Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-01-06
GATHERINGS By TIL wAYsIDE.

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california Insane Asylum has l,O47
inmates.
East Portland has young lady cigar
manufacturer.
The winter is very hard in Montana,
but feed plenty.
The gold yield Of Montana, last year
was S44, 10000
Able bodied Migrants are on the in-
crease in Portland.
Long Branch was sold two hundred
years ago for barrel Of cider.
= Florida hopes next year to be able to
supply the entire country with bananas.
A fragment of the lost steamer, Lire
Yankee, has been found of the Oregon
coast.
Five hundred tons Of wheat remained
in store at Wallu!a, W. T., after the boats
stopped running.
English Spectators propose to con.
struct narrow gauge railway to India via
the Garden Of Eden.
III Manila %, 900 women and girls
work at cigar making at the average wages
of seven cents per day.
"A London letter states that at least
10000 Frenchman will cmigratc to the
United States in the next two years.
The bill has again been introduced in
Congress- which grants one cud of Goat
Island to the Central Pacific Railroad.
1t appears that of 500, 900 Postmas-
tiers 10 the United States there are but D.
600 who receive salaries as high as 500.
-Convcts in the Idaho Pcnitentiary
have passed a resolution that they will
leave the prison unless furnished with to-
baccO.
An Iowa women recently presented
her happy husband with divorce which
she had procured while on visit to
Minnesota.
An American lady is selling tcsta-
mcnts in the streets of Rome without in
tcrruption, She was sent out by the
Bible society.
Young ladies will now hesitate before
rushing into matrimony. 1t is getting to
be the thing to present the bride with
sewing machines.
A Sioux City girl has SIS, 900 in tn c
bank The rush of immigrants into the
city, in the shape Of single men and wild
overs, is unparalleled.
An Indian village on Vancouycr's
Island was recently entirely destroyed by
heavy gale Of wind. They lost all Of
their winters provision.
Tho marriages in Portland this year,
arc stated to be no greater in number than
during last year, although the population
has incrcas ed very much.
A young woman Of Providence r. L.,
is said to be one Of the best blacksmiths
in that city. She works sido by side with
her father in the workshop.
In the Senate of the United States
there arc 81 Republicans and II Demo-
Gratis. In the House there are l39 Re.
publicans and lO4 Democrats.
A Scotch emigration agent proposes
to ship load of girls to Portland from
that country if 500 each for their passage
is paid to him on their arrived.
The latest reports put the Democratic
majority in the Texas election at 10000.
1t is the most brilliant victory which has
been chronicled for long time.
The Democratic legislature Of Wyo-
ming Territory has unearthed series of
Radical frauds that promise to throw the
Tammany ring into total eclipse.
"A lady editor in Wisconsin advcrtises
in her own paper for husband. She
says he must be a printer, and possess
means sufficient to buy new press.
The great falls and wonderful geyser
of the Upper Yellowstone, it has been
ascertained, are not in Montana, but are
situated just beyond the line of that Ter.
ritory. in the jurisdiction Of Wyoming.
Iceland is fast becoming uniuhabitable
from the increasing cold of its winters, the
disappearance ofits forests, the failure of
soil and climate. The Danish Government
proposes to transport the Icelanders to
America.
AN Eastern journal says that the
Grand Dukes visit to this country is to
induce General Grant to 60 to Russia at
the expiration of his term Of Office and
establish grand consolidated livery stable
and tan yard at St. Petersburg"
Bloomington (Illinois) sent her fire
engines to the assistance of Chicago In
two hours and forty minutes after they left
Bloomington they were throwing water in
Chicago. The train made tho trip-l26
miles-in 2:10. They ran from Bloom.
ington to Joilet-S9 miles-in 80 minutes.
n@- The following gives the Democratic
vote of the United States from 1924 to