Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-05-11
PERSONAL NOTES

President Jewett Of the Erie rail
road receives an annual salary of $40,
U00.
The son of Anthony Trollope is to
publish the autobiography which he
left.
Books are preferred to Washington
society by the Presidents sister, Mrs
McElroy.
John NJ. Hamilton, who succeeds
Mr.. Cullom as Governor of Illinois
IS SO years old. He went into the
army when IA years old.
A vase of remarkable design, which
has been in his family for five hun
dred years, is in the possession of the
Chinese Minister at Washington.
Neuralgia is the tete noire of Bis
rlarck, he being obliged to stop III
the midst Of sentence sometimes
while speaking, on account of it.
Fifteen languages were spoken by
the wool-broker of Philadelphia
Thomas Hilson. who committed sui
eide the other day at Niagara Falls.
Two young ladies of Newark made
a handsome bouquet and ratfled it of
at 10 cents chance. The proceeds,
S37, will go to the sufferers by the
Western floods.
DIR. q. ". Holmes says that, much
as he has heard of the roots of the
tongue, and although he has taught
anatomy for thirty FIVE years, he has
never been able to fin them.
Gambetta had glass eye, and al
ways refused to have a full face pic
ture taken, preferring to pose in pro-
file. Mr.. Healy's portrait of him is
thought to be the best one in exist
ence.
A memorial room. set apal; to con-
tain mementoes and relics of Mr.. Gar
field, the walls to be covered with
framed resolutions and letters of sym
pathv. is being prepared by Mrs. Gar
field.
The poet Tennyson is worth ST.
000,000, and we don't see what use
there was in his writing "Come not
when / am dead" They'll be on hand,
every one of them, when the will is
opened.
Governor Cleveland, of New York,
walks from his house to the Capitol,
does not entertain much and is his own
valet, which frugality does not meet
with tho appreciation of all his
friends.
An American club has been organ
lied in Rome by Mr.. W. W. Astor,
the American Minister, including
reading. billiard, card. dressing and
conversation rooms for the benefit of
visitors to the Eternal City.
The Postmaster General of Eng
land. MIR. Fawcett. is entirely blind;
the Receiver and Accountant General
to the postoffice, Mr.. George Richard
son, is entirely deaf; and an official in
the Admiralty is both deaf and dumb.
BY the will of a Boston lady. lately
deceased, Miss Susan B. Anthony and
Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell receive
$4,000 each as the representative
woman suffragists, and it is said they
will use the money in advancing the
cause.
Mr. Trevelyan has discovered that
the people in tho west of Ireland are
living on sea weed rather than go to
the warehouses; provided. He has
held that they only pretended to be
starving, but it appears as though un-
less relieved they will carry the de-
ception so far as really to die
All the Americans in the city of
Jerusalem went out to meet General
Lew Wallace, Ambassador at Con-
stantinople, at the Joppa Gate. on his
visit to that city, while a leading rabbi
made him a speech of welcome, and
Jews carried the star spangled ban
ner
1t is related of Mrs. Langtry's hus-
band that the agent Of their property
in Ireland wrote him saying that the
tenants demanded lower rents. and
had threatened the shotgun policy
to secure them. Mr. Langtry re-
piled as follows: Dear Sir: You
may say to my tenants that any
threats to shoot you will never intim-
idate me-"
In the play Of king Lear" as
given at Berlin. Edwin Booth was
called eighteen times before the cur
tain, and was the only actor who spoke
in English. He was dissuaded by
Friedrich Haase from carrying an
English company with him to Ger
many, who thought the audience
would give more attention than if all
the parts were in English
1t is said that one of Mr.. Tudor's
ship masters related, on his return
from Bombay, that he had just enough
ice left to ask the officers in Bombay
to something they had never seen be-
fore-an iced punch. 'You have
made my fortune" said Mr.. Tudor.
You have shown the possibility OF
carrying ice to India, and next time
we will arrange things better" and
the ship-master, who had feared dis
missal for incompetency, saw his own
fortune made, too.
The same qualities that rendered
DIR. Payson such a master of conver-
sation lent a potent charm to his ia
miliar religious talks in the prayer
meeting. at the firseside or in the
social circle Always eager to speak
for his Master, he knew how to do it
with a wise skill and tenderness of
feeling that disarmed prejudice and
sometimes won the most determined
foe. Even in administering reproof
or rebuke there Gas the happiest
union of tact and gentleness. What
makes you blush so?" said reckless
fellow in the stage, to plain country
girl, who was receiving the mailbag
at a postoffice from the hand of the
driver. What makes you blush so,
my dear?' Perhaps" said DR.. Pay
son. who sat near him and was unob-
served till now, perhaps it is because
some one spoke rudely to her when
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