The Washington critic., 1886-03-01

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Burnside feared the responsibility. |
remember one morning in the War D..
partmcnt, President Lincoln came in
at the moment that Frank Leslie's Nelos.
pdpor arrived. In the paper was cut
representing Lincoln as q butcher, in
which he had cut off the heads Of Nc.
Clollan and other generals, and with
his sleeves rolled up, and the gore of
former executions on the executioner's
block, he was now preparing to cut off
Burnside's head, which was repre-.
sented as lying there. Lincoln laughed
as he looked at the cartoon, and Just
then General Burnside entered. Here
is your head, Generall said President
Lincoln, pointing TO the picture with
laugh. II was not long after this that
Burnside's head came off in fact, and
his successor was appointed"
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Speaking of dumplings the New Or.
leans States says: Miss Rose Cleveland
may be able to make a palatable and
gcstible'dumpling, but the average So
cicty girl knows no more about the in
gradients of dumping or how to put
them together than sand crab does
about Dutch fiddle, and In consc.
quence walls of pain and distress will
soon be heard at the seat of govern,
mcnt Washington society may not
know it, but II is going to suffer below
the belt. II is going TO curl up like
an old bed spring and howl in the
smally hours of the stilly night for
mustard plastcrs and speedy relief.
The thin.leggcd dude with his high
collar and collins shaped coat is going
to be furnished by the blonde girl with
a dumping prepared by her own fair
hands, and he will be an ass, and
will cat IL, and declare 1t TO be the
most delicious morscl that ever
passed his lips. About an hour after
tho elastic dumping has safely an
chored itself at q point midway be.
tween his two lower vest pockets, it
will compel the society young man to
bid his hostess tender goodnight and
hunt for his overcoat, and then 1t will
march him to his room and prepare to
have real nice time with him. 1t will
first cause the young man to tenderly
stroke with both hands the grave in
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persuade him to walk rapidly about
the room until he grows exhausted
and throws himself on the bed. Once
on the bed the meek dumpling will
have him exactly where IL wants him,
and will commence to challenge him to
a GrGco.R Roman wrestling match If
he does not accept the challenge it will
show him how TO become an acrobat
by folding his legs under the rims of
his ears and rolling him like q ball
from one end of the bed to the other,
and then bouncing him and making
him stick his feet under his shirt col
lar, until his mournful cries summon
help and hot bricks are piled on his
stomach and medicine administered in
quantities sufficient to flood his lower
level and drown the dumping out.
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A gentleman of Cambridge, Nd,
says correspondent of the Baltimore
| Sun, a relative of the late Colonel
William Gist, of Dorchester County, is
the owner of well preserved soldier S
belt, relic of the revolutionary war.
In connection with it the following bit
of romance is related by its owner
The belt was formerly the property of
a young revolutionary soldier named
| John Waters, who went from Dor
chester County. 1t was presented to
him by his aflianced bride, a Miss Hod
son, whose parents resided in the upper
part of Dorchester County, near Harri-
sons Mills, and was piece of her own
handiwork. At the battle of Long
Island young Waters fell mortally
wounded. Before his death the belt
was given by the young soldier to
Colonel, afterward General, John
Eccleston of Dorchester County, who
also participated in the battle, with the
request that it be carried back to Dor.
chester and returned to the fair donor.
General Eccleston, in executing the
commission with which he was in.
trusted, became interested in the
married. The daughter of the mar
sented the belt to its present owner and
narrated to him its history The belt
is made of home.spun worsted, worked
in different colors upon canvas and
was formerly lined with silk, although
the lining has almost entirely disap.
peared. 1t is about four inches wide
and fastens in front with three silver
buckles, and was, no doubt, q nice
piece of workmanship of that day.
Although 1t is slightly moth eaten and
bears the marks of age, it Is well pre-
served. Upon the front is worked in
bold but now faded letters, ~. W.
Liberty or Death, " "1776.'
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/ II is the Cleveland PlaindeaIGr's cor
respondent who indites the following
| concerning a well,known New York
! Congressman: The most popular man
in the House is said to be John Arnot
the Democrat from Elmira, N. Y. Ill
| belongs to banking family and hi
possessions are in such shape as tt
yield him $3.50 per day. Every morn
ing he puts $50 in his pockets to give
away to the needy or distressed, aud h
finds, of course, no difficulty In its dis
tribution. Across from the House enc
of the Copitol at the Congressiona
Hotel he keeps imported cigars ant
some liquors with the label OF 1904
There he invites friend during the in
tervals of monkey play in the House
His face yet shows traces of the horrl
bic accident that nearly cost him hi
life year ago, lie entered a banl
vault where gas had escaped and a
explosion occurred So popular wa
he that in his Republican distric
that party did not dare to place
candidate in opposition.
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A Washington correspondent OF til
Pittsburg Chr0nicle- Ielegraph says tha
Members Of Congress, as rule, exceI
in their first terms, don't so out yer
much. The Western men are not muc
of an addition to the social circles |
which they move, and the Eastern me