Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-08-12
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the grocer sad when he bought for a
rise.
Don't talk when You are climbing up
the mountain, because silence gives as
cent.
There are one hundred Thousand
Shakers in America, hot counting the
natives Of Indiana.
There is n doctor in ~. l. Duis named
Endgait. Poor sort Of a doctor, he's
bound to be always behind.
David Davis is worth over 81 0Oo.-
000."-, Exchange Well that isn't very
high; not over dollar and half "a
pound.
A Dog in Columbia county, New
York, cheHs tobacco. But he hash
yet learned to spit on the fender or
house plants.
The New York BARRIERS have organ
lied an early closing movement. Don
shout; it refers only to their shops, not
their mouths.
The Gar has succeeded in maintain
ing absolute monarchy. But he Is
afraid to come out and see how it Is
getting along.
After man has twOs.ory brick
house picked up and thrown after him
by cyclone, he never again speaks oil
"tritle, light as air"
Fever and ague is raging in epidemic
dime nsions in Albany. We are always
glad to read something beside board
ing houses happening to state capital
"Tne mill will never grind with tht
water that Is past, maybe, bnt the hand
organ grinds right along with the air.
that are psst. u couple OF hundred
years.
Chicago papers report tho presence
OF factera in tie water of that city
Some new bin,i If drink, probably
! They Lever take their water straight, IL
Chicago.
1t was Coler;lge who. when asked by
believe that ar AS ever spoke to Ia
lam 2 replied, :. have beeu spoken tC
in the same way my self.
"Silence is golden" for fact
witness was put on tie stand in Bur
lington last term of court, and bis oh
stinate silence when they asked hin
questions cost him SJ7 and three day,
III Jail.
Mark Twains hooks and plays, the
papers say, have brought him in ,
quarter of u million. That's too little
then, because socially. personally ant
humauly, Mark Twain is million dol
lar man.
The New York papers are discussing
the question, "Cin u judge sit when ht
is over seventy years old :" If he II
like other men, we should think ht
could sit dreadful siskt longer thar
he could staLd.
How do you know when there is 6
tire p asked the visitor. The fireman
looked up to him in wondering disgust
"See it IN the papers," he said. and
vent on absorbing the fourth page o.
The Uaukeye
Crowded ont by press Of new mat
ter, rs the reporter remarked when ht
looked in through the parlor blinds ana
SAW seven young men talking To MS
best girl sunday evening. so he wenl
to a house out on South Hill where
the sisters live, and "got out an tx
tra."
"Why is h 1ues:y tae best policy 2
asked P.of Siearns when the class il
Moral Science had the floor. " Because
it Is so seldom used" the new boy al
the foot of the class replied. it never
gets out of repair" That wasn't exact
~ the answer in the book but the boy
got marked 5i on it, all the same.
Cincinnati went to work last winter
aad elected q reform" mayor. l.
works about as we'll as such movements
usually work. Tho reform" mayor
hasn't had the deliiium tremens yet
and it is to DO hoped that the man will
the poker may not get after him, but i
is dlsheartenlng to read some of the Gin
cinnati papers ON the subject.
Congressman Updegraif has present
ed President Garfield with u span o
horses. All hal Now il it were onl,
Grant instead of Gariield-oh, resound
ing heavens! how the country woul'
hear from those horses for the mex
three years. But-however-an yet
Observation-Disclosures it is-ah-ur al
AS we said before, in fact, but.