Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-17

The brown leaves begin to rustic
en- the sidewalks.
HARRIS makes staltliog ar oounce-
ment 10 ibis issue.
LAMPS aod chandeliers, ii great
vatie:y, at The City of Olympia Store.
To keep the feet dry, this weather,
is the bedlock principle of good
health.
The friendly crows are coming to
clean out The garbage of neglected
back yards.
IT is now a good time to stop ugly
leaks in the roof, during the present
interims between showers
EoUCAT,oN must be three-fold. 1t
must be moral, mental and physical
to subserve the interests of success
full man.
LOOK out for the mammoth steam
ship China, next trip. No better
evidence is required that the COM
merce of our Sound country is rapid
ly increasing.
WHILE We rejoice in seeing the
new sidewalks going down, we have
yet to note any indications that the
worst one in town will either be le-
paved or replaced by new one.
WITH The Shortening Of the days
and the lowering of the temperature,
our exchanges no;e sensible in-
crease in the rate per cent. of births,
in this Territory. Who eau explain ?
Mr.. A. O. Damon has concluded to
take up bis residence in Olympia
during the Winter, on account of
school facilities and other con-
veniences. A wise move.
We saw q man on the street, to-
day, offering to treat the legislator
or official who had not been stricken
with the Grant-seeing mania. He
was unsuccessful however, in finding
one.
MANY building improvements are
still going on in East Olympia. The
inclement weather does not yet de-
ter the good people Of that lively
little suburb from providing for the
coming Winter.
Ir is said that The potato crop on
WILDLY Island this year viii aSgre-
gate 100000 bushels. This is an
astonishing yield compared with that
of last year, when scarcely enough
were raised for home consumption
and seed.
The people of Seattle say they are
going TO have street railroad. The
cars can probably run to some ad-
vantage along the streets parallel to
the water front, but the most inter-
estiug questng with them is how to
get their cars up town.
Mr.. L. Queitsch, the i,repressible
gold-seeker, is once more iu town,
after having made n tedious journey
from Peshastin, by way of The Dalles.
1t is a pity that we have not few
more such indefatigable prospectors
as Mr.. Queitsch has shown himself
TO be. We predict that he will yet
show up, il becoming style, the
mineral resources of our Territory.
THERE are some rather anomalous
conditions existing in our present
spell of weather. The first part of
the night, as a rule, is clear, with
brilliant starlight, while the latter
part is lowering and often inter-
spersed with rain. The sun lights
up the world for a few minutes in
the early morning and then COM
pletely hides himself, for tbs remain
der of the day, behind thick masses
of interminable clouds.
A STREAM of hard money is coming
from San Francisco TO Portland, for
wheat-buying purposes. A large
amount of this money will find its
way into this Territory in payment
for the golden product which our
farmers are shippiog by the ship
load down The Columbia river and
through the Stl ats of Fuca. Wash
iugton Territory, after all thai has
been said about it, bids fair TO be-
come one of The foremost grain
growing States in the Ua'oa.