Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-07-05
MERE MENTION.
From the daily of Tuesday.


his farm
Ripe plums are making their appear
ance in the market.
Frank Wyman is slowly recovering
from serious illness.
The work of having has practically
ceased till after the Fourth.
Very little annoyance from dust Will
be experienced next Thursday.
Somebody started fire in MIR. Rails
becks wOod-shed few days ago.
The man up in the moon will dis
play his lantern on tie night of the
Fourth.
Mr.. P. B. Van Trump, of Yelm, was
in the city to-day, and made pleasant
call at the Office of the OLYMPIAN.
Ed Lennox is bravely keeping bach
elor's hall in float house while his
parents are east of the mountains.
Business men are shading their
store-ironts and tomorrow the streets
of Olympia will he skirted with verdure.
Hon. Edward Eldridge, member of
the Constitutional Convention has ar
rived, and is calling on his old friends.
A good many people from Shelton
have been in the city this week buying
supplies for their own celebration on
Thursday.
Logging camps have generally shut
down in the vicinity of Olympia and
loggers are coming into town to have
good time.
Several hotel proprietors have en-
gagged vacant rooms and set up cot
beds in them for the temporary ac-
commodatiOn of dodgers during the
night of the Fourth.
Mr.. Charles w. WEIGH, representing
the Bancroft Publishing company, is
in the city, and he will be ready to
wait upon the members of the Terri
torial Board of Education at their
coming meeting.
Conductor Brown, of the Chehalis
Valley railroad, announces that the
teachers and visitors coming to attend
the Territorial Institute here will be
charged full fare but returned at one
fourth the usual rates.
Mr.. John Byrne is just putting the
finishing touches ON his new building
recently erected on Fourth street.
The lower story has been fitted up
into first-class store room, which will
in few days be filled with a stock of
groceries.
There will evidently be pretty lively
times during the session of the Educa-
tional Board, next week, as several
princely publishing houses will be rep
resented ON that occasion, by their
travelling agents. The adoption of
text books for the public schools of the
Territory, is growing, every year, a
more important matter to the people,
An inebriated individual of gigantic
advoirdupois created sensation last
Sunday, by drawing q butcher knife on
the Celestials employed at Young's
hotel, causing scattering of the heath
en- that for time threatened to leave
the guests without dinner. As it was
probably an assault of whiskey more
than individuality, we refrain from
giving the name Of the party.
The Chicago Comedy Company per-
formed at Columbia Hall, last evening,
to largo audience, and they well de-
served it. "The Diamond Mystery"
was the play. 1t was well rendered
aIf you don't believe it I'll show you
the law" The part assumed by Peter
Grump, kept the house in good humor
throughout the performance. They
play again tonight with q change of
programme and will appear every
night this week, with matinee on
the 4th. All the plays of this compa-
ny are new, and the prices of admis:
sion less than any first class company
has ever had the courage to offer in
this city.
Mr.. p. Dolan returned Saturday
evening, from a somewhat extended
visit to the land of his nativity-the
Emerald Isle. It is about lifetime
since he had set foot on the boys of
old Iyeland, and his visit was, there
fore, ike one of the pilgrims to the
sacred shrine Of Mecca or son return
ing to the manor after many years Of
wandering. He returns satisfied with
his visit. He will live contented in
the new State Of Washington not that
he loves Ireland less, but that he loves
free America more. And of all por-
tons of the land of his adoption, from
the broad Pacific to the mighty Allan
tic, he finds no place that he is con-
tent to remain in like our own beloved
Washington. This is not strange. It
is the testimony Of all who have trav-
eled and are able to institute compari-
son between this famed part of Gods
universe and all else that remains.
The pocket-book joke was perpetrated
last evening under amusing circum-
stances. That wag, Johnny Cook, hav-
ing no use for pocket book, conceived
the idea of filing his old wallet with
putty, to give it the apparent weight
Of gold, and using it ~ q decoy. Plac-
ing it on the sidewalk he awaited
developments. Several individuals,
whose vision SCARED UNNECESSARILY
above pelf, among whom was the OLyM-
PLAN man, passed along without see
ing the tempting object, but finally, as
Is ever the case, along came the sucker
who newer v,soooo soosnn ANYTHING