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The Washington critic., 1889-04-22
STRAY SHOTS.


WIN the experience gained In getting up
the present Centennial stand us In hand
when the next one comesS
The New York SIN asks in an editorial,
"What ia the matter with SATURN" And
we answer unhesitatingly, but astronomi-
cally, IL is under the domination of Rings.
Mayor Grant OF New York, has been doing
Rushin business among the Poles lately,
A crying baby ought to get its base
batted--on bawls.
What to do with the proposed salt trust
Put 1t in the coup.
The consul -generalsbip to London has
something New In II at last
For Spring exercise Buy atrieycle or try
q bicycle.
A contemporary speaks of Jake Kilrain's
modesty. Yes, Il is very striking.
Whitelaw Reid evidently intends to make
Hay editor Of the Tribune while the Sul
shines.
Ward McAllister has got to move in May.
Taking everything into consideration we
should think Nc. would feel o good deal
put out
"Give the boys a chance exclaims an
old bachelor. II he had any OF his own, he
would soon learn that they take SO many
there are none left to bestow.
Paul may plant and Apollos water, but
the chap who gathers in the increase
has got TO hustle for II.
Nothing strange In the movement Of Eng
bshmen to control the brewery business Of
this blawsted country. It's syndicative Of
their disposition.
Do women, az class, oppose baseball
because they object to their husbands be-
ing out on bats so oftenp We are at
the second base waiting for an answer.
Gray hair is the style again, for ladies'.
The old girls, now, have their innings, and
the young ones may take an outing. We
| hafr Tn,
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22
THE COURT RECORD.

COURT IN GENERAL TERM--Justices
Hagner and James.-United States VS.. Col
bert, and same VS.. Briggs hearing fixed
for Saturday. Peter VS.. Leonard; case dis
missed. X. w. Johnston admitted to Bar.
EQuITY CoURT-Justice Cox.-Burrows
We. Milburn; supplemental bill allowed to
to be filed. Hawkins We. Craig; reference
to auditor ordered. Hurdle VS.. Lindner;
reference to auditor ordered. Mccarthy
vs. Mccarthy; offer authorized to be ac-
cepted and referred to auditor. Butts VS..
Butts; appearance OF absent defendant
ordered. Probeyvs. Nolan; decree dismiss
ing bill.
CIRCUIT COURT, Div. 1-Chief Justice
Bingham. vs.. Pennsylvania Rail
road Company ct al, and Stewart VS..
Same; trial resumed.
CIRCUIT Court. Div. 2 Justice Mont
gomers.-Owens We. Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company; trial resumed.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22

The Star of London thinks that Mr. John
Sargent's picture of Miss Ellen Terry as
Lady Macbeth will excite good deal Of
controversy. II is less portrait Of the ac-
tress as she actually is than OF Ellen Terry
as Mr.. Sargent has chosen TO make her. A
majestic woman with fierce eyes aud a
mouth so cruel that the lips look like blood;
figure of gratifed ambition holding up a
crown from which seems to fall strange
bizarre, uncanny radlence, an embodiment
Of everything the Ellen Terry we know
most certainly is not, and yet a suggestion
withal Of her potent fascInatlon-such is
the ideal which this brilliant painter offers
us, instead Of the real. There win be a
great fgbt about II, but It's audacious origl-
nality 10 indisputable.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22
A Famous Furrow.

James Dawson, Of Atchison, recently from
Nebraska, has been. a pioneer In railroad
and town site business for many years. A
few years ago he gained considerable fame
and created a Juror among settlers by plow-
ing single furrow distance Of over one
hundeed miles through Scott, Greedy and
Wichita counties, Kansas, and into GEO
rado lie said nothing, but kept on plow-
ing, and the people, imagining that he was
locating railroad, began to take up claims
along the furrow. Afterward Jay Gould
came along and bought the Dawson right,
and the d., NJ. & A. branch of the Missouri
Pacific was built on the famous furrow.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22
LATE lonpon GOSSIP.
The Spread of Henry Georges Doe
trines-Egyptinp Occupation.

