Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-12-17
Personal.

General Terry proposes to send Il
scout named Allison TO Sitting Bulls
camp to negotiate surrender.
Senator Blaine, whose voice ialcd
him after his labors in Ohio, cam OF
yet speak mucl. above & whisper.
, brigham Young, di,sipAted grand
son of the Late head Of tbs Mormon
ChulcL, committed suicide not long
since.
The Boston T,me> announces that
General Grant talks the least and .EGys
the most Of any man IL the United
States.
/ 1t is said that DR.. kendrick, OF
, Hochester, can repeat firm memory
the entire Et;stle to the Romans III
Greek.
Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the late Pres
ldent, who arrived from Europe lately,
has since been seriously i'll at Il hotel
in New York City.
By her will the late Lydia Nnria
Child gives - 600 TO the Hampton Ag-
rlcultnral College in Virginia, and
- 600 to several charitable iustitu-
tons.
Chin Ian Pin. The Chinese Envoy,
has rented Ex-Governor Shepherd S
house in Washington and will remain
there during the winter, inStead of
going to Peru, as he at first iutcI ded
Prof. Asa Gray OF Cambridge has
gone to Europe for year, spending
most Of his time at the Kew Botanical
Gardens, where he will study for his
Ia, ,.T I,
America"
General Count Won Moltke, Chief
Marshal of the Empire, has refused the
title OF Prince, offered him by the I'm
! peror of Germany on the occasion Of
the eightieth anniversary of the Counts
birth, which occurred on October ..6:h.
Mr.. Samuel J. Til3en has iust pur-
chased q forty acre tract of land, adj
| Joining Greyst0ne, for a deer park
Mr.. Tildon, il is said, has recently been
offered $500 Geo for his Leautiful couu.
try home, but he does not wish to sell
it.
Hon. Andrew d. White, American
minister to Germany. Is at work upon
life of Thomas Jefferson, which, ii is
thought, will be ready for publication
| early during the coming year. Tue
work is tho first Of a series upon Ancri-
can statesmen.
A fine marble shaft, to be erected as
a monument to the late Confederate
Genera! Albert Sidney johnson, has
arrived from Italy, at Houston, Texas.
The monument was purchased with Il
fund raised several years ago by the
ladies' OF houston.
! General Hancock was recently pre-
| sented IL fine Malacca cane with ferni, s
of ivory and silver AMI gold head en-
graved, suitably inscribed and studded
with diamonds. The cane was made
by Tiffany & Co., and voted to General
Hancock at a church fair in Brooklyn.
The little Princess Paulina of Holland
was taken to church for her baptism in
! q carriage drawn 10y six horses. She
was received at the door by the ecclesi-
astical authorities and carried Ap the
aisle to the young Queen, her mother,
who, showing much emotion, presented
her for baptism, herself actiag as god,
mother.
The King of Denmark uses on state
occasions breed Of pure white horses,
which are national property. They
are descended from white stallion and
white mare presented to King Chris
tian vi. by the Dey of Algiers. The
breed has been raised in the royal es-
Establishments near Copenhagen for
nearly 200 years.
At the opening session of the Work
ingmen's college in London, James
hn .ctn
gave the following advice to his hear
ers: " Lrarn foreign language, that
you may read its great books. Take
some great book and a dictionary-do
not even wait for grammar-andy you
will soon learn to read it,"
Miss Elizabeth Thompson, the we'll
known philanthropist, has made lib
eral contribution for the publication of
tho History of Woman Suffrage in
the United States" which Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage and
Susan Il. Anthony are compiling. Mrs.
Stanton and Miss Anthony will spend
the winter at Mrs. Stanton's New Jersey
cottage.
The aged Emperor of Germany is de-
scribed as looking very imposing when,
with his wife on his arm, he emerged
from the venerable cathedral at Cologne
followed by long train of princes and
generals. He took his place In pavil-
ion prepared on the platz, and signed
record which, after having been also
signed by sixty-seven German princes
and notabilities, was placed in long
silver tube and given over to the work
men to be deposited in the principal
stone cross at the top of the cathedral
spire, $50 feet above.
THE YOUNGER S1sTER.-There is much