Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-09-29

ton oil broken lamp chimreys
Luther Burbank will have ,o ,oo,.
to his laurels, if report from Co..
Falls, Montana, may be hel,aroa
which ls tnat man named Darst.
has succeeded in growing potatoes
without vines. What merit there NAV
be in the discovery, we fail to CRASH
unless 1t be In the claim that he can
have new potatoes in any climate at
any time of the year. That is some. |
thing, but no claim is made to either
superiority OF product or cheapness of
growth. They are grown in large
box, in layers, in special preparation
discovered by himself, but these de-
tails are not sufficient to establish
permanent reputation for the crop as
CuriOs.
! A peculiar custom is observed in
the English House of Commons which
| is quite different from the usual pro.
cedure in Congress, which is for "call
OF the house" on important measures
previous to vote being taken. As
soon as the question for vote is
stated by the chair, clerk at the
table sets in motion huge sand glass,
familiarly known to members as the
"egg boiler" probably because it takes
three minutes to run out. As the last
sand runs through the glass the Ser
geant-at-Arms instantly locks the
massive oak doors Of the chamber, and
only those members who have sue
ceeded in getting through the doors
can vote.
The staid old Oregonian has not
yet persisted in talking about the in
congruities of Fashions imperious
edicts regarding women's clothing,
but when it does, it shows wonderful
discrimination as we'll as familiarity
with it's subject. For instance, it says:
"Only think Of making purple the
predominating color in the costume of
faded, jaded woman of fashion! Or
of condemning bright young woman
to dowager hue! Or of putting a
short woman in crinoline, or tall,
slender woman in clinging skirts, or
wasp waist into long, tight corsets, or
squeezing plump waist above we'll
proportional hips into wise" There,
now, the oracle has spoken. Selah!
X 4 K
The Hall of Fame at Washington
will contain $50 panels, each bearing
the name of Americans deemed 10 have
been "the greatest in their respective
fields" The names selected so far are
as follows: George Washington. Abra.
ham Lincoln, Daniel Webster, Benja-
min Franklin, Ulysses s. Grant, John
Marshall. Thomas jefferson, Ralph |
Waldo Emerson, Henry w. Longfel,
low, Robert Fulton, Washington Irv-
ing, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel F. B.
Morse, David G. Farragut, Henry Clay,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Pea.
body, Robert f. Lee, Peter Cooper,
Eli Whitney, John j. Audubon, Hor.
ace Mann, Henry Ward Beecher,
James Kent, Joseph Story, John
Adams, William E. Charming, Gilbert !
Stuart and Asa Gray. OF the fifty
names to be inscribed at first, the re-
mainder will be selected some time
this year. Five additional names will
be selected every five years until 1000, |
when the $50 inscriptions will be COM
pleted.
r. L. Mccormick, o well-known
timberman, just returned from the
East, brings story OF unprecedented
prosperity from farms and factories,
and briskness in the lumber trade.
He says that Going through Dakota
L. watched the lumber yards and in
every instance saw from two to five
farmers teams loading lumber. Here
tofore / have seen the lumber piled
up. This time the lumber was COM
ing down for the purchasers" and
that d" notwithstanding the heavy cut
of the mills in Minnesota and Wiscon.
sin. the output for the year will be
reduced about one billion feet COM
pared to last year, owing to the fact
that many mills are out of logs and
timber and have had to retire from
business. Owing to the unfavorable |
conditions for logging in the South
the product of that section has been
much curtailed and this has opened
a wider market for the Northern mills.
Lumber can be proftably shipped now
from the State OF Washington into
| Dakota"