The Spread of Henry Georges Doe
triDes--Egyptiap Occupation,
LONDON, April 22-The wonderful sue
cess which Mr.. Henry George has achieved
during his lecturing tour in England, Scot
lands and Wales, has attracted the attention
OF great many people who hitherto have
given little or no attention to the land ques-
lon, and his speeches have had an immense
amount OF influence upon the political situ-
alton. Heretofore the theories of Mr..
George have been presented to the
masses in Great Britain in way calculated
to expose them to ridicule, but, whether
they merit II or not, they are now receiving
their full share Of public consideration from
the point Of view Of knowledge and appre-
citation. Mr.. Georges tour OF Scotland
next week Is looked forward to by the resi-
dents OF the places In which he is advertised
to speak with more than ordinary interest,
and even the opponents OF his ideas predict
for him a measure of success far beyond
that obtained by any politico-economic lee
turer who has In many years addressed the
people OF the territory he proposes cover
ing.
The ewstbat a party Of Egyptians, build
ing a fort, has been attacked, heateu and
driven on board a steamer by Soudan-
ese Arabs is seized upon by the advocates
OF the conquest of the Soudan as sufficient
reason why the British Government should
reoccupy Egypt, and avenge the death OF
General Gordon by the reposscssion OF khar-
toum. Why the British should go back to
country which has never been OF the
slightest benefit to them, but which has in
volvcd them in no end of trouble, and
which they are happily rid Of, Is not made
quite clear by these partisans Of the extern
sion Of England's supremacy, unless II may
be assumed that they regard the conserva-
tiOp of the intereste of army contractors as
of paramount importance.
The strike Of the car men In
Vienna is becoming very serious.
Already many persons have been in
jured In the collisions which have taken
place between the strikers and police, and
the trouble threatens to extend to the inclu-
sion of workmen of other occupations than
that Of those now engaged In the strike.
The fact that the strikers are receiving the
assistance Of the socialists renders the dan
ger Of the extension and prolongation Of the
trouble much greater,
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22
WHAT ARE CHARGES?

The following is from the Post of this
morning;
Five Virginia Republicans called upon the
Attorney General day or two ago. Two of
them had been elected to Congress and three
Of them Were defeated candidates.
Mr.. Attonrey.General," said one Of them,
''thot United states marshal IN our district
called his deputies together before the elec.
tion, gave each Of them revolver and a
bowie knife and told them TO defeat every
Republican candidate for Congress, no mat.
ter what the cost or by what means. Those
deputies did ride through the country with a
bowie knife In one boot leg and a revolver In
the other, whooping and yelling and terroriz
ing everybody that they could, They defeat
I'D three Of us, the other two men were too
strong fof them and could not be defeated.
Now, Mr.. Attorney General, we want a new
marshal appointed In that mans place"
Are there any charges against himf"
inquired the Attorney General.
Aud as these Ave virginians went down
stairs one OF them said; II wonder what he
means by charges"
II the facts are as represented and the
interview was really had In the manner
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22
CHIT-OHATTER

Overheard on Connecticut avenue yester.
day Easter Sunday;
Glorious day for Easter
BY Jupiter, there's a pretty girl, and that
hat is
Pshaw, you don't mean It. Why, I'm
sure she never would have worn such a
dress if
Nice hat that girls got on. Sold 1t to
her myself Cost $50. She paid me $40
down aud the balance is due May
What a lovely mustache that young man
has. wonder II he
Oh, Fanny, just see that nice spring suit
Charlie has on. Charlie got q raise last
week. He gets $l2 week now, and
Yes, that's very nice dress she has on,
and it is becoming, but she ought to pay
Charming sermon, wasn't it, but such
bonnet as that woman In front Of us wore
WAS
Every woman on the street seem to have
on gray dress, but that one trimmed In
green is something simply frightful, don't
What lovely shade Of gray that woman
had on, | wonder
Yes, that young fellow is in the War De-
partment. Very swell, but they say he owes
his tailor for
Hotp Well, / should say II was d.
Who was that in the carriage you spoke
to; my friends mostly ride in the street cars,
hut
Oh, girls, look yonder That man with
a malaria green necktie, and that one with
the checker-board pants, and that one with
the old gold top patent feathers take the
Easter egg, don't
Maybe her bonnet is better th1n mine, but
If her husband paid his bills, possibly she
wouldn't
Hattie wouldn't come out to-day because
she hadn't new gown. That's why she
went to church early this
No, never saw such crowd of people
out before on Easter
! don't believe they are engaged. She's
willing and he wants to, but they dasn't is
my opinion Of
That old thing? just look at that gaudy
dress she
And SO on from early morn till dewy eve.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22
1t Costs Less

