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The Washington critic., 1890-03-21
FOREIGN MATTERS


a Paris bankrupt selected the door
sill of the Morgue as place for suicide
The Jewish population of Palestine
has increased 10000 annually in the last
five years. In 1741 Palestine contained
but 5000 Jews; in 1888, 100000; end of
1888, 10000.
Mr.. Parnell has had to pay SO 800 to
the Times as costs In the libel suit begun
in Edinburgh and discontinued. The
Times claimed twice that sum, but the
court cut down the bill
The Duke of Orleans has let his
friends, the Dukes of Luynes and
d'Alencon, pay his prison restaurant
bill of ,454 francs. The young pre-
tenders every meal cost about fifty
francs.
Fate pursues the British 110-ton guns
relentlessly; one of them has Just been
sent to the bottom of the Thames by the
sinking of the craft aboard of which it
was being transported to its ship. The
London Netos suggests that they had
better let it lie there awhile; 'the salt
water may strengthen it."
The new City and Southwark Sub.
way in London has had successful ex-
perimental test, fifty persons travelling
in two cars through the tunnel under
meath the Thames at speed of thirty
miles an hour by electric power. The
road is from fifty to seventy feet under
ground, and elevators will take people
up and down at the stations.
The La Plata Gazette announces that
on April ] an electric mail service will
be set in operation between Buenos
Ayres and Montevideo. The two cities,
which are about $50 miles apart. have
just been connected by double line of
wires. The tiny mail boxes, containing
messages on thin paper, will be
slipped along these wires with.
ming rapidity.
Nine. Guibollard. nee McGinty, suf-
fered greatly from toothache; but she
had a horror Of the forceps. At last
she decided to have the had tooth
pulled, and drove off to the dentist.
When the door was opened a servant
appeared. ''ls the doctor in?" she
asked. No, madam, not at present."
was the answer. ooh, amt | glad!'
she exclaimed, with sigh of relief.
The Forth bridge cost the lives 'of
't'J PSiopho uullhs IhC otNtu years
OF Its construction, but the engineers
insist that this was a remarkably good
showing. They say: The fact that the
loss Of life has not been larger on a
work of such magnitude with so large
number of men employed in danger
GUS positions shows that no reasonable
precautions for their safety have been
omitted"
st. Petersburg tailors got up a scheme
for publishing in the newspapers the
names of all their customers who re-
fused to pay their bills, but the govern
meDt forbade it. Now the tailors ac-
complish the same object by putting up
large blackboard in the reception
room of their shops. upon which they
chalk the names of the chief delinuuents
and the amounts of their bills. They
say it has reduced by sixty per cent.
their losses.
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PERSONAL.

1t is said that Mr.. William Waldorf
Astor, since his fathers death, has had
cards engraved bearing the simple yet
suggestive legend, "Mr Astor." ''NIr.
Astor" evidently appreciates the dig
nifty of being at the head of u family.
The grave Of Nathaniel Harrison, the
ancestor of President Harrison, was de-
secrated by relic hunters several days
ago. 1t is located on the north side of
the James River road, near Sunken
Meadow, in Suny county, Va.
A new factory will soon be built by
DIR. Calling of machine gun fame His
invention is now used by every govern
ment of the world, and the Doctors
purse is proportionately heightened.
Mr. Bayard is now living quietly at
his home in Wilmington, and for the
first time in more than a quarter Of
century he is not bothered with politics
or politicians. Whether he will ever
again enter public life is in great doubt.
He is being importuned on all sides to
become Governor of his native State.-
Neao York Star.
A. Paris paper thus describes Louise
Michel, who has been nicknamed the
stormy petroleuse of French politics:
Her face flames with color; from the
centre of her ostrich egg. shaped fore.
head her untidy hair cascades upon her
neck. She is dressed in black. Her
eyes are not fierce; they are filled with
tenderness. Louise Michel is more a
Socialist by heart than by reason.
A dispatch from Des Moines, Iowa.
TO the Chicago Herald says that ''the
much lauded speech of Congressman
Dolliver, delivered on Lincoln's ami.
versary recently in Brooklyn, was an
almost verbatim copy of an Grafton de-
livered by his brother Victor on Lincoln
at the commencement Of Cornell Col
lege last June. The only difference
consisted of working in some illusions
TO the Republican party and the addi-
ton of a couple of paragraphs on ballot
reform"
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sroNnwAL1 SAcKsoN,s WIFE.
The Widow of the Great Southern
General Seeks a Pension.


