Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-01-11
WHEN is the river going to be
opened? That's the question.

opened? That's the question.
THERE arc now some 15,900,00O
feet of logs in Ebey Slough, await
ing shipment.
POSTMASTER Burr informs us that
outgoing mail matter is accumulat-
ing at Kalama.
A PAIR of magnificent swans may
be seen at the market of d. J.
Chambers & Son.
The lock-boxes and pigeon-holes
at the Post Office are nearly empty.
When will they be filledP
If you want your children to get q
set of new textbooks, for their old
ones, send them TO school.
NOTWITHSTANDING the inclemency
Of the weather, the union prayer
meetings are we'll attended.
RAILROAD experts are of the opin-
ION that serious land-Slldes Will re-
suit from the late frosty weather.
A DRILLING rain has been main
tained through the day, and our
second coating of snow is going to
leave.
WE are requested to state that the
Barnes Hook and Ladder Company
will give q grand ball on the even
ing of the first Tuesday in February.
DETECTIVE Delaney returned from
Kalama by Wednesdays train hcv-
ing still in his charge Mr.. S. w.
Hall, the writ of habeas corpus hav-
ing been refused.
Miss Ada Woodruff of this, place
takes the second prize for Christ
mas story in the San Francisco
Chronicle. There were over one
hundred competitors.
BEN. VINCENT is laughing in his
sleeve, besides being good -stleal'
openly tickled, to see how the frozen
ground is cutting off the boot taps of
our unsuspecting pedestrians.
QUITE large delegation of young
men left here, this morning to take
the steamer Alaska for San Francis
co. The boys will thence proceed
to Oakland to attend school.
SAwDUsT is in brisk demand since
the bursting of SO many water pipes.
The sawdust is used for packing the
boxes which surround the pipes,
and it we'll serves the purpose.
The little boys who have made
way with their candies and sweet
meats and the little girls who have
decapitated their dolls, are beginning
to ask when Santa Claus is coming
again.
LAST night, was inaugurated an
entire change of the weather pro-
gramme. The morning opened with
slight fall of snow, and during the
day, both snow and rain have come
down in considerable quantities.
SERGEANT Kubel asserted, in his
lecture before the Academy of Sci
ences, that it is not heat but light
which causes sun-stroke. If he re-
fers to his own experience, we en-
tirely agree with him, and thereby
is explained the milk in the cocoa
nut.
A FARMER, who claims to be an ag-
licultural expert, asserts that the
present weather we are having is not
only very severe on unhoused stock,
but hard on Winter grain, on ac-
count of the alternate freezing and
thawing of the ground from which
the water is not Immediately drained,
after rain or the melting of the
snow.
Our cracker and cheese drawer is
empty. We refer to the fact mere
ly as passing event.
p. S.-Since the above was in
type, and before going to press, We
received, by express. a magnif-
cent cheese from the factory of
Messrs. Long & Birmingham, Lewis
county. The incident signally il
lustrates the power of the press.
The quality of the sample before us
is equal to that of any of its predeces-
sors, end it is pronounced by cpl
cures to be as fine an article as was
ever offered in this market.