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josef Hofmann at Albaugh's.
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP.
Kaiorama Heights to be Graded soon =
Another Fine Block.

Work will soon be commenced on the
grading of Kalorama Heights. The sew
eral owners of this property have decided
to eXpend 100000 in the extension of
Massachusetts avenue through the land,
and the proper grading, parking and sub
dividing of the property. Massachusetts
avenue is to be widened to its full width
and other streets run through the land.
II is understood the lots will be placed on
the market in about three months.
Another handsome block Of residences
is TO be added to the many improvement
going on in the northwest section of the
city Mr.. 7. +. Schneider, the architect
will soon commence the erection of a row
of twenty houses near Dupont Circle.
They will be three stories in height, press
brick front, bay windows, and will con
tain many gables and towers to break the
monotony of the row. Mr.. Schneidcr's
idea in building these residences is TO fill
long-ielt want, to furnish a neat, taste
ful residence in u good locality to rent at
a fair price. These houses will rent for
$40 or $50 per month.
Mrs. Mary X. Greer has sold to Charles
w. Applei, for $1,000, the house No. 2l06
ii street northwest. The lot has q front
age of 10 feet by depth of l22 feet
Mr. A. ID. HaZen has bought from J.. u.
Bryant, for $1,000, SIX lots in th square
between +, q and North CapitO streets.
Mr. II. T. Hay has sold five lois iu The
square between Massachusetts avenue, X,
Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets south
east The property contains 63,Old square
feet, and Jos. II. Hunter was the pur.
chaser, The consideration is withheld.
Mr. John c, Lang has bought from J.
property, called whitney Close for
i
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himself on his hands and knees in the
mud, in his best clothes. lie was
cleaned up, married the couple beau
tifully, and partook of the collation..
No word was said about the fee. The
next day the father Of the groom
called on him to express his salts
faction with the ceremony and pre-.
sent him with a dead-rabbit And
il wasn't even skinned, " says the dis
gusted recipient.
MANY AMUSING THfNos
occur, arising from the embauos.
ment or oyeraowing hearts Of the
contracting parties, although a. o.
general thing they try to act as il
marrying was an everyday occurrence
with them. When there is any en-
bafrassmcnt shown it IS seldom by
the lady Men seem more helpless.
At Il wedding that occurred not long
ago, the parties being country youths,
the minister addressing the man. said
"Wilt thou take this woman to be thy
welded wife? wilt thou love her2"
The fellow could stand no more, and
at once interrupted him with a loud
cry, Love herl Yes, / guess | Will
love her. Why, she is the dearest.
.darlingest girl in all creation l'
| have shown how easy il is to get
married, and if any man remains
single after learning that with dol
lar and a little maneuyering ne can
become Benedict, he is incorrigibie.
L. A. T.
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on the plantations in the South.
Each contains two rooms about the
size of stateroom on "Sound
steamer" In the first room you
enter is a little round stove that
holds about q pocketful of coal and
which heats the hut. Seats impro-
vised in all sorts of ways are here
and there. On the walls are colored
prints of a sporting nature, generally
the portrait of flock" or a cut of a
horse. In some cases the stables
colors have been used for decorations.
A good-sized trunk, which has
seen most of the race-tracks of
the country, is covered with a
horse blanket and makes a tolerably
comfortable lounge. Through the
doorway the sleeping room can be
seen. A bunk of rough boards
knocked together and covered with
blankets, but sounder sleep was never
enjoyed on down. And here through
the long winter months the trainer
and his men live, within pistol shot
of their valuable charges, so that not
a Whitney is unheard or moan goes
unnoticed without the vigilant guard
ian is at the side of the distressed
beast. And the vigilance and pa
tience of the winter finds its reward
when the SHOWS have left, the grass
has returned to the hillsides about
the place and again thousands crowd
to the grand stand waiting with ill
repressed eagerness for the fall of the
Hno
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Teie Doe is as big as cart-horse,
and it looks as if w. B. j. would have
q hard time getting her fit for early
spring races. But when she is fit,
Just stand from underl Frank Ward
has grown a great deal, and Boaz has
passed better winter than he ever
did before. He should be q better
horse this year than he was last. Ten
Strike looks very we'll, but has taken
on considerable flesh. King Idle and
Guardsman have both grown taller
and have spread out considerably.
