The Washington critic., 1888-09-04
NOTES AND GOSSIP.


THE first cargo of raisns at New York this
year arrived from Spain yesterday-40,00O
cases,
GEORGE w, CABLE has gone to the Pacific
Coast to give a series of readings and will be-
gin at The Dalles, Oregon, September 10.
A LADY VISITING Bar IIarbor says that the
only thing that you can buy there at reason
able price is postage stamp. Lewiston
journal.
RUMoR has It that Colonel James r. Ran
dali, late of the Baltimore American, is about
to take editorial charge of the Augusta (Ga,)
Evening News.
A Boston weghing-machine has this in
scription over it: "Insert a half-dime in the
aperture and ascertain your avoirdupos -
[llarpers Bazaar.
THEY SAY that Governor Luce of Michigan
milks his own COW. That comes of only hay
ing salary of 81, 900 year. The Legislature
should increase it to 81, l,100
WILLIAM PTNKERToN, member Of the we'll
known detective agency, is under treatment
at New York eye and ear hospital for a seri-
GUS eye trouble, said to have been contracted
in sleeping car
Miss ISABEL HAPGooD, the wcll-known
translator from the Russian, French and Ital-
ian, is Worcester, Mass, girl. She now re-
sides in st. Petersburg and writes for the New
York Independent.
The FIRST DRAWING of the Panama lottery
authorized by the French Government re-
suited better for the canal than for the hold
ers of tickets. The company drew $l22, 800
In prizes, while the bondholders drew but
$500.
II nbra In tha A,to io
produced in Arkansas Such Is the legend
written over one of the States exhibits at the
st. Louis Exposition. Among these fibres
are jute, ramie, flax, okra, silk, hemp, cotton
| and wool.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, Mr. Blaine, Speaker
Carlisle, Senator ingalls,, Warner Miller and
Congressman S, s. Cox are a few of the men
prominent in public life who began their ca
| reers as school teachers. Mayor Hewitt paid
for his first trip TO Europe out of the proceeds
| OF years school teaching.
THE BosToN Record celebrated its fourth
anniversary last Saturday by the issue of an
! eight-page tinted edition, 1t also makes the
encouraging statement that now, for the first
| time, the paper is more than paying its way;
and whatever success II achieves we all know
to be well-earned and abundantly deserved.
|
acres OF land in Texas Another owns 1,SOO,-
900. Sir Z, j. Reid the famous English naval
constructor, has 100000 acres in Florida
| Two London firms own 3,050,000 acres An
| English company has 100000 acres In Misss-
sippi and another company has 100000 acres,
TIE CHICAGO Mail of Saturday contains a
six-column letter from Carter II, Harrison,
who has got as far as St. Petersburg In his
trip around the world from San Francisco.
The eX-Mayor has developed into a most
graphic and entertaining correspondent, No
better letters of travel have ever been pub
lished.
Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE's income is set
down at $l,500,000 per year, which means
Sl25,0O0 per month, $2S,s46 per week, $4,
120,S5 per day, $343,40 per hour, S5.72 per
minute and 95b cents per second the lat
ter sum being few cents more than an iron
ore miner in Pennsylvania receives for work
ing 43,20O seconds, or l2 hours per day. Nc
Juggling can change these fgures.-[ Phila.
Record.