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The Washington critic., 1890-02-06
QUEER euNsnor WOUNDS.
Remarkable Stories About Men Who
Were Shot on the Battle Field.

Remarkable Stories About Men Who
Were Shot on the Battle Field.
Lieutenant Muncie of the Sixty first
Georgia Regiment, said Captain Tip,
was one of the most remarkable men
ever knew He was slender, cadav-
erous-looking man, with apparently no
physical strength, yet he lived through
what would have killed n dozen or,li-
nary men, and is alive to-day. In the
early part of the war he was SHOT
through and through. The ball struck
The breast-bone and shattered it, passed
through his body and came out within
an inch of his spine between two ribs.
After a desperate struggle for life he
recovered and rejoined his regiment.
cat the battle of Monocacy Creek he
was again wounded, the ball entering
between the corresponding ribs on the
other side of the spine and issuing
from the same hole that the first ball
entered. The second shot must have
taken the passage inside Muncie's
in the opposite direction. He was in
prison with me later, and appeared to
suffer no unusual pain
Lieutenant Leath was another man
with remarkable experience. He was
leading his men into battle, when he
received the order to charge. The
noise of the guns and the shrieks of the
wounded made it necessary for him to
give his orders at the top of his voice.
He had his mouth wide open, calling
ont the word charge, when silver
from shell struck him in the cheek.
1t passed through his mouth without
touching single tooth and came out
through the other check, leaving on
each side of his head cash as clean as
if cut by razor. The wound became
infiamed, and Leath, who was at the
time near his home, was given leave of
absence for two OF three days. When
he rode up.to his mether's house his
head was tied up with bandages
The old lady rushed out when she
saw him coming and cried: "Oh, my
son, where are you wounded?'
Right through the head" he re-
piled.
His mother, thinking the wound
must be fatal, sent for doctor without
waiting for explanations. When the
/ medical man arrived he found Leath
sitting at the dinner table eating a
hearty meal -AR0ata Constitution.
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roErs DIE youNa.
In Other words, they Never Gro,
Old.


In other words, They Never Grow
Old.
With twogreat poetspublishing char
acteristic poems, the one in his 77th and
the other In his Ststyear, and the elder
of the two publishing at least one
poem, written but few months ago,
which would have been singled out at
any period Of his life as one Of themost
exquisite Of his lyrics. Is is at least i'm
possible TO say that the first effect of
age is to destroy the creative power OF
the imagination. Indeed. the Spectator
thinks il ought to have been impossible
to say that, ever since Sophocles pro-
dnced his last great trilogy, and, ac-
cording to the tradition, read one of its
most splendid choruses TO his judges,
by way of proof that his mind had not
been weakened by age. Indeed, there
is hardly any intellectual power of the
perfect survival of which in old age
there is better evidence than the poetic.
Goethe wrote one of his most beauti-
lful poems when he was in his seventy
fifth year, Victor Hugo some OF his
finest when he was far beyond seventy,
and Milton his great epic when he was
nearly sixty. No doubt the greater
number of great poets have died before
the last stage of life, like the greater
number of other great men, so that we
have nothing like the same means of
Judging exactly what the effect of old
age is on the intellect of the exception
ally gifted that we have for judging
what il is on the average mind.
Horace, Virgil Lucretius, Dante,
Tasso, Spenser, Shakespeare, Moliere,
George Herbert, Collins, Thompson,
Schiller, Goldsmith, Fielding, Burns,
Scott, Shelley, Byron, Keats, none OF
them lived to reach old age, and we
could easily add a host of others, as
indeed, it would be easy to do in every
department of intellectual eminence
| But, so far as we have the means oI
Judging, though it may be certainly
said that old age slackens the rate Al
which men live in every way, physica
and mental, there is no kind of reason tC
suppose that it slackens their menta
powers so much as it slackens thei
physical powers. Tennyson has Ger
tainly produced very little that is NOR,
perfect than the poem on his owl
death, written, we believe, but month
or two ago, and the exquisite poem or
Demeter and Persephone, which Ger
tainly cannot have been written long
And. Browning's intellectual energ,
could hardly be better attested than by
the general vigor of the volume pub
lished just before his own death.
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THE. ErRUscAN CIsr.
Some Interesting Information About
the Word and the Thing.

