Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-01
Personal.

King Kalakau4's sister rules Hawai-
during his absence.
General GA, ieli was not boru to b,
talked to deith-that is clear.
George Eliot seldom ,ked. but she
always rriished one that referred t.
one Of her O.n books.
1t is said that II ost Of the new Sena
tors are small men. Que os them, Ma
none, of Virginia, il five feet ono iucl
high, and weighs just ninety eieh,
POUNDS.
The personal property of George
Eliot amounted to $40 600 1t has beer
lett. for the most part, to members OF
the IIrwes family. The husbs nd, Mr..
Cross, is hard ut work, preparing q
biography Of the authoress.
Some rather earnest citiz.ns Of ODER.
lin, o. headed by Rev. G Jorge Thomp.
SOD, have united in protest against
allowing Ii. w. BeechAr tc lecture in
the Congregational Church in that
village. These .listurbers take the
ground that Mr.. Beecher is not as good
III he should he, and has renounced
Christianity.
LACKING IN URBANIrY. 49, Johnson
certainly was grutr old fellow. While
he was talking very learnedly one OF
the company laughed. Thoroughly
indignant. johnson turned on him and
said: " What provokes your visibility,
sir? Have l said anything that you
can understand If have ask par
don from the rest of the com psny."
Fernando Woods large property is
left to his eleven surviving children.
He was married three times, but had
no children by his first wife. The
house aud grounds surrounding it, &C.
cupied by Wood when in the city, are
worth over $500 900. and he was pos.
sessed of great deal of valuable real
estate in other parts of the city, which
he saved with difficulty from the panic
of 1873.
WHY GLADSTONE Is LIKE KETTLE
I have been told that some laiy asked
Mrs. Gladstone how Mr.. Gladstone was
hearing up in this great crisis. He
does not think it so, nor can he be
much affected by it," replied Mrs. Glad
stone II hear him every morning
81, c,n- in his bath Hes like a
kettle thsn," said friend, (which
sings when full of hot wafer"
Governor LELAND Stanford, as show.
ing his appreciation of talent, recently
remarked: " / had rather have my son
develop into bright and able young
man, without a penny in the world =,
than to leave him the richest boy in
America, and with only ordinary abil
ties Talents are like the rocks in the
deepest ocean aud on the highest noun
tain tops. They underlay and oyertop
everything in this world"
The original Mrs. Grundy. says the
Chicago Litter. Ocean. was the wife of
President Van Buren's Attorney Gen
eral, the Hon. Felix Grundy, of Ten
nessee, and she ruled aristocratic
society in Washington with rod of
iron. Her edicts were law, her pres.
ence was indispensable to the success
of all fashionable gatherings, and such
an authority she became on social
topics, that the expression "Mrs.
Grundy says" became so common as to
outlive her fame.
Tall, spare and sinewy, MIR. Whittier
looks no older than he did ten years
ago. His dark. unquenchable old
eyes," says the Boston CORES pondent of
the Providence Press, twinkle and
Rlisten with the brightness of youth.
Perhaps you tell him u funny little
story, and find it funnier still as he
draws down his lips into a droll, inaudi
BILE whistle, and shakes his shoulders.
and the wise head under the solemn
tail hat, with its brim just little wider
for sin OF his sect"