Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-01-29
Gatherings by the Wayside.

Women vote in Chill.
Money is plentiful in San Francisco.
Snow shoes are in use at Idaho City.
Queen Victoria will visit the Cont
nent in the spring.
Philip Ritz is shipping trees from
Walla-w alla to California.
Thirty-eight cents a day is the aver
age salary of workmen in Switzerland
and Italy.
The Democratic Changers favor JUS
tice Davis, of the Supreme Court, for
the Presidency.
A drunken women scared the Walla-
wallains last week, by staggering
through the streets with loaded rifle.
1t is rumored that Pennsylvania del
egation to the Republican national'con-
vention will support Conkling, of New
York, for the Presidency.
A Reading girl will insist on wearing
boys clothes, and her father advertises
for remedy. Dress up a young fellow
in girls clothes and marry her off.
A gentleman who has the power of
moving his scalp was amusing his little
niece with the trick lately, and she ex-
pressed her surprise by exclaiming,
" Ma, just see uncle wink with his hair. !"
Here is Norman reason for marry
ing GENTLE; "Why, isn't he hand
some! and then he is good, and then
and then-I-I wanted every bit of him
to myself! Father didn't like it, moth
didn't like it, but I did,"
May: Mamma, do let us have an
other wedding soon." Mamma (who
doesn't like parting with her daughters) i:
Don't talk of such a thing, my darling"
May: +" I mean let's have another we'd
ding, and leave out all but the cake, you
know"
Convenient city to live in is New
York. Ifyou have no dress coat of your
own, and 40 money to buy one, and
the occasion arises when you must
have one, you can hire, it for three hours
for twenty-five cents ct certain shops
which do large trade in that sort of
business.
If God," said Leasing, "held all
truth shut in His right hand, and in
His left nothing but the restless in
stinct for truth, though with the con-
dition of forever and ever erring, and
should say to me--Choose! I would
bow reverently to His left hand, and
soy, Father, givel Pure truth is for
Thee alone!'
A lady in Connecticut not long since
visited brother who resides in a dis.
tant city, taking her little daughter
with her. Fatigued with the long ride,
the child was impatient to retire in the
early part of the evening. You must
wait until your uncle prays." ct didn't
know" said she, that uncle prayed; I
thought her Republican" "rA
The enterprising New York Herald
has organized an expedition to discover
the whereabouts of Boss Tweed. The
expedition includes scouts on land and
steam tugs on water. If success crowns
its efforts it will not only have per-
formed a substantial public service, but
also have earned the SIC, 900 reward the
sheriff has offerd on the productio of
the distinguished fugitive.
Prom the Santa Barbara Mews we
learn that John Nugent, well-known to
oil California newspaper men, died re-
Gently OF the insane asylum in Stockton,
California. He is said to have been O
natural son of George Nv. of England
by his morganatic-marriage with the
Quakeress Mrs. Fitziames. If this be
true, another chapter may be inserted
in the celebrated !" Memoirs"
Ex-Speaker Blaine is said to explain
his not voting on the third term reso-
luton on the ground that as he is a
candidate for the Presidency himself. it
would have been in bad taste for him to
have taken any action against his rival,
Grant. And the ungrateful Grant,
when told of Mr.. Blaine's magnani-
nous conduct, remarked that 4" Blaine
needn't be SO d--n careful, he don't
stand in anybody's way"
One of the good results of the Edu-
cation act in London, which is based on
the American system, is that the atten-
dance of scholars has increased from
10000 to 280, 900; and this has not
been done by harshness, for the num-
Der Of parents fined does not exceed g.
600, and no fine has exceeded FIVE shil-
lings. The frmness of the London
School Board has resulted in its saving
100000 children from growing up in ig-
norance.
1t is not generally known that there
is large and prosperous Irish settle
mentin the Argentine Republic, in South
America. In one of the provinces,
Buenos Ayres, there is population of
nearly 400 900, of which nearly half is
Irish. 1T is a rich grazing country, and
the most extensive farmers in the PROV
ince are Irishmen, who hold immense
tracts Of land and carry on wool trade