Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-12-10
Personal.
Queen Victoria is sixty-one.


Bernhardt's clothes were assessed o.
ST. 900. az
Mrs. 80 Stewart is eighty years old
and has just ordered eighty new dresses
The Gar has asthma, and it continues
to get worse. He will not likely live
| long.
General aud Mrs. Grant nave more
social invitations than they can begin to
accept.
Gout of the tongue is what trouh.
les Beaconsfeld. 1t is purely nascu.
line malady.
The Prince OF Wales has Just gained
$50, 900 on the turf. It's turf Oh the
other fellows.
Nanderbilts European purchases are
put in round figures at eight hundred
thousand dollars.
Beaconsfeld is busy writing a novel,
lie has always got some plot on hand.
- Galveston News.
A Miss Written has the longes. hair
in the world. 1t is two yards AID a
half long. and passes six times around
her head.
James Gordon Benefits new iron
yacht is nearly completed. 1t will be
the richest in finish and furnish ings of
any craft ahoat.
The late Edward d. Mansfield. the
Veteran Observer of Ohio, desired
to have placed over his grave the cimple
inscription, " Here lies workipgmar.
Since patent medicine firm gave
Astronomer Swift, of Rochester, $500
for new comet, the Professor has dis
covered that taat firm s advertise nents
are very conspicuous on the fences in
the moon.
CHARLES Roade has made $50 900 OUT
dramatization of Nj. Xola's novel. lola
furnished the brains and Reade applied
his well-known ambidexterity.- Gin
cinnati Comm ercial.
An English doctor says that people
troubled with heart disease are more
likely to die at midnight than any other
time. especially if they arc sound Sleep
ers. Get up and shake down the coal
stove at las and you'll be all right.
John Shepherd, farmer, near Peo-
ria, Ill. has faithfully kept a VOW made
until tho election of Democratic Pres
ident. His whiskers reach almost to
his waist, and his hair is kept in braids.
The New York Graphic says that Bern
hardt went to the Italian opera and en-
tered quietly, which won her many
friends. Did the GyoDhic expect she
would go to the tEeater headed bya
brass band and torch-light process.
sion?
Elk Senator Simon Cameron recently
bought a dwelling house built on the
county, Pa, on which stood the house
in which he was born, in 1899. He has
presented the house to the Lutherans
in Maytown, to be used as Lutheran
parsonage. and to stand as a memorial
to his wife, Margaret Brua Cameron,
who was devout Lutheran.
George William Phillips. brother I
Wendell Phillips. who died 80 suddenly
short time ago, was man of file
abilities who would have made mark
in the world If he had not inherited
money. The papers cxaggerate in call
ing him an eminent lawyer. He never
did much at the bar. He lived quiet,
uneventful life, mostly at Saugus, where
he owned a fine estate. spending por-
ton of his winters in town. He was
finely educated man, we'll read, and
we'll equipped every way for conspicu-
GUS place among his fellows. He grad
uated from Harvard in the famous class
of 26, with Holmes, Freeman Clarke,
May, and other afterward famous men,
year before his brother Wendell grad
mated. Both started out in the law, but
Wendell early forsook the profession
because he could not hold himself
bound to obey the Constitution of the
United States. The sister of the broth
ers is not the wife of Harvard pro-
lessor, but Of DR.. Edward Reynolds OF
Boston.