Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-05-07

President Hayes takes a walk before

President HaSes takes walk before
breakfast. $3.50. -. e.. .,.....
/ Mr.. Gladstone 10 called the equal Of
Burke and Peel. '' '~'" go - "'''
Herbert Spencer is strongly opposed
to compulsory vaccination. !. ass: :
Secretary EYarts believes in house.
hold work for young ladies. .-.s.,
Lord Beaconsfield has taken to walk
ing, and is in excellent health. . y
Senator Davis, of West Virginia, is
said to be the wealthiest man in that
State. ~......~-.3 .-.- ~,
Mr.. James E. Murdoch is soon to
publish his Recollections OF Actors
and Acting" !: x. -. 80 g.. 80 :"
Moderate Irishmen are afraid that
Mr.. Parnell's head has been turned by
his American trip.
Mr.. Talmage sends an autograph let
ter of thanks TO every donor of a dollar
for his church debt. :" - %
Mr.. Jenkins, the father OF "Ginx g
Baby" will retire from Parliament on
account of i'll health 8. y
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The Pope has been receiving Peter 8
Pence from Ireland, but has sent o
large donation to the distressed people.
MIR. Blaine was addressed on the
outside of letter, from the Univer-
sity of Tennessee, as the '"Plumed
Knight" ... ....
Mrs. Tyler, the widow of the ex-
President, is now living quietly at
Georgetown. She is devout Roman
Catholic.
Cardinal McClssky confirmed 1000
persons, mostly adults, in st. Peters
Roman Catholic Church in New York,
in one day.
NJ. Victor Hugo is said to have pos
sessed, twenty eight years ago, the
compass used by Columbus on his first
voyage to America.
Moses D. Hoge, d. D., of Richmond,
Va, is pronounced by the Atlanta
Constitution to be perhaps the most elo-
quent minister in the South.
The report that John 9. Calhoun.
the only living grandson OF the great
statesman Of the same name. is bar
keeper, is untrue. Mr.. Calhoun is a
cotton planter in Arkansas.
Mayor Kalloch, of San Francisco. is
coming to lecture in May, in New
York, Boston, Philadelphia and Wash
ington, on the Chinese, preparatory to
/" stumping" California in the Kearpey
interest. 49,.
Gov. Roberts. of Texas, is more than
seventy years old, yet at recent leap
year ball he danced, dressed in home
spun, with seven young ladies. The
next day he committed two death SEN
fences.
Bishop Bedell, of Ohio, has in
structed the ministers of his diocese to
marry no couple until it is ascertained
that the marriage will be legal and
proper in all respects, and that neither
party has obtained an unscriptural di-
vorce.
NJ. Daubigny. the French artist,
used to have q studio arranged In q
boat; Jean Berand, the painter OF
charming Partisan scenes, makes q cab
his studio; while NJ. de Nittis has
started an omnibus studio with stove
III Ave- AO 10ttCI 40 OlVoh ~ NO oSOh
about in the avenues and on the quays
OF Paris. --,'t ".-:t a.-> .-;~.,, =
Mr.. Longfellowi Is said to write easily
but very slowly, weighing every word
before jotting it down in lead pencil.
There is hardly an erasure in his man
uscript, but when his work returns to
him in proof hardly anything Of its
original form is left. It is asserted
that 1.-THE Divine Tragedy" was re-
written after the most Of it was in
type. - ..-..
Sir Edward Thornton and his two
daughters ride on the roads about
Washington every pleasant day; the
white whiskered father on O handsome
bay, the young ladies on two beautiful
mouse colored horses. The English
girls high hats and short blue habits
are mentioned as being of the most de-
icately trim fashion, and they are re-
markably graceful horsewoiaen.