Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-07-16
Detroit Currency.

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lie.
! \ pair Of suspenders- execution
ers.
! Two Iowa men had a COW race tho
other day on a bet of $50. The best
t!mo WAS seven minutes.
! This is going to be bad year to find
men WHO want to be Vice-President.
A Henglishman, upon hearing the
ceckiing in poultry-yard, exclaimed :
Oh! this is really hen-chanting!"
y st Louis belle is supposed to use
up $500 worth Of perfumery per year,
ard to smoke cigarettes on the sly.
lie crater of Vesuvius is again act
i've, and the demand for volcanoes bids
fair to be steady throughout the season.
\ Portland wife spitcd her husband
By purchasing q thousand papers of
pms audtnrowing them into tie river.
Dowuey, the poet of Congress, con-
graduates himself that his verses sold
5000 extra copies of the Congressional
Record.
The cavalry branch Ct the service is
in league with the milliners and dress
makers this year, and goes in for buglo
trimming.
One acre OF frogs hind legs will pay
as much profit as lhrtyfour and one
half acres of wheat. Farmer, why will
you toll?
Michigan has sixIfemale lawyers, and
every one Of them dares stand up and
sass back" when his Honor rules
against her.
A New York furrier has succeeded in
making seal-skin sacks out of rabbit
skins, and now seals can 60 off and hold
long vacation.
If Congress can tax artificial butter,
why can't it tax artificial wagon g lease,
which is on sale mixer the name of
"prime lard?"
A woman at Des Moines has hen
which she declares to be twenty eight
years old. More than fifty hotel-keep.
ers have sought to buy the fowl.
A Buffalo man who refused to put a
mourning land On his hat when his wife
died, was so scandalized in his neigh
borhood that he had to move away.
The young Emperor of China is al
lowed to smash $500 mirrors when he
feels funny, instead Of being greeted
with single serenade, well laid on.
A Cleveland tug boat started out this
year without horseshoe nailed to her
towing-post, and, of course, she met
with q $500 accident inside of week.
1t is awful hard to realize that WON.
an is an angel when one secs her pick
up clothes-prop, fourteen feet long,
to drive two ounce chicken out of tho
yard.
A coffee mill, which will run twenty
minutes by machinery, has lately been
invented, but what is wanted is mill
which will separate the beans from tie
coffee.
Whenever Spanish minister says
that blue is black, and any one disputes
him, he Immediately offers his resigna-
ton and the king has to coax him to
withdraw it.
A Florida hunter says ho will fight
an alligator with a cothes-pin if any
one will mako up q purse of 500.
Why not pass the reptile through the
clothes wringer?
A citizen of Plymouth, Ind, fired
six shots at supposed burglar, and
then his wife called out: "See here,
Sam, if you don't stop shooting at me,
you II have the housef full of neighbors."
1t has, within a year, been demon
strated that 70 fish can see more than
1CO feet in the clearest water. 1t is,
therefore, useless to sit on log and
growl because all the fish keep about
ITO feet away.
CUCUMBER PIcKLE.-Seloct nice Gu
cumbers, in the morning. and sprinkle
them with salt 50 as to make weak
brine, cover them with boiling water;
let them stand till next morning, the.
wash them in cold water, wipe them
dry, place them in a jar, cover them
| with cider vinegar ell thu lar and Let