Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-10

Or. Oliver Weaiell Holnr, viii c-l--
bra.e lis seyen;iC;h birthday oI tEe
18th Of this month.
Mrs. Harriet B-ccher StOsr hse ss--I
spending tie hot set-.G - the HIy
View House. Ferry De-c4. Nate
jaw Gould has coltubuir.i a s,coaA
5000 10 the Memphis relief fUul
e Nav his shallow never fTuv les.
The pew which ". IL S..uArl rsei to
o-rupy ~ Auburn has b,en iINi. Iuto
d. cupboard, aud l. Owned ~ c.iiz-u
Il that town.
Germany does no; pAy high saiafi,S.
PRICE Bismarck receives only sl3.-
40 a. PrGssIan Minister and Chaucr.-
Tor Of tie Empire.
TIE iirst honors Of tie graduating
class al Wesleyan University. CUlL.ctl-
Rice. lady only 20 years old, some
what 10 the chagrin OF the young men.
The S6J. 800 quarterly interest which
James {. Hood draws Oh 60 900, 600 ILL
vested III five per cent. government
bonds viii II little IL ore than pay for his
new stable at Meulo Park. Ii is said
that Mr.. Flood has CD, 900, 900 more i'll
four per cents.
Gen. Longstreet, now Postmaster of
Gainesville, Ga, has cad face. frank =,
gray eyes, massive jaws, strong mouth,
and white silken mustache and side
whiskers. He bears a striking likeness
to the Emperor William. His right
arm, which received many wounds is
paralyzed.
Nellie Grant, or, more properly
speaking, Mrs. Algernon Sartoris. is
not dead. The lady will have tho
pleasure Of reading many thousand
highly complimentary obituaries of her
self. and wo hope she will live until
1900. But how the cable Numbered !!
How the writers of special London dis
patches were fooled ! 1t was Mrs. L.
W. Sartoris who died.
Martha Rodgers, WHO died few days
ago at Middletown, Conn, for fifty years
possessed fortune; but she was con
stantly dreading poverty, and regularly
spent Il part of her time gathering rags
and other discarded things i'll the streets.
A room i'll her house was filled with
such rubbish. Yet she gave money
literally for charitable and religious
purposes, while she lived, and by her
will LETT S25 900 to various institutions.
Mr.. George W. Childs is the fortu
nate owner of an original MS. of
Lowel's poem, "Under the Willows"
of the complete MS. of Dickens
Mutual Friend" and of portions of
the MS. of Byron " Bride Of Abydos."
Mr.. Childs has also letters from
Dickens, from Hawthorne and from
countless other authors; and better than
all, the last letter t'at Washington ever
wrote, dated six days before his death.
NJ. de Lesseps is quoted as telling an
odd story concerning himself. When
he went to Amiens in 1922, to take his
baccaaureato degree, the examiner
placed before him geographical chart,
and asked him what were the four car
dinal points. The candidate was unable
to answer the question. In short. he
obtained excellent marks for his Greek
and Latin, but he ran aground on his
geography. He has changed some
what since those days.
Colonel j. G. Fair, who has been
visiting the King and Queen of the
Sandwich Islands, relates a pleasant
little story of water excursion which
he took with them. When they APP
preached tue island which was their
destination, the breakers were found to
be so boisterous that no small boat could
land. Not Mt all discouraged, the King
jumped overheard, the Queen after him,
and both swan with exceeding grace
and GOODNESS to the shore.