The daily critic., 1890-12-05

i1 advance happened ONT Ga. other
evening with Ned Forest and 7 will
venture 90 say that be told Dozen 1r
more rcrs0us in my presence That the
verdict that would le returned in
civil action pending iu a certain court
would be- Just so many dollars aui
cents ! thought 1t the time that DE
was jumping az conclusions and told
bin so The following afternoon The
jury I'm the case referred 10. after deib
Grating an hour or more allowed The
complainant. o. q very cent the exact
figures given hv mir Forest the even
ing previous lie had no interest in
tbc case and Just thought that bewo1ld
give bis friends q specimen OF mind
reading OF course we do net accuse
him of trining With The Jury.
a Detective There is woman who
bauu.s Police Headquarters and she
IS perpetual source of annoyance %
Major Moore aud Inspector Svinjels
She was never known 90 occupy house
Tor lOngar period thaa fifteen days or
one month, auj she is a tenant who i1
vIiahIy has trouble about the payment
OF her rent, and 20 costs her about as
much TO defend law suits AS SC would
for rent Whenever she becomes On.
volved in trouble Of this character she
besieres headquarters with the eypecta.
ton that the police viii help her out
They have no right however, To- inter
fere IN civil matters and she has been
told so many and many a time.
A Dentist-Nery few people realize
how much the dentist has done for man.
Kind To mention one thing only. the
perfection 90 which the Manufacture of
false teeth has been carried has practi.
caliy abolished old age-that Is old age
in the sense that used 20 know 70 You
see none Of the helpless, mumbling OLD
men and women that you formerly did.
{ This is not because people DO not attain
the age their parents and grandparents
reached, but because the dentist has
prevented some of the most unpleasant
consequences OF advancing years. Men
Of 20 no longer either look or feel old
because they are not deprived Of nOur.
| ishing food at the time when they need
/ Il most Estimates have been made
| showing that the average length Of life
/ has been increased from four 10 six
/ years by the general use of false teeth
/ and this does not appear IN the least ex.
/ travag6nt when one thinks Of the diff
| ference In the nutriment accessible to
/ one with n fine set Of m0lars and one
/ condemned 20 gum it through his de-
cliniug years.
Michael b. Scanlon- Baseball will
I pay well here next season. and there Is
going 20 be a good club to carry Wash.
I iuCtOn's COlors. People are willing 20
| pay money TO see good ball played. and
\ that Is what Is going to be offered dur
ing The coming season.
Richard FerlnCr--It is surprising
how rapidly the game of billiards in
fatuates a man, once he has learned TO
/ play fairly well. Another thing that
/ strikes one familiar with most of the
/ players about the city is that there seems
/ 20 be a great many more real good play.
/ ers now than there were last year, and
\ every. ones game seems 70 be improv.
/ irC.
Lover OF AnImals-Did you ever see
/ cat eat an oystcrY
Nc-itisu't any SELL but really-lid
| you ever see q cat eat an oyster3
mean raw oyster, out OF the
/ she'll
OF course, they Just gobble them
I vh,n slewed, or cooked with milk or
cream.
never saw it tHl last night, and II
/ Whs very iuhny,
The cat was q big white Maltese a
/ very conversational gentleman, an eX-
| pectant feline, who behaves perfectly
until the fish goes ont. Then he be-.
gins 10 suggest, quietly, that he wants
his dinner,
Ills tail goes straight up, with a tiny
hook at the end, and AS each dish goes
20 the pantry be walks In front OF II,
0 a sanFfNaEeN Hf that a
piper preceding the Christmas pud-
ding.
As he finds that he does not get the
dinner the tail assumes a less assertiye
attitude, and be begins 10 say please"
in a voice partly purr and partly
'miauw'
Last night Ella-that's the butler--to
pacify him, gave him an oyster In the
she'll The oyster was not entirely de-
tachCd from the shell.
He licked II little; then tried 70 take
II out Of the shell for better hold.
When the shell came along he
jumped a foot, and, Of course, the
oyster turned shell side up.
Then there was a circus. His tongue
was not long enough. His claws
would not reach il, and he walked
round and round Ike the Peri unable
TO ind the gate. The metaphors are
blt mixed, but the facts are right there.
At last he walked up 10 Ella and just
begged her 10 help him. When he got
Il OF the shell, instead Of eating II, he
treated il exactly as If Il was live beast,
turning Il over with a long, out
stretched, clawy paw, and then spring
ing back with little affected, mincing
| jumps II took him twenty minutes 10
/ eat IL.