The Widow of the Great Southern
General Seeks a Pension.
The application of Mrs. Thomas ].
jackson for a pension for the services
of her late husband, General "Stone-
walr' Jackson, in the war with Mexico,
has been received In the Pension Office.
II was forwarded from the office of ID.
&. Maxwell, U. s. commissioner, Char
lotte, N. G.
The affidavit of General James Long.
street was needed and it was read before
Judge CASTOR at Gainesville, Ga. Cen
eral Longtreet and General Jackson
were comrades in the Mexican war,
one being captain and the other a
lieutenant. General Longstreet made
affidavit to General Jackson S service in
the war with Mexico, and as he signed
his name TO the paper his eyes were fun
Of tears-the memory of many fought
battles and biSouacs doubtless crowds
/ ing on his memory:
"The bravest are the tenderest,
The loving are the daring.n
To the above was added the affidavit
of DR.. Joseph Graham, who was present
at the marriage, July 15, 1857, of Lieut.
7. ]. Jackson and Miss Mary Ann Nor.
rison, daughter of an eminent Presby-
terian divine and niece of Hon. VIM.
A. Graham, U. s. Senator from North
Carolina in 1S43 and Secretary of the
Navy in the Cabinet of Fillmore. Mrs.
Jackson will receive pension Of So per
month from January 80, 1887, the date
of the passage of the Mexican veterans
bill-some 1904 up TO this date.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21

the Government sometimes unfortu-
nately fails TO come mp to the measure
of It's obligations
There is no reason why the District
of Columbia, which is legislatiyely in
the keeping Of Congress, should not be
protected against these adulteratious.
All our citizens have a right TO know
whether what they have to cat and
drink is wholesome. There should be
an inspection thoroughly energetic and
sufficiently clear sighted to detect frauds
Of all kinds in regard to our food and
drink The oiTenses Of poisoning or
detcrioraiing the food or drink Of the
people should be put in the criminal
category.
Provision is already made for the de.
lection Of tainted meat or fish Public
inspection should 90 farther Every
citizen should be protected in his eating
and drinking Whether tits a matter Of
crackers and cheese or of whisky and
beer the Government should see to It
that its citizens are Justly dealt witt,
and that they are not poisoned.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21
PEOPLE VINO ARE POPULAR.
They Arc the Adaptable Ones Who
Make others Com Portable.

They Arc the Adaptable ones VINO
Make Others Comfortable.
The popular people, that is the people
popular socially, are the adaptable
ones, says the New York Sun. The
man who doesn't believe his host Is re-
sponsible for the weather, or his lack
of appetite, or the fact that most Of
the people are strangers to him, or that
lis clothes are uncomfortable, is the
man who is going to be invited out
often. The woman who doesn't eX
pcct her friends to be always at the
fever heat of affection, who doesn't eX-
pect them to keep day book of her
likes and dislikes who doesn't want
the best seat in an opera box, and who
doesn't complain if she has to enter
tain somebody who isn't rs yet celeb
rity, is the comfortable one, and the one
that everybody is glad to meet again.
She is certain to make even stupid
people bright, or better still, Ito make
them think themselves bright, and she
is equally certain to be tolerable
happy person herself, for there is n
great deal of truth in what one of the
slum sisters so funnily said "If you
make other people 'appy you've a
'appiness in your own art that cawn't
come in any other way"
If you ask man how you had better
dress TO go to the theatre, he'll say:
ooh, wear black frock and little
bonnet" Then, if you tell him you
haven't got a black frock that is fiji to
wear, he'll ask, 'if you don't own
some quiet little brown thing2" Very
young men and very old men, those
nearing their second childhood, like to
take out women who are conspicuous
by their handsome gowning; but the
real man, the best type of the man of
the world, prefers that, while woman
is well, she should be quietly dressed
An observant citizen, who votes the
Democratic ticket, and whose opinions
of men in general and women in par
ticular are good, said he'd rather have,
when he took out woman he cared
for, man to say TO him the next day:
Tommy, my boy, who was that quiet
little lady with you last evening 2" than
10 have him rush up to him and say:
Tom, you can't keep that to yourself
You've got to introduce that stunning
creature to me. Never saw such a
beauty in my life. What a lucky fellow
you are"
Men are hundred times more sensi-
tive on the subject of refinement in
women than most women believe, and
the young woman who is given to cigar
cite smoking, who "slings slang" like
a man, who talks about the fellows and
who never fiinches before mouse or
COW, is apt in time to be relegated by
them to the world in which she belongs.
Men are decidedly the best judges of
what is desirable in women, and they
seldom have a deep-seated admiration
for the fast or the horsey one.
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A CHILD OF THE MINES.
BY cmARLEs HENRY LrpERs.

Far from green field or waving bough,
From dewy morn TO shadOwy night,
His lamp, dim burning DER his brow,
Shedding faint and ghostly light,
In dark gangway underground
The little door-boy sits alone,
Waiting the footballs that resound,
sAnd bid the portal open thrown.
No books, no games, no playmates cheer
The long, blach hours he watches there;
Unto his half unconscious ear
No onoises from the upper air
Bird-song, or plash of brook, or sigh
or winds may come. Wee, steadfast soul,
He hears the tram car rumblng by,
The drill, the blast, the falling coal
Poor, little, lonely lad To me
IL seems crime to shut you there,
Away from m ountain stream aud tree,
Away from joyous light and air.
Heaven guard you at your vigil lone,
And grant you-that IL may suffice
For earthly hardships to atone
The whitest robe In Paradise
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21
WASHINGTON, MARCH 91, 1890.
THE NEW YORK AVENUE BRIDGE.

