The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-09-29
PEOPLE IN GENERAL.

GENERAL w. r. sHEHMAN is getting out
new edition Of his memoirs.
1rANSpAL 1f,NLiv will wear an overcoat
again this winter for the third season In his
life.
THE TRtGEpi,N Salyini will attend Mile
Ncyada's wedding on Thursday, and sail
for New York on saturday.
ions McCuLLouGu's estate, everything
included, will amount to about S5O,000,
S20,CC0 Of which is the value Of his theatri-
cal wardrobe.
\ COLOSSAL bronze bust of Washington
Irving, by Frederick Beer OF Brunn, Austria,
is to be presented TO Central Park, New
York, 10y citizen Of German extraction
GENERAL b, +. BUTLER, being asked yes.
telday what he thought about New York
politics, replied: III don't know anything
about them; never saw man who did,
Miss SARA JEwETT, the actress, is still at
Pigeon Cove, recovering from long ILL
ness. She will return to New York in No
ycmbor and resume her professional work.
THE JAPANESE know something about
the effects Of rum, 1t seems, for they have u
proycrb which says: ~ man took n drink;
the drink took drink, and then the drink
took the man."
\ PENNY EDiTIoN Of "Nicholas Nickleby,n
complete, and in clear but small type, Is on
sale in England. A single line of advor-
tsing at the foot Of each page makes the
publication paying one.
\ DOLLAR BILL taken at the city treas
urcr's Office in Lawrence, Mass, the other
day bore the following inscription; ~ part
with you with but one sad regret, and that
is that we have ever met
CnMRMAN HENsEL Of the Democratic
State Committee of Pennsylvania spent last
Sunday at Grcystonc. lie found Mr. Til
den somewhat enfccbled physically, but his
mind entirely clear, and his interest in pub
lie affairs undated
PETER RuDoIpn NErF, who succeeds the
late George Ward Nichols as president OF
the Cincinnati College Of Music, gave his
check for $4,000 last year to pay debt
owed by the Philharmonic Association, OF
which he was the president.
MARINI the French tenor, asked the
tnning sum Of G4OO for singing each night
at the Italian performances at the Paris
nights Ultimately, as q mark of friend
ship, he reduced his terms to 5000.
81 UNDERSTAND you are graduate OF
Nassar, Miss Lucy. Did you ever study
English literature to any extent?n "Oh,
mercy, yes we had ITogg for breakfast
Bacon for dinner, Lamb for tea and Lover
in the evening, ,n-[Elgin Every Saturday
AMONG THE prominent arrivals in New
York yesterday were Senator Eustis Of
Louisiana at the Hotel Brunswick 4; eX-Gov.
elnor John Lee Carroll of Maryland at the
Victoria ; Governor Hill Mt the Hoffman
and General Beauregard Of New Orleans at
the ST. James.
THAppEus STEVENS BRowN of Columbia
Lancaster County, Pa, was named for the
great commoncr in 1864. Mr. Stevens rccog
uized the compliment by placing $500 II
bank to the boys credit. Next week
young Brown will draw out nearly $500
principal aud interest.
MILE. AIMEE has justretuned from Pari
with twenty-threc new dresses and four new
plays. She was six weeks absent. lie
trip abroad was principally to see he
mother, who lives In Paris and was formerl,
an opera singer. Regularly every yea
Aimee pays this visit to her parent.
Oh, cheap feels the chap with the summe
suit,
But he doesn't seem quite so fat
As the fellow at whom the bootblaeli
hoot-
The man with high white hat!
II New York Journal