Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19
TAFFy is American "blarney."


No end, yet, to the balmy weather.
A BRISK demand continues Tor re-
leased railroad lands.
SlRvIcEs as usual in the Congrega-
tional Church Sunday.
The latest gold quartz excitement
halls from Pierce county.
PEARS are soft, juicy and extreme
ly tempting to nocturnal orchard
bandits.
The man of good judgment reads
the EXPERIMENT and thereby obtains
large profit.
IT is next to being a delate men,
ber, to get the position of clerk in
the Legislature.
"WHAr shall we do with our po-
tatoes?" is question now agitating
many of our farmers.
The fellow whose girl cut him on
Il bias, has taken upon himself the
vows of a woman-hater.
THE private schools are rapidly
filling up and small children are dis
appearing from our streets.
81 KNOW how dog laughs" says
a specimen of the Olympia small
fry. "He just looks at you and
wags his tail"
AUTUMN leaf-gathering parties are
now in order. A dog, lunch bas-
ket and young man, or two, COM
pletes the outfit for a bevy of ladies.
The Portlanders are making an
effort to have Gen. Grant present at
the Mechanics Fair, soon to come of
in that city.
SOUTHERN journals say that the
Chattanooga Mountain in Tennessee
is IN labor, and creates considerable
muss among the people. Its entire
top is sinking in, and there is no
telling where il may go L the bottom
also should fall out.
WHILE M. DeLesseps finds it hard
work to make the people respond,
NJ. Flammarion, the moon-struck
astronomer is pushing ahead his big
telescope project, and hopes, before
long, to demonstrate that the man
in the moon is not myth.
The alaska brought up on her
last trip the usual number of emil
grants from San Francisco. Among
them are several well.to-do business
men who are making rigid exami-
nation of the relative merits pos
sessed by the towns along the Sound.
BoTH the sawmills continue to
find plenty of work to keep them
running. At the steam mill here in
town, besides doing large amount
of saving, the planning machine has
been kept busily at work for some
weeks past. Somebody is consum-
ing a good deal of lumber.
The sawmill on the Eaton farm, is
turning out some of the finest oak
timber 10 be be found on the Pacific
coast. The lumber is transported
to this place on wagons and shipped
to various points. Much of it goes
to Seattle to be used in ship-build-
ing. The prairies and open wood
lands of Washington Territory are
bountifully supplied with this timber.
The "Sharpless Strawberry" a
mammoth variety, is attracting a
good deal of attention in eastern hor-
ticultural circles. This strawberry
is said to measure from four and
half to six and sometimes seven and
eight inches in circumference, the
longest way. This sounds like o
fish story, but, according to the New
York Country Gentleman, all that is
said of the new berry must be true.
Our town is continually subjected
to pleasant complimentary notices by
visitors from Oregon and the lower
Sound ports. All this is encourag-
ing, to say the least, and coming
from those who view the situation
from an independent standpoint,
there is a good deal of sound wisdom
suggested by such testimonials. It
is safe to conclude that Olympia is
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