Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-11-02

In view Of his confession he was
let off with two year, imprisonment.
and l don't suppose he Will ever
tlabble in invisible ink again
This, my first case, attracted con
siderable notice. and | have never
since had to lounge in my office and
yearn for clients.
LATEST NEWS ITEMS.
Chicago is to have an elevated rail
road.
Cadet \ l.. Baebe has been dis
| missed from West Point for hazing.
A submarine cable was lail under
the river at Memphis recently in ten
minutes
4 wild partridge Il Gibson county,
TenLess @, is raising a family Of dc
nestle CHECKERS.
James L. Gar liner. cnlorcd. has
been appointed Agent at tx O1ray.
Utah, Indian Agency
Cadet j. II. Tuggle, Of Kentucky,
has beer dismissed from the Naval
Academy al Annapo.i, for haz;ng
A we'll lnown resident Of Buffalo,
n. V, has paid Il neigh!,or 5000 not
to lease his house for business pur
poses.
Burglars have robbed Il Detroit
faro bank of $1,000. This is the only
successful system OF play ing
against the tiger.
A bronze statue of General Robert
T. Lee, ordered by the city of New
Orleans, has been successfully cast in
New York.
Contracts through telephone be
tween business men are null AID
void, according to 4 recent decision
of Troy, N. Y, jury.
The drought is causing a general
stoppage of mills at Manchester, n.
H., and over 1000 operatives are ont
Of employment.
Philadelphia has thirty one wards.
and according to the last registra
ton 206, 5S6 voters, against 209.173 in
1882, a decrease.
The frosts have doue great dam
age in northern Vermont to corn.
late grains and garden crops. The
apple crop is failure.
A horse banked with man III
Buffalo, n. Y, the other day, and he
sat there in his buggy for nine hours
before the animal moved Oh.
There are many parts Of South
Florida where the crops Of guavas
are greater than the people can use
Being perishable fruit, it cannot be
shipped.
While pulling down an old stable
near Lexington, Va, the workmer
caught a lizard with two well dc
veloped heads, one at each end of the
body.
A Providence school teacher, Mrs
Julia E. Arnold. gets 95 per cent in &
Civil Service examination and is ap
pointed clerk of the post office city
delivery.
Boston stay at homes do not tabt
kindly to those who spend the sum
mer in Europe and come back tc
stick up their noses at the dirty
streets of the Hub.
A number of skeletons, in one oil
which was flint arrowhead. stick
ing between the ribs, was found re
Gently by Mr.. Steers in mound neal
Browns Valley, MINI.
Barney Archer, a lad living on 4
farm between Toledo and A lrian
having been tracked by detectives
has confessed that ne made several
attempts to wreck Lake Shore trains
from mere deviltry.
John NJ Krum, who from 1913 was
Judge of the st. Louis Circuit Court
Mayor of the city in 1913. and fol
nearly half century a prominen:
member of the Western bar, died il
that city On the 18th instant.
The signature of King Canonicus
attached to the deed that he and his
nephew, Miantononi gave to Roger
Williams, has been enlarged and is tc
be cut on the face of the Cancnicus
memorial. soon to be dedicated by
the Road Island Historical Society.
A man from Michigan has stirred
up the inhabitants of Lexington
HENDERSON county, Tenn, by claim
ing to have seen, during the war, sew
eral bags of gold buried in certain
spot near that place. Digging has
begun in search of the supposed
treasure.
Connecticut hat factory girls are
all writing their Names on the band.
of the hats that they make. A Bethe
girl put her name on a band a veal
ago and the hat was bought in {
New Orleans store by Henry G
Segur, who wrote to the girl, fell il
love with her by letter and has just
married her.
The WOMAN QUESTION IN SWEDEN
Before tho extensive use of steam
boats on the waterways around Stock
holm the Dalecarlian girls were &C
customed to come to the capital in
great numbers each season to rev
the passenger boats from point tc
point in the neighborhood of the
city. This custom still exists to some
extent, and the visitor may be rowed
by buxom peasant girl to an island
restaurant, or across an arm of the
lake. The girls have lost none OF
the moral independence and the re
markable physical strength which
have since the beginning or Swedish
history distinguished their ant ~, T.
In the large cities they are found
to-day mixing mortar. carrying bur
dens, and rowing boats quite as cas-
lily us the men, and quite as accept
ably to the employers. The most
famous boatwomen ale the. girls OF
the parish of Rattvik. whittier he had
| Mod II, H.n s-naral, &c tho III Ia a.