Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-07-06

They were Married, has been drama
tized aud will soon be played in Lon
don.
Sir Charles Lilley, Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Queensland,
will travel in the United States during
the comming summer.
Society is at present amusing it.
self over "AIr. Isaacs," the new novel,
the author Of which. by the way. Mr..
Marion Crawford, has just set sail for
Europe.
An odd and quaint little bit of
jewelry is small gold basket filed
with forget-me nots, the flowers be-
ing of turquoises with diamond dew
drops upon them.
Miss Kate Field is said to have a
lovely figure, fine head and eyes, a
great quantity of nut brown hair."
Also, she dresses with exquisite taste
A female seminary, after the plan
of Vassar College, is to be erected at
a cost of 100000 by the Presbytery
OF Los Angeles, California.
Chandeliers are quite out of date,
and people now light their rooms
from bracket fixtures in the four
corners. The light is diluted through
tinted glass
The novel, Democracy" which
English critics thought must surely
be the work of Henry James, Jr., has
been translated into German and
French.
Round trip tirst-class ocean tickets
from New York to Antwerp can now
be bought for 500 and S11O on first
class lines of steamers.
II is reported that Col. Bob" In
gersoll is to prepare an important
paper to be read at the convention of
the colored race in Washington next
September.
Mr.. Valentines recumbent statue
of Gen. Robert E. Lee has been
formally accepted by the Lee Monu-
mental Association of Virginia. and
will be unveiled on July 9th.
William T. Coleman, of San Fran
cisco, has subscribed $500 to help
pay the expenses of the forthcoming
knights Templar celebration in that
city.
The Mobile Register publishes the
marriage in that city of John T.
Monaghan, of New Orleans, and Miss
Florence A. Bancum, of Whistler.
George L. Catlin, American Con-
sui at Stuttgart, has written novel,
entitled Natalie Rey," which is now
being translated into German, for
publication in the Daily Tagblatt of
Stuttgart
MIR. Geo. A. McFarren, doctor of |
music, has refused the order of |
knighthood, which was conferred on
him on Monday at the same time that
the title was conferred on MIR. Arthur |
Sullivan.
Joseph Nimmo, Jr., Chief of the
Treasury Bureau of Statistics, is pre-
pairing for the June number of the
North American Reriew an article on
the manufacturing interests of the
United States
Paul H. Hayne, the poet, accom-
panied by his wife, is on visit to |
their old home in Charleston, S. G.. |
1t is the first time Mrs. Hayne has
been in that city since Sherman's
march to the sea.
John Ruskin has beautiful coun-
try home at Brentwood, Coniston, in
the North of England. A stream, a
lake and forest, with an apple or
chard, are all close by his two story
rambling house.
The King of Bavaria has appointed
niece of the late Richard Wagner
to be Royal Professor of the School
Of Music" this being the first appoint
ment of the kind which has ever
been given in Germany to q woman.
The lecture which Mr.. Ruskin gave
last term, on 'Rosetti and Holman
Hunt" is being published as the first
chapter of book which will be COM
pleted with other lectures, and will
be called "The Arts of England"
The will of George F. Wilson, of
Providence, r. l., who left $1OO,t 90
to Brown University and $4,000 to
Dartmouth College, and which was
contested by daughter, has been up
held by the Supreme Court of Rhode
Island.
Mr.. Labouchere has no sympathy
with people who object to street noise
as interfering with mental work, for
Il am inclined to think that the man
whose mind will not work because of
noise in the street will never make
much noise in the world"
H. Nj. Ellis, the well-known theat-
rical manager, of the firm of An
thony & Ellis, died at his residence
in New Bedford, Mass, recently.
This was an "Uncle Toms Cabin"
manager, who is sincerely mourned
by his bloodhounds.