Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-08
No more game law restraint.
The cool night redeems the day.
KISSING on a bias is a new parlor


KISSING on bias is a new parlo
game.
HoUsE-aies are getting unpleas
antly numerous.
We are getting into the full merits
of the hot weather.
DoN'r get into a passion; wait till
the weather is cooler.
The sawmill in Tumwater is run.
ming on full time to fill jobbing or.
ders.
The last month of Summer is
gliding away. Let young lovers
make q note of it.
THIS is splendid weather for cold
water, taken internally and applied
externally. Try it.
YOUNG men should beware of the
girl who slams the door when she
gets her back up at her mother.
The mania for holding county fairs
along the Sound country, is on the
increase and we are very happy to
note the fact.
JoUoUIN Miller says that men who
love the beautiful are never bad.
To which the Oreyonian adds: " This
will be consoling to the man who
runs away with his neighbours pretty
wife,"
HE American Bible Society was
never in more prosperous condi-
ton than as present. Its total cash
receipts for the month of June of
this year amounted to Sl59,G45.
EXCHANGES are urging the people
to beware of accidental fires; a warn
ing which might with good reason
be reiterated every hour of the day
and night during the present condi-
ton of the weather.
A LARGE share of the losses occa--
stoned by the Seattle fire, last week,
was the result of removing goods
from stores in the immediate vicinity
of the burned district.
MEssRs. Woodruff g. Van Epps
believe in the efficacy of advertising,
both ut home and abroad. A late
number of the Seattle Intelligencer
contains an attractive advertisement
of their business. They deserve to
be successful.
A A.ADY contributor sends us a
poem commencing, "Where shall I
rest my weary head2" If she
wouldn't leave any long hairs stick
ing to the coat collar, we would say
that we know of no better place
than our reporters shoulders. while
lie is nicely settled in an easy chair.
We learn from Capt. Ballard that
q man named Smith, bartender of
the Port Blakely Hotel, was shot and
instantly killed, by Mr.. Hewitt, the
engineer of the steamer Blakely,
Tuesday morning, at that place.
The cause OF the assault is said to
have been an indignity offered the
wife of Hewitt.
IHE Grove meeting held by the
Spirituslists, last Sunday, was we'll
attended, and the exercises passed
off very agreeably to those who par
ticipated. The principal address
was made by Mr.. Dean Cla,ke, fol.
lowed by remarks by Mr.. .Rossen,
Mrs. Alexander, and others. A pic
MIC dinner was spread at noon. AS
the exercises continued till three
o'clock. The next meeting will oc-
cur at the same place. Austin's
Grove, on Sunday. the 18th instant.
SOMEBODY advises the use of
Photographic albums as q means of
encouraging bashful young men. 1t
gives him something to do with bis
hands. and unties his tongue. He
can slip into conversation as easily
as Q toad into q lake, when he has
q chance to say: Well, declare,
that looks like Aunt Jane," or
"Was that feller ever your beaus'
Then the close proximity in which
it brings arms and heads, while Civ
ing brief biographical sketches Of
the uucles and cousins and aunts, .
is conducive to closer friendship. In
fact tho album may be fairly consid'
cred the key to courtship.