Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-02-15
GATHERINGS 81 THE wATsIDE.

Vi d ->e" OiicahS CITY Idil"ay.
Thackeray's daughter is the queen of
the literary circles in London.
Portland is receling in fresh lettuce
and radishes from San Francisco.
A five year-old Georgia boy has made
SIS clear profit this year by farming.
The flour mills in Chicago produce
one thousand barrels of flour every day.
Edgar A. Poes only sister lives at
Hicks landing, Va, in pinching pov-
erty.
Strauss is to conducta series of Crys-
tai Palace concerts in London next Sum-
mer.
Work has begun on the Inauguration
ball building in Judiciary square, Wash
ington.
1t is thought Delegate Clagget, of
Montana, will be appointed Governor
of Utah.
The Chinese of this country talk of
shipping grasshoppers home to China
for food.
Fresh oysters from Baltimore, ten
days on route, were sold in Portland
last week
Hard times in Paris induce the gypsies
to sell their daughters at the ridiculously
small sum of SIS.
In Indianapolis last year, there was
one divorce granted for six marriage
licenses issued.
A bill has been introduced in the
Indiana Legislature forbidding the
marriage of white and colored persons.
The first ingredient in conversation
is truth, the next is good sense, the
third is good humor, and the fourth wit.
The Territory of Idahois heavily in
numbered. 1t has bonded debt of
ST 1855 % and floating debt of $JS,-
239 70.
The country docs not respond cheer
fully to the call for ten million dollars
to get up u Philadelphia Centennial
Celebration.
Three thousand colored people from
Georgia and Florida want the United
States to furnish them passage to Ii
IBERIA as colonists.
Governor Washburn of Wisconsin
asks the Legislature to devise some law
that will break up raiiies, grab-bags and
lotteries at church fairs.
Another daily paper in Salt Lake city,
|. with a capital of 800 900 Population
of the city, 10000, and Is newspapers
ono to every 200 persons.
The English Houses of Parliament
cover eight acres, have l 100 apartments
| II 4,..,> Il n-t
of the building was two million sterling.
The former home of Thomas Jcfier-
son, on the Monticello mountain, near
Charlottesville, is in litigation at pres
cnt before the Supreme Court of Viz
ginia.
The Commercial Herald of San Fran
cisco, in an article on the industrial pro-
ducts of California, estimates the wheat
crop of the State for 1872 at . 900 600
: bushels.
The people of Northern California arc
l planting orange and lemon treesin large
numbers. A nursery man in Marysville
, adyertises fourteen thousand four-yeal
old trees for sale.
In 1865 the population of Montana
was estimated to be fully fifty thousand.
In 1872 it is represented to have dwin-
r died down to eighteen thousand--a loss
of nearly two-thirds.
The total valuation of the real estate
in the District of Columbia belonging to
the Government, exclusive of the pub
: lie buildings, squares, and parks, is re-
ported at SIG, 1863
, The largest canal in the world is one
in China, which passes over two thou
sand miles of country. and alongside
forty-two cities. 1t was commenced as
3 far back as the tenth century.
r In the new streets of Paris the build
= ings at the corners are rounded, or
Y the angle cut off, so that the sidewalks
are curved, thus facilitating looomotion,
and avoiding the many accidents caused
by turning around sharp angles.
The Committee on Suffrage and Elec-
tons of the Pennsylvania Constitutions
E al Convention are engaged in hearing
arguments from female orators why the
right of suffrage should be granted to
, the woman of that State.
Josie Mansfield is creating sensation
r in Paris, and it is said duel has al
1 ready been fought as the result of dis
pute about her, neither of the parties
being however, seriously hurt. Perhaps
it is safe to remark that the fools are not
I all dead yet.
A bill prescribing the manner of sub.
hitting the pending constitutional
amendment, restoring the franchise to
the DISTINGUISHED in Arkansas, to the
vote of the people on March 23d, has
Just passed both Houses of the Legisla.
r ture of that State.
!, The Government gives notice that
contracts are to be let for supplying
camp San Juan with 46, 600 pounds OF
baled straw the delivery of the articles