Some Interesting Information About
the Word and the Thing.
The word cist was common term
employed by the Greeks and Romans to
designate every species of basket or
box; originally Greek word, it passed
without transformation into the Latin.
AT first the cist would seem to have
been basket or box made of willow
and intended for country use for hold
ing vegetables or fruits; like our own
affairs of this sort, it was sometimes
round and sometimes square. From
this limited use, the Studio says, the
word came TO apply to boxes and cas-
kets of all sorts. We find them repre-
sented very commonly on medals and
coins and in pictures; they hold the
money of private person or of a So
ciety; they were used for carrying man
uscripts or papyri; votes were depos.
tied in them; they were the precursors
in the sacred mysteries of the pyX or
box which guards the wafer on the
altar of the Roman Church, but their
most usual employment was domestic
one; they held the toys of children and
small articles of the toilet.
There have been found in them all
those objects which made up what the
ancients call the woman's world
Mandus Huliebris. mirrors, hairpins,
combs, perfume bottles. sponges. po.
made boxes and the rest. 1t is by nc
means uncommon to find ivory dice in
these boxes, and, indeed, the miscella.
neous contents of the modern feminine
workbox, which is the analogue of the
boys pocket, are often prophesied, as
it were. in these ancient receptacles.
The cists that have come to us are
found in tombs, and by far the greater
number of them have come from the
metropolis of Preneste (Palstrina) Oh
its neighborhood, where they are found
inclosed in the sarcophagi, or in the
small boxes made of tufa which served
to hold the bones and ashes gathered
from the funeral pyre. Sometimes the
cists themselves contain bones; this wa.
not their purpose; it was merely an oc
cssional employment dictated by con
venience. We owe the preservation o.
nany of these objects to the fact tina
they were of bronze, but it is possibl,
that many more may be lost to us fron
having been made of the osier twIg
that'wer the material of the origina
| baskets
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TWO HONEsT STA TESMEN.

1t is worth noting that Samuel j.
Randall, the most efficient of the advo-
Gates Of the protected interests of Phila-
delphia and Pennsylvania. lies Ill and
poor at his modest residence near The
Capitol. If his services to the wealthy
men Of his State could be measure | In
dollars, he ought to be able to leave TO his
wife and children the greatest fortune in
America. As IL is, he has little beyond
his salary, and many IN 81 800 clerk in
w ashington lives in better style than he
has ever done.
Mcssrs. Childs DreXel, Carnegie 4
Go. have raised 5000 as fund.
with which his family will he placed
above want in case of the death of
Samuel j. Randall, the Democratic
protectionist Not many days ago
William u. Kelley died. He died
poor He was the Republican agent of
the protected interests During his
lifetime the rich manufacturers We're
Obliged to help his family to live.
There was nothing lavish in their
generosity. especially when the ser.
vices Of their representative are consid-
cred. A few thousands covered the
exigeDcies Of the cases as they occurred.
For several years Mr. Kelley's salary
was placed in trust for the use of him
self and family, he being allowed half
of II and his family the other half. A
well-known paper dealer of Philadcl.
phia regularly received the monthly
check of the Sergeant alarms for Mr..
Kelley's salary and acted as his banker
and many an overdraft was noted by
the banker, for William d. Kelley wa'
almost as innocent as u proiectionis
farmer in all business matters.
He was an easy victim to the impe
cunious constituent and to the brillian
enthusiast with a patent or mine tC
sell.
There is subject for study in the char
acters and careers of these two men,
Our opinions of politicians are too often
formed upon views of the lowest forms
of the genus. Kelley and Randall re
mained honest and poor through pc
riod of unexampled protligacy. AS {
final reflection: The protectionists o
Philadelphia knew how to choose Rep
resentatives. 1t will be long Will
before they can fill the vacant places.
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ADJUSTMENTS.


''The Candidate succeeded David Gar
rick" at Albaugh's last evening. 1t seems IN
some way better suited to the company than
it's predecessor, and Wyndham, excellent as
Dorid Gdrrick, is near to perfection as Lord
Oldacre. "The Candidaten is pretty Eng
lish comedy with scant depth of plot, and
involving less than dozen characters, all
told. II deals with an election to Parlia-
ment from an irish district, and English
politics figure materially IN its makeup.
As ''the candidate,n Wyndham is a hearty
young English lord, oppressed in marriage
by his mother-in-law. His efforts to rid
himself Of this oppression end success
fully, but give rise TO many ludicrous sltua-
tions beforehand.
Ills private secretary, which part was
most excellently taken by George Giddons,
stands in his place for election, ana for a
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POPULAR DOLLS.
A Rush for Edison's Photographic
Toys

