Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-01-25
PERSONAL.
Heller, the magician, left fortune
of $4,000.

| gnraun IN brOOklyn, SnOt lady In
the audience with the wadding of his
pistol.
Miss Fannie Davenport's weeks en-
gagement at the Grand Opera House,
Cincinnati, brought $4,000 into the
box office.
Mr.. w. w. Corcoran, the banker and
philanthropist of Washington, will be
eighty years of age on the 9th instant.
His health continues excellent.
Professor David Swing is much troub-
led concerning the want of educational
facilities in the South and makes manly
appeal to the North to remedy the evil.
In a discussion of cremation at o
London club, O member is credited
with the argument, eve earn our
own living, why should we not urn our
dead?"
Ex-senator Ramsey, of Minnesota,
has given his private library to the His
torical Society of that State. 1t con-
tains many valuable historical and doc
umentary works.
DR.. Livingstone, the explorer, is to
have tablet erected to his memory in
Westminster Abbey, Dean Stanley hav-
ing consented. 1t will take the form Of
a stained-glass window.
Bismarck, according to DR.. Busch, is
very fond of hardboiled eggs, and rue
fully confesses that while in former
days he could manage eleven, he now
could not eat more than three.
Alexander Stephens gained an ounce
and half one day last week. He
weighed just after eating half q pound
of steak, six biscuits, half a pie, a
piece of pudding, and three apples.
The Rev. Mr.. Pentecost, of Boston,
in sermon against round-dancing, said
that very respectable and intelligent
young woman had assured him that the
hugging was, to her, the pleasantest
part of ball.
A peddlcr, overtaking another of the
fraternity on the road, exclaimed:
Halloo! What do you carry ?"
Patent medicines" was the reply.
GOOD You go ahead. I carry grave
stones, was the rejoiner.
A man was sitting for his photo
graph. The operator said: "Now, sir,
look kind O. pleasant-smile little.
The man smiled, and then the operator
exclaimed: sob, that will never do!
1t is too wide for the instrument"
A little boy was sent to o store for
some eggs. Before reaching home he
dropped them. In answer to his
mother, who asked him if he broke
any, he replied: "No, I didn't break
any, but the shells came off some of
them"
THEATRICAL A ssURANcE.-( Ingenious
pretext for extracting another shill-
ing. Stall Attendant: Take assurance
ticket. sir? Portly Gentleman: Eth
What's it for? Stall Attendant: Our
doors are rather narrow, sir. Can't
guarantee safety in case of panic.
(Ticket is taken. All right, sir. Put
you in a nice, safe place, sir.-F'unny
Folks.
A young negro bootblack observed
a neighbor porting wisely over a news
paper, whereupon he addressed him
thus: "Julius, what are you looking at
dat paper for ? You can't read" go
away" cried the other Indignantly;
guess can read; rs big enuff for dat. +"
big enuff, retorted the other scorn-
fully, "dat amt muffin. A cows big
enough to catch mice, but she can't"
A five-year old daughter the 9TH
day stood watching her baby brother
who was making great fuss over hay
ing his face washed. The little miss at
leugth lost her patience, and stamping
her tiny foot, said: " You think you
have lots of trouble, but you don't
know anything about it. Wait till
you'se big enough to get lickin, and
then you'll see-won't he, mar
Dobbs pleasantly sat down at break
fast the other morning, and his loving
wife said: Darling, does your head
ache?" He replied with sufficient dig
nifty, "No; why should you ask ?"
And she said back: "Well, dear, you
came in at 3 o'clock this morning, and
as you couldn't hang your hat on the
rack, you put the rack down on the
floor, and said ) ou'd hang every hat in
the house on it; and thought your
head might ache"
Olive Logan writes of Nilsson: "She
wears no petticoats whatever, but buck
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uItrimmed skirt of plaid or gray goods,
SO tightly drawn backward that her
lower limbs are almost as clearly de-
fined as o mans are in trousers. A
tweed hat, or beaver, is the headgear.
For evening dress the all-black broad
cloth, with white tie, is assumed; for
morning and travelling, a rough pea.
jacket and skirt of coarse texture. Did
you ever hear such vagary? Chris
tines excuse is that it is so easy"
Here is an anecdote concerning the
late Charlotte Cushman which do not
remember having seen in print. The
sisters Cushman were in company with
Douglas Jerrold on one occasion, when
he "a little bit of man, as he was)
laughingly proposed to marry Emily
Cushman. "Oh r. said she, in lively
way. if I were going to marry, do you
think I'd have q man of your size
No; 1 should marry something mascu-
line" Jerrold, piqued, said in his
most acidulous tones: "Then, my dear,
why don't you marry your sister ?'-
Dramatic, Ners.