Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-09-17
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| 600 house.
It's Flood tied with young Ulysses.
i Boston Post.
The fast male DR.. tanner. Phil
aaelphia Chronicle.
! Beecher has announced what he is
prepared to believe in 1881.
Ex-minister Washbnrne is OIL to Eu-
rope Ola account of his health.
President Hayes has been elected a
! Vice. President of the American Bible
Society.
Tom Taylor got 81 800 u year for
making Puach the dulles! paper in
England.
Miss Adelaide Nelson, the actress,
| died suddenly at the Restaurant Du-
chalet, Paris. on the 18th inst.
The lion of London society Just now
is Mr.. James Russell Lowell His
| after-dinner speeches arc described as
particularly happy.
Hiram College. Ohio-the college of
which General Garfield was once Pres
ident, and of which he is now trustee
has 209 students.
The report Of Charles Keade's con-
version is confirmed. He has aban-
doned writing tor the stage. and is said
to contemplate preaching.
Visitors to tho White Mountains will
build u monument to Harry Hunter,
the Pittsburg printer, whose body, al
ter six years, was found lately on Mt.
Washington.
Mr.. A. Bronson Alcott las not tasted
animal food for half century, and
drinks nothing but water, except an &C.
casional cup Of tea or coffee made cx-
tremely weak.
Mrs. Hayes is soon going to Fremon!
to pnt her rcmodeled house in order
for future residence. Her son, Webb
Hayes. VIII. it is said, become mer-
chant in Toledo next spring.
George Eliot and her husband are
now in Venice, and may often be seen
together on the piazza, where the nov
elist appears old enough to be her hus-
SANDS mother. say the Italians.
General Hancock is reported to be a
rich man. Besides all his other prop.
erty in Missouri. he has some excellent
coal mines, which he refuses to sell,
and does not at present care TO open.
Queen Olga, of Greece, has kitchen
SO admirable in all it's appointments as
to be the wonder of that classic Land.
1t may be said that she has made cook
ing fashionable accomplishment in
Greece
Mr.. G. q. Jones, OF st. Louis, who
is ninety years of age, AMI who sailed
up the river with Robert Fulton on the
steamer Clermont in $50, was passen.
ger on the day boat from Now York to
Albany, last week.
President Hayes does not sing, but
Mrs. Hayes is said to have sweet, old.
fashioned voice, which she uses in
church. She always walks to church.
believing. it is reported, that it is
wrong to ride there.
Jay Gould is said to be very fond of
his son, whose name is George J.
Gould, bright lad. and he takes him
with him wherever he goes, in order to
educate him--that he may learn the
ways of the mon with whom he comes
il contact.
| five years on his history of the Unite!
states and expects to finish it this sum-
i-:zseS He is stalwart worker at
eighty, and there is no telling what
new literary enterprise he will embark
in when the present work is off his
hands.
John Mackay, the mining million
aire, walks about Virginia City in 4
thirty dollar suit of clothes, goes to
work at five o'clock in the morning,
and lives in the plainest style. He is
credited with dispensing 100000 .
year to the poor, and denying it if
questioned.
Gen. Robert Toombs il one of the
best farmers in Georgia. He made
this year $50 bushels of white rust
proof wheat on eleven acres of land.
He gave one hundred bushels, worth
ten dollars bushel. to the State for
distribution among the farmers of
Georgia to SOW for the next crop.