The Washington critic., 1888-10-12
NOTES AND GOSSIP.

ADDISON CAMMAoK, the great bear operator
in the stock market, is credited with having
made over 81, 100000 on the recent caperings
OF the wheat market.
THE GOVERNOR says letter from Cleveland
indorsing him would be causeless aud useless.
It would also be stupidity olllcous-[ New
York Graphic.
GENERAL FRANCIS A. WALKER, by invita-
tion of the city of Boston, will deliver an adj
dress on the late General Sheridan about De-
comber 90
ADAM WAS THE first man to start the ext ra-
ordinary theory that marriage is failure.
But we must bear in mind that Adams OPP
portunities for observation outside of his own
family were very limited Troy Times.
AN OLD PoLIcEMAN's remedy for tender feet
is to bathe them in two quarts of cold water,
into which have been poured two tablespoon
fus of ammonia and one tablespoonful of bay
rum.
IT IS SAID of Queen Victoria, though we
do not fully credit it, that between $3.50 n. m
aud 1:15 p. m. she works as hard as any clerk
In England, in attending to her private cor
respondence.
MISS ANNA KATHERINE GREEN, the author
of the famous "Leavenworth Casen and other
detective stories, is guilty of only one literary
affectation. it is said, and that is the Jealous
preservation of the old stumps Of her pencils,
with which she has written her tales.
GEORGIA marketed about 7S00,0O0 water
melons this year for $l,500,000, of which
amount the middlemen pocketed $500,000,
and the railroads $780, 900, while the farmers
had to be satisfied with the remainleg 81 co.
600.
POTTER PALMER of Chicago has imported q
| four-in-hand coach that cost him $40. 600 aud
four handsome horses at cost Of another
! $4,000. 1t is the most expensive tournout of
the kind ever seen in America.
W. b. CLUvERIUs, father of T. j. Cluverius,
| the man who was hung In Richmond for the
murder of Lillian Madison about three years
ago, died ut his home, in King and Queen
| County, few days ago. He was au old man,
and failed rapidly from the time OF his sons
tragic death.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER's first official inter-
view with the President of the United States
was cut short by Anson and his baseball club,
| who came to talk about the Australian tour.
There is good deal of social dispute rs to the
respective rank of Cabinet officers, Supreme
Court justices and United States Senators
| But nobody questions the baseball captains
status. Detroit journal.
a MAIL AND EXPRESS reporter has discov
cred that whereas six years ago all the carbons
burned in the electric lights of the country
were made in one room in Boston by ter
men, there are now $50 tons consumed
daily and of this number 100 tons are turned
out in the twenty carbon furnaces of Cleye-
land.
THE COUNT aud Countess dl Montecale
were married at Plttsburg ou "Wednesday
night The Countess was formerly Miss
Knox, daughter of W. w. Knox of Pitts
burg. They will sail for Europe tomorrow
on La Normandie and pass the winter IN
Italy. Shortly after her arrival the bride viii
be presented to Queen Marguerite Of the
Italian Court.
THE EXAMINING board OF the New Yorl
Custom House has just concluded an exam
ination Of thirty applicants for position as in
speetresses, on 'iuspectres," as they are nov
called. The entire staff numbers but % per
sons who receive "a per day and there are a
present no vacancies. All Of the new apDli
cants who received 20 per cent, on examlna
ton viii be put on the eligible list.