The Washington critic., 1886-01-25
NOTES AND GOSSIP.

TnE Grant monument fund ON Saturday
night footed up Sl14,l6j.
Mr.. McLANE, the American minister at
Paris, has bronchitis, and has been in
structed by his doctors to remain within
doors.
ARRANGEMENrs are in progress for the
erection Of crematoriums at Boston, Cincn-
natl, New Orleans, Milwaukee, Dctreit aud
San Francisco.
AMEmCAN-Wh do the letters II. r. II.
mean when applied to the Prince of Wales
Englisbman--S Such boomink hignorance is
Royal 'lghness, dye see I'm. Y. Sun.
GOVERNOR RoBiSsoN of Massachusetts
and his stafr will attend the banquet OF the
Grand Army Of the Republic, to be held at
F0nouil Hall, Boston, on Thursday even
ing.
MR. EDWIN BooTu, the actor, and Mr..
Field, the manager, have counted up the
gross receipts of the Boston Museum for the
last thirteen weeks, and find them to exceed
100000.
THE CITY OF ARcoT, where King Thee
baw, the late monarch of Burmah will
henceforth live In exile, is q place Of about
10000 Inhabitants, sixty-three miles from
Madras, on the railroad to Beyporc.
AMONG late evidences of the spread OF
Yankee notions in Japan is the erection of
Touring mill at Hokkado TO manufacture
flour by the roller process. The machinery
was made In Buffalo and Rochester, n. Y.
SO WELL is the law inforced, says the
Mobile Register, that "whie there are some
Southern communities where the practice
OF carrying concealed weapons still obtains,
Ian ,.atn t,,aI
troubled with only few offenders OF this
kind.n
ADoLPu NEUESDoRFr OF New York
sailed for Europe on Saturday In the inter
est OF the Central Park garden. He intends
to make 1t equal to the celebrated summer
gardens OF Europe and will remain abroad
about two months in search Of novelties and
musical attractions.
THE DISPLACEMENT of Mr.. Hill as editor
Of the London Daily Nc,Ds has resulted in
the retirement from that paper OF Mr.. JUS
tin Mccarthy also, after editorial service on
the staff for fifteen years. Mccarthy says
he leaves in consequence of the way In
which Hill has been treated.
Mrs. MARY VIRGINIA TERnUNE, the au-
thor of "Common Sense In the Household"
aud various other books, resides Mt Newark,
n. j., is the wife Of an esteemed clergyman
and editorially connected with the publica-
tion called BabyhOOd. Mrs. Terhune is bet
ter known to the literary world as Marion
llarland.
Mr.. S. A. SARGENT has conferred favor
on the lovers of that which is best in song
and music by setting to music In the most
pleasing manner the three choice ballads,
"The Num- "The Siestan and "Where are
the Swallows Fled,n written respectively
by Leigh Hunt, William Cullen Bryant and
Adelaide Proctor.
REV. j. p. STRIDER, professor of Wash.
ington and Lee University, who died at
Staunton, Va, Saturday night of paralysis
Of the brain, was about 40 years of age and
a native OF jefferson County, w. Va. He
was several years connected with the Pres
byterian ministry before being called to q
chair in the University.
THE STORY going the rounds that ex-
Senator Davis of West Virginia has made
fortune of not less than $50, 100000 in the
last eight or ten years out of his mineral
land investments, is laughed at by Senator
Camden as most absurd exaggeraton, that
sum being probably greater than the value
Of all the mineral lands in the State. He
thinks Mr.. Davis would be satisfied with a
valuation Of his wealth at two and half or
three million dollars.