Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-16

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BEGIN now to buy your supply o1
wood for next Fall and Winter.
| A NEW postof1ice has been estab'
lished at Sterling, on the Skagit riv.
sr. ...
TRUE economy: live within. your
means, do what you mean and mean
what is right.
SALMON are plentiful this year at
all the fisheries, but Gamers are de-
ploring their small size.
A FARMER from the country says
strawberries on the prairies will be
ripe by the first of June.
The neutrality-suspicious. theory
now has the support of Prof. Jenkins
of the Royal Society, London.
Two young ladies of Olympia have
turned Nimrodists. One sports
rife and the other shotgun.
A GOOD work is going on in Port
land in the temperance cause~ Open
meetings are largely attended, with
hopeful results.
The Natural Science Association
of Portland is following hard in the
wake of our own honored Academy
of Sciences.
EXTENSIVE preparations are making
in Portland to observe the Both of
May, Decoration day, with due hon.
or and solemnity.
They are playing" that it is
Summer in Seattle, by serving ice
cream as extras, at the restaurants
of that ambitious little city.
Ex-senator Mitchell arrived at his
home in Portland, Saturday, and
made n short speech to crowd in
front of the st. Charles hotel.
In is now understood that twelve
tribes, including all the scattered
bands of Indians roaming the upper
Columbia country, will be placed
with Moses on his new reservation.
IT has been conjectured that Rob-
inson Crusoe, in early life, clerked
in q store that didn't advertise, else
he never could have endured his
solitary confinement ON the islands.
Mn. E. F. Kubel, late of the sig
nal station of this place, and Miss
Clara Light, were married, in Stella
COON, Thursday, May Sth, Rev. J.
r. Thompson performing the cere-
mony.
MANY of the ladies were in full
dress, is reported of late drawing
room reception, given by Princess
Louise. An exchange asks if that
means that those ladies who were
not in full dress" were only partly
dressed. ,..#r. re
The sagacious cat looks on with
quiet satisfaction while the Spring
robin is building her nest in the old
applet tree at the back door, knowing,
full well that it will take but spring
and a-half to reach the nest after
it is full of fat fedgelings.
a FARMER reports everything love-
ly in the country, with a fair, pros
pect of large yield of all kinds of
crops. The frosts already expert
encsd have done little or no harm,
and in killing the germs of insects,
have, perhaps, done much good.
The Philadelphia Record estimates,
from reliable sources, that nearly a
quarter of o million of dollars has
been expended in that city to wit
ness the performance of g Pinafore, =
and yet the city authorities are tax
ing their brains to devise means Tor
keeping their poor people from
starving.
| The wonderful progress of the
times may be seen in the fact that,
twenty years ago, the entire steel
product of the world amounted to
about 100000 tons, at ON average
cost Of $120 per ton. Last year, the
product reached a little over 2, 200,-
900 tons, at an average cost Of only
$12 per ton. Railroad companies
are finding out that steel rails, are
much cheaper, in the long run, than
iron ones. A good quality of steel
is much cheaper, in price, to-day,
than iron was o few years ago.