Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-25
EIGHTY-fve degrees in the shade.

EIGHTY-five degrees in the shade.
NEIGHBoR1NG wheat fields are turn
ing u golden yellow.
The visits from our friends in the
country are few, far between and of
short duration.
A FEW more days of hot weather
and then look out for fire in the
woods. Care should be exercised to
prevent a confagration.
AN agricultural expert asserts that
white clover is doing as much to
subdue the land of Washington Ter
ritory as the woodlands axe.
TRINITY church, Seattle, is to have
a new bell, from Troy, N. Y, weigh,
Ing eleven hundred pounds and
costing about three hundred dollars.
CAPT. Carroll, formerly of the
steamer Great Republic, is talked of
as candidate for the office of Chief
of Police in San Francisco, on the
Workingmen's ticket.
The city of Seattle has been i'm
mor!aiized by poem written by
lady member of the late Oregon ex-
cursion. None but the pretty la
dies passed through Olympia.
FROM the large quantities of lum-
ber left at various points along our
streets, it is evident that orders have
been passed by the Town Board for
the construction of new sidewalks.
A DESTRUCTIVE insect is preying
upon the leaves of pear and cherry
trees, in Walla-walla valley, leaving
only the skeleton of the leaf which
Immediately dries up and falls off,
thus working q slow death to the
trees.
IT may be seriously doubted
whether there is any more practical
prevention of hot-weather diseases
than the whiaewashing, inside and
ont, of.out-buildings, stables. sheds
etc. Now is good time to perform
the work.
Picnic parties composed entirely of
ladies are becoming quite common.
Like scaling the housetops to witness
the Bellringers through the upper
windows of Columbia Hall, it is an
Olympia institution, and amply JUS
tilted under the circumstances.
A FRUIT raiser, in speaking of the
remarkable absence of caterpillars,
this Summer, fails to find an ex-
planation of the fact. If we rightly
remember, young caterpillars ap-
peared, as usual in the early Spring.
We promptly called attention to the
matter and suppose that the evil was
nipped in the bud.
The people of Memphis are en-
during another season of excitement
over the deadly yellow fever. 1t re-
mains to be seen whether the city is
to be again subjected to the terrible
experience of last year. Many places
of business have been closed and
hundreds of people have already
left for the country.
THOSE people who are yet unused
to the peculiar climatic changes of
this part of the Pacific coast, are
considerably puzzled to know how
to reconcile our cloudy, unpromising
mornings with the sunny afternoons
which invariably follow. A down
East man would have postponed his
wedding, this morning, on account
of the weather.
The inventor of q steam cross t
saw of peculiar construction, threat
ems to revolutionize the logging bus
mess of the world. His machine is
moved from one point to another
and with the services of four men
and one horse, he asserts it can saw
down and divide into proper lengths
as many trees as thirty axe-men and
sawyers can in the same time.
Miss Jessie E. Dunbar lost her
life near Fishkill, N. Y, on Q
sixth Of July, by her clothes ignit-
ing from fre-cracker thrown by a
boy "just to scare her." The New
York Sun devotes nearly column
in giving the frightful details of the