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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10
Advice TO a Graduate.

Eenezber that the soriA - olas-
tLzn YEA are. by several Year, tat for
tkOusAnds q YEAR, II LAS been - fall
of smarter All lctt~r yOsng men th<a
yoErsei that tEeir feet stack out Ct the
dOrEer windows that shea they died
the I'D giot,e we1i wkIr.I.g on. aca
not On@ inAn II tea millions went . the
funeral or even heard II their death
lie a. smart 81 you can, Of course
knox ~ much a. YOU can without
blowing the packing of your cylinder
heads shed the light Of your VISION
abroad in the world, bat dOnt dazzle
people with II. And don't imagine q
thing l. so simply bscAuse you say II
Is. Don't be too sorry for your father
because he knows 30 much less thar
you do. The world has great need OF
young men, but no greater heed than the
Joung men have Of 1T. Your clothes
lit you better than your fathers tit him I;
they cost more money, they are more
stylish your mustache is neater, the
cut OF your hair is better, and you are
prettier, oh, far prettier than pa.
But, young man, the old gentleman
gets the biggest salary, and his home
ly, scrambling signature on the bust
ness end of check will drain more
money out of the bank in five minutes
than you could get out with q resm of
paper and copper plate signature In
six months. Young men are useful,
and they are ornamental, and we all
love them, and we couldn't engineer q
picnic successfully without them. But
they are no novelties. Oh, no, moth
ing of the kind. They have been here
before. Don't be so modest as to shut
yourself clear out 4; but don't be so
fresh that you will have to be put away
in the cool to keep from spelling.
Don't be afraid that your merit will
not be discovered. People all over
the world are hunting for you, and If
you are worth finding, they will find
you. A diamond isn't SO easily found
as a quartz pebble, but people search
for it all the more intently .-Burling-
ton Hawkeye.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10
The Old Maid.

What would this earth be without
the odd maid?" She comes like ray
of sunshine into our homes, tightening
our cares by her sprightly ways and
friendly gossip. What is more cheer
lug when you are tired out and almost
ready to drop with fatigue than to see
aunt sallie trudging up the walk as if
she was bound to help some one if her
strength only held out? Of comes
her bonnet, up go her sleeves and
the domestic wheel is set in motion
at two-forty rate. Blessings on her
She carries sunshine wherever she goes
and before you take her for a target at
which to shoot your ill-natured re-
marks, stop and consider why she
chose this lonely path. It lmay be to
fulfill the promise to dying mother
to care for the younger brothers or
sisters that she has been obliged to cast
aside the love for which her fond heart
yearns or it may be the one upon
which she bestowed her affections has
bbeen taken from this world to gain q
home up higher. Be that as it may,
her path is lone one. and it behooves
us to help to smooth her pathway as
she treads it all alone. If you must
have target to aim at, take the set
married woman who, alone with her
husband, keeps her old maid establish
ment in her "touch me if you dare"
style and has allowed the Sorrows feet
to gather on her once youthful face in
trying to keep the house with such
scrupulous neatness that she may gain
the name of being q model house.
wife,"
For my part. give me the "single I"
old maid, for it might we'll be said she
is the salt of the earth, while it may be
said of the married one that she is the
pepper, and think should pick up
my heels at q pretty good rate before I
should allow her to empty her pepper.
box over my sensitive pate.
PATIENCE II.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10
Detroit Currency.

