Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-11-23
PERSONAL.


There is a'rumOr that Mr.. Walter. OF
London Times, is to be raised to
the peeraSe.
Mr.. Henry NJ. Stanley is about to
1--WE IN various parts Of Great Britain Q
SERIES Of 100 lectures on his recent dis
coveries.
The Emperor of Japan is again child.
loss his son, Takano Miya, born less
than two years ago. having died.
Marshal Bazaine has turned author,
and embodied the details Of his escape
from prison in book entitled, 1.-THE
Truth Concerning Fort Saint Mar
guerite.
Rev. II. T. Haddick, pastor OF the
E.ptis. Church at Granada, Miss, was
absent when the fever broke out, but
returned. and died at his post.
DR.. Schliemann has constant good
fortune. He is said to have obtained
permission from the Greek Government
10 begin excavating at Ithaca.
Mr.. W. w. Corcoran, the Washing
ton banker, in addition to many former
gifts to the University of Virginia, has
recently given $50. 900 to endow new
chair Of natural history.
The venerable Rev. DR.. Ingram, of
INST Free Church, Scotland, the oldest
minister in the world. having recently
celebrated his 103d birthday, has never
tasted intoxicating drink.
The great-grandfather and great.
uncle Of President Hayes, both named
Israel Smith, were deacons in the Con-
gregational Church at Sidney Plains,
y. T., and are buried in the old ceme-
terry at that place.
=, The cornerstone of the Knox Memo
al Institute was recently laid at Had
dington, Scotland, the birthplace of
the reformer. It will cost about S45,-
600. The Earl of Haddingtop, who
presided, is descendant OF John Knox.
Mr.. Joseph Cooper, Tompkins Coun-
ty, N. Y, age one hundred and one,
took his first ride on q railroad the
other day and paid his first visit to q
State Fair. He was accompanied by
his youngest child, miss Of seventy
summers.
When Mr.. Bryant last attended
church at Cummington, the minister
failed to appear. After little waiting,
the poet arose in his seat, read chap
ter from the Bible, and led in repeating
the Lords Prayer.
Mr.. Richard II. Dana, Jr., sailed
from Boston on Saturday for two
years. residence in Paris. His wife and
two daughters are with him. He pro-
poses to devote part of his life abroad
to the completion of work oninterna-
tional law.
Prince Bismarck is becoming corpu.
lent. When weighed recently at Kis-
singer he tipped the beam at two hun.
dred and forty pounds. The former
gracefulness Of his movements, so con-
spicuous when he was Prussian Minis.
ter in st. Petersburg and Paris, has
given way to portly unwieldiness.
Ono of the eight premiums offered
by the Royal Agricultural Society of
England. for the best managed farm in
the district in which the annual exhi-
bition is held, was awarded to.a woman
y armer, Mrs. Ellen Birch, for farm
~of two hundred and forty.two acres of
arabic land near Ainstee.
Mr.. Cyrus w. Field has offered q
prize of 800, or silver cup Of that
value, to the person residing on Broad
way, Irvington, who shall within one
year make the greatest improvement on
his own grounds and on the street in
front OF his house by planting shade
trees and by trimming and cutting
down trees in front Of his house.
Tn 12E0 xvhar &bo x:Jo ~ ,>oI:k:oo1
passion was still running very high,
Bismarck went one day into q tavern at
Berlin to take glass of beer. A man
near him began to abuse one of the
royal family. Bismarck looked at him,
and said quietly, IF you have not left
this room before I have finished my
beer, I will break this pot over your
head" He then emptied his glass very
deliberately, and as the man took no
heed of the warning, he did as he had
threatened. He walked away leisurely
without any one having dared to MODEST
him.