Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-12-26
Gatherings by the Wayside.

William Shakespeare has been elected
to the Delaware Legislature.
Strauss has signed contract to give
concerts in America next year.
Cincinnati is defying the lishtnin;;
with church spire 800 feet high.
"Clerical errors" of the scandalou,
sort are reported from all parts OF the
country. The devil seems to be getting
into the preachers.
The Popular Science Monthly ridicules
the notion that oysters shouldn't be
eaten in the months that haven't an
in them, Us will rs other months.
The 18th inst. was an intensely cold
day in the Eastern States. Throughout
New England the temperature was from
twenty to thirty degrees below zero.
A Cincinnatian who for eighteen
years has been the sole survivor of
Last Man" Society of Seven, formed
in 1882, stills celebrates the anniver.
sary dinner in solemn silence.
Twelve States have adopted compul-
sorry education: New Hampshire, Ver-
mont, Massachusetts,, Kentucky, Rhode
Island, New Jersey, Michigan, Kansas,
Texas, Nevada, California, and from LIST
of January, 1876, New York.
The regular first class passenger fare
from New York city to San Francisco,
under the new rates established by the
Grand Trunk lines, at a meeting held
in New York city, will be $125, from
and after the LIST of December.
The Oregon press developes many
unique phrases. A Salem paper refers
to lecturer in this way: "Col. 10
Meek, the River of the Wester,' is
shouldering his jaw bone and showing
how the wilds were won since 1920"
The Salem Record says: Half
grown girls, in bands of four or five,
trip gaily through the streets of Salem
every morning, on their way to the
Fountain of Knowledge with their
arms full of books, their minds full of
boys, and their mouths full of gum
drops"
A contemporary asks, What are the
street lamps for ?" The man who
doesn't know what street lamp is for is
hardly fit to sit in an editorial chair and
mould public opinion. Street lamps
are for weary young men to recline
against at midnight, when they forget
the way home.
eff you don't see what you want,
ask for it," is posted up in conspi-
cuous place in Logansport grocery. A
native stepped into the establishment
last week. He saw the card, and re-
marked, want ten dollar bill, and
I don't see it," Neither do l." was
the laconic reply.
From Florida comes the story of Della
Jones, full-blooded negress, forty
years of age. She fell desperately in
love with young white man, carpen-
ter, and realizing the fact that he could
never be anything to. her, she turned
her property into cash ($7 ,250), left it
to him by will and then went off and
drowned herself.
In an address at Los Angeles, Dr. j.
G. Shorb spoke strongly in favor of the
narrow-gauge railroad system. "In
fact" he said, ct believe that if there
were way provided for to reach heaven
by steam, it would be on a narrow
gauge rail; for do not the Scriptures
say that straight and narrow is the
way that leads to life everlasting p"
Tilton declares, they say, that he has
not been in as good health for the ten
years past as at the present, and his
interior life is more agreeable and self
poised" And yet, he is still down on
Beecher, who has done more for his
health, it would seem, than would have
been accomplished by six months stay
at the Springs or the swallowing of
whole drug store.
The Denver Ne,cs records this Incl
dent: "a man was about dying in this
city, and an acquaintance sent the fol-
lowing telegram to his wife, who was in
Chicago: your husband is dying;
come quick She coolly replied: I
can't 60 now. If he dies, hand him
over to the Masons; he's one of them
The man died. The wife hasn't been
heard from since"
Mary e. Tillotson thus addresses the
people of North America: "This
world has not produced her grandest
specimens of the female form. Petit
coats have perverted her, dragged upon
her spinal anatomy, disarranged her
vital organs, and made her truly
wretched remnant of past glory. No
earthly salvation for people whose wo-
men wear petticoats instead of panta-
looms. Ichabod."
II am busy blowing and cannot en-
terrain company now" is the substance
of note recently written by Macou-
pin county, ILL.,, girl to St. Louis ex-
quisitive, who had met her ct fashion
able party in the latter city and wished
to visit her at her home. The glorious
maiden is graduate of an Illinois semi
nary, and her father gave her an eighty,
acre farm on condition that she should
help work it herself, which she does.
Tho mania for marlsmanship at the