Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-12-25
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Business rooms ................... Any old plaza
Editorial rooms. Wherever my rent is paid
(Picces of individual opinion washed up by
he tide, doomed. sawed split aud piled for the
erusal and pastime of those who have enough
erve to read it,
Always has shaking bones"-the
bartender.
The shade is only fastened to the
window for a blind.
Some people frown at the oyster,
yet smile at pound Of tripe.
F. w. d. Mays, OF Pomeroy, is about
as lively a preacher as one hears of.
Girls and type-writing machines are
alike in one way-they both use rib
bon.
It is not education, but misdi.
rected education that is to be depre.
ciated.
You may be the son OF . great man,
but remember no one can inherit
merit.
A genius is a man who does things
that other people think it is impossi-
BILE to do.
1t is better to give more taffy dur.
ing life than 50 much "epitaphy"
after death.
The National Republican Conven-
ton meets in Chicago. One can meet
most anything in Chicago.
There are two classes of people
whom it is impossible to convince
against their will-women and men.
If you are afflicted with sleep-walking,
And a cure you should desire,
Just scatter tacks before your bed
Each night ere you retire.
If some men in Olympia would cut
off their whiskers and moustaches it
would save big expense bill for hair
dye.
II it had been "The Snail" instead
OF The Flyer" probably she wouldn't
have had such damaged woodwork to
rep.ir.
Some one should open q spelling
school in Olympia. There are two or
three pupils already wanting to put
their name upon the list.
The reason the detective caught the
robber in female clothes, was because
the Crook" passed q milliner's store
window without looking in.
Some people get so wrapped up in
their own sorrows that they look upon
the rain as personal grievance, and
don't eympathize with anybody.
The young man Who is anxious to
lay the world at the feet of the girl he
adores, three months after be marries
her isn't willing even to lay the carpet.
Newspapers that shield . Mayors
sons and expose the family OF the
GLOVER five" show conclusively that
they are not newspapers. They are
class papers. That's all.
No man has any idea OF the force
and power of speech possessed by even
the widest tempered woman in the
world until accidentally he calls his
second wife by his first wife's name.
Its strange, but after . man has be.
come editor OF small daily paper for
q few months, they always surmise.
some how or other, that they are
called to be nominated for public Of.
fee.
knowledge makes humble,
Ignorance makes proud;
knowledge talks lowly,
Ignorance talks loud;
| knowledge is modest,
| Cautious and pure;
Ignorance boastful.
Conceited and sure.
Have You seen my umbrella?"
asked an Olympia man of his friend
the other afternoon.
"What sort OF an umbrella was if"
1T had . hooked end"
have not seen IL, but / had .
nice one once, and the end was exact.
ly like yours. So long"
One may As well try to stop editor.
in-chief Blethen, of the Seattle Times,
blowing his own horn, az to think Of
the State of Washington electing a
Governor without some one "boost-
ing" s. G. Cosgrove, Of Garfield county,
for the place. It seems Cosgrove, like
the poor, is always upon Earth.
"Jovel but that's . battered-up
i. looking wagon" said . stranger to an
Olympia citizen the other day.
"Yes," replied the Olympia citizen,
"yet it does more work than any
other vehicle in Olympia, during the
meeting OF Legislature"
"How sor
Olympia citizen: at carries the
red tape"
When q man knows to how many
uses a woman's hairpin can be put,
he will perhaps not think it such q
ridiculous thing. It is very useful for
anglers to catch fish, and for smokers
to clear pipe-stem. It can also be
used to trim lamp, to save . child
from choking, to mend harness, to I'M
tangle shoe-string, to button gloves
and shoes, TO pull tape through cur
tains and other things, to hold on
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