Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-11-02
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON TERRITORY SATURDAY NOVEMBER g. Is

Me- 4. W. Austin has leased the
Peoples Restaurant, at the foot Of
Main Street.
The balmy weather for several
days past has had the effect TO largely
increase the number of street-goers.
The mail and travelling facilities
afforded by the two trains . day to
Tenino are becoming more and more
apparent.
THERE is q dearth OF amusemeuts
in Olympia just at the present time.
Not a dance since the Fair. What
can be done?
LARGE shipments of Chinese con-
tinue to be made from Portland 10
the land OF the sun. The ship Her.
bert Black sailed to-day with 800
celestials on board.
A PRIVATE letter from Adair county,
Iowa, dated Oct. IA, reports the
price of wheat in that locality to be
forty cents per bushel and oats ten
cents, and yet times are said to be
easy and business brisk.
BALD headed men will be comfort
ed not little by the announcement
hailing from a London college of
physicians and surgeons, that the
falling of the hair is attributable toa
super-refined condition Of the brain.
A RHEUMATIC individual in town
has correctly predicted, days before
hand, every marked change in the
weather since the close Of the heated
term, simply by noting the indica-
tions Of tho disease that cripples his
limbs.
FRoH conversation with several
well-posted men who arc largely rep
resented in the logging business We
should safsly conclude that the lum-
beEing industries d tho country
- ~ Y I |, M y Y
dition than at present.
The rush Of emigration from the
Atlantic and Middle States to this
coast, has again set in, and, Accord
ing to>the San Francisco papers, the
influx is already nearly equal to that
of three years. As many as one
hundred persons per day are coming
in by the cars.
The Transcript speaks very know
ingly of the causes which, the other
day, preciptatad, the cannon used
by the Republicans into the bay.
There seemsto be an appropriateness
in the editor of that journal passing
Judgment on this subject only pos
sessed by sun OF a gun. It just
fits his calibre.
BETTER opportunities were never
offered to tourists and pleasure-seek-
ers, that now abound in and around
our beautiful city, Notwithstanding
tho advanced season, hunting, fish
ing, boating and driving can be pur-
sued with every desired facility. A
cordial welcome is extended to
friends from abroad.
Now that the Holidays are not far
away, there is a brisk demand for
perforated paper, Berlin wool,
zephyr, split sticks, and other gew-
gaws to be fashioned into senseless
book-marks, !" Yours-till-death" mot
toes, etc., besides a hundred other
fripperies without name or habitation
save in the diseased minds that
originate and fabricate them.
EVER since the existence Of the Pa
ci6c States, much misunderstanding
has resulted from the term yves
tern States," % used in common
newspaper parlance. The difficulty
has however. been in part remedied
by the adoption of the phrase. "the
Middle West" to denote that Sec
ton Of the Union lying in the Vi
einity Of the Mississippi Valley.
TnE Bishop Of Manchester 10
svovedly down on extravAgaDce in
femAls dress. A recent conirms-
tion, hs stated that IN Eastern factory
girs vho earned but four dollars and
. half per vssk bad jess paid fftsss
dollars fog . feather 10 put IN her
hxt- anoaAar r,f similar income Wa1