Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-10-26

TnE price of wood and bark ID
steadily going up - the stsatam oi
mud increases in thicknsss.
THE leading Journals Of the day
coincide in the idea that Bret Harte
ID on the down-grsde towards lit
tersry obscurity.
A the year approsches its close,
the terrible list Of casualties is
lengthening. Who can explain il
Tnr ciergymen Of California want
. Sabbath-observing clause inserted
in their State Constitution. They
should have done as we did; attended
to that business while their State was
in embryo.
The assumption that fame grows
after ones death is evinced by the
fact that q lecture on the " Profess
sional career and early death of E.
A. Cronin," is announced in the
Portland papers.
IT is predicted by eminent finan-
ciers that the recent heavy failures
in London and Glasgow will soon
er or later be felt in New York, and
thereafter on this coast. It is good
thing to have nothing to lose.
TEMPERANCE agitators are coming
back to first principles in declaring
that nothing short of strict prohibi-
ton, enforced by the majesty of the
law. can save the world from being
asphyxiated by the business of alco-
hol.
ADvIcEs have been received at
Sidney stating that tive Wesleyan
Missionaries had been killed and
eaten by the nations Of the Malicola
coast. So it seems the canibalism
il not entirely eradicsted from the
world. w . :.
Now that the season has come for
: greater number Of fires to be main
tainsd, il j. I sats precaution ios
householders 70 carefully examine
old Aues and be well advised as to
the proper condition Of meandering
stove pipes.
MEssRs. Queitsch and Gohlson,
concerning whose safety some little
apprehensions were recently felt by
our citizens, returned to this place
alive and we'll on Saturday evening
last. The particulars Of their event
full tour we have yet to hear.
An electrician Of note gives it as
his decided conviction that diamonds
of the first water and far exceeding
the natural product, in point Of siss,
will be manufactured from charcoal
within the next half score Of years,
through the agency of dynamical
electricity.
LATE developments have unearthed
a long existing system Of thieving
carried on between private members
and under officers of the Police De-
partment in San Francisco. For
months together, small thieves have
found protection in the ranks OF the
subordinate police membership.
The remains Of the late Fred. CLARK
were brought Monday by the steam
Or zsphyr and deposited in the Ma
sonic Cemetery under the auspices
Of the lodges in this city. Notwith-
standing the inclemency OF the
weather Q large number Of the fra
ternity accompanied the remains to
their final resting place.
We can speak from personal sx-
perience concerning the wst-weather
boots put up BY Ben. Vinesnt- Two
thick leather soles outside Of guar
tar Of an inch Of solid corf comprises
the "gEoand plaa" spos which these
snduring and impsrvioss structures
are bailt. With . pair ofssch boon
upon his Ss<t. vsll-diggss could
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