Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-11-07
WHOLE NO. 991.

FREEZING weather is announced aska
Spokane Falls.
The evenings are getting long
enough for devoted pupils to do s-a
good deal of profitable studying stss~
home.
JACK frost is determined that th0s4
people shall make his acquaintanse.-,
and he is now putting in an appear
ance, unannouuced, every night.
GIVE us woman lobbyist, in all
cases where an important measure is -
at stake. She is invincible, invuJ---.
ncrable, and in everybody's way, TIL
her darling object is accomplished.
We hear of some of our citizeaGx
fumigating their dwellings as press
caution against diphtheria, but it is@.si
hoped that the present frosty term
will prove an effectual barrier to thazx,
disease.
"Jo1SISe hands" is now what gak~s q
ting married is called in fashionablenls
society. We suppose these Words
are meant to imply that the joining
of hearts has nothing to do in theaa
contract.
THERE is scarcely household nss1
our city that is exempted from -tn0sl
the loss of valuable plants and fow~r
ing shrubs by the heavy frost thae
visited us on Thursday night. Thol3
utmost vigilance only can save thGmEs {
if they are allowed to stand in thsEA
open air during the day.
The coming OF the rain has somS-~~4
what interfered with the work =
burning the fallen leaves gathsfsdEa
from the sidewalks. There should
be no unnecessary delay, however,
Let the decaying masses be burned
as soon as possible. Very little fob
iage remains upon the trees now, aniIE@.-
with small effort, our sidewalk
can be swept clean of. the incunD-A
brance.
WHILE the Isthmus ship canal pso~-
ject is sleeping, American ssdDes
French engineers are preparing ests--
mates of the cost of ship canal
across the peninsula Of Florida. IL
is alleged that such an artificial wU-~s
ter course would bring, in effect, theAs'
mouth OF the Mississippi river sevsr-
al hundred miles nearer New York.
The governor of Florida is warml
interested in the matter and person~'-s
ally working up the matter.
We are in receipt of advices froa@
the East which indicate that thoss
Grant ovation in the principle cities
there, will far exceed what it haDss
been on this coast. Like vast tidatL
wave. gathering strength as it ad@~--
vances, it is soon to break on the A.
lantic seaboard in q culminationrgS
political frenzy. That the whole
demonstration has been and is DowHr
nothing short of a Presidential caz-
paign f" BOOM" there is every resssa
to believe.
TIE Department ct Washingosa-
announces, as gratifying item. t
the excess Of United States exposo
in general merchandise over impososs
in the same line, for the month e1iDHs
ing Sept. 3Oth, amounts to $2O. .62osrr
OS7. For the twelve months snd-.
ing on the same day. this excess go
our exports over imports i no lsa
Than $25. SAG, at. It cannot be ds-~~
MED that these figures are authorioDs4
tive and the sequel which they iA-.-E
ply should inspire every businsaH
man with renewed hope and eon6
ence.
DEER are said to be ssaaafka1 -
plentiful, this year, in I'll pirtg -
the Sound county, and our psass-'
ticed hunters think no more of ShOUoE
ing . fine buck before brsakfnss-
than their Eastern friends wo111k
think of shooting . iat squirrel fro1
the top Of = corn-crih. Those 49,
best understand thess things asssUo
that, other things bsing equal. d.
cr.,r,aa and rhaaannka vill nonf{nnnsk