Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-02
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YAKIMA City is again thrown into
excitement over Indian hostilities.
Now is the time to whitewash fruit
trees. None but fresh, strong lime
should be used.
The average oyster will soon go
into Summer quarters, but not SO
with the perennial CLANS.
THE new steamship state of Cali-
for'lia is expected to arrive in San
Francisco about the 5th Of May.
The prospect now is. that many
will postpone their DIay-day till the
warm, balmy days have come.
The adjoining forests are begin
ming to put on additional charms in
the way CT green leaves and opening
blossoms.
The maple shade trees that line
our streets and surround the public
square, are highly praised by ap-
pleciative strangers.
y PRACTICAL farmer says, Let no.
body worry about the cool weather;
it is the salvation of the fruit CROP"
and we believe he is right.
A DESTRUCTIVE conhagration &C.
cured in Salem, Oregon, on Satur-
day night, last, resulting in the loss
of property valued at twenty thou
sand dollars.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. A. Kelly, whose
little child died last week, are in
deed, sorely afflicted. They have
two still younger children quite seri-
ously ill with the scarlet fever.
A TRACT of land containing two
hundred and eighty-six acres, situa-
ted near the" Bad. House, " has been
secured by prominent Portlanders,
to be converted into o cemetery.
Don't frighten the swallows away
from the gable end of your house,
but let them build their nests and
rear their young. Somebody says
they materially lessen the number of
gnats and flies during the heated
term.
A NUMBER of young ladies in Seat
tie have formed new literary soci-
ETY. for improving themselves in
" thinking and understanding" as
the Daily Post has it. A laudable
ambition, truly, and one which might
be we'll recommended to the young
ladies of Olympia.
By dint of wearing ulsters and
thick shawls, seasoned with q good
deal of vigorous exercise, those who
went out on the excursion to Tenino
managed to keep their best blood in
circulation. They said they had a
good time when they were eating
their lunch. we suppose,
Mr.. Victor Drummond, Secretary
of the English Legation at Washing
ton has made on official report in
which he asserts that newly-discov-
cred process for making sugar from
Indian corn will soon be made pub
lie. If one half of what is claimed
of this discovery be true, it is des-
tined to revolutionize tho business of
sugar making.
FRIaurFUL reports are coming from
the famine-s stricken districts of Egypt,
and it is claimed that the original
cause of the vast amount of suffer-
ing is the cruel taxation of the mis-
cradle inhabitants. Large areas of
productive land have been SO exorbi-
tantly taxed as to leave little or
nothing to the toiling husbandmen,
and, in consequence, the lands have
been abandoned, to the utter ruin of
the country.
The Arizona Lottery" is flooding
the mails with circulars and other
matter useless as it is bulky. The
officials who are striving to work up
the affair, blandly claim that the mon
ey received for tickets is to be ap-
Piled to the erection of school build
ings. We have some bright recol-
lections of the lotteries of other days,
and would advise our friends to i'll
vest their spare money towards max
| ing improvements nearer home.