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The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-03-02
A pIyonCEE,s wEppINa.
what Shall the Bride Wear L? Is tho
Question Now Asked.


A question which is agitating New York
society Is, How should dvorcee dress at
her second weddingY This is becoming a
question OF absolute Importance, for tho
tribe OF the Divorces grows apace. At q
recent reception ut weTl-kuown house
nine of them were counted In the room at
once. Their marriages are frequent, aud
rs fashions in the matter of weddings are
very rigid 1t is considered necessary TO dis
cuss this subject thoroughly and get It SET
tied ut once
Society las really no precedent to guide
H. for every shade OF gray, ranging all the
way from the very nearly white pearl gray
to the rm-tintcd ashes Of roses, which has
been held to be the widows color for vel
dings, and which has typihed the vague
shadow of reminiscent regret for the first
spouse would hardly be appropriate FOE
the divorce, who, presumably, can have
no regrets for the first. Indeed, the widows
object very strongly to sharing their rights
In thiscolor with the grass widow and the
maiden brides have set their little feet
down against the white, which is their i'm
memorial possession, being used by women
who have already worn II once.
To wear travelling dress and bo married
quietly and informally In church Is what
the widows and the maids recommend to
the divorcee, but she is for the most part
person little used to dictation, and Is little
likely to take II from women who have
happened to he more fortunate than she ia
her experience with the other sex.
In England Divorces are always mar
red in such Il private manner that the
question of dress has never been disturb
ing one, but in Chicago and San francisco
they insist upon n certain amount OF rejoic-
ing over their new alliance, and, therefore,
some costume must be settled upon. In
both those cities these remarked Divorces
have worn very pale shades of blue with
gold, or green with silver, tine blue or green
being Of those shades that are just OF of
white.
A pretty red-haired Chicagoan wore the
other day on such an Occasion a very pale
shade of pink. But none of these quite
fills the need, IN that they are not distinctive
enough and might be worn by any one on
any occasion. The only feasible suggestion
made so far is that they should wear white
and gold. Wells Of course, are out OF the
question, but orange and myrtle combined
may be worn In the hair and upon the
dress, Nothing better than this has yet
! been suggested. n. Y. World.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-03-02

House occasionally employ deputies, ava
there are nany temporary appointment
made by the oil er appointing officers OF
Congress, and the SAME may I've said Of the
heads OF executive departments and bU.
rcnus.
Consuls have the nomination of numerous
assistants and agents
The Comptroller of the CurreNcy appoints
The examiners Of national banks.
The Surgeon General of the Msrine Hos
pitfalls has the practical selection Of assistant
surgeons In that service.
The Commissioner u Internal Revenue
APPOINTS the revenue agents The collectors
of internal revenue nominate their depu-
ties, clerks, storckecpcrs and gaugcrs.
The Collectors, Naval officers, Surveyors.
and Appraisers Of Customs nominate their
clerks and other suhordinatcs
The Marine Hospital Surgeons nominate
their suhordinates.
The superintendent Of Construction
select their forcmcn and wUrkmcn on
buildings under construction.
The Quaitermastors, Commssarics, Pay
masters, Engineers, Ordnance Officers aud
storckccpers Of the army employ large
numbers of clerks, superintendent, work
men and laborcrs.
The Surgcon-Gcneral selects large part
cf the hospital stewards Of the army.
The Chief Signal officer selects the
weather observers
The Indian Agents choose the Agency
employees.
Postmasters choose the clerks, letter
carriers and local mail agents Of their re-
spCCtiyc pustoficcs.
The General Superintendent Of the Rail-
way Mail Service selects the superintend-
cnts at the distributing offices.
In the Judicial Department, Judges, At
torncys and Marshals are appointed by tho
President Clerks Of Courts are appointed
blythe several Judges and these clerks Sc
lcct their deputy clerks. The marshals APP
point the deputy marshals; the circuit
courts appoint the United States Com
migglOnprs
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LONELINESS IN SLIPPERS.
The Dainty discovering of Some
Pretty New York Bellies.


