Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-26
Personal.

Hon. Henry Natterson and Chief
Justice DAILY are at Newport.
Has Sitting Bull any of the propensi-
ties of a Standing Coward?
The animals of New York are fortu.
nate in having nice Bergh at hand
during the hot weather.
Gen. Noyes, our Minister to France,
presided at the recent banquet given at
the Grand Hotel in Paris to NJ. de Les
seps.
Jefferson Davis is said to have pro-
found sense of the gravity of his task in
writing work on the rebellion.
The admirers of Colonel Higginson's
excellent literary talent, will be glad to
hear rumor that he has lately inheri-'
ted comfortable little fortune.
The young daughters of the Pr. nee of
Wales, Louise, Victoria and Maud, ac-
companied their parents to the French
Fair, and wore plain pink cambria
dresses, with sashes of crimson.
The famous English brewer, Mr..
Bass, has given to Derby. in addition to
the park and public baths previously
presented, u library containing 1900
volumes. The building alone cost $751;
600.
Our Ministers and Consuls in China
and Japan have in variety of ways
contributed to the pleasure Of Gen.
Grants visit, and, in many cases, have
received from him autograph letters of
thanks.
President Brown, of Hamilton Col
lege, expects to attend the Association
for the Reform and Codifcation of the
Laws of Nations, which meets in Lon
don Aug. II. He will also attend the
Evangelical Alliance Conferences in
Basic. Aug. 81.
Among the many eccentricities of
that most worthy man and eloquent
preacher, Thomas X. Beecher, OF Ell
mira, is his Endorsement of the crema-
ton theory. His offer to subscribe for
stock in cremation furnace company
brings the question of the burning of
the dead again to public attention.
Of Payne, the author of Home,
Sweet Home," it is said that he was a
small man and had rather sad face,
but quick manner. He was notice
able for wearing very full, short
cloth cloak, and always carrying a gold
headed cane. He talked much and
with animation, and was gallant in his
manner to ladies'.
1t is said that an old soldier now en-
ployed at the Royal Military Academy,
Woolwlch, was present at the funeral of
Napoleon the Great, at st. Helena, in
1921. He was also at the funeral of
Napoleon I'LL, at Chiselhurst, in 1873,
and on Saturday, July II, he attended
the funeral of the Prince Imperial.
He was in the Royal Artillery, and his
name is Henry Weathers.
Old age has no terrors for Victor
Hugo, who is said to have acknowledged
that passing from thirty-nine to forty
was the most trying time in his life,
But" said friend, ~ should think
it u great deal better to be forty than
fifty" mot at ALL" replied Hugo;
forty years is the old age of youth,
while fifty years is the youth Of old
age"
Colonial I. w. Higginson comes gal.
lantly to the defense of women's work,
declaring that the criticisms that men
make upon it grow out of the impress
sion that all work is easy which one
does not understand. Just as hay
making" he says, "is the lghtest and
most graceful of labors to those who
have never personally handled hay
fork; so is the greater part of q woman's
days work easy to man until he has
tried it. Try him for while at the oc-
cupation that seems lightest-let US
say, for two hours steady work at taking
out the basting threads from that pretty
blue bunting that was bought to please
him--and see if he does not get some
new views on the subjectw