Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-25
WHOLE NO. 979.

PIES made from green apples arc
q specially.
ALWAYS keep a bottle of Ammonia
in the house. It is of far more utility
than a bottle of camphor.
GALVANIZED ice-cream freezers
should never be used, on account Of
an insidious posion which they ara
capable of generating.
The Seattle Daily Batelliqencer
wants to find the man who has
charge of the sidewalks in that city.
His bones ache from q late fall.
SEVERAL farmers along the lower
Sound say they will be able to cut
five tons of hay per acre, on many
pieces of improved meadow land.
Who is caring if croakers do say
the times are harda The Hutchin-
sons sang, last night, "There's a
good time coming, boys, wait little
longer"
NEXT Wednesday, the 30th inst,
has been appointed by the managers
as field-day at the Fair grounds.
As a pleasant recreation after the
days labor, a dance will be given
in the evening.
Let everybody see to it that ma
larial diseases can find no lodgings
around his premises. The free use
of soap and water, white-washing
and plenty of ventilation may be ju-
diciously resorted to during the
heated season now at our doors.
The phy1ieians of Memphis note .
singular chsnge in the yellow fevsr
that p - in that city, this Sum-
msr. SyeS3 the disease is evidently
on tho in1 be, as attested by the
fact tHps bases are daily multiply
ing, a greater percentage of patients
are recovering than last year.
PRoF. w. II. Roberts i the Score
tary Of the lately organized Emiezspt
Aid Society, at Port ToNnsalls
object is to diffuse informstioii
ing to the climate, reso1rc55 sin
tries, etc., of the lower Bodt IN :
try, comprising the count EefsS4
son, Clallam, Island, San b. md
Whatcom. 1t is proposed to pub
lish pamphlet, for free distribution,
setting forth the inducements for inn
migration.
A F1sHY story comes all the way
from Victoria, to the effect that q
runaway team attached to moving
machine ran over a man, when some
part of the machinery severed his
right arm entirely from his shoulder.
The account goes on to say that the
man ran six hundred feet before he
knew he was injured. He afterwards
wended his way back and hunted up
his missing member in the grass
How it happened he did not bleed
to death is not stated.
COUNTERFEIT twenty dollar legal
tenders are now so we'll executed that
they deceive the best experts. The
secret service police have captured
one that has been going the rounds
some time and is in itself most re-
markable instance Of what even ill
directed art can accomplish. The
official report announces that this
bank note is entirely executed with
pen and ink and must have cost the
maker good many times its assumed
intrinsic value. For this reason, it
is concluded that counterfeits OF
this character will not be very apt to
food the country.
"THE Columbia Gateway" is the
exalted title given by the Port
land papers to the mouth of the Co
lumbia river. To people ut dis
tance, this sounds little less brilliant
than the Golden Gate" of Califor-
MIA. Our big gate at Cape Flattery
never gets off its hinges and we see
no reason why it, too, should not
sport high-sounding name. What
would people say if, upon future
maps of this Territory, the entrance
to the Straits of Fuca were designat-
ed as, "The Roadstead Of Nations"
mariners Elysium," "The Grand
Avanue of the Pacific" "Th0 En-.