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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-04

ROUGH ON 'EM.-Jones has been
playing rough game on the musqui-
toes. You see he had mosquito net
on his bed, but the perservering insects
used to get inside in the daytime, and
when Jones sought his couch to court
the drowsy god, they used to make
sweet music for him and let his blood
out, and Jones, you understand,
couldn't stand it at all. Buth is square
on the mosquitoes now. He goes to
bed and leaves the net about half-open,
and then the mosquitoes thinkingthey
have a soft thing, swarm in and
begin to buzz. When he thinks they
are all inside, Jones quietly slips
out and closes up the net tight, and
there he has them. And then he
makes up nice bed on the floor, and
lies there and kicks up his heels, and
laughs at the poor swindled musqui-
toes and the mosquitoes tear around
in that net, and break their necks
against the bars trying to get out, and
they hold INDIGNATION meetings, and
protest, and all that. Why, the mus.
quitoes in that room look like living
skeletons, and still Jones is heartless
enough is keep right on fooling these
poor insects and laughing at them.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-04

BoRAx MINES IN Missouri. OF
the most valuable mineral products OF
Nevada is borax, which is found in the
marshy lands about the sinks of rivers,
most plentifully in Esmeralda County.
At Ragtown, near the sink of Carson
River, works are erected for the separa-
ton of the borax from the crude mate
rial with which it is mixed; the whole
being hauled from extensive deposits in
the marshes about twenty miles east of
that place. There it is found lying in
detached masses over thousands of
acres. It is usually combined with
soda, magnesia, salt, and other miner
ais; its separation is effected by series
of settling-vats, evaporation, and chem
ical processes. Similar works are in
operation at Wordsworth; the raw
material to supply them being brought
from Hot Springs, some fifty miles east,
on the line of the Central Pacific Rail
road. The deposits ore practically in
exhaustable; the mineral forming again
in few weeks after being gathered,
the whole surface of the earth in that
region apparently being impregnated
with boracic acid.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-04

IND1A-RUBBER. The belt of land
around the globe, 500 miles north and
500 miles south of the equator, abounds
in trees producing the gum of india
rubber. They can be tapped, it is
stated, for twenty successive seasons
without injury; and they stand so close
that one man can gather the sap Of
eighty in day, each tree yielding, on
an average, three tablespoonsful day.
Forty-three thousand of these trees
have been counted in a tract of land
a mile long by eight wide. There are
in Europe and America more than $50
manufactures of india-rubber articles,
employing 500 operatives each, and
consuming more than 10, 900, ,OOOp pounds
of gum a year; and the business is con-
sidered to be still in it's infancy. But,
to whatever extent it may increase,
there will still be plenty of rubber to
supply the demand.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-04

BEAVERS. correspondent writing
from Idaho, says: "This Territory is
certainly the home of the beavers, and
I believe in all the world besides there
are not SO many beavers as there are
in Idaho. Every stream seems to swarm
with beavers, and they may be frequent
ly seen in the waters. The statement,
often made, that they never show them
selves, is all a mistake. I believe that
every stream that empties into Bear
River is checked in it's course by bea-
yer dams, and those which are found
near Portneuf river, tributary to the
Snake river, are very remarkable. These
dams are in Portneuf Common, and are
in a petriied state. They are from fifty
to sixty feet in length, with fall over
two of them, at the center, of from
to 4 feet, and over the third of about
one foot. They are not fully or firmly
petrified, as that would involve the to-
tai change of all the woody fibre, to be
replaced by earthly substances, but are
incrusted with lime, which has permea-
ted the wood, and given to the whole a
permanent and durable form. Nature
has thus encased the works of the bea-
yer, which is as singular as it is inter-
esting. Of late years, the number of
beavers have increased wonderfully,
owing to the fact that they are not
sought after as eagerly as they have
been in former times. The bark of the
cottonwood tree, particularly the young
and tender bark of the new twigs, is
one of their favorite articles of food.
In Summer, they rarely ever gnaw
down large trees, but live upon the bark
of the smaller ones, willow and rasp-
berry bushes, and upon different kinds
of roots, such as the pond lily, and
roots of the coarser grasses which grow
along the margin of the stream. Be-
sides cottonwood, they use the bark of
the aspen, yellow birch, and poplar.
In the Winter, when their supply is
scarce, they eat the wood alone. Some
cottonwood trees, 30inches in diameter,
have been gnawed by them; and one
authority, remarking upon the tree e-cut-
tings on the Yellowstone river, stated
that the beavers committed great devas-
tation among the trees, zone of which,
3 feet in diameter, had been gnawed
through by them.'"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-04

