Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-11


Editorial rooms. Wherever my rent is paid
(Peces of individual opinion washed up by
the tide, doomed. sawed, split and piled for the
pernsal and pastime of those who have enough
nerve TO read it,
Every dog has his day, while the
nights are for the Tom cats.
If circus people are allowed in
heaven, then Ringing Bros. have the
best show to ge. there.
The person has yet to be born who
can look at hole in a newspaper
without wondering what was cut out.
Here he lies
He is dead
He did not advertise
So they said.
If thieves will only steal the city
Jail in Seattle along with several OF
the police officials they will be doing
the city and county great favor.
Count that day lost whose slow
descending sun sees at its end, the
news that some official at Washington,
ID. c., has not been arrested for rob-
bing Uncle Sam.
Did you ever notice when a young
lady is pretty. accomplished and
smart, that some venomous- -tongued
old dame will try her best to create a
scandle about her.
In the polite slang OF New York all
maidens under Is are designed as
" broilers." By that same token we
presume that after passing that age
they are listed as hens.
Don't pay 100000 a pound for
radium when you can get a good
article OF polonium that will answer
household kitchen purposes just as
we'll for only $4,000, 900 pound.
An Olympia man while out hunting
last week was confronted by the fol-
lowing notice nailed to . tree:
NO hunting on these preMises, us
Farmers will ketch he'll if We went to
Town and shot chickens
Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Cleveland both
assert that they will not be candidates
for the Presidency. If they are hon.
est in the claim, we would like to
know what in Jerusalem they are
fighting about.
1t pays to have a government posi-.
ton. Otis Patterson, ex.Receiver of
money at the Land Office at The
Dalles, Ogn., has purchased the As
torian. a daily paper, published at As
toria. Success. Otis.
1t won't be long until the political
curbstone orator will be seen on the
street corners. He, like the reformer,
is always on hand, when he thinks he
can make dollar by use of his mouth,
instead OF his hands.
Probably the "little brown men"
imagine that the bear of Russia lie .
little brown bear" and that their
color being so much alike they will
slip upon and kill him. But should
it prove to be grizzly one, what then,
The hired girl who stole money from
her mistress in London, England, to
buy herself bible, should have q gold
medal presented to her by the Minis.
ter's Association. She might have
stolen it, don't-cher.know, to buy con.
fetti with.
The P.-I. of issue of Sept. 1st, has
four notices of theatrical stars who
have made hit in new plays for this
season. Now if they can successfully
hit" the public for the $$s$, they
can 90 to the st. Louis exposition in
good shape.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has juneau
avenue. We don't know if Juneau has
a Milwaukee avenue, or not, but We
have heard that Juneau has Milwau-
kee beer, and its mighty good, too. ap.
proximating the standard OF the Olym.
pia product.
The discoverer Of the hydrophobia
microbe has named it" Coccus babyllus
polymophus lissac." If you zee q dog
coming toward you with a thing like
that in its effervescing mouth stand
not upon the order ofyour going, but
scoot at once.
Chicago school girls. it is reported,
may be daily seen shaking dice for
candy. Girls in this State may be
seen daily shaking good, honest, wage
earning young men, for silly, BRAIN
less photographs of salary-earning
things called " "dudes."
When such high church authorities
as Bishop Potter of New York city,
and the Rev. R. c. Fillingham, vicar
of Hexton, England, fall out IS to
what method one must use in worship,
what is to be expected of the poor
misguided outcasts on this globef
The Seattle Star rips the police de.
partment OF that city up the back, so
to speak, and declares it . rotten sys-
tenn from the head TO the tail. From
the number OF robberies. and few
catches by the police, We are inclined
10 think the Star is justifiable in its
criticisms.
Seattle thinks that the newly-dis.
covered comet, with two tails, can
only be seen from the Washington
hotel. It might be we'll to caution