Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19
PERSONAL.


Bismarck's health is better than it
has been for years before.
Nine. Nilsson and NJ. Faure have
definitely declined the Paris opera.
Whittier was the editor of O journal
of political economy at the age of TWEEN.
ty.One.
Mississippi is proud because she has
no national bank. But then she has
jeff Davis.
It is so hot in Georgia that Alexander
II. Stevens has to crawl inside water.
melon to keep cool.
Rev. s. 8. Joselyn, one of the earli-
est of the Abolitionists. died at the
home Of his brother, in Tarrytown, re.
Gently, aged eighty years.
DR.. w. 81. Russell, who has gone out
to the Cape as correspondent for the
London Telegraph, received, it is said -,
before his departure fee of $4,000.
Albany JOURNAL: Patti is going to
sing at st. Petersburg next winter, and
receive $4,000 night. Even the st.
Petersburg plumbers begin to envy
her.
Charles Dickens home ut" Gadshill "
has just been sold-and not to a liter
| airy person. The purchaser is Captain
Austin Budden, OF the 18th Kent Ar
tillery.
Complaint is made that General Is
rael Putnam's grave in Brooklyn, Conn.,,
is sadly neglected. Relic hunters knock
off pieces of the old slab and carry
them away.
Lady Hardy, a good. natured, middle
aged Englishwoman, and writer of
reasonably good novels, is about to
travel in this country, and write an &C.
count of her experiences.
General Longstreet, now Postmaster
OF Gainesville, Ga, has Il sad face, frank
gray eyes, massive jaws. II strong mouth,
and white, silken mustache and side
wLiskers. He bears a striking likeness
to the Emperor William. His right
arm, which received many wounds, is
paralyzed.
The Turkish Sultan is an enthusias.
tic musician. He is sal tc have taken
a great fancy to Baron Ring, one of the
members of the Eastern Roumelia
Commission, also musician. The two
gentlemen spent many hours together
in the peaceful pastIme of playing
duets on the piano.
King Alfonso, of Spain, is engaged
in procuring subscriptions for church
which he proposes to erect to the mem
ory OF his late c0nsort, himself donat-
ing ElO 900 for the purpose. 1t is said
in official circles that his marriage with
the Austrian Archduchess Christine
will take place the coming autumn.
London World: ~ hear on good
authority that there is chance of Mr..
Secretary Evarts giving up his position
at Washington and accepting the post
vacated by MIR. Walsh. Mr.. Evarts is
the man to whom the Americans owe
their triumph in the Geneva arbitra.
ton. His natural CALDER and acquired
culture are of the highest order, aud he
is most delightful social companion"
Score one more for O modest minister
who halls this time from the west aud
refuses the degree Of d. d. from Harris.
Vile University Oh the ground that his
literary Attainments and Biblical learn
ing fall 80 far below his own ideal Of
what a man should possess to bear
worthily 80 high title that his sense
of duty to himself compels him to de-
cline the honor. His name is William
j. Shuey and he is minister belonging
to the United Brethren Church.
Louise, Victoria and Maud, the
young daughters of the Prince of Wales,
rarely appear in public in any but the
simplest of dresses. They are some-
times seen with their mother at the
theater in plain white linen or cotton
sailor dresses, with little red trim
ming, and they are often met riding and
driving in neat sailor dresses of dark
blue wooden. They went with their
father and mother to the recent French
Fair in gowns of plain pink cambria,
sashes of crimson harmonizing with the
pink.