Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-27

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4 EAST Hadden, Conn. is without a
dramshop.
The Port Townsend people want
steam fire engine, and will not be
comforted till they are gratifed.
TIE store of S. Baxter & Co. Seat
tie, was burglarized, on last Friday
night, and quantity of tobacco and
cigars taken.
PROFESSOR Wells, of clam canning
fame, is in town on business connect
ed with his cannery and reports
prospects never better.
MEssRs. T. N. Ford & Co., have
received a sample of the famous
Raleigh smoking tobacco. Slaves
of the weed should try it.
IT is safe assertion to say that
Oregon and Washington Territory
can eclipse the civilized world in get
ting up and. conducting excursions.
Our dusky ladies promise wild
black-berries very shortly in un-
stinted quantities. Let our people
get their cannery appliances in read
mess.
PHYSICIANS are generally disap-
pointed. The sickness among our
juvenile population is not what they
anticipated it would be upon the ad-
vent of green fruits.
The cost, per cubic yard, of the
gravel now being used to cover the
streets is considerably less than that
brought from down the Bay, last
year, in scows.
PEOPLE living in the southwestern
/ part of Thurston county, find it bet
ter to do their shopping in Olympia
than to send to Portland, now that
the reduction of prices is fixture.
We would respectfully suggest
to our town authorities that it would
be we'll to see that the Fourth of
July Ordinance, in relation to fire.
works, is executed to the letter Of
the law.
Contrary to the expectation of
many, the water supply a. the ma
chine-shop of Messrs. Allen & Titus,
continues as good as when first
struck. The water still flows from
the pump in acopious stream with no
signs of failure.
FRIDAY Harbor, a little port on
San Juan Island, advertises one
horse" Fourth of July celebration,
and as an inducement to visitors an
nounces that free beer will be dealt
out to the multitude. There is a
big cat in the meal, somewhere in
that little burg.
The programmes for excursions,
picnics and Fourth of July celebra-
tons, are now occupying a large
portion of the space in our ex-
changes. The Americans are q free
born, rollicking sort of people, and
like to get about as much out of life
as there is in it.
If our citizens are satisfied to live
quiet, unobtrusive lives, they should
be content if our daily is not spark
ling all over with items that move the
soul. So long as there is neither
giving nor taking in marriage, elope-
ments, family jars, dog fights nor
divorces, our friends must indulge us
in dealing out prosy sustenance.
OLYMPIA may we'll be proud of her
streets, both as to the carriage ways
and the fine sidewalks. Year by
year, the thoroughfares most used
are being covered with a durable
stratum of coarse gravel. Though
by constant use this may wear into
dust on the surface, the foundation
for good streets will remain intact.
The Scientific american describes
a newly invented device for applying
perforated sheet music to pianos and
and organs. An exchange thinks
this piece of mechanism will entirely
do away with the necessity of teach.
ing young ladies piano-playing in
the ordinary way. All that is re-
quired is to insert the perforated
music under the hammers, work the
redals and the music rolls from the