Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-10-15
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of space. The tourists cry - the
French cry of 1901 Berlin!" or
course, in this large ships company an
observer can find many types. I no.
tice:
Two young people whom I take to be
bride and groom from several signs,
chiefly the fact that they eat sugar plums
ont of fancy box with chrome on the
lid.
A party of bicyclists, from Boston, I
judge; at least one of them passes his
time very proAtably in reading Emer-
sons essays.
The passenger who walks. He has
estimated the length of clear space on
the deck, and does his Flaps "at stated
times.
An Italian, who reads copy of La
Liberia assiduously, looking up with q
pleased expression, however, when q
lady plays Veridian melodies on the
piano in the saloon.
An invalid with hacking cough that
suggests coffn-hack.
A beauty; one who has been beauty
for, fear, these many years. All, time,
intrepid time, that ever advances and
never retreats! The poor lady seeks to
preserve her charms, as We do timber,
by judicious coats of paint, but she
must find better ruse than ceruse if
she is to deceive us longer.
Another beauty; an honest one. Alas!
she exemplifes the Japanese proverb:
"The beautiful woman is unhappy"
She ate salad at lunch, and now she
is pouring oil on the troubled waters.
By her side, another passenger by
rail. I asked him a. passed what was
up my dinner" was the lsconic re-
Spouse.
All, this sea.sicknessl It is like love.
sickness in many particulars. Both
naladies are common to man; both are
very violent. uncomfortable, transient
and !udicrous, arst to the victims
friends, and soon after to the sufferer
himself. But to resume:
The card-playsr playing whist, the
game that Eve play ct, four holding the
cards and the fifth looking over your
shoulder and asking, why in the world
did You play this and didn't play that ?
But cards are good game, Of great
antiquity and biblical associations. Yes,
and their sinful tricks date back to the
prophets, for We read in Isaiah XIV,
Is, that "the treacherous dealers have
dealt treacherously." Still, what would
whist be without its tricks?
A party of actors, most of them
boisterously we'll, but one so sick that
l hear he has thrown up all his en-
gagements.
The man with an appetite like the
sarracenis. The purser regards him
ruefully. and his table neighbors with
admiration, not unmixed with awe.
A cry.baby. Stanley tells of q snake
in Africa SO deadly that when it appears
in the village the village moves off. so
when that child appears the adjacent
passengers gather up chairs, wraps and
books and leave.
A young man starting out to see the
world. meaning more particularly there.
by. the flesh and the devil. He wants
to see life" and will pay for his en-.
tertainment in the wages of sin, which
is death.
A few pretty children tumbling about
evidently happy. The little dears;
much they know about going to sea or
the nature of thingsl Once, when in
mid. Pacific, the dismal news came that
our steamship had broken her crank
pin. There was grumbling and griev-
ing, in the midst of which little maid
felt in her pinafore and said: "No
matter. mother, I've got pin I'll give
the captain! "-Neao York Post.
At the second battle of Bull Run .
Michigan regiment, in making a change
of position, came upon q Confederate
soldier sitting astride of Federal, who
was lying on his back. Each had firm
hold of the other, and neither could
break the hold. As the troops came up
the Reb was taken in, and % the Yank