Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-23
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON TERRITORY FRIDAY, MAY g. IS7N

TACOMA is to have o new Catholic
Church. -..u.'.
SEVERAL hundred feet of the cutters
in Olympia are in need of a thorough
cleansing. ....
MILK consumers say that that arti-
Gle is improving in quality. What
has happened? .t.. f..' .
If it rains much more We, shall
have to 90 back on cold water.
just our luck!
A NEW disease has broken out in
Caucasus, which proves fatal in
twenty-four hours.
Mrs. ANNETTA PEcKHAM, of Califor-
MIA, is coming this way on a temper
ance lecturing tour.
The hardest thing for man to do,
is to own that he has made a mis-
take. Try it once, and see.
If the editor of the Courier. will
give us little time on that sick wo-
man question, we will set her all
right.
"PoRK in the abstract" is the head
ing of long article in a recent issue
of the Telegram. Would not pork
in the barrel be better?
NEXT to the coming perihelion
calamity, the most engrossing topic
on this northwestern coast, is that
of narrow-gauge railroads.
EvERY-day experience is the true
test Of character. Our old grand
mother use to say so, and we have
the vanity to believe she was right.
JASPER Woolery, a Puyallup Nim-
rod, is reported to have killed fifty
four bears during the past Winter,
besides a large showing of other
game.
That child was on the right track
when it wanted to know why every
body said, ;" It is quite rainy" when
anybody could see Zig drops COM
ing down." "
ACCORDING to the Palouse Gazette,
the lower Spokane bridge country is
rapidly filling up with settlers, said
to have been attracted thither by
railroad prospects.
The whole number of students in
the Territorial University during the
year just past was one hundred and
fifty-6ve; of the these, sixty-nine were
young ladies and eighty-six young
gentlemen.
The directors of the Washington
Industrial Association will hold a
meeting at the bank of Mr.. e.. A..
Barnes on the 7th of June. A full
attendance is desired, as some i'm
portant business is to be brought be-
fore the board.
DEsrRUcrIvE forest fires are rag
ing in the mountainous districts OF
Pennsylvania, strongly suggestive
Of what may take place in our own
forests, before many weeks, unless
great precautions are taken by farm
ers and loggers. 1}a .a-.t..s -.-.
The First and Second Assistant
Postmaster Generals, accompanied by
a postal agent have been authorized
to perfect plans for increased fac;li-
ties in sending coin apd bullion by
mail. These gentlemen left Wash
ington on the 9Th inst, for the Pa
cifc coast to complete arrangements
between the East and West.
IT was job put up on the re-
porter of this paper when some
blockhead told him an auger in the
Pipe Factory at Tnmwater bored
three holes through q log at once.
Three holes are bored, but by ons
auger, at three several operations,
and twenty could be bored the same
way if the log was only large enough.
Thus are some Of our best items
spoiled.
The San Francisco Commercial
Herald says of the hop prospect
There does not appear to be any
demand, whatever, and prices con.
tinue low and nominal, say 8 to {
cents for old and new. There is here
virtually no market" This item
will make good poultice to be used