Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-30
Dull times are Just the times for

lazy men.
IT is pluck, not luck, that puts a
man ahead in the world.
CHERRIES, on the sunny side, be-
gin to look like girls cheek wher
you tell her she is pretty.
Ex-AuD1ToR Maynard, of San Fran
cisco, committed suicide by stabbing
himself, a few days ago. Cause,
mental depression"
Mrs. Warbass, formerly Of this
place, who has resided several years
in Oakland, California, intends to
make Olympia her future home.
The late reduction of prices in
drygoods has had the effect to bring
out various new signs. all compet-
ing for public patronage.
II is easy to live after the worlds
opinion, just as it is easy to ship
your oars and float dow4 the current
of river. 1t is stemming the flood
that requires brain and muscle.
The commissioners of Lewis
county have levied a tax of eight
mills for county purposes, four mills
for school, four mills for Territorial,
and five mills for road purposes.
We have it from good authority,
that twenty-five families from Port
land would spend their summer in
Olympia if our city possessed ho-
tel spacious enough to accommodate
them.
THE widow of Daniel V. Stone, of
Boston, has given $3.50, ,OCO to the
Young Mems Christian Association
to aid in the erection of a new build
ing. Wonder if the Widow Stone
wants to marry?
The proprietors of the Seattle
Daily Mtelligencer have concluded
that they will slightly change the
custom of giving away twenty copies
of that paper every day. They have
come to q wise conclusion.
WHILE the bark Aureola was off
Cape Mendocino, Mr.. John McDer-
mott died instantly from the burst
ing of blood vessel. His body was
wrapped in sheets copiously spread
with tar and brought to Seattle for
interment.
No wonder that an observing
tourist who lately visited our city,
should write to his home paper that
Olympians were u well-dressed class
of people. Had he priced the dry
goods in our stores, the matter
would have all been made plain to
him.
That lady with the euphonious
name OF Minnie Myrtle Miller Lo-
gan, formerly the wife of Joaquin
Miller, comes out in a newspaper
letter, defending her daughter Maud,
and soliciting the indulgence of those
who have the matter in charge, in
Portland. 1885,.
The rough framework that has for
some days snrmounted the belfry of
the new Catholic Church, has been
removed, and now there stands in
its place beautiful snow-white spire
bearing at its apex the Latin cross.
The church is rapidly approaching
completion. '. ...'N
The Columbia river is now rising
at the rate of about six inches per
day, and as the mountains are still
covered with snow, heavy freshet
may be looked for in case the warm
weather comes on suddenly and the
present warm showers continue.
The Willamette is also rising at q
corresponding rate and it already
floods the lower floors of the wharves
along Front street in Portland.
SOMEBODY who evidently knows
the points of the compass says, that
should the Clearwater route be
adopted by the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company, which is thought
to be quite probable, one hundred
and twenty-five miles will be saved
in bringing the road to Lewiston.
From this point, goods can be
shipped this way during the greater
part of the year by steamboat, thus
leaving Spokane Falls out in the
wet entirely.