Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-03-18
Fashionable fans have picture of friend

Fashionable fans have picture of friend
painted in the corner.
They no longer speak of it as "snakes in
his boot" in Kentucky. Bird in his hat"
is the suphem:sm.
There are 3,452 barrels and 1873 half bar
rels of whiskey on the way from domestic
Eastern ports to San Francisco.
THE inventor of the fine cut chewing TO
bacco is said to have been a lady of New
York, named Miller about half century ago.
The San Jose Patriot wants the national
debt paid off by individual subscription. II
each individual contributes but mite and
it is accepted, the thing is done.
A Washington physician argues that love
proceeds from the stomach, and that the
heart has nothing to do with it. He says
that corned beef and mealy potatoes begct
love-
Columbia comfy has already issued over
SO 600 in the shape of certificates of indebt-
edness In organizing a new county it
seems almost impossible to avoid creating q
debt.
Mid Lowell and Emerson, though O man
roams, think you'll conclude there is no one
like Holmes. Holmes, Holmes, Oliver Wen
dial Holmes; There's no man like Holmes,
there's no man like Holmes.
HOW Uldny UuSIutSS ulCu uEC tuCtC ih tHC
world, earnest, plodding, but unfortunate
fellow creatures, who GO about their work
day after day, without ever seeming to know
that the Bible contains the word Advertise. "
The statement that sc veral lottery dealers
in New York have been Outwitted by the
use of sympathetic inks, one of which faded
while the other came into view, is calculated
to excite the deepest alarm in all grades of
society.
India papers speak sneeringly of the cheap
articles clasp knives, pictures, pistols, etc,
given by the Prince of Wales in return for
gorgeous gifts generously given by the Indian
Princes, many of whom rendered themselves
temporarily bankrupt to make Wales suit
able offering. ....
"Pity the poor Treasury girls, pity the poor
Treasury girls" is the familiar echo of the
Washington correspondence. Better pity
the aged and unprotected Senators and un.
sophisticated Representatives who, far from
the restraining influences of home, are ex
posed TO oil Establishments of gay and beau
tiful women.
Mr.. Punch, being asked his opinion OF the
present ladies' dress, replied: II highly ap'
prove the present fashion, comprehending as
| it does the highest graces of the two most dis
tinguished models of female beauty, having
in front the Venus de Medici, behind the We
nus dc Hottentot" Now, what does MIR
Punch mean?
The whole story of life has been compress
ed into this dainty little poem by Jean lnge
! low:
Sweet is childhood childhood's over
Kiss and part,
Sweet is youth but youths q rover
Sos my heart
| Sweet is rest; but all by showing
Toll is nigh
| We must so. Alas the going,
.. Say Goodbye. .f ....
This Coast is behind the age. The Eas
has whole set of slang phrases which are
never heard out here, and these are some o.
| them done up in rhyme:
| He said as he gazed In her beautiful face, ~.
Dear Molly, don't say it's too thin,
| For swear that love you az man never loved. "
Says she " Billy. please wipe of your Chin,
''But. Molly my darling, hear me out now, pray
Come, Billy, do give rs a rest"
81 will not, dear Molly, till You promise me that
"Oh, Billy, just pull down your vest"