Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-12-04
Hard nuts to crack-bolt nuts.

perusal and pastime of those who have enough
| nerve to read it,
Hard nuts to crack-bolt nuts.
Even the stove.pipe tries to be neat
lit has, as a rule, collar.
GAN actors are not on the stage"
.You bet not; we wish they were.
An editor with moth-eaten ideas
naturally wants to air his opinions.
Many printer does not like to sort
"pi" as a rule, yet many like to eat
pie.
Strange that railroad companies
have so many rails, yet build such few
| fences.
Ii surgeons opened more windows
and fewer patients there would be less
funerals.
Only lazy people are out OF work,
although many honest people are
short on income.
We never yet heard OF a hobo in
quiring for preachers house when
he first strikes a town.
We teach the untutored" Indian
eternal life from the bible and kill
him off with bad whisky.
If the Republicans don't "burst the
trusts" the latter will "bust" them
selves in due course of time.
There is a woman in Olympia that
has searching eyes. She's been look
ing for a husband ten years.
Is it proper to say that every man
who is broke is hobo? 1t seems
like this is the case. nowadays.
Some people wear white ribbon on
their coat that should be wearing a
stripped suit Of clothes owned by the
State
Its peculiar, but we have a man in
Congress with three wives and a lot
in the peniteniiary for having two
wives.
We would rather be poor music
ian and own what notes We did pos
sess. than to be business man and
owe one.
cvusn Wrote THO uvvvt,- Fhv Fifth
String" 1t is time, now, for one
with the title of "The Fifth Wheel
to make its debut.
Its an old saw that, "the way to q
mans heart is through his stomach"
That's why 50 many poor devils have
dyspepsia, we imagine.
Bakersfield (Cal.) has . truckman
who wears high silk.hat when ut
work. Yet one could not say that this
is case OF plug-hat on q plug.man.
There are numbers OF paragraphs in
each issue OF the Seattle Republican
that smell alternately of darkness,
wrinkled complacency, and camphor.
A ring round the moon is claimed
by some people to be sure sign of
rain. We have noticed ring round
. woman's third finger is sign OF
more reign.
There. is one thing TO be said in
favor OF why hobos should stay at the
water-tank - there is never q man
murdered from the effects of his drink.
ing therefrom.
"We can have music all through
our lives il we but know the chords to
touch - Verdi. But the trouble is
that so many people are trying to find
them on the piano.
"Cheese is advancing in New York
State and there is active speculation in
it," says a dispatch. We have seen
cheese in Olympia that should have
retreated" many moons ago.
Mr.. Harkwork rk-"Thank goodness
l will get q little rest to-day"
His wife" Why do you say thatf"
Mr.. Hardwork-" Because, only a
portion Of the Sunday paper came"
A paper devoted to women is con.
! templated in London. But the penni'
less dukes will have to receive the
paper free OF charge if the English
ladies wish him to know of their ex-
existence.
Some married men who used to
kiss their wives before marriage every
time they passed through a tunnel,
now take q drink, when passing
through the same tunnel. Time
changes things.
More than nine -tenths of the hemp
produced in tho United States is
grown in Kentucky, and still they
have not q piece large enough to
swing some of the red.handed mur.
derers of that State to q telephone
pole.
Mark Hanna's boom for the Presi-
dency is becoming greater and greater.
Soon the noise will be so great that We
can't hear it-like Plato's emusic OF
the Spheres" He will shortly be so
popular that he cannot possibly be
nominated or elected because OF uni
versal disinclinstion TO subject his
immaculate reputation to the strain
involved in the simple necessity OF
running him against another man.