Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-07-29
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
CHIPS AND RAGS
BY LUE r. VERNON.
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The Ledger parrot the Tacoma
News.
In the midst Of life, most people are
in debt.
1t doesn't take genius to be poet.
No, indeed not-only courage.
Where the blacks are always above
the whites-on the piano keyboard.
A sign in a Tacoma saloon reads
"All nations are welcome, except Car.
rie."
There is no doubt but what Jesus
was crucified because he told the
truth and lived it.
There is about enough butter to the
pound one gets in the store nowadays
to hold the salt together.
There is lawyer in Olympia named
Israel, but so far no Judge by name OF
Plate has made appearance.
A woman never kisses q man with
pins in her mouth until they have
been married at least year.
A man in Olympia has found that
drink interferes with his work, so he
has decided to knock off work.
If man is the most sensible of all
animals. why doesn't he wear . loose,
comfortable collar like dogs?
1t is humiliating to boast to friend
that your boss can't do without you,
then get discharged the next day.
H. w. Seattle-No, the city of San
Francisco does not employ any one to
close the " Golden Gate" at night.
The Japanese, from reports, in
operating their bottling works at Port
Arthur, require tho use OF many YES.
sells.
All roads in San Francisco do not
lead to Rome, but in the Western
part OF the city, they lead to Market
street.
Many rich father has discovered
that it is easier to get q daughter off
his hands than to keep a son.in-law
on his feet.
The Hayes street cars are the most
popular with the Irish people OF San
Francisco. The cars are painted
green. you know.
A man hates to gather the chips in
his back yard, but he will enter
gambling house and proudly buy
4" stack" of the articles.
What is the matter with Editor.in.
Chief Blethen. Several issues of the
Times and no one has been called "a
pin-head." Wake up, Times.
Most every one knows the old say
ing, "a cat has nine lives" But
there is no telling how many defects
there is yet to be found in the new
capitol building.
The man who allows his nose to be
kept on the grindstone is responsible
for the woman, nine times out of ten,
who has the diamond in her tooth,
and wears rings on her thumb.
Always remember when in q dance
hall, that you cannot tell if the fairy
airy-dressed Lillian is single woman
or the mother OF six children, besides
supporting . low, shiftless husband. or
not.
The most aristocratic hotel in the
"City of Destiny" is The Tacoma.
But the most weather.worn, dingy,
dirty and in.need. d.of.paint "bus" seen
at the depot is the one bearing its
name.
In the woodenware exhibit in the
Palace of Agriculture at the st. Louis
fair is pail weighing 2.375 pounds.
Think of this you Republican wage
earners who are still talking about the
I" full dinner-pail."
The Chehalis County Vidette evi.
IDENTIFY knows a good thing when it
sees it. The little paragraph How
to stop a paper" run in our depart
ment was used by the Vidette couple
of issues without giving credit to Us or
the STANDARD.
A noted Congregational preacher
Said to a hen" You're . beautiful creature"
The hen just for that
Laid three eggs in his hat;
Thus did the Hen reward Beecher.
The above is from The Star and goes
to show that it does twinkle occasion
ally.-Seatt@ Commonwealth.
We also add
As original matter dear Star.
The foregoing is decrepil with age,
1t was quoted in the Ark by Noah,
In the beginning" it was the rage.
From the following, clipped from
the Minneapolis Journal, it will be
noticed that "Dude" Lewis has not
forgotten how TO dress, even at con.
vention OF confused Democrats in St.
Louis.
J. Hamilton Lewis of the pink whis-