Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-03-30
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r.uv"!utiun IL winch the faculty rf
language l. -'Ilp'-"tl L. r"-id" Wa
ahsorH;,'ly lar.
kr-hu, ClHud,r SvIl. he Ii.uIu"
r'f'rm"r. ha- written ;,IIHy eN}n-ln.c
tin, iulii,- and vices Of hI- c"uutrt
;i.on. and inrulc;ttiliE sentiments ~
yrtu". 1t Aa- been received with
@rrat f;t>"r
Th. lat. Louis Blanc left >.5opo T.,
Pari~ial! children who hay,. I'q.u Il.
-rr:cl 10y their rarr,t-. Turdr-rry
in% Of ,;lci' wear ar" t. Receive ~
! ing~ bank hD.k- with 80 II It WHAT,
their credit
TH- MIrgu.- Of I.5rur l. zero
u"mcrt hr Wa-h.r-tom -.ri,Iy Il
decidedly hhnd,,,n" yoH"y lnnr. and
l. also said 10 resemble Mr.. Howard
Of the British Legation.
One Of the most Interesting objects
To b. -ren at the house ii the Chimes.
Minister at Washington j. Il yuriou-ly
designed vase. which has been in the
possession of the family for NOR
than five hundred years.
Prince Bismarck is a martyr to men
ralgia. He suffers terrible agony in
the morning. the pain sometimes be-
Ing 50 severe as to oblige him t.
stop i'll the middle of sentence while
he Is speaking.
Although Mr. Fawcett, the Post
master General of England, l. close
upon % years of age. his parents
still live. and celebrated! their golden
wedding at his house few days ago
At dinner part Of the fare consisted OF
a fine salmon c"ught by their blind
son.
Bismarck is subject to fits of de
lection. when he declares that his liz.
has been a failure: that he has never
made any one happy. neither himself,
his family or the nation at large. If
1t We're not for me-" he once said.
when in Respondent mood. ";h"
world would have seen three great
wars less, and eighty Thousand who
died i'll their bloom might have lived.
and how many parents. brothers. sis
tiers, widows would have been spared
their grief and tears
1t is announced that Gustave Dore.
a few months before his death. com
pletcd series of illustrations to
Poe's poem The Raven" and that
the sketches are the property of
Harper and Bros and will be pub
lished as a companion volume to their
| OIL, &C
with the Dore plates. The Raven. it
is SAID. had taken a powerful hold of
the mind of the great French artist.
and the drawings which resulted
from his sympathetic study of it will
rank among the most imaginative and
original, as they are among the latest
and the ripest fruits of his genius.
| The frugal habits of Gov Cleveland
of New York are causing much dis
tress to a certain class of his friends
He walks from his residence to the
Capitol. and thus saves carriage hire.
always shaves himself, does not enter
tain Inuch. and evidently dnrsn't
mean to spend more than $1,000 Of his
$4,000 salary.
) Some people in Washington wish
: that Simon Cameron We're around
Washington now. His pithy sayings
and his amusing freedom of Ian
guage in regard to the big wigs were
, very entertaining. When he was
} asked at the time of the last census
his trade, profession. calling. etc, the
old gentleman boldly announced
printer" Nothing diverted him
more than the anxiety of some OF his
, fellowSenators to have their former
) occupation sunk in the title of :Sena-
tor. He was pretty certain to begin
} some yarn about when L was setting
, type. somewhere or other" whenever
he had a chance. in order to let them
J know that he was not ashamed of
! having made his living at printer
case
Louise Michel, the French Social
list, is not likely to achieve much she
cess by her lectures in London. She
cannot speak English to the masses,
and at her first appearance had less
than a dozen hearers, although loud
ly heralded. She is tall. has a mass
of disheveled hair. long face. IA
prominent nose, and deep set, eager
eyes. She talks more plainly about
the rights of women than an English
man would dare to. and is thoroughly
French in all her ideas.
| Patti, in the ball room scene in
"Traviata," wears S250,0OO worth of
diamonds. They were around her
neck, in her hair, on her wrists. in her
ears, up and down her breast. all over
the front of her dress-in fact, from
every part Of her they glistened and
CLEANED SO that they hurt your eyes
to look at her, and made more than
one person wish for piece of
smoked glass through which to watch
the third act of the performance.
For the benefit of people who Won
der that she doesn't fear they'll be
stolen, it may be stated that she
doesn't leave them lying around loose
IN her dressing room, nor does she 90
home and forget them, as perhaps
folks think she may.
Over three thousand congratula-
tory letters and kilograms have been
received by the Crown Prince and
Princess of Germany on the occasion
of their silver wedding: also Il
hundred packages which have not
yet been opened. The Emperor has
presented a massive silver tea service,
the Queen of England has sent "a
marble statue of herself, the city OF
Berlin has donated 11S. 900 marks for
the foundation of a sanitary school;
the sum of 100000 marks. collected
throughout Germany, has been
received for benevolent purposes.