The bump of curiosity was more
largely developed in forty.se Chicago
men than in the same number of women
examined by a phrenologist.
A Virginia Judge holds that hus-
band cannot be slandered by his wife.
They are one in the eyes of the law, ard
she has right to SANDER either halle
Peanuts may not be certain cure for
consumption, but the moro you eat OF
them the more you will encourage the
man who invented the sheetiron rooster.
They tell of big grindstone in Troy
which burst the other week and threw
pieces seven miles. We never believe
in anything where the distance is over
six.
Manton Marble used to say that il
was as easy to love u rich widow as II
poor school girl, and when he got ready
to love, he loved widow and $780,
900.
A Baltimore tailor worked all day to
finish suit of clothes for customer
who committed suicide Monday morn
ing before paying his bill. Twas d
mean trick.
A man who has neither friends nor
influence has no business to break the
law. A man who has both should.
Well, he'll break it often enough with.
out advice.
The man who has studied!Shakspeare
for years may find out how little he
really knows about these things 10y sit
ting on the veranda OF country tavern
one summer evening.
When antelope steak" is placed on
the table of far Western hotel the
man who has travelled at once realizes
the fact that the landlord is trying to
get rid OF some old beef.
A St. Louis professional says that the
garrote is the only safe, sensible and
deceut way to rob man. 1t leaves
him with sore throat, but potash
lozenges soon help that.
They have not yet, in all their
searches at Pompeii, discovered a saloon
tumbler with bottom any thicker than
tho sides. That trick was left to Yam
kee ingenuity 1000 years later.
A great many business men still use
the oid-fashioned quill pen, but we
notice that they don't pay any more ON
the dollar when they fail than those
who write with piece of chalk.
When q handsome Baltimore lady
asked a pedestrian to knock q man
down who had been following her he
swiftly obeyed, and was not much as.
tonished to learn that it was her hus-
band.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10

TDe arss Sspol~0z gave zazy ssrsk-
lEg examples a military tack The
familiar One q has saying 10 as array.
=; tbe battle q the Pyr.zlsis. - SOD
3sss=. ta-fy ceEtzrle= lsak down a2os
yea. -. perhaps. tie Do<s ESssd a
these And. E-ossasslng tkls g zAlzsy
himself. be ga. srifs 20 appreciate Il
Il others Al illasfratioa q shis is
given n the story Of . certain rcxiew Of
troops ~here the euperor's hAt blew
Of ami 4 young lieutenant, running
forward, caught II and handed ]; 10 its
owner. Thank yoa, captain. aid
the emperor. bOwing. In shat regi-
ment, sire: Vas the ready response,
which won for the young lieutenant az
immediate promotion. Who but he
could have met the hsughty inquiry as
to his antecedeuts which the Emperor
of Austria made, citing his own descent
from Rodolph of Hapsburg. with such
a telling retort as the one he gave in
saying he "was the Rodolph Of Hsps-
burg of his house," He understood
how to improve every opportunity
which offered itself 10 say good
thing.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10
Statistics show that fully two.thirds

Statistics show that fully two.thirds
of the b ,oks borrowed by subscribers
from twenty-four of the public libraries
are novels. It must not be supposed
that there is any scarcity of works of q
higher and more substantial kind in
those libraries; the majority of the
subscribers simply want to read for
amusement, and the managers must
supply them with the class of books
which enable them to pass the time
agreeabIy. An attempt to reduce the
number Of novels would only have the
effect of diminishing the number of
subscribers.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10

Gen. Washington is said to have
stopped his horse, as he was once riding
along country road, to administer this
rebuke to profane ploughman: "My
friend. am older than you, have many
times been placed in positions OF diff
Guilty and danger, and have had many
things to perplex aud annoy me, but l
have always found that it did no good to
get angry; and that neither broken
ploughs nor anything else can be
mended or made better by the use OF
profaue language"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10

HAD NEVER HEARD THE NAME
Anent the wonderful likeness of Prince
Jerome to Napoleon l., which is perhaps
the best of his political capital, the fol.
lowing instance Of the vanity Of glory
is related of the prince personally. He
was travelling in the mountains of Au-
vergne, and having left his carriage
to walk a few miles, he had occa-
sion to ask his way from young peas
ant, and rewarded him with a piece of
silver. 1t happened to be one with the
efigy of Napoleon l., and having no.
ticed the fact, the prince asked the
young man whether he knew who he
was. ono, sir, 1 DON'T" was the re-
ply. "Look at that piece OF silver ;
don't you see the likeness?" 80, yes
How strange!" "Well, I am neph-
ew of the man on that piece-Napole-
on" "But who is this, Napoleon ?"
returned the rustic. He had never
heard the name before. -London Truth.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10

