Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-28
Personal.

Oeu. ADuSStFeeto uAlr Ia nearly
white.
Charles Dickens house at Gadshill
is soon to be sold at auction.
Mr.. Webb C. Hayes, SOY Of the
President is hunting deer in Virginia.
Bismarck is not portly. but his pom.
derous frame brings down the scales at
243pounds.
"These interviews are & nuisance, is
. recent comment Of Wendell Phillips
to . reporter.
Bayard Taylor weighs $50 pounds,
and passes readily for Q native ct the
German Court.
Gen. Pleasonton appears to have do
Parted entirely from public notice.
"Blue 90 tho grass above thee, friend
Of our early days"
Mr.. Bancroft, the historian, is said
to havs recently presented the lady who
reads the proof Of his work with $50 for
discovering an error in one OF his Latin
quotations.
Just Is If Butler had been elected to
succeed him, Gov. Rice closes his
Thanksgiving proclamation with the
words, God save the commonwealth
OF Massachusetts, ."-New Orleans Plea.
yune.
The London Times has lost its editor
through the Afghanistan trouble. Mr..
Chennery, the editor, thought one way,
and Mr.. Walter, tho proprietor, an.
other. Mr.. Walter undertook the ed.
iting on his own account, and Mr..
Chennery resigned.
The house in which John Knox, the
great Scotch divine and reformer, lived
and died, is yet standing in Edinburg.
Old Town. Extending over the entire
front is this inscription in large Roman
letters; "Lufe God abufe all, and vi
nychtbeur as vi SELF"
John B. Cough, like Gen. Grant, is
q lion on the other side of the Atlantic
If reports are true his reception in
London was the finest ever given to an
American not connected with official
life. 1t took place in the College Gar
dens, Westminster Abbey.
A piece of ground in Oak Hill Gene
terry, on Georgetown Heights, higher
than the dome of the Capitol, is the
resting place of Salmon p. Chase. Near
by is the grave of Edwin M. Stanton.
From the commanding site, Washing
ton and Alexandria can be distinctly
viewed.
Thomas A. Edison's ancestors were
Hollanders. His great grandfather
lived to the age of 1O2, his grandfather
1O3, and his father is now living at
Port Huron, Michigan, and is rs years
Of age. Edison himself is not yet 80.
If he is to live to be one hundred years
old, like Alexander he will soon begin
to sigh for more worlds to conquer.
In the quaint old Bryant cottage at
Roslyn, l.. l., one room remains sacred
to the memory of the poets wife, who
died in it in 1864. Everything in the
room is as she left 1.-THE old mahogany
high post bedstead, her writing desk
on table in the centre, containg the
stationary with which her last letters
were written; on her bureau her toilet
articles: in the closet her wardrobe
dresses, slippers and complete attire;
and on the bureau half. burned can
die in brass candlestick, standing
where it illuminated her death cham
Der fourteen years ago.
The emperor of China has tho power
of comforting the Oldest decoration men
toned ia history. This is the Yellow
Tunic, which is made of yellow silk and
has on the back dragon, the arms Of
the Chinese Empire, embroidered in
gold and black silk. 1t is the most dis
tinguished order in China, and is con-
ferred only on extraordinary occasions.
Only two Europeans have ever received
1.-THE Englishmap, Colonel Gordon,
who rendered great service to the Chi
nese government during the Tapping
rebellion, and the French engineer,
Giguel, who built military arsenal in
Northern China