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


Ex-UMrED STATES CONSUL PACKARD was
given farewell banquet last evening by
his Liverpool friends.
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN, now in New
York, will leave tomorrow for san Fran
cisco, intending to return about Septem-
Der |.
ELI MARSH TURNER, who has recently
been elected president of the West Vir-
ginia State University, is Princeton
graduate of 1868.
HUeH j. JEwETT ex-president of the
Erie Railroad, at the close of the summer
season will return to Columbus, o., for
permanent residence
QUEEN VICTORIA has finally decided
that the marriage of the Princess Beatrice
and Prince Henry of Battenburg must
take place on Thursday, July %.
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER GoRRINGE, with
exceptional forethought, went all the way
to Egypt for his monument and put it up
in Central Park several years before his
death. Philadelphia News.
ACCOMPANIED BY HIS staff and party Of
ladies, Governor Albeit of New Jersey, at
the invitation of Governor Wetmore, will
inspect the camp of the Rhode Island
Brigade at Providence to-day.
Mrs LET1T1A McCuLLoueH, wife of John
Mccullough, the actor, has applied in
Philadelphia for de lunatico inquirendo
proceedings to decide her husbands
sanity, and commissioner has been APP
pointed to take evidence in the case.
IT is now said that Governor Hoadly of
Ohio sees the Presidency as through a
glass darkly. The glass must be pretty
powerful if he can see it at all. Still,
Hoadly is q pretty good man, although
his weight is not exactly known.-[N. Y.
Tribune.
If certain of our esteemed Mugwump
contemporaries are really and earnestly
desirous of the retirement of Mr.. Higgins
the best thing they can do is to let up on
him. This is straight tip, and they can
bet big money upon it.-[Philadelphia
Record.
."THERE Is GREAT deal of religion in
nature" soemnly remarked young
clergyman, while calling upon laly of
his congregation the other evening.
"There is" was the quiet reply. 1--WE
should never forget that there is q SER
mon in every blade of grass" "Quite
true. We should also remember that grass
is cut very short at this season of the
year."
PROFESSOR G. p. LANGLEY, who has Just
returned to Pittsburg from Europe, where
he has been engaged in making observa-
tons for the Government as to solar heat
and spots upon the sun, is convinced that
the color Of the latter orb is not white, as
generally supposed, but blue; and he pro-
poses to prove it by showing that the air
really acts like an orange-colored veil or
sieve which picks out the blue and leaves
the white. The delusion is owing to our
senses, because we have never been able
to see the true color of the SUM-
Miss ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND, the
present lady of the White House at Wash.
| ington, seals her notes with wax on
which is only the letter G in plain text
| The seal is quite a small one, only about
| the size of a silver ten-cent piece. She
uses plain colored wax, but not red She
writes very pretty and easily expressed
| note, brief and to the point, yet courteous
and signs it Elizabeth Cleveland" She
| is very business-like in her methods and
large as is her correspondence, always re
| plies promptly to any letter requiring an
| immediate answer, writing personally
| fHarper's Bazaar.