Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-27
CoALBANK is to celebrate the Fourth.
WHEN you have good thing keep

1t.
A FEW emigrants are still sojourn-
ing in our town.
The editor of the Port Townsend
Press eats onions.
We notice a good deal of wool
coming into town.
The most powerful piece of ma
chinery is the printing press.
The cool weather has the ten
dency to prolong the strawberry sea-
son.
IT is rumored that Jay Gould is
about to start newspaper organ in
Portland.
The people of Seattle complain of
the high price charged for straw
berries in that city.
HE people of Seattle are making
preparations for grand regatta on
the coming Fourth.
The desire for camping out is as
suming the diagnosis of mania-or
any other big name.
THE freight brought to our mer-
chants from the Dakota, aggregated
about thirty-four tons.
The Courier rejoices with us over
the fact that the lower part of Wash
ington street is going to be graveled.
THFRE is a prospect that an agree
ment is soon to be entered into by
sawmill owners to run on two-thirds
time, only, for year to come.
A GRAND picnic will be held by
the Portland printers at Vancouver,
on the 10Th of July. Why do they
come to Washington Territory?
BUILDING or no building, brick MAX
ing has commenced in good earnest
at the East Olympia brick-yard. Mr..
Powers has determined to make the
venture.
AT the dedication of the Presby-
terian church, in Seattle, last week,
tho church debt, amounting to
fifteen hundred dollars was raised in
twenty minutes.
A PREMATURE report has it that a
member of our Academy of Sciences
has discovered the fact that the chem
cal constituents of strawberries and
girls are identical.
Our merchants tell us that much
more than the average quantity of
wool is coming in at this time, o
pretty good indication that the num-
Der of sheep in our county is stead
lily increasing, Notwithstanding the
large bands that are sent almost
weekly to Victoria.
PRoF. G. B. Plummer, of the Ter
ritorial University, is taking meas
ures to transmit his talents to pos
terity by bringing into notice his
daughter Addie. At recent enter
tainment in Seattle, this young lady
was enthusiastically greeted and &C
quilted herself with marked ability.
The largest three-masted schooner
in the world has just been launched
at the shipyard of Messrs. Goss &
Sawyer, of Bath, Maine. Large ves-
sells of this rig require the longest
masts, and what makes this a good
local item is the fact that the masts
of the above craft came from Puget
Sound.
Dull as times appear, the buildings
that have been erected during the
past few months in Olympia, would
make a respectable village, to say
nothing about the new sidewalks
that have been put down and vast
amount of other improvements all
over town. Olympia is not dead and
is still a good place to dwell in.
EVEN if we cannot be served in a
similar manner, it does us a power OF
good to read how the offices of our
exchanges are invaded by armies OF
young ladies and the working force
surfeited with strawberries, ice cream,
and all the other delicacies OF the
season. We mention the circum-
stance merely as passing incident
and with do intention. whatever, OF
promulgating the sentlest kind OF a
hint.