Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-01-16
Gatherings by the Wayside.

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The Arkansas Legislature has fe-
male engrossing clerk.
A widow has been elected secretary
of the Providence, r. l., school com
mittee.
Josephine Mansfield has received o
Judgment for $4,000 against the es-
tate of James Fisk, Jr.
Seven members of the new Congress
answer to Williams, unless death calls
the roll between this and March 4.
The State Temperance Alliance of
California has determined upon the es-
adjustment of cold-water political
party.
The New York Tribune has received
and forwarded s45, 900 for the sufferers
from grasshoppers in Kansas and Ne
braska.
California now holds the Yosemite
Valley in trust for the nation, and has
paid $50 900 to settle the pre-emption
claims of the persons who colonized
there.
The whole city of st. Paul, Mime
sofa, is to be disposed of by lottery.
A million tickets are to be sold at 500
each The city is estimated to be worth
S25, OOO, 900.
This sort Of weather should remind
every wise husband that he cannot too
soon arrange and settle as to who is to
get up and build the fire during the
coming Winter.
A New Jersey clergyman says there
are about twenty different kinds of re-
ligion, but man who won't wash and
shave and put on clean shirts can't en-
Joy any of them.
A Philadelphia rumor has it that the
proprietors of the Great Eastern pro-
pose to send her over to the centennial
with $500 passengers, who will be
lodged and fed on the ship.
The anniversary of the battle of Tren-
ton was celebrated at that place on
Saturday, for the first time since the
war. A sham fight, in which 1000
troops took place, was the principal
feature.
An old custom of the last century is
being revived, that of calling all wom-
en- MRS" the Authorization of Mistress,
whether married or single. This was
the general custom in England in the
olden time. "Miss" was confined to
neutrality-suspicious., and to young ladies
undo twenty-five.
At last some one says good word
for the mosquito: DR.. Samuel w. Fran
CHS says that the liquid injected hypo-
dermically by the mosquito contains the
principle of quinine, and was sent by
Providence as an antidote to the fever
which arises from marshy and mosquito
infested districts.
China, even, is not exempt from the
modern vice of official peculation. The
Project of Ten-Tsin, which is the port
of Picking, at the head of navigation on
the Peiho, and distant eighty-six miles
from the capital, has just retired, after
four years plundering, with fortune
of $4,000. His salary was 81 500
per annum.
The Warden of the Oregon Peniten-
tiary has discharged the prison doctor
and detailed one of the convicts, who
is IN educated physician, to perform
the duties. The Warden claims that
thereby he saves 81 800 a year to the
State, and besides is sure that the phys
ician will Railways be within reach
when needed"
The Syracuse Journal says: "Awell.
known Democrat of central New York
being on the eve of taking q journey tc
Cincinnati last week, asked ex- Governo,
Seymour what he should say to politi
cal friends there. Mr.. Seymour re.
piled: Call on Mr.. Pendleton, and
say to him for me, that he is the com.
ing man in 1885,"
Mount Blanc it is said has been
dwarfed by the discovery in Europe Of
taller monarch of mountains. Mount
Elburz, on the European side of the
Caucasian water shed, has been found
to be IL, 526 feet high ,,or 2, 742 feet high.
er than the greatest estimated height
of Mount Blanc. The mountain is in
shape fattened dome, and although
possessing the Alpine characteristics Of
snow-felds, ice-lakes and glaciers, is
easily climbed by experienced noun.
taineers.
~ The New York Observer prints the
following letter from California lad,
to the Presbyterian Board of Home
Mission: SO I enclose you 81 IS for the
Board of Home Mission. This none,
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