Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-01-30
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.


There has been a shortage in milk lately
by the freezing of the country pumps.
The Empress of Austria ia at present by
the advice of her physician exercising her
self in fencing.
When fellow commits a crime nova
days,and wriggles out of it, it is put down as
lawyer-like instiuct-whch is rather hard
on the lawyers.
Queen Victoria has sent Mrs. Morell Mac
kenzie an Indian shawl. The old LADY,
stock of shawls must be large. She always
gives an Indian shawl.
10 anticipating woman suffrage the Louis
Vile Courier-Journal wants to know if both
parties would not trenble if Mrs. Cleveland
were nominated for President or Presi.
dentess.
Remarkable as it may appear there ere
more men in Writ uous, purtanic New Eng
land, who have several wives living than
there are in Utah, where polygamy pre-
vailed for the nonce.
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the Ebbitt House, in Washington, on Tues
days, are largely attended. She is a hand
some woman, and her circle of friends and
admirers Increases weekly.
The Albany Times says that one of the
most earnest demands of great portion ofthe
five or six million democratic voters of this
country is that President Cleveland shall not
be renominsted, yet all the game he will get
there wings or no wings.
Among the Washington Society notes"
we find The following: Senator Daniels
wife held delightful reception on Thurs
day, assisted by Mrs. Hooker of Mississippi,
Mrs. John D. LaDghorne, the Misses Leary
aud Marshall. Mrs. Daniel is handsome,
dark.eyed woman, and in her white
grown looked quite picture"
The latest craze in Paris is worth men
tioning. 1t consists of an immense black
bow worn by imperialist and royalist ladies
in their hair or somewhere on their dress,
but very much en- eUidence. 1t is supposed
| to indicate that although its fair wearer
seems to be enjoying herself pretty we'll
her heart is not with her gay surroundings,
One of Miss Rose Elizabeth Cegeland's
luncheon parties will go down into history
because one of the guests kept the mistress
of the White House waiting half hour.
The company were in the East Room, and
every face was turned toward the door,
when the tardy guest serenely entered, with
her little shopping bag in her hand, and
casually remarked, Il thought I'd do little
shopping on the wsy."
Mr. Lamar and Mr.. Edmunds, SO the sto.
~ goes, met at the White House the other
evening, and the two men shook hands like
any other two men would do. and had @
Chat" but friend who met Mr.. Edmunds
| remarked "I'd like to know what you said
to Lamar and what he said to you when you
met" "Well, if you insist upoa knowing, I
remarked to him, How dye DO p He re.
piled, How dye do p and that was about
all the conversation"
The New York Sun very pointedy and
properly condemns the majority, and ap
plauds the small minority In the Senate, on
the vote, in that body, on the bill giving
pensions to the widows of Gems. Logan and
Blair. The pension to Mrs. Logan was prac
tically reward for political services rather
than for deeds done in battle by Mr.. Logan,
and the precedent set is bad one that may
one day return to plague the inaugurators
of such an un-American IDEA, which but
leads the way to civil pension list.
When the Vsnderbilts do any thing in
which society especially is interested they
generally do it sup brown" as for instance
ball given By Mrs. V. one night last week
In which the exquisite picturesqueness ofthe
cotillion is thus described "The electric
light, falling through pink shakes which
again were tempered by screens OF the fair
est blossoms, shed soft and most becom.
ing light upon the faces; and when the men
put on their black and gold cooked hats,
and the ladies waved their silver wands
with streamers of parti colored ribbons,
many of the artists who were present clap
their hands with delight"