King Idle is a colt that will probably
go a distance when asked. Teddy
Foley is the flower of the two-year-
olds, and most of the trainers say that
he will make q grand race horse, but
to some people he looks a little too
heavy in the neck-a sort of stud
crest; but as he is very fat this may
disappear when he is aft" Sam Ross
is q namesake of the popular Avenue
hardware merchant, and is a full
brother to Frank Ward. In looks he
is quite his equal.
THE JUMPERS.
Going on little further we reach
Mr.. McDermott's horses. He has
two in his stable, both jumpers and
both maidens.
They are:
FL Mahdi, br. g., s; Electra.
Stanton, b. g., 4; Lyttleton- -
"Mac" will send both to the Rock
away meeting and il will take pretty
good horse to beat FL Mahdi over the
short course.
The three strings get along very
harmoniousiy. Early every morning
nine of the horses are taken from
their stalls, and from Z to $50 they
are ridden by the boys at moderate
trot around the straw track, which is
an eighth of mile in circumference.
Then they are taken back, well
rubbed off and retired to their stalls
and another lot given trot. They
are left in their stalls for the rest OF
the day. When the weather is mild
they are taken out doors and given
moderate exercise, but great care is
taken not to overtrain or reduces flesh
too rapidly. Having horse eft" toe
early is as bad as the reverse. The
iudicious trainer times the process so
that horse becomes "fit' in time foI
the spring campaign and in such con-
dition that he is constantly improv-
ing. The food given is that given
ordinary horses; the care-ah, that's
quite another thing.
DAVIS 4 HALLS STABLE.
Leaving the building we walk ovel
to the collection of shabby, wooden
buildings we saw from the hilltop,
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TIE IVY CITY COLONY.
Life at The Race Track During
the Winter
HOW THE RACES ARE WORKED
A Tour Of the Stabics-Tallks with
the Trainers.

Twenty-minutes drive and one has
left the gay streets of the city far
behind, and is on the hill overlook
ing the Horse Haven at Ivy City.
The long row. of whitewashed sta
bles look in the distance like the
toy houses the children used to play
with. They are so prim and an
gular and wholly innocent of any
attempt at architectural attractive
ness. A cluster of them snuggle
down in the hollow and the 9TH
eIs stretch away out of sight, up
the hill behind a clump of ce-
dars. Ivy City is an attractive
place, even now, in bleak winter,
when the snow in dirty patches disfig-
ures the landscape, and the biting
wind, prying pitilessly through ones
wraps, creates an involuntary yearn-
ing for the comfortable fire, the
cheerful cigar and the seductive hot
punch of the city. The road to the
race course passes through the pret-
tiost of Washingtons suburbs, and
this fact has at last been realized, for
a number of quaint and tasteful cot
tages are springing up where but a
few monthsa ago was nothing but green
hill and dale.
THE IVY CITY COLONY.
Quite q colony passes the winter at
Ivy City. There are four good-sized
stables alternating there, and the num-
Der of trainers, stable boys, and other
helpers that are employed, is consid-
cradle. Mr.. w. P. Burch has Tom
Green for his foreman, and 10 boys;
w. b. jennings foreman is Robert
McClemment, and he has 0 boys un-
der him; "Jack'' Joyner, who has
charge Of Davis & Halls string, has
l3 boys and little "Spider" Anderson
to assist him, S. w. Street, who
trains his own horses, has 10 boys,
and "Jimmie'' Dwyer, who is taking
care of I. D. McDermott's horses, has
several with him.
Altogether there are about forty.
So that it need not be so lonesome as
one would think. At some Of the
wintering places for horses there are
night schools for the stable boys and
Jockeys. Such an institution would
hardly succeed at Ivy City. The boys
are all colored, and they spend their
evenings in one another's cabins
singing to the drumming of banjo
or delighting in double shuttle.
Sometimes they trudge off to the city,
but these cold winter nights even the
allurements of the Capital are not
strong enough to draw them away
The Washington critic., 1888-02-04

THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1t uses nearly as many sheets of paper
each year as there are people in the
country, and its estimates, at times,
call for 100000 reams of printing
paper.
= Let me tell you how it looks.
