Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-04-23
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The number of tourists visiting
Los Angeles last winter was about
half the usual number.
Now we have the wireless tor
! pedo. We now await the "lineless
fisherman then all will be serene.
| Evidently the san Francisco graft
prosecution cases are still good for
several more tirSt-claSs sensations.
Teddy made a great hit at Naples.
even if he didn't say that macaroni
beats buckwheat cakes To Il frizzle.
Grim trouble lastcth bnt lav,
Cheer mp, cheer up, We blue ones,
Cur troubles soon will pass away
And then We III have some new ones
IT Saloonmcn are not careful, it
won be long until all they will have
! to drink will be Pcruna and mineral
water.
The report that Hartman intends
to retire is, Of course. all bosh. There
is Il railroad he hasn't got control
of yet.
The Mining Reco,I. of Victoria, b.
C., has discontinued publication after
a career of II years. The pay streak
probably ran out
lie is wise who saves up for a rainy
day, for even if there be IA protracted
drought it is well to have capital with
which to buy water.
The largest industry in Los Ange-
les seems to be. at prcSent-"Tol let"
Furnished rooms, iIOuSekccp- |
ING rooms. sunshine.
The police force in Tacoma seem TO
be too slow to catch even n free
cigar or a free drink. The barkeep- |
er has to hand to them. as a rule.
lie was only poet saysa writer
in a Texas paper. Well, what more
do you want. Isn't that evidence
damaging enough to convict him?
1t keeps a man busy these days
thinking and working, when he is
home how to avoid stepping on the
rugs placed there by his wife to look
at.
A man too proud to beg. to hon
est to steal and too lazy to work. is
up against hard, unfccling condi-
ton of things. He would be better
dead.
Crazy Snake has not vet surren
dered. Probably waiting for on Of !.
Ter from some magazine editor for !.
his story of the Creek uprising, at a
dollar u word. |
How those girls in the six DAYS
walking match in Los Angeles would
have kicked if mamma had asked
them to walk six or seven blocks to
match Il sample
1t seems to be an odd week, when
our former citizen William Waldorf /
Astor, owner of the Pail Mall Gu.
-tte, of London, England, dosen.t
fire his editor
The Los Angeles idea of a square
deal, apparently, is for the President
to send fleet of warships to that
vicinity every time there is a convcn
ton in the Angeles city.
London girls are shocking English
society by wearing gaudy stockings.
rufiles and false putfS. American So
ciety would be shocked to see its
girls dress in any other manner.
A Portland paper advertised for
the heirs to small fortune which
is now in the hal.ds of IL LAWYER"
Those heirs will be fools if they per
init themselves to be discovered.
Broadway is the promenade street
in Los Angeles. Beauty, wealth, and |
fashion, are to be seen each day in
the street. and the display in store
windows are things of interest"
Henry f. Huntington S library. in
his new mansion in Los Angeles will
contain, as part of decorations, the
famous Boucher tapestries, costing
81 ,0OO, 900. NeedlewOrk comes high
sometimes.
The Kaiser has forbidden officers
of the army and navy to smoke cigars
or cigarettes in the presence of wo-
men. Now let the Kaiser forbid wo-
men of his court. using perfumes of |
any sort. HoSS and hoss, you know.
Archeologists have dug up in
i]abylOnia specifications for road con-
strnction which they claim antcdatc
the flood. Washington has some
thing of that sort in the scheme of
Mayor Miller. of Seattle, to stop en-
tlrely, women of easy virtue from
plying their vocation.
There are men who are "a disgrace
TO the saloon business, who i'm order TO
get patron S money. winks as the
barkerper puts knockout drops
into his liquor. These sort of human
vultures are 4 curse to the liuuor
| business, and when brewers detect
such men, they should help put him
out of business instead of allowing
| him to run one.
a woman s paper has been burst
ing INTO poetry with the following
effect:
Joy and temperance and repose
Slam the door on the doctors nose."
This is very rough on the dear
doctors nose. No wonder high
spirited youths ere exhibiting a dis
inclination to enter the medical pro-
fession.
1t has been several days since the
news that the "oldest man in the
world died here today" has ap-
peared. But it is left to British Col
nmbia, not to allow the subject to be-
come a fortnight stale without the
oldest individuals dying somewhere;
SO the little coal town of Nanaimo. B.