The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-02-14
PERSONS AND THINGS.

The settlers at Seattle are settling down, and the
Chinese are going, going, gone.
The New York Cremation Company has been
Incorporated at Albany, with a capital stock OF
$4,000.
The total loss OF cattle by the recent cold weather
in the great grazing district of Texas Is said to be
over 100000 head.
Grant, Mcclellan. and Hancock were at West
Point together. They have journeyed to the ''slent
land" within the year.
Gen. Cump Shermans greatest enemy is his pen
This cute little instrument stabs him to the heart
about seven times year.-Atidntd Constitution.
Ddtg Telegraph, in which he tharacterizes England
as "a country whose milkmaids cannot make butter
nor her backsmiths bayonets."
The New York sun has an article with the at
tractlve headlines: "What the Fishermen Want"
Everybody Ought to Know" says MIR, Henry
Watterson, "that what the fishermen want Is some
thing to eat and place to dry their trousers"
1t is chronlcled of Mr.. Perry Belmont that he
most particular man In Washington about his food.
II his canvasback ia cooked too much, or the
mushroomsthat garnish his Met 'nignon are not
tender his palate revolts and he orders them of the
table.
Maj. Ben: Perley Poore pronounces Senator
Evarts the best listener in the Senate We always
thought that Grandfather Bassett the best lis
tener in that body The venerable Bassatt Is re-
because, like the Dutchman who lost his wife, he has
10 be.
"what do you mean by a gentleman's game of
poker?" asked a Western citizen, who Is in town
gamer" eve take each others word for what
we've got and don't have TO show down. "ls that
so9" said the WcsternSr beginning to get excited;
give me $40 worth OF chips."-LUe.
Julia Ward Howe remarks concerning the progress
| Of the cause of woman aufirage ut is merely o
question of time when women shall WELD the ballot"
Which draws from the Boston Poet the comment
that 1.-THE tendency OF women to speak OF the ballot
as though 1t were an improved kind OF broomstick s
calculated TO make the men nervous"
Hannibal Hamlin at seventy nine boasts of his
ability to run faster and jump higher than any Of
the young men In his neighborho0d. He has mar
red three sisters, and with the last and youngest
now lives in Bansor.Sgrin ,, RspMotcGn.
on the 27h Of August last having been born 9th of
August, 1909; and he has been only twice married,
his two wives being half-sisers, daughters OF the
late Judge Stephen Emery, OF Paris, Me.
In one of his letters to his sister, just published,
Benjamin Disraeli wrote, anent party at Bulwers
~ was introduced, 'by particular desire,' to Mrs.
wyndham Lewis. pretty little woman, fIrt and a
rattle; indeed; gifted with volubility should think
| told me that she liked silent, melancholy men,
answered that had no doubt Of IT," And yet in q
few years Mrs. Lewis and Mi. Disraeli "were mar
ried and lived happily after the story books
cay.
| Malay gentleman regards the use OF fork nj
table as dirty and dlsagreeable. You don't know
| into how many mouths 1t has been inserted 1t may
| have been washed and secured, but you don't know
that some lazy servant has not neglected his work.
on the other hand, he says: 81 know that my fingers
are clean, because wash them myself, aud am
sure they have never been In anyb0dy's mouth but
| my own.n We smile at the Malays way of eating
but hasn't he pretty fair chance to smile back ??
| Springfield Union.
The Hon. Horato King, referring to his election
as an honorary member Of the Maine Press Associa
ton, says: "Please return my sincere thanks to the
society," individually and collectively, for this highly
priced and distinguished recognition" Mr.. KING
began his editorial la6ors In 1882 oathe yseersonan
that he must be among the Oldest, II not the very
oldest, OF Names living editors. In appearance hs
health.-Fortland Press.
Gen. Pierce Young, Of Georgia, our newly ap
pointed Consul General TO st. Petersburg, has be-
come the burt for the shafts OF tho Georgia newt
correspondents. Washington letter to the Augusta
Chronicle says that, wearying Of the monotOny Of
his winter post In the frozen capital, he started
trip to Berlin with the following result: After trav
cling several hundred miles he reached the German
frontier aud was halted by squad of Cossacks
whose officer demanded his passport. Our friend
Georglans assumed the dignity OF his office and said
"Passport be blessed had TO get one to enter your
to procure one inside the land. have not got pass
port and am In hurry 30 please stand aside and lei
Son want VA % edape
sense" The Cossack onlcer did not compre
bend word OF what was said, but knew the sus
picioIs and distinguished looking foreigner had nj
papers required of him. SO the Consul was put IL
charge OF two grim aud dirty C0ssacks, hustled on
train bound due North Pole aud conducted back L
his repued post. Carried TO the Russian head
quarters, our luckless Consul was after some della.
nolhpS further was Done 10 make amends for
miles Of jaunling to no delightful purpose. Wher
the ice breaks up on the Neva and Russian soldier
put on white pantaloons to coax the reuctan
spring, no doubt our dashing cavalier WILL properly
equipped at the circumlocution Ofce, trlumphant
dart by the Cossack guard on the Austrian confines
and by the blue Danube In the rayashing capital O
Franz J0seph,s domain. whirl the yell0w-haire
Gretchens IN the intoxicating waltz to the delirlou
strains OF Johann Strauss's magical music, ''wher
the yiol the tricktongued song salutes!n