A Rush for EdisOn's Photographic
e Toys.
1t Is not often that see Thomas A.
Edison. Despite his numberless sue
cessesses and the great fortune which
his inventions have made for him, he
is, if possible. buster than ever, and
seems determined to make the latter
half of his life more wonderful in in-
ventive achievement than has been the
first half.
In the while | chatted with him
received enough food for thought to
last a twelve-month. His wonderful
photographic doll is pronounced sue
cess. He has received letters and orders
in every language in which news
papers appear in regard to these curl
ous little toys. Judging from their
number, the fond parents of the four
quarters of the globe, us well as their
excited children. arc only too eager to
buy million, if that number were in
the market.
He suggests the extension of the idea
to all sorts of toys, and, in fact, some Of
his ablest assistants at Menlo Park are al
ready al work in the field Some of these
new creations will be more than inter
esting. 1t will be easy to make a pho
nographic canary bird, whose song shall
consist of the notes of any number of
the prize singers of that musical little
being.' An artificial parrot can be made
which will swear, sing, pray, whistle
and converse in half dozen languages,
Photographic dogs. cats, horses and
chickens will reproduce every sound
known to be of interest by their originals.
Photographic toy theatres can be
constructed 20 give short plays, and
Photographic toy opera houses will
give concerts. vocal and instrumental.
superior to those heard in real life.
There certainly seems to be a new age
just breaking in all sorts of toys for
children's use, which will afford almost
equal pleasure and interest to grown
folks. II has also been suggested that
the monograph be applied to cars to
call out the names of streets and sta
lions. -Neio York Star
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vestigation. Nothing short OF II will
suffice. It will assure The employees
immunity for telling the truth, while 1t
can be no iuducemont to them to
falsify. It is the only means by which
exact Justice can be dealt out to all.
The seriousness of the charges, the
good name of the Postonlce administra-
ton and the righteous indignation of
the Officials involved wnrrnnt u.
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4 GBE4T AFRICAN ACTOR.

There is dramatic club composed of
colored people in this city, called the Ira
Aldrldge Club. Many people do not know
who Ira Aldridge was. He was the African
Roscius, the first great negro actor and one
OF the few representatives OF that race who
have gone on the stage, where 1t would
seem that people of such emotional tenn
permanent would have appeared oftener. He
graduated from steward of a Liverpool
steamer to be an attendant of James Wall
lack, whom he met on vessel In 1929 he
appeared at Astley's in London, and after
ward at other theatres in London, Dublin,
Belfast and In cities on the continent.
II was honored by the King of Prussia and
received the Maltese Cross. He supported
Kean and Mrs. Kemble, the latter of whom,
in her "reminiscences, says: zone OF the
great bits of business that he used to do
was where IN one OF the scenes he had TO
say, Your hand, DesdemOad' He made a
great point of opening his hand and max
ing you place yours in it, and the audience
used to see the contrast between the fairer
aud darker hand. lie always made point
of doing this, and always got a round Of
applause. In the last act he used to take
DcsdeatoNd ont Of her bed by her hair and
drag her AROUND the stage before he
smOthered her,-St, Louis Stdr-Sdy'Hgs.
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time pattes as Lord 0iddcre. As such he
involves his master In tangle which does
not straighten out until the curtain falls.
Miss Moore as Lady Dorothy was graceful
ard pleaelng, and the rest Of the company
appeared well in their roles. Miss Paget,
as the terrible mother-in-law, fell but little
short Of Mrs. John Gilbert's first creation
of the part at Dsly's.
And, by the way, there is much In Wynd-
hams acting to remind one Of John Drew
in the same performance. The former is
much livelier and has not the languid air
of Drew upon the stage, but in many re-
spects their work is similar. William
Blak eley rs the Fiji islander made hosts Of
friends IN the galleries. A laugbable one
act sketch entitled Pretty Piece of Bus
iness,n preceded "The Candidate" Mr..
Giddons played the star part, supported by
Miss Paget, Miss Penrose aud Mr.. Atherly.
The Elks' benefit at Albaugh's yesterday
afternoon was in every way successful. The
attendance was large and the entertain
ment thoroughly enjoyable. Charles Wynd-
ham and Miss Mary Moore appeared In a
one-act comedy called "The Happy Pair"
to much applause Mrs. +. j. Chamber
lain, who on the stage was formerly known
as Miss Emily Thorn, was supported by
| Charles Raymond in the fourth act Of
"Lcah, the Forssken," and dozen artistic
from Hyde's Star Specially Company
brought their songs and dances from Ker.
| mania
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NEW ARMY OFFICERS.
seci etary Proctor Makes out q Num-
ber OF Commissions.

