Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20
PERSONAL.

Gen. Lees eldest daughter 10 travel
ing over the site of the Russo Turkish
war.
Miss Amelia Bloomer. inventor Of the
bloomer costume, lives in retired vii
lage in Iowa.
Mrs. Matilda Fletcher. OF Des Moines,
Ia, has been offered SO, 900 for a lecture
tour in Colorado, upon Social Sci
ence."
Gladstone's magazine articles have
been translated into Greek, and have
been published in Greek paper. They
read very smoothly in Greece.
Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth
| says that she has written constantly
ever since she was fifteen years old she
is now at work on her sixtieth novel.
{" Tx Marvel" the quietest of authors.
is now white.haired man, with
genial, intellectual face and kindly
eyes, whose country life, frightened by
his family. his books and his pipe, is
truly idyllic.
Rose Eytinge who is one of the best
dressed women Of the stage, has all her
costumes made in this country, and
generally under her own supervision.
She evidently thinks American fashions
as good as foreign ones.
Little Mrs. Tom Thumb is in the
deepest mourning and has a very cad
look in her face. When she goes out
she is enveloped in black Grape veil
| rr,hsnh f..11 a. A~ khncn H.
tie folks have their joys and their sor-
rows.
1t is related of Sainte-Beuve that he
once fought O duel in the rain. He
gravely opened an umbrella and no ex-
postulutiOns of his second could make
him close it. don't mind getting
killed." he declared, but 1 hate get
ting wet"
To man who was engaged, married
and divorced, all within fifteen weeks,
u New York judge read this decree:
" But it shall not he lawful for the said
Anthony Gain to marry again until the
said plaintiff, Margaret Gain, il actu-
ally dead" If all judges we're like this
one there would be fewer divorce cases.
The first choice ticket for Jenny
Limits first concert, in Providence, r.
L., for which 1858 was paid by Col.
William Ross, VIII" died there on Feb
ruary "a. hangs in frame on the walls
If the Ross mansion in that city. 1t
bears the signature of Jenny Lind. and
the receipt is verified in the handwriting
of P. T. Barnum.
At the Centennial celebration of the
city of Lexington, Kentucky, the other
day, the venerable General Leslie
Coombs appeared upon the stage. He
referred to his extreme youth, and, sup
ported by his huge walking-stick, six
feet long, he spoke the well-known piece
beginning:
Y nd scarce Exp Ct one Of my age
IT, speak IN public ON the stage,
amid roars of laughter.
OF the late Eiihu Burritt's works the
Providence Press says that he intended
to leave all his copyrights, his manu-g
scripts. his library and his literary re.
mains with profess Of Browns Uni-
versity, ON condition that the latter
,houll edit such manuscripts and res
publish such books as might he expo
,lent, annUtatiug and correcting them Na
mp to date. The offer was declined,
he learned philologist being unwilling
to risk his reputation on Mr.. Barritt's
publications.
This weakness of Greeley was we'll
known, but there were few who had
any idea OF its extent. He was unable
To say "No," unless it we're Oh point
of principle. Even when articles of
palpably unsuitable character were
pressed on ais acceptance for the Tib-
uae, he never uttered open refusal.
His reply would be, Call in o,mor-
row." aud as soon as the vi ,itor left, the
article would 60 into the waste. basket.
He lent money necessarily, but chiefly
IN small sums, and yet, in one instance,
u medical quack of utterly irresponsible
character got SIS, 900 from him, which,
Of course, stands unpaid.-Ciacinnati
Gazette.