Imagine an immense, prison-like
building, covering an acre of ground,
and looking more like great factory
than a Government establishment;
make its walls square, and its ma
terial q dirty white brick, and let it
consist of tiers of walls running
around whole square; put hundreds
of windows into its walls, and
make these windows as dirty as the
smoked paint of its Sides let it
have many entrance doors, and
at each put guard with a
silver badge on his breast, and
over the chief entrance door put an in
significant, stone-eyed marble bust Of
Zen. Franklin, and you have some
idea of this big printing Office. Make
the building look dreary and sad, and
let its stories be sombre,. and let the
windows which look out on the north
and the east turn their bleary eyes at
the great Capitol dome, and add to the
whole the dingy surroundings of
Poverty Flat-a combination of
Boarding tumble-down shan
ties and vacant lots--and the picture
is more nearly complete.
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from their comfortable hunks. They
are Jolly, contented lot, and are all
known as the "boys," even those
sturdy old fellows who are bent under
the weight of over two score years.
THE BIG STABLE.
One of the boys is lounging in front
of the great brick stable as we drive
up, and catches the reins we toss
him, assured that bit of shining sill
yer will reward his care of our ami
NAL, while we make the tour of the
stables. Certainly no fault can be
found with the stabling accommoda-
tions this winter. This great stable,
which has been made by fitting up
the old exhibition hall of the Fair
Association with forty-eight box
stalls, is unsurpassed by any in
America. 1t is doubtful if ii is
equaled. One of the foremen when
asked how he liked the stable de-
clared emphatically that il was the
finest in America. 1t was com
fortably warm after experiencing the
chill wind outside. Perfect ventila-
ton was afforded through the win
dows at the sides and in the roof.
The place was as neat as the proven
bal pin. Around the huge building,
close to the four walls runs straw
track, on which the horses take their
daily constitutional trot. No litter is
TO be seen. The aisles are carefully
swept. All the refuse has been car
ried away long before the hours for
visitors arrive. The cheerful sun
shine pours through the great panes
of glass and the incessant twittering
of the swallows, who have taken
forcible possession of the many little
hooks under the roof, renders the
place far from disagreeable. The
merry little songsters make the place
seem like vast aviary.
BuRcH's STRING.
Mr.. Burch's string is located near
est the door. Let us take look at
them first. He has the following;
Biggonet b. M, 81 Bramble. .Bobinet
Pasha. br. G., b; SaXon-P -Papoose.
Romp ch. M 4: Bramble.'rom Boy
Boccaccio, br. h., A; Fetcherimported Dry
Toast.
Midnight, blk. c., .: NInner.NIary Warren.
Seymour b. c., ?; Stratford-lmelda
Jezebel br. T., ?; Burnham.Jopna.
Bay gelding y; SaNOn-tafrle Athefton,
Chestnut colt p Pantaloon-dam by import
ed West Roxbury
savanac, ch. h., 3; Mortmer.Sly Boots.
Doodle, ch. e., q; Bertram.
OF this lot Seymour and Jezebel be-
long to Mr.. Il. {. Blunt, while Pasha
and the Saxon colt, it is said, belong
to George NJ. Oyster, ir. There is
also in this stable four-year-old bay
mare by Red Dick dam Mary Long,
but if she is trained at all, it viii not
be by Mr., Burch, who gives her up on
account Of her temper and because
he has too many now and expects to
have two or three more from Gov
ernor Ransom's place in North
Carolina. Every horse in the stable
looks well big and strong, with plenty
of flesh to begin work on. Biggonet,
a very fast but rather unfortunate
mare, looks better than ever before in
her life, and if she stands training,
and she probably will, it will take a
race-horse to show her his heels
Romp shows the most improvement
of the lot. She is grand mare, can
carry almost any sort of weight and
run as fast as the best. She would
make a great one between the flags
Pasha is doing very well and his leg
are probably rs good as ever. OF the
two-year-olds Mr.. Blunts colt sey
mour leads the lot, He is the bes
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of the Century Magazine; cover
each of these 1000 pages with
type the size of that Of this news
paper, and you can have some
idea Of the amount of speaking that
Congress does every year. Many of
these speeches are, however, never
delivered at all, and the Congressman
rises and says "Mr. Speaker" and
then asks leave to print his remarks.
