Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-11-28
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8. : In. l Gainan all call General Grant
The great. national quesh !HAnd
what DO yoH think Of bur town PA
The DSvid Davis boom, We learn, has
been sold to a circus for bass. drum.
AZ the county, fsirs this year have
paid Handsomely. They haven't taken
very much in. though, as usual.
It is dreadfully quiet in the country
districts Just, now. The season for cir
cusee and camp meetings closed about
the right time.
Blossoms" wrote Pliny, "are the
Joy OF the trees" That may be very
true Pin, but it is the apples that
make the boys laugh.
When man pre.empts 100 acres of
land in Texas for a homestead, the state
government gives him 40 acres in addi-
ton for graveyard. !
When what's his name sang "Ophir
lodge in some vast wilderness" was
he thinking, Of going down intp the San
Juan country to open mine? j
Gregory says Joaquin Miller's poems
Ia few of them) have the "bloom of
perpetual youth yes Laird's bloom
of youth washes Of in the morning.
The Ute Indians complain that the
agent refused to furnish them with a
type writer, and tickets to Bronson AL
colts orchard lectures. That's what
they kicked about.
The Princess of Wales1 smokes cigar
cites. And the Prince, newell, we
haven't time to issue q sixteen-page
supplement this morning or we'd tell
what the Prince does.
The Secretary of War should arm all
troops sent. out against the Indians
with polo clubs. This would give the
Indians chance, and that seems to be
the aim of the government.
The Boston Transcript says there is
no music in tho corrugated creak of
the katydid." Dear, dear that comes
of being educated to the .thunderous
growlings of the great organ.
1--WE must agitate," exclaimed an
earnest political speaker. we must
agitate or we will perish ~ And then
he asitated it gently with spoon, and
pretty soon it persisted, all but the
sugar.
The people of Colorado want the In.
dams exterminated because they are
useless. That is correct, it is right.
Still, on the same principle, what are
we to do with the white men who still
ride velocipedes?
It kind of takes the tuck all out of q
hungry man to look at one of these
large pictorial advertisements of Pull
man dining car, and see nothing on the
tables but q bottle of champagne and
stand of celery. ,,! -
The people of Franklin county,
Iowa, have been seeing wild man,
naked, with bushy hair and huge
knife. And yet that has the reputation
of being temperance county. Where
did they catch EN-? ~
Stuart Robson says Bret Harte is not
lazy but "slow, fastidious, self.critical
and frightened" These are much bet
ter, far grander, nobler and manlier
qualities than laziness. and yet you do
not look for that kind of man when
you want your winter wood sawed.
"This is the healthiest place in Amer
ica," said the landlord of q Niagara
hotel to the tourist. "Nobody ever
dies here" "No," replied the traveller
in the tone Of a man who was thor
oughly convinced of it. "No, I reckon
not. Nobody would stay here long
enough to de-"
A San Francisco greenback paper
says, Money, like postage stamps, is
purely o creature of the law. There is
no more necessity for intrinsic value in
the money than there is in the postage
stamp-no more reason for the scarcity
of one than of the other" It is won
der nobody ever thought of that before.
The VOC Populi might have gone on
with its parallel and added that dollar
is also, Just like the postage stamp, of
no earthly value after it has been once
used. But perhaps that?
Cheyenne. Wyoming, is bigger and
better town than "old Grant" We
do not know why Cheyenne has been
singled out by Providence as an espe-
cial favorite. We have not followed
WY SAoS0Ay tAC p0ob AAoUOAy "a SAoys
enne. but we are confident that some
time in its chequered career, it has
done something to attract the attention
and favor of Providence. A town of
five thousand inhabitants, right on the
main line of the Union Pacific railroad,
it has never been invaded by Pinafore
company. It is marvellous, but it is
true, and as soon as----, But then,
may not this statement be put forth by
the people of Cheyenne for the purpose
of attracting immigration? 1t may be
so.
: WESTERN TITLEs.-The traveller who
journeys westward in our favored land
should make up his mind to accept
without demur such military or Judi.
c;al rank and title as may be conferred
upon him. He may be quite sure, too,
that when his brevet has once been
settled west of the Missouri by proper
authority, it will cling to him as long
as he remains in that region:
II don't half like" once remarked a
Scotch fellow-traveler OF the writer, to-
friendly group at Denver, /" the pro-
motion backwar-r.d which l receive.
East q, Chicago I was Colonel /; at
ChicAHoi | Wad Major :: at Omaha d man