The Washington critic., 1886-06-30
GENERAL AND cntrICULAR.

got out OF the carriage "shc turned TO re.
turn the gaze which some sundnyschool
children had fastened upon herr We are
pleased to learn this for two reasons: First,
that the total dopraylty OF Washington Sun
dny-school children is so extremely total,
that right IN the shadow Of the church they
would fasten q gaze on lady when she
had on her Sunday-go.to meeting clothes;
and secondly, that Mrs. Cleveland was kind
enough to return the gaze to the children
and not be at all angry about II. She might
have taken It home with her, II she had de-
sired, and given It to the White House de-
tectives for clue, or she might have
thrown II down and walked over it, and we
know some women who would have torn
half width out Of their clothes getting
that gaze OF, and would have mopped
those children off the face of the earth with
II In two seconds by n hoss-race watch.
But Mrs. Cleveland Is not that kind OF
woman, and 1t is fortunate for the mortal.
fly list of the First Presby yterlan Sunday
school that she isn't.
Mr.. Perkins of Kansas and Mr.. Weaver
Of Iowa showercd eplthets on each other In
the House yesterday.
They called each other ugly names
In every sort OF measure;
And Kept II up with such will
1t must have been pleasure.
And vet they dItl not call the turn,
That would have stirred the inward fever,
BY Perkins calling Weaver, Perkins,
And Weaver calling Perkins, Weaver.
Mr.. Cleveland was elected President by
the grace of God, says Senator Ingalls,, and
yet the Senator says blasphemous things OF
the Mugwump.
The committee should remember that
there is a very able housekeeper at the
White House now. Mr.. Randall.
She's sweet and she's neat,
She's dainty and wise,
She's witty, she's pretty,
With honest blue eyes.
See her in the morning,
Towel round her head,
Whooping up chambermald,
Making up bed;
Sec her In the kitchen,
Wrestling with the stove,
See her at the market house,
beltng SruD LOT urONe,
See her where you want to see her,
Parlor, kitchen, street;
She's the same to every one,
Rugged up mighty neat.
She's daisy, she is,
And we want to say,
She can keep the White House
Till she moves away.
The conditions upon which Miss Cleye-
land assumed the edtorship OF that Chicago
paper was that she have absolute control.
Being woman we kne W that she--well,
yes-that she-um, yes-that she-well,
that she was woman.
"My, my,n remarked Grandma, rs she
per, ait do beat ALL"
"What is 1t, Gran'ma ?" asked Fred.
"Why, was just reading an extract from
the Japan Null that the U. s. Minister
there, General Wilson, Mr.. Mansfield,
Secretary of Legation, and u party had
gone to see the Mikado.n
"There's nothing strange In that, Gran'ma.
Iu cOntrdi,o, II is quite the usual thing"
"Well, think 1t is remarkable, when a
iSh'i sitCA1 piSih INV N'iat SI'tAhs az w u
| Great Britain and the United States and
then goes away Off yonder to Japan, and
high officials and everybody go to sec it,"
and the old lady put on her glasses and
| resumed her reading.
"Will IIugg Escape from Jail, y is a head
| line in the New York MOH,iag Journal
| From tableau observable on Connect
| cut-avenue doorstep, between young
man and young woman, last evening, we
should say he had escaped aud come down
| TO Washington.
A centsless afTair-An EDITORS pocket.
| book.
| Baltimore is painting herself Cardinal to.
day.
New York is weeping over poor Bomb,
the rhinoceros who died In that city recently
| Of pneumonia. But it is not grief for
Bomb, 1t is because the death of this tough
skinned stranger with pneumonia will for
ever ruin the reputation of New York as q
healthy resort.
Mr.. Air Brake Westinghouse coachman
has fallen heir to handsome fortune, and
the next thing we hear OF will be another
heir break.
| Texas man was kicked crazy by horse
last Monday. A mule would have wept tc
have left so incomplete work.
A moonshiner named John Brown was
killed by deputy U. s. Marshal in Georgil
yesterday, and 1t will be in order for thos,
moonshiue Congressman who voted las
week against that $4,000 appropriation fol
prosecuting the work against this class o
offenders to hold an indignation meeting
secure the dismissal Of the deputy and ther
select Fourth OF July Sunday for eulogie
on the late lamented Mr.. Brown. The!
might possibly work in an appropriation
for his funeral expenses and a pension 70
his widow.
Grants Little Game.
In an extended sketch Of old gambling
days in 81. Louis the Globe- Democrat re
lates the following; "a big, fat fellow
named Baldwin used to run house at III
South Fifth Street with the toughest kin,
of brace game. One night, just towar,
the close Of the war, General Grant went II
there and played In IL, 1877. He lost 8i37 1t
cash aud as he lost wrote out his checks 70