The girl who dances for dancing's sake
wears Il pair OF thin, elegantly finished
patent-lcathcr low shoes, with decidedly
low heels, and lacing up the instep with
ribbons. The beauty who loves to dance,
but who has more than ordinarily pretty
feet which she wishes to display to the best
advantage, wears bronze silk stockings,
deliberately clicked, and Louis XIV slip
pers of tan Suede, embroidered on the toes
with gold beads and sometimes having a
gildcd heel. Miss Hargous, the beauty,
wears the former, and Miss Hecksher, the
belle, who has charming little feet the
latter, Miss de Wolfe wears with her In
diN-rcd tea gown, a little pair of scarlet
satin slippers, sharply pointed at the toe.
and lndia-red stockings Miss Mar
bury, who has extremely pretty feet,
wears pale blue stockings and black
satin slippers, embroidered in gold
Mrs James Harvey Dew wears
pale yellow Empire gown, with blue silk
stockings and yellow satin slippers. Mrs.
James &. Blaine, ir receives her calls la
black lace gown, and wears scarlet stock
iugs snd SLIM low-heeled patent leather
slippers. Most of the debutantes wear
their white tulle dancing dress, tan Suede
slippers, fastened with small silver buckles.
IN Y World
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visitors at the White House.

The White House was overrun with
visitors to-day They came from all parts
Of the country. Conversations overheard
by THE CRITIC reporter We're as follows:
"Just think, Mrs. Cleveland is soon to retire
from public life, Ny how she'll be missed
in society; there is one class of men who
will not he sorry at the Presidents de-
parture, they are the correspondents;
wonder II the President win receive to-day;
hope we can see him before he goes out
of office; Gracious, but these chairsl are
comfortable; Mr., Cleveland has been good
President, don't care what that woman
thinks and a lot more similar expressions
were heard by the reporter
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Mrs. Ward Triumphs.

Publisher-Mrs, Ward, is this a novel
Mrs. Ward (another of 'Robert Els
more'' Yes, it's my very last divinity
novel,
"But, madam, il starts of with Edith,
do you love me y and then follows regu.
lar sermon, running through twenty chap
tiers, aud which must have taken the lover
FIVE hours to deliver, and the book winds
up with Edith answered yes -
~ know II isn't very exciting, hut was
bound this time that I'd write book that
couldn't be dramatzod.N
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-03-02

No retail. shoe dealer can sell you II
pair of the Crawford shoes. They are never
sold to dealers, Every pair made Is sold
direct to the consumer through Crawford
Shoe Stores.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-03-02

IN THE SHoEs YOU have been wearing
have hurt your feet try the Crawford; It is
easy the first day worn.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-03-02

The CRAWFORD SHOE is made in all sizes,
from fours TO twelves, and all widths, from
one to seven.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-03-02

HEUmcu's bottled Maezern beer Tele-
phone call, CAB,
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The Showing One which VIII he Ex-
amined with Interest by Those who
Think They Could Servo Their
Country for salary--The Blue
Book Almost Entire.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Whole number persons employed, IS, 1856.
Secretary of War, $4,000; chief clerk,
2,750; disbursing clerk, $1,000; stenogra-
pher, 81 800; three chiefs of division, $4,000
each; five clerks of class four, seven clerks
of class three, eight clerks Of class two,
twenty-eight clerks of class one, seven
clerks, 81 900 each; four messengers; six
assistant messengers; eight laborers; car
penter, 81 600; foreman of laborers, 81, 600;
one hostler, 5000; two hostlers, $40 each.
Office of the Adjutant-G oneral,-Chlef
clerk, $1,000; twenty-four clerks of class
four thirty-fve clerks of class three, sixty
seven clerks Of class two three hundred
and fifty-three clerks OF class one; sixteen
clerks, 81 900 each; five messengers; fifty
one assistant messengers; twenty watch
men, three laborers.
Office of the Quartermaster-G General
Chief clerk, $1,000, nine clerks of class
four, eleven clerks of class three, twenty
three clerks OF class two, forty-six clerksof
class one, ten clerks, 81 900 each; twenty
copyists, 5000 each; one female messenger,
$40 per month; two messengers; two as
sistant messengers,
Office of the Commissary General. Chief
clerk, $1,000; one clerk OF class four, three
clerks of class three, four clerks of class
two, fourteen clerks of class one; nine
clerks, $1,000 each one assistant messen-
ger, two laborers; superintendent of build
ing, $3.50; and two watchmen.
ONCE Of the Surgeon-General.- Chief
clerk, $1,000; twenty-four clerks of class
four, thirty-two clerks of class three, sixty
two clerks of class two, one hundred and
seventy-three clerks of class one, one hun
bred and nine clerks, $1,000 each, an
atomist, 81 ,6O0i one engineer, 81, 400 eigh-
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RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE.

