Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-07-23

dition of the steamers leaving Port.
land for San Francisco, several of on,
citizen have been driven to the old
time practice # maxine the overland
trip 10y the Ore, on and California rail.
road and stage line.
Parties from abr, ad who come here
to visit McAlli-ter'> Lake. with good
reason, complain tn It there is no boat
at .,al.I in wll.ch to cruz about over
Its sleeping waters. Our home tour.
lists should provide IA suitable craft. fol
their own use at least.
A logger by the name of Kirk was
caught between two logs in Ellis camp,
Tuesday, and had his hips crushed
No bones We're broken hut the flesh
was badly bruised, and injuries were
inflicted which will incapacitate him
from work several weeks.
The Olympia Sash and Door Factory
Is at present engaged in filling IA large
order comprising doors, windows and
other furnishing material for the new
residence of Peter Mckenzie, on Mud
Bay. This will he one of the finest lob
lots of shop work that ever left Olym-
pia.
The friends of Mrs. Elder gave her a
birthday surprise party, last Tuesday
evening. Without leave or warning
the guests found their way into her
house and made the parlor the scene
Of merriment and good cheer.
Speeches We're made freighted with a
thousand kind wishes in behalf of the
worthy lady.
The little girls constituting the
characters i'll this play to be presented,
next Wednesday evening, by the ladies
OF the st. Johns church, have come
down to business by rehcarsing daily
the parts assigned to them. Brilliant
costumes are being prepared for the
occasion and we venture to say that
Columbia Hall will be filled to its ut.
most capacity.
Our city authorities are beginning to
believe with Ben Franklin that it is
possible to pay two dearly for the wills
tie, despite the lessons of repeated ex-
perience. The Olympia illustration,
in Smalley's Northwest, is their last
effort at experimental advertising. The
same amount of money appropriated
in aid of the local press would doubtless
have borne much better results.
This Office is indebted to Mrs. Rachel
Tilley for a specimen of that magnifi-
cent flower known in the sunny South
as the Magnolia. 1t has two whirls of
petals, the lower containing six and
the upper three. When extended, the
flower is ten inches in diameter. Sec
ond, only to the blossoms themselves
for beauty and richness are the pei
ished leaves Of dark green. The spec
linen on our table is of the variety,
Grandiforo Magnolia and it fills the
whole house with fragrance. Thanks
are due to Pierre Magnol of Montpelier,
France, who brought this tree and
flower into public notice more than two
hundred years ago, christened the
same and gave it for the first time
a scientific description.
One of the most destructive fruit
tree pests now on duty in our orchards,
is an animal much resembling the
gosteropod mollusca, but much smaller
than the smallest snails without shells.
They are found in great numbers on
the upper side of the leaves of cherry
and pear trees. The largest specimens
uAC AAOC AuuNl lliOlC CildIl Hail dll llCll
in length, and yet so ravenous are they
that half dozen of them will destroy
leaf in few hours. They feed upon
the green texture of the blade until
the leaf is as wholly skeletonized as if
so rendered by artificial means. I'm
like the true qasferODOd, they effect To-
comotion by slowly crawling upon
short, thicldy set feet arranged, longi-
tudinally, in two rows. So destructive
have they proved in some instances
that large portion of many fine trees
appear as if their leaves have been
blighted by frost or killed by fire.
They can be destroyed by throwing
upon the trees a stream of strong
brine or lime-water.