Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-25

| Tr all men would do as much fol
money as money will do for them
there would be no idleness in the
world.
Eaes, oysters, CLAIMS and fish are
now plentiful enough and cheap
enough for all. Even tramps should
not complain.
IT is rumored that the University
Base Ball Club, at Seattle, ale about
to challenge the club of this city for
a match game.
The people of Belltown want a
better-sounding name for their am
bilious little city, and the name Of
Bay View has been suggested.
"How to clean pearls, is the cap
ton of a short article going the
rounds of the papers, formula,
however, of no practical Importance
in this vicinity.
The new sidewalk on the south
side of the plaza has sensibly lessen
ed the travel across that enclosure,
and new growth Of grass is start
ing, much to the joy of perambula-
ting bovines.
The conductor on the little o. T.
railroad criticises paragraph in our
paper. Ye gods! what assumption.
Should we punch his ticket, there
wouldn't be enough of it left to make
a cover for pill-box.
JEREMY Taylor used to say that q
cheerful countenance was one of the
things which his enemies could not
take away from him. Let people
who are prone to borrow trouble
read the DAILY EXPERIMENT ard re-
member the words of Jeremy Taylor.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont isrvis-
iting the public schools of Arizona
and lecturing to the scholars about
her residence and travels abroad. It
strikes us that more legitimate top
ic would be something that concerns
the general education of the people
among whom she is residing.
The new paper, Resources of Ore
gon ard Washington says TO settlers
We offer You q land where more
Of real life can be realized during !
lifetime, than anywhere else on this
globe" That is spreading it on
pretty thick, even though our Terri
tory is generously included"
A KENTUCKY girl has the pluck to
sue her absconding lover for abduc-
ton and breach of promise of mar
riage, placing her damage at $780,
600. We suppose the break in her
heart was bad one; perhaps, as
the physicians say of q broken bone,
il was compound fracture.
AN observant chap says that many
cats have mysterously disappeared
from Olympia since those clarionets
came over from Portland. Natural
lists unanimously agree that cats are
extremely sensitive creatures, and it
pains us whenever the humblest
creatures have their feelings ruth
lessly hurt.
TIE railroad fend is still at work,
and the freight cars at Tenino are
the particular objects of his malig-
nant spite. Not satisfied with un-
screwing nuts from the car-bolts, he
now opens the axle-boxes, takes out
the packing and fills them up with
sand, thus clearly showing that pure
devilishness is the ruling passion
with him.
AN Olympia gallant wanted to say
something sweet about his girl, who
was suffering from severe cold, and
compared her to q maple tree when
the sap was flowing. All the poetry
was knocked out of the idea, howev-
er, when he found himself compelled
to carry very prosaic umbrella, to
keep off the rain when she sneezed.
Catch-you!
A CORRESPONDENT writing from
Elma, Chehalis county, in speaking
of recent immigration to that part Of
the Territory says: " Good claims are
awaiting them. and for as many
more as wish to follow them" This
ahould ha n walcome item To tha