Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-07-13
OSCILLATION.

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He kissed me-and knew twas wrong,
For he was neither kith nor kin:
| Need one do penance very long
For such tiny little sin?
lie pressed my hand-that was not ri ght;
Why will men have such wicked ways?
1t was not for moment quite.
But III II there we're days and days.
There's mischief in the moon, know,
I'm positive | saw her wink
When requested him to go;
| meant it tool think.
Bat, after all. I'm not to blame,
| He took the kiss do think men
Are born without sense Of shame
| wonder when he'll come again
The musician, like the cook, makes
his bread ont of his do.
An honest strawberry box is the
rareSt work of man just now.
The dogs of the United States pay
an annual tax of S16.000,O00.
The starting point of many a love
match-The old mans boot.
The moon is the poorest of planets.
being often reduced to its last quarter
A fashionable New York tailor
says, Knee brooches are the coming
thing"
Half a million base ball bats are
supposed to be the demand for the
present year.
The Italians propose to have a
worlds exhibition of their own next
year in Rome.
To the color blind the names of
new tints and shades are puzzling-
almost as much SO as blindman's buff.
An intelligent London fish merchant
has made calculation showing that
72,0OO,00O oysters are annually con
sumed in London.
Worth has named one of his oos-
tumic triumphs the Chamberlain, in
honor Of one of the beautiful Ameri-
can girls i'll Europe.
The editorials on the BROOKLYN
bridge opening suggest the idea that
the event is only second in Importance
to the creation of the world.
"When you are in Rome you must
do as Romans do" as the American
tramp said when he squatted on the
steps of cathedral in the Eternal
City and held out his hat
Glucose is too expensive to use in
its native purity. and a factory has
haa,, oct 70 obl,cho1 IN IL ,>1,l.a
some sort of nastiness out of compti
and cassava. to be used as a glucose
for glucose.
Pulitzer, the new owner of the New
York World, married the niece of JEFF
ferson Davis. She iA a remarkably
handsome woman. In st. Louis, they
were known as Beauty and Beast.
He is very homely.
Among the most rapid speakers in
the country are Colonel Ingersoll,
Henry Ward Beecher, Francis Muir
ply, Schuyler Colfax and George
Francis Train. The last two are the
most rapid in the world
The catcher of the Toledo, Ohio,
base ball nine is a colored man named
Walker. He has a fine collegiate
education, and puts in his spare
moments reading law. His favorite
work is 'Spalding on Estoppals."
Twenty thousand Chinaman are to
be brought to Brazil at cost of SO
head. They are to be indentured
for five years as laborers, and will be
paid 81 cents a day, out of which
they will have to feed and clothe
themselves.
At recent dinner party in Paris
there was provided q novelty which
may possibly become feature of din
ner parties in this electric age. Be
side each plate was a telephone,
which was connected with distant
salon, where superb orchestra was
playing. The guests were thus able,
between the courses, to pass the time
pleasantly in listening to good music
instead of making obvious remarks
about the weather
Charles Reade, as everybody knows,
is firm believer in the scrap-book,
and has an immense number Of news
paper clippings properly indexed,
from which he obtains much of the
material for his stories. Rev. DIR.
Talmage finds many illustrations for
his sermons in newspaper articles,
and Henry Ward Beecher has trunks
full of old papers. The late President
Garfield drew many of the anecdotes
| and incidents with which be graced
his speeches from large collection
of scrap-books, and Girardin, the
French editor, probably carried the
system to greater perfection than any
other man
Prof. Douglas, of Ann Arbor, man
ufactures cyclones to order He
does it in very simple manner, by
suspending large copper plate by
silken cords. This plate is charged
heavily with electricity, which hangs
down like bag underneath, and is
rendered visible by the use of ar
senious acid gas, which gives it
green color. This formation is a
miniature cyclone as perfect as any
started in the clouds. 1t is funnel
shaped and whirls around rapidly.
Passing this plate over a table the
tivecent cyclone snatches up copper
cents, pens, pith balls and other
objects and scatters them on all sides.
l once conferred vast number of
decorations on an individual-thati is
to say, l told him how to get them.
He was an Italian rich, noble, and a
fool. He coniided to me that life
was burden because he had no de-
corations. said to him: PAY some
one to write book upon the antiq-
uities of your province, pay some
one else to illustrate it, publish it in
folio, and send copy, beautifully
bound, to every crowned head in Eu-
rope. Two-thirds of them will repay
You with decoration" Two years
later saw him again. He was
covered with pieces of metal attached
to variegated ribbons He pressed
my hand; tears of gratitude glistened