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The Washington critic., 1890-03-18
PERSONAL

Miss Carrie Harold of Seventeenth
street has returned from q brief but
pleasant visit to her friend, Miss Littig,
of Cathedral street, Baltimore.
Alphonse Daudet, probably the most
popular living novelist, is thus de-
scribed: "Daudet is one of the most
remarkable looking men in Europe.
His head is one of great beauty eX-
quisitely shapen, long, dark locks fall
ing over white, broad forehead, eyes
as black as any coal, but brilliant with
the light of southern suns, the face It.
self perfect oval, full, dark beard
and mustachc, and delicate, finely
Chiseled mouth"
Professor Langley, as q result of cX-
periments as to moon temperatures,
taken during an eclipse, concludes that
the mean temperature of sunlighted
lunar soil is not greatly above zero
centigrade.
1t Is rumored that the first volume of
of Bismarck's unpublished correspond
ence, extending from 1869 to 1880, is
about to be issued, and that the second
volume will appear soon after the first.
Ronconi, the well-known singer, who
died recently, had but one fault-he
sang false, and he knew it. The first
time he appeared in opera in London
with the great basso, Carl Formes, he
took Formes aside after the perform
ance and said: "Until this evening,
have never been jealous of any one,
but / am jealous of you. "Why 2"
Because you sing still more out Of
tune than do.
William Rockefeller of the Standard
Oil Company kept fine herd of deer at
his former home, near Greenwich,
Conn, for number of years until this
winter. His new home at Tarrytown is
now completed, and one of his prepara-
tions for removal was 'the sale of his
herd of deer. Two Of the finest of the
herd, pair of red deer, as large as
American elk, he has given to the city
of New York for the Central Park
menagerie. They are the genuine Eu.
ropean red deer, not the misnamed Vir.
ginia variety.
In 1857 William Parker, u Liverpool
sailor, aged 26, accompanied by his
young wife and two children, took
passage on the packet ship William and
Mary, bound for Montreal. A short
time after the steamer left the Mersey,
Parker, who was on the spar deck
leaning over the rail, lost his balance
and tumbled into the sea. Parker was
swept astern and given up for lost.
The widow continued her voyage,
finally settling down in the vicinity of
Montreal, and, soon finding an ad.
mirer, married again. The second mar
riage was disturbed the other day by
the sudden appearance of Parker, who,
it seems, had been picked up by Por-
tuguese merchantmen bound for South
America, and, arriving in that country,
resolved to seek his fortune before
joining his family.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18
: : AMUSEMENIS.
Rosina VOkes.

Miss Rosina Vokes, after an absence
OF three years, was greeted at the Ma
tional last evening by one of the largest
audiences that has been called out this
season. The bill was a triple one. The
first, "a Game of Cards." gave Mr.
Felix Morris, as The Oheealier de
R0cheterr5er, an opportunity to do some
excellent comedy work. Miss Lombard
was a charming Rosa. "The Circus,
Rider and '"The Rough Diamond"
which followed, seemed designed to ex-
hibit Miss Vokes' versatile abilities. II
is not too much to say that ne actress
now living can rival her Lady Lucile.
No one else can use eyes-her wonder
full eyes-hair, hands and 1.-the figure
as she can. The grand bareback
riding act" on the sofa was simply i'm.
mense, and II aroused, as was inevita-
Bile, ineXtinguishable laughter As
NaT9eIy, LAZY Evergreen. Miss Vokes
portrayed the ignorant, unpublished,
but noble and affectionate country girl,
whose rustic charms had won the heart
of an English nobleman. Her dancing
In this part, especially the minuet, COM
posed by Mr.. Ferdinand Gottschalk,
were well executed and deserving of
the highest praise.
She is supported by an excellent COM
pany, notable among them being Mr..
Courtenay Thorpe, who, as Lord Merton
and Sir Utllidm E'srgieen, showed
himself to be juvenile actor of the
first rank. Mr.. Felix Morris, who is
the comedian of the company, and
whose Cousin doe is a careful presenta-
tion of the English country boy, was
warmly received as was also Miss
Eleanor Lane, whose Lddy Plato was
characterized by womanly dignity. The
other parts were well taken.
"The Water Queen" at Albaugh's.
A thoroughly pleased and very nu-
merous audience came out from Al
baugh's Grand Opera House last night
after witnessing a most enjoyable per-
formance in "irhe Water Queen" Tho
play is old enough to be forgotten by
most of us, but is as good as new
again, and the unequaled genius of the
Kiralfy family--in this instance that of
BolossY Kiralfy-was never better ex-
emplifed than in this presentation. The
splendor of magnificent stage settings,
the fascination Of well filled leshings
in the mazes of the graceful ballet-all
at their best--combine to make this
spectacle most pleasing entertainment
The premier dansuese, Mile, Franceslna
Paris, is a wonderfully agile and grace
full pirouettist, and she was admirably
set oil by a well-drilled and artistic
corps de ballet Of pretty girls in most
fetching though not over-elaborate cos
tunes.
Interspersed through the dream like
fairy play are several specialties, every
one a gem, as the audience testified by
It's enthusiastic applause. The Inn.
presentations of people We all know
by Sablon, the changes being made on
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18
RANDOLPH OHunOHLL

