Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-12-05
Personal.

Cariyies books bring him fI,OOO q
year.
Christine Nilsson is In her rs,ive
Sweden.
Adeline Patti is =. her country home
! in Wales.
Emperor William fsvors worlds fair
at Berlin in 1885.
Jay Gould personally controls ]. 500
miles OF continuous railroad.
The Emperor William is described
by correspondent as sun.burned and
vigoroCs-looking.
hing Humbert. OF Italy, ID living a
retired life at Mona, where be il sb.
sorbed with business of the State.
Not many Governors can make them
selves useful at camp meetings by
preaching, As does Gov. Colquett, Of
Georgia.
Wade Hampton, the son OF the Seua
tor from South Carolina, has lust been
married at Louisville, to Miss Catherine
Phelan.
1t is fifteen years since Peter Cooper.
that plain.looking old man, donated to
the public the institute which cost hi m
$500, 600.
The Princess Louise superintendent
the repairs at the Government House
even mixing the paint when the tint was
not to her liking.
King Alfonso of Spain, though wild.
over, is but twenty-five years OF age,
and his prospective bride is about four
months his junior.
The Shah of Persia has ordered L.
900, 600 postal cards at Vienna, possibly
with the intention of becoming q rival
of Private Dalzell.
The fifty three young men whom Al.
exander H. Stephens helped to an edu-
cation repaid the money as soon as they
were able to earn it.
John Bright called Wendell Phillips
the most eloquent living orator, but
Murat Halstead. says that Wendell
Phillips is the most able and eloquent
fool in the country"
John E. Seely. of Goshen, N. Y, is
reported to have returned from Western
mining speculations and three years
absence with $5,000,O00. He was a
horse farrier when he left Goshen.
James Russell Lowell will be sixty
years old next February. The ill health
Of Mrs. Lowell and dislike of the mo-
notony Of his position may cause him to
resign as Minister to Spain ere long.
The British Ambassador to France,
Lord Lyons, is IN old bachelor who
drinks nothing but milk and soda water.
He has $50. 900 year, besides his house,
and he has held his place some twelve
years.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale insists
with much force that men are not to be
improved in the bulk, by the hundred
thousand, but in the natural groups
stone.
Louisa M. Alcott, the author, daugh.
ter Of the venerable philosopher, Bron-
son Alcott, was the hrst woman to reg
lister in the town of Concord, NJ IS. in
order to vote for members of the School
Committee.
Mrs. Stewards physician says several
men OF reputable positions are known
to have been connected with the Stew
hIt grave AOoOcIJs huO luht Cuo O1SCAOo'
ure of their names would startle the
community.
Women somehow get over childish
notions that men never outgrow. Some
men celebrate every birthday as long
as they live, while women quit doing
so almost as soon as they grow up
Boston Post.
A life.s size picture of lion, presented
to the Spanish government by Rosa
Bonheur, will probably be placed in the
museum at Madrid, although there is
rule against the exhibition there OF
works of living artists.
A phase of fashionable life at Newport
is shown by the following advertisement
in local paper: miss Thompson,
from New York, shapes and polishes
ladies' finger nails at their residence.
Rate per visit one dollar" etc.
The Japan Gazette states that previous
to his departure from Yokohama, Gen
eral Grant left 300 yen with the au.
thorities to be applied to the prevention
of the spread Of cholera. The yen is
equivalent in value to the American dol.
lar.