Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-11-15

has been that they do not know the
ordinary rules of arithmetic.
The Proprietor-'' You go by with
your nose in the air, as if y"u didn t
owe me five dollars
The Editor Well. good heav-
ems. do you want me to have it am
putated and trail it behind me cause
| do?'
The Chief of Police at Cleveland.
Ohio, has ordered the arrest of any
woman flirting in the streets. He
defines llirt' as the feminine
form of masher, y adding that she
is much more dangerous than the
male mashcr.
1t is reported that the distillers of
Peoria, ILL.,, have begun to use steel
casks for the whiskey. | doubt
whether steel casks would be strong
enough to hold certain brand of
bug-juice" sold over a bar in Ia
coma, which | have drank.
One C. NJ" Moore has asserted
in a letter published in the WASHING
TON STANDARD that | write under a
nom dc pi"mr This same homb,e
while in Olympia sailed under the
name of Charley Moore; now it is,
ordinarily. c. Milton Moore.
will expect to see the photo of
Gov. Mead on all calendars used in
banks next year. You know he gave
the banks Il Three day holiday" !"
The Governor can only set aside one
day rs legal holiday according to
Section i,709, of Ballinger's code
Railroads are discontinuing new
work and discharging thousands of
workingmen, yet Republican papers
talk about prosperity all over the
country" The man with a job can
talk of prosperity. but the man who
has no work nor money, thinks other
wise, you bet.
Ringling Brothers having bought
all the big shows, can now be con-
sidered trust. But where, outside
of Banker Furth, of Seattle, who has
not attended circus for 80 years, is
the man who wishes to see the circus
trust put to any convenience when
billed for his town?
Olympia storc-keeper-" Our new
clerk is the most reliable one we have
ever had. "
How is that" | asked.
Store-keeper-" You can always
tell what he is going to do next
And what does he do?" Iqucried.
Ore-keepcr-" Nothing.
And even such a Staunch friend to
Gov. Mead, as the P-I knows when
the Governor exceeds his authority,
makes mistakes and blunders, and it
isn't one bit backward in chastising
him for so doing. The P-L has an
editor who is first to challenge, first
to forgive. and his name is Erastus
Brainerd.
If any citizen of Olympia wants
detective work done, write one C.
:" NJ" Moore, of Portland. When
not busy engaged in maxim. soap.
He will discover anything unknown
you may wish to unmaSk. am still
waiting for Moore to tell my true
name. Come, come, Charley, be a
man or mouse.
:" For q person with but one eye,
you put on considerable airs, said
the scissors to the needle.
No cutting remarks, was the
reply" You'd be no good in a poker
game, for you never have but a pair "
And then, in response to an in
quiry as to how it felt, the thread
replied, 20, just sew sew"
Some people say Seattle is going
at too speedy gait and that finan-
cial crash may be expected. Rents
and foodstutf in that city are high,
excessively high, and wagc-earners
have hard time to live. No use talk
ing, when it comes to high prices.
Seattle has such, and it will not in.
duce homeSeekers to locate there
Live and let live is a motto Sc
attic should read each day.
They tell me you have learned to
count, Freddy, said q pious old lady
to her grandson who was paying her
visit at South Bay.
CourseI can, answered Freddy,
listen-One, two, three, four, five,
six -"
That's right" said the old lady
encouragingly, go on Freddy
Seven, eight, nine, ten, jack,
queen and king"
Old lady faints.
The fair city of Olympia came ap-
pallingly near lying in ruins last
night. A fire broke out in an ash
barrel in the rear of the residence of
our fellow tOwnsman Mr.. B. f. f. r.
Tumwater, and had it not been for
the fact that the ash barrel was sit
uated about three hundred feet from
any other building, and at the time
no wind was blowing and it was
raining hard, and had not Mr. B. f.
E. R. Tumwater discovered the fire
and put it out in it's incipiency, it
might have been the STANDARDS sad
duty to record a frightful cOnflagra-
tion, such as the city has never
known and such as l hope l may
never know.
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Here is q singular illustration of
the optical delusion which change
of position will sometimes effect.
Take row of ordinary capital let
ters and figures,
SSSSSSXXXXXXSSSSSS
They are such as are made up of
two parts of equal shapes. Look
carefully at these, and you will per-
ceive that the upper half of the char
acters are very little smaller than
the lower halves, SO little that an
ordinary eye declares them to be of
equal size. Now turn this column
upside down, and. without any care
full looking, you will see that this
difference in size is very much ex-
aggerated. that the real top half OF
the letter is very much smaller than