The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-09-27
MEN AND THINGS.


Mrs. Custer, author of " Boots and Saddles" is tc
bune.
Col. Charles @. Jones, DR., Of Augusta, Ca, has
written pamphlet on the " Sculpture of Nal Gen
Nathaniel Greene ana OF Brig. Gen. Count Casimir
Pulaski" The conclusion reached is that "nelther
OF these famous generals seeps beneath the respec
tive monuments which grateful and patriotic peO
pie have reared In their honor" aud the pamphlet
sets forth the reasons that lead to this conclusion
The irrigation works of Colorado are on great
scale. The "Grand River Ditch" In western Col.
orado at the beginning, is thrty-nve feet wide al
the bottom nifty feet wide at the top. i've feet deep
Tor the hrst ten miles, then diminishing until the
last two and half miles are sixteen feet Wide at the
IL little over twenty two Inches to the mile which
gveg strong current. One company engaged In
me lrrigaiing business has constructed over 100
mes OF canals In the Rio Grande Valley at cost
OF $I6O,OOO.
sidney Smiths " two pence looking down on three
half pence" has Just had IN illustration which
transcends tho most moving instance OF national
weakness cited In the " Book OF SnObs." It should
be well known that one Of The burning questions of
the day on the other side, and, to some extent here
Il and has long been AZ 10 the essential elements OF
the prodigy known as gentleman amateur. There
are amateurs AMI amateurs, AZ there fagots and
fagois, AMI the degrees OF great eas and lille Geas
do not travel oil more cnii0usly Into the innnite
than do the grades and varieties OF the british anna
tenr. His more recent performance Is the prOcama-
employed In Wholesale houses to the effect that the
gentlemen engaged In Wholesale commerce are re-
qulred az condition OF membership Of the club TO
take no part IN matches against persons employed
In retail trade" This manifest seems Incredible,
but II Ii In print all the same.
IL all goes well the Woman's Club, on Fifth ave-
nue., New York, will open for business December l..
The Philadelphia Record 10 authority for this an-
nouncement. II Will include among Its members,
we are told, most Of the fashonables well known at
oil Ia IN hapa hnl.I
will happily have nothing TO say OF woman's rights.
There VIII be reading ami billiard rooms, hut II Is
not TO be supposed there Will be any accommodation
for card PLAYING There will also he hall for small
dancing parties The name has not, I'D yet, been
fyllv decided upon, hut II will probably be the
Womans Club y he originators say they do moi
why should they he ridicuied? Why should NOT the
ladies' have regular place OF social res0rt2 You do
not hear Of 9 great restaurant, and probably that
a party OF ladies' would give 1t sufficient support
But who Thought year ago that American ladies
ladies' are not TO keep late hours. All tho epiov.
ments OF the club will be during daylight.
Scott Lord, whose death has Just occurred was
terror TO timid people In the witness box Congress
man spriggs, OF Utica, who was the opposing coun.
sci In the case, told me how ON one occasion the
legal bully WAS taken aback by a juryman. MIR.
Lord had for client u woman whose husband had
been Killed by the exploson Of a boiler In the
his case was TO prove that there WAS water In The
boiler In order 70 show that the deceased was moi at
fault ~ me fatality Therefore he went about es-
iabllshing the fact by gooa teAmony that the dres
underneath the boiler were out when the people
hrat on the ground after the disaster arrived Ths
circumstance he enlarged on with all his force of
logic la his summing up. A he proceeded MIR. Lord
singled out the jurora one after another 10 drive
conviction home. Coming to one man pretty
near him, he said: ~ AJAX you, gentlemen, TO
remember well the testimony In thla case il
Ia proved concusivey that the fires were extin-
guished In the exposion. That Ia undenied aud uI.
denlable. Now, II my client had been negiaept in
not keeping his boiler full, as Ia claimed how could
tue nres nave neen put out? ask yop the simple
question, gentlemen. how could the llres have heen
put out? ask you. the exuliant lawyer said, shak-
Ing Ills lager under the Jurors nose. As he paused
for reply tue Juror asonished counsel, bench and
tpstayes by calmly answering "why, Mr.. Lord,
me escaping steam could do that aud probably did
The irate LAWYER fairly stormed with indignation az
this breach OF judicial decorun but the Judge when
asked to put the offender 10 contempt, merely re-
piled; "Mr, Lord. you should not have asked the
Juror the question II you did not want the only an
swer he couldhonestly make Syracuse Standard