General Superintendent at Washington,
$500; Assistant Superintendent at Wash
ington, 81, 500; Division superintendent at
Boston, New York, Washington, Atlanta,
Cincinnati, Chicago, st, Louis, Cleveland
and San Francisco, $4,000 each,
There are over 1000 persons in the rail-
way mail service.
Salaries of Indian Agents,
Warm Springs agency, $1,000; klamath
agency, 81 100; Grand Rondc agency, ST. 900;
Siletz agency, $1,000; Umatilla agency,
$780, Neah Bay agency $1,000; Quinaelt
agency, $1,000; Yakima agency, $1,000;
Colville agency, 1880; Nisqually and
S'Kokomish agency, 1900; Tulalip agency,
$1,000; Round Valley agency, $1,000; Tulu
River agency, $1,000; Mission agency,
$1,000; Nevada agency, $780, Western
Shoshone agency, Sl,s0O; Nez Perces,
$1,000; Lemhi agency, 81 100; Fort Hall
agency, 81 800; Flat Head agency 81, 800;
Blackfeet agency, $500; Grow agency,
$1,000; Fort Peck agency $1,000 Fort Bel
KNAPP agency, $1,000; Yankton agency,
81 600; Crow Creek and Lower Brule
agency, Sl,S0O; Standing Rock agency,
Cheyenne River agency, 81 500; Fort Ber-
thold agency, Sl,5OO; sisseton agency,
81 800; DEVILS Lake agency, $1,000;
Pine Ridge agency $1,000; Rose
bud agency $4,000 Shoshone agency,
81 800; Uintah agency, 81 800; Ouay, for
mery the Loss Pinos, Agency $1,000;
Pueblo agency, $4,000; Navajo agency, ST.
coo; Mcscalero agency Sl,sOO; Southern
Ute agency 400; Omaha and Winnebago
agency, $1,000; Santeo agency $1,000, Pot
tawattomie and Great Nemaha agency, 81,
600; Ponea, Pawnee, and Otoe agency, 81,
500; Sac aud Fox agency, Indian Territory,
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Muscle Without Meat.

Mr.. ). Williams Thorn, Blackhorse,
Penn, now past three score aud ten,
has been a strict vegetarian forty five
years-liviug mostly on whole wheat
bread and fruits. Alcoholic liquor and
tobacco are never touched, "even as
medicine He is still perslstenty busy
doing more of the hardest farm labor
''than any two flesh eating workers to-
gether, young or Old" He can walk
twenty miles In half day without in
convenience or fatigue. Another wit
ness appears in the well preserved per-
son OF .Hsgvy L.. Fry, who, thongh just
entering his eighty third year. is still
an active principal in the Cincinnati
School Of Wood Carving, and because
of fine physique,a "a wonder 10 many, lie
is not so rigid as to eschew eggs and
butter, but main reliance is on fruit Is
and vegetables of his own raising, and
Food, Eomelan Garden says he is al
ways ready 20 give reasons for absti.
nence from he worlds meat aud drink,
aud argue e its advantages.
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how, so it doesn't much matter.
81 gave Polly fifty dollars to buy her
wedding gowns with. thought had
hal enough enjoyment, on the whole,
to warrant it; and you know | always
pay as go.
II should surely have attended the
wedding if hadn't come away before
it transpired; l had the most pressing
invitation possible. did last wicked
act; made her promise to send invita-
tions to Fosdiek and Pierson; told her
it was incumbent. l couldn't resist it.
t'As for Miss Gardner, she's in Europe
still, so the Lemoyncs tell me. II ever
l meet her, aud mean to, l shall
give her good laugh with my little
story.
"And old Colonel Marlow-I'm just
waiting to see him once l"-Satarday
Night.
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The Game Of Chess.

The Chinese game of chess is very
ancient for WI Wang invented it in
1920 b. c., but its rules of playing are
very different from thqeSres. Uall an an -a.4s-
tern nations, says the New York Times.
In the play room large table Is erect
ed, the surface of which is divided into
scvcnty-two squares, of which eight are
run together TO form a river, leaving
thirty-two on each side; but as the men
stand on the intersections of the lines,
there are ninety positions for the six
teen pieces used by each player, or TWEEN
ty-six more than are used in the Euro
pean game. The pieces are like check
or men in shape, each of the seven
kinds on each side having its name cut
on top, and distinguished by red or
black color5. The four squares near
each edge form the headquarters OF the
tsiagor, "general," out Of which he and
his two 81 or ''se ecrc taries, cannot move.
On each side Of tho headquarters are
two elephants, two horses and two char
lots, whose powers are less than those
of our bishop, knight and castle, though
similar. The chariot IS the most pow
crfu piece. in front of the horses
stand two cannoncers, which capture
like our knights, but move like our cas-
ties. Five pao, soldiers, or pawns,
guard the river banks but cannot re-
turn when once across it in pursuit OF
the enemy, and get no higher value
when they reach the last row. Each
piece is put down in the point where it
captures its man except, the cannonecrs.
As the general cannot be taken, the OBJ
iect of each player is 10 checkmato him
in his headquarters by preventing him
from moving except in check. The
want of queen and the limited moves
of the men restrict the combination in
the Chinese game NOR, than in western
chess, but it has its own clements OF
skill. The Cinnamon in Mott street
have had several tournaments which
the papers did not report. But some Of
the players have attained an amount OF
skill that would put an American on
his mettle to defeat. For more than
seven centuries chess has been a great
oamc with the Chinese and it is held in
oroat respect in China and here.
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NO. A..
A Watchmaker's Tradition.

