Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10


| Ben. Vincent still deals in two.
story cork-soled boots.
CHILDREN arc beginning to repudi-
ate out-of door amusemenjs.
The wisdom of the Territory has
fairly settled down upon us.
LET the rains come, the fair is over
and our streets are we'll graveled.
The coming girl may be seen any
time on our streets in short clothes.
CHRISTINE, the famous double
headed girl is OH exhibition at the
Oregon State Fair.
The Emily Melville Opera Com
pany Is soon to appear at New Mar
ket Theatre, in Portland.
You can tell the members of the
Assembly by their worn button-holes.
Such is the penalty of greatness.
SEVERAL of the traders at the Fair
Grounds have not realized enough
from sales to pay the rent OF their
booths.
TINS is just the kind of weather
when cork k-soled boots are comtor-
table. Vincent has them on hand
or will made to order.
HEREAFTER the cost OF messages
between any two points in the Uni
ted States, over the Western Union
line, is not to exceed two dollars.
GEN. Sherman's war-horse, ridden
, on his famous " March to the SeA,"
belonging to Capt. Ainsworth, was
brought up for exhibition at the
Fair
IT is reported that miners at Skag-
it are takiug out an ounce day to
the man. A letter written by VIM.
Boren to parties at Seattle conveys
the intelligence.
IT is said that hats, like umbrel-.
las are common property" at the
Fair balls. The first man out seizcs
upon the best " tilc," and the last
man is fortunate if he don't come
home bareheaded.
The bonfire burnel brightly every
night at the entrance gate OF the
Fair Grounds. Like the lost tribes
in the Wilderness the Fair managers
were served by a column of fire by
night and column of cloud by day.
JOSH Billings, besides being
philosopher has evidently " been
there" Hear him: "About the
hardest thing a fellow kan do IL to
spark two gals at the same time and
preserve a good average.
IT turns out that the gold discov-
cry at Coos Bay is only copper de-
posit after all. 1t is such disap-
pointments as these that knocks the
energy out of the large class of Mi
cawbers who are ever waiting for
something to turn up"
AN effort is to made in the Legis-
lature to change the county-seat of
Pierce county from Steilacoom to
to New Tacoma. It is claimed by
the friends of the proposed measure
that majority Of the inhabitants Of
the county, as shown by petition, are
in favor of the removal.
The wife of the sheriff of Morris
county, H., is small, delicate, and
habitually screams at mice; but when
q stalwart prisoner escaped from his
cell, and ran through her room with
revolver in his hand, she tripped
him, threw herself upon his pros
trate body, and held him down I'M
til her husband came.
TIE statement may surprise some
of our readers that Columbia has Il
larger population than any other
county in the Territory, it being
6,7S9, while Walla-walla, the next
largest has 6,215. King and Whit
man each have a little over 5000.
the aggregate gain of the Territory
past year has been 1878.
THERE can be but little doubt that
the Fair management was under good
hands when one saw the lavish dis
play of blue ribbon in the exhibition
hall. And if further evidence is
wanting that it is q cold water instit-