Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-18
Personal.

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Princess Elizabeth, of Roumsnia, il
literary.
Angela, Baroness Burdett. Coutts. 70
ceived her title in 1871.
Mile. Alwina Valleria, the prims
donna, is Mrs. R. II. Percy Hutohin-
son.
Senator Edmunds' daughter writes
and paints, and will soon publish .
book.
Major. General Hancock owns large
farm in Missouri, where he intends to
pass the latter years Of his life.
Anna Dickinson is reported as say.
ing that she will never marry until she
can bake loaf of bread, and that she
will never bake bread while she has her
senses.
The rumored return of Rev. W. II.
d. Murray to Boston is the latest sem
sation in religious circles, the wonder
being to know what he will do when
there again.
Sydney Smith once said, at the close
OF Sunday sermon "Do not i'm
sgine that this sermon is mine-I can
not do such things; it is by an Ameri-
can. DR.. Charming.
Olga, Queen of Greece, is under
stood to be writer Of some CO.
pacity. She has just published spir-
tied article advocating the maintenance
OF the Greek nunneries.
The Emperor of Germany has
granted the sum of eighty thousand
marks from his private purse towards
the works necessary for bringing to O
conclusion the excavations at Olympia.
Miss Louisa NJ. Alcott is said to be
u fine natural actress, and to have como
near going on the stage once. Her
project was defeated by her family.
Sue has often attempted writing for the
stage.
Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,
who before her marriage was famous
for her artistic needle-wo is now
exhibiting. ut picture shop in Boston,
some OF her landscapes, worked with
silk thread on silk panels.
The Baroness Burdett- Coutts is rather
below the medium height, with prom
inent nose, and hair brushed tightly
over the temples in the good old-fash-
ioned way, and bad complexion
| which makes her look as If she drank
to excess, although she is very alb
stemious.
When the Czarina of Russia alighted
from the railway Car which took her to
st. Petersburg, on her return from her
last journey to Italy, she exclaimed,
"Alas I have done with travelling.
Farewell railroads; farewell coaches
and locomotives. My next conveyance
will be the hearse."
General Andrew Jackson, few days
before his death. sent for Mr.. McCombs,
II Nashville undertaken, and said to
him cooly: II have sent for you to
give you some instructions about my
funeral" Then, says McCombs in q
recent letter, "as calmly as he would
discuss the most ordinary business
matter, he gave the most minute in
structions relative to it." A few days
after. the General was laid quietly to
rest at the Hermitage.
Nordenskjold and his lieutenant,
Palander, during their last weeks stay
in Paris, had only twenty-five hours
sleep. While at the French capital
they were present at twenty-nine ban
quets and lunches, and listened to one
hundred ami forty-seven speeches and
three hundred and seventy-eight toasts,
to which they replied in twenty four
speeches, of which twenty were made
by Nordenskjold aud four by his lieu
tenant. The statistician who il re-
sponsible for these figures very wisely
abstains from any attempt to compute
the number of well-meaning Parisians
who shook hands with the couple, say
ing, Weii, suppose you find this
climate more agreeable than that ct the
North Pole p