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DIR. T. II. PAuEES0N
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NOTICE.-All persons knowing tAems
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tie same. on Or before August 10. isy
that date all accounts remaining uase.ie
be placed in the hands Of an officer ~ ot,
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xxx lFLoIq.
The Washington critic., 1889-01-18
Strange Mistakes,

Says a Portland bookseller: "At one time
we were carrying large stock of religious
works, and one day called out to one of my
clerks, holding up book which he had wrap
ped up for some one, is this ",rhe City of
God ~ 'No, guess not he said, without
looking round, 'at least never heard it called
that before. 1t is generally called the Forest
City, Perhaps 1t is Brooklyn lie afterward
explained that he thought had found refer
ence in some book to place called the City
OF God, and wanted to know what city is
meant.
"On another occasion a woman with vaise
In her hauh rushed in and asked a new boy if
he had That Husband of Nine in our store.
He came rushing out to me in the back shop,
and said u woman wanted TO know If her hls-
band was in our store. | surmiscd what the
trouble was, aud attended TO her myself.
"Some of the most amusing mistakes, how
ever, are those made by people who get the
titles of books wrong. They read about them
in some catalogue or newspaper, but don't
more than half remember the name, and the
result is, to say the least, peculiar One
woman came in the other day and asked for
THE Rhinestone, and went out mad because
one of the clerks told her we didn't sell Jew
elry. Another wanted THE Cardinals Letter,
by Hawthorne 1t took our whole force about
fifteen minutes to get at what she really
wanted, The Scarlet Letter. She said she
knew there was something red about it some
where, and thought II must be cardinal. -
GPortland Advertiser.
The Washington critic., 1889-01-18
Mrs, Astor,s Dinner Parties.

Mrs William Astor has retaken her place as
almost, if not quite, the foremost leader in
Fifth avenue society After partial retire
ment from festivities for two years she has
started in for 1889 with a series of dinner par
ties. There are to be ten of them on success
slve Tuesday evenings, and each will have
twenty-five guests, with no repetitlons as to
individuals That will figure out 220 persons
altogether. OF course, that may not mean that
Mrs, Astor, who has been accredited rs the
chief sponsor for Ward McAllister's Judgment
in selecting and restricting the "i0O,n has de-
cided that only about half of the McAllisters
are tit to put their legs under her table. Ney-
ertheless, there are bound to be heartburnings
and resentments.
OF the splendors of these occasions, with the
services of solid gold and silver, the marvel
lously cut glass and the profusion of rarest
flowers, society is talking before hand with
much vivacity. But there is going to be com
petition with Mrs Astor. This will occur ON
the Tuesday night Of January 10, when six
matrons of millionarism, besides Mrs. Astor,
will give dinner parties, the guests of which
will at midnight assemble in one of Del.
monico's halls for a brief ball. The wives OF
Cornelius aud William X. Vanderbilt arc
among these hOstesses, and 1t is safe to count
In advance upon both of them trying to outdC
Mrs, Astor aud whether they succeed or moi
will be the question discussed by the guests
when they get together for the supplemental
danco,-[New York letter in Philadelphia
| Press
The Washington critic., 1889-01-18
The unnniest BOY.

Who is the happiest boy you knowg Who
has 'the best timenY Is it the one last winter
who had the biggest toboggan, or who now
has the most marbles, or wears the best
clothes9 Let's see.
Once there was king who had little boy
whom he loved.
lie gave him beautiful rooms to live in, and
pictures and toys and books. He gave him a
pony TO ride and row boat on lake, and
servants. He provided teachers who We're to
give him knowledge that was to make him
good and great.
But for all this the young prince was not
happy. He wore frown wherever he went,
and was always wishing for something he did
not have
At length, one day, a magician came to
court. He saw the boy and said to the king;
81 can make your son happy. But you must
pay me my own price for telling the secret. I"
"Well," said the king, "what you ask |
will give.n
so the Magician took the boy into private
room. He wrote something with white sub
stance on n piece of paper. Next he gave the
boy candle and told him to light it aud hold
IL under the paper, and then see what he
could read. Then he went away and asked
no price at all.
The boy did as he had been told and the
white letters on the paper turned into a
beautiful blue
They formed these words
"Do a kindness to some one every day %
The prince made use of the secret and be-
came the happiest boy in the lSingd om.- Our
Sunday Afternoon.
The Washington critic., 1889-01-18
DOINGs OF WOMEN FOLK.
Experiments in Poker Work and Book
EmhrolderN--Ee Eeminine Enncina.

