Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-03-15
GATHERINGS BIZ The WAYSIDE.

\ Catholic priest in 81. Louis WAS
married recently.
The Presidents salary is now %l3I
per day, Sundays included
II has been computed that Niagara
Falls would give power OF III 263 1888
horses.
The bell for Trinity Church, Portland,
was cast from cannon used in the Mex-
can war.
Fashionable weddings in Europe now
take place from 10 to II o'clock in the
morning.
The Printers Committee of the Ore
gon Greeley Monument fund have col
lected S4S.
A native of Kentucky, whose name is
Grant, wishes to change that name to
jeff Davis.
Kansas is blessed with representa-
tive named Tough and o senator named
Moonlight.
The telegraph states that Secretary
Robson will succeed Bancroft as Min
lister to Berlin.
1t is intended to hold State Sol
diers' Reunion at Portland on May Both
Decoration Day.
Pope Plus has been talking with
some American naval officers about
coming to the United States.
Governor and Mrs. Horatio Seymour
are travelling through the South, and
are the recipients of marked attention.
The mysterious name of the " mon
key-wrench," was taken from its inven-
tor, Mr.. Monkey, who still lives i'll New
Jersey,
San Francisco has several curiosties
called Siamese trout, consisting OF trout
with two heads, two tails and other du
pick peculiarities.
The Governor of Wisconsin, in u
message to the Legislature, recon-
ends law to prevent church festivals
and fairs and church lotteries.
There is boy fifteen years old work
ing on the Sacramento Valley Railroad
who measures six feet three inches,
with several years yet to hear from.
Several of the wooden millsin Mlssa-
chusetts have closed, owing to the high
price of wool and the disarrangement
of the markets, caused it is said, by the
late Boston fire.
Shingle Springs, California, has Of
fected a curious compromise between
lynch and statute law by formally elect
ing vigilance committee to take charge
of its town government.
An ingenious Yankee has invented a
ballot-boX that cannot be stuffed. IT
has an indicator in front which records
every vote cast, and keeps an exact re-
cord of the total, up to the time of clos
ing the polls.
A Western paper says that an English
lord is shooting prairic-dogs in Kansas
under the impression that he is having
SPLENDID sport killing grizzly bears.
He'll go back and publish book on the
wild sports of the far west.
A heavy debating society in Nevada
has solemnly decided that the African
has been more oppressive to the Uni
ted States than the Indian" All the
members of that society are doing their
heads up in wet towels to keep from
having rush of brains upward.
Somebody has been summing up the
fate of kings and emperors as follows
Out of 2,540 emperors or kings over "a
nations, 800 were dethroned. 81 abdicat-
ed, 20 committed suicide, Al went mad
100 died on the battle field, 123 were
made prisoners, Is were pronounced
martyrs and saints, Isl were assassin
J ated, 6 were poisoned, and 100 We're
sentenced to death. Total, 9G3.
The Tribune comments editorially
upon the position of Colfax, closing its
article as follows: Mr. Colfax's great
mistakes in this business have been
five. First, in taking the stock; sec
ond, in giving it back; third, in deny
, ing all knowledge of it: fourth, in hur-
, rying before the Committee to make
explanations under oath; fifth, in reap
pearing with additional explanations
And now he makes another whenever
he opens his mouth upon the subject.
A late census of France shows de-
crease of nearly 1900, 0OO in her popu-
lation within the last six years, includ-
, ing a decrease of 3G7 900 since the pre-
vious census in 1866, within the present
limits of the country. The average ..
nual increase of population in France,
from 1850 to 1870, was about one-half
of one per cent, or 1SO, 900 annually;
so that there should have been an in
crease of about 1900, 900 in six years
In the United States the increase is
about three per cent, or l 100000 an
nually.
Pooh PROSPECTS. A letter from n