Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-11-25
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pieces washed up by the tide. doomed sawed
| spil, and piled for the perusnI and pastime of
pald-lp subscribers, also for those who beg, bor-
row and steal the STANDARD in order that they
may enjoy n little sunshine as they journey
| through the vale of tears.l
Prosser is having building boom.
This is the sort OF boom that enriches
town and State.
The population of King county ap-
pears to consist mostly OF football
teams, just about now.
No wonder the Oregonian is SO mus.
ical in its makeup. 1t has paid
Piper on its salary list.
Wanted. a strong girl, abstainer
and small eater" runs an ADVERTISE
ment in a Chicago paper.
A Seattle Judge said that two at.
torneys in his court talked too much"
ls this slur on the legal profession?
Not seeing any rooster cuts pictured
in the act of Growing in Republican
newspapers, assume that the birds are
too full Of Joy for utterance.
The total number OF money orders
issued by the United States during the
last fiscal year passed the 50,0O0,009
mark for the first time in history.
The word "naught" has been dis.
carded in numbers by the Sunset Tele-
phone Company in Seattle. The let
ter 90" being substituted in its place.
The trouble of managers OF baseball
clubs in the Northwest are almost as
bad as the troubles OF Job. Only in
stead of boils, they are OF the "roast"
sort.
Seattle advertises excursions to
Walla Walla, when many men are
compelled by law to visit and remain
in the Garden City for a period of
"time."
And now comes Edmonds with q
request to get under the wings of
King county. IT'S we'll. Soon, no
doubt, Tacoma will be knocking at
the same door.
A young woman in Newark, N. j.,
has undertaken two months fasting
and praying for tho cure of asthma.
There is no law against committing
suicide in this manner.
The Household Queen" compart-
ment kitchen table is all right, but
don't cher know it's jolly hard keep.
ing the different apartments filled
with groceries, sometimes.
"a game man will try anything once"
-Seattle Times.
Yes, the man who is afraid he will
be bitten, has no business to engage in
the vocation OF catching poison rep
tiles for their oil.
The young man who will buy his
sweetheart a beautiful boquet, who
hasn't respectable pair OF socks, isn't
the sort of a husband his best girl
would want if she but know his con-
dition.
William Jennings Bryan knows
good thing when he sees it, and Nov.
8th-he saw 1.-THE defeat of the
Democratic social party, but really
the platform OF Hill, Belmont and
Taggart.
We hear as a fact that the life
OF Consul, the chimpanzee, in Central
Park, New York, which recently died,
was heavily insured, has led to the ap.
pearance OF several persons who claim
to be his next-of-kin.
Tom Page. a well-known Seattle
criminal lawyer, some time ago, was
fined $50 for contempt of court by
Judge Tsllman. No doubt Page does
not think the Judge is near so tall as
his name would suggest.
Admiral Dewey wants to take
trip on q government ship few thous-
and miles away. The great Admiral
has offered to assume command of the
combined fleet to be sent for maneu-
vcrs in the Caribbean Sea this winter.
Buffalo Bill" has Withdrawn his
divorce suit, instituted at Sheridan,
Wyoming. It is said that he was de-
ceived into bringing false charge of
attempted poisoning against his wife,
and that he has written her acknowl-
edging his error.
Chicago is soon to have the largest
hotel in the world. 1t will be twenty
two stories high and will cost lO,OOO,-
600. If the prices are in conjunction
with its height and cost, when com.
pleted, we will stay at some other ho-
tel when we visit Chicago. That's all.
King Edwards brother, the Duke of
Connaught, was thrown from his
motor car and suffered painful in.
lures, causing him to walk lame. It's
a two to one bet that every" Johnnie"
in Victoria, B. c., has purchased
cane and is limping up and down
Government avenue.
The Russians, in their mad panic to
run away from the Japs, are dressing
themselves in Chinese clothes. The
world has supposed for some time
that the Russian empire was smoking
Chinese hop, for it seems the soldiers
and officers in each engagement with
the little brown men" have acted
in sleepy manner.