SeGi GIAfY ETDCiOT hHkth V0t ~ dNu0l~
ber OF Commissions.
Changes in the army have been Or
tlered by the Secretary of War as fol-
lows:
APPOINTMENTS.
Additional Second Lieutenant Archibald
Campbell, Fifth Artillery, to be second
lieutenant, Third Artillery, vice Bartlett,
promoted; additional Second Lieutenant
John z. Hains, First Artillery, to he second
lieutenant, Third Artillery, vice Bennett,
promoted; First Sergeant Robert Alexan-
der, Company G., Fourth Infantry, TO be
second lieutenant, Seventh Infantry, vice
Barbour, promoted; Sergeant Frederick ).
Wild, Company B, Seventeenth Infantry,
10 be second lieutenant, Seventeenth In-
fantry, vice Camp, resigned; Sergeant
Lunsford Daniel, Battery II, Second Artil-
lery, to he second lieutenant, Sixth Cav
airy, vice Forsyth, promoted; Ambrose /.
Moriarity Of Connecticut date second lieu
tenant, Sixth Infantry, to be second lea
tenant, Ninth Infantry, vice Tyson, pro-
NOTED.
PROMOTIONS.
First Lieutenant John T. Van Orslale,
Seventh Infantry, to be captain, vice Rob
insou, retired from active service; First
Lieutenant George A. Thurston, Third Ar
tillery,to be captain, vice Barstcw, retired
lTOfu tCtlFt lTbJ l<ieuJt0HDJ Jalfltb
Fornance, Thirteenth Infantry, 10 be cap
tain, vice Macarthur, who resigns his line
commission only; First Lieutenant Mason
NJ. Maxon, Tenth Cavalry, to be captain,
vice Lee, decessed; First Lieutenant
Alexander NJ. Metherlll, regimental quar-
termaeter Sixth Infantry, to be captain,
vice Garland, retired from active service;
Second Lieutenant George w. McFver,
Seventh Infantry, to be first lieutenant,
vice Van Orsdale, promoted; Second Lieu
tenant Edmund D. Smith, Nineteenth IN
fantry, to be first lieutenant, vice ives, re-
signed; Second Lieutenant George I. Bart
lett, Third Artillery, to be first lieutenant,
vice Thurston, promoted; Second Lieuten-
ant James A. Leyden, Fourth Infantry, to
be first lieutenant, vice True, who re-
| signs his line commission only; Sec
ond Lieutenant Marion u. Saffold, Thir-
teenth Infantry, to be arst lieuten
| ant, vice Torrance, promoted; Secoud
Lieutenant Charles A. Bennett, Third Ar
| tillery, TO be fret lieutenant, vice Osgood,
who resigns his line commission only;
! Second Lieutenant J. Harry Duval, Eigh-
! teenth Infantry, to be first lieutenant, vice
Hoyt, who resigns his line commission
only; Second Lieutenant Wilds p. Richard
son, Eighth Infantry, to be first lieutenant,
! vice Hyde, who resigns his line commits
sion only; Second Lieutenant William f.
Shipp, Tenth Cavalry, to be first lieuten-
ant. vice Maxon, promoted.
| To be assistant surgeon with the rank of
captain, after five years service, in accord
ancc with the act of June 30, 1874.
Assistant Surgeon Henry l. Raymond.
RETIREMENT.
Retired with the rank of captain, in ac-
cordance with an act of Congress approved
August II, 1888.
First lieutenant Thomas ". Lord tre-
tired), January IS, 1890.
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rHE snNplY NNWspApER.

We quite agree with our esteemed
contemporary, the Pest, that nearly all
the work for Sunday morning news
paper is done on Saturday and chat il is
against the Monday morning paper that
the Sunday rest people have the greatest
grievance, but we are panied to see that
usually high-minded journal fall into
the singular position wherein the fol
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THERE is SOMETHING about Tom Platt
which reminds us of successful martyr,
rHEY GEr me- EARLY

A patriotic North Dakotan who had been
telling little knot Of listeners at the Ar
lington Hotel yesterday what great people
the inhabitants of his State are, wound up
with the proud boast;
"You have to get up pretty early in the
morning to beat our folks"
81 suppose that is the reason your Legis-
lature meets at O'Clock in the morning, y
said gentleman who had been quietly
listening to the boomer,
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Time, fourteen minutes.

