Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-09-03
Personal.

NdlI w HttfL III "autS IL W tc uUlt-
stood thst he is not an admirer Of Dick
ems.
Mr.. Bradlaugh takes a.lvantage of
his newly gained notority by putting
to press an autobiography.
The late DR., d. T. Colt. of Norwich.
1928, left $780, 0U to his anna mrter.
DIR. Tanner. the atarvationist, is an
Englishman by birth, but he has lived
for the last thirty years in Ohio aud
Minnesota.
The Queen of Italy lately made n
night excursion up Mount vesuvius
by the new railway, to witness the vol
cano ilumined by electric light.
DR.. l.. p. Hickok, ex President of
Union College, now eighty-two years
of age, has just finished a work on
evolution, which will DO published in
few months.
William Fl. Vanderbilt has agreed to
give seventy five thousand dollars to
pay the cost of the transportation of
the Egyptian obelisk to this country.
He was asked to be ono of the ten to
bear the expense, but preferred to pay
it all.
At his country seat on the Hudson,
called Ardsley after the old homestead
OF the Field family in England, Cyrus
w. Field has zine separate habitations
occupied by himself, his sons and his
daughters. Four other houses are &C.
cupied by his relatives.
The Prince of Wales, at u public
dinner in London, recently got vigor-
ously cheered by speaking of himself
as "a citizen" of Great Britain. "For
seventeen years." he added, II have
held the high honor and proud posi-
ton of being one of yourselves"
Miss Howard. An English lady, has
been appointed doctor to the Countess
Lii, in Pekin, China. aud to a hospital
established at Pekin by the foreign
residents. The Countess Lii supplies
all tho medicine for the patients, is .
great friend to animals, and on being
lately asked whether it was true that
she supported one hundred cats, re-
piled. Alas no; | have now only
seventy"
The Emperor William is described
as looking better than he has looked for
years, and wearing robust and hearty
air. He regards himself at Ems as a
soldier on leave OF absence. He sell
dom wears his customary uniform, but
generally appears in plain dress, which
is however less becoming to him than
his weli-known regimentals. His m ode
OF life at Ems ia rather monotonous.
He rises early, visits the Brunnen,"
takes his constitutional walk on the
promenade, aud then sets TO official
work. Any distinguished frequenters
OF the famous Spa may be sure OF an
invitation to his majesty's ever hos
pitable board. The evenings are usu-
ally spent at the Royal Theater in the
KurLaus. where he sits among the
audience without any particular box
being set apart for him. He delights
in listening to comedies and farces
whose wit never fails to evoke a suile
or arouse his laughter, which, ringing
with unaffected pleasure, is always a
treat for the whole house.
BRIEgER SPELLrNG.-Brownes Pho.
n0graphic Monthly says that the edop-
tion Of phonetic spelling would make a
saving of seventeen per cent, or about
oae- sixth ia every department o. paper
and book making and general writing.
10 the writer the gain would be equal
to one hour and twenty minutes a day
of eight hours, or four hundred hours
in year of three hundred days, or one
thousand such days in twenty years.
The New York Daily Tribune would
cost 50 year instead of $40; the lnde-
Dentie"t would contain six pages more
of matter without increase of cost; q
book now costing IS would be sold for
SALT; the investor of 5000 in books
would save $685.; the eyes of the
reader would have one sixth less work
to do in a given amount of reading.
The saving to all departments of Eng
lish literature, it is estimated by care
full observers, would reach tho enor-
nous sum OF 5000, 600. 900 yearly.
Why not cast out the silent letters and
spell as we speak ?--Home Journal.
The importance of manufactures to
the growth of a community is very ia
vorably exhibited by the Philadelphia
Ledger, in an article comparing that
city with Boston and Baltimore under
the present and previous censuses. In
commerce purely Boston surpasses
Philadelphia and Baltimore equals it.
OF population Baltimore has 800, 900