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The Washington critic., 1886-06-25

Tor RENT
THE NEW POST BUILDING.
Studios, Offices and Lodge or Society Rooms.
There are yet vacant in the new Post Build
ing some well-lighted rooms suitable for
lodges and societies; also several well-lghted
rooms, eligible for artists studios; also two
rooms fitted for light manufacturing, with or
without steam power; Otis elevator runs day
and night. Apply at POST COUNTING ROOM
TOR RENT-SO6 Il st n w, Cool Fur
IL nlshed rooms at summer prices.
1IOR Rents Large and One Small
II unfinished rooms and bathroom, I'd
floor, 1916 1ith st n W; can be seen at any hour
TOR Rents Rooms on ed Floor;
I cheap. GIG 9th st n W.
L'OR RENT-Unfurnished Rooms In
II desirable locality; convenient to cars
and market. Call at 9o6 Goth st NV.
DOR RENT - One Large ed Story
Il front room, furnished or nnfurnished,
to a settled lady or gentleman, at IA 10th
st n W; terms reasonable.
VJOR RENT--A We'll Furnished Back
II parlor; IS per month without board; S23
with board. 5OS Maine ave, one door from
9th st W.
E'OR EENT-Newly Furnished Front
i, room, with first-class table board, S25;
also unfurnshed rooms suitable for house
keeping: cars pass the door; 10 minutes walk
to Pension Office. 1919 4th stn W.
The Washington critic., 1886-06-25

In sums 70 suit at per cent.
Tho above Is only small portion OF prop
erty on my books. For full list call at office
for bulletins issued on 1st and 18TH
The Washington critic., 1886-06-25

A nice combination Democratic ticket
for 'SS would be Carlisle and Randall.
The Washington critic., 1886-06-25

The beauty about full-grown New Jersey
mosquitoes is that when you have killed
them all night you can sell their bodies
next day in New York for rice birds.
The Washington critic., 1886-06-25

L'LORENCE OIL.STOvES for Sum
Is mer cooking; write for catalogue. j. f.
PAGE. 1915 ST n w
The Washington critic., 1886-06-25
FOR SALE AND RENT,
EAL ESTATE BULLETIN

III Of
THoS. E. wAGGAMAN, or F street.
Changes made Wednesdays and Saturdays
THREE-STORY BRICK AND FRAME
HOUSES FOR SALE.
The Washington critic., 1886-06-25
uNIMPRovED PROPERTY FOR SALE.
HOUSES FOR RENT.


Per Month.
1913 st n W, store and cellar, $500 20
1dl0 + st II W, store and dwelling, 0 rs. 65 90
1908 st n W. store and dwelling, rs, O5 90
lO2 G st n W, store and dwelling, 8 rs... 40 90
Q 5th ST Road, store and dwelling, 0rs. Is 90
9th and Pa ave, room s, ofice...,...,., 20 90
9th and Pa ave room 10, office. 90 90
9th and Pa ave, room II, office ..,.,. e. 20 90
9th and Pa ave, room 10, office .,,,,,... 20 90
9th and Pa ave, room 9, ofiice,.,.,,... 10 90
InANQ
The Washington critic., 1886-06-25

DRIvATE DANCING LESSONS Given
j. by a lady thoroughly competent TO teach
the waltg, military schottische, &C., by u
short and easy method. Address MISS a. G.,
Critic office.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-07
REcoMPErsE.

Back to the east returns the sun,
Though long and gloomy be the night;
All wings are turned. VIII, IN day is done,
In homeward flight.
The waves with rapture touch the shore,
To which they said q long farewell;
Tho listening forests hear ono more
The soCs birds swell.
The tree receives 2Sain its crown
OF golden fruitage, singing leaves;
The fields but late so bare and brown
Are rich in sheaves.
The rowing bee renews its pledge,
BY Summers rosy sweets beguiled;
juno roses lean from out the hedge
Where winds blew wild.
o. waiting hearts, OF eyes that plead,
Through the long winter of despair,
Shall ye not 200, find gracious need,
In days more fair.
TJ, NJ D,,
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-07

According to the latest general CEN
fuses and estimates at hand to the com
o date OF 1881, the number of cities
the word of 200 ,Ooo population is ut
east nincty-six. OF these the United
States has ten, the United Kingdom
eleven, Germany proper five, Italy five,
france -four, Russia four and the rest of
europe ten. Africa boasts only two,
south America two, Australia two and
Mex'co ono. China is credited by the
pest authorities with twcnty-eight cities
Df the class described, India seven, Japan
Jour and lcrsia one, making a total for
Asia of forty, and completing the grand
total of n:nety-six.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-07
And the Morning Stars sang on TO-
gethcr in glad welcome. Mrs. Anna D
1T;}L,-
Taking Cold in Baby Carriares.

