Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-04-30
Eccentricities.

beinp buried In the following manner !:
A. The eraye-side six gentlemen, who
were appointed to follow him. sang the
Lost stanza of the twentieth Ole of the
Sec,ud Book of Horace. No bell was
tolled nor black worn no one was in
vited but these six gentlemen and no
relation followed the corpse. The
coffin was painted green, and the de-
ceased was buried with his clothes on.
With HIM were buried three copies of
Horace, Bentley's Milton, and Greek
Testament. After supper they sang
the thirty-frst Ode Of the First Book
Of Horace, all being in strict accord
auce with the will.
The French historian Mezeray used
TO study and write by candle-ligkt even
at MONDAY i'll tho summer, and always
waited upon his company at the door
with candle in his hand. 1t was a
cor slant practice with him, when can
didates offered themselves for vacant
black ball instead of white one, ito
leave to posterity monument OF cleo
tons in the Academy"
The parish clerk of st. Clement
Danes. in the early part of the last
century, gave IL curious instance OF ad-
monition an. thanks. lie lent man
fifty shillings, which was unpaid for
several years. He could never find the
borrower ut home, though he con.
ironted him every Sunday in the mid
de aisle of the church. One Sunday,
the clerk looking the debtor full in the
f.ce, repeated tho words, The wicked
borroweth, and payeth not again.
Minis ad,nonition had the desired effect,
d" for the next day the man called and
paid him the money.
A maiden lady who died in 1855 left
the following singular legacies III her
will " Item.--I leave my dear enter
tanning Jacko IA monkey go per an
mum during his natural life. Item.
To Shock and TiD "a lap.dog and cat)
eJ each for their annual subsistence
during life but should it happen that
Shock die before Tlb, or lib before
Shock. then, and in that case, the sur
vivor to have the whole"
In review held ut Weymouth many
years ago, General Dunda's horse fell
with him. An officer in attendance i'm
mediately dismounted to assist the gen
eral, and was much concerned to learn
that his les WAS DrOken.
IL will try to get your boot of, said
the officer.
"Do, man, do" replied the general.
A knife was silently produced.
What are you about?" exclaimed
the general.
- am going to cut your boot off,"
You shan't do any such thing. No,
sir bought them just before camo
10 the camp, and l gave six-aud thirty
shillings for them. Pull it off, sir
pull it Off"
1t was represented to the wounded
general that it was impossible under his
present suffsrings; but nothing would
do; the boot should not be cut to
pieces in that manner"
AT that moment George III. arrived
4 the spot. anxiously inquiring what
Fad happened. "What what ! not
cut off the boot Pooh, pooh /; stuff y
said the king. Cut it oH-cut it off y
No." replied the general, "They
are new boots, your majesty and l
command him at his peril not to cut
the boot, He can pull it of T.
The attempt then made to draw off
Tie boot WAS ct length successful,
though the agony of the sufferer was
painfully manifested by the perspira-
ton dropping from his forehead.
The celebrated Leasing having missed
money ut different times without being
able to discover who took it, determined
to put the honesty of his servant to
trial, and left handful of gold on the
table,
"Of course you counted it p said
one OF his friends.
Counted it?" said Leasing, rather
embarrassed. "No; forgot that"
Philip Fitzgibbons was supposed to
possess u more accurate and extensive
knowledge of the Irish language than
any pcrssn living, and his latter years
were industriously employed in COM
pililg an English and Irish Dictionary
of four hundred quarto pages, which
he left completed with the exception of
the letter s, and that he appeared to
have totally forgotten.
About 1770 there was living in Lon
don u tradesman who had disposed of
eleven daughters in marriage, with
each of whom he gave their weight in
halfpence as fortune. The young
ladies' must have been bulky, for the
ligltest of them weighed $50 Is. Sd.
The great Duke of Marlborough some
years before his death retired OCCASION
ally to Bath, and often amused himself
. with cards, though he seldom ventured
Ato play high. One night he was On
gagged at piquet with Dean Jones, from
whom he won sixpence, and exacted
the payment. The dean declared he
had no silver. but borrowed the money,
as the duke said he wanted it to pay for
his Sedan chair. The dean, knowing
the dukes avarice. watched him, and
saw him actually walking home, in or
der to save the sixpence. Pope speaks
of him as one who would "now save q
kingdom, and now save groat."
To STAIN FLOORS BEAUTIFUL
BRowN.-Get from the paint store a
can Of burnt umber two and half
pounds in can't comes all ready.
Add to this quantity q quarter OF a
pound of burnt sienna, which brightens
the color. Add half teacupful of