Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-06-09
GENERAL.


Thirty editions Of the revised New
Testament have been published in the
United States. The aggregate sale OF
copies here and in England is about
25U,U0U.
There is at Christiansburg, Va, a
negro man who is an habitual coal-oil
drinker. He says in cold weather he
often drinks pint or more at one time,
and that the sensation produced is simi-
Lar to that of whisky.
-Barty Cornwall, q performer in .
Southwestern circus, turned his profess
sional agility to account by climbing up
posts and balconies into houses at night
as burglar. The route of the show
was marked by succession OF his rob-
berries, until he was caught in Texas.
Near Blackfoot, on the Utah &
Northern Railroad, company of grad
ers have found several bones of mann.
moth proportions, and it is decided that
they are the remains of q mastodon.
Among others is a thigh bone which has
been sent to Yale College. There were
several teeth, one of which measured
twelve inches in length, and twelve
inches wide and three inches thick.
Two men of Fauquier, Va, went
into court with their dispute as to the
ownership of a 81 calf. Zach owned a
COW which, he claimed, was the mother
of the calf. The justice went with the
jury and litigants to a pasture, where
the two cows were le. loose for the
yOungster to choose between, and the
question was quickly and Enthusiastically
settled.
The Rev. Erastus w. Glover, who
was killed by the cars recently at New
Haven, Conn, turned brakeman be-
cause preaching did not enable him to
support his family. He was twenty-six
years old. Glover was ambitious, but
not highly educated. He was a son of
ex-COngressman Glover, of Gloversville,
N. Y, and at seventeen was Jim Fisk
errand boy.
-Willism P. Ridgeway, of San Fran.
cisco. fell in love with the Widow
Forbes. and engaged to marry her. He
was about seventy years old, and had
an affection of the heart, besides being
a sufferer from paralysis. His physi-
clans assured him that marriage would
be speedily followed by death. Unwil-
ling to take the risk, he broke his prom.
Use. These facts were presented in his
defense to suit for damages, but the
jury did not deem them material, and
gave the widow q verdict of $4,000.
"A Welsh lady named Broderick,
when child of ten or twelve, stepped
upon some glass, by which the sole of
ono 81 l,o. foot ,v,oo Eiiod ,,,:.l A. - L.ol-o.
pieces. which were, however Gas sup
posed at the time), all extracted. A few
weeks since she began to have sore
ness in the foot, which increased until
it became necessary to consult a ply
sicisn who, upon pressing his finger up.
on q certain place, found q hard spot
which was very sensible to the touch.
An incisiOn was made, and q piece of
glass over an inch long and three-quar-
tiers OF an inch wide at the base, taper
ing TO sharp point, was snugly hid
den under the bones of the instep, here
it had probably lain for nearly or quite
fifty years.-New Haren Journal.
"A curious romance has come to light
in Susquehanna, Pa, valued at ST., 900.
Twenty-one years ago young man in
the former place was compelled by the
law to marry girl, whom he immedi-
ately deserted, and she having neither
money nor friends, went to the Poor
house, where boy was born. by hon
est labor she earned q living until the
boy became old enough to help, since
which time mother and son have bought
home in Bath. By the accidental dis
covery of her husbands death, the first
she has heard of him since he left, she
finds she has right to the whole Of his
property for herself and child. But the
sad part of the affair is that he left an.
other wife and child at Susquehanna,
who are perfectly innocent, and until
within q few weeks knew nothing of wife
No. and child.