Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-07-30
Hawkeye Chances.

The country ,s just teeming with
first class ridemen.
Boston ladies like the color called
coachman's drsb."
Tell the truth though the heavens fall
to the census man.
Even if they should recover A. T.
Stewards body now, it won't be good for
very much.
Jay Gould used to be tanner. He
still remains in the hide business. Now
he IL skinner.
A trusting woman believes that Bob
lngersou is yet to be converted and be-
come second st. Paul.
The Chicago Times calls on the wom-
On who have husbands to support, TO
organizs new political party.
Edison should try his hand ut illumin-
at'ng Bob Ingersoll. That great orator
needs hght.-[New York Commercial.
The Philadelphia Chronicle knows an
organ-grinder who is 30 suspicious that
he compels his monkey to carry bell
pun Ia.
Toldyoaso is one Of the most know
Ing men III the country, though, to be
sure, he Is little iate.-(New Orleans
Picayu.e.
The empress of Russia is dead. Can
1t w that this is the beginning Of q con-
spiracy upon the part Of nature to de-
pIlye the Nihillsts Of anything to do?
We are pleased to note an amendment
on the tariff bill. imposing q heavy
duty on all spring poetry, both foreign
and domestic. This il the way to vine
out the national debt.
A heartless, wicked BURLINGTON
huckster, woman at that, successfully
palmed Oft upon young married man,
SIX bantam BOOSTERS, about seven years
old, for spring chickens.
An old colored minister in q sermon
ON hell, pictured it as a region of ice
and snow, where the damned frozo
throughout eternity. When privately
asked what his object was in represent
ing Gehenna in this way, he said, 81
don't dare tell dem people muffin else.
Why, If was to say hell WAS warm,
some OBJ dem old rheumatic niggahs
would be wanting to start down dar de
berry fust FROST"
VI Emerson's personal appearance,
DR.. Bartel says that the nose shows
long and bony strength, seconded by
the ample hand and foot that serve his
'ail, slender, angular, yet supple body,
which seems Indian, Persian and Yam
kee by turns. A friend gazing on his
countenance in sleep SO felt q strange
organic force and swiftness in his form
and look that he was afraid to wake
nim up. not knowing what he would
dol"
A Nevada paper wanted to describe
the fury Of the winds in q recent tor
nado, SO it expressed itself as follows:
Yesterday, during the gale, while
boulders as big as pumpkins were fly
ing through the air, and water. pipes
were being ripped out of the ground,
an old Chinaman, with spectacles ON
his nose, was observed in the eastern
calmly fyiag bis kite-an iron shutter,
with log chain for tail"
Mr.. W. w. Story has just finished the
clay model Of his statue of Prescott,
the revolutionary General. "In one
hand" says correspondent Of the
Courtsr-JournaI, "he holds . naked
sword; the other is extended behind
him as if to stay his impatient men. and
lie is just saying, "Don't shoot until
you can see the whites Of their eyesl"
The firm, resolute mouth, the light in
the clear eyes-for it does seem to shine
from the very clay-affect one like mar
tial music"
TIE OVEN OF AULD LANG SYNE.-
As an offset to the picture of hotel life
we give a sketch of the old.fashioned
brick oven of half century ago: Sat-
urday morning the oven wood was
called for-dry hard wood, cut the