Year: 1879

LAwToN blackberries are getting
ripe.


The nights are stretching ont -
little.


EAST Olympia boasts of kites
with three legs.


The first step towards happiness
is to be content.


A NEW book agent may be expected
early next week.


The New Market Theater block, in
Portland, was recently sold for $780,
600.


AN expert says if timber is fallen
in this month, the stumps and roots
will rapidly decay.


The first bell ever cast in WASH
ington Territory was recently turned
out from the Tacoma foundry.


The time is approaching for senti-
mental young girls to go out after
Autumn leaves. They are beginning
to assume some beautiful hues.


WANTED.-A score of determined
men to come into our county and
work the productive farms of those
deluded men who are proposing to
emigrate to the sage-brush country.


The Oregonian makes a big ado
over the fact that copy of that pa
per has found its way into Persia.
1t is stated that the paper was one
of last April's numbers, SO the whole
thing may be put up, an April fool
affair after all.


FoR the possible benefit of those
who sometimes have money in their
pockets, we note the fact that couu-
terfeit twenty-dollar legal tender
notes are in circulation. Such in
formation, of course, is of very lit
tie service to newspaper publishers.


We know whereof we affirm"
when we state that Harris is offering
rare bargains in clothing, to close
out. Suits that have sold at $35 he
has sold low as S22, and other things
in proportion. Linen collars, 81 50
per dozen, neckties 12a cents-only
think of it! Everything else "alle
same"


IT is a pity the town authorities
did not go more systematically about
the sinking of an artesian we'll.
With proper care, tube wells may be
driven almost any ordinary depth,
and there is but little doubt Aow-
ing steam could have been tapped If
the project had not been abandoned
after partial trial.


The new fountain pen writes
twenty four hours, consecutively, af-
ter once filling. Why does not
romebody invent fountain-idea
pen? What a grand thing it would
be for an editor to fill his pen with
limpid ink and spicy thoughts in the
morning, and then have nothing to
do but to scatter them along the viz
gin page.


The front fence received a new
coat of paint the other day, and this
circumstance was the innocent cause
of a good deal Of mischief, the fol-
lowing night, involving the towering
rage of the old man as well as tho
chagrin of fond young couple who
inadvertently leaned over the gate
about twelve or thirteen hours after
lunch time. A ruined broadcloth
coat and white vest and a sadly stuck
up and bedaubed dolman and dress
revealed the unwelcome truth in the
morning.


If we had the gift of persuasive
eloquence, we would like to write An
article on the subject of content
ment. This is simple, unobtru-
sive word but it implies world Of
meaning. We feel persuaded that
many months will not pass away be-
fore the majority of those who have
left our beautiful city to better their
condition east of the mountains will
be vending their way back again to
the place where they made oil the
money they ever possessed. We are
not afraid to go farther and say that
many who would gladly return to
their mortgaged farms will not have