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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-01-18

BLACK INK is made as follows:
Bruised gals, one pound; logwood,
copperas, and gum arabic, half pound
of each; water, three gallons. Boil oil
in the water an hour, then strain. This
is larger quantity than any one would
care to make at one time, but the ingre-
dients can be reduced to make less
quantity. Another kind of good black
ink is made by dissolving quarter of
a pound of extract of logwood in one
gallon of pure rain water, heating it to
the boiling point in clean iron vessel.
Add ninety grains of bichromate of
potash and fifteen grains of prussiate of
potash dissolved in half 4 pint of
water. Stir, strain carefully, and
bottle.
SHAM CHAMPAGNE. - One lemon
sliced, one spoonful tartaric acid, one
ounce ginger root, one pound and a
half sugar. Pour ten quarts of boiling
water on the above ingredients. When
blood.warm stir in two gills of home
made yeast, cover with thin piece of
gauze to keep out the flies and insects,
|. and allow to stand all day in the sun.
When cold in the evening bottle, cork
and wire it, then place it on the 1ioor
OF the cellar. In forty-eight hours it
will be ready for use, and will pay the
trouble of making it.
PASTE FOR p-BooK.-On wash
days there is always enough thick starch
left, or sticking to the sides of the pan,
to last through the week for paste. II
wanted in large quantities, of course
starch would be expensive, but we have
made several large picture scrap-books
3 with it, by merely saving what would
Otherwise have been thrown away. II
Mixes very nice, smooth paste, and
a7htile of it goes great way. 1t will
keep week in cool place, even in
summer.
WASHING FLUID. - One pound oil
soda ash, one half pound of quick
lime; put six quarts Of water and the
ash and lime in an iron pot. Put on
the stove and let it come to boil, then
take it off the stove and let it settle
then pour into jugs and cork up. Soak
your clothes, put four buckets of water
IN your boiler and large half-pint OF
the above fluid in and plenty of soap,
put in your clothes and let them boil
twenty minutes, rub little and rinse
twice.
CLEANING TINwARE.--An experienced
housekeeper says the best thing fol
cleaning tinware is common soda. She
gives the following directions: Damper
acloth and dip in soda and rub the
ware briskly, after which wine dry
Any blackened ware can be made to
look as we'll as new.
OIL Our OF WOODEN. - You can
get bottle or barrel of oil off any car.
pet or WOODEN stuff by applying dry
S,uekwheat beautifully and faithfully
Never put water to such grease spot
Or any liquid of any kind.
Keep fresh lard in tin vessels.
William V. Taylor has been left
900 on condition that he marie.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-01-18
Personal.

George Washington died, aged 67
years.
Mary, Queen of SCOTS aged forty
five years.
1t is said that 7. S. Arthur has writ
ten over one hundred moral novels
most of them temperance stories.
Senator Chaffee, of Col orado, is the
fortunate owner of half of newly de-
veloped silver mine which is yielding
$4,000 worth of silver daily.
d. N. Phifer, of North Carolina,
reads his weekly paper through pair
of spectacles brought by his grand
father from Switzerland in 1761.
Miss Cook, Mrs. Hayes niece, who
was married the other day, is the fifth
of the young ladies who have visited
Mrs. Hayes at the White House, and
have been married within eighteen
months.
President Hayes, on Thanksgiving
day, entertained the members of his
official household, with their families,
cabinet spent the day in Washington,
except Secretary Evarts, who came to
New York.
The Khedive of Egypt has lately
fallen in love with Queen Ann fur
niture," and is having room in his
palace, ct Cairo, fitted up with it. He
has bought cabinet at Paris for $10,-
600, and given orders for other articles
in proportion.
Miss Edmonia Lewis, the colored
sculptor, has finished bust of Cen
eral Grant, who sat for it in Rome last
winter. Miss Lewis thinks he will be
the next President, and adds that she
doesn't know who is any better fitted for
that position.
1t is feared that the health of the Rev.
Mr.. SpurgeoL is permanently broken.
The severe labor which he has imposed
upon himself for many years begins to
tell upon his constitution, and frequent
intervals OF rest are necessary. Dur
ing q recent severe illness his pulpit
was filed by his son, the Rev. G. Spur
geon, who has been preaching with
great success in Australia.
Senator Lamar says that the South
can never forget the grand, heartfelt,
splendidly generous manner in which
the North, so little time ago her
deadly enemy, came to her aid with
money and medicines, and material aid
of all kinds, AMI words Of comfort and
encouragement and good cheer. 1t took
away hard feelings long cherished and
softened bitterness long felt.
Edwin Forrest was at one time round
ing the Horn on a voyage to San Fran
cisco. He was dreadfully seasick, and
was storming up and down the deck,
berating a ''life on the ocean wave" in
his most sulphurious style. The cap
tain of the boat, thinking to mollify
the tragedian, approached him, and be-
gan extolling sailors condition. why
Mr.. Forrest" said he, Ilove the sea.
find everything congenial about it.
Indeed, as q youngster, i took TO it as q
matter OF choice" II don't believe you,
sir, calculated Forrest, in reply, There
never was but one man who went to
sea as q matter OF choice, and that was
Noah, for il he had remained on sGore
he would have been drowned"
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-01-18

