The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-12-06
PERSONS AND THINGS

Surveyor General of Minnesota.
It Ia said that America has raised fund Of one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the Parnell
parliamentary election committee.
Gould has retired, but Field still hangs on to wall
street. lie Is determined to make enough money to
reconstruct the Andre Monument before he retires.
Parson Downs has been expelled from the fellow
shp OF the Baptist Conference, but he still exercises
hall.
After the defeat OF the Mugwumps In New York
Carl schurz consoled himself tor while with plano
playing. More recently he has taken TO leciurng on
The veteran Journalist, Maj. Ben: Perley Poore,
begins this week his fify-nlnth year as newspaper
correspondent lie Is engaged In preparing his
newspaper experiences for publication.
Sublime Porte by Minister Cox, ex-Minlsier Wallace
has appeared there as agent for q patent torpedo.
From diplomacy to dynamite, what a fall!
Heading. Pa, is an old and very rich town;
everybody Ia comfortable and happy; but there ia
not millionaire residing within Its corporate limits.
Gen. Prendergasis picnic has ended, and King
Thcebaw, like the that realized the fact Of Col
scotts invinciblllty. has come down. Burmah will
he annexed, and the British lion get ready for
another square meal.
The Iron and Steel Workers Association have
asked the Secretary of the Treasury to recommend
an increased tariff on iron and its manufactures.
This not with view OF getting 1t, but In the hope
The members of the Civil Service Commission of
Albany have brought suit against the Common
Council Of that city to compel them TO appropriate
sufilcent money 10 pay their salaries. Legislation
by n,andamus Ia something new and attractive
The French Canadians are, 1t is said, very anxious
to annex the State OF Maine They remember, doubt
less with great qualification, sums disbursed
the border In 1854 and vote the Blaine electoral Ticket
Chevaller Adophe de I,acourt. French Minister TO
the United States in 1910, has published his Recol
lecions," In which he describes the Washington of
in desoiaie situation where life is nsupporabie"
We have progressed since those DAYS.
The gross profit realized by the Government from
the coinage of silver dollars since the passage of the
Bland act, March I, 1878, amounts to within frac.
seem to be Wide enough margin to provide for the
| expense OF coinage, transportation, and storage,
ct cefeiu.
| Mr.. Alexander Delmar, under the fructifying In
nuences of the English climate, has blossomed into
| the Hon. Alexander Del Mar. Through the pages Of
the journal or the London Bankers Institute he
informs the public that the reconciliation of silver
was due mainly e his efforts. This will be news to
| Mr. Bland and others who Thought they had con-
siderable to do with II.
Mr. John Leonard. OF Pottsvllle, Pa. has been re-
moved from Ms office OF county commissioner, at the
suit Of the State of Pennsylvania, the ground of
having made promises OF appointment before his
issl, making bribery at elections punishable by
custer II all the politicians who made promises Of
S scS to
would not be quorum In any legislative body In the
| country.
| In the first generation man reckons only two an
cestors, his father and mother. In the second
generation the two are changed into fur, since he
had two grandfathers and two grandmothers. Each
of these four had two PARENTS and thus In the third
generation there are found to he eight ancestors,
al ss me 81 s
hfth 80, in the sixth o. in the seventh 1885, in the
tenth o2t In the twentieth $40 ~ the THIRTEEN
1874 This may prove that all the worlds
| akin.
Canon Farrar 10 departing from the usual pro-
gramme Of distinguished Rnglishmen who visit this
country. Dickens and number OF lesser lights
made all the money they could out Of us and went
home and wrote books abnsing US. The venerable
Archdeacon, however, is giving lecture here and
! there entitled Farewell Thoughts on America" In
which he praises us to our faces for that which We
that he prefers to speak his ideas about America
before Americans, rather than to write book about
us on his return home.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Ia extensively
advertising the fact that the special train from this
city which conveyed the Cabinet to Indianapolis and
back went through without any accident. This Is
something wonderful! II Ia worthy OF the extensive
oraon has sS securing for it, Tie fact
Is, the most enterprsing part OF the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad ia situated under the hat Of Its adver
Using agent, far as free advertising OF wonderful
achievements Is concerned. The b. 4 o. Is always
accomplishing wonders on paper.
"Some Of the Meath ladies'" says the London
World, shave, with the aid Of that hero OF habits
Mr.. Busvine, invented new costume de chasse
which is decidedly comfortable, workmanllke, ant
very becoming when the wearer has petite llssomt
hgure, for instead OF the old body TO the habi
skirt, the upper woman Ia now clothed IN u ret
slnglc-hreasted coat or jacket, with brass buttons
while The hunting vest Just reveals Its color ant
been universally adopted yet; hut az Lady IIeskett
and Mrs. sam Garnett have made II their hunting
wear II Is bound TO become popular"
A lawyer friend OF President Cievelands from
Buffalo recently gave the Washington correspondent
Of the Cleveland Leader some Interesting GOSSIP
about him. SAID he: "While he was Governor o
New York he gave away the whole OF his salary II
charity save that which he used for his personal ex
penses and for the support OF his mother. hay,
seen many Instances OF his charity. One night wa
with hun IN Ills private ottice at the Albany Capitol
! II was after he had been elected President lie wa
opening his mall and many 0f the letters containe'
requests for aims ! saw Governor Cleveland an
, swer fully half dozen Of these by inclosnl
"a, $40, and at one, time $50 bill In al
7 envelope with a kind word, and sending
. to the beagar One case was especially toneh
New York who had lost his horse by death. lie ha,
little garden-patch Of farm, and this h0rse wa
hs sole means OF making livelihood upon u, "
nelghbors, hut stil lacked enough by $50 To buy tn
horse, which was TO serve az the support OF hmsel
had heard OF Clovelands charity. aud had suggesle
that he write 10 him aud ask Hun to help him. fror
the tenor OF The letter you could see that the old ma
was very proud OF lis composition and handwriting
lie said that he had written II himself with his ow
: hand, and the appeal throughout was that OF
simple-minded, nnsophislicated, chlldke person
cleveland's eyes oiled with tears as he read II, an
T he put a $40 bill In an envelope and sent It TO hil
4 with few Kind words"