The Congressional Record appears
every morning, and that of to-day
contains all that was said in the Sem
ate and House yesterday. | should
not say everything, for it does not in
clude the good stories told in the
cloak rooms, nor the gossip which
rises to the galleries while some mem
ber is speaking. Ithas, however, the
full proceedings, and these are taken
down in shorthand by photographers,
and 1t costs 500, 900 year for report
ing for the Record. The phonograph-
ers employed are among the fastest
in the country, and those of the
House get as big salaries as the Con-
eressmen themselves, while the
Senate reporting is managed by
one man, who gets S25, 900
year for the job. These men
take their notes down in "pot hooks"
on paper, and then rush out to room
which is reserved for them in the
Capitol and redictate them to some
slower amanuensis, who takes them
down again in shorthand and writes
them out in long hand or on the type
writer for the Record. Some of the
daily Records contain 100000 ems,
and they often get out rs much as
would make 400 pages of closely
printed novel.
: The setting up of all this type and
the printing is done at the Govern
ment Printing Office, and this is an
establishment which is seldom visited
by strangers at Washington. Still, it
is the biggest printing Office in the
world, and it turns out more matter
than any publishing house in the
United States. Harper's and Scrib-
ner's dwindle in comparison with it,
and il pays out in wages each year
more than $1,000,000. 1t has com
positors by the hundreds, and its
proof-readers are many.
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UNCLE SANS PRINTING
all About the Biggest Publishing
House in the World.
THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD"
Needs ofa New BuiIding--A Tramp
Through All Its Departments.

There has been much talk in Con-
gress this session as to the Govern
ment Printing Office and the Congress-
Sonol Record. Anumber Of statesmen
are in favor Of cutting down the ex-
penscs of Uncle Sam in this direction,
and, undoubtedly, much useless print
ing is done. Every. bill that comes
before Congress is printed, and when
one considers that 10000 bills are in
troduced each session, and that nearly
1000 copies Of each bill are printed,
1t can be seen that one session has
about 10000, 600 printed copies of bills
alone. OF course, not more than a
I. few hundred Of these bills pass, and
about 100000 out of the 10000, 900
copies printed are wasted material.
Tliey are kept until the end of the
session, and are sold as waste paper,
and the grocers and marketmen of
Washington wrap up their vegetables
and meats in congressional docu-
ments.
Not only the bills are printed, but
also many of the committee reports,
and, in case bill comes to CON
ference committee, more copies are
printed, and, in some cases, the
copies of a single bill run into the
thousands. Nearly 1000 copies of all
reports Of committees, and testimony
taken by them, must be printed, and
il is impossible to conceive the inn
.mensity Of this business of the Gov
ernment Printing Office. Ben:
Perley Poore published de-
scriptive catalogue of Government
publications just. before he died, and
this took more paper than Webster s
largest dictionary, and it included
10000 titles. These did not relate to
bills, but to books and pamphlets,
and some of the titles include twenty.
four or twenty-five volumes. The
"Tenth Census" for instance, took
twenty-four volumes, and the. "Wal
Record that is being gotten UP is
several times as large as "Bancroft's
History of the United States," and il
will take up as much space on the
shelves of library as the "Encyclo
pedia Britannica"
The Congressional Record costs from
Sl50,000 to 100000 a year and the
debates and speeches of each ses
The Washington critic., 1888-02-04
Thc Lnckson Dcmocrnts.

The jackson Democratic Club met last
night, an unusually large number of en-
thusiastic members being present. Presi-
dent James l.. Norris presided. 1t was
urged that this association, by reason ofits
seniority, take the initiative in the move
mcnt for a District convention to send
delegates to the National Convention.
Resolutions were presented providing for
the appointment of committee to CO.
operate with committees from other
ORGANIZATIONS in securing the enforcement
of the civil service law and in keeping
District. Government employees away
from the primaries, and also committee
OF three to arrange for the primaries.
They were referred to the executive com
mittCe.
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looking fellow-ycry much like Ban
loK at the same age--at Ivy City, and
u nc doesn't race some, appearances
lie. lie certainly has speed, as his
trial OF a quarter up the back stretch
in "A seconds last fall proves, and as
he is one of the improving kind, there
is every reason to believe he will go
as far as he is asked Jezebel, O filly,
belonging to the same gentleman,
while not so large nor ms good looking
as the colt, is a perfect little beauty
and looks as If she would be hard to
beat in some Of the early spring
stakes. The Milncr filly, Midnight,
is not bad looking by any means and
will doubtless win good races In Mr..
