The Washington critic., 1885-10-07
pEorIE IN GENERAL.

ELHArErn c. AoAssrz's "Lifc Of Louis
Agrssiz" will he published this week
THE ESocn-PRArr Free Library at Balh-
moro Will open on the ith Of January
next.
ING, the Commissioner Of
Agriculture, IS to pass the winter in Wash
gtOn.
A NGw story is called "Thc E1itor's Wal
lct." We have seen It. There Is nothing
In it-[ruck.
Mr. MoNouur y. CoNwAY is to be ban
Quoted by his Boston friends on Friday.
Colonel Z, W. lligginson viii preside.
Dominick McCalrrcy, the prizo.Gghtcr, f.
said TO have realized S2lOOO 10y LUCKY IN.
ycstmcnt in oil. OF course lac comes up
smiling
FN.GovruNoR PACKARD Of Louisiana, the
rcceLtly-rcmovcd Consul ut Liverpool, has
concluded to locate Mt Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
aud engage IN business.
Mn. {. p. HUNTINGTON willcrect chapel
in Hawiuton, Conn, in memory Of his
mother, who lived IN ,hat town. The chapel
will lc OF granite and VIII cost from Si5O))
TO $4,000.
The EXTENT TO which the public fails 10
promptly "catch on TO the lO-ccnt letter
delivery Is not encouraging to the system
or the luds who wait all day for an eight
cent job Manchester Union.
4 PECULIAR and never hitherto seen kind
Of fly has appeared in the southern part Of
the city. Its signature, however, can
hardly be distinguished from that Of the
common ily.- [COurier-journal
AMONG the audience at one Of Nilsson's
recent concerts in Sweden was one of the
great singers brothers, an honest peasant
who never had left his native place and
never before had heard his sister sing.
DURING September the Chicago postonico
delivered 4,s0l,G32 letters received from
other points, ,122,G ,G37 local letters and
93S,54l postal cards. During the same
time 4,7s9 gGA letters and l,O0i, ,37d postal
cards were collected.
THE following are among yesterdays
prominent arrivals In New York: Chief
Justice Waite, Robert c. Winthrop, cy.
President Hayes and Mrs. Hayes, Alexander
II. II. Stuart and j. l.. VI. Curry of Nr-
ginia and Senator Sewcll OF New Jersey, at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel; the Marquis OF
Quccnsbcrry at the New York Hotel, aud
Miss Mary Anderson at the Rockingham.
w. WATTS SHERMAN Of New York aud
Miss Sophia Augusta Brown, daughter of
the late John Carter Brown of Providence,
were married to-day at Newport, about
800 guests being in attendance Bishop
Thomas VI. Clark of Rhode Island OIL
ciatCd.
ARcnpEAcoN FARRAR will this afternoon
dine with Mr.. George w. Childs of Phila-
delphia, where he will meet President Ne
Gosh Of Princeton College and number of
other professors and scholars Tomorrow
he will visit IIuyerfOrd College and the
Taylor College fer Women at Bryn Mawr.
ONCE at a dinner President Eliot sat next
to General Grant. \ remark happened to
lie made about Oliver Twist asking for
more, when General Grant turned to Prcsi-
dent Eliot aud asked; "Who was Oliver
Twistgn Later at the same dinner, Presi-
dent Eliot mentioned Napcr's "iIistory of
the Pcninsuar War; and TO his surprise
found that the great commander hal never
read this famous military work.
In lie we meet with joy and woe,
Whercer on earth we 90,
\ mixture Of the good aud bad
Fate wills II should be so.
Just In the flush of our success
Reyerses kill our joy,
But few of us have the ups and downs
OF the elevator boy.