Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07
TIE Plummer fruit drier is agail

The Plummer fruit drier is agair
in operation.
Is it true, that our town is soor
to be Lighted by electricity?
The upper bureau drawer is good
place to keep the baby's new dol
till Christmas eve.
We were not mistaken whtn we
predicted the late storms, all through
the roaring of the dam," OF Tum.
water.
The Union Chris,mas-tree Festi.
val is not to be Sunday School fes-
/ tival, but genuine Union affair, in
all respects.
CH1LBERa wants to sell three hun
dred pounds, avoirdupoise, of assort-
ed candies for filling cornucopias
and "the baby's stocking"
The excessive politeness of cer-
tain young ladies towards their bach
elor friends is quite amusing. The
time for holiday gifts is near at hand.
ARTIFICIAL teeth made Of a prepara-
ton resembling paper mache is one
of the new introductions in the prac-
tical department of modern dentist
ry.
That solemn individual, old Mr..
Aboriginal Lo, alias Kettle, who al
ways goes bare-headed, is busily en-
gagged in waging war against the
beaver tribe.
JONES wants the boys to get up q
masquerade during holiday week as
he has got the best joke on his wife
for that occasion that he ever per-
petrated or her.
The new Government House at
New York is finally completed at a
cost of only $s.OOO,OOO. OF course,
government contractors are sup
posed to be AS honest now as dur
ing the war. ~ 's''''ss' .-.s'.'ss 'es..
ANOTHER landslide near the water
tank delayed the train This morning.
A handcar went out to Tenino with
the mail. The track was cleared so
as to allow the train to leave one o.
clock this afternoon.
A CHEMIST announces the discovery
of q new pigment to take the place
of the poisonous white lead now so
universally in use. If he has really
succeeded in accomplishing what he
asserts to be a fact, he has achieved
a great desideratum for the world as
well as q fortune for himself.
The four superior planets, Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are
fastening onward towards their
ominous goal, their perihe)ion point;
but whether they are destined to
cause all the physical Generalization
in 1SSO-1, predicted by few scien-
fists, remains to be determined.
EVERYBODY has, doubtless, seen
specimens of the beautiful portraits,
notices and book-marks which
emansted from the silk-loom of Gen.
tennial notoriety. An entire volume
has lately been executed, in silken
thread, at one of the silk-weaving
establishments of Lyons. Such a
book is supposed to be indestruc-
tible.
SoME idea of the grare-culture of
California may be cleaned from the
fact that two hundred and eighty
tons of grapes have been shipped
from that State to Phildelphia dur
ing the present season. These
grapes are carefully packed in Co.
600 pound copsignments, and this
quantity has been shipp-d zach week
since the gathering season.
TIE cant phrase " That's the kind
Of hsir-pin I am, has been supssed-
ed by one Of great similarity, but
scarcely les exprsssiveness. namely:
g That's the kind Of Q barnacle I
am" Its application seams adapt
Sd to Sll circumstances requiring Q
hearty expression Of self-approval.
and IL viii doubles. on that &C.
count, b received with unusual
favor. 1t ID at present on every
body's tongss. II it, popularity
does not - suddenly wans, il may
shsd - much glory upon its origin
stor - did some Of the famous bon