Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-11-26
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singing HAby Mine.
The .,nt speaks Of Mss Davenport $
gorgeous upholstery.
louug (. ). Gran: was H.: carried
away 10y the Flood after ali.
j monument has iinailv beck placed
over Charlotte ClsL;ngn + grave.
NJ. Henri Say, new yacht cost $500
coo. Say! How is that for II canoe:
Alfonso; CHristine INV dear, you
have maie "A serious Topographic error.
lanes Clenhane. aged ninety, who
lives IN Washington, read proof with
Sly Walter Scott On his novel, Waiver
lev
Laboucncre says that IL TIE course
OF year there are, p.rhaps, ten Eng
l:sh novels published which are worth
reading.
Dr.. Tanner lertu.cl at Lawrence,
Mass, and took i'll only @22.7J. With
has peculiar ideas Of gas.ronomy he
cIgut 20 1--we sumptuodsy on that.
Jay G Juli has pail the travelling ex-
pe.ses from Indian Territory of sixteen
Young Indian girls whonfe to be placed
) . Il,
Mass, educated at the federal expense
and returned to their homes.
Miss hate Sanborn's appointment to
the chair Of English Literature in
Smith College, at Northamptcu, is re-
garded by the English papers as an in.
llcatlon that " literary ladies nj rapid
y coming to the front IL the United
States.
Jefferson Davis presented 20 the city
u New Orleans. III fultillmnnt of the
request of the late Mrs. Dors ay, one Of
Ier pictures representing Anne, of
Austria, Exhibiting the portrait OF her
SCI 20 the French people. The artist
was Pierre Mignarl. court painter to
Louis NV.
No:denskjold, the Swedish Arctic ex
plortr, IS described as II broad, strong
man OF forty.cight. with determined
expression, trim mouth, high and rather
stern forehead, aquiline nose, thick
mustache ana eyebrows Of the disa-
greeable sandy shade so common in
Scgndinayians.
George ). Walker is being prosecuted
n Philadelphia for marrying his niece.
Ike pennsylvania law on the subject
says that - no woman shall marry Ter
E.o:hel b brother, and Walkers lawyer
argues that 1t does not forbid the broth
er TO marry the niece. y decision has
not been reached.
julia Ward Howe has written letter
20 the Boston Her0'G, IL which, advO-
eating the enirancLisement of women,
esi eclally mothers, she says: 1.-The
l0!laby Will lose none OF its sweetness
when the voice accustomed to il shall
carry the claims of childhood into the
councils OF the nation
said Mr.. Whittier recently to a cor
respondent of the Chicago Later O,ean !:
- am ont Of doors a great deal, and in
summer take long walks. / still write
when feel like it. but have no regular
habits OF work. / read great deaf,
but am beginning to have trouble with
my eyes. My health is good"
Commissioner lie Due recently in
vitel the oa-merchants of this country
20 drink drawings Of tea grown in
Georgia. Samples had previously been
sent to tea-merchants in London, and
the general verdict was that the tea was
very fragrant, of a high type, and re-
sembling the finest Chinese black teas
and the hill teas of India.
President Grevy's salary and allow
ances amount to about $500 yearly,
the salary proper being $4,000. At
the end of the seven years term he will,
consequently, have received $780,
900 out of the public treasury. He Is
not renurious, and manages to spend
this large sum in receptions and sub
scriptions. He gave $1,000 to the
American yeIlow-fever fund. Before
he was President he did not keep car
riage and lived in little house at
Passy.