Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-01-18
SoRnow NAV endure for a night,

SoRRow may endure for a night,
but Joy cometh in the morning.
HE who controls his temper is
better that he who wears an ulster
land plug hat.
WOMEN tramps have turned up in
New York. The phenomenon is
Iquite unknown in this part of the
world.
The Zephyr brought up the D1Io-
ta's freight, arriving about IL o'clock
"Wednesday night. There were Is
tons for this place.
Fifty cents per gallon is now Of
fered by dealers, in the article, for a
good quality of dog-fsh oil. This
thigh price is owing to the scarcity OF
Edog-fsh this year.
/ A COUPLE of experts have just con-
cluded two-weeks' tedious investi-
CATION of the muddled books of the
Ilate Treasurer of Pierce county,
without very satisfactory result.
L Our citizens put up about seventy
Eons of ice during the late cold
lweather. In consideration of the
tthe temperature, to-day this make
rather freezing item.
SINCE the blockade of the Colum-
bia river, it has been no easy matter
for daily papers on the Sound to
Eglean interesting news items for their
discriminating readers.
/ On her last departure, the steam
ship alaska carried eleven passen-
gers from Olympia, this being more
than one-half the whole numbers
which left Sound ports.
CAPT. Ballard, of the steamer
Zephyr, left at our Office, Saturday an
orange which measures sixteen and
9 half inches in circumference. One
such specimen is enough to supply
a small family for several days.
If dependence can be placed on
the assertions OF those who have
lived in this vicinity for quarter of
a century, then the critical point of
Winter is passed, and we may hope
fully look for tapering-off process
in the general conduct of the wealth
or.
The Superintendent of the water
works finds difficulty in looking up
and stopping the numerous leaks oc-
casioned by the bursting of frozen
pipes. The water tank on Percivals
wharf is empty and the supply-pipe
fails to discharge into it on account
of the immense waste in the upper
part of town
In the event that the electrical
light supersedes the use of hydrogen
gas as an Illuminating agent, it is
proposed to devote the latter to the
purposes of a motive power for driv-
ing the electrical machines, and to
utilize much of the property now
owned by gas companies in carrying
forward the new enterprise. This is
as it should be.
The school laws of Massachusetts,,
Vermont, Pennsylvania and Mime
sofa give school teachers the over
sight and control of their scholars to
and from school, as well as during
the hours devoted to teaching. The
regulation is n wholesome one, and
several of the supreme courts have
decided that a school board may
legitimately adopt such rule.
ONE of the 3S-ton guns of the
turret ship 1hunderer belonging to
the British navy, exploded on the
I'd of this month, in the Sea of
Marmora. Lieutenants Coker and
Daniel, two petty officers and four
seamen, were killed outright; the
boatswain and thirty-two men were
wounded, twelve of them very seri-
ously.
The Christian Inteiiigencer takes
some radical exceptions to the course
pursued by the popular newspa-
pers of the day in giving publicity
to the various crimes and outrages
perpetrated through the land. Now
it occurs to us that the Journal to
which we refer is, in the main. cor.
rect in its conclusions. But where
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