Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-23

Now has come the hat-trimming
time.
The public printing Of King county
has been given to the Seattle Weekly
Post. .,.f.. II
A NICE frost Monday night; nice,
because it killed go many thousand
insects. tff
STRANGERS continue to denounce
the extortions practiced by Portland
hackmen.
OREooS1ANs are looking forward to
a wheat crop which will be twice that
of last year. ..
CITIZENS of Astoria complain that
their city is overrun by hordes of
hard-up gamblers.
Mr.. TuRp1N has done good thing
in grading the front of his lot and
turing the same.
OUR merchants find one advantage
in the present weather; no dust to
soil the finest goods.
FAMOUS men are never great, save
when they are compared with the
httleness of their fellows.
Now that a long-delayed weather
prediction has been made, the baby q
flannel may be changed for cotton.
The Buffalo Commercial is respon.
sible for about quarter of a column
of family jar" between Lorne and
his gentle Louise.
The work ofpainting the new Cath.
olic Church has been commenced,
but somewhat delayed on account oi
the late rain storm.
LATE advices from the uppe,
country represent the white people
as being now more productive Of
disturbance than the Indians.
Mas. A. NoLrNrn, wife of the editor
Of the Portland Standard, is seriously
i'll from an attack of congestive chills.
Mr.. Noltner has sour sympathissss
"THAr girl of mine," the heroine
of a volume just out, is understood
to be the daughter Of" That husband
of mine" by" That wife of NINE"
A GOOD many ocean steamships are
now provided with electrical lights.
Does not this fact argue the near
approach of the time when electric
ity will also furnish the motive
power Of sea-going vessels?
We notice in a good many of our
exchanged that orders are issued by
the various common councils aud
town boards for thorough system
of street-cleaning. Should not a
similar work be commenced here?
Why should women b. called ag-
riculturists :? Because they do great
deal Of spring sewing, they often
harrow their husbands feelings, and
in raising their children, they usually
prove themselves excellent threshing
machines. .c M aaa ttaa g2i
Qu1TE an animated debate resulted
at the last meeting Of the Blue Rib
bon League on the resolutions Of
Gen. Milroy, praying Congress by
law to prohibit the manufacture Of
alcohol. The resolutions were finally
adopted, much to the satisfaction Of
the friends of the measure. ai
THOSE of our lady friends who de-
light in the possession of healthful
and vigorous house-plants, will do
we'll to avail themselves Of the pres
ent warm showers. Sickly plants
can be wonderfully revived by expos
ing them q proper time to such
showers as We are now having.
Mr.. R. L. Doyle, one Of the COM
positors on the first newspaper pub
lished in this Territory, (the Cotum-
bia,), has received the appointment
Of Assistant Lightkeeper on Tatoosh
Island. We are pleased to note the
bestowal Of even this small crumb
upon worthy member of the craft.
An AccEPTABLx PREsEnT.-Mr. J..
H. Munson has presented this Office
with . full file Of the Echo during
the time it was the temperance organ
Of the Territory, bound in fve ele-
CANT volumes. It will doubtless