Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-29
Detroit Currency.

Tne Dad spelling OF their doctors.
Michigan has .he only uniformed f..
male brass hand IL the woill.
1t will he much easier to steal an nm.
brella aow than four weeks hence.
The prudent farmer will nov secure
his laborers for they will be hire in .ho
spring.
David Davis has turned cold shou!d-
or to three different chances to bring
out flying machine.
Detroit is the FernanIina of the
NORTH Detroit Free Press. Mosgui-
toes all the year round, eh p Bosto
Post.
The Chicago Tin,ss is in favor of IS
and IA o'clock. Steady in the ranks.
and we'll soon upset this double time
business.
Philadelphia asks her sister ports to
make light of the fact that she ships
away over a million gallons petroleum
per month.
Chinese sailors say "hopee " for port,
and "gollee" for starboard, and the
nainsail is referred to as Zone big
spreadee CLOTH
The King of Siam was three weeks
making up his mind to have an aching
tooth pulled out. 1t hurts king as
much as q ditch digger.
When you have convinced woman
that Q lounge worth about 81 has ust
been marked down from SIC to $l2 you
have secured customer.
The reason why New York wants the
Worlds Fair held there is because she
has successfully managed seventeen
different walking matches.
1t takes capital of two and half
million dollars to supply Cincinnati
with bivalves, and even then lots of
poor families are overlooked.
A Missouri man worked for three
months and spent $50 in cash to coun-
terfeit sixteen pennies. He didn't make
any money nor have any fun.
A fresh arrival from Europe refused
10 stamp his letter in the Detroit Post
Office the other day, because he under
stood this to be free country.
The Emperor of Brazil will welcome
all the missionaries other countries may
send, but they must look out for their
heads after passing beyond his capital.
A local theatrical company in Illinois
has made great hit in the Merchant
of Venice" by making him the pro-
prietor ola plumbers shop in Chi
osgo.
80 for the trusting days of youth"
sings the poet in the Chicago Tribune;
from which We infer that her dress
maker has adopted the cash system OF
outing.
The Peruvians now congratulate them
selves ON being no better off than they
we're, as everything goes to Chill any
how. II they had more they would have
lost more.
{ When French woman doesn't like
her eye brows she shears them off and
buys pair for forty cents. Nature
can't begin to compete witha woman
for style.
Boston sells an all wool boys suit for
$3.50 and Memphis sells suit for
half-cotton boy for 81 less. We cant
zee where the boys have any reason to
complain.
They have just arrested James
Thomas, of Tennessee, for q grave rob-
berry committed twenty eight years ago.
Justice sometimes INDUCES in pretty
long maps.
Nine billion pins were sold in this
county last year, and yet no mans wife
can remember having more than one
paper in the house. We are pin-reck-
less nation.
Vennor may predict and publish, but
when robins and blue birds rest on the
house. roofs and cats get q feeling OF
lassitude you can bet that spring Is
scoring for a start.
When circus man offers q prize of
500 for the photograph of the hand
soonest girl in America 1928 Philadelphia
females rusz for the postotiice with let.
tiers in their hands.
The Chief of Police of Hartford ia
said to be the poorest speller in that
book publishing city, but he also
catches more bad men than any other
chief in the country.
A Philadelphia candy factory uses
seven tons of clay per month in manu-
featuring sweets. and every fence with
in fifty miles OF that town has sign oil
some ones dyspepsia cure.
Buffalo Bill is said to be worth 500,
600, and he has made it all by war
whoops and tomahawk fourishes on the
variety stage. This is far better thar
being hero in snow-drift.
When buffalo loafer has loafed OF
one corner for forty-fiv minutes they
can make case against him and send
him up to dwell. Loafers should car
~ watches and time themselves.
Saws the Boston Post: ."They'rs
spending money to improve the Tiber
II that river was good enough to sui
Cicero and Pompey and Cesar, isn't j
good enough for King Humbert 2"
New York complains of a case o
starvation within three blocks of thu
obelisk, but out this way We did no
understand that the obelisk was i'm
ported for poor people to satisfy thei
hunger on.
It would perhaps be difficult to de
eide which is the noisest milkmar
in New York with his war-whoop. On,
lady, however, says that in q stree
among the seventies q milkman is S,
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