Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-03-01
GATHERINGS BY THE WAYSIDE.

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Beechers pews rented for $50, 230 80
for this year.
A New York book store has $40 900
Bible for sale
+ There are 800 women postmasters in
the United States.
An Eastern firm makes $50 bushels
of toothpicks daily.
A Detroit fcrry-boat passes free all
citizens over ninety.
Milk is selling at cent quart in
some parts of Minnesota.
In Southern Kansas q bushel of corn
is as cheap as cup of whisky.
A baby lately born in Almeda, Cal,
has been named Laura D. Fair.
a new town is being laid out in Kilt
tas Valley, Iakama county, W. L.
Burlington, VT, is constructing mill
to make paper out of pine shavings.
Congress has passed q law making let
! terpostage two cents after the LIST of July
next.
! A Bangor firm is making kindling
from saw dust and pitch, pressed into
cakes.
San Francisco is ahead as re cards the
number of female type-setters en-
ployed
Miss Nellie Ne shit, blind girl of
Salem, will probably have charge of the
State School for the blind.
1t has been clearly demonstrated that
the finest quality of cotton and tobacco
can be raised in California.
The New York H,,uld will soon start
an expedition to fix the disputed loca-
ton of the Garden of Eden.
There is reported deficiency of over
twenty-five millions of bushels of wheat
in the English wheat crop of 1872.
St. Paul has q, 900 population, and
claims $4,000 in order to beat Duluth,
Which has 5000 and claims q 900.
English papers predict that Americans
won't use the postal cards more than q
mouth before they will become disgust
ed.
Gen. Crook command has killed over
800 Indian warriors in Arizona, and the
red devils are suing for peace down
there.
Wives in Iowa supply themselves with
pin money, by selling permits to the So
loon keepers to sell liquor to their hus-
bands.
A swarm of lees contains from ten
thousand to twenty thousand i'll a natu-
raj state, and in a hive. A bee lives
ninety days.
A Massachusetts, doctor visited his
patients in chaise drawn by an anti
quated bull, during the prevalence of
the epidemic.
Female lobbyists at Washington say
they never saw such rough weather for
their business as that which has marked
the present weather.
A Mr.. Dixon proposes to remove
Cleopatra's nceple from Egypt, and
place it on the Thames embankment, in
London, for $75 600.
The best congregational singing in the
world is probably at Mr.. Sturgeon
Tabernacle III London, where there is
neither choir nor organ.
A few days ago at Eugene City,
the Willamette river suddenly rose
about ten feet in twelve hours. Little
or no rain had fallen, and the food was
surprise to those who witnessed it.
Winnie Ream's finished statue of Lin
coin was broken while being placed in
the Capital, and now her model of an
equestrian statue of Commodore Farra-
gut was broken into vulgar fractions by
the same sort of handling.
The heaviest brain on record was re-
Gently found in the skull of London
bricklayer, who could neither read nor
write. Its weight was sixty-seven
ounces. This will be gall and bitter
ness to the phrenologists.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that it would
not be surprised if the whole amount
of the Alabama damages, with little
something extra, should come back to
England as a free gift from America to
relieve the distress in the agricultural
districts of the mother country.
President Grant says he regrets the
fact that it will not be in his power to
visit the Pacific Coast this year. He
| SpCLho VI Lll5 AOll1cI lOoltACuCC AL Will
fornia with expressions of the kindest
recollection. He had intended to take
trip across the continent the coming
Summer. ~"
A, Vallejo young lady, about to go of
i'll the cars, stepped into the dark sitting
room to kiss her friend Sarah goodbye
Owing to the darkness she didn't hit Sa-
rah, but caromed on Chinaman and
didn't find out her mistake until John
began yelling, "Whatee for you SO
chokee me; Hi yah! No squeeze SO
muchee" One yell, a Topping of fem
mime garments, a slammed door and the
girl was gone. ....... ......
On and after the Sd of March, Mon
day., the r. r. daily train for Tenino
will leave Kalama at Z 80 "A. NJ. arrive