Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-12-12
Personals

PERSONALS
Christine Nilsson will revisit Amer
lea.
John Bowes, Q waiter at Montreal,
has fallen heir to Sl0O, 600.
Prince Bismarck thinks he ought to
have been 9 farmer, he likes agriculture
so we'll.
Valentine Baker PashA, Turk by
adoption, pursues the even tenor Of
his way.
The Icelanders continue TO come to
Canada, where they are welcomed and
given land.
The Cincinnati Gazette calls Ben But
Ter the King Lear Of New England.
Hell rather the Dick Desdeye.
Mr.. Herbert Spencer is said to have
lately recovered health, and is better
than he has been for fifteen years.
Mr.. William II. Vanderbilt is under
stood to have al agent in Europe who
is authorized to eIpend 500 600 for
works of art.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont has
given thirty-two History Talks" to
the larger pupils of the public schools
OF Prescott, Arizona.
The pew which W. II. Seward used
to occupy at Auburn has been made
into q cupboard, aud is owned by q
citizen Of that town.
The Duke OF Argyll said at a church
fair recently that he does not regard q
bazaar as heroic method of raising
money for church purposes.
The oldest living graduate OF West
Point Is claimed by Kentucky, in the
person of Mr.. Asa Payne, son of Gen.
John Payne, soldier Of the war of
1912.
Lord Beaconstield is nearly seventy
five years Of age, his father lived to be
eighty-three years old. and his grand
father reached the age of eighty nine
years.
Signor Blitz died some time since yet
"The World Renowned Signor Blitz :"
is giving exhibitions out West Blitz'
soul, like old John Browns, seems to
be marching on.
When Bsyard Taylor first came to
New York in 1913, Horace Greeley of.
fered him $12 week, with the promise
OF promotion, and the young man
thought he was in great luck.
Mr.. Thomas Spurgeon, son of the
eloquent London preacher, has again
been compelled by the state of his
health, to go to Australia, where he in
tends to labor as an evangelist.
Mrs. Clemens, the mother of Mark
Twain, lives with her daughter at Ere.
donia, N. Y. Mark and his wife and
little daughter have recently made q
trip from Elmira to visit his Fredonia
friends.
The Hood children are ten in num-
Der, the eldest being the twins, who are
8 years of age, and the youngest eight
weeks. It was Gen. Hoods request
that they should be kept together if
possible.
OLD Sojourner Truth says: "People
ask me how came to live so long and
keep my mind, and I tell them it is 'be.
cause think of the great things of
God, not little things don't fritter
my mind away in caring for triAes."
DR.. Petersen, German tourist,
lately reached the highest point of the
Jungfrau, 1896 feet. He was re-
warded by an hour of clear sky. He
declares that he could see the whole
chain of the Alps, from the farthest
Tyrol to Dauphine, including Mont
Blanc and the other southern giants.
The Episcopal church in Nebraska
has just acquired remarkable convert.
For more than thirty years Joshua V.
Hines, now seventy-four years of age.
was missionary and editor among the
Second Adventists, and for twenty
years before that was q Cambelite
preacher. He has just been admitted
to the Order Of Deacons in the Episco.
pal church.