The Washington critic., 1888-03-03

that shawl over my shoulders? There
appears to be such draft here" Lord
Dundreary Immediately replied: "You
are mistaken, Miss Mary, there is no
draft. The draft is all over" The
President instantly saw the point and
laughed very heartily, MS did the en-
tire audience, who arose and cheered.
In few moments more the assassin
had done his work, and nation was
in tears.
~.
Perhaps you remember the fight"
writes w. L. N. in the Lancaster In
telligeHcer, "that was made over the
Louisville postoiIice in the early days
of this Administration Mrs. Thomp-
son fought her own battle, and won
it, too, as she well deserved to do.
While she was here | saw q great
deal of her at the house of n friend.
She showed us numberof letters from
prominent men all over the country,
her own friends and her fathers She
is a daughter of Bishop Campbell of
the Campbellite Church. In the
course of conversation land she is
an extremely brilliant talSer) she
showed us o letter from Hon. Jere
Black, whom she had known from
her girlhood, indorsing her first petit
ton for appointment to the position
which she was anxious to retain.
She mentioned that her father had
baptized Judge Black, and that they
were warm friends. There were SOW
eral ladies and gentlemen present,
and few evenings lator,1 was de-
cidedly amused by an attempt at re-
failing tho o-conversation by q promi-
nentoflicial who had listened with
much interest. 81 had always sup
posed" he said, "that Judge Black
was an upright man, but it seems he
was something else. | have II from
the lips of Bishop Campbells own
daughter that he was a church mem
Der and regular communist" Need
less to say, the lady in question had
brought no such astounding charge.
Every one was stunned for moment,
then as the mistake dawned upon
them, there was wild impulse to
laugh, which was nobly suppressed
until one of the gentlemen came to
the rescue with a funny story, and
brought relief to over-strained nerves.
s*s
Says n Kansas City correspondent of
the st. Louis Globe Democrat Senator
Hearst of California is beyond doubt
the best miner in America. Originally
from Missouri, he began in the noun.
tains as day laborer, He steadily as
cended as foreman, superintendent and
owner. He is to-day the richest man
in the United States. There Is not q
mining State or Territory in which he
is not owning and working some min
ing property. He has 5000 men in
his employ in this country He stated
10 me recently that he hadn't lost a
dollar in mining for twenty years past.
Have heard him say that he would
much rather be in his mines than in
Washington. His wife's social aspl-
rations led him to accept official po-
sition.
Wv
From an analysis made by Senator
ingalls, of Kansas and published in the
New York World, 1t appears that of
the seventy-six Senators, thirty have
received a classical education, and
forty six, or eight more than one half,
have been educated in common schools
and academies. OF the 1888 Repre-
sentatives and Territorial Delegates,
but 10S have attended college, while
225, or fifty-nine more than one-half of
the entire number, are either self-edu-
Gated, or have received their instruc-
ton at institutions whose curriculum
did not extend beyond the ordinary
English studies. Generally speaking
Mr.. ingalls, says, 1t may be said that
college graduates as a rule exhibit
certain lack of practical ca
pacity in dealing with men and
things. They take subtle and abstract
views of all questions, and are apt to be
timjd, cautious and conservative, rather
than progressive and radical. 1t was
said of Joseph Addison, that he failed
as Secretary of State because in COM
posing his dispatches, he hestated
about forms of eXpressionand the rhet-
orical construction of sentences till the
emergency had passed. Senator Sum
ner was another illustration of splendid
incapacity for practical affairs In legis-
lation. His ideals were incomparably
pure and lofty, and it seemed impos-
sible for him to realize that statutes are
the result Of compromise and adjust
ment. If he could not secure what was
to his conception absolutely right and
just, he resolutely refused to accept half
measures. He would either reach the
goal or take no step in its direction.
Superior scholarship alienates man
from the mass of his fellows, and puts
him out of sympathy with them. 1t
erects barrier which must be over
come before confidential relations can
be established, and the young men who
are aspiring TO leadership In the COM
ing generation, in their struggle with
poverty and adversely, can find conso-
lation in the reflection that the great
leaders of this age had neither degrees
nor diplomas. Abraham Lincoln, the
greatest of all, had the humblest origin
and the scantiest scholarship. Yet he
surpassed all orators in eloquence, all
diplomatists in wisdom, all statesmen
in foresight and the most ambitious in
fame.
."*
The late S. P. Rounds, ST., in writing
his "reminiscences in "Rounds's Print
ers' Cabinet" monthly published in
Chicago and Omaha, printed the fol-
lowing (but a fortnight before his
death) of well-known resident OF
Omaha, Hon. A. L. Wyman-that
will be read with considerable inter
est. The coincidence is startling, to
say the least "The fall that Henry
Clay was defeated was acting as fore
man in the Madison Express Office of
w. w. Wyman, a Stalwart Wing
paper of much strength and influence.
In passing l will mention q rather
curious coincidence. | was then the
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