Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-11-16
PERSONS AND THINGS.
Rhode Island and Delaware together
are smaller than the Yellowstone Park

Some land in the City of London was
lately sold at the rate of $4,000, 900 an
acre.
| 1t is proposed to raise the salary OF
Philadelphia Mayor from $1,000 tc
$40 900 year.
Buffalo has more miles of railroad
track within its corporate limits than
any other city in existence.
1t is proposed to erect statue to
Dickens in London and to place pacqucs
| on the houses in which he lived
Negroes now own full one-thrd Of
Edisto Isl2nd-one of the famous South
Carolina sea island long staple cotton
bearers.
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Michi-
gan has prohibited the raising of money
for church purposes, fairs, excursions,
etc.
Georgia has discovered new indus.
try. The farmers gather sumac leaves
and sell them to the woolen mills for
dyeing purposes.
Dana of the Sun, has taken to collect
ing china and chickens. He has already
$50 900 invested in china and $40 200
in fancy chickens.
Boston has 304 electric lights, and
yet lots of prominent citizens still con-
tinue to remove their hats to the old
fashioned lamp-posts at A. M.
The Buffalo Erpress says that we'll
known resident of Fifth avenue has
paid his neighbor IS 900 not to lease his
house for business purposes.
The man who painted the spire of the
Roman Catholic Church in Omaha was
photographed standing son the cross, 24O
feet above the pavement.
The King OF Siam beats New York
brokers in trade dollar speculation. He
is buying them at 80 in Singapore, and
making them into two Siamese ticals,
which pass at 60 cents each.
1t is hoped than when the French
make their new treaty with China they
will insist upon a clause making it a
penal offense for the laundryman to
bring home two Accent guaze under
shirts instead of the silk handkerchief
you gave So for.
The Count de Chambord had a pas
sion for hunting. Among the stories of
his last illness is one to the effect that
he recently had his couch wheeled out
into the park, that he might there,
propped up with pillows, and his gun
steadied by an attendant, shoot stag
that was caught and led up for the
purpose.
A writer in Forest apA. Stream, who
has been looking at mosquito through
a microscope, says the bill combines five
distinct surgical instruments. These are
lance, two meat saws and blood sue
ton pump, the fifth instrument being
forgotten, but the writer labors under
the impression that it is Corliss engine
to run the rest of the factory.
1t is said that when the coffin of the
great Napoleon who opened long after
his death at st. Helena, his toe-nails had
grown clear through his boots, and his
hair stuck through the chinks of the
coffin. H'm-that might easily occur !;
but the story that his kneebreeches had
grown into pair of modern style panta-
looms, with pistol sticking out Of his
hip pocket, sounds little less plau-
sible.
A North Carolina farmer owns a dog
that climbs trees after possums and
coons. He doesn't stick his toe-nails in
like cat, but climbs like boy. Re-
Gently it Skinned up big elm and
caught an immense coon. During the
fight that ensued both fell to the ground,
but the dog had the best of the fall and
won the trick. The dog is said to have
learned to climb by seeing the boys go-
ing up trees after game.
Peoria has only 10000 inhabitants,
but there is one respect in which it is
the biggest city in the land. There is
no other from which the Government
receives 80 large an amount of internal
revenue. Thirteen immense distilleries
make this the center of whisky manu-
facture. The tax is 80 cents a gallon.
The largest distil!ery is under contract
to send every drop of its product to
France, to be used in the natives wines
of that vine-clad country.