Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-11
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Spain has twenty Protestant conere-
cations, with 90. 900 hearers.
During the last century the number
OF members of Christian churches has
nearly donbled. =
General Di Cesnola has received
from the College of New Jersey, at
Princeton, the degree of LII. D.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague entertained
Miss Thursby, the singer, at her house
in Washington few evenings ago.
DR.. Craven, of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, recently dedicated u North
Carolina cotton factory with prayer.
"Pure mischievousness " is what the
ErddgehSt calls Williamson's outrage
upon DR.. Dix. Pure cussedness lis
stronger.
Last year twelve persons in tho
United States and Europe gave an as
gregate of 100000 to the cause of
foreign missions.
The Baroness Burdett- Coutts has
never married, it is said, because she is
too homely to be attractive, and will
not be married for her money.
The Queen of Spain sent an auto
graph letter of thanks to Miss Hester
Parker, of Bangor, Maine, in return for
a number of pressed autumn leaves.
The gift presented to Mrs. Hester
Clymer on her marriage, by the House
Committee on Appropriation, was q
silver ice-cream set lined With gold.
General Garfield's personal ties speak
healthily of rural life. His elder
brother is a farmer in Michigan, and his
two sisters are the wives OF farmers.
Austrian ladies of rank will not con-
sent to fill the vacant posts of Mistress
of the Robes to tho Empress, because
she shows such disregard for etiquette.
Mary L +. Boscawen, Viscountess
Falmouth, Baroness LIE Despencer,
bears the Oldest title, dating from 1864,
of the nine English ladies who are
peeresses i'll their own right.
Mr.. Moody has preached for the
benefit of the 10000 colored people of
st. Louis nearly every Sunday morning.
since he has been in that city, and the
COlored converts are numerous.
The numbers of the verses of the
Bible Will disappear after the revised
Bible has been IN use few years. The
arrangement in paragraphs according
20 the sense, does away with numbered
verses.
Filteen.years. old Paul Bartlett has
sent bust of his grandfather to the
Paris Salon. The jury of nine of the
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cepted it, and sent to the boy their
personal fluctuations.
Mrs. John Sherman, is said, when O
girl ut school, to havo remarked, in the
course Of IL girlish conversation with
her schoolmates AS to what each would
do when she was married, that she
would aim Ito make her husband as
much vi u man as he could be-"
OF Mrs. Hayes, the Washington cor
respondent OF the St. Louis GtoJe-Dsm-
ocrdt says, that nothing else SO Their
ougAly proves her sincere Methodism
AS tne way III which she attends all the
funerals, mourns with those who
mourn, and comforts the afflicted"
The Viscountess Vaudeville, late Miss
Yznaga of New York, while canvassing
energetically for her husbands election
recently, was told by rough that
"they didn't come there to hear girls
talk" Lady Vaudeville, it is reported,
was not ut all abashed. Come, come"
she said, "give us chance! This is
leap year; and if we don't talk now, we
never shall again!"
The King of Denmark has just had a
birthday ball, and, like the good
father he is. devoted himself thereat
to his beautiful daughter, the Princess
of Wales, who visited Denmark to offer
him her tilial congratulations. Her
short visit the King called "the most
precious birthday gift that could have
been offered to him." Both the Queen
and the Princess were resplendant with
diamonds, and the former is described
as looking remarkably youthful even at
her graceful daughters side.