Experiments in Poker Work and Book
Embroidcry--Fem Fancios.
The young women who are taking up
house decoration rs new profession
and a promising means of earning a liv-
ing have turned the thoughts to poker
worl, as possible new departure in dec
orative art. simultaneously with the
craze for white and gold parlors one may
in a brief time see an equally violent
craze for libraries, halls and din
ing rooms, whose friezes, panels,
chimney pieces, odd chests etc, i'll
lustrate the rich effects steady
hand may produce with hot
poker on cherry or mahogany or oak
boards. Inspired, possibly, by the ex.
ample of j. w. Fosdick who was the
first artist to take poker work seriously,
three or your young girls who are doing
good work in modest little studios MS in
terror decorators are turning out panels
and character sketches in poker burning,
and have begun TO obtain orders for
larger pieces for new city houses. One
who has not seen specimens of clever
poker work would hardly credit It's pos
siblities.
1t needs much skill in quick, free
drawing, and, that acquired, there is no
limit to the variety of tones, ranging
from black through the whole gamut OF
red and golden browns to delicate
cream, which can be obtained from the
iron MS it cools from white heat to a
temperature at which it barely deepens
the color of the wood. Amateurs use
poker work as ready means of decorat-
ing picture frames. An etching of Mil
lais' "Angelus," framed in chestnut
with bell and bell-rope done in black
with the hot iron on one corner of the
wood is favorite design. Poker artists
who have progressed farther do plaques
illustrating scenes in stories or poems, as
Elaine rowed by her blind gondolier,
Enid on horseback, ETC., from the "Idyls
of the King" From such work they ad-
vance to portrait plaques, which are
framed in velvet, bringing out sympa-
thetically the fiat tones of the burning.
Children's heads come out quantity
and prettily under such treatment.
Other pieces attempted successfully are
boxes and bellows and antique chairs
More ambitious and in an artists hand
most successful of all are friezcs and
panels burned in series of connected
designs from mythologic or old Greek
subjects, heads, horses, nymphs, hunt
ing scenes, professions of graces ol
cupids. The exquisite grace, the deli
cacy of the work is even more surprising
than its boldness, clearness and free
dom. One of the women artists who
experiments with the iron has just fur
nished for country seat on Long Island
a frieze for an old oak hall, of dogs
heads and whips, which is wonderfully
suggestive of what may yet be accom-
plished with such simple tools.
The Washington critic., 1889-01-18
DEhUSIONs OF HASHEESH.
Experiments with Transitory Affection
Produced by Psychic poisons

Experiments with Transitory Affections
Produced by Psychic poisons.
A. M. Field has recently recounted
his experience under the influence of
hasheesh. lie smoked the hasheesh
until he felt profound sense of we'll
being, and then put the pipe aside. After
a few minutes he seemed to become two
persons; he was conscious of his real
self reclining on a lounge, and of who
he was there; his double was in a vast
building made of gold and marbles,
splendidly brilliant and beautiful beyond
all description.
lie felt an extreme qualification and be-
lieyed himself in Heaven. This double
personality suddenly vanished, but reap
peared in few minutes. His real self
was undergoing rhythmical spasms
throughout his body; the double was q
marvellous instrument, producing sounds
of exquisite sweetness and perfect
rhythm. Then sleep ensued and all
ended. Upon another occasion sleep and
waking came so rapidly that they seemed
to be confused. Ills double seemed to
be sea, bright and tossing as the wind
blew; then u continent
Again he smoked double dose and
sat at his table, pencil in hand, to noto
its effect. This time he lost all concep-
ton of time. lie arose to open the door;
this seemed a millions years. He went
TO pacify an angry dog, and endless ages
seemed to have gone on his return.
Conceptions of space retained their
normal character. lie felt an unusual
fullness Of mental pressions--enough
to fill volumes. He understood clair
voyance, hypnotism and all else. lie
was not one man or two, but several
men living ut the same time in different
places with different occupations. lie
could not write one word without hurry
ing to the next, his thoughts flowing
with enormous rapidity. The few words
he did write meant nothing. This eX-
perienco admirably illustrates the close
relationship between states of real
sanity and transitory affections induced
by psychic poisons.-[Scicnce.
The Washington critic., 1889-01-18
Baltimore and Ohio Pailroad,
Schedule in effect Dec, o. 1888.