sThe Mormon faith is not flourish
ing in Great Britain at present. In
1851 there were about $50 Mormon
places of worship in the British isles,
with an attendance of come II 900, and
within the circle of the London Con-
ference there were forty branches, with
agross total of 2, ,43O adherents. There
are now only 1888 members within
the circle of the London Conferences,
and during the last year only seventy
five conversions were reported within
the same limits. The Mormons under
take to explain the decrease in their
number by atributing it to the eager
ness of the Saints to gather into Zion;
but the force of this explanation is
weakening by the fact that only seven
OF them emigrated from the London
district during the last twelve months.
Brigham is apparently making spe-
cial effort to cultivate this missionary
field tust now as general conference
of English and Welsh Mormons, held
in London few weeks ago, was notice
able for the presence of an exception
al number of Saints direct from Utah,
among whom were no less than three
OF the "twelve apostles" all of whom
bore earnest testimony to the superior
ity of Salt Lake City as an abiding
place over the wicked Babylon called
London. }
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~Two thousand of the thi

~Two thousand of the thirty
thousand Jews in London have embrace
ed the Christian religion, and are
worthy members of the different
churches. In Berlin two thousand of
eighteen thousand have been converted.
There were, about three years ago,
twenty-eight professors at the univer-
sity who had been converted from Juda-
ism. The total number of Jews in
Europe amounts to three million four
hundred and thil ty-one thousand and
seven hundred, of whom twenty thou
sand have embraced the Christian re-
ligion. In the Episcopal Church in
England there are hundred clergy
men who were born Jews. There is at
present great revival going on among
the Jews in Poland; among the con-
verts is former rabbi, who is now Ia
boring very successfully for the spread
of the gospel among the children Of
Abraham.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-04
WHOLE NO. 634.

MENTAL RECREAT1oN.-Ment diver
sion, mental exhileration, mental release
from the cares and business and wor-
ries of life, are not only essential to
healthful thought and heaithful condi-
ton Of the mind, but they materially
promote bodily vigor and physical we'll
being. Amusements should more.
largely enter into American family life
than they now do; it is the absence Of
it to too great an extent which leads to
many social evils, to many habits and
practices which ruin the the health and
the morals of our sons and our daugh-
ters in great many cases. If boys
and girls, from fifteen and upwards,
do not find amusements at home, es-
pecially dnring the long winter even
ings, they sigh for places where exhiler-
alton can be found; the sons for the
streets-the daughters for the dance,
for the theatre, for visiting those of
their associates whose homes are more
lively. Young people can not be ex-
pected to have books and newspapers
always in their hands, or sit demurely
by the family fireside by the hour, in
hemming and stitching and knitting.
Games and pastimes should be more
freely introduced into our families;
there should be more off-hand visiting,
of informal calls, where one neighbOr
can drop into another neighbor's house
after dark, and spend ali hour or two
in unrestrained, social intercourse,
without form Or ceremony, for two OF
three nights in the week; thus giving
air, exercise and recreation.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-04

* Charles Dickens lived and always
worked at high pressure and died at
last OF over-strain. AS Mr.. Forster
says OF him, she did even his nothings
in strenuous way" One day he was
wet through thrice and dressed four
times; another, he walked eighteen
miles in four and a half hours in a
broiling sun. Living at Genoa, one
Winter, he dashed over to London in
the most inclement weather (riding
night and day and back to Genoa again
for no earthly reason but to try the eff
feet OF reading The Chimes" on a
few intimate friends. His dash into
the editorship of the Daily Mecs and
out OF it again within three weeks was
highly characteristic Of the man.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-04
THE ORIGIN OF POPULAR SAYING.

The ORIGIN OF POPULAR SAYING. -
What do you mean, Colonel ?" said
S. S. Cox to Fish, "by the place where
the woodbine twineth?" To which in
terrogatory Fish responded: You see
I was before that learned and dignified
body, the Committee on Banking and
Currency, and when Garfield asked me
where the money got by Corbin went
to, I could not make vulgar reply
and say up the spout but observing
while peddling through New England,
that every spout of house or cottage
had o woodbine twining around it, !
said, naturally enough, where the wood
bine twineth."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-04

81 The day before Washington's
birthday, in February last, lady teach
er' IN giving notice Of the coming holi-
day to her pupils, said something about
the good Washington, and then asked
the question:
why should we celebrate Washing
tons birthday more than mine ?"
Because he never told lie!" shout.
ed little boy.
This was rather hard on the teacher,
but the boy did not see it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-04
GATHERINGS BY THE WAYSIDE.