P~e:ambu'ators arc tho latest thinpa
which the much too inquiring mind ha.
discovered to DC fraught with tcrribl,
peril to human life. Everybody hu
been rather Of the opinion hitherto tina,
these baby vehicles cane as a boon and
blessing to myriads of infants who ar.
too weak to walk, and prefer Icing car
RED; but this seems to be all a mistake.
1t is just because pe%rambu.at ,rs arc sale
TO bc dangerous and very often fatal t,
lnfantile existence that an cutlery is beins
raised i'll the columns.of an esteemed
hygionic contemporary against their i'm
proper use. These useful and mcritori.
Gus articles arc subject, just at present,
to any number Of medical broadsides
tncumonla is said to be occasioncd by
the fact that the nurscmaid always wheel,
them in front Of her, SO that the cold ali
catches the child without any protection
1t is gravcly suggested That their was
good deal to be said for the old p~ractic,
OF a nurse drawing II pcrambulator be
hind her, SO that her body tnterposed a
a sort of screen bctwixt tho wind aai
Ills nobility in the scat. Colds and
coughs innumcrablc--with all their 40
tcal and possible accompanimcnts-are,
i Is asserted, always being contracted
bv infants who have to sit still and b,
wheeled along the crowded street. in tn,
teeth OF II bitter nor'eastcr. -Lonan
jr;ry,uOL
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-07
Reminders of Benedict Arnold,

The old Benedict Arnold we'll in this
town has been closed says a Norwich
;(Conn.) letter to the New York Sun. II
is at the rear of the lawn, encirc!ed by
tall evergrecns at the fine Ripley place
on the road to Norwich Town. For
many years a Gothic curb has stood
about it, but it became 80 rotten that il
was necessary to take it down. The
curb having been removed, a big round
stone was placed over the we'll, which
was not filled in.
The old Arnold farm house, which was
mot far from the we'll, was torn down q
quarter of a century ago, and replaced
with a handsome modern dwelling. In
tho woods back of the house still il
pointed out a towering oak into whose
crotch the youthful Benedict used to
climb.
At Norwich Town, not a quarter OF
a mile away, the squat brick box,
with messed roof and blcachcd walls,
still is standing in which Benedict
learned from good Old DR.. Lathrop how
to mix pills and put up lotions. 1t is on
ground owned by Henry McNclly. It.
worn front door sill is almost in line
with the dusty village street, and there
is nc fence in front of it. The country
roadside walls have been built up to it,
and then DETECTED so that it is in .
walled recess. It is one story high,
with two or three old-fashioned dusty
windows, which look somewhat severely
at the brand new things about the old
drug shop. The building is preserved
as a relic. 1t has been padlocked fol
many years, and it needs painting.
Another reminder of Benedict Arnold,
the cid Spittle house, on Blackhall street,
New London, recently was demolished
by its purchaser, Bryan F. Mahon, to
make room fo- a snowy wooden house.
In its dining room, on September 6,
1871, Arnold took dinner, and was al.
most chooked to death by a fish bone.
It was on that visit that Arnold captured
Fort Griswold, in Groton, and massacred
the garrison and made a bonfire of New
London to testify to his New London
county ncighbors how much he still
thought of them.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-07
they were saying: "Phibbs, Phibbs,