Burch's hands. No jockey has yet
been engaged by this stable, but as
Mr.. Burch is known to be very sweet
on the champion, Jimmy McLaugh
lin, il is probable he will have "leg
up" whenever he is not otherwise en-
gagged, and little Joe Harris may do
the lightweight riding.
JENNINGS lot.
Down in the centre aisle we will
find Mr. Jennings and his string of an
even dozen. The lot are:
Ten Strike, br. g., aged Ten Broeck-Man.
ME Gray.
Telie Doe, ch. M, g; Great Tom-Nina Tur.
ner.
Boa2, or. h., 81 Felowcraft Rosaline.
Frank Ward, b. h., 81 VoltigeurStella.
Iangor, b. G., 8; Lyttletun-Nixen.
King Idle, br. c., q; wild Idle-Augusta r..
Guardsmon, ch G., 8; Monday. .glendon.
Fofmosa, b, T., %; Longfclow-Call Duck.
Gam. Ross, h. G., .: NoltigeurStella.
Teddy Foley, b. g., 2; Glengarry- -Parana.
Coldle NJ. b. f., 9: Mlner-Vrenetta.
Bay gclding, ?; Noltigeur-Gold Leaf.
Like all the other horses in the new
stable those of Mr.. jennings look so
well that the Fair Association ought
to lose no time in converting the other
brick building into a good stable to
tempt other horsemen here.
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A posTMAsTER's PLIGHT.
His Rabbit Dog Gone and No Means of
Subsistence Left.

His Rabbit Dog Gone and No Means of
Subsistence Left.
The Postmaster General has received
the following letter from a Mississippi
Postmaster:
"DEAR SIR: | have waited long and
patiently for you to discontinue this Office.
You see, your postmaster here, after he
had tried IN vain to get the office discon-
tinued, left me here as kind Of assistant.
lie left me with good rabbit dog and
YOU can't understand my discomfort until
| have told YOU. This Is a wool growing
country and some of the most prominent
and influential citizens came to distrlet
my dog and at last he came up missing.
| tried In vain TO buy another dog. SO |
am left here without the means Of susie
nance. So If you expect me to set up
nights for the trains and keep this mail in
proper trim you will have to forward at
once some pork and beans or some other
nourishment or a new postmaster Will
have TO be appointed at this place.
"P. S.-Bill Bound wants me to split
him some rails If | can get rid Of this of
flee in time, so hurry up with the grub or
the discharge
The office has been discontinued.
The Washington critic., 1888-02-04
SHOWING HIS "polNrs.' y


Davis & Halls horses are in the first
lot, and they have twelve in their
stable. Only two, however, have
made their bow to the public. They
are:
Bess, br. M, .; Fadladeen Betsey.
Patrocles, b. g., D; King Fisher-Patience.
The new onesare:
Ieander, h. e., .; Leader Betsev.
Knight of Ninton, CHI g. 81 Romney'
May D.
Rolander, b, e, 3; RomneyJest,
Romance, b, c., 3 Romney-Fleet.
Louida, b. f., 3; Leader Eunce.
Lettina, cl. T., .; Leader;Griverla.
soiree, b. f., Q; Eolussans souci.
Wood Rose, b. T., 81 Woodlands.La Rose.
Roma, ch, f., .; Romney-May d.
A. j. Joyner, who has had charge
of this lot for several years past, has
his lot in as nice fix as any at Ivy
City, and has remained in the same
stable he occupied for the past two
winters. 'Spider" Anderson will
again wear the blue, black and red of
the stable, and Joyner says that
"Spider" will go up every time this
wear no matter what the weights are.
OF the horses Bess is probably the
best known, and she is in fair way
TO hold her position IN public favor
as a good, honest little mare. She
has not grown much, if any taller,
but she has broadened considerably,
and looks the picture of perfect
health. Patrocles has not taken on
quite so much flesh as his owner
would like, but he looks very
we'll, and it will take good
horse to "don him over his ia
vorite distance, five furlongs. Knight
of Vinton, half brother to Ninton
(who has been given to a friend OF
Mr.. Davis to be used for saddle purr
poses). Is a good looking colt, but a
little long in the back Roma, one
ofthe two-year olds, also claims kin tC
Vinton through her dam May d, and