Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-18
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Only tllir.N deaths last ycqr in .jnc,l-
sonyiilo, Oregon, TO !o.ty-hyc IN 1871.
Bogus twenty lollar pieces are in cir
collation. i'll and around jacksonville,
Oregon.
The ChrjS''an tnioa Bcechcr) will II,
t'lt,ro ads an:ts n:i;;s;4:-sal suffrage, ~"
out regard to sex or race.
Provisions are so scarce in Borca that
tie natives willingly pay two youn;
womcn for hushcl of.Srain.
A Boston scientist says that the little
house fly breathcs throughout his sides,
and cXpec,or4tcs out O. ,hc top of his
head.
Geo. W. Bul!en, of Port Madison,
has been appointed inspector of bo.lc:A
for Puget Sound district, vice James
Wallace, resigned.
Alvinza Hayward, the great California
capitalist, Is Oh his last legs. His COM
plant is what i, known rs Bright dis
ease of the Kidneys.
Pretty little caps to wear at breakfast
are very popular with young married
ladies. They save an immense deal OF
trouble il arranging the hair.
Mark Twain followed Innoconts
Abroad with "Innoconts at Home,
and now proposes to supplement
"Roughing 1t" with Smoothing It."
The Legislature of Georgia has
passed a law eXempting from taxation
for ten years, cotton and wollen mills in
the State, in order to encourage the de-
velopmont OF manufacturing interests.
An Connecticut sexton prevents the
congregation from shifting about and
changing seats by applying II COB of
pitch to their persons rs they enter the
sanctuary. He says " the church is no
place to fool round in
The population of the globe is usually
estimated at COG, 900, 900. A new and
careful estimate, based on the very lat
est returns, has just been published nj
Gotha by two competent German statis-
ticians, who calculate the present num-
Der of the carths inhabitants. at ,377,
600, goo souls.
The good people of Dallas are in Q
quandary about their Justice of the
Peace. He has left the country without
resignin%, is under bonds for perjury
and is very much disliked on general
principles. What to do i'll the premises
they do not know, and have finally ap.
piled to legal counsel for aid.
A new feature of social entertainment
this winter will be "pound parties
They derive this name from the circum-
stance that each person invited is re-
quested to furnish u pound of pastry
confectionery, fruit, or other clihlcs TO!
the table, and thus an elegant supper
is provided. The parties are given al
private residences.
On the islands late in dispute be
between England and America, OF
which San Juan is the principal ono
there are bout ESQ inhabitants. S;a.
Juan Island alone has $50 inhabitan..
and IS farms. Orcas Island has li5 in.
habitants and 40 farms. Lopez Island
has 135 inhabitants, and - fa1ms--andl
few inhabitants, on the smaller Is
lands.
General Banks has softencd the heart.
of his enemies by Introducing bill
doubling the wages of the President,
General Banks is II gentleman Oh sin
gular shrewlness. He is anon" the
very few in this world who rise with III
emergency. His restoration cost TWEEN
ty-five thousand dollars a year of othc,
peoples money, and thereby hangs the
humor of it.
The sharpest so far this month is the
Troy New York; girl, who makes her
unsu 'pectnS daddy the daily bearer OF
sweet missives to clerk in his Office
who has been forbidden to visit his en-
ployer's house. She pins the letter in
the old mans cloak, and when he
reaches the Office and throws off the
garment, the clerk gets it and responds
by the same carrier.
An effort on the part of the Masonic
fraternity to revive the sentiment for
completing the Washington Monument,
has been made by some of the principal
lodges. A draft of Sl25 has been re-
ceived by the society from the Grand
Secretary of California, who reports
that other lodges in that State are NOV
ing in the cause, and from the adviccs
of the society it is believed that this is
but the commencement of general and
generous response on the part of the
Masonic fraternity, of which Washing
ton was SO exalted member.
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