Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-11-05
Personal.

Ex.Empress Csrlotta talks rstioa-
ally.
Ben. Butler has taken 10 reading HI
speeches. He might forget which ID
he ia on II he did not.
Alfonsos baby is, of course, . mose
than common infant, 20 they call itaa ,
in the comparative degree.
Robert T. Lincoln, son Of the Pref
dent, is about 80 years old, Of medium
height and fine personal appearances.
Cardinal Manning has an intenss
dislike of "mixed marriages., and hag
almost suppressed them in his diocsse.
Mrs. Lippincott (Grace Greenwood,
with her daughter. has left for shose
trip in Italy and the South of Europe
for her health.
Hiram Powers statue of Jacob
Collamer, ordered by the State q
Vermont. was placed in the Capital at
Washington last week.
Cyrus w. Field has resigned - Q
member Of the Board OF Directors at
the Manhattan (Elevated) Railway
Company Of New York.
General Grant has written to General
Ramsey, Of New Jersey. to say that ~
ter the tenth of October he will be II
New York to remain an indefinite %
Rod.
Joseph Taylor, the father OF the late
Bayard Taylor, celebrated his eighty
fifth birthday on the eighth instant, n
a quiet way ut Kennett Square. Penn
sylvania.
Bishop Tuttle wore revolver in his
belt when he reached Salt Lake City
about ten years ago. 1t is said that his
energy has now placed the Episcopal
Church at the front in all the Terri
tories.
DR.. Tanner has had y plaster osss
taken of his head. His head Was IN
hour in plaster, and qaills were stuck
in his nostrils for breathing through
He can do nothing more for science.
unless he gets vivisected.
Among the recent visitors to the
British House of Commons were Chang
q Chinese, eight and . half feet high,
Won Brustsol, Norwegian. eight feet
four inches in height, and Lee MAI =
Chinese dwarf about two feet in hr,e ut.
John Wesley set an excellent ex-
ample for husbands with incompatible
wives. Instead of fighting the wonAa
because che wishes to depart, or pur-
suing her with vindictive persecution,
he calmly sits down ana writes in his
diary: "Non reliqui; nou dentist;
non revocsb0." I have not left her,
have not sent her away; and shall moi
call her back.
When Mr.. Moody's congregation 4
Northfield, Mass, the other day, did
not sing to suit him, he said .Oh.
You can de better than that. want
you all to sing. Now I want to say
right here that you all make fun OF NY
singing, bat II you all sing as we'll =
do you will do we'll. + do the best I
can. aud that il all that can be e.
pected Of any one. / make q joyful
noise. and you can all do that"
Lie IT--MoRs LIGHT. Many OF ths
stea ubosts on the Ohio and WississipYi
rivers are being furnished with tie
electria light, and the consequence Il
that night navigation is made much
safer than heretofore. The first boat =
use them was the Cincinnati and New
Orleans packet r r. Springer, which
has three lights. The Mississippi
steamer Chas. P. Chateau has recently
received the appliance. the lamps b.
ing attached to booms forty feet long.
extending at right angles TO the main
deck, and cas- be swung around n
any position at will. The lamps ase
{. 900 candle power; the Springer uses
three lights; the one on top OF ths
pilot house has powerful reasctor,
similar to locomotive headlight; the
others are at the bow and in the engias
room. Among the boats using the
lights may be mentioned the tow boats
Iron Age and Iron Duke. The City Of
Providence will also receive the applL
ance shortly. and likewise ths famous
Natchez.-Dstroit Free Press.
The BRNRFIT OF BurTERMILK.-A
correspondent of the Country Gsntleseas
says nsthing furnishes . more whele-
some beverage than buttermilk. / do
not pretend to specify It's action on ths
stomach, or the action OF the stomaca
on it, in assimilating its properties int
the syskem: but am satiefied that mnnf