The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-11-26

SPECIAL AND PERSONAL
General Kaulbars is at Constantinopie;
hut Thanksgiving Day has passed ana MS
master, the Gar, did not get his turkey
Somebody suggests that Wilkie Coliin
lbook. 1.-THE Guilty River" ought 10 De
Tried by the McQuade jury, so that IL
might get off.
Mavor-elect Hewitt, OF New YORK,
dropped into the Mayors once anu
quietly took the oath OF office, says
New York paper.
The great painter Munkacsy says That
the women of New York are the fairest
he has ever beheld, which is good for an
artist to say, as they are not painted
| A New York paper has the story OF
liouor-dealer's drummer going about the
streets seeking business with Prohibi-
tion ticket tackled to his back. That's the
w,v the Democrats are doing with the
Riddleberger bill.
There must have been some shrewd
smuggling tricks in the days OF our noble
ancestors. One of the French spoliation
claims is for vessel loaded with coffee,
and the French, recording the capture,
shows that she was loaded with rum.
.Jones' river e1cites more dread in the
imagination OF q New York editor than
the mythical styx that flowed between
this world and the other, except that
Jones river was in cooler place. AT
last the enemies of Jones declare that it
was no river at all, but little lake.
Dude Sportsman to Gunsmith who
wanted to try the locks of the piece
"Ah. YES. me boy, but cawn't notify the
bvrds TO pause until ] cock me gun again,
don't cher know" The gunsmith was
crushed, and at once proceeded to over
haul the weapon without further debate
| Pr0Ui1encf Journal.
An Ohio man went hunting and killed
a squirrel on a stump. His wife was en-
raptured but for two years afterwards
he went souirrelling and didn't declare a
single dividend. Its awful mean luck"
he exclaimed, at the end Of the third
years experience, "for always go to the
same stump"
That's the way with the Virginia Bour-
bons.
That is a luminous idea for Miss Minnie
Gilmore to write poem anent young
man taking his sweetheart's glove, and
how she hid her love in her pride, and
only let go glimpse of 1t with certain
sort OF a faint, half-ripe, peach-colored
blush, and corresponding culver OF the
eve. Thanks, dear Minnie, for giving the
girls away. Now fellow can tell how
they show their preference in spite OF
themselves.
The aesthetic part of Washington fash
ion has long been accustomed on reception
DAYS at the White House to breathe the
sweet official perfume Of the chrysanthe-
mum and violet mingled with the delicious
odOr of many rare exotic. But or late,
fashion complains that the vulgar aroma
Of the Democratic cabbage offends the
aristocratic nostril of society, and that
the Cleveland dynasty must be reformed
in that respect.
Pucks Thanksgiving cartoon repre-
sents six Republican aspirants for the
Presidency and their four faithful servi-
tors. There they all sit at the well-tilled
Embellishments, Evarts, Blaine, Hoar,
Logan, and Sherman. while the obsequi-
Gus editors-H alstead, Field, Reid, and
Medill, pander to their tastes as walters.
But Whtelaw Reid, in struggling with a
cork discovers a horrid, sharp, cruel
thing suspended in mid-air by hair. 1t
is the sword of Damocles labeled "Cleve-
lands Growing Popularity"