Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-29
Personal.

- SOuoIs
It is reported that the mental con.
dition of The ex-Empress Carlotta is
much improved.
Some of John Bright's friends are
urging him to pay visit this summer
to the United States.
The Princess of Wales is hardly
recognized when riding in the Row
with her brother. Prince Waldemar.
|. The wife of General Grant has sent
an invitation to the Princess Louise to
visit her in Washington next winter.
London papers announce that Mr..
Chizzola has engaged Nine. Carlotta
Patti for tour in America after her
Australian season.
President Hayes never smokes, and
so has no cigars to offer his guests when
he receives them on the southern por.
tico of the White House.
Senator Blaine will not stump Ohio.
He is too busy in Maine. Another rea-
son is that General Ewing is his cousin,
and there exists between them q warm,
personal friendship.
Imagine a quiet, amiable, gentle
voiced man, reserved in his bearing,
fascinating in manner, and handsome
III appearance, fully six feet tall, about
forty.eight years of age, hair just turn
ing gray, face smooth, features refined,
eyes blue, and you have an excelle Mt
likeness of Senator Butler, of South
Carolina.
The people who have always persisted
in calling the sage of Menlo Park pro-
lessor" Edison may now be accurate
and at the same time satisfy their cray
ing for scientific title by calling him
DR.. Edison. Rutgers College has be-
slowed upon the famous graduate of
the baggage car and telegraph Office
the honorary degree Of Phi. d.
Longfellow recognizes that a dis
tinctive American race is growing up
in the West. He says the West is the
nursery of A merica's productions. He
has his library in southeast room, be-
cause he likes sunlight. Lohgfellow is
small, thin and straight. His long hair
and full beard are white as silver. His
walk is sprightly.-N. Y. Herald.
Mr.. Evarts will himself go to Vir-
ginia to select the spot at Washington s
birthplace whereon the National Monu-
ment is to be erected. 1t is possible
that President Hayes will accompany
him. Mrs. Sallie Washington, the
nearest living relative of our first Pres
ident, and now past eighty years old,
lives on the Wicktield estate, near the
Washington place, which is now owned
by her son-in-law. She is the widow
of Lawrence Washington, and the
daughter of William Washington.
Prince Victor Napoleon. the seven
teen-year. son of Prince Jerome,
and the new heir to the Bonapartist
idea, is rather tall, handsome and
straight as dart; dark in hair, cheek
and eye; and in temper and tempera-
ment true Corsican. Italian. His fea-
lures are regular, his hair is trained
over his brow and cropped, and he has
his mothers mouth, though not the
peculiar nose of the House of Savoy.
He is said to be a thorough Napoleon
in looks, in character and in certain
fiery impetuosity of temper.
Of General Grant and his wife in
their poverty stricken days of 1861, a
picturesque little story is told. He
had gone from Galens to Springfield
to get captaincy in regiment then
being organized, and in his absence
Mrs. Grant went to one of the Galena
shops and asked for barrel of -four on
credit, as she had no money. Her re.
quest was refused, when a bystander.
who was also merchant, approached
and told her she could have anything
she wished from his store. This kind.
ness in time of need was never forgot
ten by Grant, and after he became Presi.
dent he bestowed substantial favors
upon this good-hearted and patriotic
grocer.