Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-06-09
Personal AND IMPERSONAL.

Ex-senator and Mrs. Thurman have
now removed permanently from Wash.
ington to their Ohio home.
Gen. Malone is the richest man in
Virginia. and smokes dollar cigars; the
Governor of the State is q poor man,
aud smokes 1.-TWO for tive.'
Dress makers who go to Washing.
ton to make dresses for the Hon. Mrs.
So-and-So are obliged to take out a
license to sew in the District of Column
bia.
Ballad concerts are all the rage in
London. 1t might be well to try the
experiment of giving similar entertain
ments here. rs u relief from the excess
sive classicism of the orchestral con.
certS.
An Illinois editor returns thanks
for a centipede sent him by mail from
Texas, il being the first cent of any
kind that he has received for several
weeks.
The petticOat is gradually getting
away with the ulster. There are seven
school superintendent. twenty minis
tiers, twenty-six physicians. four law
yers and three editors Of the feminine
Sex in Kansas.
"A Washington correspondent says
''Red is the raging color Of this season,
and the particular fancy of fashion now
is for the red satin slippers which some
bells brought back from Paris. and
turned all their rivals heads with"
George Ii. being informed that an
impudent printer was to be punished
for having published spurious kings
speech. replied: Il hope the man s
punishment may be of the midest sort.
because have read both; and rs far as
can understand either of them, like
the spurious speech better than my
own"
-Auguste Rouzeaud, the husband Of
Christine Nilsson, who has become in
sane. owing to losses in speculation,
was born in the Isle of Bourbon, and is
half creole. His grandfather married
creole. and amassed large fortune
nj. ROuzeaud had fortune of from
400. 900 to 800. 900 francs. He was mar
ried to Mile. Nilsson in Westminster
Abbey, Oh the 9th of July. 1872
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is
sixty-iive years of age. She wears her
snow white hair arranged in little putfs
ON each side of her forehead. with q
band of lilac satin tied behind them,
dresses neatly and becomingly, and has
a matronly. motherly appearance. She
has reared seven children; her young
est daughter is now studying mathe-
matics i'll tho University of Paris. Miss
Susan b. Anthony is four years younger,
but looks older.
Whenever an eighth son is born
into Belgian family. it is the custom
for the King to stand godfather. A
town councillor, upon the recent ap-
pearance of his eighth hopeful, applied
for an extension OF the favor in his own
case, and the King not only consented
but sent to his little god son a silver
cup. napkin ring, spoon and fork. egg
cup and spoon. silver rattle with pearl
handle, and. u silver whistle.
B. =. Shillaber writes of William
Warren, the veteran actor. whom the
Boston people propose TO honor with a
grand benefit on the tiftieth annivcr-
sary of his first appearance on the
dramatic stage: ''In private life he is
most exemplary, his quiet and gentle
manly hearing giving no evidence of
his profession. and his grave. almost
melancholy. face might lead stranger
to deem him rather of the clerical or
legal profession than the theatrical.
There is no man in our community
more respected than is he, and the call
of those who tender him the honor
represents all shades of public position
and profession. His letter accepting
the profier is aoarvel Of graceful mod
esty.