The Washington critic., 1886-12-27
NOTES AND GOSSIP,

LIEUTENANT lIENN Of the Galatea and
Mrs. Hem have left New York Tor Jack.
sonyille, Fla, and will winter In the South
The association of retail grocers in
Brooklyn have started a free night school
for the benefit Of their employees, about
1900 in number
REV. II. NJ. KIRBY having declined the
missionary blshopric of Utah, auoth r cleo
tion will take place in October next. II
the meantime Bishop Tuttle viii remain In
charge.
owe SADLY need coast defcnccs. New
York has no protection whatever, and we
certainly have surplus enough to put some
OF II out on coast defeDces and the navy."-
Secretary Endlcott.
or THE 1899 books issued from the Gin
cinnati Library during the month of Novem.
her, $4,000 were works OF fiction, and only
III relating to theology. History, with 09j,
ranked next to fiction.
RUSSELL SAGE is dead set against running
the stages of the Fifth Avenue Transporta.
tion Company on Sunday, and, as he is one
OF the directors, and the richest one, he will
probably have his own way about It.
THE new steel cruiser Just built for the
Chinese Government at Elswlcb, England,
is described as the most formidable vessel
of her class afloat. She Is named the "Ching
Yuan" which is synonymous with "Peace-
makern
MRs. CUSTER informs the New York
lIdR and Express that the book she is now
engaged upon, descriptive Of her husbands
life on the frontier, will not be published
till next summer. 10 will cover a period Of
Uire years, including two In Texas, lS66-G7
aud i've In Kansas, 1911.
GOVERNOR ELECT GREEN Of New Jersey
will be uaugurated January II, and will
immediately have his hands fun of i'm.
portant appointments, among which are an
Attorney. y.Gencral, Secretary Of State,
three Supreme Court justices, Chancellor,
Cltik Of the Supreme Court and a long list
of assessors, judges, commissioners, trus.
tees, &c.
TnE Boston TrGrclicr says Of Mr.. Edgar
Fawcetps five act tragedy in blank verse,
which is to be produced a. the Boston
Museum next sprug, that It is of an un-
commonly sombre character. Such play
ms that should not he brought out at the
Museum, at least during the lifetime of the
genial William Warren.
W AAaA W III Imam Nlll CJuNllDult w LuO
rext number of The critic, New York;
the first number of the new year--a paper
on Tenuyson, with special reference to his
new poem "Locbsley Hall, sixty Years
After" and w. j. Rolfe will contribute to
the same number an old poem of Tenuy-
sons which first appeared in 1887, ami was
afterwards incorporated with many changes
In "Maud."
1T IS now considered about settled that
theyachts Dauntless and Coronet will make
an ocean race next year from New York to
Queenstown. The Dauntless was built In
1866, james Gordon Bennett being her first
owner, and her tonnage is 12G.40. She is at
| present owned by q. ii. Colt. The Cor
! onet is owned by Il. T. Bush, was built in
| 1885 and is Of $50 tons burthen. They are
| both twomasted schooners and are now
lying at Brooklyn.
| II anything unkind you hear
| Do not, pray you, 1t repeat
When you that some one chance to meet;
| For such news has leaden way
OF clouding DER sunny day.
| But II you something pleasant hear
About some one you know, my dear,
Make haste, to make great haste 'twerc well
To her or him the same to tell;
For such news has golden way
or lighting up cloudy day.
Il -[Harper's Bazaar.