Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-11-19
Personal.

SwinbUrne's forthcoming volume Of
poems is called studies in Song"
A young married couple are fresh.
men in the Wesleyan University, Conn.
Robert Toonbs of Georgia intends to
build cotton factory worth Sc, 600 at
Washington in that State.
Wilson Macdonald has finished lis
model Of the bust of General Hancock
The work is Of heroic size, and is called
an excellent likeness.
Peter Cooper is the name signed
to a petition asking his son, Mayor
Cooper, to employ actively all his large
power in SURPRISING the sale OF lottery
tickets in New York city.
Robert Browning ard his sister have
been taking tramps on foot in the
mountains near Grenoble, France, and
have been greatly benefited by them
while living III u little house at Ions.
Col. jerome Bonaparte and his wife,
who have usually spent their winters
in Paris will pass the coming season in
Washington. Their daughter will be
near them at the Visitation Convent il
Georgetown.
Simmons, American sculptor. resid-
ing IN Rome, Italy, is TO execute the
statue Of the late Senator Morton, of
Indiana for so, 600. The senator will
be represented as speaking, with his
right hand extended in gesture.
The English admirers of kirke White,
the poet, have collected 1900 toward
erecting memorial cross ut Cambridge,
England, where he il buried. The
cross will cost 600, and al peal is made
10 America for further subscriptions.
Ex-senator Cameron of Pennsylvania.
low eighty.one years old, has presented
TO Lutheran congregation in that
State house and land for a parsonage,
as memorial Of his wife. The house
stands on the spot on which Mr.. Cam
eron was born.
\ writer in Leeds, Eng, says that al
though the plate on Miss Nelson's cot
Tin was inscribed" Lillian Adelaide Lee
Nelson her name was neither Lillian
nor Adelaide nor Nelson (she had been
the wife of Phillip Lee, but that her
real name was Elizabeth Ann Brown.
Mr.. Mason thinks it singular fact
that Milton began writing his famous
treatise on the " Doctrine and Disci-
pine OF Divorce, before his,honeymoon
lad expired. The explanation is that
poets live faster than ordinary mortals
and 40 not require so much time to
reach conclusion.
Stanley, the African explorer, was
seen recently by the captain of the Por-
tuguesc steamer which belongs to the
Coanza Company. He was then at No
III, which is on the Congo river, about
two hours sail from Dibi, Stanley S
headquarters. Mr.. Stanley told the
captain that his object was not com.
merce, but to open path for future
traders.
James Stevens, the man who founded
Fenianism, was found in New York the
other day destitute and starving. At
one time he was person of great i'm
portance, and was looked up to and al-
most revered by thousands of Irishmen
in all parts of the world. His efforts
in behalf of his native land caused the
So, 900 for him.
Herbert Spencer, the English phil
osopher. is sixty years old. Having
been privately educated, he was at first
n civil engineer. His forehead is high,
and he is quite bald. His face is long,
and although his features are not small
he has an impractical and almost etfem-
mate appearance. His portraits repre-
sent him as resting his head against his
hand, in the Washington Irving style.
Why lie Was in the Penitentiary.
An important case was tried before
the Criminal Court of the District of