The enigmatical parsonage Of Eng
lish politics at present is Lord Randolph
Churchill. All the other well-known
public men of England have definite
positions and are credited with distinct
and determinate political characters
Churchill alone is named as a tory and
classed as a radical,
No one who is well-informed Won
ders at what is occasionally brought to
light as sensational and errraic in the
course of Labouchere, for example.
Labouchere is aTlstooratic by family re-
lationship and tradition, radical by ma.
ture, accidental circumstances and per-
sOnal history. and eccentric both from
choice and the necessities of his Pc
culiar social and political affiliations.
But Churchills is not a similar case
He has had no past history TO be con.
doned. He has formed no dubious ALL
Ances. II his utterances have not al,
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18
A JEALOUS PRINCE.
Amadeo's Bride and Her Filtration
Ugly, Yot Charming.

Ugly, hct GbAftnlnR.
Nrs. Craorofd IN London TIUH.
] saw Amadeo frightfully jealous
three years before he was called to hold
the sceptre which the innocent but
jolly Isabella held SO unsteadily. He
was here on his honeymoon trip with
rather handsome bride, who, having
been a good deal cloisterod as school
girl in convent, did not ask better than
to see little life. Her intentions were
all right, but she visibly enjoyed the
attentions of another prince, who stood
on the highest step Of o very great
throne, and who had the charm of good
humor, of a constant flow of animal
spirits and of good nature.
The Prince laughed and she laughed;
he said something gay, and in the nature
Of an agreeable truth, and she flung him
a rose, which he said deserved to be
/ made the badge of an order. But he
did not pin it on his heart. The Duke
Of Aosta was present, and his eyes, which
were very black, showing the white all
around the iris. rolled as If in the head
of Chrisy minstrel trying to look fero-
cious.
] never saw an uglier man than that
royal bridegroom, but he had q gentle
manly air that was taking, and do not
know but what that showed him to be
upright. He improved in appearance
as years rolled on, and he had q wider
experience of life and of its sorrows. |
thought him, on the whole, the most
seductive of all the royalties who came
to Paris In 1878 as heads of royal com
missions to the exhibition. II tenGit
oorcle, rs the French say, with more
ease, simple grace and quiet dignity
than any Of them, and had nice way
of making the ladies feel that he con
sidered them his equals.
With them he entirely thawed. The
frightful face frightened up, as he
chatted for few moments with each,
with q smile of penetrating sweetness. II
was the smile of one in whose life there
had been far more sadness than of joy.
| To begin with: He had the low spirits
| which go with narrow and delicate
chest, an organic defect Inherited from
his mother, Adelaide of Tuscany, O
princess, who died of consumption.
| Though one of the bravest men that
ever lived, he had a horror of death
and of the possibilities of another world.
His greatest sorrow was his first wife's
| death.
AS he was not. when he next mar.
ried, the right sort of husband for a
young princess with, to quote her aunt
Mathilde, ''the lively blood Of the
women of her family" the fatal char.
acter of his attack of influenza may
have saved him from more bitter grief
than any that he ever went through.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18
WASHINGTON, MARGINS, 1890.
ANTARCTIC EXPLORATIONS

