The Washington critic., 1885-09-02
rEOrLIa IN GENERAL.

Tho ualdcu's coming from parcc-
She's been there seven weeks
Aud with foreign accent she
Her native language speaks.
Aud when She comes across the foam
She'll answer In this way
To your ELUSIVE welcome home:
CAV! Parlcz yous fwncnsY
Il Boston Courier.
GESERNL MCCLELLAN and the friends ac-
compouyng him are at salt Lake City.
EN-SENAron GwiN OF California, now ly.
iueill in New York, was reported much bet
| ter last evening.
MIR Roscoe CoSRLiNG is at Carlsbad
| rapidly reducing his avoirdupois and i'm.
| proving in health gcuctally.
SIN THOMAS iIrWEru and lady ffesbolh
arrived 40 The Hoffman House. New York
last evening from San Francisco.
THr SHERMAN family are to hold re-
union with John Sherman at Mansfield,
Ohio, tue first week In September
MHs. SARAH 4. BolroS, the poet ana
author Of "Paddlo Your own Canoe" is
over 20 years Of age aud resides at Beech
Bank near indianapolis Ind.
DR.. G.. W. CHANCELLOR, secretary Of the
Maryland State Board Of Health, has re-
turned from Orkney Springs, and will make
his home In Baltimore during the winter.
EDWIN BooTH aud daughter have Just
placed in the Episcopal Church ut Middle
town, Il. l., memorial window as n token
Of regard FOR the deceased wife and mother
loHN YuUyG, Brghom's eldest son, Is the
husband of two wives only and the fathcrof
ten sous and eleven daughters. lie is now
IN chihuahua prospecting for colony OF
Mormon immigrants to that country.
MEs. LuLIAN NoRroN GowEH has gone
to France to sec TO the settlement of the
property of her husband, the aeronaut,
Frederic Allen Cover, supposed TO have
been lost in the British Channel, July Is.
THE EXPENSES Of Baron Ferdinand de
Rothschild, successful Liberal candidate IN
the recent election for Parliament, were
returned at G91O lis 4d., and those of Mr..
Graham, the Conservative, at 1854 3s. 3D.
SAYS the Norwalk Comm Ga.c,tc: "A
crazy man rode through Goshen on horse
back recently and asked everybody he met
where Is Gods lawY Nobody In Goshen
could tell him either whore or what ii was
GENERAL SIMON CtNERoN's favorte rid
ing horse, "Coloncl," is dead. lie was
Thirty years old and was one of a pair of
horses which General Cameron purchased
in New York in 1860 at 5000 for the pair.
"WnAT ARE YOU reading, dcar?" asked
the father. Dumas story, the Three
Mousquctaircs, replied the daughter.
"'Ihe Three Mosquitares? Never heard of
It, Something about New Jersey, | sup
pose.h-[Pittsburg Chronicle.
Mr.. ALEX NJ WILCOX of Baltimore has
accepted the chair of Greek in the State
University of Kansas at Lawrence. Mr..
Wilcox is one of the 500 Peabody prize
graduates of the Baltimore City College.
afterwards graduating at Yale.
SENATOR GoRMAN is quoted by Washing
ton correspondent as having recently made
the prediction in the presence Of a promi-
ncnt gentleman that neither the Republican
nor the Democratic platform in lsSS will
contain Il civil service reform plank.
DoRMAN b. EAToS went to New York the
other day and frightened the Federal Office
holders almost to death. lie merely looked
at them and winked his left eye. Congress
should hasten to pass u law giving Higgins
control of Uncle Dorman.-[ Atlanta COnsti-
tuition.
The WATCH WHICH is TO be presented to
Mr.. PGrnCll by Patrick Rehill of Philade-
phia is valued at 500. 1t is of solid elgh-
teen carat gold, Ornamented on one side of
the case by fine two carat diamond. and
OF the other by an eagle with outstretched
wings, surmounting an American shield IN
en0meled colors and supported by two
Irish harps in raised gold.