Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-24
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON TERRITORY FRIDAY OCTOBER 3d. S9

EGGS are not coming up, and hens
are dispondent.
AppLE-gathering requires all the
family and hired man besides.
To restore milk after it has be-
come slightly soured, stir in little
soda.
One of the best preventives against
the prevailing ailments at this sea.
son of the year, is to go warmly
clad.
MARBLE PLAYING and top-spinning
are among the ruling pastimes of
our school children, at the close of
the study hour.
LOGS are coming up, and lumber
men are hopeful. The ruling price
is about four dollars and fifty cents,
with an upward tendency.
WHIDBY Island will produce two
hundred and fifty thousand bushels
OF potatoes, this year, besides about
an equal showing of hay and grain.
In describing a new acid which be
has just discovered, humorous
chemist says it is sharper and more
searching than woman's curiosity.
60 after him, girls. The brute!
EIr is a humiliating fact that many
Of the Indians now engaged in mur-
dsring white settlers are in posses
slsn of the most approved pattern
Of firearms sold to them by white
traders.
"A YOUNG lady, of this city, who
has never had the question popped
10 her, says she never could have
the courage to say No." Her heart
must be made, inside aud out, of
sympathy for the sterner sex.
If the Chaplaius in the Legisla-
tare ere not afraid to perform, their
bounden duty, they will remind
the carelessly disposed members
that the commandment requiring
sanctity of the Sabbath, has never
been repealed.
A BENEVOLENT lady, of New York,
has undertaken what the Stewart
Hotel failed to do. It is the estab-
lishment of boarding house for
those respectable women who work
for a living. So far as it has been
projected, the prospects are flatter-
ing.
Rev. J. R. Thompson will conduct
the usual public worship in the
Presbyterian church next Sunday
at the usual hour. At the evening
service Mr.. Thompson will deliver
the first of course of lectures on the
Bible. Subject of opening lectures
The Bible in the light of Prophecy.
The trimming of shade trees, al
this season of the year, is a measure
conducive to health, if it be not car
ried to an extreme. The foliage
constitutes the breathing apparatu
of the trees, and a sufficient quantit.
should be left to insure the absorp
ton of tue noxious elements whicl
proceed from vegetable discomposi
ton.
IT is hoped that the present AS
sembly will gaurd so we'll the inter
ests of the people as to be able t.
reduce the ratio of Territorial taxa
ton at least one mill. 1t can be don
if rigid economy is exercised in ap
propriating the public money
Every proposition to increase th'
incidental expenses, or to appropr'
ate funds for objects of questionable
utility, should be closely scrutinize
and only favored when an adequat
benefit is sure to result.
ME. G. Crosby died at his res
dence, in Tamwater, at ten o'cloc
on Wednesday morning, after yer
protracted and severe illness, havin
been confined to his house for
number of years. MIR. Crosby wa
one of the cid pioneers of Thursto
county, and up to the time of h
prostration, he had become SO idel
tilted with the commercial interes
of Olympia and Tumwater that h
name was household word through
out the upper Sound county. Thu
are the old settlers fast leaving u
The remains we're deposited in Nj