The Washington critic., 1886-08-04
GENERAL AND CRirICULNR.

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GI2SEEAL AND CRlCICULNW.
The Washington niue will he run ON
strictly prohibition principles hereafter. It
has given up its Barr S-rhis is joke
Barr is cold water man.
A Southern Congressman has n very
bright boy with strong political turu OF
mind. Tie other evening he was walking
with bis younger sister, Just as the suu
was pulling ito rcd blankets over itself for
the night.
sob, brother" she shouted, "lsn't that
pretty in the SKYE"
"Yep,n replied the boy, very practical
"What makes It 50 rel, brother ~ sue
asked next; "are the clouds on fire ~
"No, little girl" he said, very pro-
fouudly. "Clouds are too damp to burn.
| can't be positive at this distance what
makes it, but it looks to me a good deal
like Senator Hoar waving the bloody
shirt, only it's in the wrong direction
Lonely ! sit me and weep,
Weep for the season that's gone.
Why should the Senate still keep
Its session continuing on?
The galleries, empty and still,
No longer present to my gaze,
The beautiful ladies, who will
Come back in the short winter days,
Oh, why should the Senate keep on,
Why longer continue my pain?
The bpautiful ladies are zone.
My smile and my cuffs are in vain.
/ sit me and ponder the while,
And upward my eyes fondly turn,
No ladies are there for my smile
Great Caesar, why don't we adjourn?
From "senatorial Flights" by Matt. w.
Ransom.
Isn't II almost time for the Washington
Baseball Club to adjourn?
The modern Galatea is cutter. The
| ancient Galatea's lover was CUTTER New
| York World.
This cutter, however, was a stonCcutter.
| wing OF the Sherman or Edmunds
boom mot fully identified up to time of 60
ing to press), struck Rome, n. Y, yester-
| DAY. III showed jnGre.
Few persons are aware that Senator Vance
is one Of the soug-brds OF the South, and
that many Of the "murmured melodies of
| pleasant thought floating unclaimed upon
the zephyrs of the press are his, and yet it
is true Nor arc many aware that that
sweet seusuous Southern sonnet, having
itself thus:
"-Now doth the busy summer purp
| Improve each shining minute,
by scratching Of his hide all day,
Because there's millions iu itn
is his, yet it is true. Base imtators may
try to palm 1t of us their own, but the Sona-
tor has not only the original manuscript,
but the dog also
II costs $40, 600 for seat IN the New York
Stock Exchange, but nobody is telling
what a seat in the Washington Legislative
Exchange costs. IL costs, though.
Senator Riddleberger yesterday referred
to the Senatorial conscience, or words to
that effect. Mr.. r. is slowly losing his
grip.
They were sitting In the House gallery
after having taken look over the Capitol
and were discussing the building.
"Father," asked the daughter, sis the
Capitol ilreproof"
"Oh, yes" was the confident reply
'there's nothing in here that will burn, un
less it is Congressman's speech, some
times.n
sis it burglar-proof too, father9" con
tinued the young lady.
"Don't ask too many questions, daughter
don't ask too many questions" said th,
father cautiously. "You know your fathe
was in Congress once, and you remember
what the newspapers said about him. Ant
daughter he was fair sample.n
There are forty-one Bills In the House
that the President can't veto If he wants to
for instance, Bill Morrison and Bill Kellel
and Bill Springer and Bill HOLMAN and Bill
Mckinley and Bill Phelps and BIZ Scot
and Bill Warner and thirty-three morr o
the same tenor
We are inclined to be friendly to ex-So
lcltor-Geueral GOode and to believe hi
statements, but il itls all the same to him W
should like to have HIS aililayit TO the efTeG
that Senator Edmunds "prnys to the Lore
Sunday after Sunday in tho Sanctuary.
Not for publication, OF course, but merel