Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-11
Personal.


Mrs. Stowe is cultivating oranges and
roses in her Southern home, Mandarin,
Florida.
Mr.. Sturgeon, who has been soiourn-
ing at Mentone, in France, for the ben
eft OF HIS health, sends his sermon
weekly to the Tabernacle, in London,
and is rapidly improving in his physi-
cal condition.
Mr.. J. A. Rose, OF Highland Prairie,
Wis, weighs 242 pounds SO does his
wife their twenty-year-old son weighs
I'll, and o daughter three years younger
requires a supporting knee of the ca
pacily of 1S1 pounds.
Postmaster General Key, vino is a.
moderate advocate of woman's rights,
says that q large number Of women
have been appointed to small Govern
ment Offices during the last four years,
and that they do the business better and
take more pride in office-holding than,
men.
Miss Angie King has been admitted to
the bar of Rock county, Wisconsin, and
has opened an Office for the practice of
her profession in GAINESVILLE, Wiscon-
sin. Miss King makes the third woman
lawyer now practicing law in that city,
Miss Lavinia Goodell and Miss Kate
Kane being the other two.
Henry Ward Beecher has broken ST.
lence. The exclusion of Plymouth
from the Congregational Councils in
spires him to say to his people: /" Never
mind it is natural to resent, but not
good. I am but the pincushion of
newspapers, and am covered all over
with pins, but they don't hurt me-"
General George Washington Park
Gusts Lee, who is to regain possession
of the Arlington estate, is forty Ave
years old, and remarkably like his
father, the late General r. E. Lee. He
is President of the Washington and
Lee University at Lexington, Va, where
he lives with his two sisters. He is.
an old bachelor and very shy of the gen.
tier sex.
Edwin Booth has purchased for So, $50
three acres and half on Second Beach,
at Newport, r. l., from Mr.. Eugene
Sturtevant, son-in law of Bishop Clark.
The tragedian-who was always fond Of
seaside repose-expects to soon build
on the property a modest summer cot
tage, and, like Demosthenes, give rhe-
torical rehearsals to applauding waves.
At least, so Oakley Hall has it, in the
World.
Mr.. Mast. the distinguished carica-
turist of Rarper's Weekly, received a
silver vase bearing the following in
scription " Presented to Ehomas Mast
by his friends of the Army and Navy of
the United States, in recognition of the
patriotic use which he has made of his
rare abilities as an artist of the people.
The gift of three thousand five hundred
officers and enlisted men of the Army
and Navy of the United States"
Senator Bruce is described as a we'll
appearing man; his complexion is coffee
colored his hair is carefully brushed :
it is not straight, but has the curl char
acteristic of his race. He dresses re-
markably well, not foppishly. He is.
an unusually intelligent-looking man.
for his race, is modest and unassuming,
and never participates in the debates
unless they in some way affect the in
terest of his State. His wife is slen-
der, shapely woman. Her complexion
is thoroughly Andalusian. She has
delicate, high-bred features, singularly
full of repose, and manner and bear
ing eminently refined her eyes are
large, and have tender expression so
specially the popularity of the Moorish
women. She is highly educated and
has many intellectual resources.