Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-04-08

Good luck-lOng life,
So long-adieu!
Moving picture concerns are be-
coming as thick as flies around the
bunghole of a mOlasses keg in sum-
mer time.
How William Jennings Bryan
chuckles in his sleeve at the Mon
key and parrot" time the Republican
party is witnessing now.
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Experts in mathematics have not
as yet informed the public as to the
exact number of frogs which met
death in the Paris flood, but it may
be expected any day.
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Why is it that great many bar
keepers imagine they are smarter
and know more than most any other
class OF wage-earners. Is it because
the spirits move them" to believe
it true?
What surprised the prohibition
people as regards the Paris flood
that so much water was in evidence
in that city. They have heretofore
supposed that all the liquid that
could be found in the "gay city of
Paris" was champagne, champagne
and champagne. Even prohibition
lists are never too old SO learn.
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When Speaker Cannon was asked
to make statement on the extraor.
dinary events that took place spelling
his defeat as Car of the House OF
Representatives, he said: "You
don't need any statement from me. "
Cannon's declaration was true-the
Democrats and two Republican in
surgents had already spoke for him.
What was the use of Speaker Cannon
saying q word.
A Seattle man asked his wife tC
fry him potatoes. She did not 90 it,
and he deserted her. whereupon she
applied for o divorce which the Judge
granted. The court, when granting
her the decree, told her that she
should have fried the potatoes fol
her husband if the raw material was
within convenient access. Crue
judge! Declare wife should fry po
tatoes when there are so many deli
catesen places in Seattle o, cruel
cruel Judge!
The Los Angeles Times refers SC
Seattle, as being in the woods. >
If there is an individual in the Queer
City who would prefer living in Los
Angeles, situated as it is, in a sane
desert, rather than in Seattle, cir
the woods" where he may inhale the
balm from the glorious big. fir trees
the nerve-building ozone from the
salt water-well, if there is, it is
my individual opinion, that Seattle
doesn't need that person, and the
sooner he vamooses to LOS" the
better.
A Seattle woman wants a divorce
from her husband because, as she
says, he smoked in bed" He
should let the divorce go by default.
He should be tickled to death, if
really understand the sentence she
smoked in bed," though, I stand
ready for correction. Think of the
thousands of poor, henpecked. mar.
ried men, who not only smoke in
bed" but are roast alive" in bed
and out OF bed, each night, so to
speak, by the fast in the middle
loose at both ends" tongue, owned by
the woman they coll wife. Poor
men!
When the Republicans proposed
to nominate him on the Roosevelt
ticket for the Vice Presidency. it is
reported that Joseph Guerney Can
non. Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives, said: They can't make
political eunuch out of me-" Well
coming substances cast their shad
ows BEFORE" and if 1 had been ir
Speaker Cannon's position, l would
have preferred TO have been made 6
political eunuch" in company with
Theodore Roosevelt, than to have
been made one in the style and man
ner. and in the company of those
whom he was among, March 10
1910.
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Mrs. Joseph Drexel, of Philadel
phia, purchased the real Stradivarius
violin, the musical treasure which
was the property of the late COM
poser, Antonine Dvorak, from his
widow, paying $4,000 for the in
strument, which she will present to