Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-15


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.
! ONE of the compositors in this Of
flee has got baby. That is he is
to be sole owner of it in about six
teen years, and it is a girl.
A MODERATE indulgence of cooling
drinks and vegetable diet are the
best sanitary principles to adopt
during the present heated term.
The bachelor who was looking for
a rich widow with a bad cough, says
he is not particular; an heiress with
the consumption would answer just
as we'll.
The Coleman-Yesler case has al
ready been decided three times. 1t
is strange to everybody but a lawyer
how those fat cases will hang on,
sometimes.
SWIMMING matches are in vogue
among the Portlanders. Apropos to
this item, an Olympia young lady
will swim race with any Paul Boyn-
ton who may choose to enter the lists
with her.
W. II. DowNEY, the ex-Treasurer
of Pierce county, indicted for embez-
element of public moneys, has been
acquitted of the charge. The jury
rendered a verdict without leaving
their seats.
The Seattle merchants are anxious
to have the Skagit gold mines turn
out success, so they can open road
to the diggings, put on pack trains
and stock the market. We thought
there was hidden policy, somewhere.
SEATTLE is boasting of the fact
that she has 1,34l school children
between the ages Of four and twaRtxs.
1'one years, and then multiplies this
number by three to ascertain her
total population, thus aggregating
1923 souls.
PApT1Es in San Francisco are max
ing preparations to fish up the 81 ,O0O,-
600 contained in the safe on board
of the steamer brother Jonathan,
which was wrecked near Crescent
City in 1S45. If successful, this will
be better than gold mining.
AUGUST is usually accounted, by
merchants and mechanics, one of
the dullest months in the year, and
yet an encouraging briskness is WIS.,
ible upon our streets each day of the
week and everybody seems to have
something to do. Let us leave we'll
enough alone, looking ever to q pros
porous future.
PEOPLE who persist in eating three
meals per day, at this time, need not
be surprised that the weather is op-
pressive. In the Winter, one-half of
all the oily food taken into the stom-
ach goes towards keeping a due
amount of animal heat in the system.
When it is so warm that the body
needs no such aids, one-half of the
cool.weather supply of food is all
that is necessary.
THERE is good deal of smuggling
going on between British Columbia
and the lower Sound, and much of
the nefarious business is carried on by
Cinnamon and intelligent Northern
Indians. The English sloop, Mvin-
chile, owned, managed and officered
by Cinnamon, was recently seized by
Inspector Izett and Lieut.. Burke and
boats crew Of the Walcott, for snug
Cling. The sloop had quantity of
wool and merchandise on board.
In late issue we mentioned that
a Pierce county farmer had raised
oats seven feet high and wanted that
county to be proclaimed the banner
county for oats in the Territory.
Our friend w. O. Bush comes to the
rescue of Thurston by asserting that
he has raised oats on his farm, the
stalks of which were over eight feet
high, but he did not think enough
about the circumstance to publish it.
Now Let the Pierce county man try