The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-10-11
PERSONAL.

Raymond, the actor, does not drink;
smoke. play cards or swear; but he'll
match half dollar pieces all night.
Captain Robert E. Lee, q son of the
general, is Democratic candidate for a
seat in the Virginia legislature.
Mrs. Annie Louise Cary Raymond will
attend the musical festival at Worces-
ter, Mass, as the guest of the association.
Thomas Hughes, author of "Tom
Browns School Days." is visiting Rug
by Colony, Tennessee, where his mother
resides.
Henry Wizards true naAe is Heinrich
Hilgard. He assumed Willard" as q
nom de plume when he was writing
western letters to New York paper.
Bishop Ryan, Of st. Louis. has been
presented with round trip ticket to Eu-
rope and a purse eff $4,000 to defray his
expenses to the conference at Rome.
The Concord School of Philosophy has
not yet determined how woman should
act when her hands are in the dough pan
and an aggressive fly alights on her nose.
Mr.. Barnes, the Mountain Evangel-
ist" OF Kentucky, now in London. is
promulgating the notion that the English
speaking people are descended from the
lost tribes of Israel.
Queen Victoria refuses to entertain
anybody, royalty or not, at the Bucking-
ham palace for more than three days:
She wants it distinctly understood that
she is not keeping a royal boarding
house.
Many kind words are being said now
about Jay Cooke, whose judgment with
regard to the immeasurable value of the
Northwest and of railroad from Lake
Superior to Puget Sound has been vim.
dicated.
Sojeurner Truth is one hundred and
eight years old, is lively and gay, and
full of "reminiscences Of the past, and
takes an interest in all public questions.
She resides with her daughter OF Battle
Creek, Mich.
The daughter of Bayard Taylor has
until recently been supporting herself
as governess in New York. She and
her mother declined purse of $50, 900,
raised by New York ladies on learn
ing that Bayard Taylor died poor.
Princess Dolgorouki is at Trouville.
She wears deep mourning, goes nowhere
and receives no one. The children
walk about on the planks on the sands,
which form the fashionable promenade,
and are followed by an enormous foot
man.
Queen Marguerite Of Italy holds her
receptions on quite democratic scale.
Instead of the persons being led up to
the queen to be presented, she herself
makes progress round the room, giving
her hand to each one, accompanied by
few pleasant words of greeting.
The left.handed czarina, Dolgorouki,
lives in an elegant chalet at Trouville, in
deep mourning and retirement, and her
children promenade solemDly up and
down plank walk on the beach with a
big footmsn behind them. This must
be what Hood refers to as luxury of
woe."
The late Judge Black. writes CORE.
spondent. had his right arm broken in
eleven pieces by q railroad accident in
1868, and it never afterward was of much
use to him. He learned to write with
his left hand after be was sixty years OF
age, aud wrote in the round, precise
back-hsnd Of q painstaking novice.
OF the original Buchanan cabinet,
Jacob Thompson, secretary OF the inter
ior, is the only survivor. since the death
Of Judge Black. OF the original Lincoln
cabinet, Simon Cameron, secretary of
war, is the only survivor since the death
Of Montgomery Blair. The death OF
Judge Black leaves Judge Agnew the
sole surviving ex-chief justice Of Penn
sylvania.