William V. Taylor has been left
20 900 on condition that he marries
bore he becomes of age. He is now
~ and is understood to have made no
TT rS His post office address is
Whitehall, n. Y.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-01-18
'S5i| N 4 I S.
REMOVAL.

The Office of Pacific Newspaper Publishing Co.,
Carlos White, Proprietor, has been moved from
Market St., to room 6, left wing OF lalleck Block
Entrance at $40 Sansome ST., by the elevator or stair
adjoining Wells Fargo & Co., ALEC at 4t9 Sacramento
ST.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-01-18
The Coming Home.


E~as once a ''schoolmarm, but
Graduated in due time, and have been
housekeeper. oh, III not tell you
/ how MANY years, no, no. All this time
have been looking sharply at men and
things and. considering the best / could,
the actualities and possibilities Of life.
Shall / tell You what | think OF the
coming home In the golden age, toward
uhich we are fastening? In that home
woman sits crowned a queen, such a
revelation of beauty, OF sweetness, OF
purity. # love as God intended her TO
be. Having subjected all evil passions
and cast them ont of her heart, and
having cultured the good. the pure,
lthe true, the gracious, her life will be-
come one sweet service of love.
EToward her misery and want will in
/ stinctively stretch forth their hands, as
sure Of sympathy AMI relief as If :hey
were stretched toward the All Father,
whose will she shall execute. Around
her will spring up continually blossoms
! of ioy and gladness, and she shall abide
in an atmosphere of peace. "Her chill
/ dren sha arise up and call her blessed,
land her husband he shall praise her. 1"
From such homes shall go forth men
land women full-orbed, moving harmo-
niously with each other, and with the
nature of things, i. e., living in obedi-
ence to God and within the protecting
panoply of His law.
II we are attracted by this picture OF
what is to be, let us inquire il these at
tainments are not possible unto us.
In such home unkindness, censure,
anger. hate, treachery, bitterness; or
even selfishly considering our own ease
ana enjoyment before that Of others
&wdhd be impossible because contrary
No spirit of love. In such home
evil speaking, backbiting and gossiping
could not be tolerated. All that is
cross, vulgar, filthy and obscene would
lie banished beyond recall. Profanity
could not breathe in such an atmos-
phere. Tobacco fumes would be rec
ognized as a pollution of the temple
which should be kept clean for the in
dwelling of cleanly spirit. Intoxi-
eating liquors of every kind would be
considered an abomination. fit only for
colony of lost souls in perdition.
Therefore such homes would be pure
springs from which would flow waters
of healing into all our social and politi-
cal life. A government built upon such
homes would be founded in righteous
ness and endure forever.
The way, therefore, is plain, is it not !?
And are we not left without excuse if
we walk not therein? Shall we not
build such homes and thus hasten on
the golden age? 1t may cost us effort
because of the imperfections we have
inherited, and without doubt the infe-
icities of the homes from whence we
came will strive to reproduce them
selves; but if we fight the battle and
win the victory, our children, and our
children's children will stand on higher
ground ever after.
But L am talking too much for n
stranger. Because your names are as
familiar to me as the names of sisters,
forgot the acquaintance has but one
side Pardon and adieu.
49, DIANA.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-12-13
British Agricultural Depression.

