The Washington critic., 1886-07-12
GENERAL AND CRITICULAR.

At the Concord Summer School of Phi
losophy Mr.. Edmund c. Stedman is to
speak upon "some subject not seltled.n
Can It be that Edmund is going to talk
about board bill or tailor bil2
"Daniel,n remarked the President this
morning in thoughtful tone.
ayes, sire" responded Daniel.
"Where has Secretary Manning gone for
the summerY
"IIe has gone to Watch Hill, SIRE"
"Where, Daniel5" queried the Presi-
dent, rousing from his reverie for a mo-
meut, only to relapse again.
"To Watch Hill, sire"
"um-um," solioquzed the President In
an almost inaudibe voice, ''that's kind of
Manning Pm going to watch Hill myself
this summer and next winter and next
summer, too"
AS you walk along the streets, In the mid
die OF the night,
And the summer air is signing thro' the
trees,
You may notice windows up, SO that those
who sleep within
May catch the faintest stirring Of the
breeze.
All is still upon the streets, and the dark
blue field Of night
Spreads its meadow land of twinkling,
laughing stars,
O'cr the quiet, sleeping earth; and the
flowers of the sky
Bloom in glory for Venus or Mars.
AS you wander up and down, in the silence
Of the street.
Like a sailor on a lone, deserted shore,
Through the open window near will be
waited, as you pass,
The dark, fantastic music Of snore.
The New York Graphic suggests that one
of Mr. Evarts' sentences, dotted with
Blaine booms, be stretched around the
country as q coast defense. Our esteemed
contemporary appears to forget that the
Evaits sentence is already at war with the
Blaine boom.
The graduating class at West Point is out
in full page picture. 1t is proposed to
use copies as breastplates in order to
frighten the enemy, unless Colonel Endi-
colt knocks 1t out with veto.
Notorioty is nothing; vetoriety is what
seek.--[Groyer Cleveland.
Miss Cleveland has already begun to lay
down the law to Mr.. Elder, the proprietor
Of the paper which she will edit, and right
here we will suggest to Miss G. that one OF
the most inhaTmonious and disagreeable
"a a. tn l,n innrpuIiatfa
is for the editor of paper to attempt to
edit the proprietor
Anxious inquirer You are mistaken.
The baseball editorials in the sporting
columns of the National Republican are in
good faith. Mr.. E. W. Fox Of that paper
is not pulling the wires to be made manager
Of the Washington nine.
''Loose rumor and sensational statement'
is what Secretary Bayard calls the stories
of the bait war which New England Con-
gressmen are waging with Nova Scotia.
The Secretary talks like man who had
been there.
Senator Ingalls, has for some time past
been wearing very thin, light, summer
suit and last Saturday little girl with her
mother passed him in one of the Senate
corridors.
"Mamma," she whispered, "what was
thatTr
SIT was a Senator, my child"
"Was 1t, mammaY WE'LL would you be-
leve 1t, thought 1t was a linen thread un-
twisted half way up with knot at one end.
Wasn't it funny, mammaW and she turned
and watched the willowy Kansan as he
swayed in the breeze down the corridor.
Senator Cullom favors the Hennepin
| Canal as war measure. We have not
| given the matter much thought, but we are
prepared to say il the canal is dug and we
can shunt the British navy into 1t some day
when we are not busy, we can change the
combination on the. locks and Englands
proud title OF Queen OF the Seas is gone tor
| ever.
The Philadelphia cooper, who succeeded
In going safely through the Niagara rapids
yesterday is gentleman aud scholar, a
hero and worthy exemplar, but what a
crazy fool he would have, been If he had
been killed,