Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

TIE steamer Messenger has re-
sumed her trips.
The steamship Dakota arrived at
Wsstside wharf, at four o'clock this
afternoon.
The District Court brings with it
the usua: number of new faces into
our town.
The Sheriff Of Walla-wslla. coun-
ty gave his boarders good Thanks
giving dinner.
Fnox all accounts, the number
of Christmas trees in town this year
will be less than last year.
A SLIGHT upward tendency is OBJ
servable in the logging-business and
the fraternity are taking heart.
TIE District Court, coming as it
does, just before the holidays, gives
our our town quite q lively appear
ance.
The knowledge of the weather
that is to be, is utterly beyond the
ken of the oldest inhabitants since
the principal birds Of passage appear
to be in doubt about these things
themselves.
An inquiring sort of little miss
wants to know if the northern Santa
Claus presides over the southern
hemisphere. We are inclined to
the belief that our Saint Nicholas
has the whole world for his iurisdic-
ton; the austral as we'll a. the boreal
regions are his territory and he owns
them in fee simple.
PRATT. the escaped prisoner, has
been heard from. He slept in !
stable at the logRing-camp Of McIn-
tosh & Gaston Monday night, and
when he loft that hotel, stole an
overcast belonging to one Of the
hands emplayed about ths premises.
Va aeAhai ssufl " M, Rntt xill
come to some bad end. !.
TIE new teacher in the primary
department of District No. l, is said
to be miracls-worier in tho matter
OF discipline. She does not whip
nor scold nor threaten, and yet
every scholar in her presence seems
to forget all the mischief he ever
knew and attend to his studies
as though he thought of nothing
else. How this is accomplished is q
mystery, but the order of that room
is sight wo.:.sh seeing, and indeed
of every room in the building.
Ar the last meeting Of the Aca-
DENY Of Sciences, on Monday even
ing, the President Of that insti-
tuition regaled the audience with
q peep through his admirable micro
scope carried thither to enchance
the interest of the occasion. The
audience, though rather spare, was
intelligent and composed of the elite
of the city. The next meeting of the
Academy will be duly announced,
upon which occasion, we trust our
people will be pioftably and pleas
antly entertained
60 We cannot do without it," are
the words literally quoted from the
doleful lamentation Of one OF our
most liberal advertisers when he
read, with fearful eyes, our announce
ment that We should suspend the
publication Of the DAILY ExpERnrENr
till "some time next Winter" II
ever q man speaks the truth il il
when his dearest hopes are suddenly
knocked from under him, his candle
goes out and be falls into the mire OF
obscurity. A young lady. on read
ing the article, came very near tax
ing an overdose Of chloroform.
IT should be generally known it it
is not, that Graham -four 10 largely
adultsratsd. Much Of the so-cslled
pure article is nothing moro than .
vile mixture Of the cheaper grades OF
common -four. II this nefarious
business goes on unchecked, Gra-
ham -four win soon acquire -
doubtful . reputation - ground
coffee, and IL thsrs was ever . law
needed to check . wholesome crime
constantly perpstrated, such . u. !.
called for in this instance. The facs
that Graham Aour 10 largely used ~
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