Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-25
WRENs are singing.

NoN-advertisers cay the times ar,
hard.
SAFE-burglars are operating il
Oregon.
The City of Astoria has reinstatei
Mayor Parker.
Eaas are so plentiful that they are
no longer luxury.
Is it not time to talk about the
glorious old Fourth
The farmers are sowing and oul
business men will reap if they faint
not.
LOVERS of smelt should be happy.
Indians are bringing them in by the
back-load.
QUITE a number of young ladies,
here, are practicing the difficult feat
of gracefully fainting."
The work on Mr.. Damon's store
building is now eliminating in q
new aud fashionable front.
The Salem girls say the reason
they chew gum is to show the gold
filling in their front teeth.
The people of Lewis county are
anxious to have it known that they
have a population OF 1900.
A SAD reverse awaits the people of
the White River valley. They are
going into the hop calamity.
EXPERIENCE has taught that it pays
the people of Steilacoom to come to
Olympia to buy their drygoods.
The continued cloudy weather is
regarded as being extremely favor
able to the fruit trees in blossom.
To GET on the good side of the
prettiest girl in town, engage her
company for the May-day excursion.
ON account of their superior pow
or, American locomotives have le-
Gently been introduced upon the Ital-
ian railways.
ACCORDING to q communication
from the Mayor Of Astoria to the
Common Council, the public debt of
that city is $40. 900.
HUNDREDS Of Indians have found
out that goods are sold cheap in
Olympia, and come from far and
near to avail themselves of this state
Of affairs.
QurrE a number of immigrants have
arrived in town within the past few
days and are now sojourning at the
various lodging houses. 1t would be
q charitable act for all who are able
so to do, to assist these people in
providing for their families, and thus
showing that we welcome all indus
riously-inclined newcomers.
The mania for improvement in
town, since the pleasant weather.
has run largely in the direction of
new sidewalks. This time, it is TAX
ing effect along the front of the
Mattice property. east Of the WASH
ington Market. A sidewalk leading
from the Court House to Fourth
street, is much needed.
We have always been an admirer
of the " Brevity" column in the s. F.
Alta, but the items-man of the Port
land Standard dishes up quite as at-
tractive a plate of literary hash. It
is peppered and salted and onioned,
just to suit the popular taste. This
feature alone, in either paper, is
worth the price Of subscription.
They have q new kind OF ulster
Down East, with snow-sheds all
around the collar and box-tunnel
down the back. Anything to i'm
prove its appearance will be well
coined. It is the most uncouth gar
ment ever worn. It looks like an
animated knapsack with q sircingle
tightly drawn about the middle.
SCIENCE now says that kissing on
the lips must be abolished in the in
terest of health. Most potent, grave
and reverend seigniors, scholars and
philosophers, there are momentsyou
know nothing of, when man don't
care two cents for science, and when
he is going to plant kisses where they
will do the most good, regardless OF
consequences.