Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-05-20
Personal.

Commodore vanderbilt's widow has
S5O. 600 year.
Senator Carpenters estate is esti-
mated at from 1925 900 to S150,00O.
The Kings Missive" brought j. G..
Whittier royal commission-$250.
Mile. r ,sa Bonheur is in very deli
cate health. She is staying ut Nice.
Thomas Hughes is coming to live
with the Tennessee colony which he
founded.
Said Horace Greedy: 1.-THE most sol
emn words that can be written are,
Vol. l, No. L."
Mary Anderson acted as engineer on
| train from Montgomery to Selma, Ala,
u few days since.
Sir Samuel and Lady Baker are now
in Japan and are preparing to return
to England by way of America.
In response to telegram asking Mr..
Blaine if he would accept a Cabinet
position, he replied: " Maine, l Maine
not"
The fourteen years sentence pro
nounced against Orion, the Tichborne
claimant has been confirmed, and will
have 10 be served out.
A Chicago woman whose husband is
policeman dons his uniform while he
sleeps and gees out and knocks the
boys right and left. - Detroit Free
Press.
The life of Shelley; in the Riverside
Editions of that poets werks, is said to
be by james Russell Lowell, though
only the name Of Charles Eliot Norton
appears on the title page.
Col. Thomas A. Scott, whose railroad
fame is everywhere, has Just given
$50. 900 apiece to three colleges, one of
which is in the South, besides $50 600
to two Philadelphia hospitals.
Like most law schools, the law de-
partment of the University of Michi-
gan has Moot Courts, differed by the
students. The post of Chief-J ustice OF
the Supreme Court is now filed by
Miss Leonora Taylor.
"Florence Percy" the author OF
Rock Me to Sleep, Mother" now
lives in Maine and edits a paper there.
One of her young daughters has for a
lame her mothers nom de plume of
Florence Percy.
Rev. Stephen II. Tying, Jr., has re.
signed the rectorship of the Holy Trim
ity Church. and will retire altogether
from active work in the ministry. His
health is much broken. DIR. Watkins,
OF Baltimore, succeeds him.
Mrs. Garfield has evidently carried
her good common sense to the White
House. Finding it to be Impossible to
discharge her family duties and to re-
ceive callers every evening, she has
decided to give but two evenings q
week to the callers.
Kaiser William, of Germany, cele-
brated his eighty fourth birthday re-
Gently and received the congratulations
of all Europe upon his achieving an
age permitted to few rulers. His life
has been eventful and trying since the
revolution of 1913, which found him q
refugee in England and made him COM
.mander of the Prussian Army. First
regent. then King of Prussia, finally in
1871 Emperor of a united Germany,
those were the steps of bis progress.
Attempts Uu his life have not been
wanting of late years, but he has es-
capped them, and remains to fill his
place as the most venerable monarch of
the earth.
How GAMBETTA WAS CAUGnT-An
amusing story is told of Gambetta. In
private parlor he was recently telling
how, at the age of 20, he promised
himself never again to pronounce the
name of the Divine Being. I" You can
imagine" he added, chow difficult
that was for one who speaks often and
extemporaneously, like myself. But,
fiually, owing to the extreme pains that
l took, l have, thank God"-the sem
tence was interrupted by peals of laugh
ter, and Gambetta ended with the
words: "You see that had fiattered
myself too much. have not yet sue
ceeded."
THE COMPENSATION OF LIFE.-Pres-
ident Garfield is quoted by the Cleve-
land Leader as saying that for twenty
years after her husband died his mother
scarcely ever had the comforts, much
less the Injuries of life. And now"
added the President, ait has been my
study to promote her happiness and
comfort in every way possible in order
to make up for the privation she suffered
during my boyhood. She has the best
room in my house, and there is nothing
she wants but what she always has.
Whenever I 60 to Mentor she always
accompanies me; when I return to
Washington she always comes back
with me. Whenever she wishes to 60
to New Hampshire to visit her relatives
she goes, and l always 60 with her. In
that manner am trying to make up to
her what she was deprived of during
the days OF her sore poverty.
A MAN UNDER THE BED.-There is a
story being freely circulated at the Lon
doh clubs and in society that mys-
FERROUS man was traced into Windsor
Castle, where he was last seen with "a
fiat canalestick in his hand, ANA it can
not be proved he ever came out. Many
believe he is there still, concealed like
the burglar at Bournemouth who terri
fed Lady Faveraham and her young
daughter, and on coming out Of his
hiding place under the sofa coolly an
nounced he bad been there whole day,