The Washington critic., 1888-10-05
NOTES AND GOSSIP.

THE PEOPLE OF Vancoburg, KY, are dis
cussing the singular fact that the last ninety
five babies born in that town are all girls.
A New YORK manufacturing firm has 115
Williamson its employ. We presume 1t speaks
of its payroll as a roll of Bills Yonkers
Statesman,
GENERAL E. BuRD GRUBB OF New Jersey
feels more like swearing than singing when
anybody calls him "Canary Seed. I'm. Y.
Morning Journal.
THE ANNIvERsARY OF the execution OF the
Chicago Anarchists is to be celebrated in Bos-
ton on the 11th Of November by the Labor
party of that city.
THE wealthiest Welchman living is G.. w.
Taylor of Denbigshire, Wales. He has lately
returned from Australia, with S2l, 725, 900, to
run for the House of Commons.
THE veterans OF the Seventh New York
Regiment will celebrate their sixty-fourth an
niversary next Saturday. The dinner will be
held at the Metropolitan Hotel.
A FINE new steamship for the Atlas line Of
New York has just been launched in England.
There is nothing American about her but the
name she is to go blythe Adirondack.
A PERIODICAL MAGAZINE, to be issued once
a fortnight, is about to be started at Atlanta,
Ga. The editorial managers are DR.. j. q.
Armstrong and Major Charles W. Hubner
SAMUEL KYowLToN, California pioneer,
from New London, N H.-a genuine "Forty-
niner''-died at Big Bend, Butte County, Sep
tember 49, Ho had been extensively engaged
in fruit culture for number OF years.
The TECHNICAL SCHOOL at Bradford, Eng
land, is experimenting at painting by electric
light, which is derived from Pilsen arc lamp
and passed through ground glass globe. 1t
is said that colors can be selected as well as by
| daylight.
A NEWSPAPER published in Flanders states
that "the daily consumption of an ordinary
drinker-not a drunkard-there includes at
$50 a. M, worm killer;' at a. M, an 'eyC
opener;' at II a. M, whip at p. M, "a
digester;' at p. M, "a soldier and at 7;3O p
m., "a finisher.'
ROBERT LOUIS STEvENsoN's literary agent
announces that he has sold the series of letters
that Mr. Stevenson is writing among the
islands of the South Pacific to an American
newspaper for $4,000 He is also in treaty
with one of the London dailies for simultan
eous publication there.
The publishers OF the Detroit Journal Offer
$1,000 in gold to any person who will correctl,
name the four coldest days between Decem
ber /, 1888, and March 10, 1889, the tempera
ture of the signal station at Detroit to be tn,
standard. The guesses in each separate cas-
are to be sent by postal card before Decem
ber |.
Or THE PIONEER editors OF Illinois, tht
three oldest are Thomas Gregg Of Hamilton,
now in his S0th year, whose first journalist
venture was the establishment of the Cartha
genian In Hancock County, in 1886; Thomas
Cake Sharp, who started at Warsaw In 1910
and now In his roth year, edits the Carthage
Gazette and James Monroe Dawson, who frs
established the Fulton Gazette at Canton ii
1S43, and now conducts the Carthage Repub
lican.
REPORTER of the Philadelphia Record
who was anxious to know how far the ex
pressed desire of Mrs. Cleveland in regard Il
the abandonment of the hustle had been OBJ
served In that city, took up position, corne
of Thirteenth and Chestnut streets, the othe
day, and noted results as follows in one hour
No hustle, "a; bushel-szed hustle, 49, mod
couldn't tell whether it was hustle or not, "a
ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS never tire of telling
how abusive an American campaign Is, ye
here is sample of their idea of the way the
thing ought to be done:
When the Grand Old Man goes to his doom
He will ride IN fiery chariot,
And sit in state
On red hot plate,
'Twixt Satan and Judas lscariot.