The mind is but barren soil; o soil
which is soon exhausted, and will pro.
duce no crop, or only one, unless it be
continually fortified and enriched with
foreign matter.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10

The man who finally and officially
identified the remains of the Prince I'm
portal on his arrival, was the Paris
American dentist Evans, and he did it
by means of peculiar plugging he had
once put in one of the Princes teeth.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10

Flesh is flesh. and paint is paint. says
the plain.spoken Graphic; and not all
the art of man, or woman even, can by
any possibility make the one be mis-
taken for the other.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10

Il tse h.&aeo1y a tss te2Pie- ss<er9
S0rkIng models a tks- esoek have -
osGIiy se~& sxkih1scA - the Uaissd
,s4i~.. xbsrr tA~y sxess-d zsck Izsex-
-
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10
A Hard Head.

Every man graduated from Williams
college in the past twenty five years has
some recollections of Abe Parsons, or
Abe Bunter," as he is more common.
ly called, from his bunting propensities.
A correspondent of the Boston Journal
writes: Little was known of his early
life, but he was owned as slave and
ran away to obtain his freedom. The
story is told of his recognizing the pic
ture of his old mistress, who hal aided
him to escape, in the room of one of
the students, who was her son, and that
after that she used to send him aid.
The most powerful blows have no effect
on his Uranium. Two inch planks are
shiveredi at o single blow, and large
sticks of wood broken in two. At an
agricultural fair he was once giving an
exhibition of his powers by breaking
cheeses, which had been placed in bags,
but grind.stone had been substituted
for one of them. The first blow failed
to break it, but nothing daunted, he
made the attempt the second time, and
sure enough, broke it quite to pieces.
at fire once some men were trying to
break in strong door with axes. but
they did not succeed in making an en-
trance till his power was put in use,
when the door quickly yielded. A
thousand stories might be told of his
wonderful feats, but nothing has
brought him into notoriety so much as
his connection with J. Frank Baxter,
the spiritual medium. At one of the
spiritualistic camp-meetings at Lake
Pleasant, Baxter brought up his spirit
and gave O detailed account of his ex-
ploits, but Abe proved too lively a
ghost for him, as he was not dead, al
though reports of his death had been
published. He is now about seventy
years of age; but though he has given
up some of his feats, he can still make
quick work with a dry goods box or
door of ordinary thickness.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10

JELLY CAKE.-Three eggs, one cup
Of sugar, one cup of flour, one teaspoon
of cream tartar, one.half teaspoon of
soda, three tablespoons Of sweet milk ;
bake in jelly-tins.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10

Corn STARCH MERINaUE. - Four
eggs, one quart of milk, three-quarters
of q cup of sugar, four teaspoonfuls Of
corn starch, half cup Of jelly or jam.
Heat the milk to boiling and stir it in
the corn starch, which has previously
been dissolved in little cold water;
boil fifteen minutes, stirring all the
time; remove from the fire and while
still hot add gradually the yolks of the
eggs, beaten up with the sugar and
favored with vanilla or lemon; pour
this into pudiing-disb, we'll buttered,
and bake fifteen minutes, or until the
custard begins to set. Draw to door of
the oven and spread quickly and lightly
upon it meringue of the whites.
beaten stiff with half cup of jelly.
Bake. covered, for five minutes; then
brown slightly. Eat cold with pow
dered sugar sifted thickly over the top.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10

"Are these rooms to let?" said q
polite gentleman to handsome young
lady. "Yes, SIR" And are you 20
let with them ?" "No, sir I'm to be
let alone " ~
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10

The skin of boiled egg is the most
efficacious remedy that can be applied
to boil. Peel it carefully, wet and
apply it to the part affected. 1t will
draw off the matter, and relieve the
soreness in few hours.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10

