The Washington critic., 1888-03-30
THIS IS a very good Friday.
NOTES AND GOSSIP.

The HEAD Of new style of cane is
fashioned into cigarette case.
STRAUSS, THE musical composer, is very
clever with the pencil, and delights in
caricatures.
MISS WINIrRED DAVIS daughter of JEFF
ferson Davis, intends to adopt literature
as q profession.
ALGoNA, Iowa., is going TO offset st.
Paul's Ice Palace with mammoth hay
palace this summer.
ADoLrH OrPER, the cartoonist of Puck,
is nephew of Blowitz, the Paris CORE
spondent of the London Times.
A coLoRED REVIVAL organized at Tai
bottom, Ga, in 1865, is still in progress
but the chickens continue TO roost high
LEE TOrERs down in Dawsonville Ca,
use Jamaica ginger as prohibition sub
stitute and manage to get comfortably
drunk on it.
For PRESIDENT IN 1883, Shelby NJ. Cul-
lom of Illinois; for Vice President, #. De-
Witt Talmage of New York.-[St Louis
Globe Democrat.
IT Is ESTIMATED that one per cent. of
the wealth of church members in the
United States, if devoted to missionary
work, would amount to ten millions of
dollars.
Otis JOHNSON of Sharon, Mass, who
made o comfortable fortune in Boston
and retired from business fifty-one years
ago, celebrated his ninetieth birthday on
Wednesday,
HENRY CLEws, the New York banker,
was recently offered Si0O, 900 for his city
residence, furnished. lie declined to sell,
| but said he might consider an offer of
half a million.
Or THE $50 men on the uniformed force
of the New York Fire Department, 701 are
natives of the United States, 2l7 of Ireland,
| % of Germany, % of England, of Scot
land, and the rest scattering.
HERBERT WADswoRTH of Genesee, N.
Y, and Miss Martha Ebert Blow,
daughter of the late Henry II. BLOW we'll
known in Washington, are to be married
in st. Louis on Easter Monday.
THERE is A MOVEMENT in ST. Louis look
ing to the purchase of the gas works by
the city. What is known as the tripartitc
agreement between the city and the exist.
ing companies expires on the LIST of Jan
uary next.
| PROFESSOR PRocToR figures it up that
the sun will play out in couple of mil.
| lion years. He doesn't take into con.
sderation the possibility of another
blizzard coming along and blowing it out
altogether.
GERMAN ToAsT.-Cut thick slices OF
bread and dip each side in milk enough tc
soften, then dip in beaten egg; put into G
frying-pan with Just enough butter tC
fry; fry until brown as an omelet. Serve
well sprinkled with white sugar.
Mrs. GENERAL SHERMAN is said to have
become, like her husband, a regular first
nighter at the theatres. She 10 more at
tached to New York than she was to st
Louis, and the chances are that the Gen
eral will spend the rest Of his days in thi
city.-[New York World.
DENNIS SwEENY, 0l years of age was ad
mitted to the Philadelphia almshousc TIN:
week. He had walked all the way from
Hartford, Conn, and hopes to reach Wash
ington as soon as he can raise money
enough, He was member of the Second
Artillery during the Mexican war, after
wards served five years in the Fourth Ar
tillcry, and was a soldier under Burnsid,
in the late war He has his dscharg,
papers and thinks itabout time to be loo&
ing after his pension.
GROVER CLEVELAND is the only clergy
mans son who has ever been elected
President though Arthurs father was
clergyman. lie was not, however, electet
President. The fathers of the Nirgini.
Washington, Jefferson, Mad
ison and Monroe--were planters. Johy
Tyler's father was a lawyer, and so wa
John Adams, the father of John Quncl
Adams. Grants father was tanner
Iayes's father merchant, and tn
fathers Of Garfield, Lincoln, Pierce, Fill
more. Polk, Van Buren, and Jackson
were farmers