Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04

BLACKBERRIEs are getting ripe.

BLACKBERRIEs are getting ripe.
RELIGION is good armor but o
poor cloak.
THE fishing season at The lower
Columbia, is drawing to close.
SCHOOL commenced Monday, and
doomed children are wearing long
faces.
TUMwATER is putting on the airs
of o metropolis and undoubtedly
knows her Importance.
The sister of Mr.. T. N. Ford died
Sunday, at Salem, Oregon, after q
short but severe illness.
WHERE do the swallows go in
the Winter?" We refer the inquirer
to the curator of the Academy of
Sciences.
The general impression is that
the next Fair will be big SUCCESS,
and eligible booths are alleady in
good demand.
SOME of the business houses of
San Francisco propose giving their
employees the benefit of making,
Saturday, the fifth of July, an addi-
tional holiday.
COMMODORE Budlong's boats have
been doing good service for several
days in showing the staid visitors
from Webfoot-land the beauties of
our inland sea.
GEN. Joe Lane was the hyas tyee
of the excursion from Portland to
the Sound. He made character
istic speech at Seattle which was
warmly applauded.
LIKE the famous "ten thousand
Greeks" the Oregon excursionists are
slowly vending their way homeward, !,
fully persuaded that Puget Sound
ers are great people.
We are sorry that the editor of the
Transcript cannot appreciate our
brilliant witticisms. We would rec
ommend to him careful study Of
some of the great masters.
EARLY peaches, from California,
add much to the luscious displays in
the show windows of our fruit deal
ers, and suggest many pleasant re-
memberances of Atlantic homes.
DIR. Mccoy has been appointed to
attend to the physical ailings of the
Indians at Puyallup Reservation and
has gone thither with his family to
assume the duties of his Office.
THERE will be no services in the
Presbyterian church Sunday morning,
the pastor filling an appointment in
the country. Sunday School and
evening services at the usual hours.
The Seattle Intelligencer suggests
that it would be good thing for
Washington Territory if a few evil
dences of our vast resources could
be sent the Mechanics Fair. Of San
Francisco.
JUDGE Hewitt has rented the house
recently vacated by Mr.. L. A. Treen.
He has let out his farm and will
make Olympia his residence to give
his children the advantages offered
by our schools.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany are becoming fully convinced
of the importance of the Puget
Sound trade. It is said that the
Dakota, on the last trip, took away a
full cargo of assorted freight. This
speaks we'll when taken in connec-
ton with the fact that every sailing
vessel on the San Francisco route
has her full share of patronage.
WHEN some of our Webb-foot vis-
itors saw the six and eight pound
clans which are sold upon our streets
it was sometime before they could
be made to believe that they were
shell-fish at all. Their own conjec-
lures were as ludicrous as they were
diverse. That they might be plucked
chickens with petrifed wings, spring
goslings with swelled necks, or a
cross between the hooting owl aud
turtle, were among some of the
learned opinions rendered. That
they were saltwater denizens they
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