they were saying: "Phibbs, Phibbs,
Phibbs, I've got you now, Phibbs." He
turned the knob of the doer, swung it
open and stood still. There before him
sat the Superintendent of Police with the
child on his knee. The burglar heard
the last words of the child: "And oh.
papa, papa, he's so good and 50 kind,
you Will love him." The gamin was in
his corner. Mr.. Phibbs's revolver was
pointed ut the Police Superintendent's
heart.
"Don't move" he said, Cor I'll borc
you through" The child chung to its
fathers knee. He had never seen the
over H2 as now being CRASHED By the
white teeth. nor the gray eyes gicsm like
n panthcr's before. He had never seen
Mir. Phibbs so cool, SO deadly and Sc
bloodiess As lie stood there, holding tho
life of his father IN his hand.
"Kid," said the burglar, ''pack that
bag and get down into the street" The
boy did so. t'And now, said Mr.. Phibbs,
as his clear. gray eye ran along the bar
rel, 81 an going, too. You have your
Christmas present in your arms Only
for a second the eye wavcrcd as it fell on
the face of the child. "Good-bye, Will
lie" said the mans voice. The door
swung shut and locked, aud when Police
superintendent Brown and his child were
in the street they saw only the driving
snow flakes wrapping up the city in a
white mantle, and covering all its sins
and its sorrows and its crimes beneath itt
folds.-NeW York Graphic.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-07

rhe Boston Herald says the boarding
house women of Washington are num-
bered by thousands. There IRE two
classes of these. The first merely rent
rooms, and the second give board as
well. It is q great business at Washing
ton for women to take large houses, pay
ing from SIS to $500 per month for them,
and then to sublet the rooms to single
gentlemen or to families, as the case may
be. They receive, as a rule, as much for
their ground floor rooms as they pay for
the whole house, snd there have been in
stances in which women have made
themselves independent by room-renting.
One hundred dollars and more is not an
uncommon rent there for a couple of
furnished room in a good location, and
$50 to SIS are often gotten for two
rooms on the second floor. A good
third floor front room will bring S25, and
ashousc that rents for 500 a month, un-
furnished, will often bring in 5000 or
$3.50 if furnished and sublet, beside Civ
ing a roc for the landlady. A number
of landladies make money there keeping
clearinghouse, and the one who enter
tanned w. d. Howells during his last So
journ in Washington has been able to
buy the house in which she lives, which
is worth about $40, 600, and is now start
ing a new hotol near the Treasury.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-07
The Man With the Satchel,

Although Mr.. Phibbs was a very en-.
ergetic professional man, it could never
be said that he sought fame. Fame came
to him, and the only sorrows in his life
were caused by its arrival. If he had ever
had his business cards printed, which he
did not, both on account of his surpas-
sing modesty and the confidential nature
Of his affairs, they would have necessarily
read very much like this:
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-07

There is nothing new under the sun,
and even the fashion OF banging the
hair, whic. has been supposed to be a
modern invention for young ladies and
gentlemen, is very ancient. Herodotus
says OF the Arabians: "They acknowl-
eaged no other Gods than Bacchus and
Crania, and they say that their hair is
cut IN the same way as Bacchus' is cut,
in a circular form, banged round tils
temples"
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-07
Elephants Scared by Little ThiaJs.

at is a we'll known fact that elephant.
are afraid of small objects, said Head
Keeper Byrne at the Geological Garden,
"and I have seen one of them almost
scared irto a fit at the sight of a mouse.
These warm days we have been giving
them a bath at 4 o'clock, and to amust
them and the spectators we have thrown
half a dozen inflated bladders into tn,
pond when they went into swim. Al
first they almost scared them to death
Then Empress struck at one with he,
trunk, and when it bounded into the al,
Doth trumpeted and scrambled out of tn,
pond. Empress, who has the curiosity OF
her sex and a mind of hcr own, gently
tished one of the bladders out of the
water and then Kicked at it with he,
hind feet. No serious results following,
she continued her Investigations, which
ended by her putting her front foot on
the bladder. 1t exploded with a loua
report, and the two elephants scampered
nome. "-IMilnAelnhin rSm"e
"A contributor to the st. Louis GL0h
Democrat, who has travelled through
Mexico, Central, and Sonth America
says United States contractors and specu
lators always pay American rates o
wages, while Englishuen take advantag,
Of any local rates which may profit them
Thus in Mexico contracts are carried ou
side by side, and while American con
tractors pay 81 and $1.25 a day, Euro
pean bosses pay fifty cents and seventy
five cents. 1t is just the same in the Ar
gentine republic, on all the public work.
there. Local labor is absurdly cheap
and English contractors pay just as littk
as they IAN, while Americans pay decen
rates all through, and in the long rul
come ou the best, their terms attracting
all the best men.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-07

