Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-02-25
ulw.eyc Editorial Dots.


5vspt,aia. We always d!l think that
mai ir,,.tG he tuAcr.
a,aatul s1.4rou will haze sne conso-
iat;o.. -! i" /, eve: defea III. lie vii! ne
in TIE s,tn.:r IA: 10 much aud as cfteu
as rvtI t. Was
Tie Is .laas C.:g I'no.v -lys Emma
Abbot j. "iissable. SHES married,
too. vcuGg n,aA; rciue!u'Irr that. And
SO are You, 1: rI'ca!.
A Ncg Near poet say: Iai.e i.e
new hubl." M much, ARCHIBALD.
The ole ", have If HCr;h so without
a discard. Can goa s.raadIe TINT
Mrs. Garfield used to teach school.
And her husband. lie keeps cool yet.
Well for him that he can, too, III these
DAYS of elaborate cabinet carpcntery.
What becomes Of all the "old war
herses after the campaign is over and
the prcsiden; is elected? Do they go
back tothe plough? And echo answers
"neigh; they go to the trough
"What,' asked the teacher, 4" was the
greatest obstacle Washington enooun-
tered III crossing the Delaware And
the smart bad boy thought for min
ute and then made answer, 1.-The toll
man.
"What ure the best spectacos made
OFF," asked Prof. Miller. And the new
boy at the foot of the class spoke up
and said /" lsinglass.' And then you
might have heard the silence all over
South Hill.
A new style o: wall paper is made
without either figure or tint, 50 that it
gives the walls Of the room that vacant
expression Of subdued intellectually
that is SO marked in the features Of u
man pianist.
A proud man on West Hill always
takes his black-ani-tan dog when he
goes to the postnilice, to lick the
postage stamps for him. That is, you
understand, the dog licks the STAN ps
for the man.
"That's steal engraving, isn't it?'
Mahlstick said to his neighbor BARN,
suddenly coming out and catching him
going Off with the artists ax. "Oh no, y
BURN said, little confused, cts only
wood cut
Vennor says he predicted every snow
storm we have had this winter. Well,
so he did; we will admit that. But
then they all came upon the warm days
be had promised us. That's what we
want him to explain.
Ladies in Alaska" says the Cincin-
natl Enquirer, with exceeding sscorr,
"get drunk" Well, that is their dis
grace, to be sure, but then why not tell
it all? They also get sober, anu that
is greatly to their credit.
There is a woman on West Hill
whose husband is SO given to flirting,
that when they so to CONCERTS, theater or
parties, she puts binders on him.
Then she can SEQ him every time he
turns his head to look ut girl.
Young Mr.. Ecru has very sallow
complexion. He says he isn't proud
and he doesn't care at all about his
looks, but what bothers him is, that his
complexion is naturally SO yellow that
he can't tell when he is bilious.
Mr.. Henry Irving is said to be the
most skillful fencer on tue English
stage. Tina, may he, but All old-time
Illinois farmer can fence him fer the
championship and ley q rail fence clear
around HIM, stake and ridered, AMI
each Llnu Laul his uWu rails, between
sun and huA.
Tho Bible is said to be the Emperor
Williams favorite book. Then maybe
he reads 80 much about the Jews he
doesn't want to see any of them. Per-
haps he would be more lenlent if he
had a Bible with Dutch names for all
the Hebrews, so as to bring in all the
koenigs and the the Schwabs aud the
Eisenhauers.
If We had only been able to close u
lecture engagement ut Mentor, while i'll
Ohio last week, all this Cabinet gossip
would he detinately settled and silenced,
Or al least, anyhow, that quiet little
consulate we spoke about would be,
which is q matter of far greater impor-
lance than the construction of cabinet,
although the American people do not
seem to realize it.
DR.. Willis, of Philadelphia, is one
OF the most popular men on the
rostrum, and it is said that he COM
templates giving up the work of the
ministry entirely, and devotipg himself
to the lecture field. Now, if the doc
tor hasn't found anybody to take his
place in tho pulpit, we have just been
thinking little about leaving the plat
form, and We might he induced -
eh? Oh! 1t is? Oh, well, all right
then. Wen just keep Oh lecturing the
rest Of this season.
sGeorge Peabody" says New York
paper, "was never married, and for a
singular reason Then it goes on at
some length to give the reason, because
the girl married another man. And We
have read that article a dozen times
and have pondered over it deeply, and
hanged if we can see yet why that
should be called "a singular reason"
We think it was very sensible, mat
ter-of fact reason.