The Evening critic., 1883-06-23
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

WARMERS Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.
GRAND OPENING of Fick's ice cream
parlors, No. Oil Pennsylvania avenue on
Monday next.
FOUNDRY CHAUTAUoUA CIRCLE will,
upon invitation, visit the Naval Observa-
tory on Monday evening next.
PRENTIss' concentrated lemonade; just
the thing for picnics and excursions. Price
so cents per bottle, corner Seventh and f.
A WESTERN UNION telegraph Office has
been established in Prentiss drug store,
corner Seventh and streets, which is kept
open for business from a. m. to IL p. m,
Sundays included.
THE temperance meeting to be held to-
morrow evening at Waugh M. L. Church,
corner of Third and A streets northeast,
will be one of unusual interest. Clements
Lodge of Good Templars will attend in
body, and delegations from other lodges
will also be present.
Mr.. AUSTIN HERR's fine form is seen
putting out in shell from the Potomac
boathouse every evening. A member of
the club was heard to remark last evening,
that she's going to push some of the boys
pretty hard one Of these days in the near
future"
THE annual regatta of the Potomac Boat
Club promises to be unusually interesting
meeting of the club, held last evening" a
committee was appointed to arrange for the
affair, and great interest in it appears to be
taken by every member Of the club.
THE decorations of plants and flowers at
Fick's new ice cream saloons were furnish
ed by the Partisan Flower Co., No. lilo F
street. These beautiful and expensive
flower embellishments are both gorgeous
and brilliant, and must be seen to appre-
ciate their grandeur and magnifcence.
AT a special meeting of the Potomac
Boat Club, held last evening, it was unan-
imously voted to enter four-oared crew
at the Lynchburg regatta, to be held on
the 4th of July next. By the same
| vote it was determined to enter McKenny in
| the single scullers' contest at that regatta
THE CRITICS headliner thought he was
| doing pretty good thing yesterday when
he wrote over the dispatch about George
| D. Phelps death, "a Dissolute Dives" (ricf
man you know, whose dogs licked Lazar
ous sores) but somehow it got into the pa
per, "a Dissolute Dies" Accidents will
happen, however.
| THE J. w. Kennedy contesting in the
| Pullman, Ills, regatta, is not Mr.. Johr
Kennedy, of this city, who recently rowed
against Hanlan at Point of Pines, Mass
The Pullman regatta's Kennedy is named
Julius w. John Kennedy is at present in
this city and serving as trainer for the
Potomac Boat Club.
ONE of the city foresters was noticed
about the corner of l. and Fourteenth
streets last evening doing work which it i.
supposed the English sparrows perform fol
us-destroying caterpillars' nests on tht
shade-trees. Unless the sparrows give bet
ter attention to their official duties reform
will become necessary.
OUR enterprising townsmen,. Taylor
Hufty, are taking the right steps to cleal
off their stock. After advertising largely
and selling the greater part of theil
spring stock of ladies' and children's clotl
suits and jerseys at greatly reduced prices
they have determined to make further re
duction and sell them at cost. This viii
make grand sweep, and many mother
will look upon the replenished wardrobe o
herself and children with gratitude to the
dealers who made it possible for her to pur
chase by selling at a low rate irst-clas
goods.
THE Commissioners are considering plan
for the determination of the web-worn
caterpillar, which attacks the shade tree
every fall, and is said to have made its ap
pearance several months earlier than usua
this year. b. Pickmann Mann has writer
to the Commissioners on the subject, urgin
a prompt inspection of the trees and dc
struction of the webs formed by thes
worms. The writer says that the de
struction of these insects could now be nc
complished speedily and easily, while
there is delay in commencing the exter
mination, the ravages Will have extendet
so far that they cannot be checked.