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The Washington critic., 1889-04-29
10 More Trouble with Canada.


NHUHEO HtFaIuD
Judging by newspaper cuts, British Min
lister Pauncefote bears something of re-
semblance to Mr.. Armour, the eminent
packer. II he knows half as much about
fish as the latter knows abouthogs we may
expect an early and satisfactory settlement
Of the 6sb question.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29
Noah Al Right.

(S II. News Letter.)
"Dr. Tanner was not the first man who
lived on water for forty days. said
Smudge.
"NoYn queried Fudge.
"Of course not
"Who else?n
"Well, what's the matter with Noahf'
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29


A Missouri preacher while hunting wild
turkeys the other day concealed himself In
clump OF brush and initiated the cry OF
that fowl so perfectly that his companion
shot and wounded him. The incident was
handsome testimonial to his powers of
imitation, but 1t hardly compensates him
for the loss OF several teeth and fragment
of his Jaw.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29
DIED.

DIED.
DENO.-Sunday morning, April 2s after a
lingering illness, of consumption, Maud A.,
beloved wife of George @. Demo, and sister of
Mrs. Addie Rynex, and the late Andrew j,
Reddick.
Funeral from the residence of her husband,
Ces street northeast, Tuesday, April 3o at
II q. m.
Words are inadequate to express the loss
OF this devoted wife and mother. 10 may
interest OF her family. May God in Ills
mercy sustain and comfort them in their hour
OF sorrow.
KENZIG.-- Louise, widow of the late
Adolph Kenzig, departed this life Saturday,
April 27, at 3:15 p. m.
Funeral from her late residence, efO Four
teenth street southwest at $50 p. m. Tues
day, April S0' Friends respectfully invited.
May she rest in peace
BY HER CHILDREN.
LINDSLY.-On April 2S, 1880, after brief
illness, Harvey Lindsly, M. d.. aged s5.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29

lOmaha herald.I
1t is with deep grief that we notice the
Chicago Nelos referring to the Hon. r.
Todd Lincoln as the possessor of whiskers
which are "hereely black and umbra-
geous.n outrageous, we grant you, but not
black. The Hon, Todd's whiskers are a
beautiful brown-about the color your
mouth tastes next morning.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29

DEATH is not pleasant thing to con
template, and yet not many persons are
feeling badly to-day, because one hundred
years from now they will be too dead to go
over to New York to the second Washing
ton Centennial.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29

SEVERAL DOZEN persons have written to
the New York papers to say they own the
knee-buckles Washington wore at his first
Inauguration. George must have been an
omniverous old buckleberry unless some
body is doing what George could not do.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29

EACH PAPER in New York will have the
largest circulation In that town tomorrow.
The Little Hatchet supply ran out before
itreached the affidavit makers attached to
our Metropolitan contemporaries.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29
VISITORS TO THE DEPARTMENTS.

Secretaries Blaine, Proctor and Tracy
have issued the following order for the re-
ception Of visitors:
Reception Of Senators and Representa-
tives In Congress, from 10 to l2 o'clock.
Reception OF all persons not connected
with the Departments, at l2 o'clock, except
Tuesdays and Fridays, which are Cabinet
days; and Thursdaysin in the Department Of
State, when the members of the Diplomatic
Corps are exclusively received.
Persons will not be admitted to the build
ing after o'clock each day, unless by card,
which will be sent by the captain of the
watch TO the chief clerk or to the head of
the bureau for which the visit is intended
1his rule will not apply TO Senators, Repre-
scntatives or heads of Executive Depart
meDts.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29

A REPORT is received that Khartoum has
fallen. As we have heard no ''dull thud"
from the direction of Africa recently the
inference is that Khartoum has fallen with
out the usual accompaniment.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29

SPIES, the Chicago Anarchist hanged
some time ago, has "materialized" at a
spiritualistic meeting in Fiudlay, Ohio.
Findlay, by the way, is the great natural
pas centre
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29

THE New YORK San says: swat three
years from now and see what Democracy
can do without Mugwumpery. Sixty
millions or more of people are taking the
SUMS advice for once, anyhow
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29
UNDERT1KERS.
PROPOSILH.

PROPOSALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS SUP
j. PLiES.-WAR DEPARTMENT, April 2, 1889.
Sealed proposals lin duplicatol will be re-
Wednesday, May 22, 1899, for furnishing Mis-
eellaneous Supplies consisting Of Brooms,
brushes, Soaps Towels, etc., etc., for the
ton, during the fiscal year ending June 80,
1890 Blank forms of proposals, showing the
items and estimated quantities required, to-
gether with instructions to bidders, will be
will be considered on each item separately.
Proposals must be addressed to the under
signed, indorsed on the outside of the envel-
ope, proposals for Miscellaneous Supplies ~
NJ n TUORP Chief SnpDly Division
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29

HUNDREDS OF boomers who failed to
catch on in Oklahoma have hitched up aud
gone forth to find pastures, or at least less
possessed. Their curses are louder than
they are deep.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29

Mr.. STUYvEsANT FISH and Mr.. Ward
McAllister, with locked horns, should head
the land procession in New York to-mor-
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29

NEW York will entertain the Pennsyl-
vania troops this week. The Pennsyl-
vania troops entertained Washington last
March,
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29

LoRp LoNsDALE back from his Arctic
trip is man Queen Victoria should be
proud to own as son-in-law.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29
CRITICULAR.

IT is ''dull shucking' around the White
House to-day for the office-seeker.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29

Have you seen the suits we are selling for
$3.50, $40 and Sl250, guaranteed perfect
fitting and finished In first-class style2
EIsEMAM Bros, 7th & E, Manufacturing
Clothiere and TaiIors
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29

The latest claimants for the honor Of
being the oldest twins are the Chase
brothers, David and John, who were born
In New Hampshire in l795, and conse-
quently lack but six years OF being o
century old. David still resides In his
native State. Johns home is at Fall River,
Wis.
Washington Safe Deposit Co., 9l8 Pa.
ave. Storage Department all above ground.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29

A warning for highwaymen to give China
the go-by comes from that country In this
form; "Not long since fifty highwaymen
were executed at Kirlin.n
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29
Honolulu Newspaper.

According to the Paradise Of the Pacific,
published at Honolulu, that city publishes
three daily and three weekly papers in the
Hawaiian language, two daily and two
weekly papers In English, two weeklies in
Portuguese, one weekly in Chinese, and
two religious and one agricultural month
lies. The papers are well printed and
States.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29

The printer at the case stands up for the
editor's writes. Thus DOVE see the true
harmony OF labor and capital.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29


land, oatmeal porridge is never absent.
Secret of Uncle SANS Strong Box.
Sub-Treasurer Ellis II. Roberts made an
innovation yesterday that occasioned much
interest in the building when considered to-
gether with his determination TO put the
employees under bonds. From time imme-
mortal the combinations of the locks to the
big vaults where 100000 in cash is
stored have been known to one employee
and the Sub-Treasrrer. Mr.. Roberts yes
terday changed this Two men will own
the secret-one to know one half of the
combination, and the other the other half.
He himself will know nothing. These men
will be known to their associates, but to
avoid complications in case of sickness or
death Mr.. Roberts has given another two
the combinations. These men are not
known to their associates, and are not even
known to each other. Further, to guard
against mishaps, the two men known to
have the combinations have written, In sep
arate sealed envelopes, each his half of the
secret, and Mr.. Roberts put these envelopes
in big envelope, plastered 1t with sealing
wax from end to end, and locked II In the
safe. This is for his own benefit, In case
the holders Of one undivided half OF the
secret should be sick or die, Mr.. Roberts
would then break the great clump Of wax
on the big envelope, aud for the first time
know the secret himself.-[N New York Sun
It Should Have Kicked.
d. f. Jackson, who lives near Nc
Donough, Ga, killed an American eagle
with an old-fashioned flint and steel musket
WNllt Aals tA 80 A..
loose on Bntishers. The bird measured
seven feet from tip TO tip, and was seventy
yards distant from the marksman. The old
gun ought TO have ''kicked' vigorously
when used in the destruction OF the great
Bird Of Freedom.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29
FIRST RACE AT 8 O'CLOCK.

