The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-08-29
PEOPLE IN GENERAL.

THE latest production of the sculptor
Story is colossal statue OF Bryant.
Miss NonA PERRY first noycl-"For %
Woman, lis in the press Of TicI,uor & Co.
ONr hundred citizens Of Los Angeles,
CALI have formed an association for the
erection Of a crematory.
JouN JARRETT, the labor leader. is now
at the head Of a Pennsylvania temperance
movement In the churches
\. b. DuRANp, the veteran landscape
painter, though over ninety years Of age, is
happy and hearty. He resides at South
Orange, y. j.
NINE. CAuLorrA PATTI, who intends to
settle down In Paris as u professor of music,
is engaged at present In writing book on
her artistic Tour Around the WOrld'
IloN. ions A. BINGHAM and family, re-
Gently from Japan, have been i'm Denver
Col, this week, the guests Of General
Sampson. They expected to return to Ohio
In a few days.
TnE REPORT Of the South African post
mastcrgencral for the year 1881 shows that
the weight Of diamonds which passed
through the postOillCc during that year was
ISL pounds ounces
FRANK j. BLACK, the genial and brilliant
young journalist, who writes about mcdir
val theology and other little things, made
us very pleasant call last evening. We
were not in at the time PunXsutawney
Tribune
Hos l.. p. MoRToN will shortly leave
Saratoga for the Red sulphur Springs, West
Va. lie takes with him party OF friends
to see a property bought by him several
years ago, upon which hc has expended
over SlCO,OO0 In improvements and yet has
never seen.
1nE PRouBlrloNlsrs Of Pennsylvania
have nominated strong man for State
Treasurer. His name is Barr Spauglcr, and
1t is said that hc can throw COW over his
shoulder. llc Is perhaps, as good man us
they could get to take the bull by the horns.
IN. Y. Tribune.
EX-PREsIDENT ARTHUR accompanied Mrs.
August Belmont and her daughter-in-law
| to the Newport Casino yesterday, and was
| dncd by William K. Travcrs of New York.
| Aitcrward Mr.. Arthur attended the ball at
the Casino, upon the invitation of the Gov
| crnors of that institution.
MRs STEWART, widow of the dry goods
millionaire, lives in n suite Of eight rooms
at her hotel at Saratoga, and besides the
| maids in attendance has four cooks, with n
| half dozen assistants. At her tables plates
| are placed for not less than twelve guests,
though very often she dimes alone.
IT Is SAID that Nine, Calderon de Ia
Barca, who wrote the most graphic and
charming book ON Mexico ever printed, is
| still living that she has become devout
| Catholic, and wishes that she had the power
| to suppress her book, which contains matter
which her mature conscience does not ap-
| prove.
ONE OF THE wcalthiest women in Colo
RADIO is Mrs. Bishop Warren Of Denver. She
was first q poor sewing girl, and afterwards
| the wife Of miner named Ilifr, who became
| a cattle king, and on his death left her u
fortune of several millions. Her marriage
| to her present husband is said to have been
brought about through the influence of
Bishop Simpson.
| VICTOR HUGO is reported to have once
said, "At night when | do not sleep, and
any idea comes into my brain, / formulate
| It at once, and write it-sometmes with
out lght-in notebook that | keep
always within reach. The little note books
contain what call my chips. They will be
| found when | am gone
MIR. r. BowLDER SHARPE, ornithologist
of the British Museum, has returned to
London. lie has been at Smla since April,
packing up the splendid collection of
Asatic birds presented to England by Mr..
| Allan o. Hume. There are in the collection
| G0000 birds, 800 nests, and more than 10000
eggs, all beautifully preserved.