The Evening critic., 1881-06-20
Miscellany.

Miscellany.
JAPAN has u railroad fever.
A NEw-sTYLE ccntipedc has been found
in Nevada.
IL GENERAL GRANT doesn't seal up his
lips he will soon be known Us the Great
American Sorehead.
PRETTY Boston girls attend big cases in
court and during the intermissions they
read books on rhetoric and oratOry.
"HAzEL KIRKE' has been withdrawn
from the Madison Square Theatre after the
longest run known to the American stage
THE Shah of Persia sent the Car sword
valued at $1,000, and the ungrateful Russian |
is trying to trade it off for n bomb-proof
Overcoat.
NEARLY $l3,O0O,OOO have been expended
on the great Brooklyn bridge, and it will
take a year and several millions more to
complete it,
The Oil City Derrick man is trying to
make people believe that he is an oil prince,
but he fails miserably His good grammar
gives him away.
MINNIE PALMER is under 5000 bonds
to her manager not to marry within the
next five years. What will she do for di-
vorcc advertisements.
AN ARIZONA man while digging well
struck some old brickwork and water
gushed forth. 1t is supposed that he broke
into the reservoir ofan ancient city.
THE world wasn't crcmatcd yesterday, as
prophcsied by Mother Shipton, but it seems
to be in u fair way of cremation to-day. Per-
heps, rs with prOmissory notes, the prcdic-
ton bears three days grace
THE women seem to have the feelings re-
garling the suffrage that the Frcnchman
did about his money: "Me git him, me no
wants him; me no can have him, me wants
him like thundair. "-Detroit Free Press.
AT st. Joseph's Catholic Church, in Phil
adelphia the other day, mass was celebrated
by the Very Rev. Joseph Mcmarbaschi,
/ Syrian priest and vicar of the patriarch OF
| Antioch, according to Syrian rites and in
the Syrian tongue.
. In WYOMING the upper part of II tree
: fell between two other trees and was tightly
a wcdgcd in, breaking the bark. The piece
: of tree is now in leaf and is growing, and it
j is supposed that the sap from the two trees
+ is keeping it alive.
S THE PENNSYLVANIA School Journal declares
that bribery played II prominent part in
c the recent election of school superinten-
y dents in various parts of Pennsylvania.
The average price Of a directors vote is set
c down ut $50. 1t is charitable to hope the
g School journal has been imposed upon.
. AZ JUST went out to see II friend for a
= moment" remarked Jones to his wife the
. other evening, as he returned to his scat nj
the theatre. Indeed" replied Mrs. j., with
sarcastic surprise; Il supposed, from the
odor of your breath, that You had been out
II to see your worst enemy" Jones WINGED.
t, The London Telegraph operators employ.
. ed in the government houses have decided t
II cease working over time on the 9th rs Il pre-
n liminary step to obtain reduction Of thei
1t hours of service. The Leeds operatives have
lie approved the action of the London commit
n tee and resolved upon given date to dis
is continue all over time working.
Il, THE report that the Car intends to max
" Kicff his capital, recalls Gen. TOdleben'
IS. declaration, made many years ago, tina
is Kicfi was the real military, stratcgical an,
IN commercial capital of Russia. Its position
w naturally strong, can be made almost i'm
I'd prcgnable, and its geographical relations t.
It. the rest of the empire are favorable to thu
as maintenance of national unity.
,e ONE of the saddcst incidents, says TIN
Chicago Tribune connected with the prcsen
backward spring is the fact that when cir
from Boston asked Chicago young man i
On the cri0ceris dpdrigi had appeared here yet
ed he replied that none of these immoral Grecl
Ie- plays would be allowed in Chicago. Whei
TO he subsequently learned that she was onl,
th learning the Beacon Hill name for the as
N. paragus beetle, there was dead, cold feel
ing at his heart, for he had loved the banl
account of the Boston girls father dearly
of and hoped to carry an interest in it.
no MAYOR KING, of Philadelphia, has eX
by pressed his determination to cxterminat
III, the gambling fraternity IN. very decide
yn language, and the result will be looked fc
of with interest, even outside of that city. ii
m says there will be no Partially in the di'
lr- tributon of justice, and, no matter who tn
his offender may be, he will not be allowed t
by go unpublished if the mayor can help i
So Mayor King says he is extremely opposed
on any form of gambling, and, as he is know
til to be II man of great energy and determine
Ill ton he will doubtless make it warm for IL
ed, gamblers, if properly supported by the poli'
os- authorities.
ill., WNi. G. SHELDON, q clerk in a county pos
wn office mt Willamsvlle, Mass, cleverly ca
on. tured Il swndler yesterday. \ few da,
md ago he came into possession of q circul
signed by ID. p. Moore POI West street, Ne
York, oileringa small percentage to 81
counterfeit money, which could easily
I've passed upon country people. ShcldC
lce' opened correspondence with Moore m
IAN agreed to meet him for furthernegotiatiol
yea The words thirty-cight being agreed up
10 MS n signal Sheldon went to New Nor
-lai and at the Grand Central Hotel eXchang
tea the cabalistic number with " strange
ha1 whom he arrested at the muzzlc of
cai volver, and handed him over to poll
Nh' officer. Moore was taken to the Poll
rty, conyt and thence before n United stat
commissioner and on being charged by Sh
don with misuse of the mails, he was he
ms for examination, bail being fixed at Sl0I
- In default of bail he was sent to sLudl'
street Jail.