Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-04-09
Fact and Fancy.

Fact and Fancy.
Uncle Sam has ninety .eight thousand
servants in his employ.
Faber, the pencil maker is very
wealthy and great philsnthropist.
Bennett. Of the New York Herald, has
paid the S.. 900 debt of the American
club at Paris.
The coming marriage of General
Grants son Jesse is illustrated in the
Paris picture papers.
The New Orleans Picayune says that
valentines not sold this season will be
kept and warmed over next year.
Rev. Mr.. Pentecost tells OF q man
who was converted by seeing in the
theater the sign, "This is the way to
the pit"
A Boston physician asserts that when
he takes medicine he must be .igno-
rant of the drug employed or it will do
no good.
If we could see others as we see our
selves. there would be more good look
ing people in the world.-Ntw Orleans
Picayune.
A Pittsburg man recently made two
unsuccessful attempts to hang himself.
The OIL City Derrick thiaks he must
have been sheriff in his lifetime.
The physicians now contend that to
walk or sleep when the stomach is
empty makes an injurious draught on
the constitution anu bylaws of Q fell
low.
1t shocks ones faith in human ma
ture to be accosted on the street after
night with: g Uf you blees, gift me
lew pennies. l was q Irish sufferer
man. Boston Courier.
Leadville men look with contempt
on a man who would wear collar, but
the man who appears without q gold
collar button in the neckband of his
shirt can't claim to be dressed up.
Eighteen or twenty base ball players
will make q professional visit to Au-
stralia next season. Eighteen or twenty
are not many, but lot us render hearty
thanks for even this small dellverance.
The Fisk University Jubilee Singers
were recently refused accommodation
at two hotels in Bridgeport. Connecti-
cut, on account of color. The singers
had no difficulty in securing accommO-
datioEs at the leading hotels in Europe
on their tour in that country.
POSTAGE STAMPs.-It is said that
postage stamp collecting originated in
India, where the missionaries are able
to reclaim from the heartless Hindoo
parents the little babies they are ac-
customed to sacrifice before their idols,
by trading posta1e stamps for them.
For some reason the barbarians covet
these paper tokens, either to offer to
their gods after the manner of the Chi
nese, or to decorate their huts. This
fact, becoming known in Engla nd. has
worked change in the economy of
Cancelled stamps. There are charity
schools in England to which admit
lance is gained by presenting q certain
humber of defaced stamps. All large
counting houses throughout the realm
carefully preserve every envelope, and
the junior clerks make it their business
to soak off the queens heads and paste
them Gu huge rolls of wall paper. They
are presented to some worthy lad who
makes an exchange of them for learning.
SKELEToNs.-There is no such thing
as burning the frailty out of the flesh.
We insist on self roasting, BY slow de-
grees, to show our contempt for expe-
rience. and to develop our chief virtue,
which is obstinacy. Who ever heard
of half-drowned skater dreading the
ice =? The oftener it breaks under him
the thinner the sheet he loves to cut
his epitaph upon. The mariner who
has been most frequently shipwrecked
is fondest of water. Who is so indie
fatigable scribbler as your abundant
ly damned author? Which of your
orators speaks so long as he whom no
body listens to? The gamester goes
on stalking and FORGETTING hour by hour,
and parts with his last guinea by the
same turn of the dice which lost him
his first. We are all candidates for Q
skeleton ship, in the museum of moral
anatomies.
Ben Wade had very little vanity in
his composition. When he had been
out of Congress year or two, General
Brisbin met him on Pennsylvania
Avenue, and expressed his surprise at
seeing him "still come to Washing
ton" eyes," said Wade, old habits
are strong in man or a beast, and
when the time for the meeting Of Con-
gress comes round do feel like setting
my face this way. have come down
this time out Of curiosity. I had been
up there pointing to the CapitoD so
long thought would like to see how
the fellows get along without me-"
"Well, Mr.. Wade, and what are your
impressions about it?" Wade laughed.
They seem," he said, Z" to be getting
along better without me than they did
with me. Such a thing is not fatter-
ing to q mans vanity. but l guess it
is So"
DR.. Busch, in his latest volume of
Bismarckiana, tells an extremely good
story of way the chancellor has to rid
himself of people who stay too long.
You must have many tiresome visits"
said Lord Oio Russell to him one day
when he had called. "How do you
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