Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-08-06
Hawkeye Editorial Dots.

6teubeuville, Onio. paid $40 900 for
beer last year. What it did with the
resi- OF its money doesn't appear. but
II probably bought pretzels with it.
The academic board at West Point
iouLd Whitaker deficient in philoso-
ply. He woke up one morning and
found himself more deficient IN ears
than any thing else.
Somebody wants to know why we
do not go to Europe this summer :?
Well, the fact is. if the rest of Europe
resembles the part that has come over
here, we've seen enough of 1t.
The accounts of last years vintage in
France snow less than one-third Of the
vintage Of 1875. But what care the
wine-drinkers of America for the fail
IRE Of the vintage OF France? just
wait till we see how the Jersey apple
crop pans out.
Either We must make the ocean wide
or the steamships narrower. Some
thing must be done to enable two
ships TO pass without going through
each other. Society kind of demands
it, and the comfort Of the passengers
seconds tie demand.
1t isn't often that boy wishes he
was younger. but 1t is possible, OF such
times as he stands up before his teacher
dear ana pulls off his jacket for an af
ternoon matinee, that he longs for his
eA'i!er days when his jacket and trou
sers were made in one piece, precluding
the possibility of such q cold blooded
PREPARATION.
If paid this BILL" said the patient
debtor, You would lose your occupa-
hon; you wouldn't have anything to
do. "Oh yes said the creditor, 81
would lie down and rest while | had
my boots re-soled." The patient
debtor paid it. With note, we think;
We eau .eii in inmate, juss wait till
We look. Yes, it was note.
Ayoung literary friend writes us in
grea, perpexlty. He has u chance to
publish book this summer, or stand
at the depot in Pittsburg and boiler
Tor hotel when tho trains come it,.
Well, II he wants our advice he had
better Stay in Pittsburg. There's more
fame in the book, hut there's mo,c
money in hOllering." We never
hollered" for ho,ei, but we don't
suppose good hotel would pay
eLanter less than eight dollars month.
Au ignorant correspondent wants to
Know II u banana, after it has Travelled
and Eat up with train boy thee
Weeks. is called in and destroyed :?
Oh dear, no. It is transferred to
another boy and sent on to another
road Nh u new issue. Only last Tues,
day We met banana on the Northern
central, In Pennsylvania, that we had
Seen SIX days before on the Pittsburg,
Forl Wayne and Chicago, Chicago di.
vision, and the boy who had charge of
II at that time told us that he got
II from the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas.
Cadet Whitaker failed to pass his
elimination. He missed some of the
Questions. This is very remarkable.
When We reflect that he has had moth
ing to disturb his mind during the
past mouth or more, nothing to inter
iere With his studies, nothing to dis
Hact his attention, nothing to disturb
MS mental equipoise; when We think
now everything about him has been
conducive to thought and reflection
ana close study and quiet reflection, It
IL wonder that he didn't carry off
al tho honors. Failed, did he? II
he man, under the circumstances, an-
sswer.d correctly one question i'll ten
ne deserves his commission.