Schedule in effect Dec, o. 1888.
Leave Washington from station corner of New
Jersey avenue and q street
FoR CHICAGO and Northwest, Vestibued Linn
He'd express daily $50 a. m, express 9.05 p. IN.
FoR CIYoINNATI and st. Louis, express daily
800 and lilo p. IN.
For PlrTsBuRG and Cleveland, Vestibuled
Limited express daily s.55 Il. N. and express 9.oS
p. m,
FoR LEXINGTON and Local stations, tlo.1O
u m.
FoR BALTIMORE. week days, 500, $50. $40,
73O, $50 045, II 90 G5-minute train a, M, 1910,
%. 3l5, vi5minute train, 32o. $50, f.35, 5,SO,
6'I5' I,30 0.d5 and ll.S0 D. m: sundays, 6S0,
$50, 80 a. mr. l.15, s,05, 3a5, 4So, 4.S5, 6.4o,
73O, 9.i5 and ll.50 p IN.
FoE WAY STATIONS between Washington and
Baltimore, 300, $40, $50 a. M, l1.lO, 3a5 4.35,
B45 II 80 p. m ON Sundays, $50 a. M. l.l5, 3,s3,
435, 6.i5, ll3Op. m.
TRAINS LEAVE Baltimore for Washington at
BIO $50. go 40, $50 (ijmnute train, 900,
500 1890 G5-minute train M, 10, goo, 800,
40, 800 500, $50, 500 1000 and 100 p. m. ON
sundays $40, 63O 500, 800, 9.05, 1880 q, m;
il1 200, 4lO BOO, $50, 500 1000 and llOO p. IN.
FoR ANSAPoLIs, $40 and $40 a. M, 1910 and
80 D. m. On SUNDAYS, & 30 u, m 4a5 p' m.
Leave Annapolis $40, 81 a. M, 1905, l.lO p IN.
sundays s.3' u. m, 40 p. IN.
FoR STATIONS on the Metropolitan Branch,
t6.35, SOLO a, M, si.l5 p M for principal sta
tlons only; tlO.1O, a. m, 14,S5 and 1870 p. m.
FoR GAIruERsBuRG and intermediate points,
Id'uo a. H., Il@sous IlsfV' 900, IlisNV p' IN
FoR BoyDs and intermediate stations, roo p.
m, 5000 p. m.
CnuRCn rRAIS leaves Washington on Sunday
at + 10 p. m, stopping at all stations ON Metro
pOlitan Branch.
For FREDEHcK tlO.1O a. IN, t4.3j and 1880 p,
m, sundays, ilh p. m.
For HAGERsTowS, tlO1o a. M and 1880 p. m.
TRAINS ARRIVE from Chicago daily S.3S "A. m.
and g.35 y. m; from Cincinnati and st. Louis
daily go "a. m, and l.55 p. M; from Pittsburg,
"s3j u. m, t1.2O and '035 p. IN.
PHILADELPHIA DIVISION.
FoR PHILADELPHIA and Wilmington, daily, 3. Is
a, m, 2Oj, i,2O and ll.3O p. IN. Buffet Parlor
Cars ON the Sl5 a. m and 420 p. m. trains.
Sleepings Cars on the li.3O p. m, open at 900
p. m.
For INTERiEnlArE POINTS between Baltimore
and Philadelphia, fG.3O a. m, V2,O5 and tao
p m
| TRAINS LEAVE Philadelphia for Washington.
daily $50, HOO a. m,:i.JO, 200 p. m. and 1906
night.
| Except Sunday. "Daily. SUNDAY only.
/ Baggage called for and checked at hotels and
residences on orders LETT at ticket offices, 6lD
and 1851 Pennsylvania avenue,
W, NJ. CLEMENTS, CHAS. o. SCULL,
Gen. Manager Gen. Pass. Act
The Washington critic., 1889-01-18
NATURES CURIOUS LAUNDRY.
A Western Gcyser that Spouts Pocket
Handkerchiefs by the Gross.

