Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-25
Personal Gossip.

ings.
Chief Douglass wife's name is Pull
Hair.
Ernest Renan had an earnest chat
with Tensyson.
Worth is to be married. One woman
is bound to have her new dresses in ad.
vance of all others.
The Princess Louise is painting the
Grandeur Falls - water colors, Of
course. Chicago Times.
Thomas Bailey A.drich says that " no
stupid man ever suspected himself Of
being anything but clever"
Sara Bernhardt has Withdrawn from
the Theater Francois in conseq uence
of her failure in the "Aventuriere."
Jules Verne has made $3.50, 900 by
being the cham pion scientific and geo.
graphic liar in the world. He is fifty
one.
Artemus Ward once commenced a
lecture by saying: Ladies aud gen.
tlenen, I possess q gigantic intellect,
but 1 haven't it with me-"
Tho obelisk which was ordered by
Queen Victoria to be erected on the
spot where The Prince Imperial fell in
Zululand has been pat in position.
1t is understood that Mr.. John Bright
desires to re.enter the British Ministry
because he has work to perform with
reference to the Irish land questions.
Hanlan's new boat. which is ready
for him in Troy, is the lightest for ats
SIZE in the world. 1t weighs only
twenty-s ponds and six ounces COM
plete.
Ben. Butler can hardly ever speak of
= the white pluned Navarro without
causing some " Pinafore tiena m the
audience to shout out, "What, Ma
varre2"- Picay uue.
NJ. Verdi has very dark eyes and dark
complexion, an intense, nervous face,
with very good features. His once
black hair is now silvered. He has
agreeable manners and loves to talk,
which he does after the Italian fashion,
with many gesticulations.
Miss Alice Blaine, the eldest daughter
of the Senator, is described by the
Washington correspondent of the Albany
Journal AS not pretty, but tall i'll fig
ure, and having face intense and fas-
1t is u co,0rless face, a loug
oval in shape, with magnificent black
hair and eyes, and glowing, scarlet
lips.
Hon. Levi Parsons, of New York
City, u former resident of Kingsboro,
Fulton County, N. Y, has given $780,
900 to establish public library for
G,oversville and KingsborO. The citi-
Gems have held a meeting. and voted to
name it the Parsons Library" and
have promptly subscribed nearly $4,000
Tor II building lot.
The two eldest daughters of the late
Princess Alice-Victoria seventeen, and
Elizabeth sixteen-are tall and we'll
grown for their age, with fair hair,
iigkt blue eyes and fresh complexion,
bearing'a striking resemblance to their
aunt, Princess Beatrice, and still more
20 t eir cousin, Princess Charlotte. eld-
est daug liter of the German Crown
Prince.
Miss Frances Power Cobbs, of Eng
land, writes to the Womans Journal:
" am not dead! 1t was poor lady
unknown to me personally--who took
my name, and whose dealt. was an
nounced SO as to mislead. am, thank
God, not only alive, but rs we'll and
strong as any woman of tifty.eight years
may expect to BE-. and l hope to strike
more than one blow for the noble cause
of the emancipation of woman before l
die"
At Swedish banquet given in Paris,
in honor of Nordenskjold. the explorer,
Christine Nilsson was much painted and
powdered, according to the London
Truth. "Apy one seeing her for the
first ime would have been disappointed
TO find how little of the fresh northern
rose of fifteen years ago had survived
her scenic triumphs. Her bust and
arms are still fine. She 'acts over
much with her eyes, the expression of
which, has greatly changed of late, when
she is off the stage"
Miss Nelson, the actress, is q rich
woman. Her fortune, it is said, will
be quarter OF a million dollars, at the
end ol her present tour, without reck-
oning the market value of her dil
LuOuuo, ACPACoCht, az JC"SASA'
prices, 800, 900. If she choose to keep
on acting, year in and year out, she
could have quarter OF million more,
so the same writer asserts, in about
three years. The one hundred and ten
performances given through the pres.
emit tour have brought her in upward OF
$45, 900, and she must give forty more,
beside twenty eight California repre-
sensations, by which she will make
$4,000. Every dollar she earns in the
United States is invested in American
securities. The other day, in Buffalo,
she bought nearly $4,000 worth of
four per-cents. and on the same day Sc
cured by telegraph a. S.. 900 lot of Erie
Neconds. These, with her usual luck
for Miss Nelson is lucky-rose four per
cent within ten days after the purchase.
GROUND FOR A GARDEN.-Now is the
time to look out for your flower garden,
if you are fortunate enough to have Il
patch of ground suitable for the pur-
pose. Farmers, as rule, are entirely
too careless about their gardens. their
whole minds being placed upon the
field crops, stock, etc. The women
would in most cases be competent and