The Washington critic., 1890-02-23
P0NDER0US THOUGHTS.

joke in his own quiet way, and everybody
knows It.
P0NDER0US THOUGHTS.
don't want any more letters sent here
with the line at the bottom "Please correct
spelling" ] can't be studying the diction-
ary all the time.
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A spiritualistic paper IN Chicago is
edited by gentleman long deceased. If
subscribers don't pay up he appears to
them.
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A correspondent asks us: "Would you
say 1T was he whom lent it to- or 1T was
him whom lent it to-" would not.
would say. ~ lent it to him.n
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How the women scared the Senate. Beck
declares "The dell is in it. Senators amt
free minute from the petticoated bores."
And they surged around the portals, iost-
ling those imposing mortals, pledging them
in silken barracksju just outside the Senate
doors. There they blarneyed them and
iawed them; there they lectured them aud
lawed them; there they blandly overawed
them and explained to them the plan
Of the new Sixteenth Amendment, whose
beginning and whose end meant to
arm every dame and daughter with
a ballot like a man. Susie Antique
Anthony took her argument to Bella
Hooker, and old Mamie Walker shook her
fist at Manderson aud Jones, while the
plaintive Lucy Blackwell, who can lead to
the attack well, made the Hall Of Justice
totter with the thunder of her tones Mre.
Colby said: "We'll stand all the derisive
iibes of Randall; why, the game ain''
worth the candle; let the opposition slile;"
and Olympia, Laura, julia, Phoebe, Lille
and Cerulia, Mrs. Johns and Mrs. Wal
lace, in fearful chorus, cried: "Wait till
our petition mingles with the eloquence
of Ingalls,, till his voice shall raise the
shingles, and our wall of wild despair shall
move Sherman, Evarts, Morrill,, Edmunds
to espouse our quarrel and (Here the
foreman waves his arms and says we must
20 to press, and seizes the copy in the mid
die of the sentence. But have said enough
to indicate how the toad hops this month. ]
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Evolution has overtaken the Connecti-
cut hen. Everywhere is found support for
the beautiful hypothesis with which the
| name of Darwin has been linked, and now
| the Yankee hen has come forward to add
| her silent testimony. 1t is a Danbury
| fowl. She has ceased to lay eggs of the
tiresome ovoid pattern, and begun to pro-
.xpitI n hnl CT tpp1 at mn nd
resembling an Irishman's clay pipe that has
been used about three years. Clipping of
| the upper end of this marvellous egg, we
have perfect pipe-bowl, of the usual size,
| from the bottom Of which extends stem
turning at right angle, about the size OF
q pipe-stem and an inch and a half long.
Three have already been produced, and
there is no scientific reason why the beauti-
| full variation should not become permanent,
If the feathered architect is properly en-
ceuraged. 1t is well known that the So
called freaks of nature can be perpetuated
by careful selection and interbreeding-
like Wallace's family of siX-toed cats.
Now If Danbury can establish new
breed of Meerschaum fowls, every female
of which can be relied on to turn out one
| good, strong, elegant pipe every day, will
a stem to 1t, it will assume first import
ance among manufacturing towns. Hat
ting will become subordinate to the pipe
trade. Montgomery Bailey can knock of
work, run for the Legislature, ant
'make of life a joyous holiday
An extra ration of lime and silicifiet
dough every morning would tougher the
shells, and the pattern and texture coult
be further improved by modifying the diet
The pipes could be beautifully decorated
by feeding their parent ON creosote, yellow
ochTe and carmine A pipe illuminated
with fantastic and gorgeous devices would
Immediately command a premium in thu
market, for many valuable young men
who now spend their evenings comforting {
delicate tinge upon their meerschaums
would be released for the benefit OF quilt
ing parties. By interbreedng fowls tina
produce eggs with the longest stems
stems of any length can ultimately be at
tanned, and there is no doubt that an eg!
could be at last reached, having Ions
flexible stem, lid opening With hinge
and a hook to hang 1t up by. There is NJ
end to possibilities here. The stem coul'
be grown solid and looped up on the side
producing dainty porcelain cup of tn
Sevres variety. A hen that would produc
two dozen elegant and delicate china cup
every month, with a monogram or portrai
on the side, would be treasure. 1t is nc
necessary to follow up the hint. Th
meerschaum hen is the hen of the future
and Congress might well make a reasonabl
appropriation for the encouragement o
pipe-laying.