Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-02
PERSONAL.
IN. Victor Hugo now makes il rule
NOT to return visits or accept invita-.
tiops.

hons.
Bishop Coke seems TO condemn the
new translation of the Bible before the
appearance Of the work.
The first American leadpencil is said
to have been made by VIM. rMunroe, of
Concord, Mass, in 1911. <
)IYale receives by request from tie
late George Brinley 10000, of which
the larger part will be taken in books
from the sale of his library.
President Grevy, when writing to
crowned heads employs the phase,
VERY dear and great friend" instead
OF the commonplace mon cousin.
DR.. Deems believes in repeating ser.
mons. He thinks the preacher should
follow the hint of the actor, who cleo.
trifies audiences by the recitation of IA
miliar sentences. "''' |--1
The expenditures of Lord Dufferin
in Canada are said to have made him q
poor man and forced him to sell most
of his Irish estates. His salary as Am
bassador to st. Petersburg will be $780,
600 year. t.s III. -
Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria's
youngest son, has been making speech
in London, and is mentioned as show
ing many of the best qualities of real
orator. He spoke on education. and
gave utterance to graceful panegyric
on Professor Ruskin.
General Gar6eld's farm house at
Mentor, Ohio, is simple story and a
half wooden cottage. The General has
made all sorts Of improvements on his
farm some of them being invented by
himself-and is not yet certain as to
whether he will find agriculture profit
able or not. ~ s...e
Mr.. Wilbur T. Storey, owner of the
Chicago Times, is building for himself
a dwelling house in Chicago which is
to cost one hundred thousand dollars.
He is laying out fine park around it.
For month past trees, more than sixty
feet high. have been carried from Indi-
ana to Mr.. Storey's land. A.l
OF Elihu Burnt, an acquaintance
and old pupil says that he never ques-
toned his ability to understand almost
anything, and what he could not or did
not understand, he honestly thought
was not worth knowing. His cardinal
doctrine was that genius is creature
of the will and not IN accident Of
birth.
M. Grevy, the new President, he's an
acknowledged talent as an author of
epigrsms. He is very good chess.
player; and being asked recently to
write something, however trifling, in
an album, wrote as follows: life is
like a game of chess: each one holds
his rank according to his quality, but
when the game is over, kings, queens,
knights and all the rest are thrown into
one comm on box" alrG a.4.
A train out of Yicksburg last Satur-
day had General Sherman and JEFF Da
Wis for passengers, and In mentioning
the occurrence the Yicksburg Herald
says: ga friend of Mr.. Davis remark
ed to him that he would have good
company to travel with in the person OF
General Sherman, and the ex President
replied, = Well, l suppose there is room
enough on the cars for both of us. '1'i9,
Elihu Burritt was once working at
the forge when will written in Danish
and brought from the West Indies to
be deciphered was given to him. IL
had visited several of the leading col
leges in vain, but nothing daunted,
Mr.. Burritt went to work at it, and in
two weeks had not only deciphered the
badly, written manuscript, but had
translated it, too, with perfect correct
ness. He asked for this service only
the sum that he would have earned at
the forge during the fortnight. = as.i
a Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the,
owner of a very large number OF COM
monplace books, big and little. In the
former, are iotted down his literary
thoughts, while the latter have, gone
with him on all his walks and received
the suggestions Of the outer world.
Even his highest reflections and fsncies
are recorded in these books. 1t is a
story, often told lip Concord, that one,
night Mrs. Emerson awoke suddenly, y
and hearing him cropping about the
room, inquired anxiously: ur"My dear,
are you unwell?" ','No, my love, only,
an idea These disconnected thoughts
form the basis of his essays. ts1S ~ :.
ia BEAR TA1E.-The Gar wished 10
shoot q bear. % A bear was according
" found, o ring OF peasants surrounded
il, and word of its whereabouts was
sent to the imperial sportsman. I'm
fortunately, awhile these preparations
we're being made, the creature gen !
Ctrived to slip through the ring and es-
capped. What was to be done? That
the Emperor OF all the Russians should
come and find no game would never do.
A happy idea seized one of the forest
ers. Regardless of cost tame bear
was procured in the rick OF time,
turned loose within the ring, and now
ali was ready. The cifcles closed in.I
Cbruin was discovered at the foot Of a
tree, the attendants fell back, the EN-,
peror advanced to fire, but now CAME
the climax--just as the trigger was
about to be drawn bruin rose slowly on
his hind feet and began to perform the
national dance! ;r
ONE oE, Hrs RIGGS. Once upon
/ time Luther G.. Riggs was travelling
through the backwoods OF Maine. The
day was Warm and he yearned for
drink of cider or something. Presently
he came upon stalwart son OF toll en-
l. Ok haN ~