Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-23

PRESIDENT Hayes has vetoed three
bills in as many months.
ALWAYS inclose a stamp in your
letter when you say you do.
SEATTLE is at present sorely infest-
ed with boy thieves and pick-pockots.
IRELAND, of the Astorian and Mer-
ry of the Inland Enterprise, are still
at large.
NEXT to poverty, prosperity is the
hardest thing for great many peo-
pie to bear.
EVERY down-Sound "port" wants
a wagon road leading across the
mountains.
TALENT is dead without o goodly
supply OF energy to push it towards
practical ends.
HoRsE-back riding is coming into
fashion once more, since the reduc-
ton in livery prices.
Ar great expense, Mr.. Barnum has
found the woman who sticks to it
when she says "yes."
SEVERAL of our clarionet players
>have become wind-broken and hence
the silence OF those instrumen is
A DIRECT railroad communication
between Europe and India is now
talked of by European money-kings.
To kill or drive away carpet beet
les, moths, etc., saturate the edges
of the carpet with strong tea made
of the best Cayenne pepper.
DREeoN sheep have been fatally
poisoned by browsing on the shrub
lInown as mountain laurel, and farm
ers are warned against allowing their
Aocks to range where it grows.
WHILE England is groaning under
the effects Of commercial depression,
the Minister of Public Works in
France is perfecting a scheme of
railway, canal and harbor extension
which will cost the gum of $3.50 ,O00,-
600.
The committee appointed to fix
the time for the great worlds fair 70
be held in New York, have decided
upon the Summer and Autumn of
1888, subject to the approval of q
convention to meet in that city on
the 18th of June next.
CAPT. Eads wants $500, 900 dollars
more cash in payment for his jetty
work at the mouth of the Mississippi
river. The only thing in the way is
that few members of Congress do
not see the matter in the same light
in which the gallant Captain sees it.
A NEW spectroscopic attachment
to opera glasses, is said to reveal to
an inquisitive lady the material of
which her neighbor's bonnet is COM
posed, whether her brilliants are
real diamonds or only paste, and
whether she powders, perfumes,
laces, snuffs or "spoons it." '"
The walking match mania has been
turned to practical account, at last.
Two Kentucky lovers centered their
affections on the same damsel, and
neither would relnquish his claim.
Az a final resort, a walking-match
has been proposed, and the success
full competitor pockets the "stakes. "
WHOEVER knows where to look for
the head Of the "Great Bear" in
the northern SKY, can find Brorsen's
comet with q very small telescope.
Doubtless should anybody get to
near the head OF Gilmore's big bear,
he would be very likely to "see
stars" even if he did not see q comet.
The Port Townsend Democratic
Press says: "I It is reported that the
Olympia and Tenino railroad will be
extended to Chehalis, o distance OF
1Os miles from Olympia. Had the
editor of that paper added, " more
or-less," and especially the less. we
might think he had sudied geography
in his youth. q s.. -..r
A BLOOMING Tonga Island bride.
recently killed and ats her newly
welded lord, to prevent him from
becoming the husband. of another
buttsrnut-colored maiden. There
was woman's devotion with q ven.