Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-06-08
Matters of Interest.

Susan &. Anthony is in England.
Jere Black is a great-9randfathcr.
Pr: I1ent Arthur has five sisters
ard one bother.
Mr.. David Davis, nee Burr, is o
distant relative OF the famous Aaron
Burr.
Mrs. Jennie Lind Goldsmith is
sixty Years old, and appears fifty,
and live, i'll London.
Northern Pacific stock remains
quiet despite the favorable reports
of President Willard.
Samuel J. Tilden's house at Gram
ercv Park, New York, is now said 10
be tie richest and most ornate in
Amt lea.
An amateur poetess anXiously
walls, oh, where can | fiild rest -
Get Il position as saleswoman in Il
store that doesn't advertise, darling.
Mrs. Ella Trader, who gave $780,
090 of her own money i'll aiding
wounded soldiers during the war,
now lives in poverty in Asheville, y.
c.
A bill has passed the Illinois house
requiring railroad companies TO build
stations houses at all points along
! their lines where United States mail
/ is delivered.
There is world of truth in the
old darkey's assertion that many a
woman what won't wash her children
at home delights in washin dishes at
a church fair
The prohibitory liquor amend
ment was defeated in the State sen-
ate at Harrisburg On the 18th, lack
ing the two-thirds vote. which stood
II yeas to 10 nays.
1t is reported that Miss Dawes,
daughter of the Massachusetts Sen
ator, contemplates taking Il poslti, Ii
on the editorial staff OF the Pitts
field Er"ni"y .I'",nni.
Nomun's Christian Temperance
CulClS are now organized III three
thousand !owhs and cities Of the
Uni ed States, and has seventy five
thousand memb as as Its estimated
constituency.
Canning oranges is the latest
Flul ida idea. Ii was started by two
maiden ladies', who finding no maj ket
for there oranges, conceived the plan
of canning them like other fruit. 1t
was q perfect success.
The commissioners of King county
have fixed the rare of taxation for
the ensuing year rs follows: Terri
,orill, - mills; school, 3 mills; road
and property, , mills; road bridge,
, mills; county, - mills; total Ii
miles.
\ recent decision of the Postofiice
DEPARTMENT is to the effect that q
letter, after being sent, can he re-
called by the sender, upon his max
ing application for it to the post
master, who has authority to recall
the same by telegraph.
\ first class Northern Pacific Rail
road fare from St. Paul to Spokane
Fails costs Sl0i; to Portland, 1925
to Seattle, Sl33. The trip can now
be made in seven day S from Portland
nl I IL
} roading and 800 steamboating and
staging.
When one of the Western cyclones
like that which recently struck ths
D outer edge of the City of Racine
q shall plough a furrow through St
Louis or Chicago and slaughter it:
: thousands or tens of thousands, wha
J., n vail of terror and horror will e
: up from the whole country! The
Q bare possibility of such thing Ii
: frishtful to contemplate.
Mr.. Talbot, Elk Governor of Mas
O sachusetts, is said to be nursing bi:
o wrath against Mr.. Butler, Governor
i to keep warm. Recently Mr.. Tai
l. bot met Mr.. Butler, at social gath
II ering where dancing ruled the hour
e and, desiring to keep up the CONVEX
It sation, remarked: "you don't dance
Y General ?" No." was the quicI
l. reply, 81 make other people dance.
AS soon as the completion of th
i Northern Pacific shall have bee
IL supplemented by the connection wit
lie California from Portland, trains wi
ID run through from st. Paul to Sa
,e F,ancisco via Oregon in the sam
" time now made by the Union an
k Central Pacific from Omaha to Sa
n Francisco. The distance from 5
,e Paul to San Francisco via Portlan
e. will be about 200 miles. 1t can
= made in four days at an averae
n =. speed Of less than thirty miles a
u loIr.