Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-07
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Personal.
Yacoob Khan is the "Leetle Yacob I"
Of Asia.
Minnie is the first American Hauck
noted for its singing.
my stars" is the only profane
expression used by Prof. Watson.
Consistency may be Jewell, but
you can't make 10 Hawley believe it,
Boston Post.
Millais, the artist, makes good
speech when he does speak, but he sell
dom speaks.
"Ebenezer is the title of Hans
Brietmann's story in Temple Bar. He
raised it himself.
| Mr.. Conscientious Scruple has left
Detroit Toledo Commercial. He never
was in Toledo.
1t is rumored that our great Ameri-
can poet, G.. Washington Childs, will
be sent to Berlin.
| Orpheus G. Kerr, who was 30 ill some
time since, is still shadowy, buts he
writes continually for the New York
press.
Detroit compliments her inimitable
humorist.by smoking the new brand of
Brother Gardner cigars. - Boston
Itarelsr.
/ shero Ali has $50 wives. His affair
with England, therefore, is only
tchange OF battlefield. -Bafalo CONNER
cial AdsertiSer. ',5i.
| Hoe B. Keen Miller is charged with
sstealiAg '';Janette's Hair" from Miles
20 Reilly; We can't understand what
the hedgehog of the Sierras wants more
4 hair fos Boston Post.
/ Louis Blanc thinks there will be
universal republic on this world soon,
and only two languages spoken, Eng
lish for commerce aud French for lit
erature.
There is rumor that Queen Victoria
will give up the throne to Albert Ed
ward this year. We Western folks who
correspond regularly with Her Majesty
know this statement to be without
foundation.
On January LIST the handsome Turk
ish lounge of Eli Perkins was sold at
auction, and the proceeds devoted to
charitable purposes. He will need it
no more. He proposes to sit up here
after.-CinciaHati Commercial.
90, can't you stay here
| And be our AmeerW
| Said the people Of Afghanistan
"No, / cannotstay here"
| Said the boiling Ameer,
"But possibly Yakoob Khan"
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Miss Minra Kohl, aged II, and heir
ess to $48 900, ran away with George
Hatton, q farm laborer, with salary
of SIT month. The rich Miss Minra
must be daughter of "Old. King
Kohl Free Press. And although she
was in great hurry when she ran
away, she didn't go bare headed-she
got her Hattop.--Richmond IVA Baton.
G. F. Adams, of Boston, has Just
purchased SAC, 900 worth of lots in Kan
sas City, and will build thereon o
cotton mill and workmen's cottages.
Inasmuch as poets are every now and
then investing $4,000 in real estate
and things, it may be as well to explain
that the Adams here alluded to is not
the author of "Yawcob Strauss" but
Charles Francis, the frigid.-Norris-
to,cm Herald.
The judgment upon Prof. Tylers
History of American Literature" is
we'll nigh unanimous. Few works
elicit such q monotony of praise. The
lordly Nation, which some one has
called 1.-THE Day of Judgment, held
weekly at No. 5 Beekman street, New
York." says it is book truly, admir-
ably, both in design and general exc.
cution the learning is great, the treat
ment wise, the style fresh and vigorous.
Like Parkman, Prof. Tyler may almost
be said to have created, not merely his
volumes, but their theme. 1t is so far
beyond all predecessors in its concep-
ttions that it stands alone. He has gone
through the seventeenth and eight
zenith centuries of American literature
and made of them book more inter-
lesting than half the new novels"
Oakley Clifford Haines, writing from
Pensacola, Fla, says: ''The Weekly
Free Press of the 14th ult., contains an
extract from poem written by my
grandmother. The lines commencing
Thou art crumbling to the dust, old
pile. quoted in the article of GO One of
Lees Miserables," was written upon
the wall of Blanford Church, by Mrs.
Hiram Haines in the presence of my
father, who was then a lad. She was
the widow of Hiram Haines, editor Of
the Petersburg Constellation; political
writer Of the Jackson school, and poet
of some local celebrity, and now rests
by his side, under the shadow of those
ivy-clad walls. Her tombstone was
shattered by she'll from the Federal
batteries during tho seige of Peters
burg, but since replaced by my father"
A FEAT OF MRMoRY.-One of the
most remarkable feats Of memory is not
recorded in the books, though it came
before the public in singular manner