The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-09-14
PEOPLE IN GENERAL.

Children troop along the street
On the bright September morning,
Sunbcams. smiling faces meet,
Laughter nics ON brcezcs fleet
From the cheeks Of heaiths adou,ng.
Happy girls and boys are they,
Joy inviting, sorrow spurniug;
Let them, while they may be gay,
LIES not all holiday,
Bread comes not without The earning.
II Columbus lOhio) Dispatch.
SrNNron JOSE. Of Arkansas will leave
for Washington this week.
Tnrun will be G03 delegates in the Re.
publican State Convention Of New York,
which meets at Saratoga, September %,
RosE TERRY COOKE wants children to
carry raw lunches to school, which they are
to he taught how to cook for themselves
during recess.
Mr.. JAMES II. MANNING, son of the Sec.
rotary Of the Treasury, is said to have dis
tauccd all competitors at fishing on the st.
Lawrence this summer.
GENERAL BENiNuN II. BWsrow, eX-Sec
rotary Of the Treasury, who has bech
spending the summer IN the Rocky Noun
taius, has returned to New York
REPRESENTATIVE IIATcu Of Missouri
wants It distinctly understood that he Is not
a candidate for Governor, aud that he is IL
candidate for reelection TO Congress.
DR. j. II. DOUGLAS, who, since the
funeral Of General Grant, has been with
Mrs. Grant and family at Mt. McGregor has
returned TO New York and resumed his
practice.
CoLoSrL GEORGE w. HOOKER of Yer
mont who opened a real estate Office at
Brattlchoro after the close of the campaign,
is tired Of business already and in active
politics again.
SENATOR EvARTs Of New York will be
one Of the greatest visitors to Ohio this fall.
lie viii go there about October 10, possibly
with Logan. Blaine has not fully decided
ON another Ohio tour.
4 KENTUCKY PAPER SAYS: "The strong
est, hcalthiest men stay away from the bath
tub Perhaps so, but possibly 1t is only
the strongest, healthiest men can do this
and live Boston Transcript.
THE REPORT of the commissioner of
police for London shows that the author
lied strength of the force is % supernten-
dents, G3T inspectors, ,O61 sergcants, and
- A'l NNlieth'lNS' lllAhilE u Abusll VI l-'Nb,
MopJEsKA puts her earnings in real es-
tate. She has her own dwellings in every
| civilized country, and some Of them are
famous for their architectural beauty. Her
California ranch comprises 800 acres of
| good land.
GENERAL d. II. HILL will deliver the
annual address before the Virginia Division
of the Confederate Association of the Army
| Of Northern Virginia. at Richmond, October
| 90. His subject will be "Hhe Confederate
Soldiers in the Ranks"
IT APPEARS that Miss Mary Andcrson's
brother has become connected with the
New York SIN, but we expect to find the
Kentucky papers announcing that the sun
has become connected with Miss Mary
| hndcfson's brother. - Chicago News.
A YOUNG lady teacher in Sunday
school on the east side of the village in the
lesson about Elijah the Tishbitc week
ago, asked one Of the little girls what the
| prophet was called who flew from before
Jezelcl. With great promptness the little
one replied, "Liiah the Tintype!n- Sarato-
| ga journal.
THE PORTRAITS on United States bank
notes Of different denominations arc: On
| 81, Washington; So Jefferson; 50, jackson;
| $40, Webster; $50, Hamilton; $50, Franklin:
| SlCO, Lincoln; $500, General Mansiield:
$1,000, De Witt Clinton; 5000, Madison;
| $4,000, jackson.
"HIAwATHA," told in words by Mr..
Longfellow, is being put into carved wood
| by Winthrop Pierce, artist, at the fine new
house of George Slater at Norwich, Conn.
Mr.. Slater inherited about $l5,0O0,00 from
his father who gave 81 600, 600 for the bene-
| fit of Southern freedmen.
Mrs. STANLEY HUNTLEY, widow of the
author of the 'Spoopendyke" papers, isnow
with her brother, Captain Josiah Chance,
Seventh Infantry, at Fort Abraham Lin
coin, Oak, where she was living at the
time she married Huntley, who was then
editing the TribUac, at Bismark, only n
| few miles away.
REV. JONI BAPTIST SNowDEN, many
years faithful worker in the Colored
Methodist Church, died at Westminster, Md,
last Tuesday at the age of eighty-foury years
He was a slave in early life, belonging at
one time to the Harding family, of Balti.
more county, and then to Mr.. Bennett OF
that county, from whom he purchased his
freedom when thirty-thrce years old.
SIMPSON and his wife were on their way
to church, and the lady was putting on hel
gloves. "My DEAR he said pettishly, ''yor
should complete your toilet at home. I'd
just as soon see you putting on your stock
ings on the street as putting on YOU
gloves" ''Most men would,n she sale
promptly, and the abashed husband didn'
say another word Evansville Argus,
Mr.. BUTLER, who was appointment clerl
Of the Treasury Department under Secre
tary Folger, said yesterday that he believed
the Republicans would nominate man fo
Governor at Saratoga who would represcn
no faction, and such man would stand
fair chance of carrying the State. In hi
judgment Governor Hill would be th
strongest man the Democrats could put up
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