The Washington critic., 1889-05-03
THE TOWNS pHorooRApn.

clothelcssness depicted upon the stage,
| and Lydia and her company were hailed
| with that peculiar delight which char.
actcrizcs afforded opportunities for
doing those things openly, which puri.
| tanic ideas had restricted 10 the domain
of quasi secrecy. and everybody went
| to see Lydia, and--likcd the display
with strong like. Then Lydia be
came immensely popular and grew rich,
as she was already beautiful. For sew.
cral years she had the swing; then she
returned to England and lost all her
money by running theatre OF her own.
Three years ago she came back, and II
was like resurrection, for she had
been forgotten by the young theatre
| goers, or ut least remembered only as
Greek plays are remembered But
| Lydia IL not old, nor Is she grown
ugly. She greeted THE Critic man
with a gush and girlishness the other
evening that were captivating, and at
close range she showed very few of the
crow's.feet of the passing years, and in
response to reference TO some of the
old players with hcr--ITarry Beckett
and Pauline Markham and Ada Beau
mont--she sighed little, then smiled,
and pulling forward bunch of her
beautiful blonde hair from under her
hat, she said but the ashes are not In
this YETI nor does II seem that they
will ever be, for she Is as plump and
youthful in appearance Us she was in
other days. She is much interested in
her daughter, who WAS with Miss
Anderson, but who comes out next year
under her own manager, playing
such parts as Juliet and that class.
Miss Thompson's weakness is u Scotch
terrier about as big as wad of
sausage, named "Tykie, and Tylkie is
q terror as well as terrier. She barks
at her mistress visitors with u light
soprano bark, and will not he quicted,
and she has frequently sent her from
hotel to hotel, in quest of one where
CANNES are allowed some rights, for
Miss Thompson goes TO no hotel where
Tykie cannot go. The average man
would drop "Tykic" into the soup very
early. but he had not better say so to
Miss Thompson.
On the Presidential train TO New
York one OF the newspaper correspond
ents was assigned section in the sleep
ing car occupied by the Justices Of the
Supreme Court. 1t was toward 3
| o'clock u. m. when the correspondent
was assigned to his car and berth with.
out disturbing the sonorous slumbers of
the judicial dignitaries, which he de-
scribed the next morning rs follows:
"Chief Justice Fuller snored with n
mellifiuous cadence which rose and fell
like the notes of church organ, and
then waited away into broken stanzas
through his mighty mustachc."
Justice Blatchford's snore was Il sub
dued but steady flow of judicial
euphony."
"Ex-Justicc Strong's snorc was stately
and dignitled, and continued on an even
course, with no dissenting notes"
Justice Fields snore was grand
old melody, with u rising infection at
times like the waves of the Pacific
rolling through the Golden Gate"
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If there is any hotel man in town who
doesn't want to be licked by an iratc
guest, that man Is StocSham, one of
the gentlemanly and urbanc clerks at
the Ebbitt, but he came very near get
ting II Wednesday evening, shortly
after o'clock. AT . q citizen with
a Centennial jag on called to see a
guest and asked for card. Stoclham
gave IL to him and after some effort he
succeeded in writing JAS Bcll'' on IT,
Stockham marked it 20 p. m" and
sent 1t up. In few minutes the guest
came down In the elevator and fit
of anger. by thunder" he said TO
the clerk, what do you mean by send
ing this gas bill for so up to me? !
haven't been burning any gas to speak
of and you've got no right to stick me
in any such style" For minute
Stockham was frightened, then he saw
1t all, and explaining that 1t wasn't
"gas bill' but "Jas Bell" he pointed
James out In the corner and the guest
subsidized and apologized.
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A black-and-tan dog, slightly lame,
trotting at the heels of handsome
sorrel horse hitched to light buggy,
has become a familiar sight in the
suburbs of Washington. II is an un-
mistakable indication that Officer Slack
is around. The horse, which bears the
distinguished name of Prince Albert, is
one of the pet features of Mr.. Slack S
worldly effects and no one else ever
drives him. prince" has done excel
lent service in behalf of the Police De
partment and although trife whim-
sical at times, he settles down to the
hardest kind of work when there is
business on hand. The dog is an in
separable companion to the horse, and
although lame in one leg travels with
him wherever.he goes
~
There are lots of people who are
taking good care of a piece of rope
under the belief that IL helped TO hang
Guiteau," remarked Deputy Graham OF
the District jail, "when, in reality, there
is no more interest attached TO II than
there is in an ordinary piece of clothes.
line. can tell piece Of the Guiteau
rope as soon as ! lay my eyes on 1t.
There was druggist in this city who
paid So for little bit of hempen twist.
He had the ends fastened with pieces of
silver and put 1t in his show case with Il
big label where everybody could see IL.
He was telling me about il one day, and
| showed him, to his great disgust, that
the rope had in all probability never
been anywhere in the neighborhood of
the Guiteau execution. You see, in
running rope through the hole in the
sCaifold beam IL got hot and burnt the
wood little bit. When the Guiteau
rope was run through, in making ready
for the hanging, the charred wood left
a black streak all along one side of It,.
If that black streak is wanting, you can
be pretty sure that it is not piece of
the rope that hung Guiteau.
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Apropos of the racing at Ivy City, an
old operator was talking Of clever
trick which was played on the pool
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