Special race trains via Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad at 1910, 1:50 and $50 p. IN.
Returning trains will be in waiting when
the races are over.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29

You may think 1t is a Centennial you are
going to New York to see, but you will find
it n Dollar-tennial or Ten-dollarial, just as
you prefer, before you get home again.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29

Perfect order will be preserved. Objee-
tionable persons will, as ON previous occs
sions, be excluded.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29

The egotist doesn't go to an oculist for
his troubles.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-29

lcb on. lie lOSt steaullY, out tine passion
was so strong that he could not stop. The
day the pool-rooms were closed up he went
TO the place he had been frequenting and
found the door locked and the place de-
serted. He philosophically remarked that
he was so much the richer for 1t, and went
home and gave the money to his wife. She
hid 1t in the refrigerator and the man went
to bed. But he could not sleep, and after
tossing about in bed an hour or two he got
up, took the money out OF the refrigerator
where he had seen his wife hide it, put II In
an envelope and went down to where the
pool-room had been and slipped II under
the door. Then he went back home and
went to sleep satisfied. The other story
was of two sports who went over to the
Jerome Park races and were cleaned out
They had some twenty-five cents between
them, and started for the ferry to come
back II they could find anyone to borrow
unnecessary from. On the way TO the ferry
they passed an unfinished house in
which they saw coil of lead
pipe, Now lead pipe is worth some
ten cents or more pound, and as nobody
was about one of them took the pipe aud
winding II closely about his waist, buttoned
his overcoat up over it, and nobody would
have guessed that he had enough lead pipe
under his coat to sell for the wherewith to
get meal They boarded the ferry-boat,
and when about half way across the man
with the lead pipe under his coat fell over
board, The deck-hands stood about with
boat-hooks and ropes to fish for the man as
soon as he came up. His friend, who had
at last found einch, ran up and down the
deck shouting, "Ten to one he don't come
upl A hundred to one he don't come upl
Somebody take mel A hundred to one he
don't come up~ Aud he couldn't get any
one 10 bet.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-12-20
sAwDUsr AS BEDDING FOR COWS.

Mich COWS require warm stablng
through the winter and complete protec-
ton from storms and cold winds to pre-
vent them from rapidly shrinking in
their milk. After a COW has eaten her
feed either in the morning or at night,
she feels comfortable and wants to lie
down. AS mich COWS should be kept up
in this way while the weather is cold, it
is very important that they should have
plenty of bedding to cover the stable
floor and keep them clean. For this pur-
pose, says a writer in the New York
World, 81 don't know of anything better
than sawdust, wherever it can be had
for the hauling from the mill Or at p cheap
price per load. A good thick coating Of
it in a cows stall will last a good many
days if the manure dropped on it is re-
moved early in the morning or before it
has been tracked around much. Dry
sawdust not only makes a soft bed for
the COW, but is also an excellent absorb
ant of liquids. By removing the small
portions detiled every day ard supplying
their place with new, load of sawdust
may be made to last quite loG9 time.
1t does not become foul and soiied as
easily as straw, and where it is used the
udder does not need washing s. fire.
quently, but can be kept clean with a
coarse brush. The sawdust that is
thrown out on the manure heap soon be-
comes good fertilizer, and it will also
help to loosen up hard clay soil. If
had straw in great plenty that [ wanted
to make into manure, [ might use it for
the COW stable instead of sawdust, but I
think the animals can be kept cleaner
and with less work on the latter"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-12-20
WHY THE HENS DON'T LAY.

The Farm and Garden says the time is
not far distant when farmers and poultry
breeders will wonder why hens don't
lay. If they have one breed. then that
particular breed will be blamed and
another one tried, only to find the same
existing conditions of management.
Now is the time to make such arrange
mentS as will 90 far toward insuring 4
liberal supply of fresh eggs during the
winter, when eggs are scarce and high.
The first step toward this is to see that
your poultry house is not only clean and
free from dampness, but that it is made
tight-wind and rain proof-and that
proper precautions are observed for ven
tilation. One of the very best things to
make the house stOrm-tight is tarred felt
ing, which is also obnoxious to lice and
mites, though 6 more substantial outside
covering can be made by first painting
the building thoroughly, and then be
fore the paint dries, putting coarse, close
woven bagging or canvas over the whole,
lacking it well in place. The bagging
can be treated to two or three coats of
good rubber paint and the thing is done.
A warm, comfortable house goes far
toward insuring winter eggs, and when
to this be added, in the start, good,
early Matched and vigorous birds and
plenty of suitable food, there need be no
reason for asking why the hens don't
lay. They naturally will not furnish
as liberal a supply in winter as in sum
mer, but they will furnish none at all if
left tO shift for themselves
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-12-20
A PANIC'S AWFUL RESULT.
Another Disaster in Inflated
JOhnStOWn.
Many People Trampled to Death
in a Theatre.

