Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-08
Personal.

worth has been lis daily tex. book iron.
yoath to age.
When Jay Gonll sees a ':.iI,o.,i ,i,'
suits him he bay q, rirl,". :. Il pr
it away t. skim at his lei:
L iison is TIC most prou.s.A.. ...':. III
the country. II" doesn't make ii,;!.t L:
his promises, either Boston IIan-
script.
Wendell Phillips was taken to ts-k
recently for making what appeared to
be an exaggerated statement. His r.,
ply was, " paint with large brush
1t is said that the lu.e George Eliot
left two unpublished works. One is "A
History Of IGeas OF Immortality,
and the other isa Translation Of Spin
OLA, Ethics
An instance of DR.. McCosh's shlewd
ness is given in the PrincttoniHn: Stu
dent, after class: did you mark me
absent, doctor % - did, sir; and
whats your nane?'
The immense popularity of Tenny
sens poems in En2lsnd is attested b.
the sale of 1O0, 900 copies OF the Crown
edition in two years, while various
/ other editions are in the market and
paying their publishers we'll.
Don Cameron's daughter, at her
wedding, wore a remarkably handsome
dress of white hyacinth brocaded satin,
en- train, equare-cut neck, with flowing
veil, orange blossoms and diamond
adorHments. The dress Was made by
| Worth, in Paris, and is valued at nine
hundred dollars.
Mr.. Cyrus II. Mccormick renews his
youth wonderfully for so Old q man.
He has recently iiaished one of the tin.
est houses in Chicago for his private
residence. AT the age Of seventy one,
the lively young old man gives the
fordest paternal attention to his two
youngest children, aged about four and
six. while one of his Oldest sons, re-
Gently graduated at Princeton, is ul
ready taking an active part in the man
agement of the business.
On the discovery of gold in California
in '4S, Fernando Wood fitted out the
bark John W. Carter with cargo Of
merchandise for sale to the miners, and
out of this transaction a trial in the
courts followed. The venture was
successful, and Wood retired after it
from business, investing large part of
his capital in real estate, Which has
rapidly increased in value since.
Mrs. Mary Orem, aged l04, rode in
one Of the professions during the Bal
timore celebration. She was born in
Baltimore on April %, 1776, being Il
daughter of Robert Peake, who came
with the British army to america, but
who deserted, ana served in the Cont
mental army as a drummer. She has
twenty-five grandchildren and sixty
great grandchildren living.
DR.. Graham, a citizen of Louisville,
who is in his seventy ninth year, has
Just started for the mountains on his
81 last hunt" He is the only living
fort born native Of Kentucky. When
| he came into the world his parents
were dodging arrows and tomahawks,
his hand. He says that he cannot die
in peace until ho shall once more have
eaten venison of his own killing and
cooking.
Mrs. Newman, of New York City. the
wife of tho Rev. DR.. J. Z. Newman,
the well-krown Methodist clergyman,
formerly of Washington, has presented
to tho Women's Foreign Missionary
Society Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church = check tor 81 800, tho pro
ceeds from the sa!o OF the " Flowery
Orient" series of little books dc
scriptive of what she had seen in her
travels around tho world. This gift OF
Mrs. Newman is to be used in building
a homo for the oUtcast women of India.
Mrs. Garfield is thus described by u
Cleveland reporter, who saw her dur
ing her shopping tour the other day:
"She is trific above or about the aver
age height OF women, spare in flesh,
with dark hair combed plainly, with
just ono wave Ut the temples. Her
eyes are dark and brilliant, and she has
a very kind, motheriy l"ok. She was
dressed in black silk with heavy plated
skirt, and wore n chip bonnet trimmed
with wine colored ribbon. Across her
arm she carried a gray wrap. From
her appearance l should take her to be
about As years old. Those who know
her speak most enthusiastically about her,
and ascribe much of Garfield's success
in life to her influence over him.