Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-01-01
GATHERINGS BY THE WAYsIDE.
Current Matters Of Thought, Culled Here,
There and Everywhere.

New York.
The government spends million
dollars q year in improvement of the
National Park.
The Northern Pacific gives notice of
q general advance in freight and pas
senger rates after the 18th inst.
The United States is nearly thirty
two times as large as the United King.
dom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Mr.. Bryan, when he returns from
abroad will advocate . bill at Washing
ton to build houses for its ambassa-
dors and ministers abroad.
Senator Clark gave every married
man in his employ in the mines o1
Montana, Arizona and elsewhere a
Christmas turkey. 1t took 5000 to
60 around.
Highway robbery seems to be in.
creasing in Portland. Five cases were
reported in one afternoon and even.
ing. in the business part of the city.
one day last week.
The liquor licenses in Portland ag'
gregate $36,5OO for the quarter just
closed, revenue which probably had
much to do with the steal by which
the anti gambling bill was defeated in
the Oregon Legislature.
William ]. Bryan seems to be &C.
corded the highest honors wherever
he goes on his tour of Europe. AT
Berlin, he was formally met by high
repr esentatives Of the government and
entertained at luncheon by Ambassa-
dor Tower.
A woman 105 years of age, Mrs
Honoretta Marshall, lately died at the
Worcester Hospital for the Insane, = in
Massac husetts. She was born in Po.
land. She was q woman Of great
wealth and had devoted her resources
and energies to relief OF the poor.
The sounding lead of the ship Berk.
shire, plying between Philadelphia and
Savannah, after q cast in latitude 34.7
and longitude 76.4, came up from
twenty fathoms so hot it could not be
handled. 1t must have struck the
crater of some submarine volcano.
At Haydentown, Pa, last week, two
hundred girls on a strike from the
Duplan silk mills, attacked sixteen
non union girls under protection ol
the police, and for q time pitched
battle ragged, the police being 10th to
use their clubs on the disturbers oil
the peace.
A lad in London, says a cable dis
patch, lately hung himself to see how
it would feel. At last accounts he had
not furnished report for the press,
doubtless on account OF inability to
carry out the plan he had arranged ol
cutting himself down before he be.
came unconscious.
The latest society fad in London is
short honeymoon seasons, it being re-
stricted to three days in some in.
stances. One We're de We're couple
lately ignored the custom entirely
and occupied q comfortable suite ol
rooms at a private hotel, despite the
comments of Mother Grundy.
Emperor William of. Germany attend
ed a Christmas tree entertainment on
the eve of the day OF nativity, and on
Christmas, while taking his usual wall
in the neighborhood of Pottsdam, dis
tributed' 5-mark pieces to whoever he
CHANGED to meet. These coins are
ever afterwards treasured as pocket
pieces.
Princess Alice of Shoenburg.Wal.
denburg, daughter of Don Carlos, the
Spanish pretender, who was reported
TO have eloped with her coachman, hal
begun divorce. proceedings against
Prince Frederick, on the ground oil
bodily injury and forcible deprivation
of her liberty. There are two sides to
every scandal.
There are no divorce laws in Italy
Spain and Portugal. In Austria, the
laws permit only Protestants and Jews
to sever the nuptial tie. Roman Cath
olics, as such, have no legal redress, in
form of divorce, in Austria or Hungary,
and they have to become converts Ia
either Protestanism or Judaism before
the courts will grant them . decree OF
divorce.
Three U. s. Senators have lately
married young wives. Depew is 69
Platt 70, and Stewart 76. but NO ques.
ton seems raised over the proprie.y OF
these old men taking young brides,
while deuce of q row is raised over
Utah Senators of middle age who
knock at the door with q plurality OF
wives, though their virility 10 not ques.
toned, like that of the aged Senators.
At the London University examina.
ton, lately held, ninety.four women
received the degree of A. B.. while
only seventy-four were accorded TO
men. OF the twenty-four places in
honors. nineteen fell to women, and
thirty-five out of forty-seven entries in
the first division. Of the eight honor
candidates allowed to pass. five were
women and three men. Degrees were