Johnstown. Penn, the city Of disasters has
had another horror. 1t came in the night,
and though its dead and injured victims do
not number more than one hundred, all told
it came upon them with even less Of warning
or preparation than the awful deluge OF
May 81 Twelve persons at least were
killed and thirty-five seriously injured as
result Of fire panic at the JOhnstOwn Opera
House, which was opened to the public only
week or two ago. StetsOn's Uncle Toms
CABIN was the play, and there was a large
audience present, considering the very
limited means which JOhnstOwn people
now find at their command for any
kind Of amusement purposes Dur:
ng the performance the cry Of 1:Firew
was raised To a people among whom any
sudden warning might mean very such. to
those who had passed through the flood
and hadnot forgotten its horrors, this cry was
contagious. It spread like wild fire and was
on every lip III an instant. Terrified and
panic stricken the hundreds of people in the
audience rushed, over seats and struggling
bodies, toward the one means Of exit. There
was only single, narrow stairway, and over
one another, hcadlOng. the frightened people
tumbied regardless Of the consequences.
BY 10 clock \. II. nine dead bodies had
been recovered from the wreck Of the stairs
and auditorium, and dozens upon dozens of
the injured had been assisted to doctors of
fees and drug stores for relief and restOra-
ton. By a. n ten deed bodies had been
counted, and it seemed as if the number
might yet be swelled, possibly doubled The
number Of injured at that hour had reached
thlrty-hVc, and there had been only the most
superficial and hasty Of searches for either
the rescued or the dead
1t was found necessary to turn q stream of
water on the crowd from q fire engine to
force it away from the doorway below, 50
the dead and wounded could be taken out
When the Jam was cleared the following
persons were found dead upon the stairs:
Miss Clara Burns. Mrs. hester, George
Hcrner Charles FAINT, Mrs. Lister, John
Miller, 4. Weiss, John Wyman, Richard
WorthingtOn, Isaac Tolar, John Carr and an
unknown woman.
Among the seriously injured were Charles
Vaughn, Albert Owens and man named
Welmer. There were about thirty others
injured -
The alarm was false, and there were many
threats against the unknown man who
started il.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-12-20
TAKING CARE OF SEEDS.

The excessive moisture of the summer
did considerable mischief in connection
with seed production. A great deal of
the seed will prove infertile if collected,
and one should be very careful in select
ING, either for home use or for the market,
the seeds of flowers, fruits or grains.
Excessive wet or drought are the two
chief difficulties to be encountered in
seed growing; but fortunately for the
ordinary farmer and gardener he does not
have to make his own collection Of seeds.
Reliable seedsmen can be found now,
where the best seeds can be procured.
Still, every cultivator Of the soil saves
few seeds of some choice variety of
plants, and others depend upon their own
seeds for nearly all of their crops. 1t
should be remembered by those that it
takes long summer to enable most plants
to perfect their seed crop, and a short
summer of inclement weather will often
make all the labor involved abortive. A
week or two of very wet weather will
rob most seeds of their fertility and make
them unfit for planting. In gathering
the seeds this year a close examination
OF the seeds and pods should be made.
All pods that have become Unduly en-
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-12-20
STANLEY'S RETURN.
The Long Journey For Emin Pasha's
Relief Ended-Sad Accident.


Henry NJ. Stanley has arrived on the east
coast OF Africa opposite Zanzibar, having
with him Emin Pasha and about two hun
dred people whom he has been for many
months conducting from the interior of the
their arrival stated that another detachment
of the rescued community was safely nearing
the point of rendezvous
Thus ends successfully one of the most re-
markabe expeditions of modern times
While General Gordon was Governor Of the
SOudan a German named Edward Schnitzler,
now known to the world as Emin Pasha, be-
came Governor of province of Egypt in the
equatorial interior of the continent. To res
cue him from his isolated position the expedi-
ton was organized, which was put in charge
Of Stanley, in February, 1887. From that
time to this the public has watched for news
from the adventurer and his command with
Increasing interest. Frequently stories Of his
death have BEEN published, but they proved
10 be false.
Mr. Stanley brings with him not only the
people whom he set out to relieve, but an adj
ditionai store of experience Of life in interior
Africa, which we may expect him to reduce
to print for the benefit of geographical and
chronological science.
Adispatch from Zanzil--< announced that
Emin Pacha had met with a probably fatal
accident. Being near-sighted, he walked
out of window by mistake, and fell OF his
head fracturing his skull.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-12-20