ITALIAN GIRLs.-The girls of Italy do
many things our young ladies would
not think of doing, and they leave un-
learned certain accomplishments which
only the poorest American fair ones pass
by. The Italian bride makes her own
outfit, and, as the trosseau consists of
six dozen Of everything, being intended
to last twenty-five years, and all must
be embroidered and frilied. the task is
not an easy one. But they take their
time to it, occupying two years in get.
ting it in shape, and all the while the
work goes on the lovers are counting.
The husband gives the dresses, shawls.
everything, in fact, but the under
clothing. Italian girls do not learn to
sing. draw, and play the piano. These
are left to people who earn their living
by them. But they are taught to sew,
cook and iron.--Formey's Progress.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10

Last year the aggregate steel preduc-
ton of the world was somewhat over g.
600, 900 tons. OF this quantity the
United States made 1872 ,226 tons. Great
Britain 807,527. Germany 24O. 1000.
France lac, 900, Belgium $4,000. Swe-
den &c. 900 and Austria 20, 600.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10

Death has again been busy near the
throne of Spain. The Kings second
sister, Maria del Pillar, died recently at
the Escurial Palace, twenty-four miles
from Madrid, where she has lately re-
sided. Her illness took on dangerous
character SO suddenly that her brother,
the King, and elder sister, the Prin-
cess of Asturias, were unable to reach
the palace before her death.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10

One beauty Of the electric light Is
that it burns as we'll in rain storm as
in the finest of weather. One OF the
large hotels at Saratoga has its grounds
Lit by electricity, and the effect of the
light on the raindrops is described as
singularly beautiful. This is new
plea in favor of lighting by electricity.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10

He who spends all his life in sport
is like one who wears nothing but
fringes and eats nothing but sauces.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-10-05
STATE AND COAST ITEMS.

Ten miles of the Nevada Central is laid,
and Austin is happy
Out of the 1885 names on the Mono county
register, 1,061 are miners.
From September LIST to 3Oth, Bodie district
shipped $780, 87 80 IN bullion.
The second edition of 'Sagebrush Leaves
is out and will be forwarded at once to sub
scribers who have not been served.
The Editorial corps of the Virginia Chroni-
Gle have all joined the Reform Club, which
accounts for barrel of beer poured into the
cutters of Virginia City few days ago.
The Enterprise complains that the pro-
grammes furnished to theater goers, are full Of
Objectionable matter, unfit to be read by la
dies, and asks Manager Piper to reform the
abuse.
RepeiHe: Since the year 1873 business has not
been as dull as it is at the present time. 1t is
to be hoped that the completion of the narrow
guage railroad, now building between here
and the Central Pacific, will give new impe-
tus to all branches of trade. There is plenty
of room for improvement.
The decorations put up throughout San
Francisco in honor of Gen. Grants arrival are
being taken down. The arch on new Mont
gomery street has been carried away, lines of
small flags have been detached and put away
until next Fourth of July. Many of the dec
orations put up by firms and indlv iduals, have
been removed, and the city is resuming its us
ual appearance
The new Theater at Eureka was opened by
grand ball on Thursday evening, Hon.
Thomas Wren did the opening Grafton. The
Sentinel commenced to give are port, Ia Jen
kins, of the company, but run out of ad
jectives before being half way through, and
will give the conclusion in the wv eekly. The
building is 40 by 80 feet and is built in the
most substantial style. Eureka needed such a
hail. for they have had mere barn for e1hi-
billions or balls up to the present,
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-10-05

AFTER the examination of several witnesses
in the Roddan case Friday, the case was COM
1nitted to the Judge without argument. He
said that although there had been discrepan-
cies in the testimony, he believed them to
have resulted from honest mistakes, such as
all men are liable to make. He found moth
ing, in his mind, in the evidence that would
lead him to believe that the defendants were
guilty, and he did not feel justified in holding
them to answer. He ordered their discharge
from custody. District Attorney Davis and
Mr.. Jones expressed themselves decidedly of
the opinion that the Roddans had nothing to
do with the affair Dir. Cadwalader thanked
the counsel for the prosecution on behalf of
his clients, for the fairness with which the
attorneys conducted the case, and expressed
himself pleased that the examination had
been held, as it had been the means of clear
ing the Roddan family of suspicion.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-10-05

