Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-04-06
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Great Britain expcnds annually S4.-
466,9lO on Queen Victoria and the
rest of the royal family.
The time set for Moody and Sankey
to return to this country is after two
weeks OF labor at Liverpool in April
The Emperor of Japan was born
in 1852. He is unsellsh and chival-
rous and constantly studies the GUS
toms Of other nations.
The Chicago correspondent of the
Louisville Courier -Jo;unul says he
learns from an entirely Trustworthy
authority that Mrs. Langtry's age is
thirty-six.
William r. Herndon. Abraham
Lincoln's law partner, in recent let
ter says: Il knew Mr. Lincoln well
for twenty-five years. He was the
most continuous and seyerest thinker
in America 80
The gossips who were about to start
DIR. Oliver W rendeH Holmes off on a
trip to Europe have been called to a
halt by the doctor himself. He says
it's no such thing.
Peter Cooper is ninety three years
old. The event was quietly celebrated
by dinner at his residence on Lex
ington avenue at which about thirty
guests werepresent.
Helper, who wrote the "Impen ling
Crisis years ago, and at one time
had 100000 in bank, is doing odd
jobs around Washington to keep
body and soul together -.'..,: +.
In a paper read recently before the
Nineteenth Century Club, Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe told of a learned Boston
lawyer who said. II can neither. read
nor understand Emerson, but my
daughters can."'
John q. Whittier recently received
from a Chicago lady 200 engraved
visiting cards with request to write
his illustrious name on each of them,
as the writer was to give a reception
to her friends and desired to present
them with some memento of. the
event.
The widow of General ''Stonewalr'
Jackson; and her daughter, young
lady of nineteen, now reside at Cleve-
land. Ohio. Mrs. Jackson left the
South because she was there COM
PEELED to mingle with society, and
could not find the retirement and rest
that her health demanded.
Seymour NJ. Spencer a Catholic
clergyman of New York, has declined
to accept third part of large es-
tate. willed to him by his grandfather,
John Mildenberger, with the condi-
tion precedent that he abandon the
priesthood and marry. -.
Jay Gould will start on his tour
around the world the middle of the
coming summer, and will remain
away for two years He will spend
the winter in the Mediterranean,
visiting Italy, Greece, Egypt and
India, as well as Chind and Japan,
and possibly Australia.
George G. Min, the Chicago
preacher. who left the pulpit for the.
stage; broke one Of his ribs while
playing Hamlet in Richmond, Ind,
on Friday night. He was quitting
the stage after his. colloquy with
Ophelia and fell through an open
trap = 4,
Although nearly eight years have
slipped away since the summer morn
ing on which little Charlie Ross was
abducted from his Germantown home,
his father, christian X. Ross, still has
hopes that he will some day see his
long lost boy. In recently written
letter to friend MIR. Ross said. Il
am still diligently making every
effort to unravel the mystery connect
ed with his continued absence. In
our family the subject is often the
theme of conversation. Charlie is
often spoken of as living, and shall
be until we know the contrary"
When Garfield was shot, an editor
named Wheeler, at QUINCY, Il, re-
joiced in the commission ct the Crime,
Knocked at the s1fferings of the Rresl-
dent as he lay dying. and continiiissd
to. malign him after,he was.dead.. In
some places the newspaper Office
would have been mobbed and the
editor tarred and feathered, but the
people of Quincy took a more ration
al and effect1al way of punishlng'
Wheeler than any. resort to violence
could have been. They merely let,
hlm alone, and his paper has been
slowly dying ever since, until it final
ly turned mp its toes the other day
The unfeeling brute has probably had
ten times the occasion TO repent his
folly that be would have had if the
punishmsnt, had been immediate.-
Alta. >.
Miss Rhody Garrett, says the Lon
don Times, was the daughter of a
country clergyman of small means.
and one of a large family. She broke
through the restrictions of home life.
which are much stronger in England
than here, and determined to carve
an honest independence for herself
She entered the office of an architect,
and having learned the trade. so to
speak. set up for herself as an honest
decorator" taking another lady into
partnership. She soon rose to emin-
ence in spite OF delicate health. and
found time to be the author of a little
volume on ''House Decoration" which
has passed through six editions. Her
social and professional al life is strong
argument in support of the belief
that women-l;.dies-may quietly
succeed in business and attain not
only money for their own needs. bnt