The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1881-07-12
Miscellany.

-Cincinnati is to havca 81 5000 Union
depot.
-Herdic coaches began running in Bos-
ton on Monday.
During storm of metcors in California
brilliant sunset became faint and pale.
English newspapers are beginning to
assert that the Car is mentally deranged.
The old battle ground of Tippecanoe
bclongssto the State of Indiana, and is in
closed with fence.
Boston still uses in part oil and fluid
lamps to light her streets She has 2,36S of
that sort out of a total of 1864.
One hundred and nineteen Swiss Alpine
guides belonging to Berner Overland have
insured their lives for altogether 266,6OOf.
London Truth believes that very soon
cards of invitation to at-homes must be is
sued with the written hint, Z" No friends"
-"You can't come it, is what the as
tronomcrs say to our mrial stranger, as they
observe his departure after vain efforts to
reach the earth.
An American sailor named Henry Mills
was killed on Friday, at Havre, in a bawl
with some English seamen. The murder
ers have been arrested.
DIR. Charles Melam, in New York, yes
terday ran over and killed Jacob Rosenberg,
aged 10 years, of las East Fifty-ninth street.
The doctor was arrested by the police.
His fiery highness the comet wears his
coma banged. We would respectfully in
form our non-classical readers that coma is
the Latin for hair-New York Commercial
advertiser.
The temperance people are praisng
Queen Victoria because she refused to ac-
cept barrel of Kentucky whisky as a
present. They forget that whisky is not
the national drink in England. Probably
Victoria prefers 'alf and 'alf
Not bad joke was made OF Ascot re-
speeding a lady whose dress was profusely
decorated with the heraldic emblems of her
husbands family. "Why," said some one
should wife not be in the arms Of her
husband ?"-London Truth.
San aesthetic discourse, said the Lady
Algeria to her husband as they rode home
from church. Right you are" said my
lord Algernon (who had found soft place
on the pew rail for the repose of his loudly
head "" it was anesthetic.
The Atlanta Consultation, while deplor
ing Guiteau's act, draws consolation from
the belief that it will tend to bring about
much. needed reforms in our politics and
civil service, and thorough restoration o.
good feeling between the sections.
Richard Grant White tainted the othel
day when friend, whose grammar he wa
correcting, told him of Western girl who's,
companion asked her at a party, "Shall
skin a banana for you" mo, thanl
you," she replied, II have one alread.
skun.'
"A fellow at Arkansas Hot Springs wa
much amused at tame bears dexterity IL
drawing a cork and drinking the content
of bottle. So he laid wager that h
would drink as many bottles as the bear
After drinking nineteen bottles the maj
was carried out dead drunk, while Bruil
was just beginning to feel happy.
"A New York girl stuffed the sleeve of a
old coat with straw and placed it aroun
her waist as she sat in the bay windO,
wrapped in the soft June twilight. 1t locke
all right and natural from distance, an
broke the neighbor girls all up with envy
but the satisfaction she derived from tn
hug was about as thin as strained moon
shine.-Detroit Free Press.
Professor Draper, speaking of the compt
sition of the comet, says its nucleus
either solid or liquid, probably solid an
mineral, heated by contact with the sun
Just the degree of heat that if you heate
it more it would liquefy; and togethe
with this mineral is probably some vOlatil
fluid like naphtha." We have not locke
at the comet through telescope, but wit
the naked eye 1t appears to be composed {
the very ingredients the professor mention
-NorristOcn Herald.
DRAFTS on London, Dublin and Paris, .
ii. ID. Cooke, Jr., & Co.'S, 1929 f st.