Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-10-12
Courier-Jeurrai Rife Balls.

sourfSI-J00rG1l k1us- k4Ils.
Gen Butler's ses; is 90 far mp from
his waist-hand that be can never be
Pr siient.
OF E>eObe,lo. the execuiicner Of
Macmillan, the issfia .Sissfesssa. pic
ture- quely remarks: He will be sent
TO his home In MAJ allan. and ve may
never more behold his eionga ell ears
tapping in the sunshine ON q Texan
prairie.
Plaques, foods. famipes. ext, aorai-
nary heat, meteors and cyclones are the
features of ISIS. and the catas, OF hes
increase each day. Is the old world
in the throes Of childbirth. and is
worlds hero coming,
New York Evening Post: PLAINLY
old things are passing away" Very
true; but we hope, nevertheless, that
Susan Il. Anthony. Anna Dickinson,
and the ex-Treasurer Of the Kentucky
Press Association may he spared to MS
many = long day yet
A New jersey railroad sold the other
day for $50. II You want to know any
thing about the road thus sold for q
mere song-anda song by q very hoarse
amateur vocalist ct that-you will Prob
ably find it fully described in that chap
ter of natural history devoted to the
white elephant.
Nobody should be surprised that Den
mis- Kearney stole that speech Of his.
He insists upon the distribution Of the
property of the country among the
people, and il he is entitled to share
of other mems money, why not share
of other mems brains ?-if entitled to
share their dollars, why not their sense
also?
The newspapers ought now to sup
press the story Of the tramp who mar
ried o hundred thousand dollar widow
at Dechard, Tenn. There are no more
such widows in that town, and to send
dozens of tramps there, each with the
expectation of finding one, is cruel
cruel both to the tramps and the town,
overwalking the one and overrunning
the other.
In reply to the assertion of the Al
bany Evening Journal that he met us
lately "on the Lupercal, " and there did
thrice offer us kingly-that is to say
"did thrice assure us that there was no
office within the gift of the American
people that we could not have if we
got votes enough" and that we did
"thrice refuse" we would say, in the
clustering words of Marmion-
"Lord Angus, thou hast Mrsjenksed!'
Hard times in the poultry yard: Old
Hen-"Only five cents q dozen for
eggs! should like to know how we're
ever to pay our board! If Peter Cooper
expects us to live on worms and spiders,
he's making Q mistakel' Gallant old
rooster--''There! there my dear! there's
an oat for you! Times'll soon be better.
Keep your eye on my silver bill and my
green back and my golden tail-feather.
By-and.by you shall resume your
speeches"
Albany Evening Journal: 1.-THE late
DR.. Aver was worth million and half
when he died." When the newspapers
announced the Doctors death they as
sured us that he was worth sc, OOO, 900,
which he made by advertising, and We
believed every word Of it, knowing, as
we do, how marvelously money will &C.
cumulate under q judicious system of
advertising in the newspapers. TWEEN
ty millions were about the sum total of
his estate. And now for the Journal to
plumber that estate of eighteen millions
and half, thus threatening, as it were,
to send his minor Ayers-to the coun.
ty poor-house, is q meanness Of which
we could hardly have believed even q
Radical newspaper capable.
The Minnesota tramp is luxurious
fellow. A letter to the Inter- Ocean says:
"A few days ago tramp made an agree |
ment with DR.. Morehouse, of this |
place, to work for 50 30 q day and
board. He told The Doctor he should
want three meals and two lunches day, |
and the Doctor agreed thus to feed him.
They started together in q wagon for
the farm, and whea little way out OF
the city, the tramp asked the Doctor
what kind of meat he fed his workmen |
with, adding that he would not eat pork,
but must have beef. The Doctor re.
piled by ordering the tramp out Of his
wagon without o moments delay. The
tramp obeyed, and the Doctor came
back to the city for other help.
About q year ago q young English
nobleman-they, the girls particularly,
knew lie was an English nobleman, for
ne said 30 himself-visted California on |
q hunting expedition, as proof Of which |
somebody over there now has double
barrelled shotgun which cost 81 lou,
the stock being Of rosewood, elaboratsly
carved and inlaid with gold, the young |
man having been forced to sell 1t In !
consequence OF an sttacko that dread.
full disease known to the great unlettered
school of domestic medicine - short
ness OF funds. The moral Of which in
cident 10, that noble youth will himself
tell you: When you 60 five thousand
miles or 90 from home to shoot prairie
hens. 1oodpeckers and par,ridges.
don't invest all your funds in facilities
for bagging birds Of paradise only.
A small but masculine appearing /
woman dressed in black, maze her APP
pesrsnce at one OF the Iowa farm houses
last week, told . most pitiful tale OF
the loss Of her last relative. and hos