Baron Nordenskiold, the well known
explorer, whose journey across Green
land has made him famous, now pro-
poses to undertake an expedition to the
Antarctic regions which will occupy the
summer season of 1891. These regions re-
main practically unexplored. A South
Polar winter is supposed to be much
more severe than an Arctic winter, but
since no man has ever spent the winter
months in the South Polar Seas, the
facts in the case have never been prop
erly collated. Evidently il will be in
teresting to compare meteorological OBJ
servations near the North with those
taken near the South pole.
We often speak of the antipodes.
There are many illusions in contem-
porary literature Indicating not only
striking comparisons but contrasts in
regard to the conditions of life and
manners in northern and southern lati-
tudes. These conditions have never
been verified The facts which have
been given out relative to the South
Frigid Zone have certain color of un-
certainty. They are, however, sufficient
to stimulate the imagination and to fire
the desire of the adventurous, but not
enough TO satisfy the natural and
proper thirst for knowledge in regard
10 human progress and the phenomena
of the physical world for which this
century is distinguished.
The only expedition of any conse-
quence in this direction was that of the
Challenger, which accomplished no
more than TO penetrate the field Of
Antarctic ice. Nordenskiold believes
that he can make that field reveal its
secrets. He thinks that a sledge party
can cross Victoria Land and approach
the South Pole to ascertain whether the
earth's axis revolves on pivots that at
the South, as at the North, are covered
by eternal glaciers.
There lis no question that from Nor
Senskiold the best results may be ex-
pected. He is not only an experienced
traveller, but he is Polar explorer of
the highest rank 1t is not known that
In the far southern latitudes man or
quadruped has ever existed and infor-
nation is wanting on that suggestion
as to the distribution of the mammal
tribes of animals. The phenomena Of
.yolcanoes and icebergs in such close
proximity as that which is possibly dis
coverablc in that southern world is not
only worthy of observation, but also Of
careful investigation and report.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18
MY FIDDLE.

My fiddler Wen, kind o. keep her handy,
don't you know?
Though l aint so much inclined to tromp
the strings and switch the bow
As was before the timber of my elbows
got SO dry,
And my fingers was more limber-like and
caperish and spry.
Yet can plonlI aud plunk and pink
And tune her up and play,
And just lean back and laugh and wink
AT every rainy day.
My playin's only middlin'-tunes picked
up when a boy
The kind o. sort o. fiiddlin' the folks call
corduroy;
"The Old Fat CAR and "Ryestrawn and
My Sailors on the Sea-
Is the cowtilliOns that / saw when the
ch'iee Is left 10 me.
And so plunll ana plonk and pink
And rosum up my bow,
And play the tunes that makes you think
The DEVILS on your toe.
That's how this dear old fddle's won my
hearts endurin' love!
From the strings across the middle to the
screechin' up above
From her apern, over bridge, and 10 the
ribbon round the throat,
She's wooin' cooin' pigeon, singin' "Loye
mel In every motel
And so pat her neck aud pink
Her strings with lovin' hands,
And, list'nin' elost, sometimes think
She kind o. understandsl
james lPhitc0m6 Riley
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18
WORSE THAN rarALIsM.

Il Is too bad for belief. Men are di-
minishing in height. We used to 90 to
theology for all the kinds of knowledge
which could not otherwise be ascer-
tanned. But in this occult field science
has been ruthless intruder.
A Frenchman has been investigating
mems stature at different periods. He
has not only brought his discoveries
within the regions of history and
poetry, but he has also brought them
within the range of science.
Arithmetieal calculation based upon
indubitable facts is not enough for a
Frenchman. This particular statistician
has not only explored the past of the
human race, but he prognosticates its
future and has determined when the
race will finally disappear.
In 1910 the average height of men
was five feet nine inches In 1890 it
had dwindled to five feet and six inches.
In 1890 ii was five feet five inches, and
at the present time ii is asserted to be
five feet three inches.
Founding his calculation on these
data this French mathematician figures
that men were originally sixteen feet
and nine inches tall. In Charlemagne' $
time they had been brought down to
nearly niue feet, which was still a very
respectable stature and which amaz-
ingly helps to account for the marvel
Gus and redoubtable deeds of the olden
time. But the measurements of later
years quite change this record.
Pursuing his calculations this French
man shows that. by the inexorabIe law
of diminution, in the future, the race
will decrease and shorten until adults
will reach only the stature of one foot,
and that it will afterward wholly disap-
pear. 1t must be acknowledged that
this is bad outlook, but it is no worse
than other and equally unreliable
prophecies.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18
A SOCIAL SENSATION.
"Tiohets, &C." for an Entertainment
~ Mrs John Wanamuker's.


