Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-03-02
WORTH REMEMBERING.
Gossip of Prominent PersOns and
Things.

Paul Bennevue, who began his Ca
I treer as Secretary to Dumas pere and
varied it as diplomat, editor, publisher,
politician and banker, is ending it in a
New Hampshire pOorhouse.
At the late jubilee in Carlsbad in
honor of Labitzky the Catholic priest
composed festival hymn, the Protes-
tant minister wrote the words, and the
Jewish synagogue furnished the sing
ers.
An English paper which has been
taking ballot on the subject OF favor
ite names for boys and girls received
1900 replies. A list OF thirty-one
boys and thirty-three girls names
was submitted, and the voting showed
Harold and Dorothy to be the two
most popular propositions.
To be considered white is the one
ambition OF the European-clad Sand
wich Islander. A very dusky maiden,
clothed sumptuously in parasol, WAS
one day Dragging of English enter
prise in one embracive "we." "But
you have no white blood in you," said
bystander. "Oh, yes, have" she
replied iu triumph; "my great-grand-
father helped eat Capt. Cook"
In a short editorial on the fate of
Major Wilson's party the London
Daily News says the waste of war ap-
pears all the greater when we see
what each of these men was worth in
spirit, in enterprise, in the best quail
ties of our race. In education alone
the costly labors of whole groups OF
dons were in some cases brought to
nothing by this butchery. 1t seems a
pity to put SO much work into prod
uct and then fling it away. The waste
Of war only begins with the waste OF
taxes. A great battle is prodigality
carried to its furthest verge.
Count Tolstoi, in the courtship of
Levui and Kitty in Anna Karenina,"
where the lovers only pronounce the
6rst letters of the words they use, has
reproduced his own wooing. Nine.
Tolstoi is Q remarkable woman. She
received q diploma from Moscow
University at seventeen, and at eigh-
teen married q husband her senior by
twenty years. Now, after thirty-one
years of married life, she is the mother
Of nine living children, and her hus-
bands potent aid in his literary labors.
Until her children are ten years old
she makes all their clothes.
Another incontestible proof OF the
rapid advance of the Japanese in civil
lization of the West il the following
advertisement which appeared in q
Toxic paper recently: "a young lady
wishes to get married. She is very
beautiful, has rosy face, which is sur
rounded by dark curly hair. Her
eyebrows show the form of the half
moon, and the mouth is small and
pretty. She is also very rich, we'll
read enough to admire the flowers In
the daytime at the side Of life COM
panion, or at night TO sing to the stars
in heaven. The man whom she will
choose must also be young, handsome
and we'll educated, and be ready to
share the same grave with her."
A celebrated case has been recalled
by the recent death Of Charles Os-
borne, the .uthor. He was the father
of Capt. Osborne, who behaved so
chivalrously in the famous pearl case.
The captain and his wife. says the
London Princess, are now living hap.
PLY together at the cottage in Wales,
to which he conveyed her after the
trial. One of the first to congratulate
| the young wife on the birth OF her
baby was Mrs. Hargreaves, who has
again become her close friend.