Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-08

DUsr begins to fly in the drye
portions Of the town.
CARPENTERS complain NO longer o
mot having work to do.
Ma Davis, Of the firm OF Crosby
Davis q Co., has returned from Sal
Francisco.
/ DUCKS and sea-gulls resembl,
Efecks Of foam upon the CLASSY wa
ters Of the Bay.
| TEE business men Of Seattle are
discussing the propriety of organic
ing q Chamber of Commerce.
Four schools are now in active
operation in our city, employing the
constant attention of about ter
teachers.
A NICE young man in Portland
boasts that he is the possessor of the
hangman's knot that was taken of
the neck of the Indian APPS, after his
execution. The young man may
possess the fatal moose, but we
would wager that the untutored saw
age possessed the finer moral and
intellectual organization OF the two.
THE skating pastime is usually
associated with bleak, uncompremis-
ing weather, but notwithstanding
the beautiful days that have smiled
upon us for week or more, the
cold nights have maintained q good
thickness of ice upon the neighbor-
ing lakes, and skating has been
largely INDUCED in by the youth Of
this place and Tumwater.
1naE is, as yet, very little pros
pset Of an immediate opeBang Of the
upper Columbia. At last accounts,
the river was still blocked with ice at
Heh Gate. This continued deten-
ton w accumulating freight, much
Of i perishable produce, Is . strong
argument in favor of immediate rail
road communication between that
wheat-gEowing region and tide-wa-
ter. .
The bird and poultry show, now
in progress in Portland, involves ac-
cording to the reports the exhibition
of Cochins, Leghorns, Hamburgs,
Bramahs, Bantams, pigeons, Po-
lands, guinea pigs, nagpies, cocka-
Eoos, ducks, geese, pea-hens, and
turkeys. We didn't know, before,
that guina-pigs were birds, but
doubtless the little animals have be.
come web-footed fowls since their
Importation to that misty State.
In a late issue, in speaking of the
Wholesale destruction of fish in the
Gulf of Mexico, we ventured the
opinion that the approaching peri
helion might have something to do
with the strange phenomenon, and
now it turns ont that DIR. Knapp,
the great "perihelion pestilence agi-
tator" is in the field lecturing on the
subject, and says that the mortality
Of fish in the southern waters is un-
questionably some ofthe preliminary
effects of the forthcoming planetary
phenomenon.
In late issue, alluding to the Blue
Ribbon Sociable, the compositor
omitted . few lines which gives rath-
Or an imperfect idea of part of the
evenings exercises. Miss Ada Bun
nell recited beautiful selection en-
titled" Beware of the Breakers" in
. very creditable manner, Of which
our report makes no mention. and
Misses Kellett and Mills are made to
declaim instead Of sing o duet.
Such errors seem to be an annoyance
that cannot be avoided, even with
The utmost care.
An old man in Portland, named
Catching was recently svindled o ut
of eighty dollars by investing in what
Is known among fast boys as the
' strap-gsme." We would describe
he fixture if it would do any good.
Olympia citizens have been repeat
sdly gulled by Portland street sharp
srs and their cases have been shown
np by the papers as warnings to 9TH
srs having business to transact there,
but good advice. like good physic, is
hard to be taken. While the world
is amazingly full of villaius. their
nnu,bo ss fo;~l,- oc-~y.J L. a.