Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-04-16
Intellige nee Items.

The Philadelphia musical association
has appropriated $500 for the relief of
the sufferers in Silesia and Ireland.
People in Washington declare that
there have never been so many social
scandals in that city as during this
wiRter.
There are nine ladies on tho Londen
School Board. England is very libe
raj to women in tue educational and
business privileges accorded her.
A lady teacher in Boston has re-
signed after services in that city of
over forty-one years. Thirteen teach
ers are now employed who have taught
over thirty years in the Boston city
schools.
A committee of Wisconsin teachers
recommend that no State certificates he
granted to any person except upon ok
animation, aud then not until he has
successfully taught for at least Ave
years.
NJ. David Matthews. the builder of
the first locomotive ever constructed in
thi, country, now lives in San Fran
cisco. This engine was called The
Best Fri;sd Of Charleston" and was
built at the West Point Foundry
Works.
The Wo,nen's Christian Temperance
Union, of Boston, proposes to present
petition asking the privileges of
women voting upon the question of
liqupr license. Tnoy also ask the sig
nature of every person of legal age in
the city.
Ellison keeps on lighting his lamps
and illuminating New Jersey with u
steady and far-reachibg radiance, and
there does not appear to ba any place
for humbug to come in. Tho cost Of
the electric light is what reopls want
to grt at now.
A.other man-this Tins q Chicagoan
has announced that he has dlscov. red
a process by which illuminating gas
ca. .e made from water. The Chicago
people are ready to believe in it rs
they have an idea that water must have
been made for something or other
Courier Journal.
It. cannot be said that Congress- has
done absolutely nothing during thi.
sessiun. The House actually succeed
ed yesterday in adopting the resolution
auth ,rizing the Inter-uceauic Cana
Committee to appoint u clerk. At tails
rate of progress the committee will get
to work early in the twentieth century.
Il n. Y. Tribune.
The large receipts from customs.
which are running far ahead VI the es-
Inmates, are swelling the resources Of
the Treasury to such an extent that
there promises to be u net balance al
the end of the fiscal year of Nearly
SO 900 600. Uncle Sam cau sit al. oug
his money bags with u com rlacrnt
sense of solvency and prosperity N.
y. Tribune.
OF the twenty-five persons selected
in Boston AZ members of governing
boards for charitable an reform ,tory
institutions, eight are women who ar.
avid to do their work in II very sensi
Me and practical way" Why should
MT they? Women who are not sensi.
bic aud practical ARE not apt to take
an interest in benetiting mankind-or
womankind either.
President Eliot last week addressed
the Massachusetts teachers association
in advocacy Of long tenure of otfic>
by teachers, this long tenure implying
intelligent selection with strict exhmi-
nations and PROBATE nary service. He
also asked for a retirement of teachers
on pensions or annuitios. with absolute
security against reduction of salaries, !
thus freeing the teachers from anxiety,
and leaving them to devote all their
powers to their work. The association
unanimously approved the formation
Of a national council of education.