Mr.. Hale In the Senate yesterday had
something to say which will find an echo in
the land:
weare in the hands OF the Architect; he con
trolls. and some day, without anybody know
ing it, we shall come here in November and
find that the middle front of this Capitol has
been projected a hundred feet because It
will look better from the grass down below
to the eye of the landscape architect, and If
he should decide that the magnificent dome
should be reversed and should appear like Il
great uplifted saucer It will be done, and the
Committee on Public Buildings and Groun Is
will sustain him. and we shall be told that
we know nothing whatever about 1t aud
that the true architectural completion of a
dome is that 1t should he reversed and staud
open to all the rain of heaven to flow into it,
and that members of Congress have not any
view about IT, that is the Architect who
prevails in this matter. Anybody who ha )
been under this domination knows what it Is.
A friend of mine here In this city not 10 "
ago built beautiful house, and his architect
gave him an estimate of what it would cost
and how It would look. He staid for part
of the season and saw the work going on
entirely beyond his views, entirely beyond
his purse, entirely beyond his mind to con
template, and in the middle of the season he
fed to Northern watering place. When he
| came back the house was finished, and It
| sank pretty much his entire fortune. IL did
| not suit him. but 1t suited the architect, and
then, In an agony of spirit, he groaned out in
| an epigrammatic fashion his idea of the
remedy. Somebody" he said, has got to
| kill an architect"
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ALREADY I SUCCESS.
(Frum the Hatohet.)

Our esteemed contemporary, the reIuve-
mated Cmrfc, is already success in breez-
ness. newsiness, snappiness and several other
nesses essential TO a live newspaper. If the
people of Washington can appreciate good
thing when they see ii and consult their own
interests, Il will prove success from the
business point Of view likewise.
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THE BosToN Globe thinks it sees o
striking likeness between Oliver Crom-
well and Thomas B. Reed. 1t win have
10 be admitted, however. that at the
present time Thomas isn't half as dead
40 Oliver.
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To.NIenr's AMusnMnNrs.
WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 8, 1890

FoRaKER HAS NOMINATED Reed for
President II an old. fashioned country
desired King the Speaker might fill
the bill, but Reed is too strong for the
mere Presidency.
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ATLANTA rs TALKINe Of erecting a
monument to the late Henry w. Grady,
memorial hospital and magnificent
university. In this respect Atlanta, for
some reason, reminds US of New York,
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We DON'T KNOW whether to lay is
10 the open weather or the presence of
the Pan-American Congress, but there
are more flies in Washington this win
Ter than ever before at this time of year.
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NEAR'BY YEAR the dangers of rail
way travel in this country are increas-
ing The enterprising managers have
now begun 10 employ pretty typewriters
10 work for busy passengers on the
through trains,
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AN EARTHQUAKE shock is reported from
Bellfoot Lake, Tenn, but as it was not felt
anywhere else It is coniectured that the re-
porter slipped on q banana peel and drew
his conclusion from what followed.
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II Is UniyersalIy Admittod

That mother should, II sue is able, nurse
her child. If she cannot, or II for good
reasons 1t Ia not advisable, then Mellln's
Food, which has been proven 10 correspond
physiologically with mothers milk, should
be used,
The Washington critic., 1890-02-06

"How MANY OF THE absent gentlemen
are present this morning?" as the clerk
of the House of Representatives said to the
Speaker.
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PRESIDENT HARRISON may have made
mistakes, but let us remember that he did
not give an Office to the nephew of ex-
President Hayes.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-06

THE COMMON CoUNcIL of Aurora,
ILL.,, has declared in favor of Chicago
asiheplace for the Worlds Fair. 1t
ought to be explained, however, that
the manufacture of wind-mills is one of
the important industries of Aurora and
thatiher people live so near Chicago as
toknow there isno better place to show
what wind mill can do.
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If THERE ARE 200 unlicensed bars in
tie District, undisturbed by the police
because conviction cannot be- had
under the laws applicable to the liquor
traffic. there does not seem to be any
eeed reason for any dealer to pay for a
lRense to sell. If there are 200 un-
licensed bars, why not 1000? This is
ease of where there is no particular
Will. and, therefore. no particular way.
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! see you hiding therel

A $4,000, BODYBUILDING and loan Office
at st. Paul, MINI, has gone up. The West
ern boom is beautiful while 1t lasts, but
calamity and sorrow follow its collapse
and it always collapses. The conservatives
Of the world get the most comfort out of It..