Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-03-25
Personal.

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AT Albion. Michigan. R'v. Dr.. Nor
ton gors o his pastoral visits snl his
Sunday services on bcy Gle.
J,y Cookies income for the last three
years has be.n SIS 900 per annu.n.
jays goose is far from being Cooked.
George Howard. of Buffalo. made q
| Nav Years present Of IS 900 to the
general fund of the orphan asylum If
that city.
The butter and vegetables used at
Senator Bnrnsile's Washington dinners
are made and raised on his Rhode Is-
land Farm.
Gladstone loves books, picture, and
old china. His tastes are aristocratic;
his manners are so simple that they are
callo democratic.
Their wives survive four deceased
Presidants-Mrs. Polk. OF Tennessee;
Mrs Fillmore, of Bnff 10; Mrs. Tyler,
of Washington, ~nd Mrs. Lincoln of
Illinois.
Harriet Reecber Stowe, of Hartford,
Connecticut. and Rev. DR.. Leonard
Bacon, OF New HAven, have been elscted
vice. presidents Of the Connecticut State
Humane Society.
Mr.. T. W. Higginson is building for
himself the oldest kind of cottage in
Cambridge, Mas, quite after tho old
colonial pattern. Tue outside 10 wholly
shiuxled. and painted bsrn.door
red"
Minister James Russell Lowell writes
fr.m London that he can conceive Of
nothing swester or more cunsuling, as
one draws nigh to old age. than to he
remembered kindly by ones fellow
townsmen and nsighbors.
Tie Prince OF Wales celebrated hia
33eh birthday at S4ndringham. II
| hal select party and numerous costly
| presents. One OF his friends forwarded
: pocke-knifs OF French manufacture
which contains 19l diff,ren blaies.
I've statue to Stonewall Jackson for
Nes Orleans is niue feet high. The
figure stands in an easy position, grasp
Tug field glass in the left hand; the
iress is rather negligent; the head is
covered by the old Confederate KEPT.
The London papers speak OF the sale
# 10 900 copies of d" Z ldymion' on it.
first day of publication IA one Of the won
'ers of the book trade. But the Messrs.
H.rper sold Is 600 copies of Dr.. Smile
"Daty" on the first day, and thought
1t no great affair.
Dr.. Bancroft, the historian. is thil
aud straight, but walks sturdily every
afternoon. He wears a tall silk hat
aud carries stout walking-stick. b.
walks on the roadway near the curb
stone. 80 that he may not be j)stlsd by
Ihe crowd on the sidewal
Il iskin's latest is to the effect that
he ares no more for Mr.. Gladstone
or Mr. Disraeli than for two old bag
PIP with the drones g"ing by steam
Aud further that "he hates Liberal
IS he does q Beelz ,bub, and that b.
nt Mr.. Carlyle stand now alone il
England, for God and the Q 4een.
George Peabody, the philanthropist,
never m ,rried, and for singular rea
son. He was in love with girl ano
Sas standing on the porch at the house
| of her parents one night when his rival
ran frsntically up. threw his arm
around the girl's neck, kissed her aud
disappeared in the darkaess. The r'
mantle sensation so pleased the girl
that she Tilted Peabody and married her
amatory assailant.
General Grant, the "silent man"
of years gone by, has blossomed out
INTO witty after-dinner orator. Now
he has turned author. and writes an
article for the February North american
gu the Panama ship-canal, advocating
the Mic .rayua route. In view Of these
things the Tribune is moved to say that
the country would not be overwhelmed
with surprise il some day h. should
make hanx movement ON Parnassus
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