Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-21
Personal.

Liberal journals in England call the
Premier Gar Benjamin.
Victor Hugo is engaged in finishing
two new volumes Of poetry. They will
appear next month.
Mr.. Henry Shaw, alias Josh Billinps
may be seen every afternoon driving in
the Central Park, New York.
Three stones placed over the grave
OF Thomas Jefferson have been, one by
one, destroyed by relic-hunters.
Next June the golden wedding of the
German Emperor is to be celebrated
with great pomp and ceremony in Der.
lin and Potsdam.
Professor Max Muller believes in the
higher education of girls. He has lust
given 81 500 to be invested to provide
an exhibition for q scholarship ut the
High School for girls in Oxford.
A younger brother of the Earl of
BeaconA6eld has been discovered in the
person Of Mr.. Ralph Disraeli, who is
assistant clerk Of Psrliament-the sec
ond Office Of the House of Lords-with
Q salary OF $9,0OO.
Count William Bismarck, the son of
the Prince, and the youngest member
Of the Reichstag, is q jovial, hearty
looking person, 80 clever that he would
have . future before him even il lie
were not the son of SO powerful man.
Mr.. Talbot, the republican Gov.
ernor OF Massach usetts. has been known
for years, says the Wsmaa's Journa!
Is sincere friend of woman's en-
franchisement. He has twice presided
at suffrage meetings, and both he and
his wife have given practical aid to the
movement.
Florence Nightingale is sixty years
old, and 90 enfeebled by age snd ILL.,
ness that she is almost prisoner in her
room. It is ore of the hardest things
in the world to think OF Florence Night
ingale Is an old woman. Mems minds
have formed q picture of her that will
not grow old.
Colonel T. w. Higginson does not
agree with Tho Nations criticism on
Americans abroad. He declares that
Americans are quite the equals in dresc,
in manners, and in morals of educated
Englishmen or Germans; and unedu.
Gated Americans are quite the equals
Of the uneducated Representatives OF
these two other nations.
Dean Stanley makes 10 gestures
when preaching, and stands quite still.
The story goes that one Sunday after
returning from church he asked his
wife why people looked so intently at
him during the service; Size replied
"How could they help it, dear, when one
of your gloves was on the top of your
head all the time ?" 1t had dropped
from his hat.
A certain Judge Pierce was fishing
and had got out of bait, when f,rtu-
nately he saw large water snake. about
one hundred yards away, spring from a
log, seize q minnow and crawl back
again. The judge at once picked up
his rifle and put ball through the
snakes head, secured the minnow, put
it upon his hook and caught pound
pike with it.
Nothing is too good for the Earl Of
Beaconsfield Just now. When he went
to Osborn the other day to visit tn
Queen he travelled in one Of the royal
saloon carriages, the superintendent of
the line drove the train, as he does
when the Queen travels, and the plat
form in Victoria Station was covered
with crimson cloth. No wonder Mr..
Gladstone is disturbed.
Mr.. William B. Astor's country place,
near Rhinebeck, on the Hudson, com
prises about eight hundred acres, en-
ploying forty men the year round.
There are one hundred and ten horses in
the stables, thirty of which are road
horses. Among these is the famous
stallion Frederick the Great. All Mr..
Astor's more valuable steeds are named
after monarchs distinguished in his
tory.
An incident illustrating Gen. Grants
rententiveness of memory is told. Sew
eral years ago. when he was President,
q letter was received at the White House
from an Ohio florist, asking for GER
tain rare plant, for which the writer had
sought in vain far and near. The Presi-
dents private secretary returned reply
that il was not to be found in this country.
Last winter the florist received pack
age from Europe containing the long
desired plant, with the compliments
of U. S. Grant"
Mr.. Spurgeon has changed greatly
in the past twenty years, having become
broad and thick.set. His heavy brown
hair, with beard and whiskers sur
rounding his face, gives him the ap-
pearance of an English sea captain
rather than that of one of the most
noted clergyman of England. He never
had much of o clerical look, and has
less now than ever. When he comes
on the rostrum-for he has no pulpit
he looks NOR like the sexton arranging
the books for the pastor than like tbs
great preacher himself.
Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son
OF the Prince Of Wales, boy with an
erect figure and Q heavy face, is to en-
ter Q military academy by.and.by.
When he is seventeen he will go into
the army, and, it is said, is not unlikely
to emulate the example OF his soldier.
like uncle, the Duke Of Connaught, and
undertake at FIRST the most subordinate
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