Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-10-16
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Built and run by ....................Lue Vernon
Business rooms ................... Any old place
Editorial rooms. Wherever my rent is paid
(Pieces of individual opinion washed up by
the tide, doomed. sawed split and piled for the
perusal and pastime of those who have enough
nerve TO read it'll
The egotist is always the other fell
low.
Don't open a set Of account books
when you do kindness to anybody.
Puyallup need not be ashamed any
longer. There is town named Sleepy
Eye in Wisconsin.
1t pleases US to see in the window
of vacant shanty, copy of the
Olympia Capital, used as blind.
1t makes a man awful mad to have
some one want to borrow the news
paper before he has had time to read
it himself.
"To snuff candle out accidentally
is a sign of marriage" Yes, and to
turn down a lamp Intentionally is q
sign of courtship.
1t is claimed "Teddy" writes his
own messages. We did not think he
remained long enough in one place to
write postal card.
The Seattle Times says, ]. J. Hill
always takes the cake. He may take
it, but we'll wager he does not eat it
every time. He has too much sense.
There is no instrument more suited
for lady than the violin. All that ia
feminine is required for it's mastery
tenderness, lightness, grace, swiftness
and dexterity.
The Salvation Army in Breathitt
county, Kentucky, would make a hit
with the moonshiners if they would
only sing: "One More Drink, and
I'll Tell 1t AL"
The sun crossed the line" in Seattle
at . :O7 O'Clock last evening, bringing the
autumnal equinox in its train. '-P.-I.,
Sept. "a.
Well wager the Reliance would have
crossed the line" exactly ats
A man in British Columbia will
photograph the wild beasts of Canada.
He might "snap" one or two running
loose down in Seattle and also one
or two in Olympia. But he'll have to
hurry.
Its tough on q town when it be-
comes so vile and degraded in morals
that Uncle Sam wants to purchase it.
No, gentle reader, we do not refer to
Seattle. o, no; but to q town "iust
too low for aaything"-Bremerton.
The six female leaders of the New
port social smart set who swan four.
mile race with scarcely enough clothes
on them to stuff a pin.cushion, were
determined that Harry Lehr should
not monopolize all the attention at
that resort.
While the Cardinals were imprisoned
in the Vatican for the election OF q
Pope, 300 chickens day were sent in
for their table. This would indicate
that there is marked strain of the
Methodist preacher instinct in the
makeup Of the holy fathers.
With the largest and hest theater
in the Northwest, managed by that
king of theatrical managers, John
Cort, Seattle will no doubt soon be-
came TO the Pacific Coast what Bos-
ton is TO tho Eastern-the critical
town that either makes or kills play.
The managers of Spokane theaters
insist that leaders Of their orchestras
shall play new music each night,
after this. This is right. People get
tired of listening to the same pieces OF
music each night. The leader gets
extra pay. and he should be compelled
to furnish new music or quit the job.
Whenever . cross.eyed, lank, lean
and hungry, shiftless live. of. his-wife
skunk, gets angry at newspaper be-
cause he is asked to pay an honest
debt, he Immediately begins to tell
people that the town should have
another paper, and be has been in.
formed that parties are considering
the matter OF starting one. Rats!
David q. Williams. aged 60 years,
who was bitten by Q rat in Cambria,
Wis, two weeks ago, is dead from
blood poisoning which resulted from
the bite. While this is q peculiar
death, to be sure, his relatives may
console themselves with the thought
that he never lived in Seattle or Ia.
coma and drank maldehyde, other.
wise known As milk.
Nine. Janauschek, actress, indig.
nantly denies tho report that her cos.
TUNES, jewelry and books are TO be
sold to satisfy her debtors, They
will not" she declares, "get their
money until ! get mine." Nine.
Janauschek has many friends on the
Pacific Coast who are sorry to learn OF
her circumstance aud will be pleased
to hear OF her once more heading a
company such as she always carried.
We have to pay the electric man.
the water man, the food man, the
doctor man, the preacher man, the
undertaken man, the hearse man.
the grave-digger man, when death
enters our door, then TO have some
kind.hearted friend with honest con.
victions remark in q consoling man.
ner that he believes we are born
over again, is enough to make per-
son move to Tacoma, and reside in the
heart of the town for two weeks.
A donkey stepped into . store and
the proprietor approached the beast
and asked: "What are you doug
herei You know this 10 no place for
. donkey" II am here" said the
donkey. because ] saw your adver.
tisement on the fence that surrounds
my pasture. l know you too must be
q donkey or you would place your
advertisement in paper, where it
would be read by people, not donkeys.
BEING lonesnme to-day I thouQht /