Qlininc now brings three dollars per
ounce.
Railroads are rapidly increasing in
Mexico.
A Minnesota town has an Indian read
ing room.
Venice has daily use still for 1000
gondolas.
America, it is feared, will ultimately
be railwaysarchy.
White pine lumber is being shipped
from Yakima to Portland.
Miss Della Heed is Enrolling Clerk
of the Idaho Legislature.
England makes 3,50O,O 900 worth of
old rags into paper, yearly.
San Francisco makes and exports
more Havana cigars than Cuba.
New York ladies carry $50 travelling
bags, made from alligator skins.
Paper houses are being made prac-
ticable, habitable and comfortable
There are altogether trihe over 61 :
600 merchant vessels in the world
Salt Lake City is out of fuel, with a
hard winter staring its inhabitants in
the face.
The Prussian government will here
after use only American paper for it's
bank notes.
Germany cleared billion dollars by
the Franco-Prussian war, after paying
all expenses.
Fred. Douglass was elected as mes
senger to carry. the vote Of New York
to Washington.
The pardon of Hodge, by Grant, so
soon after his reelection, is exciting
considerable comment.
An indianapolis girl, with a two hun
dred thousand dollar dowry, advertises
for scaled proposals for marriage.
The Grand Duke Alexis will visit the
United States again, in 1876, to be
present at the National Centennial.
The Democratic National Committee
has issued IN address, paving tribute
to the memory of Horace Greeley.
The bark of tree called goge is now
imported into New York, from the Phil
lippine Islands, having the properties
OF ordinary soap.
Only ten of the fifty ironclads built
during the war are of any use. The
twenty light draft monitors, which cost
SIG ,OOO, 900, never fred gun, and are
unfit for service.
The Mare Island Navy Yard grounds
consist of 900 acres, and originally cost
the Government $780, There are
l92 acres in the New York Navy Yard
which cost 1926 600.
General Joe Hooker says: ct do
not pretend to be prophet; but tell
you that Grant aches for another war,
and that he will make one, if there is
the slightest pretext."
A Titusville wife placed toy snake
in her husbands boots, and then could
hardly get breakfast because of her
snickering at his performances when he
discovered it. He first looked in the
mirror, and then went and threw his
demIohn of old rye into the millrace.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-04

THREATNED FAMINE IN IRELAND. There
are serious apprehenslons in Ireland of
anoher famine. The Irish peasantry in
some parts of the Island ere writing to
their friends in this country that the
utmost anxiety prevails in regard to the
food supply, and that fears are enter
tanned of widespread and terrible des-
titution. Information derived from
entire different souses leads to the con-
clusion that there is too much reason
for the PREVAILING apprehension. A
writer in an English journal who has
made special tour through Great Bri-
tain for the express purpose of ascer-
toining the condition Of ihe crops, and
who was recognized as an authority on
such subjects, estimates the value of
the potato crop to be less by seventeen
millions of pounds sterling than that
of an averaged year, and of this loss
more than one-half falls on Ireland.
If this estimate is corsect it may be con-
sidered certain that great distress will
exist the coming winter among the
poorer classes, who depend principally
upon their potato patches for subsis-
tence. The wheat crop of Great Brit
ain is also likely to fall short Of an av-
erage one.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-04

New PREPARATION OF CopAL VARNIsH.
dissolve one part of compton in
twelve parts of ether. When the cam
phor is completely dissolved, add four
parts of proof alcohol and one quarter
of a part of rectifed spirits of turpen-
tine; shake again sufficiently, and the
varnish is ready for use. After the bot
tie has stood several days, however, the
varnish divides into two distinct strata
the lower richer in copal, but the upper
finer and perfectly colorless. Professor
Boettger, the author of the formula,
claims the superiority in transparency,
elasticity, hardness, and durability for
this varnish. The lower stratum NAV
be again treated with camphor, etc.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-04

@ A cup of coffee is a sure bar
ometer, if you allow the sugar to drop
to the bottom of a cup and watch the
bubbles arise without disturbing the
coffee. If the bubbles collect in the
middle the weather will be fine. If they
adhere to the cup, forming ring, it
will he rainy; and if the bubbles sepa-
rate without assuming any fixed position,
ohangeable weather may be expected.
Try it. ..
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-04


COOLING FOR BLlFK1Ns.-Young Blif-
kins, son of old Blifkins the banker
he of the Dolly Warden pants and
vest-was recently caught in shower,
and took refuge under the portico of a
dwelling on Beacon street, A very at-
tractive young lady-a pretty maiden
who sat by the open window seeing his
situation, sent out q servant to him
with an umbrella. Blifkins went away
in ecstasy; and ON the following day
having attired himself in most elabor-
ate and stunning array OF starch and
jewels, he took the umbrella, which
was an old one and laid it away with
his treasures of conquest as souvenir
and then he went forth and purchased
an affair to replace it Of the most beau
tiful and costly kind. Thus equipped,
he called upon the lady to return hel
flattering loan. She admitted him to
her presence, and received the umbrella
without apparently noticing the ex-
change; and it was not until she had
listened with becoming gravity to his
highly dramatic Acknowledgements that
the truth beamed upon her. She SOW
that he labored under the enchanting
impression that she had been smitte1
by his appearance.
Weally," said Blifkins, in sweet
poetic mood, "youah tender act touch
ed me. Aw-it touched me deeply
it did, pom honaw."
Indeed, sir" replied the maiden
with charming naivete, there was nc
need of this gratitude on your part
AS you stood beneath our portico YOU
obstructed my view of gentleman al
an opposite window who had been OBJ
serving me, and sent the umbrella a:
the readiest means to get rid Of your un
aretcOme presence %,
Bifkins went home, and broke W
the old umbrella, and consigned it.
hated fragments to the ash barrel.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-04