In recent conversation with New
York stdr reporter prominent icwelet
OF Maiden lane told the following story
to explain why the Roman numerals
printed on the dills of watches and
clocks differ from those in common use.
lie said:
''It is nothing bat a tradition among
watchmakers, but the custom has al
ways been preserved. You may or you
may not know that the first clock that
in any way rescmblcd those now in use
was made by Henry Wick in 1870. lie
made it for Charles V. OF France, who
has been called The Wise.
$50 the story runs in this fashion,
although | will not vouch for the Ian
guagc, but put it in that Of the present
day:
Now, Charles was wise in good
many ways. lie was wIso enough TO
recover from England most Of the land
which Edward Ill. had conquered, and
be did a good many other things which
benefited France. But his early eluca-
ton had been somewhat neglected, and
be probably would have had trouble in
passing civil service examination in
these enlightened ages. Still he had
the reputation for wisdom, aud thought
that It was necessary, in order to keep
it up, that he should also be supposed
to possess book learning. The latter
was subject he was extremely touchy
about.
eyes, the clock works we'll, said
Charles, but being anxious to find
some fault with thing he did not uu-
dcrstand, you have got tho figures on
the dial wrong
"'Whercin, your majesty asked
Wick.
"'That four should DO four ones,
said the king.
"'You arc wrong, your majesty, said
Wick.
az am never wrongp thundered the
king. Take 1t away and correct th'
mistaker and corrected it was, and
from that day to this 4 o clock en-
watch or clock dial has been HI. i'll
stead Of ". The tradition has beer
', faithfully followed"
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According to statement Ia a recent
number of the American NaturatiSt
professor II. C. Lewis exhibited. at a
meeting of the Philadelphia Academy
of Natural Science, a specimen Of me-
teorite containing some very small dia-
monds. Carbon in crude form has
been reported in metcoritei before now,
and there need not, therefore, be any
thing Incredible in diamonds being dis
covered in one. Recent experiments OF
Mr. Norman with Carbon rods heated to
a high temperature by the electric cur
rent under pressure In a closed cylinder,
ses,,,,ed in the tormation Of a gray dust
harder than emery, and scratching glass,
which appeard to be a form of diamond.
Some years since, diamonds in a minute
form were found in a meteorite that fell
in North Germany; while in another
specimen we're microscopic shells of the
kind Of which chalk deposits on the
earth are in part formed, which indicat-
ca that the meteorite came from some
other planet that had supported animal
life.
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Conner Nickel Cents.

It is estimated b. n mint official that
there are Still in existence somewhere II
tho country, tied up in old stockings or
in the hands of curiosity collectors, over
100, 900, 900 of the old fashioned cop
per cents, about 12O, 600 900 of copper
nickel cents, nearly 5000, 900 of the
present issue of brown pennies and 20
900. 900 of nickel three-csnt pieces, ana
about 201, 900, OO) of the nickel five
cent pieces. The total value OF these
out standing varioui coins - put In
round numbers at sG2, $50, 900.
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National Flowers.