"LovE the Democracy as We may" says
the Austin (Texas) Statesman, ''while it is
sectional it is impotent" Well, that's an ad
mission to come from Democratic paper,
which shows that the party begins to "see
men as trees walking" When the party re-
cognzes the fact that the cry of ''sold
South is likely to make solid North, it will
probably try to abandon its sectionalism, and
there will be less of the bloody shirt business
and less bulldosng, and men will be more
likely to vote from conviction rather than
sectional prejudice, and there will be union
once more. The only section patriotic men
should recognize, is our whole country, and, as
the Statesman says, any party which can not
adopt this platform is inpotent, and should
be. We have common interests and should
have common aims but unfortunately poll
tics steps in and illustrates the best efforts of
men Of all parties and all sections, and keeps
open differences which should have been long
ago healed. The Democratic party of the
North is responsible for much Of this even
more than the natural sectional feeling of the
South.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-10-05

THE ROppANs have been acquitted of any
knowledge of the assault upon Ida Dunn and
Cora Heslep because there was no testimony
to connect them with it, and yet there is
something in the reticence of the girls which
carries an uneasy feeling of suspicion and mys-
terry. The action of the Court, however,
must be accepted, and the Roddans go clear;
but we doubt if one in ten are satisfied that
all the facts in the case were brought to light
Hugh Roddan had obtained the signature of
Ida Dunn to card for publication and &C
cording to the Bee, her father telegraphed to
to that Office to have the publication stopped,
but it was evidently stopped short, as it never
reached the Office. This same Hugh Roddan
enters into correspondenceIwth detectivesand
evidently throws them off the scent A trial
is instituted and the Roddans are exonerated,
and there stands the case; but there is some
thing smoking, and fire may break ont one
of these days. We are anxious to see justice
done, but her servants are evidently going it
blind"
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-10-05

THE Enterprise says in closing an article on
what our Country needs" every town
and hamlet must see that a certain proportion
of their young men and young women learn
trades. If every man who has net income
of 81 900 per annum would see that some poor
boy is taught trade every year for ten years,
the annual expense for supporting poor-h ouses
and for arresting, trying and furnishing crimi-
mails, would twenty years Aencs be decreased
one-haf." We have been trying to advocate
but we need Legislative action on the subject
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-10-05

cotemporary says: "For several years
past, the land owners of Great Britain and
Ireland have been yearly raising the rents, -
and to this is attributed the present distur-
bance Our friend is little off Tenant
| farmers in Ireland hold their land on either
life or perpetual leases, and the few which
expire every year could make no possible
disturbance even though rents were doubled
The fact is, and We speak from personal OBJ
servation, the Irish tenants have been enjoy
ing more liberal treatment from proprietors-
oftener companies than individuals during
the last twenty five years than for any time
previous2 The disestablishment act, by
which large quantities of Glebe lands were
taken from the established church, and
which tenants were enabled to preempt, re-
heved many from the rents imposed by the
parishes, and the introduction of American
machines, gave the farmers a chance to COM
pete with grain raisers abroad, and when We
visited Ireland in 1871, there was a general
tone of prosperity prevailing the whole
country. The raising of rents is not the
cause of the present outbreaks. England
can absorb at fair prices the whole of the
products of Ireland; but Ireland can no more
compete with American grain American
beet, mutton or cheese, than England can
compete with our workshops, snd England
suffers from depressed trade, and Ireland, be-
cause reduced prices caused by the American
market will not enable her tenant farmers
to pay their rent. 1t is a struggle at the
best, and when put to such competition, the
poor tenant who cannot hold for a market, is
driven to the wall. Lowering the rents will
help in small measure, but freehold sys-
tenn would do more, and till that comes the
land will be always what it is to-day