On the question of real economy Hood's 8
Sarsaparilla Is so far ahead of other prepara-
tions as to place them entirely out OF the race
as competitors. Here are facts IN regard TO
this popular medicine, easily susceptible OF
conclusive proof
1. Hoods SarsapariIIa Costs the
Manufacturer More than any other com.
peting preparations, because II is more highly
concentrated and contains more real medi-
cinal value.
2. 1t Costs the Jobber More, as con.
sequence of the fact just stated.
.. 1t Costs the Retail Druggist More
for the same reason-as can easily be learned
by inquiry. Hence the desire of some retail
ers to sell their own preparations, which cost
them less, and for which they get the same
price, thus making more money. But
4. 1t Costs the Consumer LESS than
any other medicine, because of Its greater
concentrated strength, and the quantity In
each bottle, and because II Is the only
preparation of which can truly be said
100 Doses One Dollar"
That the people appreciate this Is shown
by the fact that Hoods sarsaparilla has
The Largest Sale OF any sarsaparilla or
blood purifier. II possesses peculiar merit
and effects wonderful cures.
4 POINT FOR YOU.
When You buy your spring medicine, you
want the best. Ask for Hoods Sarsaparilla,
and insist upon having II. Do not let any
argument or persuasion influence you TO buy
what you do not want Be sure 10 get the
ideal spring medicine.
Hoods Sarsaparilla
SOld by all lruReists a. six for a. Pre-
pared only by q. J. HOOD d CO., Apothe-
carries, Lowell, Mass.
100 DOSES ONE DOLLAR.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22
WASHINGTON, April 90. 1899.
PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTIONS.

The Cabinet meets on Tuesdays and
Fridays ut 1890 p. NJ.
Senators and Representatives in Congress
will be received by the President every day,
except Mondays, from 10 until l2.
Persons not members Of Congress having
business with the President will be received
from l2 until on Wednesdays, Thursdays
aud Saturdays.
Those who have no business, but call
merely to pay their respects, will be re-
ceived by the President in the East Room
st p. M on Mondays, Wednesdays and
Saturdays.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22
THE SPEAK ERsHIP.

The Republican Members of Con-
rress in Washington, while ostensibly
here TO look after the interests of their
ofice-seeking constituents, are doing a
good deal of wire pulling with refer
eDce TO the organization of the next
House.
The adherents of the several candi-
dates for Speakership are working early
and late TO secure pledges for their
Iavoriles, and all sorts of combinations
are suggested. The new Members elect
are being worked for all they are worth
by the old experienced Members in
favor of their respective candidates.
Messrs. Reed, Burrows and Mckinley
are considered the only formidable
candidates for Speaker, although Hen.
derson, Cannon and others are men
toned.
Reeds friends claim that he is the
best qualified "all round" candidate;
that he has pluck and ability and is
hampered by no special hobbies, but is
hyoad, gauge and progressive.
IL is conceded that Burrows is the
best Parliamentarian, but it is claimed
thai at times he lacks sand" very
necessary ingredient for Speaker to
possess in close House.
Mckinley is admitted to be an able
legislator and fair man, but 1t Il
claimed he is not up in Parliamentary
rules or tactics, and that he is SO alb.
sorbed in the tariff issues as to embar-
rass him for Speaker.
The friends of the several candidates
all favor an extra session of Congress
in October.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22
VISITORS TO THE DEPARTMENTS.

Secretaries Blaine, Proctor and Tracy
have issued the following order for the re-
cep,ion of visitors;
Reception of Senators aud Representa-
tives in Congress, from 10 to l2 o'clock.
Reception of all persons not connected
with the Departments, at ~ o'clock, except
Tuesdays and Fridays, which are Cabinet
days; and Thursdaysin 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 he sent by the captain OF the
watch to the chief clerk or to the head Of
the bureau for which the visit is intended.
This rule will not apply to Senators, Repre-
sentatives or heads Of Executive Depart
TlgptA
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22
THE NEW YORK WIRE rRoBLEM

Mr. Jay Gould, the gentleman who
owns much of New York and all of st.
Louis, proposes to strike back now that
the New York authorities have cut down
his telegraph poles, compelling him to
put his wires underground. lie claims
that the elevated railroads are private
property, and that no public wires can
be hung upon them without his con
sent Certain ropes and guy wires at
tached to the elevated road structures
were cut by employees of the road, and
there is trouble in consequence. Mr.
Gould may be right in his attitude, or
the thing may have been done without
his knowledge, but the newspapers who
make point of assailing him are
clamorous over the matter.
The Mayor of New York-not per.
son of great importance--is handled by
some daring advisers and the result
taken as whole, may not be bad for
the city. MIR Gould cannot expect to
have great deal of consideration
shown him. He may not always even
get justice. But he has got great deal
of other things.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22
Domestic Economy.

