The Washington critic., 1886-04-06
GENERAL AND CRITICULAR.

Geronimo, come back come back
Your faults we'll never mention
And Geri, we may tx II up
To have you draw pension.
Geronimo appears just now to be Geroni
less.
Some women's peachblow compilations
represent nearly as large an expenditure as
the purchase OF peachblow vase.
Mr. Hatch Of Missouri appeared on the
House floor yesterday with rosebud in his
buttonhole.
The flowers that bloom on the Hatch, ira la,
Make Springer to view with alarm
The purpose OF Members to snatch, ira la,
His fragrant botanical charm.
Chaplain Milburn now makes prayers six
minutes long. Some Of the words he uses
are as long as the entire prayer used to be.
The dictionary and the gavel will have to
be used on Mr. Mllburn II ho doesn't do
better.
In these days Of oleomargarne combina-
tions and things it's powerful hard for a
Congressman to know which side his bread
is buttered on.
The Atlanta Constitution says Mr.. Randall
has not been discharged from the Demo-
cratic party. Can It be that the d. p. is
taking advantage Of Mr.. Watterson's i'll
nessp
Mrs. 'Ostler Joe Potter has been inter.
viewed on the low neck dress question, and
among other things says: "a young
woman whose throat and shoulders are
white and plump may wear the dress quite
low and still be perfectly modest, for she
displays only what is attractive, what poets
have written Of and artists painted" We
like that but we would call the attention Of
Mrs. Potter to the fact that poets have
written and artists have painted a consider
able quantity Of things which, although un-
doubtedly attractive, and wildly, weirdly
beautiful are not quite the proper caper
for modest eyes and super-sensitive nerves.
Poets and artists, If we may be allowed to
60 back through the records, have not al
ways been men whose ideas Of the pro-
prieties would do for domestic and social
adoption.
The New York Sun advises President
Cleveland to get team Of trotters and
drive fifteen miles day. 1t would be
cheaper to buy hammer and drive fifteen
nails day, and, on behalf of Jeffersonian
simplicity, we offer the amendment.
More than nine thousand bills have been
introduced into the Forty-ninth Congress-,
and yet there are those who say the climate
Of the Capital is not oillious.
II It be true, as stated, that Senator Ed
munds has, by Republican recalcitratlon,
been left in hole, why doesn't somebody
drive q bung in the holc9 We ask for In
formation.
Chaplain Milburn asked In his prayer
yesterday 'Is life worth llving~ If he
doesn't make his prayers shorter Congress-
men will begin to think 1t is not. There
are great many things the usual Congress
man likes long, but prayers are not on the
| list.
A man who had married red-headed At
lanta girl said he had got an Atlantar-tar.
He was wretch.
Mr.. Jay Gould has lost several millions
Of dollars by the recent strike aud tn,
knights Of Labor should pass around the
hat and take up collection for the beu
fit Of the distinguished sufferer.
| A new book, "a Stroll With Keats" has
| just been Issued. we have not read 1t, bu,
we should say the scene was laid In grave
yard.
| Hail, the Ice man!
| Hail, the Plumber
| King Of Winter
| King Of Summcr
| Bow lowly to each Potentate:
| The Greatest Of the Greatly Great!
| John G.. Whittier has been writing poem
on the Cape Cod schooner, which appear.
ing in the book beer season will be the NOR
appreciated.
"Progressive counting" is Washington
city game, and the girl is pretty sure oi
winning "the booby."-[Chicago Inter,
Ocean.
Well, yes, several Chicago young mer
have been won, but we did not know then
well enough to call them by name.
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