An invention consisting of the combi.
nation of some light-giving substance
with printing ink so as to produce 9
luminous impression is reported from
Turin. A new daily paper will BIZ
printed there in this manner. 5
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-07

ing-sweetly unmindful of loving eyes
interchangeable away, till evening
folded into night, and slowly night into
midnight.
just then the proud young moon
looked down upon tho upturncd face of
the beautiful stranger, that looked
steadily back again a long waiting MN
ute, saw the glory in the moons face and
then--a trembling Of glad surprise
passed over the fair form, and it seemed
to the watchers that a shining form
sprang from out the green-wh:tc trum-
pet, sped over the golden pathway and
loated swiftly up'
eyes, yes" Sweet Pea whispered,
breathlessly, 1.-THE Soul of the beautiful
Flower Queen has gone up to the Moon"
Surely they heard a sigh, as the white
leaves, circle by circle, slowly fell back
and folded themselves together. and shut
the Golden Pathway in.
The beautiful house was ~tenantlcss
now. Madame Cereus stood quiet and
silent a while among her awed friends,
holding up the limp form of her beauti-
full child, till suddenly a singing
shout from far away was heard by all the
listening Flowers. Then Madame Cereus,
whose full. heart had rccompense now for
all her lonely life, felt humbly that a
Crown of Glory had been placed on her
unworthy head. The Spirit of her first
born was safe up there, its brief life un.
soiled.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-07

Not much IS generally known. or re
membered at least, of the early histor,
of our leading colleges. Yale was named
after Elihu Yale, n native CT New Haven,
who afterward settled il London and
became wealthy by trading in India. he
gavei it e20o, regarded in the early part
OF the last century as a large sum. The
college was begun at SayLrook in 1901,
but removed, sixieei- years later, to the
present place. The College of New
Jersey, founded by the Presbyterian
Synod of New York State, which then
comprised New Jersey, was opened in
1747, at Elizabcthtown, having been
chartered the year previous. 1t was re.
moved to Ncwa,k in 1873 and then tc
Princeton. Harvard, the oldest educa.
tional institution in the United States,
dates from 1856, having been founded
by Massachusetts,. An earnest simila,
attempt had been made at Williamsburg,
Virginia, ever before that. The spo,
chosen was Henrico, ne,.r what is now
4s1CnuloAu, LII lolo, al Of
81, 500 and 10, 900 acres Of land having
been obtained for the proposed college,:
but those who camr from England to
undertake the work were slai \ by the In.
dams, and the project was abandoned.
S~eventy-three years later William and
Mary was instituted. Prown Univcrsit,
owes its name to Nicholas Brown, one Of
its benefactors. It was founded in 1864
at Warren, Rhode Island and transferred
six years later to Providence. Nine col
lcges were established before the Revo
luton, and nineteen before this century.
Now there ares everal hundred, distlib
.uted through every S!a,s and Tc,ritor,
in the Republic. One of the. first thing,
q new Territory does, after clearing
away the trees, is to- establish what i
calls 3 university. No less sounding
name would be satisfactory.
LAI 49, 80 49, ~ ~ - ALH TAA
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-07

Occasionally the address, carefully
copied from the bottom of an old Ameri-
can letter by some Finn or Hungarian
who does not know q word of English, is
tangled up with stray bits of sentences,
such as 'good-bye" OF 'smany kisses, "
and one recently received bore, carefully
copied into the superscription:
"Lov to the Gle man and the 8 little Doolans''
A letter addressed to "Churhvat iowa"
is forwarded by these gifted epistolary
detectives to "What Cheer, Iowa." and
lpatched to "White Cloud, Mich"
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-07

The clerks in the dead letter office al
Washington show marvellous skill-ap
ingenuity that is sometimes almost in.
spiration-in deciphering the ignorant
superscriptions from across the sea
What would the reader make of this on
the back of a letter:
"Me Maria Peranala
nurn Pa kamlin ka
ute takkata ter nurt
amerikaa-" :.
The lady to whom it was allotted read
it over to herself till we'll nigh distract
ed, and finally settled on: Mrs. Maria
Peratola, Nora, Hamlin County, Dakota"
And it was duly delivered. The word
'a~zzili;ornO" passed through the alembic
comes out 'Hazleton, ; while "Pitzkonty
s x Ajowa" reappears on a clean en-
velope as: "Essex, Page County, Iowa."
And here is one calculated to drive the
reconstructor into o lunatic asylum:
sci hon aho Ia asst ha gew Ian har yor
ohio laan Pok jas Ameriika." Ought an
immortal mind to tackle such a super
scription2- 1t did, AMI from the chaos
came the clear designation:
:, "John Ahola,
Ashtabula Harbor,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-30
aepresentatives. there were forty more Repub.