A Western Gcyser that Spouts Pocket
Handkerchiefs by the Gross.
A soldier who does patrol duty about
the "Old Faithful" geyser at the upper
geyser basin of the Yellowstone Park,
says the YOUTHS Companion, asserts that
during one fortnight in August Of last
year, he picked up pocbet-handkerchiefs
enough about the bowl of the geyser to
last him lifetime and supply all his
near relatives besides
More singular still, all these handker-
chiefs came out of the geyser. Half u
dozen are sometimes thrown out at a
single eruption of the water. They gush
up with the roaring fountain to the
height Of $50 feet in the air and fall on
the steaming rocks outside the bowl.
1t might be surmised oif-hand that the
geyser was the outlet of some grand
Chinese laundry establishment on the
other side of the world, but the more
reasonable explanation rests on the OBJ
| served fact that these handkerchiefs were
purposely dropped into the geyser by
| tourists-mostly lady tourists-and in
violation of the law which forbids put
ting any foreign substances in the hot
| lOuutulllS'
1t is quite the custom to throw hand
kerchiefs into Old Faithful for its
waters contain some substance which
acts like soap and cleans the worst soiled
handkerchief.
Then there is the fun of seeing ii
| spouted out
1t is used to tie the handkcrchiefs into
knots, the better to insure their being
thrown out. But even then the geyser
takes large tolls. Sometimes it keeps an
entire batch, and il usually retains two
out of every half dozen.
The tolls are quite apt to be cast ur
later on, and here is where the soldier,
who makes the rounds every morning,
reaps his harvest, for Old Faithful spouts
regularly every siXty-fye minutes, and
during the night has time to disgorgt
what it had retained
The Washington critic., 1889-01-18
ALASl Too TRrE.
Bad Manners on the Fart of Husbands
Too Often the style.

Too Often the style.
A friend was spending the day with
me, the other day, and while she was
here our pastor called. After he left
the friend said; Odd you ever notice
with what respect Mr.. Conrad speaks Of
his wife and how courteously he treats
her at all times2" / nodded assent, and
my friend went on.
"T suppose my husband is as good n
man as ever lived, but his mother did
not train him to be courteous to ladies.
His sisters were his slaves, and thereby
he is spoiled as a husband | wish
could train several hundred boys to be
husbands for the next generation. Do
you suppose they'd consider 1t their pre-
rogative to drive the girls out OF the
easiest chair take the sunniest corner Of
the room, the best place by the light,
throw books, papers or slippers down
for some one to put away. grow up with
the idea that wife must be the valet
and the rest Of the household stand re-
spoctfully by to obey orders You
smile, but this is anything but subject
to laugh over.
81 really believe husbands never think
how their unkind ways hurt. They don't
realize the difference to us-for instance,
in their manner when they come to din
nor. All day the wife has been alone
with the children and servants, and is
more hungry for a kind word from her
husband than an epicurean feast He
comes in Just as the didner bell rings,
For wonder dinner is once ready on
time the husband says, Couldn't he
have saved tho heart stab by saying;
That Il pleasant sound to a hungry
fellow, and what hinders him from ad-
ding, what would be the milk and honey
to weary soul all the rest of the day
nay, all the rest of her life--'You are a
good wife, Cornelia. And if dinner is
not quite ready why need he say, OF
course not; never is. In working mot
toes for the home why hasn't some one
taken Wesley's remark: I'd as soon
swear as fret instead of hanging up i
Need Thee Every Hour
"When | think | have q hard time
| just think of the women who have nc
servants, but who themselves care foi
the children, wash, iron, cook, mend
churn, milk, carry wood and water, al
for less than an Irish servant girl wages
OF course men appreciate their wives, o.
course they do, but they keep their polite
manners and courteous ways for-othel
mems wives One time James thanked
me for saving him room beside me at
concert, and then sort of apologized fo
being polite by saying he thought IL wa
my sister Mary Atlanta Constitution
The Washington critic., 1889-01-18
THE SIGN OF THE CROSS. ;
Some Facts About Very Prevalent Rus.
sian Custom-pictoriaI Piety.

