Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-10-01
Personal.

! The three ..onefellow brothers
Prof. Henry W., the Rev. Samuel, an 4
Alexander now together ut their
old home, Portland. Me.
Mr.. George Bancroft. the historian,
keeps two stenographers at work at
Newport this summer, and expects to
/ print III the fail volume which will
bring his history down to 1889.
! Professor Henry W. Paul. u Dart
mouth graduate. has gone to Toxic,
Japan, TO teach astronomy. He will
receive 81, 900 year and house-rent
free. HIS engagement is for three
years.
Mr.. James Russell Lowell, says the
PariSiaa, is IA regular atttuclant ut the
state concerts and balls. where his re-
publican simplicity OF attire renders
him a prominent person by very com
parisOD.
Henry NJ. Stanley, from his camp on
the Congo. has acknowledged the re-
ceipt Of his diploma AS Doctor of Philos
ophy. from the Leopold Caroi:nian
German Academy of National Sciences,
at Halle.
Joseph Strong Curtis. son of George
Ticknor Curtis, of New York, who is u
distinguished mineralogist and mining
exert on the Pacific Coast, has been
appointed Special Census Expert in
connection with the Geological Survey
of Nevada and California.
1t is reported at Newport, II. l., that
James Flood. the California banker,
has purchased Malbone, tho home of
Mrs. Bedlow, and that it will be occu-
pied by U. 5. Grant. Jr., after his mar
riage with the millinnaire's daughter.
The price named is more than one
hundred thousand dollars. - New FORK
Post.
Professor William T. H.rris, editor
of the Journal Of Specuk .tice Phtios-
ophr. and late Supt r,ntendent of the
st. L. ,uis Schools. has removed with
his family from St. Louis to Concord,
Mass, where ho Resides in the old
Orchard House, recently the home of
Bronson Aico,t, and formerly Of HIw
thorpe. Professor Harris intends travel
ing abroad during part of the next two
or three years.
The Empress Eugenie, on arriving
at the place where her son was killed,
where the body was found, following
the track of the officers who went in
search for him. The road was stony
and rough, but she persisted Ill spite
of remonstrances. She was greatly
affected on reaching the spot and find
ing cross erected there by Queen Vic
toria. She stayed there i'll the valley
two days.
TENNYsON AT HAzELMERE. \ cor
respondent who recently visited the
poet, writes: His hair is still black,
and he looks strong and healthy, only
is y little slower in his motions than
formerly. The drive up of three miles
from the fIazelmere station is through
a beautiful country OF gorse and heath
err and bowery lanes. The house is
eight hundred feet above the seattle
highest inhabited house in the South
of England with a magnificent view
from his study window.
A monument to the fairy tale writer,
Hans Christian Andersen, was unveiled
in Copenhagen on the twenty sixth of
June. 1t is bronze statue rather
larger than life sizs. The poet is rep
resented in modern dress, sitting in a
chair and reading enc of his fairy tales
to an imaginary audience. The place
chosen for the statue is the garden sur
rounding the venerable castle Of
Rosenberg, one of the favorite resorts
of the Copenhagen public. Among
the spectators were two children of tine
King of Denmark, and two of his son,
the King of Greece.