"Tiokets, &C." for an Entertainment
~ Mrs. John Wnnamaker's.
Invitations are out inviting Washing
toms -Four Hundred" to attend q
musicale at the residence n this city Of
Mrs. John Wanamaker. At the bottom
of the invitation is o legend, which runs
as follows
Tickets, 50. Can be procured at
Brentanos."
Nothing is said about the entertain.
ments being given for charitable pu-
poses, and plain people wonder if charg-
ing an admission fee to an enter.
tainment in private house Is
the latest "swagger' custom. If It
should become common 1t would prove
a serious detrimcnt to the interests of
the regular professional houses of en-
tertainmcnt The invitation Is creating
something of sociul sensation.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18
OFFICE OF
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Corner 11th and Fists. n, w.

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27.inch Mohairs, in a va
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The Washington critic., 1890-03-18
women Kiding Man. Fashion.

From The Ne,0 York Sun.
1t seems rather odd to Americans
that there should be a distinct and
well defined movement on foot in Great
Britain against women who wished to
ride man fashion to hounds. Yet there
seems TO be every reason to believe that
a large body of women exist In Great
Britain who have this ambition, and
certain fashionable tailors are adver-
tising divided skirt riding habit de-
signed for these enthusiasts.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18
The latest Derby Hat.

IRON ne Netp YORK PIesS,
The latest derby hat-the real Eng
lish fad-has a narrower brim than last
year. / was chatting yesterday with a
Western man who always wears wide
sombrero, when he said "All my
friends in New York above 40 years Of
age are near-sighted. They all wear
high silk hats or derbys with narrow
brims. They do not realize that it is
narrow brimmed hats that ruin their
eyesight.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18
THE LARGEST PHYSICIANS, FEE.
DR.. willard Parker Received Hun
dred Thousand Dollars.

From tie NdlO York Star.
"What was the largest fee ever paid
TO physicians" friend asks. Doctors,
as a rule, are reticent about their fees,
but there is story, probably authentic,
that DR.. Willard Parker was paid
$1,000 for the successful removal of
an eXcressence from the face and neck
of the son and heir of one of the wealth
thiest families in the vicinity of New
York.
Commodore Vanderbilt bequeathed
100000 to one of his doctors; but
millionaires seldom remember the physi-
clan in their wills. They leave that to
be settled by the executors. DR.. Par
ker's fee in the case alluded to is pro-
badly the largest ever paid, in this
country at least
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18
A CA r ID
FROM
MR.. T. E. ROESSLE.
PROPRIETOR OF
The Arlington.
THE ARLINGTON"
WASHINGTON, d. c.,
March 6, 1890.

My DEAN Dir. LIGHTHrLL
1t gives me great pleasure to state
that you effected a remarkable cure of
deafness and discharge from the ears in
the case Of my cousin, Marcus G.
Roessle, and that the cure has proved as
permanent as it was radical. l feel sure
that without your skillful aid my cousin
would have been deaf man all his
life. Knowing of other cases in which
you have been equally successful, I
cheerfully give you leave to refer to rue
at any time, and hope that your prac-
tice in Washington will prove distin
guished success.
Yours, truly, T. Z. RoEssrE.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18
THE SCIENCE OF THE LULLABY
DR., Warren G. Priest Says Hypnotism
Is q Fact,

