The Washington critic., 1889-03-27
THE TOWNS PHOTOGRAPH.


In the office of one Of the prominent
hotels one evening last week was overheard
quite an amusing story OF Corporal Tan
ner and his two artificial legs.
IL seems that the Corporal is very fond
of fine horses and undertook TO raise a few
last year. lie had one particularly fine
horse, thoroughbred, and he would let no
one use him but himself. One day while
the stableman was exercising him he acct
IDENTIFY stepped into mud hole and sprained
leg so badly that the doctor advised hav-
three times a day.
One day, when the gallant Corporal was
giving the horse the customary bath, a
friend OF his came along and told him 1t
was cruelty to animals TO bathe the horses
foot in such warm water, and asked him
how would he like II II he had to put his
foot In 1t. To which the Corporal replied
that he would not mind IL at all. Hi,
friend thinking he saw n chance to win
some money bet him hundred dollars that
he would not keep his foot In the water
for FIVE minutes. The bet was no sooner
said than IL was accepted by the Corporal,
who not only put his foot In but put his
whole leg in and kept IL in there for five
minutes.
The friend paid the bet, but probable has
not to this day found out how 1t was posi-
BILE for the supposed victim to keep his foot
In boiling hot water for five minutes.
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Those three graces OF romance and polite
literature, Colonel Dick Wintersmith of
Kentucky, Colonel Tom Nelson of Indiana
and Colonel Joe Rice OF Georgetown ex-
changed salutations at the Ebbitt House
last evening, after seasons separation,
and astounded each other with a recital of
their respective budgets of worldly wisdom
acquired In their several remarkable ex-
periences since the last time they chest
nuted together.
Four Missouri Congressman, upon whom
were concentrated the eyes Of all Missouri
oflice-seekers, sat down in Congressman
Franks office, In the Turner building, yes
terday, and discussed the Federal patron
age. Hon. Messrs. Wade, Kinsey, Med
ringhans and Frank composed the quartet,
and they had an ante-room which was
thoroughly occupied by pr city stenog-
rapher, war-scarred veterans with one leg
and an eye to match, dudes, and, in short,
every kind of man who might possibly
get or want an Office, from a grizzled
ex-Confederate after an X Roads Postof-
fee to the commanding presence of a can
didate for Minister Plenipotentiary, etc.,
to somewhere.
1t was o'clock in the afternoon, how
ever, before any one got anything definite
from the inside. AT that time the Con-
gressmen trooped into the ante-room with
top coats adjusted and informed the anx-
ious constituents that the quartet could i'm
part nothing. To reporter of the Globe
Democrat they said they had fixed the con-
sular slate; that Filley had been recon-
mended for something not munifcent, and
that they had apportioned the State for
postoffice appointments into four districts,
or these Wade gets the Thirteenth, EIev-
enth, Sixth and Twelfth. To Kinsey's lot
falls the Tenth, Seventeenth and First.
NiedriDghaus gets three also, namely, the
Eighth, Seventh and Second. Frank will
do the recommending for districts the
Ninth, Fifth, Fourth and Third.
The gentlemen looked as II they felt Ian
guild when they closed up for the day.
| They said the great difficulty had been that
| were an excess Of prizes asked OF President
Harrison by Missouri II itwould endangcr all,
and the strife bad been to get a modest re-
quest shaped up. The preference was de-
cided wholly on political and local sur
roundings, personal feeling being Ignored.
"There are many put on" said Mr.. Kin
sey, "whom had rather left of, and there
are some left of that would like very
much to have had on. My colleagues po-
sitions are similar, but we were forced to
do an amount of compromising that would
have puzzled Henry Clay. Perhaps all
Missouri doesn't want Office, but there are
those who would not refuse were II offered
freely."-[St. Louis Globe Democrat.
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| Yesterday, at the earnest solicitation OF
an Iowa Republican Member of Congress,
the Post-ofilce Department sent up to the
President the name of Republican news.
| paper editor to be nominated to succeed q
violent partizan Democratic editor as post
master Of city In the western part of the
Hawkeye State. AS the term for which the
Democratic editor was appointed had moi
expired the President returned the Domina
tion to the Post-office Department with tht
suggestion that he didn't think 1t suffi
cient reason TO remove postmaster be
cause he was Democratic editor, before
HIS commission expired, merely to fill the
position with Republican editor. The
Republican NJ. c., at last accounts, wa
exhaling sulphurous epithets against thu
Mugwumpian theory Of the new leader Of