Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-01-30
PERSONAL.


Senator Chambers estate is valued at
S1,SO0,00O.
George Eliot, who has another book
under way is still ia very indifferent
health.
Wade Hampton has been invited to
Pittsburg, to deliver an address before
the Grand Army posts.
Mr.. Gladstone says: 81 use tho ex.
preston women with greater satisfac.
ton than I use the name of ladies'"
John Bright says that he does not
know enough of the agitators' plan in
Ireland to express an opinion concern
ing it.
Lydia Maria Child lives in a quiet
home OF Wayland, Massachusetts. The
home is an old one, of only story and
q half, of Quaker simplicity.
Rev. George Muller says that the
largest single gift the famous Orphan
age which he maintains by prayer has
ever received was S45, 800. The small
est was one farthing.
OF Victor Hugo, Mr.. Boyesen says
in Scr,bner that there is nothing in his
appearance, except his close. cropped
white hair and few expressive wrin-
kles, to betray his age-seventy. seven
years.
Mr.. Frederick H. Seward will not 90
to Russia; he will return to Auburn
and then complete the biography of his
father, and care for his wife, VINO is SO
i'll as to require his unremitting atten-
ton.
No less than 3, 400 Philadelphia girls
sang songs to General Grant Saturday,
and gave him bouquets. And yet they
say he is not happy, and even accuse
him Of wanting a third term.-N. Y.
Tribune.
DIR. Storrs says that "the handwrit-
ing of Dean Stanley is perhaps, with.
out exception, the NEST indecipherable
handwriting that was ever achieved as
one of the fine arts by the human intel
ligence and the human hand"
There is one strong piece OF evidence
that General Grant does not desire q
third term in this prolonged Philadel.
phia demonstration. The festival has
been in progress for a week, and he has
not yet kissed baby.-N. Y. Tribune.
There is mysterious disappearance.
Man in lower berth Of sleeping-car
bound for Washington. David Davis
in berth above him. Grand crash.
Nothing left but part OF paper collar
and button. No cards.-Elmira Free
Press.
Mr.. George Augustus Sala received
81 900 on leaving Europe for his vol
ume of American travels. and will
receive another thousand on its an.
nouncement. He has been offered the
seat in Parliament for Brighton at the
next election, but, like his friend Dick
ems, he has no political ambition.
Senator Bayard is described by a COZ
respondent OF the Boston Herald as
broad-shouldered, gray haired, clean
shaven, muscular and fresh in color.
He is exceedingly athletic. being fa-
nous in Wilmington asa pedestrian and
kindly, his ways Of speech quick and
earnest. Il .'
kossuth has issued an appeal for sub
scriptions to his forthcoming memoirs.
This veteran orator. now in his seventy
eighth year, has been forced to under
take this task in order to earn money,
since he lives entirely by his pen.
Otherwise, as he states, he should have
left to his sons the task of publishing
his recollections. .:.
The Womaa's Journal says: Miss
Harriet E. Stanton, daughter of Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, gave her
first lyceum lecture for the season at
Johnstown N. Y, subject: Edmund
Burke" A fine appreciative audience
greeted her. The lecture was highly
praised as faithful and careful study
Of her subject. Her manner and de-
livery are easy, and without affectation.
Miss Stanton is graduate of Vassar.
and left that college with the love and
esteem of her teachers and associates.
Afterward she took year of study at
Boston university school Of Oratory.