Richard Franklin Pettigrew, the other new
Senator from South Dakota, is Vermonter
by birth. His father was a merchant at
Ludlow in that State, where he WIS born
July 26, 1913. In 1854 the family moved to
Wisconsin. Young Richard entered Beloit
College, intending to work his way through,
but his father died, and he had to leave col
lege and help support the family. He stud
led hard however, and in 1869 he entered the
law college, and in 1870 was admitted to the
bar in GAINESVILLE. The same year he moved
to Sioux Falls, to which he had been at
tracted as a good place for rising young man
during trip through Dakota as surveyors
assistant. He reached the town with only
twenty five cents in his pocket, it is said; out
he soon made his way. He has served three
terms as Dakota's Delegate in Congress. In
person he is more slender than his colleague.
He is a friend of Prohibition, though not
third-partY man.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-12-20
CONGRESS ROBBED.
The Cashier of the Houses Sergeant
alarms a Defaulter.

Edward Silcott cashier OF the Sergeant
alarms of the House Of Representatives has
fed. carrying off about S72 900 OF the funds
entrusted to his care.
Silcott was a trusted employee, who came
to Washington from Ohio, and was appointed
by Sergeant-at-Arms Leedom when that
gentleman assumed Office, six years ago. He
had good business qualifications and soon
possessed himself of the unlimited confidence
of his superior. One day recently he notified
Mr. Leedom that he was going to New York
and would be back the following night. As
he did not appear on the day after Congress
opened Mr. Leedom began investigation
The information that Siicott had drawn his
bank balance deepened these suspicious.
The enormous safe in the Sergeant-at-
Arms office could not be opened at the mo-
ment, as Silcott had the combination; but
when an entrance was finally effected it was
found that some $50, 900 set apart for the use
of the paying teller was intact. The next in
ouirv was made at the Treasury DeparI-
ment and Mr.. LeedOm was informed that
Silcott had called there and had drawn about
ST., COO 1t was possible for him to draw this
large sum without exciting comment as he
had for long time been charged with the
duty of collecting the money with which the
salaries of the Congressman are paid
The announcement of Silcott's defalcatiOn
was made in the House, and Speaker Reed.
at Mr.. Leedom's request, appointed a COM
mittee to investigate the accounts Of the Ser
geant-aU-ArmS.
SiIcott is under bonds in the sum of $50 900.
his sureties numbering about fifteen persons
This is, however, an indemnity bond given to
the Sergeant-at-Arms, and Mr.. Leedom, who
is himself bonded in the sum of $50, 600, is di-
rectly responsible for the shortage
Some Congressman may lose from one to
six months salary and others the deposits
their private funds-which they had made
with the cashier.
Silcott is supposed to have fed to Canada
with a woman with whom he had become
infatuated. He left family in Washing
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-12-20

larged by the wet should be rejected. 4
Those that have damp moalds or black.
decaying spots on their under side should
likewise be pulled off and destroyed.
Shriveled pods are also unsuitable. If
the pod appears all right outside the seed
inside Is generally good; but after q long
wet spell of weather the seeds in perfect
pcds are sometimes worthless. So much
moisture has been absorbed by the pods
that the seeds become bloated and in
fertile. When the WAGER eyaporatcS they,
will either shrivel up or begin To decay.
Such season as this every pod shoul9
be burst opcI on one end and the seeds
inside inspected. If they are soaked with
water, a little mouldy, or full of tiny
black spots il Is useless TO save them.
Accept only those that are perfectly
sound. 1t usually takes two or three
years 10 recover from the effects of one
bad season for seed production, for
good deal of poor seed will be put on
the market the following spring. Too
much carefulneSs in this direction cannot
be taken; not simply by the gardeners,
but by the seed growers As well. Seed
may be scarce and dear next spring; but
that Is all the more reason why only the
best should be purchased. AMI
Garden.