Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-12-14
PERSONS AND THINGS.

Mount Jefferson Davis is the highes
peak in Nevada.
senator Sharon pays one per cent O
all the taxes collected in San Francisco
BARLEY Campbell thinks he will on,
day show the world what Shakespear,
might have done.
Lexington, Ky, has small colore,
boy whose skin is scalv like fish. A
regular intervals he sheds his GOVERN.
and another comes.
The first public experiment with al
electric locomotive is to be had on the
Saratoga and Mount McGregor Railroad
November 10th.
Snowman Barnum has settled dowr
TO wear away another winter; hut hay
ing no show to look after for six
months" he says, al feel like an ele.
phant on my own hands,"
An eccentric individual of Dooty
county, Georgia, is rs years old. but
has never in the whole course of his life
spent one night from under the roof of
the house in which he was born.
Clintcn A. Shewden, the versatile
editor OF the Washington Replbhcan,
has invented a potato-peeler, and en-
gagged himself To he married to Il daugh-
ter of Assistant Postmaster General
Hatton.
\ man named Gaslill recently applied
to the Arkansas Legislature to change
his name because his girl always OBJ
Jected to his figure whenever he'd metre.
She said he was too high, and turned
him off.
lady who asserts that no one should
ever have her hand in marriage, EXCEPT
the one who should rescue her from
death, was placed in predicament on
falling into the river and being brought
to shore by a large Newfoundland dog.
VIM. Eaton, a compositor in the office
OF the Danville (Vt) Star, is in his
S4th year. Until a few days ago, when
he was confined to his house with i'll
ness, he had worked for nearly 76 wears
at the case, losing hardly days work.
The Children's Country Week Asso-
citation in Philadelphia is one of the
most successful of these useful societies.
During the last season 2,7I3 persons
were sent to the country for one week
or more, and II 900 made short visits.
There is an cd lady named Brown
living in Hinton, Mich, whose hair is
turning from gray to its original color,
and she is now cutting her third set OF
teeth. For several years she has had
her second eyesight, and can see to do
fine work as well as anybody.
\ friend of the actor John McCul-
lough in London has sent him a rare old
mezzotint engraving of "The Death of
Virginia" 1t is by Bartollozzi, the
father of Vestris, and is from the collec-
ton of Skeene, the keeper of the prints
and engravings in the British museum.
The Prince of Wales plays the banjo,
the Princess Louise the guitar, the
Princess of Wales has accompanied
Nilsson on the piano, the Duke of Ed
inburgh plays the violin, and the Ouch
ess liz able to turn the pages of a full
score, while the Duke of Albany is a
musical genius.
"llere is conundrum," exclaimed
Fogg the other morning at breakfast,
after toying with the comminuted food
on his plate. "Why is the lady who is
coming over with Henry Irving like our
daily fare?' Nobody succeeding i'm
guessing, Fogg gave the answer-"Be-
cause she is Miss Terry"
He skipped into the sanctum with step "a
light as air;
"A little pun original I'll read to you" he
said:
The melon-colic days have come, the sawduss
of the year
Bang! went the gun. He's sleeping now
with daisies DER his head
New York Journal
A Chicago man wanted divorce be-
cause his wife persisted in singing
hymns. The court just laughed at him,
and ne would have lost his case had not
his lawyer summoned the wife to the
witness stand and started her singing.
At the end of the fifth verse the court
threw up the sponge and the divorce
was granted.
GounOd has made great progress with
his oratorio, "Mors ct Vita" which he
is writing for the next Birmingham fes-
tival. A visitor who heard fragments of
the work is of the opinion that it will
be placed at the head OF Gounod's com
positions, and the composer himself is
convinced that it will rank in advance
even of "The Redemption.
Mr.. Garrett, the railway President,
says that during his last European trip
he was impressed with the importance
of places OF amusement. He is satis-
fled that no city can thrive as it should
without theaters, gardens, parks, and
the like. "While the old folks are
trading" he says, "the young folks are
seeing fun. Every city should make
itself attractive"