Several Populations of agricultural
laborers engaged on the estates of the
Earl of Pembroke, in Wiltshire, recent
ly waited upon his Lordship and laid
before him certain grievances from
which, they alleged, they were suffer-
ing under their employers, the tenants
of his Lordship. Lord Pembroke has
this week written letter, in which he
says: Either directly or through the
agency of Mr.. R;,wlence 1 told all these
deputations referred to that any attempt
at interference on my part between
them and their employers was quite out
of the question, and did what little /
could to persuade them to submit pa
tiently to reduction that believe to
be inevitable in the present condition of
agriculture. That | expressed and feel
great sympathy with them | need hard
ly say is true. With bread rising in
price, and Il bad potato crop, the reduc-
ton in wages will doubtless be sharply
felt this winter by those who have many
children 10 support. But | have GER
tainly no less sympathy for the employ
ers, who have been struggling on
through a succession of bad seasons
with ever deepening anxiety, and some
Of whom, ! fear, are paying and will
pay the wages in question, not out of
their profits, but out of their capital. -
LOfa,io1l Times, NOU. IS.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-12-13
The First Snow.

There is charm about the first snow
with which no succeeding storm can
compare, however Enthusiastically drifted,
woven into whatever garlands, draping
the bare boughs with what fragile
wreaths. When the first flakes begin
their waltz, multiplying and increasing
in size, arranging their atoms into such
various patterns that we seem to be
looking through kaleidoscope shaken
by the hands of the elements; when we
wake in the morning and see the earth,
which was brown and barren at bed
time, sparkling and iridescent with the
snow, which has laid great blossoms on
the pine boughs, hidden unsightly
fences, touched the well-sweep into y
fairy's wand, garnished the naked tree
with eob-webs of lace-work, thrown an
ermine cloak over the rose-bush, fitted
cornices to shabby buildings, and
turned ungainly chimneys into decorat-
ed turrets, when, in short, it has made
every thing fair and clean as far as eye
can reach, magnifed familiar fields into
untrodden prairies, and crowned the
hills till they shine like the hills of Beu-
lah-then we feel as if some occult
power were abroad, evoking this trans
formation for our especial pleasure,
since mans individuality is so strong
that we can hardly conceive of Nature
as working for her own purposes
alone, but wisely conjecture that
she performs every operation in
our interest, and that every
flake or rain-drop that falls has an er-
rand to do for humanity. And this first
glimpse of the snow not only suggests
beauty and science, but the prospective
comforts of the fireside; the coziness of
winter nights after the lamps are light
ed, while the hail taps at the window
and the wind lifts the latch--t' the tu-
multuous privacy of Storm the delight
of sliding over miles of white velvet as
noiselessly rs a shadow, except for the
chorus of sei9h-bells; the eXhilaration
of waltzing upon the frozen lake. All
the spells of winter rise before us Mt the
bidding of the first snow; the weird pal
pitation of Northern lights; the sumptu-
Gus hues of sunset reflected upon the
whitened fields, upon the frozen river
that answers back like mother-of-pearl
the fantasy of the frost upon the pane
with its simmer of ferns and palms and
star-flowers-a pallid dream of summer
growth; the fringes of the icicles; the
sheen of moonlight upon world of ala
baster; the fiutter of snow-birds among
the red hips; the witchery of holly and
the Yule-log. And how deity, from
what tiny particles, the snow is nodded
into this great coverlet, tucking in the
grasses and sleepy roots! what magic
of the frost was that which breathed up
on the thin yapor, and straightway it
crystallized into scores of beautiful and
wonderful forms! The process is old, but
the result is always new.-Harper'S Be-
-nl
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-12-13
Starvation in Germany.

