Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-19
Personal.

Ellison will yet be seen in the right
light.
The Pope has sent the golden rose to
the new Queen of Spain.
Thurlow Weed is now engaged in
writing his autobiography.
The Empress Eugene inhelits $780,
600 year from her mother.
Hon. George P. Marsh is living in
magnificent apartment OF the Palazzo
Bospigliosi.
Goethe said men show their character
in nothing more than by what they
think laughable.
The Pope writes a fine, clear, back
hand, forming every letter distinctly
and signing himself " Leo P. P. XIII"
Sara Bernhard, observing the Prince
of Wales badness, recently told him
that the crown of England would fit
him to hair.
A daughter of the Bishop of Reykja-
rik, Iceland, has made an ascent of the
great volcano Hecla for the purpose of
getting geological observations.
Mrs. Gen. Garfield is devoting her
self to the education Of her sons, and
in great measure carrying forward
their studies and fitting them for col
lege.
One of the sons of the late Charles
Dickens, Francis j. Dickens, is an in
spector in the Canadian Northwest
Mounted Police, aud is stationed at Fort
Walsh.
The art of talking pays in Turkey {;
the Sultan has five agreeable gentlemen
about him whose sole business it is to
entertain him with polite and graceful
conversation.
The wife of the Surgeon General of
Germany is a very skillful and popular
dentist, with large practice. She is
employed by members of the emper-
or's family.
The late John Brisbin, of Newark,
left quarter of million dollars to
various local charities. Newark has
been longing for years for this sort of a
Jerseyman.-N. Y. Herald.
Goethe once presented set of his
works to the Harvard College Library
fact which has just been brought to
light in making new catalogue of the
German literature Of the library.
The late ex-senator Westcott is de-
scribed as always wearing the queue
OF his early manhood. He would never
give it up, although of late years he
concealed it beneath his coat collar.
1t is now denied that the Prince of
Wales sons have had their young and
somewhat snubbed noses tattooed. In
frolic the other midshipmen painted
their noses to represent tattoo marks.
Miss Harriet Hosmer is said to be
still resolved to discover perpetual mo-
ton, and has taken workshops near
Westminster to pursue her efforts.
She expects to be successful by mid
summer.
Senator Edmunds is fifty-one years
old, and from fees of his law practice
he has saved $500, 900 or $500, 900. He
reads great many books. and he has a
large art collection. He is sociable
with a chosen few.
DR.. Sarah NJ. Crawford is resident
physician of the New England hospital
for women and children, in Boston.
Several hundred patients have been adj
mitted and treated during the year. The
hospital is in fourishing condition.
There is one teacher who will not adj
vocate a home of charity for " superan-
nuated teachers" This is Miss Trip,
VINO, after teaching twenty. lone years,
has invested her money 80 wisely, that
she is now enabled to live on the inter-
est.
Nathan Cook, OF Terrell county, Ga,
is 1902 years old, and still earns his
daily bread. He has ten children, the
youngest of whom is forty years old.
He has lived in the same yard that now
incloses his home ever since the Indian