Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-14
A WHOLESALE liquor and cigar store
s soon TO be opened in town.

is soon to be opened in town.
The ladies' belonging to Queen
victorias household are said to be
unduly addicted the wine-cup and
cigarettes.
The new depot building has a
steeple through which the iron
horse breathes while the boys are
rubbing him down.
The road leading to the deep wa
ter wharf is proving dear piece Of
property this winter on account of
the frequent slides induced by the
late rains.
The religious revival in Portland
after doing much good, still con-
iinucs, under the auspices of all the
evangelical churches and the Young
Mems Christian Association.
DUnlSo the prevalence of the yel-
low fever in the South, it is estima-
ted that one person out of every
five attacked died. Thus, of the
100, 900 cases, 10000 proved fatal.
The editor of the Portland .Sian-
dard has u good word for our Daily
and encourages us by the assurance
that pluck will win. Exactly 60,
Brother Noltner, "we catch your
idea
The managers of the eastern gas
companies are not very prone to be-
lieve that Edison is the boss inventor
of the age, especially since he .af-
firms that we shall sec the cities of
the world lighted with electricity.
EASTERN papers are warning the
people against allowing children to
chew the leaves or stems of the COM
mon belladonna that grows in our
gardens. A little seven-year old boy
on going home from school, swal-
lowed the juice of some portion of
|tho piants No ifzdl lbssn chswing W.
immedlate1y seized with commissions
and died in few hours thereafter.
IT is now proposed to make U. S.
Grant King of Bulgaria. just re-
lieved from Turkish rule, she is to
have an independent government,
and somebody has suggested that
the military fame of Grant has made
a prestige which can be used as a
passport to hereditary power. 1t is
useless to ask if Grant will accept.
Has he ever been known to refuse
anything desirable?
The leprosy appears to be alarm
ingly on the increase among the
Chinese in San Francisco. The
most serious consideration, however,
is the fact, which cannot be denied,
that few American citizens have
contracted the terrible disease. Law
abiding and candid men assert tina,
one case of leprosy among our peo'
pie, contracted on account Of Chinese
immigration, is of itself an unan.
swerable argument in favor OF the
entire removal of the celestial ract
from our shores.
CAPT. Tyson has just returned
from an Arctic expedition, and give
it as his opinion that there is nj
such thing as an open polar sea
The arguments he makes use of ar
plain and of the practical kind. HI
afiirms that it is philosophically i'm
possible for open water to exis
where there is sunlight only si
months in the year, and that Will
the sun, at noon, is only a few de
, grees above the horizon. This an
, nouncement comes in point -blan,
, opposition to some very high au
thority.
WHEN Walter Hunt invented hi
/ sewing machine, in 1888, his wifi
/ expos.ulated against his making tn
| invention public, because its ter
. dency would be to throw all the sew
D ing women Of the land out of en-
: ployment. 1t is interesting to not
the result. 1t is found that, fo
r every woman who barely earned
r livelihood by plying her needle i
{ those iays, more than twenty thoui
: AM women aud girls now make, o
e 81 average seven dollars . week b
i runr.ag sewing machines. This
!. th. way machinery takes the bres
1 oai of the mouths "f poor peopl
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