Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-05
GRAPES are beginning to blush.
EAST Olympia bridge is haunted

EAST Olympia bridge is haunted.
SUNDAY Schools are filling up and
superintendeats ale hopeful.
VINO wants a young lady school
teacher?
The oyster trade is making rapid
progress.
AN ominous sound to children, the
school bell.
No abatement in the iand.pur-
chasing business.
SNIpE have taken possession of
our city's water front.
How is it that young lady can
remember, accurately, three hundred
pages of the last novel and not page
of useful history.
MIR. Hall, United States Consul
General, at Havana, says that eight
tenths of all the exports of Cuba go
to the United States.
The reason why women can keep
secrets is simply because they band
themselves together to accomplish
the feat. We do not intend this as a
local item, it is one of universal ap-
plication.
The society for prevention of cru
city to animals recently formed in
Portland is doing good work, and
many poor brute would have rea-
son to thank its projectors, had they
the faculty of speech.
TIE Water Company promise that
those who connect their hydrants
with the new system of mains now
going down will suffer no inconven-
ience hereafter by any stoppages of
the pump ut Tum,yater.
AroUr a couple of thousand bush.
els of new wheat, raised in Washing
ton Territory have been ground at
the, Tumwater mills. 4ThessSound
country will very soon produce
large surplus of most of the cereals.
The "bad cold epidemic is af-
fecting both grown people and child
rem to a considerable extent, and
physicians have had a good many
prescriptions to write, within the
last few days. Their business is
looking up.
WE acknowledge call this week
from Mr.. l. Cathcart, an old resident
of Snohomish county, WHO visits this
place on business connected with the
district Land Office. lie represents
business as dull in his county, but
the people hopeful of a revival of
trade in the near future.
ACCORDING to the laws of the An
cient Order of United Workmen, q
young man can arrange SO as to die
very profitably for the girl who re-
jects him, provided he is fool enough
to die at all on her account. He
has only to join the Order of United
Workmen, make his will in favor of
the girl and blow his brains out.
Our unexceptionable weather con-
tinues and everybody who has any
out-of-door work 10 perform should
lose no time in putting everything
to rights. Building is still going on
to q considerable extent all over
town. The improvements in streets
and sidewalks exceed anything in
that line ever done before, in sim
gle year.
AN exchange advertises as found,
an infants embl loidered cloak, neatly
up in newspaper, "to-
gether with some minor articles"
Now why did not that fellow out
with it and say the package con-
tained a nursing bottle, few dia-
pers, safety-pins, etc? We will wa
ger box of hair-pins that he is
batchelor.
We have been asked about the
school facilities of Olympia for the
coming Autumn and Winter. The
information is soon furnished. There
will be two district schools in opera
ton, continuing from three to six
months. The prospectus of Union
Academy is published and will suf-
ticiently set forth the merits of that
institution. Besides these, there will