Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-04
Personal.
Gladstone will run for Parliament.

Gladstone will run for Parliament.
Mr.. U. s. Grant, Jr., has contracted
for the erection of cottage at Asbury
Park, NJ.
Miss Fanny Davenport, the actress,
weighs $50 pounds and walks three
miles day for constitutional.
When Mrs. Lucy Stone was sixty
years old the New England Women's
Club gave her es-party to celebrate
the day.
Mrs. Hayes has the White House
cellar fitted up with potato-bins.
shelves for pumpkins and sqdashes,
and racks to hold apples, after the man
ner of her own cellar at home.
The widow of Daniel Webster is still
living at New Rochelle, N. Y, but her
mental faculties are so impaired that
she is hardly cognizant of her surround
ings, while the past is total blank.
She is seventy eight years old.
There was ga clever and amiable
man, witty, full of esprit, but hardly a
bit of diplomatist-too sentimental
for that trade. He is without doubt a
nobler character than Favre, but he
won't do for a negotiator, not even for
horse. dealer. He is too easily brow
beaten he betrays what he feels, and
is to be pumped" Such is Bismarck
estimation of the French statesman.
A correspondent of the Charleston
Ne,cs and Courier says Fighting
Dick" Anderson, a Lieutenant General
in the Confederate army and the South
Carolinian who held the highest rank
in the Confederate army. has earned
his bread since the war as an humble
clerk, seeking nothing, asking for
nothing, content with living made
by daily toll, until want of en-
ployment has driven him from our
borders to seek employment in another
State.
Anna Dickinson was most warmly re-.
ceived by her old friends at the Globe
Theatre in Boston, where she lectured
on The Stage Her treatment of the
subject was much the same as upon her
first delivery in New York few nights
ago. 1t differed only in one or two
minor details, and in the distinction
drawn between religion and the pulpit
"a difference much more strongly
marked than before. Miss Dickinson
was received with great applause, which
at times during her speech broke into
cheers.
Concerning Mr.. Webb Hayes, the
Washington correspondent of the Her.
aid, of Boston, tells this story: Mr..
WAht uaxaa xy1 IS
humor, astonished his parents and the
friends with them last fall at one of the
largest public receptions held by the
President and Mrs. Hayes in the West.
He 1.-THE wag OF the family, while
thousands were passing up to shake
hands with the couple, pulled his hat
down over bis face, drew his coat tight
around him, and, falling into line,
gravely walked up to his mother, and !,
taking her hand to shake il as others
did, stood for q moment, and gravely
said, in clear, raised tone. so that all
might hear, God bless you, madam,
for your noble adherence b. the tenn
perancs cause Mrs. Hayes, though
taken unawares. thanked him gravely,
without any appearance Of recognition,
and he passed on with the crowd"
Henry Clay is discussed by writer
in New Haven journal, who says that
the statesman once corrected him in the
pronunciation Of Q great Cardinals
name. " You should not said Mr..
Clay, SAY Richelieu, but Rishsloo.
AZ I thanked him, he drew out an enor-
nous red bandanna handkerchief and
spread it across his knees, his feet rest
ing upon rug whereupon was worked
the sentence Protection to American
Industry The next operation was to
bring out gold snuff box Of ON oblong
square form, the hinge at the marrow
end. Then leaning forward. his elbows
resting upon his knees, he took q pinch
and talked in very fatherly genial way,
in q deep, sonorous, musical voice. His
personal magnetism was wonderful.
Little children, rs he walked through
the markets ct Lexington, were wont TO
run and sometimes pull him by the
coat tail and say, How do you do, Mr..
Clay?' and occasionally would put q
bunch Of flowers in his hand"