The failure of the potato-crop in Eu-
rope will nowhere cause greater hard
ship than in some parts of Germany.
Last spring the German newspapers
were full of startling descriptions of peo-
pie suffering for want of food in the for
est region of SpeSsart. While the Gov
eminent was expanding enormous sums
upon Notifications and soldiery, official
investigations revealed the fact that over
three-fourths of all the inhabitants of
the Spessart district were in pitiablc
destitution. a leading Journal of Ger
many said of this impoverished popula-
ton: &C They are barely able to main
tain Il wretched existence from one po-
tato-crop to the other, and Il single fail!
ure of this crop reduces them 10 the
most abiect want, even in times when
there is no such general Industrial de
preston as at present eNiSts.n A cont
mission, directed by the Government to
examine into the correctness of the
newspaper reports, found in the habiia-
tons of this impoverished population
''no bread, no potatoes, no salt. 1t was
II population on whose faces the shadow
of starvation lowered, and who blooded
III speechless distress, their courage
gone, and already too weak to work"
In one VILLAGE it was reported that wild
hogs that had been buried were dug up
and eaten. Greater han eyeu this and
more widely diffused must the suffering
be during the eomingyear, unless means
OF relief arc promptly provided.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-12-13
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

An east-bound freight train on the
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad ran into
a trestle on the LIST, about 40 miles west Of
Memphis. George Forsyth, brakeman, and
a negro woman and her two children were
killed outright, while several others, includ-
ing the conductor, II. r. Trowbridge, were
seriously injured.
A boiler in the planning mill OF the
Eau Claire (wis.) Lumber Company explod-
ed on the LIST, instantly killing the engineer,
Haskins, the fireman, Hosplin, and another
man named Gallagher, besides injuring Sc
verely several other employees.
An immense meeting was held at Nc
Cormick Hall, Chicago, on the night of the
LIST, to give expression to the sympathy felt
for the suffering people Of Ireland. A large
number of distinguished citizens partici-
pated.
The first annual convention of the
Mississippi Valley Cane Growers Associa-
ton, which was organized last year, met at
st. Louis on the I'd. There were about so
delegates present from various States.
By an explosion of fre-damp in q
mine in the district of Chimnitz, Saxony,
from 20 to so lives were lost.
Andrew Tracy was hanged at Smeth-
port, Pa, on the 4th, for the murder of his
cousin, pretty girl named Mary Reilly, in
September, 1878. Tracy was a lawyer, of
good education. He in love with his
co Jsin, but she refused to marry him and
encouraged the addresses of another, and in
a fit of jealousy he shot her through the head
while she was returning from friends
house in company with another young lady.
Tracy left long and carefully written de-
Il 1t
the deed was not murder, but was instigated
by his intense love Of Miss Reilly, the thought
Of whose marrying another drove him to
desperation.
The British Indians are threatening
trouble on account of scarcity of buffalo or
other provisions.
The Memphis authorities have adopted
the report Of the Sanitary Commission rec
ommending various improvements, and the
Governor has been petitioned to call spe-
cial session Of the Legislature to authorize
the necessary taxation to carry out the work.
1t was reported from st. Martinsville
Parish, La, on the Sd, that Emile Detiege,
Republican candidate for Sheriff at the late
election, had killed the two DE Lasoussaye
brothers, sons of the Democratic candidate
for Sheriff, and that he himself was MORALLY
wounded. 1t Is not stated who was the
aggressor.
At last reports the Revolutionists had
the city Of San Domingo completely sur
rounded on the land side and its equalization
was deemed certain in few days.
At Brockton, Plymouth County, Mass.
on the 9Th, {. A. Nougse, Dennis Lynch and
Dennis Reardon were buried under 5000
bushels of corn by the giving way of a floor
in a fiouring-mill. All were dead when cX-
TREATED.
Egypt is actively en- aged in prePar-
ing for war with Abyssiria.
Medford Walters was hanged at Elk
ton, Nd, on the 9TH, for the murder Of JeH-
! kins W haley in November, 1875.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-12-13
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

