Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-11-23

IT takes tvo horses and Q mul,
now, TO draw Q load Of bark of int
town.
RAILROAD land-slides are i'm ordsl
about thess days, but nothing very
serious has yet occurred.
TnE bay is Aecksd with foam
white - snow, the product Of tn
warning waters ut Tumwater.
Preliminary action Was taken yss
terday, by Sunday School worker
in regard to preparing for the usual
Christmas doings.
THr emigrapts who came in the
other day from across the plains can
not see how the grass remains %
green in our valleys.
A SUBSCRIBER, who calls himself
"a sort of farmer man." wants us to
devote a chapter to Poultry" 1t
shall be forthcoming one these days.
Go up to Tumwater if you want to
see a young Niagara. The unpre-
cedented rainfall has swollen the
Deschutes till it overAows it's rocky
brim.
The old question of making sugar
from corn, has been revived in the
East. In many localities, they make
the corn into whisky and then stir
in the sugar.
TRAMps are getting fearfully nu-
merous in the Atlantic cities, while
the evil is aggravated by the sym
pathy and collusion between them
selves and the police.
JONES says he don't care so par
ticularly about how the first men
came to America, but he would like
to know where we are all going when
we turn back in our tracks.
The subject Of "perihelion and
pestilence" is again revived with ~
newed vigor, and people are warned
against the great physical disturban-
ces that are supposed to take place
in the year 1880, and thereafter.
From all accounts, the new pump
at the waterworks performs admir-
ably and we congratulate the mana
gers upon the quick dispatch with
which they have completed the
much-needed repairs in the machin-
cry.
SEVERAL young men in town are
making efforts to secure private tu-
ition in classical and scientific branch
es of study, the crowded condition
of the public schools not affording
them the advantages which they de-
sire.
The School Board in Portland has
established gymnasiums for both the
boys and girls in the public schools
of that city. The plan is said to do
away with good deal of rough cir
Gus performance on the streets. A
good move.
THERE was q good deal of humor-
GUS sparing at the Evolution" lec-
tire on Saturday evening. Modern
theology didn't like to take leaps in
the dark, nor were the apes and
monkeys willing to be shorn of the
honors attributed to them by great
scientific historian, Charles Darwin.
INcLEMENT weather does not keep
live and wide-awake country people
from coming into town. On Satur-
day last, the town was reasonably
crowded with our rural friends from
all directions. But for the natural
sympathy existing between town and
country, neither could survive.
An exchange crowds into the
months of November and December,
three-fourths of all the murders, su-
icides and disasters that will have
happened during the year. II his
hypothesis should be well-fouDded,
then we may look for lively times
next month since less than half Of
the present month remains.
Ir is rather humilating that ths
King Of Dahomey should coptines 10
sacrifice human beings 10 his internal
deities, in the face ard eyes Of the
civilized and enlightened world. Al
l.st accounts. be vss holding in
captivity . Portuguese eomnandes
and seven soldiers. Receptly. be