The Washington critic., 1886-06-25
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Inter Ocean by veteran Is this: I'm
mediately after the close of the war the
Fourth Army Corps, General ID. s.
Stanley commanding, was sent to Texas
occupying what was known as the Cen
trail District, with headquarters at San
Antonio, for six or eight months.
When the General was ordered North
fellow.passenger on Mississippi
River steamer was the son of the la-
mented George d. Prentice, who had
gone into the Confederate service at
the outbreak of the war, and who was
frequently alluded to by his father in
the editorial columns of the Louisville
journal (now COurier.JourRdD as
"my erring son" or my mis-.
guided child" One evening
friendly game poker was In progress,
and Stanley and Prentice were in the
game. Stanley was in the best of hui
NOR, and rallied the players constantly.
For instance, he would remark. 1T Is
the erring sons DEAL, or What does
the misguided child say to my blind2'
This so nettled young Prentice that he
quit the game. OF course no olfense
was intended, and satisfactory oxplana.
tions followed the next day, but Prem
tice was Just at that time very sensitive
and Stanley was happy over the prospect
of rest at his home at Yellow Springs,
Ohio, after five years of hard campaign
ing.
W.
Says Washington special to the
New York Herdld: Senator Camden of
West Virginia is probably the most
absent minded man In that Chamber.
Not that he does not speak with energy
and clearness on any great public ques-
tion, but he rather prides himself on
his concentration of mind. 1t used to
be said of BishopThomson of the Metho.
dist Episcopal Church, that he fre.
quently forgot his own name, but Sena.
tor Camden tells one on himself, and it
therefore must be true, that rivals the
best Of Its kind. He had gone home to
Parkersburg to attend the marriage of
his daughter to Lieutenant Spellman,
whom he greatly admired and es
teemed, and was standing on a street
corner conversing with political
friend. A young man came up and
asked, "What luck did you have as q
fisherman, SENATOR" referring to
days sport that the statesman had en-
joyed on the route homeward. "Only
tolerable," was the evasive reply, as
the young man passed on Then turn
"Who was that?" Lieutenant SPELL
man, who Is to marry your daughter
tomorrow
Now that the White House has q new
mistress, says the Washington CORE
spondent Of the Times. Star, there is
naturally good deal of curiosity
about the management of its details.
OF course, the people who have read
the papers, in the past few weeks, are
aware that there is q French cook, a
French maid, lots of doorkeepers and
attendants of this sort, but few Of
them know whether they are paid out
of the public funds or out of Mr..
Cleveland's private purse. To put it
into nutshell, it may be said that all
those who attend to the public part
of the house are paid out of the
public fund, while those who are EN-
ployed for duty in the residence por-
tion Of the building are paid out of the
Presidents private funds. One of the
secretaries at the White House, Mr..
Crook, has charge of the disbursements
of the necessary funds for the private
part of the house, but he allows checks
against the Presidents private account
for this purpose, and under the super.
vision of the President on any question
of special expenditures Servants
employed in the private part Of
the house are paid out of the
Presidents own money, including
the cook and his assistants,
the Presidents valet when he has
one, the French maid the servants who
take care of the rooms, and all that
sort of thing. OF course the new fur
niture for the residence part, as well
asdhe office, is paid for out of the pub
lie fund. So is the cost of heating and
lighting the entire building. In fact
it costs just a round 100000 year
to run the White House aside from the
salary Of the President.
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Says Olive Logan in the Cincinnati
Enquirer: General Dan. Z. Sickles
is Spoken of as next mayor of New
York. l saw this wcll.known war vet
eran the other day. He drives in a
pretty little coupe with the escutcheon
of the United States on its panels, and
is frequently accompanied by hand
some woman, the Spanish lady he
married at Madrid when he was Amer
lean Minister there. The General has
had an exciting history, If ever any
man had. Yet, how well he looks
His hair is still dark and he holds his
head proudly thrown back like fiery
boy of twenty. 1t is not generally
known that Sickles owns the right to
the Baronet's title of "Sir," or at leas
its Spanish equivalent. The Spanish
Government bestowed upon him the
order of Isabella Ia Catholica of the
grade of Chevalier. General Sickles
wears several medals in miniature on
his breast, connected by small gold
chain, in the European manner, aud,
think, has the rosette of officer Of the
French Legion of Honor in his button,
hole. BY the way, what a number OF
American men now wear ribbons ol
one foreign decoration or another stuck
in the left. hand upper button hole OF
the coat A change has come o er the
spirit of the dream Of the American
citizen
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Kate Chase Sprague, or Kate Chase
as she calls herself, it is said desires t
dispose of her suburban home, Edge
wood. She has evidently heard of tn,
boom that Washington real estate Il
enjoying just now, and wants, says tn,
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