Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-14
Foreign Notes.

| cleS IN 1918 Is set down at not less than
5000 greater than that of last year.
The unusual sight of a snow pillow has
been seen in Oxford street, London
1t was drawn by six horses, two abreast.
Prince Boris Galitzin. aide-de. camp
to the Emperor of Russia, died in Paris
on the Oath of December at the age of
fifty-nine.
The Journal deS Debats announces the
death at eighty.nine, of NJ. Francois
LIE Normant, the publisher of that
paper, and son of one of its founders
Prof. Jackson, for many years aman-
uensis to Dugald Stewart, and late Pro
fessor of Ecclesiastical History in elias
glow University, died recently at st.
Andrews.
The cable between Madras and Pen
ang, which is about 300 miles in
length, has been duplexed, to use q
word against which the London Specta-
tor protests.
Sir Julius Benedict, the English COM
poser, lately underwent an operation
upon his eyes. At last accounts he was
progressing favorably, but was confined
| to dark room.
While the Queen is in the Isle of
| Wight, an iron-clad is now sent to ride
off Cowes, a new departure, intended,
the quidnuncs say, to impart additional
importance to her Majestys presence.
By the breaking of the ice on the
River Ouse at Littleport, near Ely,
England, on the day before Christmas,
fifty persons were precipitated into the
water and six of them were drowned.
The omnibuses, which have for gen.
erations piled between London and
Richmond have at last succumbed to
the competition of the railways. They
/ were last relic of the old coaching
days.
The Partisan art world got excited
over the mysterious disappearance of
M. Jean Paul Laurens' picture, Z" La
Pape Formose," from the Paris Expo.
sition, and there was general conster-
nation till it occurred to some one to
look for the picture in the gallery of
the Museum of Nantes, where it be-
longs, and, 10! there it was.
An ingenious robbery was lately COM
mitted in Paris. A man called at the
residence of master builder and told
his wife that her husband had fallen
from scaffold, and that if she wished
to see him alive she must make haste.
She rushed off at once, and found him
alive and we'll, but in the meantime the
house had been robbed of plate and
jewelry.
The Emperor Williams reader, Privy
Councillor Louis Schneider, has just
died. For the last thirty years he had
preserved all the hair clipped from his
head by the barber, and with it was
stuffed the cushion On which his head
reposed in the coffin. The inscription
for his tombstone was also prepared in
advance, with blank left for the date
Of his death.
The Emperor of Austria, at his sum-
mer retreat at Ischl, is an inveterate
smoker, and has on the writing-tahle of
his bedroom number of long, coarse
Virginia cigars. The Emperor is tall
and spare, with close.cropped sandy
hair, just turning iron-gray regulation
military whiskers and mustache; small,
restless gray eyes blunt features and
heavy lips, and he wears the light blue
uniform of General. He speaks six
languages.
Coal-armor is the newest idea aniong
English naval constructors. A coal
bunker eight or ten feet wide, filed
with coal, has been found to resist the
projectiles of the AZ ton gun (nearly
seven inches bore) even when fred
under conditions most favorable for
penetration, and experiments have been
tried by exploding shells with increased
bursting charges in the coal without
setting it on fire. For converted mer-
chant steamers and vessels, where the
greater part of the machinery ia placed
above the water line, these bunkers are
likely to be employed.
A subject has been found ON which
Mr.. Gladstone acknowledges himself
incompetent to write. In reply to an
invitation from the Scottish Banking
and Insurance Magazine for q contribu-
ton of the present financial distress in
Great Britain, he says: My infor.
nation on the economical state of the
country is not such as to warrant it.
My political convictions as to the dis
turbing and exhausting effect Of the
pOucy HOW puIbucu mlSnt uuOuly
color my argument, nor am able to
solve the nice question whether these
are altogether, as before, passing diff
culties, or whether in any or what de.
gree they are connected with causes of
permanent operation"
In your toll. in your sorrows, in your
bsreavements, in your burden-bearing,
in your poverty, being in the wilder
ness. finding yourself q stranger in a
strange land, or being wronged, mis-
understood, beaten about and baffled
as bewildered ship in a tropical storm,
look upl For God he is your God, he
is your Strength, he is your Redeemer /;
and if you stand in the daily conscious
ness of God as your Father and your
Hope. you are mightier than fate.
mightier than any power to do you
harm and even here the foretastes and
foregleams of glory shall comfort and
strengthen your hearts.
The iridescent glass which is be-
coming very popular is prepared by
avposico IN M hi la varv hot to fha fumea