Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-01

WHArcoM county is said to be rum
ming into debt.
HONEY in the comb and corn by
the can at Chilberg's.
A YOUNG fellow often takes his girl
out. She generally takes him in.
GEN. r. II. Milroy has gone to
Washington on business connected
with his Office.
WHISKY, says the Danbury Ne,os,
is about the only enemy man has
succeeded in loving.
ACCORDING to the Port Townsend
argus. the drygoods merchants Of
that place were never doing a better
business.
Mr.. W. E. Wells has bought out
his partner, Mr.. Henry P. Hicks,
and now carries on the clam can
ming business alone.
SOME one reminds GROWERS that
Dame Nature every year presents
each man, woman and child in the
world with free pass for ride round
the sun, good for 365 days. The
length of the trip is 652, 200 900
miles.
Our people.should complain Of no
dearth of choice meats and veget-
ables while Olympia boasts OF such
an establishment as that of D. j..
Chambers & Son. Their shambles
and tables are crowded with what
ever the country or season can af-
ford.
AFTER the 1st day of February the
Zephyr will leave at half-past seven
o'clock, instead of eight, as at pres
ent, and at eleven o'clock on Satur4
days. This steamer connects with
the Starr line for Victoria and the
steamers to Snohomish, Skagit, Ia
Conner and Bellingham Bay.
Canon FARaAR, in answering the
"What n heaven 9a says:
go to be honest, true, noble, sim
cere, genuine, pure, holy, to the
hearts inmost core-is not this heav-
en-? Is not heaven q state rather
than place? Is it not temper
rather than habitation Is it not
to be something rather than to go
somewhere
On Friday last, the Secretary of
the Treasury made the S4th call for
the redemption of the $50 bonds of
1865. This call is for 500, ,000,000
The frequency and magnitude of
these calls should be an encouraging
indication that the national finances
are in a healthful condition, and
that the national indebtedness is in
fair way of being Gquidated.
SOME European merchants have
just discovered that new adultera-
ton of tea is carried on, at Annoy, to
an alarming extent. The leaves of
the willow are substituted for those
of the tea plant, and are mixed in
such large proportions as to render
the exported teas so prepared abso-
lutely unfit to be used and even
highly dangerous to the human ply
steal economy.
Mr.. J. W. Page informs us that
the tramway leading from the coal
mine to the track of the Northern
Pacific road is now in process of
building, and there will be no more
coal shipped into town for a couple
of weeks. After that time there
will be no detentions, and coal in
large quantities may be looked for
every week. The tramway is built
on an up grade SO the coal can be dis
charged into bunkers and, conse-
quently. easily loaded.
AN intelligent gentleman recently
from San Francisco, who has had
bitter experience in his own family,
does not speak very hopefully con-
cerning the efforts which physicians
are making to assign q cause and
institute proper treatment of diph-
liberia. He thinks that the attacks
of this disease are neither induced
nor influenced by locality in city or
country. As O malady Of late ap-
pearance in the world, it stands
without kith or kin; nor have physi-
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