The Evening critic., 1882-02-22
miscellaneous.

IL lOOkS 10 me rs IL L NOulu Stlll re-
main secretary of tho exterior. Er-SeRr-
tor Sargent
At the South wild geese are flying north
ward, and 1t is regarded as token Of an
early spring.
Sturgeon fishing in the waters around
Georgetown, s. c., has become a large and
profitable industry.
Columbus made the egg stand, but Ita.
lians of less renown have made the peanut
stand.--N. y. Post
The new Jesuit college at Canterbury,
Eng, will provide residence for 1000 ofthe
youths exiled with their instructors from
France.
Light and airy spring poetry will soon be
in order. We don't want any, having con-
cluded to utilize the stock left over from
last spring.
The Indian pronunciation of the youngest
sister THAT is to be- in our family Of States
is Oak -o.ta-thc accent being on the first
syllable.
The commission appointed in Germany
to revise Luther's translation of the Bible
has held its last sitting and brought its
work to close.
Luck 1t is said "Fortune knocks once at
| every mans door," In most cases it must
| have knocked when the man was out
| Ncw Orleans Picoyune.
The king having dismissed his page, was
| asked why he did SO, and replied, "No man
| can turn over new leaf without trying
new page."- Waterloo Observer.
O'Wilde is dissatisfied with this country
| because he can't find any cigars to suit him
Those he has tried so far don't draw any
better than his own lecture.-L0,ceU Citi-
zen.
| The Municipality Of Paris has asked the
| government to permit the cremation OF re-
mains which have illustrated anatomical
lectures. In two hospitals these aggre-
gate in year some $500 corpses.
Now is the time for every man who
never knew anything about Daniel Web
ster to rush into print with "reminiscences
of him, and original stories about the first
edition of his famous dictionary.-Buling-
ton Ha,rkege.
A novel kind of fishing is practiced by a
diver at Burlington, Iowa. Clad in his
suit, he descends into the river at q point
where large numbers of catfish are gathered
by an eddy, and catches them easily with
an iron prong.
A man broke through the ice at Bay
City, Mich, while his hands were in his
trousers pockets, and was unable to ex-
tricate them. But he hooked his chin over
the edge of the ice, and so held his head
above water until rescued.
A girl at Carrolton, Ark, was betrothed
to one man while she desired to marry an
other. She married the first, but promised
the second that at the end ofsix months
she would elope with him. This arrange
ment has been carried out.
Four boys got into a Denver theatre free
by using skeleton key on a side door.
They enjoyed their deadheadism every
evening for week, and were only detected
when they began to let in other boys at
| ha1f tha tlor nrica af a1p mi -sinp
The village of Jetten, in Switzerland
which was built on an ancient moraine, is
threatened with destruction. The ground
on which it stands is in motion. Several
houses have already been engulfed, and the
village will probably have to be abandoned
An Andover Mass man commi tied sui
eide by drinking pint Of ink. If he had
used the pale economical watery fluid that
is such a passion with some of our contrib
utors, he might have drunk gallon of ii
and lived for fifty years.-Bnlington Hap-
keye.
The coming servant girl will say 70 hel
mistress, "You will please not associate
with Mrs. X. do not know the woman,
but hate the lady who works in her kitch
en-, and could not think of permitting
any intimacy between the two families
Philadelphia NerS.
An oscar Wilde" young lady appeared
on the floor of the senate at the opening o
. the Dominion Parliament, dressed in tight
fitting velvet decorated with sunflowers
She had the aesthetic chang" with th,
usual far-away expression in her eyes, ant
attracted general attention.
An Edgar Poe Club has been organized a
Greenville, Ala. If Poe were living ant
conducting himself as he did when alive
he would not be allowed to join any of tn
high-toned societies Termed to do him hon
or. This shows how much better il is 70
, genius to be dead.-Ne,o Orleans Plea
ylnle.
The poet Whittier is feeble, and has O
Q late grown exceedingly deaf. He no longe
r lives in the old family house at Amesbury
+ Mass but at Danvers, in large, squar
house, amid group of oaks and pine
This place is called Oak Knoll, and is hand
= some but not picturesque.
h The Head colony. in the wheat region
s Dakota, is composed entirely of eight brotl
t ers named Head and their families, mum
4 bering nearly a hundred persons. The
!. have bought 10000 acres of land in adjoin
l ing farms, but these arc owned separated
: and there is to be no communism in tn
Q enterprise.
The male sea lion of the st. Louis Zoo
!, Ogical Garden, captured five years ago nes
San Francisco, died last week. His mate
: disconsolate, and she seems to be falling il
> to decline because of her loss. When I'll
: house where they slept was entered to n
: move the body of her companion she W,
:, found lying by his side, with her hea
= resting across the lifeless breast
l. Kate Field, in sour Continent" !" rldicul
j. the fashion, established by Sarah Berr
l. hardt of wearing long, loose gloves, whiC
4 suited her, as she had thin, ugly arms. I'll
fat woman gets into them, and her arm
look liketwin Bologna sausages but IL
n woman with beautiful arms spoils one
a the rarest ofcharms.by donning gloves wit
e more than six buttons.
), Mr.. Wendell Phillips, who was for son
Is time confined to his house with seye
70 attack of lumbago, has so far recover,
n that he is able to be out of doors The
20 are people who think of Mr. Phillips as
i young man who is able to do all sorts
D. political wonders, and not great viii
o ago certain journals chaffed him because |
n did not go to Ireland and speak his sent
' ments all over that country. He is in h
lg seventy-first year.
- At Mime. Gulchard's fancy dress ball
"A Paris recently, a newly-married coup
appeared in the costumes of cock al
hen. He wore a field -marshal's hat, wi
golden plumes, and his face was entire
~ concealed by his head dress. The h
= wore white satin petticoat, with lol
~ rows of snowy-white feathers, whi