Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-09
A nice quiet talk-two mutes.
A delightful beverage-"Tumwater


A delightful beverage-"Tumwater." !"
A puzzle-which will win in Seattle !;
the deputy sheriffs or the gamblers?
No doubt the packers in Chicago
wouldn't mind packing a few strikers.
The nature of the undertakers' busi-
ness is to follow the medical profes-
sion.
1t is no sure sign because a man
is born in Tacoma that he doesn't
amount to much.
Thirty sacks of baked CLAIMS were
fed to the Holsters" attending the
Seattle carnival, one night last week.
There will be no brass band at the
Snohomish Fair. Too bad the man
agement cannot announce the same
thing OF confetti.
You cant tell man nowadays by
the number OF ink.tints on his letter.
heads. the height OF his collar, nor the
color Of his shoes.
There may always be sugar in the
gourd, but it's fact, when fellow is
out of work, that there's no sugar in
the bowl, as o rule.
The Everett brass band which re.
Quired the services OF q policeman to
lead it, must have been playing drunk
and disorderly" music.
We know many men who would
sooner beg FIVE cents for saloon stew
than split a sack of kindling wood for
a good, wholesome meal.
Perhaps Russia is deliberately VIC.
lating international law so that some
nation may step in and stop the war
that is becoming so troublesome.
Secretary Shaw came, he saw, but
he did not find any indications that
the Republican party would win in
Washington State this fall. o, pshaw?
There is An editor in Eastern Ore.
gon SO intensely patriotic to his coun.
try that tho "copy" paper he uses
must be of "green" color at any and
all times.
"Seven hundred and seventy-nine
parts in every one thousand of human
blood are water" We are glad to
learn this. We supposed it was beer,
or whiskey.
The Seattle Times is to operate
a daily paper in Bellingham. 1t will
be known AS the Puget Sound Anaeri.
can. Blethen will now have two holes
to blow through.
When you lose an opportunity you
want to get busy looking for another,
instead of sitting on a drygoods box
and talking about your bad luck as
though you were proud of it.
There is woman 80 ardent in her
belief OF temperance, living in Kansas
that she won't come to visit relative
in Olympia, because she has heard
that our climate is so invigorating.
They say "practice makes perfect"
Well, all we can say is, that after
listening to q young lady practice
scales on the piano for two solid
hours is that practice makes perfect
misery.
The Filipino costume at the Worlds
Fair is aptly described as q four-in-
hand tie worn low. The same descrip
tion would also apply to some OF the
fashionable ladies affected by the
"4OO" OF most towns.
The Deputy Sheriffa in Seattle must
have ait in" for the gamblers operat
ing in the Snohomish bar; yet the Sc
attle bar, Seattle bar annex and Mag
nolia, are just as guilty. Wonder VIII,
the three latter are passed by?
We complained to q young lady
that we did not see much of her las
summer. She said she would fix it st
that would see more of her this sum
mer. She did. She wore the shortes
bathing suit at Buffers Cove, las
week.
u. Shipmasters are hereby warned tina
between Seattle and Bellingham awfu
winds will prevail this winter. Th'
Seattle Times is putting in "wind
plant at Bellingham to connect will
the one already blowing" in tn
Queen City.
There is a little boy in Seattl
by the name of "Shadrach Nebuchad
nezzar Zoots." We asked him tn
other day who gave him his name. H
told us that he didn't know, but il h
finds out when he gets older, they'll b
sorry for it.
, Bishop Potter with his Poor Man
Club wants to see that the wealth.
class of cheap booze bazaar" patron
that generally loaf around place @
this sort, do not eat up all the "fre'
lunch" from the poor, hungry sinner
that he wishes to reform.
RI While out fishing last Sunday W
noticed a sign which read "No fishin
, here" We would like to meet tn
man that put up that sign. There