Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-10-23

pieces of individual opinion washed up by
the tide, doomed. sawed, split and piled for the
perusai and pastime of those who have enough
nerve 10 read it,
Its wise girl who knows her own
mind.
A single man anticipates, n married
man reflects.
We have often witnessed picket
fence and sentry box.
It's lucky coin that doesn't turn
tail when you call heads.
I would rather see man hung than
to hear him abuse his aged mother.
Some printers are "blacksmiths,"
yet never met blacksmith who was
printer.
There is so much variety in life
nowadays that one can hardly taste
the spice.
It would seem that a small a la
Boss Tweed ring is being formed in
Olympia. Wait and see.
Even when poverty pinches, some
people insist upon adding to their
misery by wearing tight shoes.
Is t the same with the average man
as with the lobster. He is not so
green after he has got into hot water.
You may call girl chicken
Ii your love for her you've stricken;
Put she will not like it wheL
You inform her she's hen.
It is just like a woman, when she is
talking to man over the telephone,
to whisper to him so central can't
hear.
Its wonder the people who knew
so we'll how to conduct q newspaper
wouldn't engage in the business them
selves.
Buried at Sea-" is the name OF q
play. Too bad the subject didn't
catch to something and remain at the
bottom.
When q man says to another Z" 1t
gives me much pleasure to offer you
this cigar" think, Great Scott! Is it
that bad?
A newspaper resembles great many
society ladies, by the fact that it has
to be carefully msade.up before it is in
shape for public scrutiny.
There is q class of women who can
cloud up and rain at moments no.
tice. That character of grief is al
ways to be looked at with suspicion.
If you and l, and eve and eye
And yew and aye (dear me),
Were all to be spelled with and
How mixed up we would be.
Whenever you see four women at
the corner Of street busy conversing
in low tone of voice, you can bet there
is something doing, or soon will be.
It's q cinch.
"The true disciples OF CONTIGUOUS go
to church twice every day. ."-Er.
Well, they can afford to. They
have coins in China worth only one.
tenth of cent.
There is no difference between a
wedding and a funeral. Both have
the Same result. In one case two are
made one; in the other, one is made
nothing. One less each time.
A scientific journal says that . load
of coal left out doors for month loses
one.third OF its heating power. 1t
loses all OF it here, in Olympia, so far
as the owner OF the coal is concerned.
A woman who conducts a lodging
house in Olympia informs me that she
does not use city water. She says
there is so much due from each lodger
that it is quite sufficient for all her
needs.
During baptizin'" at Bayonne,
N. J., last week, pier gave way and
immersed 800 men and women who
had already been baptised, but whom
. watchful providence seemed to think
needed another souse.
Voice Over the Phone "Shay,
Central, / wanter.hic.talk ter me
WIFE,"
Central-What's her numberf"
Voice "Quit cher kiddin', will
yer! l Amt no Mormon"
I believe that everything in this
world is created for wise purpose,
but there is only one thing that / can
imagine a flea was made for, and that
is to enable person to enjoy the pleas
urable sensation of scratching.
An Olympia man asked his little
daughter what he should get her for a
birthday present. The little tot, who
was suffering from toothache replied
I" want some teeth like mama's, that
you can take out when they ache"
Howard Rayner, an attorney OF
Baltimore, has what is said to be the
original warrant for the execution Of
Charles l. I will bet bottle OF Olym.
pia beer that Boston can produce the
quill pen and bottle that held the ink
with which the death warrant was
signed.
Dispatches from Madrid state that
the bodies of twenty-six infants IN
rough boxes have been found In the
tower OF st. Peters church, at Seville