Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-02-04
Personal.

SASSiitNAs
Col. T. W. Higginson is building
himself an odd cottage in Cambridge,
Mass, after the old Colonial pattern.
The outside is shingled, and painted
red.
Wendell Phillips says: No reform,
moral or intellectual, ever came down
from the upper classes of society. Each
and all came up from the protest of
martyr and victim
a son of the late Chief Justice John
Marshall, of the United States Supreme
Court, is now clerk in the Pension
Bureau at Washington. He is a livel,
youth Of over eighty summers.
Three school teachers have been
elected Presidents of tho United States
in the persons of Willard Fillmore,
Franklin Pierce and James A. Garfield.
And now all the boys will strive to be-
come school-teachers.
Rev. DR.. Bartol, of Boston, recently
preached sermon on the life and char
acter of Ole Bull. Mr.. Bull is not men
toned in the Bible, but the Doctor
found a text which said: 81 have
raised up one from the North
One day Bismarck was out walking
and was shot at and wounded. He
went home and took his dinner, and
when it was over he went with his wife
into the parlor and cheerfully told her
that he had had q narrow escape.
Mayor Rose, of Davenport, Ia, threw
the first shoSelful of earth in the work
of excavating for soldiers monument
in that city. TweLty-one years ago.
he said, in his address, was shovel
ing very near this spot for 81 day
John b. Cough has lectured in AL
bany, n. y, seveniy-three times, hav-
ing begun in 1915. a party of old
soakers celebrated the 10th time by
having regular Old roarer of tear,
two of them dying from the effects OF
their excessive guiding.
Gath thus sketches Conger, of Nick
igan, as he appeared when he led the
opposition to the Morgan resolution for
counting the electoral votes: " A lean,
dysreptic- looking man, with great
knowledge of parliamentary law, but
with the healtLful tint gone ont Of his
countenance."
Mr.. Samuel Carter Hall, who is now
eighty years old, congratulated himself
lately us the only man who Lad edited
one publication forty-two consecutive
years, hut he has been surpassed by
William Chambers, who started CLAM
jerS' journal forty-nine years ago, and
still lives to edit it,
Judge Woods, the new appointee to
the United States Supreme Bench, is
about fifty years old, of dark complex.
ion, full habit, likes good things to eat
and drink. and is full of good fellow.
ship. He is the third Ohio man on
that Bench, though he is a Georgian
! by residence, his home having been at
Atlanta for some years.
The will of the late James Z. Brown
of kittanning, Pa, involves property
| to the amount of two and half millions
of dollars. The will was made in 1871,
and in it Mr.. Brown bequeaths $50 to
every widow in kittanning, $50 to every
kittanuing wife who shall become a
widow, this gift to include those Kit
tanning girls who shall hereafter be-
come wives.
DIR. Sunderland, formerly chaplain
of the United States Senate, and still q
clergyman in Washington, once called
upon President Lincoln in company
with several ministers to urge the Pres
ident to issue an emancipation procla-
NATION. Lincoln received them good
naturally. Sunderland, who is in
stature very small man, stood on one
side of table and Lincoln doomed up
on the other side. Sunderland, acting
as the spokesman of the clergyman, re
quested the privilege of presenting theil
views. Lincoln, with a roguish twinkle
in his eye, replied, Proceed, Brother
Sunderland; every little helps