Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-01-05
Oddities ) 9uidditics

"
There are More Things in Heaven and Earth
HOratiO,
Than are Dreamt of in Your Philosophy"
Lord Byron had a pet goose which
sometimes accompanied him ON his
travels.
Spanish women play with their
dolls even after they are married and
have children.
Many of the large ocean grayhounds
carry cats as mascots, these pets being
we'll known to globe trotters.
California has the smallest horse in
the world. 1t is only % inches high
and weighs 70 pounds when shod.
1t is announced as singular incl
dent that on two separate nights while
Chairman Kincaid of the Washington
Board of Control, was a guest at the
Portland hotel, in that city, this week,
an inmate of the adjoining room COM
mitted suicide.
A remarkable case of answer OF
prayer is the subject OF a Chicago press
dispatch of the 9th ult. Seven sis.
tiers, we'll advanced in life, prayed that
they might die together. Five of
them had an answer to their appeal
within week, and the three remain
ing members of the Meuret household
are reported to be on their death beds.
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A report, said to be we'll authenti-
Gated, comes from Albany, N. Y, un.
der date of last Monday. Mrs. Alfred
Wiltzo is the mother of a three-day-
old daughter, which she insists was
born in 116 days, or less than four
months, after she had given birth
to a son. Her story is practically
vouched for by DR.. George T. Mosler, a
reputable physician who attended her.
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The Chicago Record Herald has
made a very notable assignment to
Walter Wellman for next summer,
being no less than flight by air-ship
to the North Pole, and report his
progress to that paper by wireless
telegraph and submarine cable. He is
to spend the next few months in per.
fecting all the details which it is hoped
will result in solving the great problem
that has so far baffled the best thought
and enterprise OF the world. He is
to take Santos Dumont, the aeronaut,
with him, in one of his own improved
air-ships.
The relentless nature OF the san
culinary strife in Russia. is shown by
an incident reported at Kharkof, when
a little boy was seen approaching
Konny square, where q detachment Of
Cossacks were stationed. The Co.'S
sacks, however brutal, draw the line
at children and the boy was allowed
to approach unmolested. On arriving
at the spot he paused, swung his right
hand vigorously and then turned and
ran. A violent explosion prevented
the Cossacks from noting his further
movements. The boy had thrown a
bomb, which plowed up the ground.
Fragments of horses were all around
and some of the Cossacks were con.
vulsed in the agonies OF death, while
streams of blood we're overlooking
along the torn up roadway"
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Probably our temperance friends
will not believe it, but we venture to
say that there is scarcely q man en-.
gagged in the liquor trade who will not
cordially endorse what a Rosalia
saloon keeper advertises as his method
for conducting the business in the
Citizen Of that place.
Notice-To whom it may concern
Know We that by the payment of $1,000
l am permitted to retail Intoxicating
liquors in this city. To the wife who
has a drunkard for husband, or a
friend who is unfortunately dissipated.
l say, emphatically, give me notice of
snch case or cases in which you are
interested and all such shall be ex.
cluded from my place. Let mothers,
fathers. sisters and brothers do likewise
and their requests will be regarded.
pay large tax for the privilege of sell
ing whiskey and other liquors, and l
want it distinctly understood have no
desire to sell to drunkards or minors. l
much prefer that they save their money
and put it where it will do the most
good to their families. There are gen.
tlemen of honor and men of money who
can afford it, and it is with these that l
l.