Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-01
TIE atmosphere is growing smoky,

| IHE DacAWafu season Is no
longer popular theme,
THERE is o prospect Of another
party visiting Lake Cushman.
OUH reporter saw Maud Muller
with her little rake yesterday.
a SIGHT of the glorious sunrise,
these mornings, is worth weeks
early rising.
We think of death as a sad end
ing; let us rather think of it as u
bright beginning.
The new lighthouse tender for
this part OF the Pacific coast is to be
called the Janzanita.
From all quarters, word comes that
the hay croo will be immense. Far
mers are in ccstacies.
The Winnemucca railroad is still
engrossing the serious attention of
the people of Astoria.
NEVER get angry at dumb beast
simply because he and you fail to
understand each other.
They have place in Salem, Ore
gon, called Piety Hill" All such
names sound nicely away from hcme.
ACCORDING to the present ruling
prices of calico, the expenses of u
days smoking would buy the baby
q new dress.
WASHINGTON Territory exported
ono hundred and sixty thousand
tons of coal, last year, valued at
nearly million dollars.
OUn enemies being judges, Olym-
MIA is he champion town on the
Sound for co.~modious streets,
cleanly kept sidewalks, beautiful
shade trees and surrounding sceenefy'
The oil-painting of the steamer
Messenger, executed by Jimmy Pick
EFT, of this place, is on exhibition at
tho Mechanics Fair, San Francisco.
The papers of that city speak in COM
plimentary terms OF the picture.
By stroke of their pencils, the
Chicago wheat kings got up corner
on wheat, the other day, and made
four cents per bushel on the guam
tity now in store. On one million
bushels, this netted the modest little
sum of $40, GOO.
A CABLE dispatch brings intelli-
gence to the Secretary {. the Smith.
sonian Institution, from Prof. Foer-
ster, of Berlin, that new planet
has been discovered. Whether
within or without the orbit of the
earth is not stated.
One of the Seattle reporters in
hurriedly making note of the fact
that woman fell into the Bay, dur
ing the confusion of Saturday night,
tells the people that she was fished
out before much " damage" was sus-
tained. We suppose he innocently
referred to her dry goods.
SPEAKING of the Kalama fire re-
minds us that we should be careful
about arousing the destroying ele-
ment. And right here, we feel like
giving our town authorities another
vigorous dig about that steam fire.
engine. When are we to have the
machine? Go after them, boys.
IT is shown from statistics that the
total number of failures during the
second quarter of the present year
in the United States, were l, ,534, rep
resenting liabilities to the amount O.
about $22, 900, 900. Large rs these
figures appear, they are much les'
than those of any similar quarter
for five years past.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT KALAMA.-
, We learn from a dispatch, last Sat
urday, that fire had broken out il
the afternoon of that day which de
stroyed large portion of the town
including the hotel and the busines
: part of town. The fire originated il
l the rear OF the hotel and spread rap
idly. Kalama used to be calle
Calamity" in jest, but from it
y founding, an evil omen seems t
@ have attached to the name. This las
= bit of news would indicate calam
e ty indeed, and if the reports are nc
d exaggerated, that town has seen il