The Washington critic., 1888-02-11

IN v IN NJ House. lie comes
In NlW from the north
IN ~ ern part of the
N W State, and is said
N "a to have a big for
N M>/7II%M tune in the Goge-
nj kdfHitnA bic mines. He says
N HTl1..sGnI the spectators
lsssssssssssssss';7i are getting down
.t @l..lsIs = I5ts to hard Ran
Guenther: "The trouble has been that
men without capital have leased
mines on the payment Of a royalty
on the iron gotten out Of the mines"
They would issue stock on these
leases to the extent of about 81 ,O00,-
600, get their machinery together, and
begin work. BY the time they get
large output of ore at Cleveland their
capital would be exhausted by the
cost of getting out the iron. and
freight, and they would be unable to
pay the royalty, which is usually fifty
| cents ton. The party Of whom the
lease was taken would then come in
and snap up the name, and the COM
| pany would go TO smash. We have
in the Gogebic region the finest iron
in the world, and we can mine 1t
| cheaper than almost any iron in the
! world"
| CONGRESSIONAL sToRY-TELLERs.
One of the best story-tellers of the
House is Hon. ]. G.. Cannon of Illi-
nois. Bright shots come from Mr..
Cannon with the rapidity of the re-
ports of Gatling gun, and his latest
has to do with Senator Culloms COM
/ all
and Cannon were talking together
the other day, when a man slightly
under the influence of liquor, but who
was acquainted with Cannon, came
up and Cannon introduced him to
| Cullom. The man was very ELUSIVE
in his greeting, and he is a man, by
the:way, who is noted for hi: wit.
Cullom, according to Cannon, intro
"Why, how do you do, Mr.. Paul? Pm
thing l have been wondering ever
| since heard about YOU" I'LL.
| whats that ?" asked Paul.
'I want TO know" said the semi
intoxicated man, whether you ever
received an answer TO that long letter
you wrote to the Ephesians ?''
1
of the "boomers" of that town, tells
me its citizens have been as warm as
toast during the cold wave which has
frozen up the whole country. "You
can heat q ten-room house in Findley
costs you more than fifty cents q
month. You pay five cents burner
for gas UP to six burners, and then the
/ oh sa nt,lx h ~ No nj
and all burners used above this are
given free" Three thousand houses,
according to Vance, have been built
in Findley during the past year, and
the town has increased from 5000 TO
5000 in population. Senator Sherman
still holds his property there,- and
1 he has great faith in the growth
| of the town. "The Karg well is as
strong now as it was when first
opened, y he says, "and we can have
| 100, ,000, 900 feet of gas every day if we
choose to turn on our wells. Some of
the wells which were dry at first have
now good flow of gas, and our gas
flow seems to be on the increase in
| stead of on the decrease" would
merely add to Mr.. Vance's statement,
| that have no doubt be is an honest
man, but that he tells me he is presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce,
and such persons, in other cases, are
professional "boomers." Mr.. Vance
now lives here in furnished house,
and is leading the life of an elegant
| gentleman of leisure.
SENATOR INGALLS,.
has received a great many different
forms of consolation as to the burn
ing of his house, and one of the most
consoling came from the Rev. Mr.
Butler, the chaplain Of the. Senate.
Butler was standing by when ingalls,
received the telegram, or he saw
shortly afterward the telegram stat
ing that the house was burned. Al
, he heard it, he said sympathetically
81 am very sorry indeed. But,
Senator, what blessing 1t was thai
your family was not in at the time y
But Butler meant well. He is
tall, lean anatomy, with face like
funeral, and chin whiskers which
hang down on his chest. He looks
as though he had been brought up OF
buckwheat cakes, and they had no
agreed with him, and his voice hai
nasal twang. He isa good preacher
however, and his congregation herr
call him safe shepherd,
These Congressional Chaplains arr
often rare birds, and one of them
during the time that Ferry was Presi
dent Of the Senate, made one of thos,
universal prayers. in which HI
brought in everything under the sun
including all people in authority, but
by some slip of the tongue, he forgo
to put in the Vice-President of th
United States. He saw the omission
after the "Amen" had been uttered
and he quietly slipped over to one o
the reporters and told him to inser
at q certain point the words: "And
Oh Lord, we ask q blessing on tn
Vice President of the United States !!
The reporter did so, and the ministe
was happy.
THE CHAPLAIN OF THE HOUSE
= is the noted blind preacher Milburr
? whowrote and delivered the lectur
on "What a Blind Man Saw i
Europe" He is remarkable mar
and the only trouble about his clerici
work is that he seems to think Z
. times that the Government rest
upon his shoulders, and in his prayer
he sometimes instruots Congres
what IL ought to do.
One OF the United States Senators
in speaking of Joseph Chamberlain
the noted Enghlishman who is no.
es here as head OF tho Fish Commissio
controversy, SAYS that Chamberlai
makes him think of an American
and that he has nothing Englis
- | about him sfphia man IL nm acuI