Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-03-08
GATHERINGS BY THE WAYsIpE.

Tie hosiery line.
The Alliance (O.) Monitor is ncw cd
tied by woman.
British engineers are at work on
railway in China.
Massachusetts, has 1874 900 veteran
soldiers and sailors.
They have female Life Insurance
agents in Wisconsin.
Slight eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius have
recently taken place.
Minnesota has snow drifts as high
as fhe telegraph poles.
The deer caught in New Hampshire
have the horse disease.
Fifty thousand foreigners are hunt
ing diamonds in Africa.
The winter in Northern Vermont is
too severe for numbering.
The I'd Regiment of Connecticut is
going to Washington to help inauSurate
Grant.
Illinois has elected twenty-one jour
nalist as Mayors during the last eigh
teen months.
The queen of Denmark wears cllico
dresses, in publicly way of rebuking
extravaganza in dress.
Miss Norah Grant is running at an
Independent candidate for Recorder of
Crawford county, Iowa.
Since the death of Louis Napoleon,
his son, the Prince Imperial, has as
sumed the title of Napoleon ".
Miss Lee, the daughter of General
Robert E. Lee, is spending the winter
in Paris, with some Southern friends.
Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks is the only
Democrat who has been inauSurated
Governor of Indiana for sixteen years.
Milk is so badly adulterated in New
York that the cows blush because their
names are used to cover the vile fraud.
Brigham Young denies that he is ne
gotiating for the purchase of one of the
Sandwich islands. He don't propose to
move.
At recent fair held in Montgomery,
Ala, q premium was offered for the
"young woman who would make the
best wife for poor man."
The residents of the town of Colfax
think of changing the name of their vii
lage to "Mobilier," in honor of the
smiler's success in that stock.
Less coffee is consumed in Yemen,
whence it originally came, than any
where else. A decoction made from
the husks of the bean is used.
Coal mine proprietors in Wales are
threatened with death if they employ
Chinese miners, as they say they will,
to take the place of the strikers.
1t is estimated that eight hundred
thousand white voters in the Southern
States failed to exercise their privilege
at the recent Presidential election.
The Pennsylvania Legislature will be
asked to pay 81 900 ,0OO towards the cost
of the Centennial Commission in 1876.
and Philadelphia another $500, COO.
In 1865 the population of Montana
was estimated to be fully $4,000. In
1872 it is represented to have dwindled
down to IL, O0O--a loss of nearly two
thirds.
Already, since the beginning of Janu-
ary, have been reported the wreck of
sixteen ships, twenty steamers, four
teen banks, twelve briggs, and twenty
nine schooners.
Miss Mary Nolan of the st, Louis
Central Magazine, has applied for pat
ent for portable reservoir of her own
invention, which is to be used in pre-
venting large fires.
Utah has twelve railroads completed,
or in course of construction. and more
are projected. Brigham Young and
sons own five, and the " Saints" con-
troll three more of them.
1t is estimated 1854 ,OOO, 600 will be
required to run the government of the
United States during the fiscal year
ending July 30th, 1874. This includes
the interest on the public debt.
The next time Vice President Colfax
addresses Sunday-school he's going
to lay his hand on his heart and warn
the dear children against the vile prac-
tice of keeping memorandum books.
Among the articles to be exhibited
from America at the Vienna Exhibition
is log of black walnut, the largest
ever grown, six feet in diameter and
eighteen feet long, which was cut in
Missouri and weighs seven tons.
Merchandise from New York on IN
average by the railroad, reaches San
Francisco in from twenty five to thirty
days. It is not safe to expect its arri-
val under thirty days. Eighteen, or
even sixteen, days time ought to suffice
for through freight. ...; ., "a. ..
A chemist announces his ability and
readiness to convert the remains of any
dear departed at once into powder
which may be used to dry up ink in
writing. Droll idea to be able to
dredge away a mother-in-law, in daily
correspondence.
Mrs. Chenoweth, the widow of Colo
mel B. P. Chenoweth, formerly Super
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