Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-28
FoGGY mornings are prevailing.

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JoHx p. HoYT, of Michigan, has
been nominated for Associate Justice
Of Washington Territory.
$3.50, 900 is the sum that has been
appropriated by the House Commit
tee for first class mail service.
ROGER S. Greene was nominated,
to-day, as Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court of Washington Terri
tory.
The Senate, yesterday, confirmed
the nomination of w. E. Wingard,
as Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of Washington Territory.
The United States now supply
nearly the whole civilized world with
bread-stuffs, while the products of
our own manufactures are shipped
to almost every seaport.
A sTUpENDoUs conspiracy exists
in Italy, the prime object of which
is to assassinate the King. Three
hundred arrests of insubordinate
roughs have been made within few
weeks.
The Champions of the Red Cross
met this week on Thursday night,
instead of the regular time, in con-
OF the Christmas festivities
occurring on the usual evening of
meeting.
The papers are praising the quail
tiles of noiseless window shutter
that has just been invented. Give
us a girl for that business, say,
while we are occupied in turning
down the light.
A FARMER who has lived in . rainy
all his life, says g herssss .
will last one-half longer if kept well
oiled. If he means that he has lived
in Oregon or Washington Territory,
we will believe him.
One of the best standing jokes on
the teams in Seattle, arises from the
fact that the streets are so miserably
poor that, though they get up the
biggest kind of u scare, the horses
in that city cannot run away.
JONES says he found his front gate
ajar this morning. His hired girl
went to the dance and was the last
one home and yet she don't know
about it. How hired girls
will lie-abed, won't they, espe-
cially when you want an early break
fast.
IT is a common practice with many
papers to tell their readers in what
column the interesting items are to
be found. In our paper there is no
need of anything of that sort; just
open our paper, look anywhere, and
you have q world of instructive and
pleasing reading matter.
ONE thousand children alone are
said to be engaged in attending to
the Plummer drying machines in
Oregon. This is another instance
OF labor-saving machines turning
helpless women and children out Of
employment. If inventors can be
let alone, such q thing as idlsness
will coon be unknown to the world.
TIE people of Lewis county are
still much exercises about liquors
being sold to minors in that vicinity.
Although the efforts made in the
present term of tho District Court,
to punish offenders, were not wholly
successful, the law-sbiding people
are determined to push the matter to
q final and successful consumma-
ton.
OZONE makes an excellent disip-
fsctant for the sick-room. When
ever it is used. however, all articles
Of polished iron and steel should be
taken from the room. ~ the tenden-
cy Of the gas would bs to rust them,
q short time sufiices to disinfect .
arge room, aud then such metallic
articles can b replaced. To gsner-
ate the gas, take equal parts Of per-
manganate Of potash. peroxide Of
manganese and oxalic acid. Nix
these with Q little water and place
the containing dish on the floor Of
the sick-room.