Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20
WHOLE NO. 967.
ABSTAIN from wrath.

Tomorrow 10 the shortest day.
INDIANS are offering salmon berries
for sale.
SEVERAL good jobs have been doDe
in repairing the street cisterns.
A LARGE party went over to Wesk
Olympia, Thursday, on a picniciDg
excursion.
Go AND see the new artesian weu
in the maching shop of Messrs.
Allen & Titus.
The defaulter Hall has been SOM
fenced to five years imprisonmenk
in San Quentin.
THERE is strong tendency in fs-
vor of everybody celebrating th0-
Fourth on his own account.
We hear it stated by those wAG
ought to know, that crops on the up
lands of the Sound country general
ly will be good.
A FEW loads of new clover hay
have come into town. Many FARM
ers will be enabled to cut two heavy
crops from the same field.
SHARp-s1sHrED small boys are casesS
ing about to see how they can gsk
little loose change for the comi1e
Fourth. Bottle-gathering and tho
scrap-iron business will bring Them,
out all right.
New potatoes should be used SPAR
insly. Being not fully grown, they
are not ripe, and many complaints
common at this season of tho year,
may be traced to their injudicious-
use.
The gravel which is now used 10.
cover Main street, above Union, II
hauled from q point nearly miIe
below East Olympia. This is nos-
exactly carrying Goals to Newcastle.
but looks good deal like it.
The meeting Of the Blue Ribbom
League, Sunday afternoon, was -
ImoEe than usual interestr IA. 4oanq
qusnce 81 TIC nnmbsf n new 81 - :
ers, among whom were Mrs. Walkssss
and Messrs. Kerr, Allen and Keusst
nedy.
By a recent arrangement, the
Portland Seattle excursion will b
extended to Victoria. Steamers wiz
leave Seattle with passengers fox
Victoria on the 26th. From the lat
ter city, visitors can return on theiE
half-fare tickets any time before the
18th of July.
STRAwBERRIEs are not always as
sociated with pleasant things. A.
little daughter of Mr.. J. H. p. Mar
tin, of Sonoma, CAL, was eating
Strawberries one day last week, whsm
one became lodged in her throat
and death resulted before assistance
could be rendered.
A FESTIVE old sea-captain says: "Ls
have been on lee shore in gale Of
wind, but to bring out all the latent
powers of my inventive faculty, put
me in a modern strawberry festival.
with an insinuating lady on the star
board and larboard side and but .
single quarter left in my pocket"
WE can readily conceive how o.
midnight conAagration Of his OWE
premises would summarily drive ..
man from his bed, but how young
man of only average ability can gst
up in time to take the Mud Bay
steamer for hunting and fishing
excursion, is beyond our comprehen-
sion.
EDISON is surely receding into tho-
shade. He has had his day, but Il
might have lasted good deal longer
between sun and sun, had he MOI
made such splurge and splutter II
the start. Eminent electricians, On
both sides of the Atlantic, are M
lently and industriously working out
the great light problem.
The following seems rather rough
on women, especially when one rs-~
members the story of Grace Dsr~
ling:
The light house board has issued an OgsS
der to the effect that, at isolated stations
where there are two or more keepers, n0
women will be allowed to reside, unleaB
by special permission Of the board. pr PIT
be permitted to reside on light ship uzns
der any circumstances whatever.