The Washington critic., 1886-07-22
GENERAL AND CRIrICULAE.

To Senators and Members Of Congress
who do not see themselves as others ste
them the following lines (after Alexander
Rodger) are dedicated:
Behave yoursel's before folk,
Behave yoursel's before folk;
And dinna be sac fierce and rude
And fight ye sac before folk;
1t wadna gi'e us mlckle pain,
Gin ye were seen and heard by name,
To taxi lick or grant ye ane,
But guidsake no before folk
Behave yoursels before folk,
Behave yoursel's before folk;
Whate'er ye do when out o. view,
Be cautious aye before folk.
Consider, men, how folk will crack
And what great affair they'll maxi
o. naethng but mild attack,
That's gi'en or ta'en before folk.
Behave yoursel's before folk,
Behave yourse's before folk;
Nor gle the pen o. auld or young
Occasion to write up your talk.
It's no through hatred o. lick,
Nor oDy grudge against kick;
But losh we taxi 1t as trick,
To be sac fierce before folk.
Behave yoursel's before folk,
DGuhNt yOuistlb DtlOlC loihY
When ye're outside ye may drink bluid,
But flent a drop before folk.
"The Washington nine is an excellent
one" said Brown, ironically, to Charlie Be-
beesee, as he read the Is to score in favor
Of Boston.
"Yes," said Charley with a ghastly grin,
ayes, a goose -eggsellent nine lets drown
our sorrow in the flowing bowl"
The drowning took place promptly.
The Cincinnati Commercial. Gdsettc got a
big ad. in the local columns of the Senate
yesterday.
Mr.. Reagan of Texas had cup aud sau-
Ger sitting on his desk yesterday. That sort
Of subterluge may deceive the temperance
people Of Texas, but the hardened sinners
of this neck of woods know that a coffee
cup is not always cup Of coffee.
TO lHrdt Halstead, Cincinnati, o..
Do not come to Washington until Messrs.
Logan, Evarts and Teller cool off, There
is blood in their eyes and murder in their
hearts. The plan proposed by them is for
Logan to kill you, Teller to cut you up.
straight tip. Keep away.
MANY FRIENDS.
Allen 0. Myers, Editor Cincinnati Enquirer:
The next time you send a dispatch about
me to Senator Logan, wish you would do
one Of two things Either advise him not to
have 1t read on the floor, or give me chance
| to get out before the reading of 1t. felt
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| tied, yesterday when the Senators and the
large and fashionable audience present
were informed by wire from you that was
an ignorant or wilful liarn You must
remember, my dear fellow, that you are not
so well known here, as you are in Ohio, and
some persons might be led to believe that
| dispatch to the serious detriment of my
| fair fame. Yours:
Ben. BuTTERwoRH, NJ. G.
According to the New York Times, the
motto Miss Cleveland has decided upon for
her Chicago paper is; "Prove all things;
| hold fast that which is food.n The intelli-
gent compositor, ably assisted by the ON
niscient prcof-reader, got an ~ instead of
| e in that last word, but he has acci-
| dentally touched chord, which will ring
responsive IN every editorial stomach in the
Western provinces hungerlng for the fat of
the land, for which it offers to exchange
| subscriptions. Let the motto stand.
We are panied to observe that the editors
Of New England are very much more con-
! cerned about their fish bait in Canada than
they are about an American editor suffer
ing in Mexican prison. If the imprisoned
editor will offer pecuuiary reward for his
release, the thrifty Yankee will forget his
| fish bait for Il brief season.