The Evening critic., 1885-01-09
POPULAR JoTTINGS,

Major ii. o. mcdowell has paid S20,O00
for the horse Dictator.
Rosa Bonheur is recovering her health
and will pass the winter at Nice, painting.
Charles Hamlin, son of Hannibal Ham-
liu, is candidate for Speaker Of the Maine
House.
The late Abnor Coburn was the richest
man in Maine. He was worth about So
100000.
Carl Schurz is to make Southern lecture
tour beginning at Richmond on the 10Th
instant.
William II. English pays taxes in Indian
apolis on $G76,000 and Thos A. Hendricks
on s61 900.
Henry Guy Carleton and Miss Helen
Hubbard were married in New York last
Wednesday evening.
Richard Hastings, New York man Of
rote who died Wednesday, was brother of
the late Hugh j. Hastings.
John LaDgdon Sibley, who began his
eightieth year on December 20, has finished
his third volume of biographical memo
randa OF Harvard graduates.
Becky Jones, the wonderful woman who
preferred to 60 to jail rather than to tell
what she knew, complains in the New York
newspapers that certain alderman annoys
her with his love-making.
Lawrence Barrett: "The real secret of
the bad theatrical season is that the COM
panies are not so good as they were a few
years ago. Good companies and good plays
have done fairly we'll and will always
do So"
The wealthiest man in the world is the
Chinese banker, Han-Qua, of Canton. He
pays taxes upon an estate of 400,000,00o
and is estimated to be worth 1,000,000,000
taels which, in our money, would be about
9240, 100000.
Ifany person who is liable to poison with
poison ivy will take pure olive oil eftor
being exposed to it he will feel no bad Of
fects, and the oil will neutralize the evils
of the poison If a few doses be taken even
after the poison has broken out.
Mr.. Ruskin has finished the publication
of his "Fors Clavigera" or letters addressed
to "tbe workmen and laborers of Great
Britain" He started them with "lightning
bolts" as Carlyle called them, and finishes
by scattering roses on the heads of those
the lighting had struck.
In the changes proposed in the chamber
of the House of Commons Mr.. Labouchere
says he doubts whether ladies would wish
the grating removed from their gallery,
but he demands that women be allowed en-
trance to the public gallery upon mem
ber's order, the same as men.
The horse upon which John Wilkes
Booth escaped from Ford's Theatre after
shooting President Liucoln is said to have
afterwards become the property of Colonel
John A. Peal, Of Abingdon, Conn. When
old, he was allowed to roam at will, and
one day he fell over Connecticut rock
and broke his neck
All the ice that is used in Mexico comes
from the top of Popocatapetl; is brought
| down the mountain on the backs of the
natives and then sixty miles on the cars to
| the city, where it is sold at wholesale for
ten cents pound. At the barrooms iced
drinks arc very expensive, and ice is sell
dom seen anywhere else.
The original organ in Christ Church
Cathedral, Oxford, Eng, was torn out aud
destroyed by the Puritans in 1914, and for
nearly fifty years they prevented another
being put in. Finally their preiudices
wore away and q second organ was built,
which served from 1850 until last summer,
when u third was placed in the ancient
edifce.
The thimble is Dutch invention, first
brought to England in 1895 by John Loft
ing, who began its manufacture at Isling-
ton, near London, gaining thereby both
| honor and profit. Its name was derived
| from the words thumb and bell, being for q
long time called humble, and only lately
thimble. Old records say that thimbles
were first worn on the thumbs.
"The King of Beacon Hill," in Boston,
| is the State Sergeant-at-Arms, and it is q
noteworthy fact that but four Sergeants,
John Kuhn, Benjamin Stevens, John Nor
rissey and Captain Mitchell, have hold the
Office during 100 years. Captain Mitchell
still bears the white wand, ceremonial
stick used in ushering committees into the
/ (tnunrnnpfa pbnmhar and ha OrO old
slowly on fat $4,000 year.
1t is claimed that England and France
can make better grade OF fine papers than
this country on account OF the quality oil
the water, which is here injured for paper
making by frequent changes in tempera'
ture. Acting upon this idea, experiment:
are about to bo made in Florida, where the
temperature is more equable. If successful
it is said large mill, especially for tht
manufacture OF finer grades of stock, will
will be built there by Massachusetts capi.
talists.
John P. King, Mark A. Cooper aud
Junius Hillyer statesmen Of prominence
long before most people now in the world
were born, are still living at their homes
in Georgia and all watch the march of the
present actors on the stage of affairs. Mr.
King, who lived the life Ofa gentleman OF
leisure In Parisas long ago as 1920, was ia
the United States s0nate in the year 1896
Colonel Cooper was'a member Of the House
forty-fyo years ago and Judge Hillyer in
the forties.
In 1916 there was in Prussia 123, ,935
Jews in 1913, 206,527 IN 1861, 100000
and in 1880, 363,700. Seventeen per ceut
of all Jews in the kingdom reside in Ber-
lin. Jews emigrate from Prussia much
faster than they immigrate to Prussia
Between 1922 and 1910 the immigrants
were in excess by 10,400, but since then the
emigTants have had the majority by 35,100
In 1850 there were 10000 foreign Jews re.
siding In Prussia, Of whom the greater