Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-01-11
GATHERINGS BY TIE WAYsIDE.

Napoleon and Eugene are coming to
America.
August Belmont has rented villa
at Nice.
Walla Walla had had Ladies' Fair
which yielded 81 100.
| Gen. Hood, of rebel fame, is keeping
a drug store IN Georgia.
The recent earthquake was felt as far
east as Helena, Montana.
One hundred women are studying
law in American colleges.
A Sacramento apple tree has borne
six crops of fruit this year.
Wells Drury has retired from the
publication of the Monmoth MESSENGER.
Antwerp has skilled and armless
artist, painting rare pictures with his
toes.
The lightest ballet girl in New York
crashes down the scales at eighty-three
pounds.
Chief Justice Chase has five grand
chi!dren-three little Spragues and two
little Hoyts.
The Nez Pcrces have made PROPOSE
ton to build ten miles of the Northern
Pacific Railroad.
Velvet is more worn by fashionable
young ladies ON the street this winter,
than it has ever been before.
One hundred thousand dollars worth
OF agricultural implements are to be
manufactured in Salem this year.
Charles Dickens left a box of books
to the Kansas Blind Asylum, and the
gift has just been received by the in
stitution.
A San Francisco man who refused to
shake hands with Mrs. Fair has received
notice that his insurance policy is not
worth cent
The old bell of Engine Company No.
l, OF Portland, fell to pieces while ring
ing in the New Year. It was the first
fire bell in that city.
The San Joaquin riveri is to be stocked
with shad, and California streams are
to be filled with Holsters, white fish,
wall-eyed perch and black bass.
California is making brandy from figs.
The liquor is very pleasant, and after
drinking quart or IS man will cheer
fully stand any amount of abuse from
his wife.
New York poodles are dyed to match
the color of their owners gloves, and
their tails are scented with costly per-
fumes which diffuse delicious fragran-
ces when wagged in an energetic man.
ner.
The Judiciary Committee of the
House of Representatives has reported
a bill which increases the salary of the
President of the United States to fifty
thousand dollars per annum from and
after the 4th of March next.
Brides in good society nowadays
avoid most strictly the traditional gray
and brown travelling suits formerly in
vogue, and dress as unconspicuonsly rs
possible so that all creation needn't
know that we've just been married"
A young lady writes to an exchange
giving receipt for having fun. She
says invite half dozen boys and girls
to your house when your pa and ma
are away; put half-dollar silver piece
in dish with molasses an inch deep in
it, and offer it to the boy who gets it
with his mouth. The more the boys
try to get it the more fun there will be.
That girl surely deserves diploma.
Snails have long been given in Eu-
rope to consumptives. They are taken
boiled in milk, and are nutritious and
fattening. They were luxury among
the Romans. This was, however, not
our garden snail, but larger member
of the same family, of reddish brown
color, marked with pale bands, which
is still found in the vineyards of Italy.
The praises of their delicious flavor
have been written by Pliny, and sung
by Horace. The Chinese, who eat
them, are astonished that we, who are
fond of oysters, should refuse them.
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