MINISTER FOSTER was banqueted al
Matamords, Mexico, on the night of the 18th
: JAR GOULD was banqueted at Leaven-
worth, Kans., ON the LIST.
JUDGE SAMUEL REFER, a well known
st. Louis lawyer, was found dead in his
room in the Burnet House, Cincinnati, on
the morning Of the I'd.
GEN. JEFF. G. DAvIs'S death is at
tributed to exposure during the ceremony
of unwilling the Thomas statue in Washing
ton on the 10Th ult. During the entire pro-
grsmme he sat in the cold, bleak wind with
his head uncovered. Being in feeble health
at the time, he contracted the cold which
terminated in pneumonia.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLINESS seven
tieth birthday, Dec. 3, was commemorated
by literary breakfast, given at the Hotel
Brunswick in Boston, by the publishers of
the atlantic Monthly, the guests being prin-
cipally the contributors to that magazine.
FRANK PHELPS, city editor of the
Burlington Qowa) Ha,ekeye, died on the 3d.
The Kellogg-Spofford Com:Ii tee
concluded their investigation at New Or
leans on the Sd, and adjourned to meet in
Washington and prepare their report. A
large amount of evidence was taken Of the
usual contradictory character.
SECRETARY EvARTs telegraphed to
the Gar the Presidents congratulations on
his last escape from assassination.
GEN. GRANT received the ministers of
Chicago, at the residence of his son, Col.
Fred. Grant, on the 4th.
CONGRESSMAN BINGHAM of Pennsly
vania has introduced in the House joint
resolution providing for an equestrian statue
to be erected on some suitable site in Wash
ington.
THOMAS BRENNAN, Secretary of the
National Land League ard prominent agi-
tator, was arrested at Dublin on the 5th,upon
a charge of using seditious language, and
taken to Castlebar for trial.
THOMAS BAYLEY POTTER, NJ. P, re-
Gently returned home from America, speaks
enthusiastically of the progress and pros
poets of the United States, and Of the solid
ity of the republican institutions of the
country.
CAPT JOSEPH DEHAvEN, late of the
U. S. Navy, resident of Chicago, died at
Geneva, Switzerland, on the I'd, aged SO.
THE President has filled the two va
cancies in the Board of Indian Commission
ers by the appointment of WILDER j. Smiley
of Providence, r.. l., and Gen. George Stone
81 .l;
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-12-13
WIT AND WISDOM.

| A FRENCH novel is usually story
with an immoral.-BOStoV Post.
SLEEPING-cAR conductors give David
Davis a wide berth.-N. D. Picay'tae.
BROAD is the road that leads TO debt,
And thousands walk together there
Prompt payment finds narrow rut,
With here and there passenger.
Toronto Graphic.
A YOUNG lady of Moultrie County
sends in communication on some pre-
sumably interesting topic, with the re-
quest to 60 Please print it if not too full"
1t is hardly necessary to say that we
hurl back the base insinuation with
scorn-also the communication. Chico
go Tribune.
A DANBURY boy was discovered to be
"playing hockey" yesterday by an I'M
Gle. He was working a vclocipede in
the suburbs. 1t was supposed by the
uncle that the boy had taken advantage
of his fathers being out of town for the
day. But the young man denied the
impeachment, and claimed that he
stayed from school because of sore
heel-not sore enough to prevent work
ing velocipede, but too sore for study.
-Danbury News.
THE PARAGRAPH FIEND REPINETH.
The sun comes up and the sun goes down,
And II hundred jokes are the same as one;
The paragraph ffcnd and the circus clown
Sigh for n find of new laid fun.
Oh, little we reck of the moonlit gate,
OF the apple green and the noisesome dun;
For the hours fly by while the printers wait,
And IL hundred jokes are the one.
And what is it all when all is done?
4 joke is the same in n thousand climes;
Here fill up my column with reckless fun
Set up this joke hundred times.
Huntington Ha,rkeye.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-12-13

A detached building belonging to
Bellevue Hospital, New York City, was
burned on the night of the 9th, and three
children, patients, were burned to death.
In New York City, on the 9TH, Otto
Wolf and wife went out to work, locking
three children in a room. by some accident
fire occurred, and before assistance came the
two youngest burned to death.
An express train on the Chicago and
Alton Railroad was thrown from the track
by broken rail, near Glasgow, Mo-, on the
9th. The locomotive and express and bag
gage ear toppled over into the ditch and were
badly smashed. Harry j. Brown, express
messenger, of Mexico, was fatally injured
and died on the following day. Peck Meade,
engineer, and Harry Lamartaha, fireman
We're badly scalded, and it was thought the
latter could not survive. None OF the pas
sengers were injured.