Representatives, there were forty more Repub-
lican votes for the bill than Democratic votes.
And who are the sixty-sx who voted against
it'll they live down there pointing toward the
South, and they are the people who say they
want to modify your tariff It is votes that de-
termine where a party stands, not its high
sounding professions.
"Laboring men have complained of the practice
which, it is said, has grown up in recent years,
OF importing foreign contract labor In order that
cheaper labor may be obtained than the labor
Of our own workinsmen. At the last session a
bill was passed intended to correct this wrong.
In the House there was no division by which We
can ascertain the vote, but in the Senate there
was division, and the vote stood thus: For the
measure, 80 Republicans and Is Democrats;
against it were niue votes, one of which was that
of Republican, the others of which were votes
of Democrats"
The speaker said he had always been the
friend of homestead exemption. Thirty-one Of
the thirty eight States of the Union had laws
exempting the homestead, of reasonable value,
from execution. Indiana is one of the seven
States that has no such law. He believed such
a law to be good for the creditor. 1t enabled the
family to hold tho homestead, to keep together
and in many cases pay their debt The home is
one of the best supports of public virtue and of
public order. ''While delivering my message
to the Legislature, when Governor" he said. 81
appealed to them to pass fair homestead bill.
They would not even take it up for considera-
ton. say such bill should be passed. The
poor man should be allowed to hold his own
home and keep around his hearthstone his little
family"
Governor Porter concluded with exhorta-
ton for Republicans to interest themselves to
see that the vote is brought out Let every man
Jump TO his work. Let every man feel that this
motto is true: I'm work is victory"
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The Flower Mission Fair.

Household art will be appropriately represent
ed in the Flower Mission fair, in the March
month, when every housekeeper refurnishes all
those articles so needful to complete domestic
arrangements, and in the first month of the
year. the refreshments, for which the ladies
having the booth in charge are so well-known.
will consist of ice-cream and other cooling and
delicious ices. The ladies of the February month
will tempt the palate with toothsome candies of
homemade and some of them have become
very proficient in the manufacture of these
dainties. The gypsy camp will contain band
well versed in the science of palmistry who, for
a consideration. will read the fortune of the Wis
itor The products of the farm will
be on sale in the dairy booth,
and fruits can be bad in September.
Santa Claus and his stock of Christmas goods
including a eoodly company of well-dressed and
well behaved dolls of every description. Added
to the attractiveness of the fair proper will be
the entertainments given each evening in charge
of Prof George B. Bartlett, and the luncheon
on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, served by
the ladies of the churches. feature of the at
fractions for Tuesday night will be bulletin
board, on which will be announced the election
returns as they are received at the Journal
Office
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-30


The political contest in PENNSYLVANIA for this
year bears very striking analogy to that which
we closed in Maine in September. We had a
Republican party in the field; we had Demo
cratic party in the field, and we had third
party in the field professinga special devotion TO
the doctrine of prohibition. Maine has been a
prohibition State for thirty years, but the third
party of Prohibtionists in this country seemed
to think they had particular patent right upon
all temperance topics and they came TO Maine to
persuade US, prohibitory State that the Re-
publican party had better be dispossessed of
power and the cause of temperance handed over
to the tender mercies and kind care of the Demo
cratic party. l find the same condition of things
in this State, with the exception that Pennsyl-
vania has never pronounced in favor of prohibit
ton; but we find third party organized for this
purpose and with the declared intention of de-
feating the Republican party and of bringing the
Democratic party into power. Now whatever
YOU may think, whatever / may think, or what
ever any one else may think as to the expediency
or inexpediency of prohibition, we will all agree
that the one party in the United States which
has never done anything for the cause of temper
ance is the Democratic party [applausel, and
here in Pennsylvania, as before in Maine, the
third party, organized especially to promote
temperance, works obviously 10 the end of throw
ing il all into the control oe the natural in
herited and perpetual enemies Of temperance