Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-11-16

Ax0fHKR week OF rain.
A xEw explosive sppsars undsr the
name d" vigorits."
TIE Paris Exposition vas for
mally closed day before yesterday.
BLAcx-bird. snips and tiny snow
birds are making . srsndezvous Of our
town.
HIS to bs . boy. he ID, and his
name 10 Johnny; ws have seen his
wardrobe.
VIZ hear that the Free School, !"
in east Olympia "opens with forty
scholars all told.
IT is none too early to begin fish,
ing far an invitation to eat . good
Thanksgiving dinaer.
"HoLIDAY editions of newspaper
are getting rather fashionable, but
how about that turkey?
THERE is a hopeful improvement
in most of the children reported
down with the diphtheria.
HAZARD Stevens is reported to have
been stumping the State of Mas
sachusetts against Ben Butler.
A CLOSE observer OF the signs of
the times asserts that immense snow
clouds are in our immediate vicinity.
INVENTIVE Nimrods are discussing
the project of importing colony of
wild turkeys to Western Washing
ton.
THANKSGIVING balls are already on
the tapis in various neighboring To-
calities; we have received only three
invitations as yet
WALLA-walla county is surfeited
with immigrants. Who can devise
plan to divert q portion of the
stream over this way?
THr Port Ludlow Mill property,
SO long advertised for sale was pur-
chased by the Puget Sound Mill
Company for about $64, 200.
The Columbia river at Vancouver,
and above that point, is reported to
be at dead low-water" mark. How
about the bar at it's mouth?
The way that hay has been COM
ing into town, for the last few days,
would evidence that the country is
we'll supplied with the article.
Mr.. Billings new barn is inclosed,
all except that most essential part,
the roof; he should have consulted
the weather reports for this rain.
"SEco" has been suggested as an
appropriate name to substitute for
Seatco. Billings promised long
time ago, to hunt up new word,
but has, SO far, failed to do so.
The parties arrested for the Scow
Bay murder have been undergoing
examination at Port Townsend for
several days past, with nothing def
mite, as yet, elected from the strag-
Cling circumstantial evidences.
OREGON has saw-mill that cuts
1000 feet of lumber in a day and
the papers are making q noise over
the fact. Over here, on the Sound,
we cut sixty thousand feet a day and
keep still about it in the bargain.
WE refer our fair correspondent to
Lord Collingwood's Letters to his
Daughter. The particular sentence
we have in onr mind is, "Never for
get that you are q gentlewoman. and
all your words and actions should
mark you gentle"
A WALK around town convinces us
of the fact that respectable number
Of buildings have been put up or are
in the process Of construction the
present year. Thus.it appears that
Olympia ID slowly though surely go
ing ahead in . way that implies solid
and abiding growth. A number OF
good sidewalks have bssn pat down
during the Summer and Autumn.
shade trees have been planted, sew
sral important sswes have bssa
constructsd, and many things added
10 the casual comfort of ths town.
which would escape The notice OF
The ge.eEal observer. Ths siIsns,
inhsrsnt growth Of . town = always
n hanlNheul Orovth. A long pull, D