Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-02-04
Various Items.

The scarcity of small change in Can
ada is giving trouble. Postage stamps
are circulating as they did here during
the war, and traders are issuing tickets
like the little checks on our traders put
out in 1862.
A stringent prohibitory law has been
passed in Vermont, declaring that any
place of resort where liquor is sold or
given away, or gambling allowed, shall
he deemed nuisance, the place shut
up, and the keeper fined 800 to 5000,
and imprisoned for three months.
A mulatto woman in Florida has Just
produced an astonishing triplet. The
children, who are we'll, being joined by
their shoulders in such a manner that
the boy in themiddle has no arms, and
the two girls on each side have on the
inside only the stump of an arm joined
to the shoulders of the boy in the place
where his arms ought to grow.
The great New York obelisk moves
slowly. 1t has taken a steam. engine
seven weeks to move it from the North
river to the Broadway B julevard, q dis.
lance of about eight hundred feet. At
every step the roadway broke under the
weight of the hundred. tons, and the
sewers and pipes gave way and fattened
out, even when protected by enormous
beams stretched from one side of the
street to the other.
A much-surprised woman was Mrs.
J. B. Burrill of Chicago, who on her
way home from an Eastern visit found
that her husband had been divorced
from her in her absence. Mr.. B. ex-
pressed equal surprise, and declared
that he knew nothing of any such pro-
ceedings. Things are getting into an
advanced" condition surely when
couples are divorced without either one
knowing anything about it. No won.
der Mr.. Burrill is Cooking the matter
up" But has he been married over
again yet?
A party OF English tourists were ex-
aiming the crater of Mt. Vesuvius last
month, when family of five persons
going too near the edge, deceptive
shelf of scorin on which they were
standing gave way, precipitating the m
into the sulphurous depths. No means
of extricating them in time being posi-
BILE, they are still lying half in sight on
a bed of ashes, but on account of the
sulphur fumes and their inaccessibility
nobody can reach the bodies. A rela.
tive of the family says the father had
with him 92 900 in bank notes, and lots
of Neapolitans are crazy to find means
to save the cash.
Hot ice is one of the recent discover
les of science. DR.. Carnelly writes to
Nature that he has many times obtained
ice at temperature so high that it was
impossible to touch it without burning
ones self. Not only this, but he has
frozen water in hot glass vessels; and
also maintained ice as such at temper
ature far above the boiling point for a
considerable time. Another correspond.
emit of Nature says he has obtained the
same results. This discovery will be
OF inestimablo value to the Doctor in
the "Sweet Bye and-Bye," when we
mistrust. ordinary ice might become an
unattainable luxury.
Inquiry having been raised as to
whether John A. Woodward could be
arrested if found outside the limits of
the United States, the following state
ment is interesting: BY extradition
treaty, public officers who are guilty Of
embezzlement punishable with imp.is
onment (Weodward's crime) can be
brought back to this country only from
France, Prussia, and the States Of the
North German Confederation, Bavaria,
Hanover, Baden, the Swiss Confeder.
alton, Venezuela, the Dominican Re-
public, Sweden and Norway, Italy,
Nicaragua, Austria, Mexico, Hsyti and
Denmark. Mr.. Woodward can not be
oxtro1;ta1 frono Graot Rritaip