Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20

are watching to see the first burst OF
smoke and flame from Mount Rain
ier.
THIS is the season when tho exqui-
site lounges up to the counter and
asks in honeyed accents for vase
full of julep.
The graduates of the Medical COL
lege, at Salem, on the 11th instant,
numbered nine, six of whom were
men and three women.
The team Of Mr.. Linkliter ran
away while returning home from
town, last Saturday, smashing up
the wagon and slightly injuring the
owner.
CALIFORNIA is still in q political
turmoil. It is thought that the
adoption of the new constitution will
result in a plurality of political
creeds.
JAPANESE bangs" are the latest
style of hair-dressing for ladies.
They make the head resemble some
what the capital of Corinthian
column.
IT is seldom we see an exhibition
of downright drunkenness on our
streets, nowadays, but we OCCASION
ally meet an individual who is not
sober by jug-full.
The Chehalis camp-meeting be-
gun yesterday, the Goth inst. It
will continue over two Sundays.
The meeting is to be held at the old
Wynoochie camp-ground.
An eminent physician says young
ladies should not be afraid to let the
Summers sun kiss their cheeks. We
know Of one who is not afraid to let
q widows son kiss her lips.
IT is rumored now that the pro-
perty of the Oregon Steam Naviga-
ton Company will positively be
transferred to Jay Gould, through
his agents in Portland, next month.
The price paid is said 70 have bssn
$4,000, 900.
ACCORDING to tho Seattle Intelligent
Ger, there are, at present, twenty
four steamers of twenty tons and up
wards, plying on the waters of Pu-
get Sound. Besides these, there are
about twenty sail-vessels, Of all rigs,
in the same waters.
A HEAVY gold "cable chain" was
recently presented to Capt. H. G..
Morse, of the steamer DAKOTA, by the
San Francisco pilots, to be worn in
connection with the magnificent gold
watch presented by him his friends
at Seattle and Port Townsend.
Mr.. M. G.. Foisy, said to be the
Oldest printer on the northwest coast,
died in Oregon on the 11th inst.
Mr.. Foisy came out with Father
Whitman, more than thirty years
ago, and with his own hands, set the
type and worked off an edition of
several books of the New Testament,
in the dialect of the Nez Perces.
ONE of the handsomest and most
artistically arranged bouquets we
have yet seen has been placed upon
our table by DR.. Eggars. It is COM
posed principally of roses, of rare
varieties and of q luxuriant growth
that indicates superior cultivation.
The Doctor has one of the finest
gardens Of fruit and flowers in the
IefrltOry.
The thought of the "Good Time
Coming" imparts q lighter step to
the gait of the weary plodder. It is
the mirage in the desert, which al
though it may not be reached, cheers
the heart and smooths the pathway
of the traveller. It is a blessing in
disguise and connects the soul with
golden thread to realm beyond the
skies.
SINCE the erection of the new Cath
olic Church edifice, now rapidly ap-
preaching completion, our beautiful
city lays a new claim to the privi-
lege of being called the " City Of
Churches" We doubt whether there
is another town of similar popula-
ton on this coast any better pro-
vided with elegant places of worship