Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-08
lIa,ykcyc Editorial Dots.

den faf'itol
The G.uphic advises hnckwheat Cakes
az the best liver pad.
Son, l. .ly has figured mp and finds
90 600 900 matches III car load.
g ,v,r.l,t Piaisyed's message looks as
though It hal been pulled before it was
ripe.
Co!.!ahia C pI,egc ha. six secret So
cieties The rest Of the curriculum
is not Published.
The .5ntlalo COtvier appears to DO OF
the oriuiun that ii is better to run away
with the aired man than marry u poet.
"Sume ola novel again." said the
cattle OF y large farmer as they gathered
in the barn yard, "R;cks without
Straw.
Every body has had an appointment
in G.rti-lds Cabinet except Rogers.
This must be looked after. What is
the Republic without Rogers?
John james Piatt. the poet, wants to
be Postmaster of Cincinnati. All ha,
he is another of what the political
world calls "them literary fellers.'
A girl in Candor, New York, carried
a pin Undecided in her tongue for
eleven years. Not being railroad pin,
it didn't keep her tongue still day.
All the Florida oranges have been
destroyed by. frost. If they are the
kind of d" Florida oranges the boys
sell on the train, we are most awfully
glad OF it.
They were little short of music ont
in Dnftuood until three sewing
machine agents and five book-peddlers
settled in the town, and they have had a
brass band ever since.
II dJesn't cost u cent nor days i'm
prisopluant to kill Kentucky Judge.
This looks rather singular, but then we
suppose the kentuckians know best
what their judges axe worth.
A Philadelphia doctor dcnounces the
use Of baby carriages ---sh, madam,
don; he 81 violent; word with You
he is fifty three years old, and Il bache
lor. To be sure; what does lie know
about ii ?
They catch rats with blited iish-hooks
in New York. We suppose it is an
artist hook rat lie amusement. last lot
OF this kind, going oil like smoke at !.
dollar dozen. Or:crs by mHil prompt
~ attended to-
Last year Queen Victoria nAio 81
600 from her stock farm. That is, she
appropriated $;23 ,0JO to raise four Jer
sey calves and a Mambrn0 colt. and it
only cost $4,000. So the old girl
came out 81 900 ahead
Jay Gould il rigid temperance man,
uses no tobacco and drinks no wine.
lie has an inordinate swallow for a tcle-
graph pole or railway frog. lie al
ways takes stick or Il little iron in
his'n, il he is IL temperance man.
Disraeli is only seventy six. When we
read Ealymion," (tor honest to good
ness we did read nearly the first chap
ter,) we could not make out whether he
was thirteen or ninety-sevcn. with the
Indications pointing toward the formor.
Stage robbers recently stopped n
stage in Arizona, dragged out one Of
the passengers, an Illinois man, hurled
him to tho grouad, aud, regardless oi
his a2onizing cries, tore of his liver
pad and left him to perish. The man
died.
A morning paper only reaches the
dizzy heights OF sublimoly scathing sar-
casm when it loftily refers to all even
ing contemporary AS "tHilight twink
ler." That always sonds the evening
lumiuary into the desparing eclipse OF
rayless gloom.
After smoking constantly for 50 years
IN Addison, Vermont, man suddenly
quit. Well, it's about time he was
smoked ont. The paper that tells
about his reform, however, fails to
state whether the man died Or only run
out OF tobacco and credit at the same
time.
If the Irish Land Lcaguers will Just
send for him now, we havo no doubt
the interior department will pay Sitting
Bulls expenses to Cork. And we can
assure them, that in tho impending
crisis, he's tho very man they want.
He is the boss obEtruc.ionist and he be-
lievcs in new divide every fifteen
minutes.
At the recent national convention OF
ice men, it WAS decided, that if the plea
of future of the ice crop should prove
itself u failure next sUmmer, the
superb quality of the Ice thou!d be
used to account for the contemplated
advance in price. Aud in addition to
this, tho report Was placed il c'rcu!G-
ton that an ice house rear Escauaba,
was recently burned to the ground,
with total loss of three hundred and
fifty pounds OF ice.
The United States signal service is
still using its ola blanks at the smaller
railway stu;iuas and tho county post
Offices, 30 tina. all tho weather revoite
appear signod, Albert j. MNcr. TAi, !"
mean attempt Oh the part of the Az
ministrntion and Genera! Hazen &"
shift the responsibility Of this awful
train delaying, drifting, stormy winter
upon the late Gouoral Myor. 1t Is too
thin. 1t won't DO. Everybody knows
General Myer is dead, and General
Hszen may just as well get ont some
new blanks. Human meaunefs can
hardly &c beyond this attempt. It has
even been ruMored that the signal ser
vice las been bought with Canadian
gold, and is standing in with the va
rious Ncanor.
Advancement UNDER BISMARCK. --
DR.. Busch, who has risen to the high