Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-04-01


be absent over Sunday. No services in til.
Hall except Sunday School, which assem-
bles at 1 o'clock r NJ
GATHERINGS BY THE wAYsIDE.
WISE AND oTHERwIsE--oRIGINAL AND SELECTED
Walla-walla has jockey club fully organ
iscd
A Spokane chief is preaching to the {" Bos
tons" at Colfax, W.
Six is the required number of bridesmaids
for fashionable wedding.
r. Kennedy, of Dry Creek, Wall>walla
county, has $4,000 acres sown in wheat.
TRUE merit wears homespun while igno
rance and vice faunts silks and lace.
Never say "kid gloves" Either "kids >
or "elovcs." Etiquette demands this.
Frederick Douglass was lately refused &C.
commodation in an Indianapolis Hotel
Worse than "Colonel Sellers"-Our Mic
roscopeical Society. They see millions in
everything.
Gently purchased twenty acres OF land in
Westminster, Cal, is putting out ten acres
Of onions, and will soon sink an artesiau
we'll in the place.
Edwin las the servant is presently; All jet
tay, sec-ah-disappointnt de ne pas VOC.
WHO'RE Ia rink ce mattang poor qwaw esker
Angelina, All, wee, mais mommong. Par
lor maid: Hem! beg your pardon, miss, but
l understand the langvidge.
Justin Mccarthy says in English public life
a man fifty years old is considered mere
political STRIPPING. How much we are ahead
of England; in this country the majority of
men are profound and sagacious statesmen by
the time they are twenty-five
Hardwich, Mass, still retains the ancient
custom of levying direct " ministers tax "
The members of the Congregational Society
are regularly assessed on the basis of the
town valuation, and their tax bills are pre-
scented and collected in due FORM
BLANKETS" of brown paper of a superior
quantity, prepared in such a manner as to
permit the free passage of the exhalations of
the body without diminishing the warmth,
are advertised in London, at prices ranging
from fourpence to sixpence each.
A mine of whitewash was recently dis
covered in a deep ravine on the farm Of
Joseph Bowles, near La Belle, Lewis county,
Mo. The deposit is snowwhite clay which
possesses all the properties of the best lime
whitcwash. The mine seems to be inexhaust-
able.
He had Just returned from church and was
singing, ION, where shall rest be found" in
a most contented frame of mind, but when
she asked him to get scuttle of coal he
slammed the kichen door just as vigorously
as the original Adam slammed the gate of
Eden.
The engineer of train of cars approach
ing Alfred, Me-, several days ago. saw New
foundland dog on the track, and tried to
brighten him off by sounding his whistle As
the dog did not move, he stopped the train,
and then found that just around the curve
close by was an OK team fast to the track.
The Kansas potato-bugs which have made
their appearance this year, instead OF wear
ing the black and yellow stripes usual to them
are arrayed in alternate stripes of red, white
and blue This is showing very commend
able respect for the centennial year, and
perhaps after all, the potatoe-bug means vel
enough.
A firm of horticulturists at Sonora, Cal.
on thirteen acres of orchard land prouced
and shipped 100000 pounds OF apples, 80,
600 pounds of pickles, 22O barrels of vinegar
and thirty barrels and $4,000 cases of cider
and, with increased facilities of expectation
thew expect to find market for five time:
that amount
Richard H. Dana, the proposed American
Minister at the Court of st. James, was II
California before the mast in Boston ship
in 1885, and wrote very interesting book
called 1.-TWO Years Before the Mast" which
will we'll repay reading, to any Pacific Coast
er. Mr.. Dana revisited San Francisco abou
four years ago.
A child who had been educated on thu
moral suasion plan refused to get out OF bee
and be washed one cold morning. Her aun
argued the matter with her, but she final.
succumbed, when the infant logician said
Aunt Mary, you do as you like, and lie
me do as like - You like to be clean ant
cold; like to be warm and dirty"
The New York Evening Post is response
Die for the following curious statement: 'Al
apparatus for washing smoke, and thus &c
priving it of its character as a nuisance, is il
operation at factory at Menilmontant, Paris
A fine shower of water, travelling in the al
rection of the smoke, and at five times its ve
locity, is projected into the chimney, wher
it mixes with the smoke, taking up the solu
BILE gases, and precipitating the impuritle
carried up with the smoke by the draught
The foul water is discharged into cistern
where it is collected and fine black pain
is got from it.
CHOCOLATE CREAM DRoPs.-These ar
very simple, and will make delicious candies
Two cups of powdered sugar, cnehalf GU
water; boil four minutes, and beat to cream
when nearly cold, flavor to taste; mould i
little balls, and roll in chocolate, whic