@ The letters, papers and manu-.
scripts of W. H. Prescott, the historian
We're completely destroyed by the Bos-
ton fire. During the absencein in Europe
OF the members of the family into whose
possession they had come, these valu-
ables were stored for safety, in one OF
the fine granite warehouses consumed
by the tremendous conAagration.
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@ A lawyer and q parson wer

* A lawyer ana Pafson were
talking about which way The wind was.
The former said, I" We go by the court
house vane." "And We" replied the
parson, "go by the church vane." "
Well" said the lawyer, in the mat
ter of wind that is the best authority"
and the parson went to cogitate.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-04

@A A Philadelphia man has been
hung for numbering his wife. They
occasionally have old fashioned iuries
there.
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z- The first rule of the permanent
friends society of Evansville, Mas, is
that members shall not borrow money
from each other,
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DIsENTHRALLED JOURNALISM.

lCol. J. Forney in the Philadelphia Press.
Optimists will take courage from the
manner of the reception of the news
of Mr.. Greeley's death. Those who
believe that the politics of the country
and the partisan press we're wholly bad,
will now modify their views and adopt
new faith in human nature. OF all
the men against whom the brutal po-
litical newspapers of this country have
turned their political abuse, Horace
Greeley was the chief sufferer. The
columns in which he has been maligned
are the worst blot ON American journ-
alism. .Ealsshood without measure,
ridicule without mercy, were the re-
ward of his mora earnestness, his hu-
manity, his great ability during life.
A peculiarly sensitive nature, these
blows must have wounded his very
heart. Now that he is dead, the whole
people (his libelers included) spontan-
eously express their admiration of his
genius, and their appreciation of his
honesty and usefulness.
The praise of those who lately libel
ed him means, if it has any meaning at
all beyond the mere mechanical eulogy
that newspapers always pay the distin-
guished dead, that what they said be-
fore was false. Horace Greeley dead is
no more "later Franklin" than Hor-
ace Greeley living. His mind was just
as great, his heart just as wide six
months ago as it was when he paid his
final debt to nature. He had his follies
hay, his faults-but his whole life
was loving and unselfsh. During the
last campaign, even, when the great
majority Of his fellow-citizens differed
with him, he was as honest as he was
in any act of his long career. He him
self wrote of this very canvass to bio
grapher: 81 do not regret having
brayed public opinion when 1 thought
it wrong and knew it to be merciless."
There are many lessons to be learned
from Horace Greeleys life and death,
and treatment during one after the
other. One of them is addressed to
that profession to which he gave so
many noble faculties When its mem
bers praise his honesty, his independ-
ence, his fearlessness, they study it.
The age demands new and better
journalism, and this is the event from
which to date it. If the press is ever
to become the moral guide, the elevat-
ing influence, the instructor that was
the ideal of Mr.. Greeley, let us begin
now. The time is ripe and the occa.
sion worthy. Above all things let there
be an end to the brutal ISLANDERS of the
partisan newspaper. The people OF
the country will always differ in politics
and SO will the journals, but why not
like gentlemen and Christians instead
of as prize-fghters and savages?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-04

@A young lady who was rebuked
by her mother for kissing her intended,
justified the act by quoting the passage !:
Whatsoever We would that man should
do unto you, doyou even so unto them. :"
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E Fifty thousand people called and
took q last look at Greeley's remains "a
they lay in state in New York.
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E A colored man has been elected
speaker of the South Carolina Assem-
bly,.
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EXECUTIVE MANSION.
WAsH1NcroN Cry, Sept. 4. 1879

WAsHlNaToN Cry, Sept. 4, 1879.
My DEAR Mn. EAsroN Your letter
received inclosing your resignation as
special agent in charge Of the Coying-
ton post-office, with the reasons there
for. I beg you to suspend action in the
matter for the present. I regret very
much that my father should attempt to
interfere in your management OF the
Office. I shall write him at once to de-
sist and send me his resignation, as I
am satisfied he never will again be COM
petent to discharge the duties Of the
Office. Very truly your friend,
q. s. GRANT.
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A QUEER LETTER. a.-The following let
ter is published in the Cincinnati Com
mercial. Grant refuses to accept the
resignation of the special agent, and
insinuates very strongly that his sire
is no longer fit to occupy the position
Of postmpster at Covington. Here is
the letter: