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

TIE hot weatheris coming in good
earnest.
BoYs have already commenced
stealing cherries.
The next style, low necks and
short sleeves.
The luxuries of the season: Straw
berries and cream.
Ducks have entirely disappeared
from our Bay.
LOOK out for a change in the
weather; new moon tomorrow.
IT used to be capital and labor, in
California, now it is capital and con-
stitution.
MEssRs. CASTOR & Mcintosh and
Ben Turner do not propose to be
swamped by the lumber depression.
Business continues lively at their
logging-camps.
A CLOSE estimate places the
amount of logs cut on Government
lands in the vicinity of the Snohom-
ish river, at 5000, 900 feet. These
logs are now lying in booms in Ebey
Slough, tributary of the Snoho-
mish.
Two of the members OF the Acad-
emy of Sciences are engaged in max
ing clocks. If they succeed in
bringing their exalted ideas down to
. practical plane, we doubt not the
famous Stratsburg clock will be sx-
celled.
ONE of our readers appears to
think that our paragraphist devotes
too much space to items about wo-
men. We don't know how that is,
but we promise that if the objector
can be induced to nib his eagle
plume we'll cheerfully "Give the old
man q chance"
WE learn that Mr.. T. N. Ford re-
ceived telegram from Oregon, this
week, announcing the serious ILL
!noss a hin sister. ". Ford wns III
Seattle at the time Of receiving the
news and started Immediately for
Oregon, by way of Tacoma.
W. 81. CLARK received q large in
voice of goods by the City of Chester,
a pretty good indication that his
sales continue healthful and pro.
fitable. He will make a new an
nouncemeut in another issue, SO un-
til that event, let his customers bide
their time.
SOMEWHAT of q rumpus was occa-
stoned at q meeting of the Board of
Trustees of the Willamette Univer-
sity, the other day, at Salem. The
designations of the entire faculty of
that institution were handed in and
all but one accepted. A committee
of five was appointed to look up and
secure a new force OF teachers.
We took stroll, recently, in the
southeastern part of town, and were
agreeably surprised at the large num-
ber of new buildings recently put up
and still in progress of erection in
that quarter. We are satisfied that
quite two-thirds Of Olympia is seldom
if ever seen by our citizens who are
engrossed in the turmoil of bust
ness.
We have specimen stalk Of" club
grass" taller than any person in
this Office, measuring about six feet,
and grown upon the lawn of Mr.. R.
s. White, in the upper part OF town,
whore there is a plenty more Of it
left. This does not look much as if
the cool weather and late rains had
made backward season.
SEVERAL of our young men started
down the bay on picnic excursion
this morning, and the tide being low
and steering out of the channel, they
soon grounded on a bar. After
many futile efforts to get their boat
adrift, they gave up in despair and
waded ashore. Only those who have
experienced similar fate can imag.
inc the modification of the party at
this unfortunate beginning OF an ex-
cursion for pleasure.
It was their luck
To get stuck,
Upon lar OF sand;
They came to grief
Upon q reef
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