The Washington critic., 1886-02-16
GENERAL AND CRIriouLAH.

GENERA T. AND CRITICILAE.
The Chicago socialist leaders are urging
their followers to plllagc the houses Of the
rich In that city and the editors and Pull
man car porters have issued call to the
police authorities for special force.
The New Workers are clamoriug for the
spectacular in opera, Notwithstanding they
have the theatres crowded with ladies' in
full dress. DO they want the earth?
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Henry w. Lucy is the new editor of the
London Ncrs while George William G.
Nancy is still the editor of HupCr'S Weekly.
The Woman's Suffrage Convention pro-
poses to charge ten cents admission. That
is hardly enough, unless they Introduce a
grab bag, a rattle for crazy quilt, Re-
bekah at the well, wash boiler full of
phantom oyster soup and few other church
fair accessories.
Forty thousand people turned out in Gin
cinnati to hear Sam Jones preach his fare
well sermon. The average Cincinnatian is
creature of diversified tastes--a riot or
revival draw equally we'll.
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Congressman Morrow of California is rs
wholesome looking as q car load of fresh
California fruit. lie will never know it,
however, until he sees this notice,
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Once more the streets are smooth and clean
OF all debris and dregs,
And now the suited wheelmen have
a chance to air their legs.
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom,
The sun himself must die,
Before Objector Holman learns
a necktie's made to tic.
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Mr. Andrew Boyd of Syracuse, N. Y, has
not hitherto been known to fame, but he
has his name in the newspapers now as be-
ing the man to whom the late IIoratio Scy.
Chance makes men famous; they alone can
make Themselves great.
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If Mr.. VIM. II. Morrison OF Illinois had
to listen to all the talk his tariff bill will
evoke, he would wish he had been born to
drive dray.
Congressman Thompson of Ohio, the
"Tall Corn-Stalk of the Scioto," is fearful
that he will 90 down iu history as the "Fod-
der of his Country
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Congressman Rogers of Arkansaw wears
a moustache which he calls perpetual
Lease" because it extends from ear to
ear
Congressman Brady has tray bald head.
Don't know what that means, eh? Well, a
tray is a three-spot, and look at Mr.. BIS
head sometime from the gallery
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"Not this mourning, some other mourn
ing" remarked the widow when she dofred
the first to don the second.
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= The following resolution was referred to
the Committee on Labor: Resolved, That
Congress go to work and do something.
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No, dear, the Omnibus bill has nothing to
do with herdics, hansoms, &c.
The Senate Committee having returned
fiom New York, that body held session
yesterday. Mr.. Edmunds is bound to have
the perpetuity of the Republic perpetuited.
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Saint Martin is the only saint in Con-
gress, and don't you forget it.
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Reading Clerk Brown of the House gets
more bills every Monday than all the i'm
pecunious dudes from all the tailors in
town.
The telephone patent Mr.. Bell claims as
his own can be shown to have been so old
when he filed his cavcat that it was Gray.
MR
From the Senate Committees report In
favor Of woman's suffrage we clip the fol.
lowing: sit is unnecessary to grant that
women cannot fight. History is full of ex.
amples." The committee probably speaks
by authority of personal experience hay
ing in their minds eye, no doubt, certain
domestic tilts upon returning home late al
night from their 'lodge meetings."
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Representative Wolford of Kentucky ant
Representative Negley of Pennsylvani;
ought TO run foot race to determine which
of them is right in his opinions of Fltz-J ohr
Porter. They can never settle it by a chii
| race.
| The Senate Committee wants women to vote
And asks the States to give it trial:
| II feels in its great Senatorial soul
"The grievous wrong of longer denial"