The Washington critic., 1886-10-07
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Says the Washington correspondent
of the Philadelphia Record: / saw
Little Eva-"Uncle Toms" Little Eva
here the other day. No, not on the
siage-on the street. have never seen
the Little Era Of the stage The Little
Eva of the story, who was, after all,
just little thing. died, you remember.
The Little Eva of real life, on whom
the Little Eva of the story was modele !,
has lived right on until now her hair is
turning gray. But she is rs lovely and
as attractive as ever. She was a Miss
Letcher, of the famous Virginia. Ken
lucky family, and married General
Kennedy, who was of an equally ccle.
brated Virginia Kentucky family. Gen
eral Kennedy owned Louis Clark, the
George Harris, Of the story. who gave
Mrs. Stowe the points for most of her
characters. Old General Kennedy q
delightful man. became Legree in her
hands, while Mrs. Kennedy was Little
Eva, and her son was st. Clair. Mrs
Kennedy's relatives, the Letchers, were
portrayed as the Shelbys Mrs. Ken.
n,uy /, ughs merrily at the incongruous
trenim' mt accorded her good husband
and he self in the process of lictionizing
them.
The same correspondent says: We
were looking at an instantaneou; pho
tograph of the adventurous feat of
riding down the eastern steps Of the
Capitol on Star bicycle, achieved by
Robertson, the local cycler, who has
also been guilty of riding along the top
of the great Cabin John Bridge, the
longest stone span in the world.
He looked In the picture as though he
were about to go tilting over on his
nose. The Wisconsin man laughed as
he said: "That reminds me of one
time when they were repairing the
State Capitol at Madison, and the hill
was strewn with material and debris
The Supreme Court of the State had
decided several cases against Matt Car.
]enter. and, as the latter thought,
against the law as well. Carpenter
wss walking down the hill in a partic
ularly savage mood with Judge Luther
latter slipped on rolling stone and
made no motion to help him up. He
only turned to him and said: We'll,
Luther, I'm glad you've found that
there's Que law you can't ovcrrldc--,he
law of gravitation
4w4
he first Society Letters" as they
are a'lod, written from Washington,
says Ben: : Pcrley Pooro in his Rem
iniscent es," were by Nathaniel p.
Willis 10 the New York Mirror. Viii.
lis WIS, at that time, a foppsh, slender
young man with profusion of curly,
light hair, and was always dressed in
the height Of fashion. He had, while
travelling in Europe, mingled with the
aristocralic c'asses, and he affected to
look down upon the masses; but with
all his snobbishness he had wonder.
full faculty for endowiug triiling occur.
rences with interest and his letters
ave never been surpassed. He pos.
sessed sunny nature, full of poetry,
enthusiasm and cheerfulness, and was
always willing to say pleasant word
for those who treated him kindly, and
never sought to rctaliate on his
enemies. Willis first introduced steel
pens at Washington, having brought
over from England some of those made
by Joseph elliott at Birmingham. Be
fore this, goose quill pens had been
exclusively used, and there was in each
house of Congress and in each Depart
ment penmaker who knew what
degree of fexibility and breadth of
point each writer desired. Every
gentleman had TO carry penknife and
to have in his desk hone to sharpen
il ON, giving The finishing touches on
orc Ct his boots.
~"
i've just been out in Denver" said
an East bouud passenger to Chicago
HeydM reporter, land while there |
met Mrs. Tabor, divorced wife of the
shirt.front Senator. She has not mar
ricd again, but is living quietly with
Ter son. She has developed very good
business tact, and has taken such ad-
mirable care of the 100000 which
hc got from her husband that she Is
now q millionaire. Tabor, on the
other hand, has been gradually going
down hill Not long ago he made q
revived his dropping fortunes bit
hut the prediction is freely made tha
in few years he will 1atten out into
hopeless bankruptcy. Mrs. Tabor No
l says that she viii yet have TO tax,
care of the old man, and that whel
his hour of adversely comes, as come
1t will, he will find himself deserted by
No. 2, and then he will be glad
enough to return to his first love and hel
million 1t seems to be the height o.
this wcman's ambition to get her hus
band back and to be able to set him W
again financially"
~
FmN.eight years back, says The
philadelphia Times, before the cult
walton of roses was Mr.. Bancrort'i
chief delight, he occupied the Collec
torship of Boston, by the grace o
President Polk, and it was not until
four years later that his first historical
work appeared, Two years after thl
publication was made he ran for Gov
ernor of his native State, living at tha
time in Winthrop Place, Boston, OF
the site of the block of granite ware
houses which face Devonshire stree
as il runs into Franklin. Nearly op
posite lived John n. Lodge, father o
Henry Cabot Lodge, and Dr. Nathanie
|. Bowditch, the eminent physician an.
authority on diseases of the lungs, win
still survives Bancroft was defeated Il
the Democratic candidate for Governor
hut afterwards became Secretary of n,