The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1881-12-06
SnIiuterS.


parncll Is Of English descent
Frederick Douglass has become very stout.
old.fashioncd birthday parties are much IN
style.
Saloon keepers observe no holidays on holy
days.
Luncheon and theatre parties are now the
fashion.
Pat says the "llo" of man Is found In Penn
sylvania.
Florida hotels, rs n rule, are kept by North
crn men.
Melo.drama has again become fashionable
in London.
Ex.vlce. President Wheeler will visit the Pa.
cinc slope.
Asst. Louis editor advises boys not to study
shorthand
Shaded feathers are n marked fcaturc In
winter millinery.
The swell young, man OF the period now
bangs his hair
Small bonnets are adopted universally FOR
full dress in Paris.
Mormon missionaries are working for con-
verts In the South.
The female suffragists claim eighty of the
nincty-four papers In Nebraska.
The marriage mania is booming, and, as
usual, there is n woman In the case.
Tobacco smoke blown into the ear is some
times used as n remedy for earache.
Travel opens the mind and the pursc-strings
and makes ono contented with home.
Both connecticut ana Now JerScy nave
| plenty of diphtheria and scarlet fever
| The boy who was kept after school for bad
| photography said he was spellbound.
| The real test of n play, says London TrUth, is
whether one is bored or pleased with It,
Tho highest speed made in canceling letter
stamps by hand has been 24O minute.
sealskin or silk cloak, or silk cloak
| richly lined with fur, Is counted aristocratic.
The mania Of the future, says n financial
writer, Is not likely to be gold, but diamonds.
| Tho latest thing in sausages is kept n pro-
found secret. 1t would be wise to let 1t remain
| New York has Protestant Episcopal
| institution for the training OF girls for SER
wants.
"At what point do l strike the process
| slon," Is u slang phrase cultivated In 81.
Louis.
| Books of real value says an English re-
viewer, are usually dear when first pub
| lished.
Chicago has fifteen synagogues, with an
average attendance Of over 1900 members
each.
Tho people who are always giving good ad.
vice to others seldom take any of their own
medicine.
In California waters fish called the stipgai
rec is the oysters greatest enemy. 1t Is siInii
lar to the skate.
They propose To erect statue of Burnside In
Rhode Island, II they can lind room for It,
| lSyrdcuse Uefdd.
and give deeds for the same, and they are
California and Connecticut.
A Somerset County Md farmer last week
shipped to market crate of fine strawberries
that were grown In an open field on his farm.
They were large and of fine flavor.
A Canadian woman n short tlmo ago under
took to kill n calf. She laid the animal on a
sawhorsc, and with the holp OF her daughter
cut the young bovlne's head on with a
saw.
A school marin In Kentucky married one OF
,, her pupils, and, subsequently detecting hin
/, breaking the rules In school, ferruled him and
, n fellow culprit with great impariiality ano
/ considerable vigor.
[ william Hood, OF Seymour, Ind, when In thu
prime OF life must have been Il dangerous al
4 versary. II Is related that on one occasion
n when an Infatuated OK attempted To gore him
he seized the animal by the horns and hel,
0 him until yoke was placed upon his neck
1t was an ordinary thing for him when angr!
L to knock an OK down by DloV
A with his fist. These incidents gavi
l. variety to his life ms an OK driver. HI
:. feats OF lifting were marvellous. II Is sale
o that he could easily lift one end of Il log that
/ was sixteen feet In length and two feet II
diameter, and load II upon his wagon. Once
o he stood laughing at five men who were tryinl
Intellectually to move huge rock, so that |
could be placed upon sledgc. Taking thei
I places, he raised an end OF the rock ant
showed IL on the sledgo without assistance
q Hood died the other day In abject poverty, hi
y health having been poor the last few years o
!. his life