The Washington critic., 1885-10-23

and dcprecating tone. At this point
eN.Judgc Charles ID. Drake, formerly
Of Missouri. pushed himself to the
Presidents side, and said to him. "Mr.
President, | am probably the oldest
member Of this synod and | want to
say TO you that whether we are your
political friends or opposed TO you in
politics we pray God to bless you
To this outburst the President re
spondcd: 81 will need the prayers of
people of all religions TO help me. 1t is
hard TO lease everybody, but | am
going to try to please myself at any
rate This stirred Judge Drake up
again, and he replied: owe feel salts
fed, Mr.. President, that if you do that
you will give the country the best
administration it has ever had"
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The correspondent of the Boston
7rdrolcr has been allowed to enter
secret which is vitality and violently
agitating the mind of the society young
man just now. The latest, the newest,
the most agonizing, the most cxcru-
ciatiug and the most fascinating thing
out, according to the authority of II
young man whose life is but an endless
whirl of fashionable dissipation, is the
silk handkerchief quilt craze. "Now,
my dear fellow, you mustn't laugh, you
know. Really, II isn't fun until you
know all about It, 1t isn't any rcla-
ton TO the crazy quilt craze, which be.
longs solely to the ladies. All we have
to do with that, YOU know,
is to supply pieces of our era
watts TO our lady friends. But
this is something for men. You'll
appreciate it-l know you will. Well
I'll tell you all about it. You see in the
first place buy number of plain white
silk handierchicfs. Then / distribute
them among my lady friends-one to
each. The lady is expected to en-
broidcr her initials or monogram in
her own hair in the corner Could
anything be more beautiful. The idea
came from abroad, but 1t has taken
immensely here. You see the lady who
has long, luXuriant hair has chance
TO deity show the fact; while the girl
who hasn't, well, | suppose she either
buys or borrows some of the same shade
as her own. Only the short haired
girls are fighting this craze. I'm with
the long hairs in the contest because
it's the proper thing, you know"
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The gas burns very late in Treasurer
Jordan's room nowadays, says the cor
respondent of the st. Louis Republican,
and people who go up Fifteenth street
have seen it blazing brightly as far
along as . o'clock in the morning. Mr..
Jordan sleeps there, as ex-Trcasurcr
Spinner used to, and that was the way
in which the old man got to be called
"the watch dog of the Treasury" but
he was seldom up after o o'clock at
night, unless he had company, and
then he used to yawn like an earth
quake. Mr.. Jordan is at work on his
annual report, and from the amount of
labor he is spending upon it the docu.
mcnt will be very comprehensive and
valuable. 1t is said he has given four
or five hours day to it for several
weeks and hasn't yet finished the dis
cussion of the silver question. Mr..
Jordan is the first Treasurer we have
had who has any reputation as II writer
on finances. Mr.. Gillllan prepared sew
eral articles for publication while he
was in office, but they were of a
historical character and did not discuss
currcutqucstions. The asttreasurer who
undertook TO make recommendation
to Congress on the financial issues of
the hour was General Spinner. TWAS in
1876, during the initiation craze, aud
General Spinner had some very wild
views on the greenback question. In his
report for that year he devoted great
deal of space TO advocating an imitation
of the currency and postponcmcnt
of resumption day. When the document
went up TO Bristow the latter chopped
out several yards of manuscript and
threw it into his waste basket. General
Spinner was very indignant particu.
larly at the disposition of the surplus
and scarcely spoke TO Bristow from
that time until he resigned soon after.