Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-17
Personal.

Mr.. Blackburn, Governor elect" o.
Kentucky, is nearly seventy years old
Mrs. Mary Hewitt has received from
the English Government pension o
$500. in consideration of literary ser
vices.
Gov. Mcclellan, with his wife. son
and daughter, took tour through the
northern part of New Jersey in car
riage.
Miss Greeley, daughter of Horace
Greeley, and Miss Chamberlain, of New
York City. are at the Massasoit House
Naragansett.
A new volume by Anna T.. Dickinson
is out. 1t is entitled "A Ragged Reg
ister." and contains the vivacious au-
thor's opinions on many people and
places. expressed in the racy and
piouant style which made her lectures
so popular.
Sturdy Sojourner Truth. now l03
wears old, is on her way to Kansas,
where she is glad to see her race going.
She believes that in the West, on
farms of their own, the Southern ne
groes will acquire u self. reliance, thrift,
and strength of character impossible to
them in their present position in the
South.
Princess Louise has sent nine of the
salmon she caught, packed in ice, to
England; one of them going to the
Queen, her mother, one to the Prince
of Wales, one each to the Dukes of
Edinburgh and Connaught and Prince
Christian, and the others to Lady Suf-
field, Lady Milford, the Hon. Mrs.
Mcnamara, and Mrs. Ralli.
Victor Hugo was talking about age,
and confessed that the most disagreea-
BILE advance to him was that from
thirtynine to forty. "Oh, that terri
BILE forty y he said. "But," remarked
some one, ~ should think it q great
deal better to be forty than fifty"
"Not at ALL" replied Hugo; "Forty
years is the old age of youth, while
fifty years is the youth of old age"
When George Thompson, the Eng
lish aboitionist, was in Massachusetts
he was hunted for his life by the gentry
who esteemed the institution of slavery.
Among those who protected him was
Erastus Ware, who, in consequence of
this good Office received several threat
ening commands to send Thompson
away. But said good man Ware:
"What is my life worth if I cannot de-
fend an honest man ?"
Mr. Ira ID. Sankey is now staying at
Fair Point, and occasionally delighting
large audiences with his singing of
hymns. Mr.. Sankey relates that he
once sang in Mr.. Surgeons Taber
nacle, the preacher having caught sight
of him in the audience and sending for
him to come up to the desk. Mr.
Sankey sang one of his own songs, and
then the whole congregation joined
with him in singing Hold the Fort"
When it was ended, Spurgeon turned
to Sankey, saying, 60 know what this
roof can stand now" There were thou
sands in the building, and all sang,
General Grant, in letter to friend
in San Francisco, says: We have now
been in Japan nearly month, the
the most unbounded Inequalities.
What said at Penang about
the Chinese question was without pre-
vious thought or preparation. I had
no idea what the address to me was to
be until it was read in the presence of
an assembly. The response had to be
spontaneous. and now 1 see nothing in
particular to alter or take back. The
fact is, the Chinese question is not 60
ing to agitate the country long. The
Chinese Government are very anxious
to keep all their people at home, and,
if not interfered with, they will stop
emigration"