The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-10-23

That is a shrewd idea of Hewitt to
nominate George for Congress.

II is pleasant to hear that the Chicago
cattle-yard strike is over and that the men
are at work again.
Forty election Judges and clerks are to
be arrested in Chicago and tried for ma
chine tricks in politics.
A chrome for the person who can write
a personal card to a newspaper without
beginning my attention has been
called.
Mr.. George writes to newspaper with
the horrible conventional beginning, My
attention has been called to a cOmmuni-
cation in your paper" &c. That settles 1t.
Our editor has been sitting up with our
paper until il came off the press at \.
NJ. or would have had time to see the
passing show and write an airy review OF
it
The Washington Critcs tale about
Mahone's leaving Virginia to 90 to New
York is what the French call.a c0Hdrd, or
duck. The Senator is going to Tombstone,
Arizona.
That picked anecdote about Governor
Fitz Lee and his cousin General Gusts
Lee and the joke on the latter's modesty
has been served over again by an Alex
andria correspondent.
If Prince KOrnattsk, or whatever his
toOth-eXtracting name is is really uncle
to the MikadO. we demand to know where
is Nanki Pooh And most important Of
all where is the Lord High EXecutioner?
Friends depart and memory takes them
TO caves of thought 50 pure and deep.
But we long to see the country cousin
again, and shall not abuse Old Time that
it costs a year for the next sight Of him.
Mr.. George unintentionally proposes a
system of downright robbery, which
would reduce society to a state of chaos,
in which brute force would predominate
and only the cunning and strong would
surviye-H0ciH
Gentlemen who resemble President
Cleveland - is good We know one who
was after an office in Washington and
lady said Do you know that YOU favor
Cleveland very much?" Quoth he, "Td
rather Cleveland would favor me-
Several enterprising newsbOys, who
had doubtless studied finance from the
debt question of Virginia, proceeded to
sell our gem Of a penny paper yesterday
for two cents, when the price is one cent.
Beware of the speculative coon and
call him for the right coin.
Clarksville, Tenn. was the last date of
the world-renowned Fiddler Brothers
Aft and Bob. The Tennessean was on
a political rampage The brothers rode
in carriage drawn by four white horses,
and when each one spoke he requested
the audience to be particularly kind TO
his competitor
Bartholomew and Plunket are added to
the CAV and festive American colony of
aesthetic thieves in Canada, which illus
trates the educational facilities in the
school of crime that are instituted by al
lowing this free refuge for rOgues. BY
all means change the eXtradition laws.
With its accustomed presence of mind
our friend the DHpatrh forgot that patri-
otto anecdotes about Mrs. Langtry have
long since passed into the schedule Of
"She had been brought up very quietly .
says the advertisement, but still as many
girls are. with the idea that sure happi- .
hess lay only where there was money .
Behold the dead give away
The Doodle alderman McCabc pleads .
insanity. Happy thought for Gilbert in
his next machine comic opera TO make .
hat the motive of the plot as "cOnscien- .
tiousness ~ served for the Pirates IS .
for instance:
I'm a Doodle Alderman.
And steal all that can,
And the law can never, never tackle me;
For ! always play insane.
And its tricks are ever vain,
When ] utter thus my wild he-hc-hc-hc.
The journal of the House Of Repre-
,entatiyes for the first session, Forty
ninth Congress, has just been issued by
.he Public Printer The volume of mat
Ter is 50 bulky that it had TO be bound
in two parts of sixteen hundred pages.
Never before has the journal Of long
session contained over twenty-five hun
lred pages.
This is the industry of the House. if