Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-08-17
Matters of Interest.

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10 D,'IlnH aries all W, lis.
English women are CROWN. 10
Look with favor on tn tricycle..
The telesraphers have proven that
wire there's will there's way.
New York is numerically the
greatest Catholic city in the world.
An upright Jerseyman at Trenton
makes salmon out of Albany stur-
geOn.
Princeton speaks of sending an
500 Id. female pig to the Louisville
Exposition.
Miss Katherine Chase, formerly
Mrs. Sprague, has gone to Europe
for the summer.
Somebody has been counting Geor-
gia's Gelons and finds there are
$500, 900 of them.
Capt. john Ericsson, inventor of
the Monitor, is now 80, looks about
20, and works like Gu.
The island of Anticosti. in the
Gulf of St. Lawrence, is to be sold
in September to pay mortgage.
The Franklyn cottage, in which
Gen. Garfield died, is occupied by
Mr.. Augustine Smith and family, of
New York.
San Francisco physicians have dis
covered 1O7 cases of leprosy among
the hoodlum class of boys who
smoke cigarettes made by Cinnamon.
Bishop Simpson, of the Method
list Episcopal Church, is not in good
health. He will spend the summer
travelling with his daughter in Col
OradO.
Strikes all over the country. The
iron workers have caught on 10
Whatshisname's advice, and have
determined to strike while the iron is
nOt-hOt.
NJ. and Mrs. Tom Thumb were
believers III Spirituailsm, and would
sit hours to receive communications
tlom little Minnie Warren in the
spirit land.
Oscar Wilde says that &" the Amer
lean gill is IL pretty oasis OF unrea-
sOnabieness IN q desert OF common
sense" That's just what's the mat
tor with Ose's brain.
Twenty-three white women in
Massachusetts were married to negro
husbands in June. The Old Bay
Safe is apparently determined to
wipe cut thecoiOI line.
The total loss by Gre in the United
States and Canada from Jan. l to
June 30, 1882. was $44 sou, 900, be-
ing about $7O0,O00 less than that
during the same period III 1882.
Tue ladies of Orion, Illinois, cele-
brated the Fourth OF July IN grand
style, Gin honor of our for.muthers.
believing that the forefathers had it
all their own way long enough"
The projectors of the Louisville
Exposition have fixed upon prices
Tor privileges. Lemonade must pay
So, 500; ice cream, $500: cider 81 200
tue restaurant, $500; beer, SIS 900
and popcorn, 81 500.
An old lady in San Francisco has
expressed a tox of worms TO Pres
ident Arthur, al Yellowstone Park,
to bs used for tish.ba Such de.
votion can only pressge e second
term.
The New Hampshire Legislature,
after dead lock covering weeks,
elected Austin F. Pike United States
Senator far six years from March 4,
1858. Tue result of the ballot was
greeted with tumultuous applause.
Pike is sixty-three years oil, is a
lawyer in active practice, has been a
Representative in Congress, and is
considered one of the ablest Re-
publicans IN the State.
The present seasons wheat crop
Of Minnesota is now estimated at
$4,000 900 bushels, or about 3,0OO,-
0OO less than an average yield, which
is much better than was anticipated
carry in the season. In Illinois the
crop ON the whole will fall consider
ably below the avera Q, although in
some sections both wheat aud corn
are good. In Indiana, the present
wheat crop now promises to be fully
up to the average.
The Chinese Government lately
received a formal notice from King
Kalakaua that he could accommodate
no more emigrants from the G .IestiaI
Kingdom. The Hawaiian Islands
no, long ago were advertising for an
increase of population, but when the
limited Safes shut out the Chinese.
Honolulu became a too convenient
substitute for the MonSolians, who
crowded thither in such numbers as
to threaten the overrunning of the
The Wall street News tells it's read
RS how telegraphlc business was
" cleaned up' in New Yo,k on the
first week of the strike as follows:
"The Western Union company
its hooks in very simple
way last week. The manager sent
all messages bv wire wherever it had |