Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-11

the public square.
NARRow-GAuGI railroadsare just the
thing for newly-married couples.
The steamer Zeplyr has resumed
her regular trips, once more.
OLYMPIA owns the child that does
r't love Strawberries and cream.
How to make the fastest sailer, is
now the ruling passion with boat
builders.
Mr.. Allan Wier, editor of the
Port Townsend Aryus was in town
It's week.
AN Irish comedy is not more anus
ing than the antics of loving cou-
pie on their marriage tour.
REPORTS come that the Zulu Chief,
Cetewayo, has sent messengers to
treat with Lord Chelmsford for peace.
The rain has tendency to pro-
long the strawberry season, but con-
noiseurs say they do not get sunshine
enough.
"LEoN," an Indian who was serv-
ing out a term at Seatco, for horse
stealing, died in that institution, on
the Goth ult.
The hay crop will be so abundant,
this season, that farmers think they
will have to resort to stacking it in
default of barn room.
The Penitentiary force at Seatco
are largely employed in making bar.
rels, and brick-yard gives employ
ment to the remainder. About the
first of August labor will be resumed
in the coal-mine.
Mr.. Herbert X. Morrison, o nat
uralist, is at Tenino, engaged in max
ing Il collection of insects of the
Territory. The number and variety
obtained, the first two days, in that
neighborhood, fairly astounds the
Oldest resident.
To prevent onions from tainting
the breath, cut them into slices and
let them stand in cold water over
night; in the morning, pour off the
water carefully, and throw the onions
into the slop bucket. This rule
never fails.
POSTERS are out, announcing a
grand horse-race at the Fair Grounds,
on Saturday, the 18th inst. We
hear that several noted horses have
already been entered and should the
weather prove favorable, a large
crowd will be on hand.
Our Baptist friends took their
Sunday School children on q picnic
ing excursion, Monday. The school
went out to Tenino by the morning
train and, returning, stopped at
the residence of Mr.. Ben. Johns, till
the return train in the afternoon.
The latest curiosity comes from
Peru, IN the shape of a crystalized
woman. She was found by some
miners, in a nitrate of soda deposit,
and is in most perfect state of pres
ervation. This is said to be the
only woman that man could ever
see through.
The Russian government wants to
build monster telescope; the OBJ
ject glass to be thirty-six inches in
diameter, and made by American art
lists. The largest refracting tele-
scope in the world is in the National
Observatory at Washington, having
an aperture of twenty six inches.
A LARGE and valuable boom of
logs get adrift near Mukilteo, one
day last week, and the boom-chains
breaking, the logs were soon scat
tered in every direction. The boom
contained about zoe, 200 feet, a large
loss to somebody, unless efforts were
Immediately made to recover the
logs.
The steamer Old Settler has had
her wheels enlarged and other i'm
provements made to her machinery
by means of which her speed is very
much increased. She can now take
a heavy barge in tow when fully
loaded herself and make much bet
ter time than she could do before
under the best possible circum-