In crown and seal the royal Rose is sign
And symbol sweet of Englands sover
eighty;
Old France her banners filed with fleur
de-Li,
And German flags shake out the Corn flow
ers shine
The Thistle is the Scotsman's kingly flower,
And Ireland proudly waves her Shamrock
green.
But IA our flag no one flower might be
sten
As emblem of our greatness. Splendid
shower
All blossoms on cur vastness-lily, rose,
The thistle shamrock, corn-fluwer, thou
sands more,
That grow from stern Alaska to Gull
shore,
And bloom by sandy beach or mountain
SHOWS;
All flowers of us, or beauty God bestows
To grace our boun laries and their scope dis
clo.e.
Emily T. f. Ford IN Harpe''s Weekly.
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ment and the spleen of the red Jerseys
| haven't any proof of it--but Polly
looked demwe.
"Colonel Marlow and his insects took
themselves of before the end came.
'Wcll that he didi couldn't have
answered for the consequences If he
hadn't.
"Well, il came with a crash, and
had the real pleasure of witnessing IT,
l was reading on the side porch one
afternoon, just the day before l came
home, and Fosdick put in a sudden,
hurried appearance.
a." Have you seen Miss Polly, Mrs.
Gerryl said he, I'm looking for her.
d" Isn't that she3' said l swcetly.
"Polly was coming round from the
kitchen court. She had her hat on and
Pierson was with her.
"Fosdick turned little pale. Then
presently the pent-up storm burst. put
my book over my lips and sercney lis
tened.
" Il have my trap waiting, Miss Pol
ly,' said Fosdick-actually he did, it
seemed. 4 wish the pleasure of your
company for drive. mentioned the
matter yesterday, you remember
81 dilnt say could go, Mr.. Fos-
dick, said Polly.
II coul see the poor girl was fright
ened. Her voice fairly trembled.
I'm going homo today, said she.
If Miss Polly does remember said
Pierson, superciliously, she will not be
able to accompany you. have engaged
her company for the afternoon
" Mr.. Person., said Polly, fain tly,
I'm going home. I'm expecting some
body to get me-
Il" Not to-day, Mis- Polly, said Fos-
dick. Don't tell me that you are going
today. You are going no further than
the Peak to-day, with me.
4 beg your pardon, Mr.. Fosdick,
said Pierson, glaring.
" NO more words, sirl' said Foadick,
savagely.
"Polly broke out crying from sheer
fright, siding up to me. | think Pol
ly felt all through that affair that was
her friend.
"a big fellow in flannel shirt and
a straw hat came around the porch just
then, with whip in his hand, light
heartedly swapping it.
"a good looking fellow, too, with
light curls and sharp, dark eyes.
''1fe stared at Polly, standing there
with her two adorers; but he recovered.
" Come on, Poll, said he; 'hoss 'a
awaiting
What do you meanf said Pier rson,
turning on him.
IIe began to look scared, AMI Fosdick
was getting white about the gills.
90 4 don't mean much,' said Polly's
young man; it had dawned upon me in
stantly that it was Polly's young man.
Only I'm going to take Polly home.
Glad l got here when l did, said he,
aud ne fingered his whip rather sug-
gestivcly. Il guess she's ben here long
enough. Guess I've got the right to
take her. I'm going to marry her
"Woel the bomb had burst. OF
course they looked ghaslly. l won
dwell on the way they did llsasel's. . -.
"Only if Colonel Narlow had been
there at the moment, l think his life
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Group. A Mothers Tribus.

"While In the country last winter my little
bow three years old was taken i'll with Group;
II seemed as if he would die from strangu-
Iation. One of the family suggested the use
of AYfa's CHERRY PICTORIAL, bottle of
which was always kept in the house. This
was tried in small and frequent doses, ana
20 our delight in less than half an hour the
little patient was breathing easily. The doc
tor said that the CHERRY PECToRAL had
saved my darlngs life. Can you wonder at
our gratitude? Sincerely yours,
Mrs. EMMA GEDNEY."
I59 West 12sth St., New York. May l6, 1882
wI have used AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL
IN my family for several years, and do not
hesitate to pronounce It the most effectual
remedy for coughs and colds we have ever
tried. A.: =. CRANF'
Lake Crystal, Mimi, March i3, 1882.
Isuifered for eight years from Bronchitis
and after trying many remedies with NO sue
cess, / was cured by the use of AYERS CHER
nv PEcToRAL. JoSEPn WALDEN"
Byhalia, Miss, April 5, 1852.
81 cannot say enough in praise of AYERS
CuFRRY PECTORAL, believing rs | 10 That
hnt for lis use | should long since baye dice
from lung troubles T. BRAGpoN."
Palestine, Texas, April %, leS2.
No case of an affection Of the throat or
,unps exists which cannot be greatly relieved
hy the use Of AYERS CHERRy PEcroRAt4
and il will ai,cags cure when the disease ie
not already beyond the control of medicine.
PREPARED BY
Or.J.C.Ayer& Co, Lowell, Mass
Sold by al Druggists.
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AYERS
Cherry Pectoral.

No other complaints are SO insidious in their
attack as these affecting the throat and lungs:
none so trfed with by the majority of suffer
ers. The ordinary cough or cold, resulting
perhaps from trifing or unconscious ex-
posure, is often but the beginning of fatal
sickness AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL has
well proven its efficacy in a forty years fight
with throat and lung diseases, and should be
taken in al cases without delay.