Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-03-04
Detroit Currency.

A boy can pull folr times more
weight in boys on Il sled than he can
coal from the bacs;-yar l.. Ky, State
Journal.
Snakes are popular pets in Laadville.
- Philadelphia North American. Yes;
most everybody has 'em.- Boston
Post.
A gun is loaded with powder; q table
is loaded with delicacies of the season.
Both go off, and both kill. philalel-
phia Item.
If Washington had only waited uu-
til this winter he could have crossed
tic Delaware on solid ice and saved his
soldiers heap OF hard work.
Charles Dickens sail of II )binson
Crusoe" that it is the only instance of
universally popular book that could
make no one either laugh or cry.
Less than twenty boys have found
the ice too thin thus far this year.
This is not half tho showing made
year ago. Tho thermometer did it,
a Navada miner who nearly starved
to death had nothing to eat for three
weeks but SNOW New York Herald.
Pshaw-we've known people to live on
snow all winter.
Stanley says the American nation
could be set down in the heart of
Africa and find itself lost. Our light
ming rod peddlers would open COM
munication pretty quick.
Archibald Forbes also lectures on
The Inner Life of War Correspon-
dent The inner life OF soldier
would show deal of hard tack and
salt horse. New Orleans Picayune.
The laws of Mexico are bit curious.
1t takes only fifteen minutes to convict
man OF stealing horse, but if his of.
Tense is murder it takes about four
weeks to convict some one else Of it.
Once when some one told Theirs that
the world would go on just the same
after he was dead, ne was veXed to
tears. 1t is we'll that none of these old
buffers have tho running of this globe.
In the grand national anthem of to-
dag, the ice man takes the soprano, tho
coal man the tenor, the skating rink
man trills the alto, while n deep, re-
vcrberlting bass comes from the plumb
or.
George Eliot is said to be the only
woman who steadfastly refused to be
photographed. But it must be remem-
bered that she was also about the plain
est looking woman in England, which
is saying great deal.
Bet ceut that the Detroit Free Press
has joke on the fire that nearly
L., \ III. No
SEQ Sayings and doings' column,
Christmas number OF the Free Press.
Draw on US for one cent.
Turkish money has advanced u little.
Chickens which cost 81 apiece in Con-
stau,iuople two months ago can now be
had for $3.50. These figures are given
on the understanding that there is no
chance to steal the fowls.
Guanison City doesn't care for any
thing fancy in naming its streets. 1t
has " Bob" avenue, "Squash' street,
low and "Satan" alley. and is getting
along finely for new town.
Nelson j. Gates delivered an address
on Agnosticism in Brooklyn the
other evening and commenced by
avowipg that he himself knaw nothing.
Before he flushed good portion Of
his audience agreed with him.
One evening, At Paris csfe, a group
of idlers we're discussing politics and
people who change their opinions.
"Well," said one, 1--WE never cried,
Long live anybody" "Q,ite So"
remarked oae;" but then your re doc.
tor
A big boy in a country school near
Warsaw, N. r., deied tho teacher to
make him spell word. The word was
window, and to illustrate it tho teacher
threw the big boy plump through it.
Some teachers are very panes-taking
with their pupils.
Nebraska is the State for kind neigh.
bors. When William Ashton re marked
that he would enl his life il he had
some morphine, his neighbor at once
volunteered to ride eight miles and
procure sufficient quantity. The
same man also kindly conducted the
funeral services.
Wisconsin leads off With an innova-
ton on the custom of giving ministers
donation visits. One friend gets up
dance, another boxing match. and
third u skating contest or q rattle, and
the profits are handed in to form gift
for come worthy preacher. No houses
are invaded, no carpets destroyed, no
cold victua!s left in the corners. and no
joalousies created to disturb the con-
gregation. 1t is cash business, con.
Quoted on business principlen, and
cannot fail to please.
The HAIR.-The fashion Of crimping
and curling the hair Of children is pos
itivalu iniunitnrIa Nan oraatnrpa of