The Evening critic., 1882-02-02

tlOfl anu tnat Dllpc-Water UT SliCkcnS may
be as Objectionable and pref judicial TO growth
in Zion as the latter baneful flood is to the
growth of crops in the Sacramento valley;
who believe that the earnest, faithful zeal of
a preacher like DR.. Hemphill can be vastly
assisted by a proper conduct of the music
of his church, and, regarding the present
burlesquc on praise, which he is compelled
to contend against as very poor economy,
hope it will soon be abolished and the pro-
per order of things established.
An Elephant has been named for Oscar.
They're playing base ball out in Frisco.
Gen. Hancock is very regular in his
habits.
Louisiana has 17,5o00oo acres of virgin
forest.
Gov. Long, of Massachusetts,, writes
poetry.
Oscar Wilde should be vaccinated in
some aesthetic spot.
Artificial building stone is manufactured
at Tampa, Fla.
An interrogation point in diamonds is
new Partisan brooch.
Most of the pocketbooks lost in New
York belong to women.
Paris has more circulating libraries than
any city in the world
borhood of Len0ir N, G.
The attempt to light Liverpool by cleo
tiicity has proved failure.
A Berkshire hog attacked and killed
mule near Sandersyille, Ga.
vcnnor predicted a January thaw. We
thawt of this this morning
One of the best paying Investments at
present is a vaccine factory.
The grocers gnastly little gag-Fortune
lies in weight for me.
No wardrobe is complete during Lent
without severe black dress.
Few oranges were raised on tho gulf
coast of Mississippi the past fall.
The great American question did
you emerge from your margin?
A rice grinding mill, the first of the kind
in the Dominion, is to be erected at Mon
treal.
During the past two years five ladies
have been elected to the Office of County
Superintendent in Nebraska.
A Swedish family in New York is alleged
to have eaten seventeen puppies, two
horses and innumerable cats.
Not single bushel of IL, 100000 of grain
sent to Europe from New York last year
went in an American ship
All the mines in Nevada yielded during
1901 ABOUT S1,OUU,UUU leSS Unun enough TO
pay the cost Of operating them.
The Marquis of Lorne is earnestly tell
ing the girls of England to go to Manitoba
and wife up that wfeless country.
Should the tax upon whisky be taken
off many men will rue the day they ever
took a solemn oath to stick to beer
Guiteau is used to eating dried apples
for lunch; in fact Graves them. Now what
terrors has hanging for such being?
1t is supposed that the reason the sailor
returns after many days is because "he was
bred on the waters. ."-Boston Com. Bulletin.
A distinguished Chicago gambler says
he gathers in about 81, 900 q day on an
average. This man is independent of Of
fee.
The country boy yearns for town life.
At home he can't get any rancid butter,
swill milk, decayed eggs or leathery
beef
"Well," said an Irish attorney, ''if it
| plaZe the coort, if l am wrong in this,
have another point that is equally conclu-
| siye.
AWestern debating society is nerving it,.
self up to wrestle with the question :
when q woman and mouse meet, which
is the most frightened?"
Nearly 1,500 of the 3,730 streets of
| Paris have during the last thirty years
had their names changed, chiefly for poll
| tical reasons.
A New York servant girl who asked the
loan of bonnet from her mistress and was
refused quit the house within five min
| utes.
Primary colors and old fashioned shades
are announced for spring goods in place of
the faded blues and dingy greens now fash
ionable.
IA L.a l.. s.l..I l. l...I 4
railroad depot at indianapolis n will be
$50 feet long and one of the handsomest
buildings in the country.
Did it ever stwike you, gentle weadah,
that no noah beautiful poem than "How
docs my lady's garden gwow" was evan
witten? How twooly tendah and lovely
are those pwecious lines, with silvah bells
and cookie shells, and pwitty maids, all in a
wow" How twoo, how tendah, how con-
Shmmately deuced wecious-Christiai
Union.
Mr.. David A. Curtis. New York journal
list, in recent lecture on reporting foi
the press, very aptly said that the careles:
Bohemian who wrote the news balanced on
the point Of his pencil the regulations Of
men and the fate of great projects, and
welded for small wages such thunderbolt.
as Joye never hurled.
If Masonry is in your heart you will be /
moral, temperate aud prudent man, keep
ing guard over your lips and actions. Yol
will abhor profanity and intemperance, aut
repIove those faults in Masons who may b,
guilty of them. You will be afiable ani
courteous, treating all good Masons as you
equals, paying due respect to those in of
flee, regarding the opinions and making
allowance for the preiudices of every placl
you visit.
Tho following is given as specimen
bill of fare at the dinner table of Tennes
see planter Corn bread with only salt {,
season it, fat bacon and a dish of boilei
turnips tops; for drink, strong black cofel
made of the berries imported from Rio
This was all; no fruits, no preserves, n,
pastries of any kind. The trouble is thai
the planters give all their time to raising
cotton.
The English colony of New South Vale
appears TO be in a Aourishing condition
The public revenues for 1881 amounted /,
f6,7l0,000 being an increase of G366,0 900 il
excess of the colonial treasurer's estimates
The returns show the increase TO be disui
buted over alEnost all branches Of revenue
and il is anticipated from the generally
prosperous condition Of the colony that thl
receipts for the present financial yoaf viii
also largely exceed the estimates.