Some ladies made an afternoon call upon
one OF their friends recently, and after en-
ioying their temporary visit half hour OF
SO, little Nina asked them II they would not
like some cake.
"Why,n said her mother, ''you must not
offer that cake TO our company; ii is rather
stale"
"Oh, well, never mind that" replied
Nina; 1--WE had better get rid of it when we
can, so as to have some new made.n-
Portland Argus.
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A Horrible Crime.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., April 90. "A horrible
crime is reported from Macon County. w.
p. Wood, an industrious farmer, lived In the
country at least five miles from his nearest
peighbor. HIS family consisted Of his wife,
three sons and two daughters. Wood was
known to have 800 In his house and burg
lars recently attempted to break In and get
1t, but Wood frightened them away with a
gun. On Monday last Mood, was called
away from home on business When he re-
turned he was Mortified to find his house In
ashes, aud the charred remains Of bis entire
family In the ruins. Three axes aud two
bowie knives, all stained with blood were
found near the ruins There is no clue to
the murderers, who undoubtedly secured
the money before firing the house
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22
MRS. FERRYs DEFENSE.
She Files a Counter Petition Agains
Her Husband.


PARIS, April 22.--Mrs. Ferry, through
her lawyer, has filed counter petition TO
her husbands plea for divorce. In 1t she
claims that though she was discovered after
midnight in the Hotel Garni with M. Hip
polyte, of the Louvre dry goods store, yet
that their meeting was OF purely innocent
character and solely for the purpose of
perfccting her French. She was prevented,
she says, from pursuing her studies I'm n
insane jealousy. Her case has found q
champion In an Italian nobleman, a Prince
Rufro, at whose residence In the Champs
Eleysees she has found a refuge since her
narrow escape from being imprisoned in
st. Lazare.
Mrs. Ferry called yesterday at the United
States consulate, filled with desire of
being revenged upon her husband, who
has applied for and obtained police pro-
taction
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his Father Thought So, Too.

II is told of the present Czarewitch that
one day, reading "The Lady OF the Lake,
he came TO the line, "Long live the Com
mons King, King james !" and exclaimed
with sparkling eyes, eyes, the King of the
Common People That ia the only kind OF
King that would care 10 be-" His father
used TO make such remarks, too, before he
came to the throne; not since.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22
THE VERSATILE BABY
A FARCE.

n FAhCE.
Dramatis Persoa@.
MA, the 6abys mother,
PA, the 6abys father.
BABY, The boy himself.
CHORUS, sisters, cousins, duats, grandma.
Ma.
Come, Baby, show these people here
How very smart you are.
Call Pa.
Baby.
Bal bal Bopup.
Chorus.
Precious heart,
How very suartl
o
Pa.
Now, darling, sing that pity song,
"Baal baal black Sheep" for Pa.
Baa baal
Baby.
Ba bal Bopup.
Chorus.
Wen, ! declare,
What genius rare
Ma.
And now, my precious little one,
Say by-by TO Papa.
Ta-ta.
Baby.
Ba ba Bopnp.
Chorus
Oh, wonderful magnificent his like was
never seen;
A most precious youth is this whose weeks
are but eighteen.
To say so much, and exc to say 1t all so very
plain
His equal meier has been before, nor will be
e'er again.
Upon his natal day the Fates in union must
have smiled
For nothing else could have produced so
versatile child. [Curtain.l
-[John Kendrick Bangs,i In Editors Drawer
OF Harper's Magazine for May.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22

The ingenuity of the women OF London
and Paris in inventing new dissipation is
without limit. To the morphine habit the
deyotees of sensationalism have now added
the practice OF smoking tea cigarettes.
Special grades Of the finest tea are used, and
the effect Of the cigarettes is said TO be de
lightful for fully an hour after one has been
smoked. After that comes the reaction In
the form OF a nervous trembling and ex-
citability, but which is subdued, according
to woman Of title, who rather goes In for
all these things, by thimbleful of frozen
abslnthe. Thus by industriously ringing
the changes on morphine, tea cigarettes
and absinthe, with few intrigles, some
scandal aud raft of white hot French
novels the woman OF society manages to
worry through the day. wonder II the
American girls great success abroad is not
due to her naturalness and health2-[ Lon
don Correspondence OF the Philadelphia
Press,
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22
A Pension Fraud Caught.

