Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-02-17

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GATHERINGS BY THE wAYSIDE.
Smallpox is reported as spidcmic in
Italy.
"A California boy, ii years old, weighs
100 pounds.
Twelve Swiss guides lost their lives on
the Alps last year.
Indians are becoming troublesome on
some of the Texan frontiers.
Tho British have a moiiopoly of the
carrying trade Of the Lakes.
DR. J.. j: Voting (colored), is can
tlidstc for Mayor of Knoxville.
The Chinese arc said to celebrate all
their holidays by paying their debts.
Russian priests of the Greek Church
cannot officiate without beiag married.
A Scottish minister refused baptism
to the child Of man who sells milk on
Sunday.
Anthony Trollope wrote novel for
pastime, during voyage from England to
Australia.
Oregon has 95, ,274 square miles, fronts
2S0 miles on the ocean, and extends inland
$40 hills.
The Chinese Of California have petit
toned Congress for reduction of the du-
ty on rice.
-Rothchilds bahking.house recently;
| offered to take 5000 .O0O. 900 of the United
States loan.
1t is reported that Henry Ward
Beecher is arranging for trip to Califor-
MIA in the spring.
CLARA Schumann and Anton Rnbins-
tcin, the great pianists, will visit the United
States next Spring.
-Washington and Oregon have the eli
mate of Southern Virginia, with more rain
and cooler summer aiskts.
Judge Burnett has presented the Cor
rallis Democrat specimen Of sugar, man
ufactuted from the Oregon maple:
st Louis has direct trade with 10
600 miles Of navigable rivers She HIS
$4,000, 900 invested in river boats.
Clifford, Conn.,, has an old lady of
ninety three, who has cooked sixty-three
Thanksgiving dinners under one roof.
--A bill before the California Lesisla
ture proposes to sxcsispt editors, REPORTERS
and printers of Sexspapers from jury duty.
New York has increased its cclered
population over 1000 since the breaking
out of the rebellion. 5000 were formerly
slaves.
1t is rumored that niue thousand head
of cattle pcrished on the Laramie plains,
in Wyoming Territory, during the late
severe cold weather.
Olive Logan, the well-known lecturer
was married to Writ Skies, the well known
writer Dec. 10Th. Robert Collyer Of Chica.
ago tied the love knot.
In 1870 there we're 4, ,427 persons in
Oregon over ten years of age who could
not read or write. 1,085 citizeps oyer
twenty-one are illiterate.
Two neglected relatives Of Che Pres
ident have been found ia Jersey City, It-
terly void of Office. Inquiry has cstab.
lished the fact that Il ey did not vote for
Grant.
"A bill lately introduced into the Utah
Legislature, provides that males Of fifteen
years and females Of twelve years, may
contract marriage; with the consent of the
parents or Guardians.
An Indianess, discovering that her
marriage had been illegally performed,
fourteen years ago, has commenced suit
against her husband for services rendered
him as an imployee during that period.
COLLECTIONS of Internal Revenue jn
Oregon for the year ending June 80, 1871,
were s151 ,432 81. The ecost Of assessment
was Sl1,301 81; Of collections. 81, ,299 10.
Total cost Of assessing and collecting, 49,
600 IL.
Brokers say that businessmen in San
Francisco are now holding more green
backs than at any former time since they
we're issued, in the expectation Of a steady
sppteciation in value, as ths Government
approaches resumption Of specie payments.
4 The cultivation of Chinese bamboo in
California is exciting some attention. 1t
can be put to many uses. Its appearance
is beautiful, its shade most grateful The
Chinaman sits under it and upon it he
ills in it aud by it; he is rocked in it;
his furniture is made Of it; he clothes
himself witlrit, and spanks the young ones
with it. In fact, the " graceful bamboo"
is as useful as it is ornamental.
n0r A young lady at an eveding party
some time ago found it hard to use the
expression " Jordan's hard road to trav-
el," but thinking that too vulgar, sudsti-
tuted the following: Pera,nbulating