Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-01
Personal.


MIR. Spurgeon will not accept for his
personal use his congregation's gift OF
1875, 900, but will turn It into chari-
table fund.
Mary A. Dennison has realized $15,-
600 from ''That Husband OF Nine"
More than most women's husbands
would realize.
George Muller, the man who with his
faith in prayer has accomplished such
miracles of charity in England, is to
revisit and preach in this country next
year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Schuyler Colfax have
just celebrated their tin wedding. They
entertained more than 300 guests, and
received gifts of enough tinware to last
the rest of their lives.
Alfred Tennyson receives e10O q
year merely as a sort Of supplement to
his regular literary income of $50
line. He is holding his finest poem in
reserve, to be published after his death.
Lord Beaconsfield is described as be-
ing chary, always of accepting casual
attentions from strangers. Mr.. Glad
stone, on the contrary, is the most ac-
cessible of oil men who have attained
such position as his.
Mr.. Horace W. Tabor, the new Lieu
tenant Governor of Colorado, was in
'54 stone-cutter in Augusta, Maine.
In so he went to Colorado, where he
became miner and rich man, if ST.
O00, 900 means riches.
General j. e. johnson has Just laid
the cornerstone of the Lee Memorial,
at Lexington, Va. Twenty-Five thou
sand dollars have been received for the
Memorial, and only IS 900 more are re-
quired to complete it.
Mr.. Yoshida, the Japanese Minister
at Washington, is a man of exceeding
energy and industry. He is constantly
studying American institutions, and
practically applying his information to
the good Of his country.
King Alfonso, of Spain, is quoted as
saying to General Grant: General
and savior of your country, Spain is
proud to greet you on her soil, for
Spain is the country of warriors, and
you are the greatest of our age!'
II is related of General Butler that
when he was youth and taught school
in Maine, he ingeniously punished his
pupils by putting split sticks upon
their little noses and marching them in
this guise up and down the room.
The Chinese Minister to London has
an agreeable wife whose appearance in
English society has somewhat startled
her native country. One Hong Kong
journal suggests that Madame Kwoh
may return to China an ardent advocate
of the right of woman to more consid-
Grafton than it is the custom to pay her
in the Celestial Empire. But it adds
that unless she gains the ears of the
Empress Dowagers her influence would
scarcely go for much.
Alfonso of Spain, it is asserted, has
written to the Pope, asking his advice
on the subject of contracting second
marriage. The young King begins by
lamenting the loss of Mercedes and ask
ing prayers for her. He goes on to soy
that, personally, the thought Of
another marriage is distasteful to him,
but that every influence is being used
to convince him that the interests of
the Spanish monarchy require him to
take another royal partner.
Augusta Chronicle: 1t is the very
irony of fate that Wade Hampton
should have escaped with his life
through so many fearful battles, though
scared with eleven wounds, only to
endanger his existence by the freak of
miserable mule. During the wa, he
was one of the very few superior Off
GERS who dealt blows with his saber
and received them. He is said to be
one of the very few indeed who, in
single combat on the battlefield, has
laid more than one man low with his