Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07
Personal.

The salary Of the Rev. DR.. Talmage
= has been increased from s. 600 to $l2,'
900 . year.
Stanley, the heroic African explorer,
i. 10 deliver q hundred lectures in the
large provincial towns Of England.
The only son, aged II. Of Jefft rson
Davis, ex President Of the Southern
Confederacy. died OF yellow fever a!
Memphis.
Theodore Tilton who has Just returned
from Europe, left his daughters. Alice
and Florence, to finish their studies in
Germany, the one being devoted to
painting and the other to music.
Gariial,li, will, perhaps he u man of
comfortable fortune, after all. lie has
sold To- company the privilege of
quarrying granite ON the island of Ca
prera, to pave the streets OF Rome.
Patience Albro is q lady living in
Foster, II. l., 1t the comfortable age OF
l02. She is said to remember we'll n IN
sieur the Marquis dc La Fayette march.
ing through the village with his regi-
meLt.
Judge Nathan Clifford, although
seventy-six years old, took no vacation
during the past Summer, and had cut
one day Of rest-ths Fourth of July
which happened to he his golden wed.
ding-day.
Sir Thaddeus Fairbanks, of st. Johns
bury, has received from the king of
Siam very fattering letter acknowl.
edging the receipt of set Of the world
famed scales. The scales are to be ex-
hibited in the Siamese museum.
Mr.. James E. Murdoch has accepted
the Lecturship ON Shakespear. in the
College of Rhetoric and Oratory at
Philadelphia, and it is also said that o
position in the new Cincinnati College
Of Music is to be offered to him.
Mr.. William Lloyd Garrison saw on
Monday the sixtieth anniversary of his
apprenticeship to the trade of printing.
He celebrated the day by setting in
type from memory one of his own
poems. He was entertained at dinner
by the New England Franklin Club.
Mr.. Gilbert De La Matyr, the new
Congressman from Indiana, has been O
Methodist preacher for twenty. nine
years. He is said to lie man terribly
in earnest. His lower jaw closes like
q wise and seems to open sparingly for
his words, which he utters in deep
bass voice that gets lower instead Of
higher when he reaches the climax"
The late Mr.. Bard illustrated curl.
ously the facility with which one type
of an American man becomes Jack
of-all Trades" He was first druggist,
then dentist, then Methodist minis.
ter, then State Superintendent of Ed
ucation, then journalist, then Con.
federate quartermaster, then o Terri.
torial Governor, then postmaster, and
then State printer, closing this varied
and industrious career with journal.
ism.
1t is told Of Daniel Webster that he
was fishing one day when meditating
his Bunker Hill speech. As he pulled
up a tautog of phenomenal weight and
corresponding age he imagined it to be
an old soldier Of the Revolution, and
holding it up before him dangling on
the hook he apostrophized it thus:
Venerable man! Thou hast come down
to as from q former generation. We
welcome thee to the light and glory of
this suspicious day.
While few English Prime Ministers
have been very rich, some have been
conspicuously impecunious. Pitt never
married, and declared that he couldn't
afford it, and Canning and Disraeli
were bolstered up by wealthy wives.
The late Lord Derby and Sir Robert
Peel are the only instances of very
wealthy Prime Ministers, though Lord
Melbourne was very we'll of. Lord
Palmerston only became so, late in
life, through u rise in mineral property.
His wife, too, succeeded to her brother
Lord Melbourne's estates.