Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-10

The eyntaN Of that column?
1.-The Senate ladies (ss custom authorizes
the wives Of Senators TO be styledl who CGS
at home yesterday had very pleasant recep-
TORS The number making calls IreTe not so
large as on the two preceding days nor were
The receptions quite so numerous"
Shoot it The Capital.
This certainly appears 10 be pretty well
6eined case of bad syntax. and il serves TO
show how easily such errors slip into print
undetected, in the hurried work of issuing
daily paper. But II probably did not occur
TO our critic OF The Capital that the more
leisurely prepared weeklies are not without
sin in this respect, and that, for instance,
the very number OF his paper In which he
Iounces with such relish upon the above
STAR slip, contains almost as many blum
ders as paragTa phs. Thus on the editorial
page IL is said
eve have two sorts Of government officials.
One sort Is supposed TO represent the will and
wishes OF the people, and are necessarily cleo
tive"
And again:
"To hare such freight of living humanity
suddenly hurled into eternity. leaving be-
hind no wreck, no trace by which the tragedy
could be told, envelOping the loss in an i'm
penetrable mystery. makes one shrink AMI
sbudder more than any other crime known"
And again, brother Piatt in describing a
mysterious midnight raid upon his wine
cellar says:
PIES are bad and his cooking worse. his
whisky was good. and falling to secure a
continuation of his subterranean Congress
siOnal headache. collie and stone In the gall
bladder, had come in the night time 10 re-
POSSESS himself OF that quarter john OF Old
whisky"
This sentence is so much on the 'tangIe-
foot" order OF construction that we really
suspect Piatt must have robbed his own
wine-cellar in some fit of sOmuambuIism,
ard that he wrote the description while act
ing as the vigilant demi Dom custodian of
DowDiDg's unrepossessed nectarian whisky.
Anyhow the whisky seems to be the only
sntecedeDt to the inebriated sentence.
But not to particularize too closely. we
take at random the following from every
page, and almost from every article in yes
terdsy's COpif0i.
"some burglars are appreciated and know
where Ia go To lOOK for good things, as is evil
Genced by the fact" &C.
ave congratulate the Army o'id NrrB Jour
mol upon the strong stand they are taking
against reduction of the army
"Now is the time TO purchase diaries and
reform"
Diaries can be found at all the bookstores,
but where, Oh CIpa0', is reform TO be pur-
chasej?
''The colonel is as handsome as usual. AMI
al the professions were well represented by
prominent members OF eGch-'
''The freea of the school systems IS the
practice getting TO be ia rogue again Of roo
bing the grammar and intermediate schools
Of books, papers, pens and other articles OF
literature. IL must be scholars who carry on
this DefariOus habit, as regularly ordained
thieves would scorn such small jobs
Does the Capital mean that IL is scholars or
pupils who ''carry on this nefsrious hIbit''
or "system" or practice? We should sup
pose that scholars would hardly care for juve-
nile text books.
Rut we must hurry on Here ia a hatch
scooped from single page
"Among those who sang JCdS Mrs. Imo-
gene Brown, whose failure in opera, in Lon
don, has always been inexplicable TO her
friends here who have admired her fine So
prano voice and excellent method. Signor
Ferranti, whose buffo singing drove some of
The audience quite Eerranti-c with delight,
contralto. Nj. Alfred III. Pease played with
Senior Cervantes a brilliant transcription OF
bis one composition on themes from Faust,
and Signor Cervantes played some of his
best pieces"
"Among the throrg present ioas John Ell
derkin, General Custer, Mora, the photo
Bonneville, Montague l.. Marks, Daniel
Bixby. lfiitting from flower 10 flower, the
butterfly he ISL Miss Florence Duncan, the
Geachy, young lady who has been singing
with Won Bulow, and VINO was 10 have come
out IN opera once on q time"
cat these receptions, by the way, the gen
sa0 the giddy throDg.'
Everything about The affair was admira-
bly, conducted. In the first place, there was
plenty of room, and that is everything"
Whatever his motive, whether compli-
ance 10 the feminine will who would like to
zee what there is so very attractive about
That place or gallant homage 10 she VINO
adorns the place where she may happen To
be, the fact remains that three OF our clubs
are setting valiant examples TO more con-
sentative Institutions. and opening the way,
moi int fhaf Of
at least iEtO the outer walls where ceremony
10 gns and poker playing, scandal and iadis-
eliminate chat are things unknown"
ave have. on good authority, the state
nent OF Miss Fanny Davenport that she
wrote the last three acts, together with the
manager OF the Fifth Avenue theater.''
"If so, there would seem TO have been no
reason why the letter OF the contract should
not have been filed, and Pique COR Clara, az
IT was TO have been called, brought forward
for Miss Morris hTsT appearance, instead OF
her being asked TO Oblige the management
by undertaking Leah Gin its new (?) form
and assume the old roles other repertoire"
"while Il afforded on the first night some
opportunity for the display of the talents OF
abe general company, IL has now been re-
duced a. much as possible 10 one-part
piece.
"And how smart that Miss RIgl should re-
main silent until the ''star of the evening,
beautiful star" was obliged TO turn. How
remaIk able that Miss Jefreys- Lewis, who
as leading lady OF the company, was re-
like. should submit meekIy to a secondary
part and f,riee fOtd cuttings"
"How strange that when a member OF the
company = given two seats the amount
should be found deducted from their salary"
eve have most enjoyed this actress
powers when they have been rOUcted US in
1he role OF grand coquette."
"Few OF those who visited the mansion
Whose mistress the diamonds adorned would
have imagined that the sparkling circlet she
wore about her neck was the gift OF the late
valiant colonel OF the Ninth tn the queenly
beauty whose fatal smile shed Its light owe
1hat rose strewn path which led 10 ruin and
death"
But we have exhausted our space and
must step. We can assure our friends OF the
Cups'ol that we have made the above preSen-
katiou, not at all in the spirit of carping, or
ault finding, but TO show them that IA atty
pyntsx is Dotconfned 20 the daily press, and
That their oSn bright, vigorous paper is
quite as bis sinner in this respect as any in
The rink.
The narrow cid time notion which re-