Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-01-20
Gatherings BY the Wayside.

Gatherings BY the Wayside.
Tilton is lecturing in Vermont.
Naughty, but nice-s1 900. 900.
! The wife of Carl Rosa left him
$500, 900.
What in the world has become of
General Dix?
This is the year Of our Lord 1871
on the face of the returns.
J.W.D Wright, the Changers
representative, is back from Europe.
Professor Sumner of Yale, is in
Illinois. delivering lectures on free
trade.
Lets sect this is theyear our Uncle
Samuel moves in the White House
Hooray!
The woman who sews and sings is
not necessarily q singer sewing
machine.
At Brussels there is society of
cremationists, with four hundred
members.
The author of "Hold the Fort"
was among the victims of the Ash
tabula disaster.
Tho experiments of importing
American beef into England con-
tinue to be successful.
The Radicals are beginning to find
out that almost everything in this
world has two sides to it.
Of property destroyed by fire in
London during the last FIVE years,
four-ffths was uninsured.
Fashionable dressmakers in Paris
send out dolls to their patrons in
fac-simile costumes of what they
have for sale.
Tilden is the Centennial President.
He carried ten of the original thir-
teen States which achieved American
Independence.
About 5000 residents of Pitts
burg, Pa, signed the pledge during
the recent prevalence of o temperance
revival there.
The testimony of Negro Democrats
in Louisiana is universal that there is
no safety for colored man who ex-
ercises his suffrage as freeman.
Counterfeit bank notes and silver
coins are increasing in New York,
and they are usually So good that
none but experts can detect them.
The editorial page of Harper's
Weekly reads very much as though
George William Curtis thought Til
den elected. Even Nast's depart
mant is sort O shakey.
Travel southwark has become al
most extinct of late, and nearly all
propositions to invest in our Sunny
South is kept in allegiance during the
presidential complications.
The ruling style in cloaking cloths
is with the matalesse or pique face;
the most of them intended for winter
wear have the beaver lining, and are
bordered with fur of some kind.
Forty thousand skilled workmen,
to say nothing of common laborers,
are outsof employment in the city of
New York alone. The countryis GER
tainly paying dear for the returning
board whistle.
1t took the the brilliant genius Of
the Dubuque Times to discover that
Mr.. Hewitt is q son-in-law of Gov
ernor Tilden, after abusing the latter
during the whole campaign for being
q bachelor.
The establishment OF soup-houses
in cities throughout the country, to
prevent the unemployed from starv-
ing, is O commentary on the Grant
Administration that ought to make
the party blush.
Grant has a peculiar way of getting
things into O mess. If he had not
interfered in the Louisiana State af-
fairs two years ago, the country
would not now be in such a Mexican
lied condition.
If business is PROSTATE, and thous-
ends are without employment, whose
fault is it2 Ask the business men,
who they are holding to rigid account
for it, and they will, with almost uni
versal accord, answer the Radicals.
Though the Changers have passed
out of politics they do not seem to
have lost their organization. The
statistics of the National Grange show
that there are in the United States
49, 93 oranges, with $50 new gran
ges established.
Steel embroidery is used on the
toes of shoes, with steel buckles and
bows on the instep, and some Of the
newest have three bows--one across
the instep and two placed perpen-
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