Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-08-20
Personal.

Col. Jerome Napoleon D,napar,e il
in New York.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes has boer
made an LID. by Harvard.
Talleyrard boosted that he never
wrote letter, and never burned one
Mariner Thompson will 60 out Yves
to see if the Pacific Ocean lis i'll its righ
place.
Charles Keade made $40 200 from
Drink" Some men have lost al
much from the same cause.
Beecher told Brooklyn Eagle mar
that he loved the sound of u dinner
bell better than all other music.
Miss Gill, the author of that best
known of hymns, l Want to be al
Angel" has Just died ut the age of six.
ty.
Senator Edmunds pays taxes at Bur.
l:ngtOn on valuation Of $l9. 900. Sen.
ator Blaine pays u tax of 81, 3O4.30 al
AUGUSTA.
Walt Whitman is in Canada. Every
ada is very valuable to this county,
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The President has appointed Orange
Judd, of New York, OF the Amersca,.
Asr.culturfst, to be member of the
Board of Indian Commissioners, vice
Barstow, resigned.
Miss Anna L. Dickinson has Just re-
turued to the East. Everywhere she
had enthusiastic audiences, and the
vii 70 N
general de !, to see the play put upon
the stage.
NJ. de Les ps calls King Leopold, OF
the Belgians, u model King" because
he has common sense, and is not fool
ishly elated by his grandeur. He says:
He is the most int lligent monarch /
ever met"
Winfield Scott Hancock Dickinson
comes upon the worlds stage at the
Democratic candidates old birthplace,
Norristown, Ia. The distinguished
infant is the son of II. b. Dickinson. a
popular attorney.
Olive Logan is back from Europe.
Olive is the person whom King Alton
80 hired to write an account Of his we'd
ding for American papers. Olive and
Lucy Hooper have, to judge from their
letters, Been running the various Eu-
rOpean courts for the last year or 50.
The full baptismal name of the re-
Gently betrothea Princess, who may
one day be Empress of Germany, is
Augusta Victoria Frederick Louise
Fedora Jenny. She is lady of great
personal attractions, and is in her TWEEN
ty-second year-about the same age as
Prince William.
Mr.. Russell Hancock, the son of the
General, is said to have made poetic
ally romantic marriage. The young
lady was the daughter Of an ex rebel i'll
Louisville, who refused to let her mar.
ry the son of u Northern soldier. The
young people met at an evening party
by agreement, slipped across the river
into Indiana, and were married at mid
night.
On the tombstone Of the Rev. Dr.
Morrison, the renowned Chinese mis-
sionary, Is the following characteristic
epitaph: have sinned; have re-
pented; l have trusted; l have loved i;
sleep; l shall rise, and Through the
grace Of Christ, though unworthy 1
shall reign This is what Mr.. Inger
soil calls compound of Ignorance and
insanity, but the greatest minds in the
world call it sublime faith.
King Louis of Bavaria dislikes to be
seen by his liege subjects. He carries
this caprice almost to the same extent
as the late Duke of Portland. He never
drives out j i daylight, but at midnight.
LIndenberg, a seat he possesses in the
environs OF Ammergau, was, until late
ly. open to the public, who could visit
the castle and walk in the grounds.
The King has now inclosed it by high
wall fence and iron gates.
Colonel Bob Ingersoll says that none
OF the planets have been called by
Christian names. Did he never linger
under the silver light of the moon and
hear the word B"b?" Did he never
wander by the brooksiie, as the light
Of the stars glinted over the waves and
hear the word "Bob?" Robert did
you ever argue with your girl in order
to convince her that there was a Bob
Ingersoll? And didn't she look up
sweetly into your eyes, Bob" and
say" Robert" your Christian name?
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