Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-18
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
Paul Boyton should have lived in the
days OF Noah.
Wendell Phillips has been forced by
illness to cancel his lecture engage.
ments.
Grant always liked presents. We
have seen q whole brigade present arms
to him.-Danbuyy Ns,cs.
The old bachelors who dislike old
maids say that Gail Hamilton has posi-
lively decided to remain single.
The sofa upon which the sixth presi-
dent, John Quincy Adams, died, is now
the we'll preserved property of gen.
tleman in Georgetown.
Miss Anna E. Dickinson, it is report
ed, has been engaged to play week in
San Francisco, and to lecture twenty
times in California and Nevada.
E. B. Washburne, ex-Minister to
France, is in Texas, hoping to rid him.
self Of q severe bronchial affection.
He delivered lecture recently in San
Antonio.
Mr.. Gladstone is said to be good
pianist and the owner of an agreeable
and powerful voice, with which he
socthes his own vexed spirit after a
stormy debate.
Robert B. Crockett, only surviving
son of the renowned Davy Crockett,
is living in Texas, old, poor and infirm.
An attempt will be made to procure a
pension for him.
Eli Johnson, an English sculptor, is
receiving sittings from John b. Cough
for q half-length statue. Mr.. Cough
will be represented in one of his favor
ite attitudes when delivering an ora
ton.
Mrs. John Jacob Aston, in the past
ten years, has secured homes and the
means of livelihood for about four
hundred and fifty homeless children at
a cost of about sixty seven thousand
dollars. .....
The late Pope, Plus TX, it is said,
never allowed lady to kiss his foot at
his audiences, always giving her his
hand. Pope Leo XIII, on the contrary,
sees ladies go through the ceremony
with calm indifference.
Mrs. Lucy Anderson, who gave piano
lessons to Queen Victoria and all her
daughters, has just died. The queen
was always very kind to the old lady,
who had often made long and pleasant
visits to the abode of royalty.
Mr.. Platt, the Connecticut senator
elect, has no other education than that
he gained by home study and ut boys
academy at such times as he could be
spared from his fathers farm. He has
at present very large and valuable law
practice.
The Empress Eugene is described as
leading the quietest and most monoto-
nous of lives at Chiselhurst. She
prays, she drives, she embroiders, and
sometimes plays whist in the evening.
She is still handsome, her beautiful
golden hair shining royalty above her
plain black dress.
The Marquis of Lorne shakes hands
heartily and makes himself extremely
agreeable to his visitors. The princess
goes. about doing her own shopping,
and,s is said. dresses so plainly that
she has met with some impertinence
from the tradespeople who did not rec
ognize royalty in that simple guise.
M. Gambetta. es president of the
chambers, makes o very powerful and
imposing figure. He shows great ease
of manner and is quiet ard self-re-
strained. He manages the royalists and
Bonapartists with the bell, and Gains
the restlessness of the Republicans with
slight motion of his small left hand.
Mr.. Edison, it is asserted, occasion
ally attends an operatic performance,
and returning to his house repeats upon
the piano, with much expression, the
airs he has heard. Another diversion
of his is running about the house with
his children-"li a squirrel" says
his amiable wife. That lady also says
that "as soon as he gets the electric
light finished, and one other invention
off his hands. he will so to Europe with
us and stay two years."