1870.
A young girl named Carrie Sain is
the acting Adjutant General Of Kansas.
1t is proposed to build the great South
ern Pacific road on the three foot gauge
"A prolific western parent has named
four daughters May, Juuia, July and Au-
gusta.
Work on the Walla Walla railroad
has been discontinued to wait for better
weather.
They talk of marrying Victoria's boy,
tho duke Of EliDburg, to Russian
Princess.
The people of British Columbia arc
earnestly asking to have their toll roads
abolished.
dispatches from Theran. Persia, state
that from the famine in Persia many are
dying daily.
The last computations show that the
number of lives lost by the Chicago fire
was over 1000.
Ono firm this winter in Montana lost
over 100000 in stock, from the severity
Of the weather.
Charles Dickens, Jr., has dropped the
appcndage to his name, and is now simply
Charles Dickens.
The Quartermastcr at Vancouver is
effccting removal of buildings from the
government reserve.
The Corvallis Debating Society has
decided that the mind of women is not in
ferior to that Of man.
In California the olive grows more
rapidly, and bears more regularly, than in
Greece, Italy or France.
-Onc hundred and ten years ago there
was not single white man in kentucky,
Ohio, Indiana or Illinois.
San Francisco exported 81, 354 barrels
Of -four to China last year, the largest guam.
tity sent to any orc place.
-Grecley, Colorado, on the Goth ult.,
nominated its man for postmaster by ballot.
Ninty.eight women voted.
California boasts Of the largest or.
chard in the world. 1t contains 42G acres,
and over $4,000 fruit trees.
Tho American Bible Society have
lately issued the Gospel Of Matthew in the
language of the Flathcad Indians of Ore
goD.
California it seems is m: 20 big as it
thought it was by $4,000 900 acres, recent
survey having Topped off that amount Of
land.
A Russian peasant, nearly nine feet
high, and claiming to be the talest man in
the world, is exhibiting himself in Port
land.
President Gowan, Of the Reading
Railroad, gets $50, 900 year salary. No
other railroad official in the United States
gets equal pay.
Tho Hartford Cou,unt has reached
the ripe old age Of 107 years. Oae Cen.
necticut family has taken it continuously
for % years.
Illinois has passed liquor bill which
provides that he who makes a man drunk
must pay for his being taken care of until
he gets sober.
What pleased the japanese best in our
financial system was Gen. Srinncr's sigma
ture. They recognized it at once as class
ical japanese.
Inquiries are being made as to what
has become of $50, 900 contributed by Salt
Lake City to the Chicago sufferers. Chi
cage has not heard Of the amount.
There are one thousand two hundred
and twenty railroads in the United States,
and more than thrce-ffths of their length
are found in the Mississippi Valley.
The Grand Duke Alexis purchased
500 of each of the New York papers that
contained notices of his arrival. These
payers were subsequently sent to his
father.
A Portland paper says, four curls,
depending from the top of the head,
fastened by black velvet or bright ribbons,
is how the Portland ladies ornament their
craniums.
The Prussian Government has re-
solved to remove legal dis1ualifcations of
the Jews, and to grant new rights to the
corporations combining fer worship in
Syuagogues.
A union meeting of the Baptist,
Methodist and Congregational churches
held recently at Fair Haven, Conn, re-
suited in the conversion Of more than one
hundred persons.
1T is reported that the Postmaster
General, with a view of SIGNALLING his ca.
reer in Office, intends tiavoring the adhc-
sive matter of postage stamps with the
various popular extracts.
For the year ending December 81,
1871, the Auditor of Walla Walla county
issued 72 marriage licenses, larger NUN.
Der than has been issued any previous
year from that Office.
The negroes Of San Francisco are cir
culating petition for signatures, asking
the Legislature to enact an amended school
law admitting white and black children on