Some Facts About n Very Prevalent Rus.
sian Custom-Pictorial Piety.
The Russian is crossing himself all day
long When he first comes forth in the
open air in the morning, if no church be
in sight from his own door, he listens to
the first sound of some bell, then, turn.
ing toward it, crosses himself with great
fervor, to insure blessing on the under
takings Of the day. He crosses himself
before and after each meal. When you
make a bargain with him he crosses HIM
self that 1t may prosper. When the
peasant who is to drive you takes the
reins in his hand he crosses himself to
keep away accidents, and every steeple
he passes gets the same mark of respect
| Sometimes the edifce thus saluted is so
| far off that the stranger wonders at the
| quickness shown in discovering it, and
| is often at loss to discern the distant
hamlet where it stands.
In like manner the person sitting be-
side you in any public conveyance
crosses himself every time you start with
new horses. If you give child a piece
of money its little hand is up in a mo-
ment to make the sign of the cross, by
way of blessing and thanking you. No
Russian ever passes n church without
pausing when he comes opposite its CEN
ter to make the sign of the cross. 1t is not
alone the grave aud the aged who pause
at these places, but also the giddy and
the young. You have just seen some
gray haired general do it-but wait one
minute a laughing band of youngsters
are coming up. Now they are opposite
the church or the shrlne-their mirth
and their talk have ceased-each crosses
himself devoutly--utters q prayer or
two-you see the lips moving-then
passes gravely on, the laugh and jest be-
ing resumed only when they are some
way of.
So far is this crossing custom carried
that when Russian enters your room
he cannot say: Good morning" till he
has crossed himself at the Saviour's pic
ture. A man in any public way, such as
an inn keeper, must always have pic
ture hung in his own apartment, in addi-
ton to that in the public room, to which
each Russian turns before he sits down
to eat Russian Interior.
The Washington critic., 1889-01-18
MR.. AND MRS.
An Interesting Account of the Origin OF
These Titles.

An Interesting Account of the Origin of
These Titles.
In earlier times the ordinary man was
simply William or John; that is to say
he had merely Christian name without
any kind of "handle" before it or sur
name after it. Some means of distin-
gushing one John or one William from
another John or another William be-
came necessary.
Nicknames derived from a mans
trade or his dwelling place. or from some
personal popularity, were tackled on to
their Christian names, and plain John
became John Smith.
As yet there were no "misters" in
the land. Some John Smith accumu-
lated more wealth than the bulk of his
fellows-became, perhaps, landed pro-
prietor or an employer of hired labor
Then he began to be called in the Nor
man French of the day the ''maistre"
of this place or that, of these workmen
or of those.
In time the "maistre" or "maister,' -
as it soon became, got tackled on before
his name and he became Master Smith
and his wife was Maistress Smith. But
gradually the sense of possession was
lost sight of and the title was conferred
upon any kind, by mere possession OF
wealth or by holding some position OF
more or less consideration and impor'
tance.
1t is only within comparatively modern
times that the term came to be con
sidered an almost indispensable adjunct
to every ones name when mentioned in
ordinary conversation or writing. NIais
tress Smith soon became Mistress Smith
Exactly how and when the term got cor
rupted cannot be said. Master Smith
however, remained Master Smith long
after his wife became Mistress Smith,
[Oldham Chronicle
The Washington critic., 1889-01-18
DRUNK WITHOUT DRINKING.

A New Vice Discovered in the City of
Culture.
Two servants who were hauled up be-
fore police justice here the other day
charged with creating rumpus, says a
Boston special, Indignantly denied hav-
ing been drunk. They said that they
had been somewhat under the influence
of tea, which was responsible for their
eccentric behavior.
But" remarked the Judge, 81 never
knew that any one could become really
intoxicated from drinking tea"
''No more they can, yer honor" was
the reply. I'VE ate It,"
1t is becoming quite popular vice in
Boston and presumably elsewhere-this
tea eating And, curiously enough, its
victims are mostly found among the
help" who, having the household tea.
caddy always accessible, get accustomed
to helping themselves from it, pinch at
time, of the dry leaves.
These they chew, thus extracting the
alkaloid, which is toxic agent of most
powerful description. Its first effects is
an agreeable eXhilaration. Ultimately it
produces sleeplessness and an abnormal
condition of mind, with strange wishes
and delirium.
1t is an amusing fact by the way, that
when tea was first brought to England,
about the year 1865, it was served eXper-
mentally for eating. in bowl, like spin.
ach. For long time after that it was
regarded as n deadly drug, and people
who sold it were considered disreputable
The Washington critic., 1889-01-18
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