Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-02-27
Gatherings by the Wayside.

Gatherings by the Wayside.
Said w. H. Aspinwall to his children.
Whatever charitable gifts your con-
science prompts you to make, make in
life
One hundred and thirty-six Republi.
cans and forty-six Democrats 60 out on
the Sd of March. 1t will be solemn
March for them.
There were thirty-four marriage GER
titicates recorded in the Office of the
probate court of Clarke county, w. T.,
for the year ending Dec. 3lst, 1874.
The eighteen cars belonging to the
Seattle Coal Company, which were lost
overheard during storm ON Lake
Washington, were worth $4,000, and
will be total loss. ''ET.
The Brainerd (Minn.) Tribune re-
ceived a new Office building, and almost
an entire new outfit of type, presses
and material as Christmas present
from the good citizens of Brainerd.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany raised the tallest telegraph pole in
the world, the other day, in New York.
1t is ninety-three feet long and two feet
in diameter, and it came from Califor-
MIA. .......
Nevada is talking about making an
appropriation of 500, 900 for the Cen
tennial, and for putting up quartz
mill at Philadelphia to show how her
ores are worked, and what the various
mines yield per ton. So far, however,
it is but talk.
A jackass "a four-legged one, with
orthodox head and ears) climbed up
four flights of stairs to the editorial
room of the Now Orleans Republican,
and was just about to inquire "Who
wrote that -Y' whom they fell upon
him and smote him 80 that he fed.
It has been decided to build dock
capable of containin G full sized IRON
clad at Esquimalt, in British Column
bia. The British Government has
promised to pay $3.50, 000 toward the
cost of its construction, and it is ex-
pected the Canadian will do the same.
For the first time in her political his
tory land, as wit once said, she is as
old as the most of us), China is in the
money market asking loan. She wants
SO, 1888 1916, is willing to count IS cents
a dollar, and give s per cent. per an
mum as interest. But there are no
takers.
The Des Moines Register thus pictures
Winter scene in that city: "Enter
mother and daughter. Mother, Ma
ria, what blessing this storm is; now
we can have the whole day, without
interrupting visitors, to catch up with
the Tilton business seats herself, and
reads five hours"
President Grant gains one more day
in Office than the American elector bar
gained for The 4th of March, 1877,
will come on Sunday, and by statue,
the Inauguration Of the President elect
does not take place until the next day.
Twice in the history of the republic this
has occurred; in 1921, at the second in
auguration of James Monroe, and in
1S49, when Zachary Taylor was installed.
According to the Courier Herald of
Jackson, Tenn, man in that town,
tired of renting and not disposed to in
vest in city lot, has built himself q
dwelling house on wheels. Procuring
an old-fashioned log wagon, he has
erected on it house 10x20 feet, and
seven feet from floor to ceiling. The
house contains two rooms, one entrance
and four small windows. The house he
proposes to move from place to place in
the city, or.even out of it, as the exigen-
cies of his business or convenience may
demand. His family, consisting Of
himself, wife. and three children, will
lodge, feed and sleep in this little house
on wheels.