Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-11-23

Tn Psh,icasios u the walla-wall'
Sasssunss has bssn tsmpoEarily sus
Pssas1.
II = high time for manmas and
their ssdss daughters 10 begin k
drs8 heS aay dolls Tor the baby sis
4 u Al San Francisco. d
lazss tgal asssiansnt and bainss'
sxpssiooce, asssrts that the most
critisal point a the Chinese var i
psst-
Wnps Owl. Quil-s-trumps and
Yuma, the Indians who killed Mr..
Coggan. have bsen found guilty Of
murdE, and will be hung in Jan.
uary.
Nh. Q. B. Plummer is back to his
old tricks-making faces at mirth-
full audiences. He appeared in East
Portland this week in his celebrated
character delineations.
IT Is said that the population of
Stevens county has doubled in the
past six months. To make this at
all remarkable. however, we must
know What the population was six
months ago.
DE1souENr municipal taxes in
Seattle Ire increased twenty-five per
cent. after the first of December.
Our ts&es, rnder similar circum-
stance6far Increased by the addi-
ton Of twenty-five cent piece.
Tnr stest theory is that America
and Al = were once united by an
isthmn instead of being separated
as ths 6w are by Behring's Straits,
and th q the way the grandfathers
81 a. fwashes came to this coun-
~ d
1 M jnry q zenia, Ohio,
: ~ = ao1H iof sths
English dispensers Of law and Justice,
and to make such wisdom of practi-
cal account, have arrested five of the
managers of the First National Bank
of that place, for embezzling about
$65, 900.
The grand ball to be gwen by the
Odd Fellows, in Columbia Hall on
the evening of the 28th inst, is to
be free to all invited guests. The
banquet will be held in the dining
hall of the New England Hotel, un-
der the supervision of those ex-
perienced caterers, the Young Broth
ers. The cost of this will be Is
cents for each person.
THERE are two knowing fellows IN
town who do not believe in daily pa
pers, and yet, both eagerly scram-
BILE after the EXPERIMENT as it is
dropped upon the door-sills to those
who know and appreciate its true
mission, and both Of them, too, have
the cheek to upbraid us for any little
omission. fancied or real, that their
astuteness may discover.
Mn. Henry Roeder is elected Rep
resentative froa Whatcom county,
on a local question involving the
adjustment of the District Court.
A majority Of the people considerd
the court an expensive luxury. The
Democrats elect besides the Repre-
sentative. the Treasurer, the. Sheriff
and one Commissioner. Brent's ma
jority in the county is about 80.
The latest novelty is in "barome-
ters." The design printed on Or
dinary pocket handkerchiefs repre-
sents . man with an umbrella. In
fine weather the umbrella 10 blue, in
changeable weather gray. and in
rainy weather white. The secret
lies in printing this design in eloride
Of cobalt; bat the FIRST washing re-
moves this sensitive chemical and
destroys The barometric properties.
ExcEsuvEIx and Enthusiastically
English il the following Bit Of late
news fron scross the big water:
The air i heavy with ruDors Of
the illness Of Lora Beacons6eld, and
the cabinet has been summoned 10
consider Whist should be doos in
case Of his d~1sll." II ve we're .
rsembsr Of tb~t cabinet. We sbould
consider j: hghly advisable and ex-