The Washington critic., 1888-05-09
NOTES AND GossIr.

THE BREWERS of ST. Louis have sub
scribed 50, 100 to the Democratic National
Convention fund.
THE SOCIAL SCIENCE cLuBs of Kansas
and Missouri are TO hold q convention at
Kansas City tomorrow.
THE YOUNG MEMS Christian Association
of Minneapolis will erect this year hun.
dred thousand dollar building
THE INTERSTATE GRANGERs' picnic, at
Williams Grove, Cumberland County,
Pa, will begin this year August 27 and
continue a week.
"UNNfARRIED TEAS" are fashionable di-
version in Washington. For unmarried
teas very Young Hyson is the appropriate
thing Boston Record.
CECIL Barring, one of the younger men,
bers of the English family Of bankers is
travelling in the Southwest, and is soon
expected in New York.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has opened bank
for the accommodation of his 10000 en-
ployes and will pay them 6 per cent. in
terest on their deposits.
+. G. ADAMS, secretary of the Kansas
Historical Society, has received returns
from the municipal elections in that State
which indicate that 10000 women voted.
A TRAMP OUT IN New Jersey has seven
strawberry marks on the small of the
back. 1t was through them that he
learned the proprietor's gun was loaded.-
[Puck.
Ex-CoEGREssMAN ERAsTUs WELLS of
Missouri, who sometime since went to
Los Angeles for his health, is said to be
much improved and will soon return to
St. Louis.
Hon. JAMES BIRNEY, who died at Bay
City, Michigan, yesterday, was formerly
Lieutenant Governor of that State and
was United States Minister to the Neither
lands from 1876 to 1882.
81 NEVER HAD boarder complain of
my coffee before, Mr.. Timpklns," snapped
his landlady. 81 think have more than
sufficient grounds" was Timpkins' weak
reply.-[N. Y. Tribune.
Mr.. WILLIAM STEINwAY of the Demo-
cratic National Committee sailed to-day
for Europe to be absent till October. He
will be represented at st. Louis by Mr..
Herman Oelrichs, his proxy.
AT A RECENT SALE of antique furniture
in London, the chair said to have been
the one in which Shakespeare wrote
brought 100 guineas or SGl2, while one OF
| Lord Byron's was knocked off for only
| $3.50.
THE OLDEST MAN in Northwest Missouri
| is Husselton Comton of st. Joseph, who
celebrated his one hundredth birthday on
| the 1st of May. His eyesight is somewhat
dimmed, but otherwise his faculties are
unimpaired.
| THE FACT THAT THE new Chief Justice
once edited newspaper serves to recall
the observation of certain French phi.
losopher that Journalism is profession
which leads to anything-if yon leave IL
soon enough. h."-LSt. Louis Globe-Demo
crat.
Miss JANE STUART, who died in New
port last week, was the daughter of Gilbert
Stuart, the artist and portrait painter. She
copied from her fathers portrait of Wash
ington the painting which now hangs in
the Common Council Chamber in the City
Hall at Salem.
JOHN WAYAMAKER of Philadelphia di-
yided among his 272 employees this week
about 100000 in dividends and percent
ages, besides giving them $4,000 as the
basis of pension fund for the old and
disabled. No danger of any strikes in
that tcon Germ.
REV. DR.. MINER, the leading Univer
salist preacher Of Boston, celebrated the
semi-centennial of his ministry last Sun
day. He stated in his discourse thai
during the last halfcentury he had de
livered over 6,000 formal addresses, be-
sides many of brief and casual charac'
ter, and solemnzed 2,737 marriages.
The DAILY bill of fare at Mrs. Lama
drid's coffee stands, New York, is as fol
lows: A half pint of coffee, with milk
and sugar, and slice of bread, one cent
beef soup, with vegetables and slice o
bread, one cent; pork and beans, on'
cent; fish cakes, one cent; sandwiches
one cent, and on Fridays fish chowder
| one cent