The Commissioner of Pensions has been
advised that John Hess was arrested at
Buckhannon, West Va, on the 10th instant,
by Special Examiner Roome and taken to
Clarksburg, VIVA. where, on the 2t0h inst,
he was held in bond Of 81 900 for the action
making aud filing false and fraudulent
AFFIDAVIT in the claim OF Eliza Kettle.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22

THERE APPEARS TO DE general senti-
ment among the Republican Senators and
Members Of the next House that an extra
in October. The close political division In
the next House is the principal reason as
signed for the extra session, although sew
eral Senators favor II for the early consid-
Grafton of important economic questions.
The Republican majority in the House is
so small--from three to ive-that it ia con-
sidered all important that the work OF or
ganizatiou should begin in October,
series of new parliamentary rules be
adopted which will facilitate the leglsla-
tive business of the country and Congress
be in full working condition before the date
ofthe regular session in December.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22
DIED.

sHERMAN-KEE.-on Sunday, April 2l,
1850, after long and painful illness, susannah
Sherman'kee, widow of the late George w.
Sherman and William kee, aged ~ years.
Funeral from her late residence, No. 7a1
Tenth street southeast, To morrow (Tuesday)
at J.. m. Relatives and friends respectfully
invited. No howers.
How long she fingered racked with pain
How long she suffered from disease.
Her pains of death are past,
Labor and sorrow cease:
LIES long warfare Is closed at last;
Her soul Is found In peace.
BERRY,-At Nashville, Tenn, April 10,
1889, VIM II. Berry, father of Lieutenant Al
bert G. Berry, United States Navy.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22

indicated, one must join with the Vir-
ginian in asking what is meant 10y
"charees?"
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22

BoULANGER is driven ont of Belgium also.
Mr.. Boulanger is hereby notified thai the
lecture platform is yawning for him in this
great and glorious Republic of ours.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22

Up to Q o'clock to-day eighty-four lots
had been sold on the recently sud-diyided
estate of Kalorama-Joel Barlow's old
home. The prices realized ranged from 80
cents to ~ per square foot.
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22
slight Fire This Morainp.

A small fire occurred shortly before 10
o'clock this morning In the secondhand
store OF Richard Harlow at 600 X street
northwest. The damage was only about
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22
MATTER WORTH READING

nDV came nOSlnH along the NuttCr and.
started new train OF thought. In the
crowd of lounpcrs was a man from st.
Louis, and, after watching the porker for a
while, he remarked:
~ wonder " that hog ever had a real
good time In all his life Yr
"IIogs allus have good times, guess
remarked the village cooper, who had
knocked OF work and come over to hear
some politics.
/ ~ doubt II, said the other, ufJc must
feel his degraded position In life, and SO he
cannot be happy. I wish could do some
thing to make him feel that life ia worth
the IiyinQ.pe
"Fust man ever saw who pitied ahog y
grunted the blacksmith, who ought to have
been tacking shoe on waiting mule
ayes, do pity him. pve been down
myself and know how 1t is. Taylor, have
YOU got any cherry whiskyT'
Mighty little, IL any More cherries
than whisky, guess"
III you've got two quarts OF cherries
which have been IN liquor, bring 'em out,
and III give you half dollar I'm going
to make that hog happy for two hours"
The grocer got the cherries, which had
been lying in liquor for couple of years,
and the st. Louis man poured them out
into the gutter for the hog. They were de-
voureu WIN astonishing avidity, and the
porker stood and looked at us and hun
gered for more II was doubted by some II
'he hquor would anect hini' put after afew
minutes ne began 10 irlsK ana play, and was
eviaehtiy under the influence
ina' uoes me gooo, saiu the doner Oh
sue cnefries. lie IS becoming hght-
hearted, ana me VIII now take on new
chafms 10 MIN Hang man who won't
givea hog show"
Just then the animal uttered hoarse
"wonl' ana charged Tor The crowd we
scattered ana ne entered the grocery, took
two or three turns, and shot out and down
the street Esquire Smith was coming up,
and the hog charged and upset him. He
then headed for horse and buggy In front
OF Snyder's, crashed against the horses
hind legs, and in another moment there
was runaway. The widow Watkins was
sailing along with can of kerosene in her
hand, and the hog rolled her off the walk
as II she had been struck by a locomotive.
lie then charged double team and started
'hem OH, dove INTO 'ayiord's dry goods
store ana out, ana the ola man saoln turned
III IRON Elm street Just IN time TO he lifted
three feet nigh and rolled into q puddle
fity men were out ana aiter the porker
ny 'his tiihe' out ne starteu another runa-
way, upset Daoy carriage and Knocked
'he Register OF Deeds OH his pins before we
COrncreu ulm ana got rope around a hind
The Washington critic., 1889-04-22
Robert Louis stevenson,s Health.

New YoRK, April 22.-The Scribners
have received letter from Robert Louis
Stevenson, at Honolulu, stating that he is
in good health and not alarmingly Ill, as
has been reported by some newspapers.