Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-11-16
TIE oyster trade is said to !
steadily Increasing.

THr oyster trade is said to be
steadily increasing.
BuDLoso is building . new boat on
the " build-up" plan.
IT costs exactly four dollars to 60
from Olympia 10 Tacoma ria Tenino.
A PATRON wants to know the best
way to make hens lay during the
Winter.
The foundation framework for
the new water-tank near the water
front is completed.
WHAT does Mrs. Abigail Scott
Duniway mean by the triumph
Of brains over sex?"
o. s. w. s. A. means, Oregon
State Woman Suffrage Association,
or something to that effect.
The editor of the Transcript has
our thanks for the solicitude mani
tested by him for our physical well
fare.
We have the facilities for fattening
a good Thanksgiving turkey. Who
wants to have his name honorably
referred to in our local columns?
The new water-tank is progressing
as we'll as the changeable weather
will allow. That structure, and the
new pump are just in time for cold
weather.
ONE of the last inventions is q
carriage attachment SO constructed
and applied that it is impossible for
q single horse or pair of horses to
run away.
THE soul of the notorious DR.. w.
B. Soule was, at last accounts, still
marching on through the wilds of
Oregon; his soul was still in his
body, however.
The two school districts are quite
uneaually supplied with scholars,
many families from East Olympia
having commenced sending their
children on this side.
LADIES will be interested in the an
nouncement that species of spider
has been discovered in South Amer
ica from whose web a fine strong
lace can be manufactured.
A MAGAZINE which contained sew
eDty pounds of glycerine and one
hundred pounds of dynamite lately
exploded near Bradford, Pa, instant
ly blowing five men to pieces.
GAS goes Monday, so goes all the
week." is an old and true saying;
equivalent to, "Be sure you're
right, then 60 ahead" the way we
started out with the DAILY EppER1-
MENT.
Two large parties left at dn early
hour last Monday on a duck shoot
ing expedition. About dozen left
on the steamer Capital for the Mis-
qually, and about the same number
went at q later hour in buggies to the
Nisqually bottoms.
SINCE somebody suggested that the
Town should buy the water-works and
establish system of their own, we
hear very little complaint from our
citizens. The supply has been am
pie for some weeks.
The schooner Granger appeared
in the offing, early Monday morning,
making her way into port with
another load of hay from WILDLY
Island. Cannot the farmers in this
vicinity supply all such demands in
this locality?
The project of connecting Olympia
and Tumwater by a street railway il
thought, by the Portland papers, to
be entirely feasible. How ridicu-
lously interesting te hear foreign
ers" talk about something they don't
understand.
VIZ are grati6ed to learn from Mr..
Ouimette. that his little child is pro-
nounced by the attending physician
to be out Of danger. God grant
that such may soon be said Of all ths
little ones now suffering form the at
tscks of diphtheria.
PowDExxD sulphur is yet anothel
strongly recommended remedy fol
diphtheria. A good way TO apply i
10 to blow il in small quantitie,
through . goose-qnill in such q man