Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-04-10
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Gathered in the Eddes of the Current of
Passing Events,

Passing Events,
1t costs $4,000 a year to keep the
White House clean and the floors
scrubbed.
The colony of 1000 Filipinos to be
exhibited at the ST. Louis Fair will be
one Of the striking features distin-
gushing it above all others.
The mint at Philadelphia turned out
! more than $7O,OOO,OOO new cents last
year-one apiece for every man, wo-
man and child in the United States.
A noted scientist declared that the
anthracite coal in the United States
will hold out sixty years longer. Con-
sumers see their finish long before that
time.
A scheme of large proportions is on
foot for colonizing a number OF fami-
lilies from Finland on agricultural
lands in Alaska, under the new home
stead law.
Collars, stocks, stoles, tabs, and all
manner OF conceptions and contrivan-
ces for the neck, simple and elaborate
costly and inexpensive, now adorn or
modify the modish gown.
Oil in California is in combine,
just at present, and the Independent
producers must sell at ten cents a bar
rel, while the trust.protected combine
receives from 35 to 40 cents barrel.
In Pittsburg, one of the largest fac
tories finds Social Secretary quite in.
dispensible, and in the South large
cotton mill is trying to find reliable
woman to fill the position of social 60
between.
Well, we'll; the exclusive Buffalo So
clety leaders now denounce "The Bur.
dick Set" Would it not have been
in better taste for those who prescribe
rules to enforce publicity before rath-
er than after the cloak has falleni
Spain is in luck. She has been
awarded $375,O0O damages from a
Scotch shipbuilding firm that failed
to complete four torpedo boats in time
to use them against the United States.
She now has the boats and the money.
1t is but seldom the good fortune of
dancer to be the prize for which the
.potentates of two mighty nations en-
gage in bitter contest. Yet this no.
vel experience has just been enjoyed by
Miss Isadora Duncan, a beautiful Cal.
ifornia girl, whose dances have created
furore in the principal cities OF Eu-
rope.
The Legislature of California has
amended the divorce law so that the
decree shall not be entered until q
year subsequent to the findings OF fact.
This is to prevent newly divorced per-
sons from crossing the State line and
re-marrying before the expiration OF
the six months inhibition OF the late
law of that State.
The fact that over four hundred pas
sengers were killed last year in acci-
dents on American railroads, while not
one passenger was killed during that
time on British railroads, is exciting
very general comment. Four Or FIVE
times as much, is spent there, however,
in construction of roadbeds, which
would be impossible in this country
with its immense trackage, on four per
cent dividends.
The commission men of st. Paul op.
pose the establishment by law Of a
legal size for berry boxes, measure
similar to that passed by our Legisla.
ture with reference to larger fruit
boxes. The main point urged was
that many producers have boxes al
ready provided, or left over from last
season, and it would be wrong to sub.
ject them to q probable loss to comply
with legal requirements, and make all
boxes to hold COZ cubic inches.