The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1886-08-31
WASHINGTON CRITIC
TOPICS OF THE DAY.


not in ordinary use. The Captain had |
been holding his regular morning SEES
sion as judge of the company police
court in his orderly room. There
had been disturbance of some
kind in the quarters during the
night and Private John Smith, the
only witness, having been examined
and dismissed, the Captain makes
the following comment on what he has
heard, as he jots down the points
"Veracity ia operose business for that
man; the habit of lying has hebetated
his conscience until it Is the most he
gemonic of his characteristics. "Yos,
Sir" promptly responds the sergeant.
II have frequently told him so my
self" Exit the captain toward the
clubroom, wondering how such
smart man happened to enlist.
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1t may not be too late to reproduce
had to say on the departure Of the late
chief attraction at Albaugh's "Miss
JEANNE Winston, the comic opera
singer, is gone, and as a matter of con-
seqence there is weeping and wailing
and crashing of teeth among the hun
dreds of her fair admirers. Men have
tried in vain to explain the utterly
senseless infatuation which has seized
come of the society girls at the Capital
over this singer. For weakly and
sickly sentimentaity the exhibitions of
affection on the part Of certain young
ladies here have surpassed even the
scenes of year ago. Winston's advent
here has been the cause of many heart.
aches. AS long as the girls could see
her, and send her flowers, and pay her
all sorts of attention, the dudes had to
step down and out. Before each
performance dozens of the fair crea
lures have been in the habit of calling
upon the actress at her hotel, and one
quite noted West End belle boast of
the proud distinction of having gone
a.shopping with the unique. feminine
idol Winston is tall, mannlsh sor
of creature, with loud, metallic voice
and false teeth. She is known to tn
profession as the woman who inter
polates When the leaves begin t.
turn in every opera of her repertoire,
Generally she assumes male character,
and several of her representations have
really been more than clever. Within
the past few days it has been quietly
whispered that Miss Winston is to b.
married to man who has been talk
ing about the hotel Hobbies here of his
ability and intention of buying seat
in the Senate to succeed Mr.. Dolph of
Oregon. He is said to be person Of
wealth, and who knows but that in the
course of very few years, the present
Miss Winston may be dazzling all
Washington society as Senator'S wife,
Stranger things than that have hap.
pened, and are likely to occur again.
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The Missouri Republican has q copy
of the Vermom Chronicle, published at
Windsor, Vt, and Of the date of April
10, 1881, in which occurs the follow
ing republication from the Baltimore
american. The news is somewhat old
ami comes in rather roundabout way,
but it is none the less interesting as a
chapter from the early history of rail
reading. The AmericdR says; "The
experiment of the transportation of 200
barrels of flour with a single horse was
made on the railroad on Saturday with
the most triumphant success. The
flour was deposited on train of eight
cars, and made together with the cars
IN ent;rc Load of thir,v toms viz 900
barrels of flour, 20 tons: $ cars, s tons;
passengers, 2 tons. The train was
drawn by one morse from Ell
colts mill to the Relay House,
CIV CIV ninu,os Tho hnrso wos th9r
CHANGED and the train having again set
ont reached the depot on Pratt street
in sixty nine minutes-thus accomplish
ing Tie thirteen miles in one hour and
fifiy five minutes or nj the rate of six
and th,ee fourths of n mile an hour. "
This. saws the ReDuJlican, is probably
the same horse road that was the begin.
ning of what is now the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad no II was first oneroted
ms n horse railroad until Peter Coope1
brought his engine down TO try il on
that road when thew commenced usinn
steam The size of the cars mentioned
NAV be imarined when il is remem
bered that the average freight car of TO-
day weighs over ten tons,
Says Frank A. Burr in the Philadel
pha Times. Writing of the HerdLo
and its foreign news service, remind,
mo of tho yos, er,,s Of monov thai
NV Y, VIZ '"S' Vs. NJ. 49, ,s,.
seem 10 DC wasted ny NEW iorN jour
mails, not only on the cable dispatches,
but in various other ways. Ever since
The World's phenomenal success began
"a moko us mari, not oply mon
Wo;n me, ,,t - al ua nn
'ho'i Pio"'' o"' 'pl"onco' "'i 'no p"