DR., Warren G. Priest Says Hypnotism
Is q Fact.
From Tie 50. Louis Star-Sayings.
This talk Of hypnotism," says DR..
Warren G. Priest, "is largely extrava-
giant. Why, you'd think it was new
discovery, when in fact it is an old
thing, and it is now being studied scien-
tifically, and the facts put before the
people in language devoid of technical
jargon. Hypnotism is a fact, and 1t
has been since man has been man. Have
you ever seen mother walk with and
rock her baby, all the while soothing
1t with soft croonings, until 1t falls to
sleep? She is, you may say, hypnot-
izlng the child. It's little mind is
stilled by the rocking and the singing,
and 1t becomes passive In the mothers
arms.
THE mothers will it is that puts
the child to sleep, and not the rocking
or the grooming Every motherly lul-
laby is part of scientific art. though
1t is so common that no one thinks of its
causes. tell you, the science of COM
mon things is the grandest of all studies.
1t will show one how the simplest acts
are related to the grandest forces and
principles of nature, and leads to the
sublime pantheism that will be the re-
ligion of the latter part of the Goth
century. The oneness of everything is
a doctrine that Is growing in favor
every day. "
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18

THERE ARE symptoms going to show
that the diplomatic positions which
American statesmen fill abroad are be-
ginning TO be tiresome, especially to
men accustomed to activity in affairs.
The latest instance of a sufferer from
diplomatic ennui is Minister Palmer at
the Court of Spain.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18

In SOME QUARTERS it is held that the
questions before the House Committee
on Elections are merely matters Of
arithmetic and counting, and it is even
hinted that the members of that com
mittee are not all experts in computa-
ton. The results they arrive at. suit
one side only.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18
THE ORIGIN OF JAG"
Its Travels and How 1t Came Into
General Use
FroM "a Nolo YolE SNR.

From tie N6W YORK. sun.
Some Of the members of the Ameri-
can Dialect Society of Harvard College
are hunting up words that were in use
in various American localities in the
eighteenth century, but are now either
forgotten or perverted. In a list Of
words peculiar to New Jersey they in
clude Gag" explaining that its mean
ing strictly is "a small load"
The expression Is, as almost every
body knows, in vogue to-day to signify
condition of rather full intoXlcauon
from alcoholic beverages. AS used
here In New York it does not mean
simply "a small load" but rather a
large one. 1t is difficult to determine
when this sense was given to 1t. 1t Is
difficult, too, TO decide why it should
be called a Jerseyism by the Dialect
Society.
The word is of Scotch birth, was first
spelled "jaug," and then "jagg," and
its earliest meaning was leather bag
or pocket Some men keep their
watches in chamois Jags. A later meGn-
ing was that Of a small load of hay or
straw. From Scotland it came into use
in England as colloquial term, and
then became localized in New Jersey.
To-day it is probably In general use
throughout the United States.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18
Not Much

Fiom tho Ns,0 Yorb EceaiBg sun.
"a viii $500 years old has been
found in Egypt"
you don't say Any prospect of
settling the estate 2"
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18

The FLOODS SEEM to be falling in the
deluged districts of the Mississippi
River. All the same ii will be found
that hundreds and perhaps thousands of
unfortunate sufferers have had to aban-
don their homes, and in their cases, as
the waters subslde, benevolence should
rice
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18

EN-AssEMGIYNGAN DANIEL w. TAI
MAGE has recovered verdict of $20,-
600 against the New York IPorId for
libel. If every one the Por!d has IL
beled should recover that amount, the
big Pulitzer building would never be
finished.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18

ABOUT THE LIvELIEsT news articles
published these days in the Cincinnati
C0n1nercial Gazette are the sketches of
the pioneers of the region which lies
between the lakes and the Ohio River.
They are not only interesting reading,
but much safer to publish than forged
contracts anent ballot boxes.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18

TIE EULoGIEs UPON Judge Kelley's
character and career all point in one di-
rection. They indicate a man of fear
less honesty and positive opinions. 1t
is not necessary that his every method
and utterauce should be agreed with.
But even his enemies will admit that he
had broad, intellectual grasp which
never belittled the subject on which he
touched.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18
cold In one Nrong Plaoe.

From me AtehisoR Gl05e.
Occasionally you see q girl with IS
gold pieces for bangles on her bracelet,
and lonely nickel In her pocketbook.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-18
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