There can be no question that the
proposed construction of the bridge
across the Potomac at the foot of New
York avenue, intended to connect the
city with the great National Cemetery
at Arlington, is an important public
enterprise, and one not only Of interest
to the District, but also to the whole
nation. That 1t should be built with
out delay has been repeatedly demon
srated
New York avenue is even now one
of the great arteries of the city. As
the northeastern district develops, its
Importance will be more and more
recognized. 1t is potentially our finest
boulevard and its prolongation to the
Arlington reservation by means of the
connecting link of "A bridge which
might not only be made matter of
convenience, but of historic interest,
should be accepted as an affair not
alone Of local hut of national conse-
quence.
As THE CRITIC understands II the
proposal is to make the New York ave
nue. bridge toward Arlington a memo
rial structure. 1t is intended to be
worthy both of the city and of the great
country of which this city is the capt
tal. 1t will accommodate river naviga-
tion in perfect accordance with the
most approved methods 1t will pro-
vide an ample roadway, and will gener-
ously.furnish all the requirements of a
bridge. But beyond all this it is to be
commemorative us well. lis balustrades
will be ornamented with heroic statues
Of our greatest men. 1t may be an
etfiGy of Grant that will arrest the eye
Of the stranger who enters the bridge
from Washington. On the other hand
the Virginia approach may rivet the
gaze of the beholder with vivid and
hfe.like presentation of the immortal
Lee.
The idea is that this bridge shall be
completed so that its opening shall be
one of the ceremonies Of the Quadri-
Centennial year. Congress has now in
charge two or three propositions looking
toward an appropriate celebration of
that occasion. OF course, the statue in
honor of Columbus should be built.
That can be easily provided for so that
its unveiling will come in time. But if
the great New York Memorial Bridge is
10 be opened and inaugurated in 1892,
immediate action must be taken, and
Congress will have to assume the re-
sponsibility of speedy as well as an
adequate appropriation for the purpose
The CRITIC, in its devotion to both
local and national subjects, calls for in
slant attention to this pressing matter.
congressman are requested to direct
Their minds to its importance, and our
citizens individually and generally
should come unanimously to their as
sistance.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21

From the Bi,H,ia0haat tAIa) Age-H,ald.
A dispatch from Scranton alleges that
foreign miners are now leaving Penn
sylvania and returning to Europe. The
reason isthat under present conditions
they can make better wages in Wales
than in this country. We have never
understood why the Pennsylvania mine
owners do not avail themselves of negro
labor for mining purposes. They per
sist in alleging that il is the cheapness
of labor that enables the South to make
iron cheaper than the North does
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21
ADJUSTMENTS.
Rosina Vokes.


In Honor Bound" "NIy Milliner's
Bill" and "a Pantomime Rehearsal
was the bill presented by Miss Rosina
Nokes and her company at the National
Theatre last night. As has been true of
each performance since the engagement
opened, there was not vacant seat in
any part of the house and the audience
was a distinguished and fashionable
one. The same programme was given
the last time the company was in Wash
ington, but last night Miss Vokes was
even more sparkling and viyacious than
on that occasion. Her charming man
nerisms, characteristic singing, artistic
dancing and hoydenish antics kept the
audience alternating between laughter
and applause. Mr.. Courtenay Thorpe
and the other members of the company
were all warmly applauded. The pro
gramme will be repeated tonight and
at tomoUow's matinee, Tomorrow
night the bill Of the first part Of The
week will be repeated.
The Boston Symphony Concert.
The concert by the Boston Symphony
Orchestra at Lincoln Hall this evening
will give an opportunity too seldom
afforded to hear Beethoyen's immortal
Fifth symphony As rendered by
Nickisch' s superb orchestra il will be a
notable experience to hear It. The
soloist will be Miss Mary Howe, So
prano who has won golden opinions in
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Irrepressible Pests.

from NE San FfdnciscO AlW.
There are some agitators in this city
who presume to represent "the starving
masses" but who would be greatly
benefited by a little starvation them
selves. Their task seems to be to get the
unemployed hungry men of the town
to dictate the terms on which they will
consent not to starve. There seems to
be no possible issue upon which the
blather will not blath.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21
what Roston Life Is.
IRON the baltimore l,ayjcqn

|IV"' no HUIVVlVIe IlHeftCNN
Herbert Spencer defined life as "the
definite combination of Heterogeneous
changes, both instantaneous and success
sive, in correspondence with external
condolences and sequences He un-
doubtedly meant life as it Is lived in
Boston. In other cities it Is more
simple.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21

New York, Boston and other Northern
cities. She will sing the Indian bell
song from Lakme and "rhe Night
ingale, a song by Russian composer.
Among the other features on the pro
rrammc will be Mendelssohn's Fingal
Cave overture and the prelude TO
"Trisian and Isolde"
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21
CONVERSATIONAL POWER
ERENCH LANGUAGE

FRENCH LANGUAGE
now equally within the reach of all-the
least as well as the most talented for lam
guages, because: Teaching How to speak
French has been reduced to a science by Pro-
fessor Colliere, rendering the results as GER
tain and mathematically true as that two
and two make four,
There are but four simple cardinal laws
based on one fundamental principle, which,
voice.
This principle and the four cardinal laws
the Professor claims TO have discovered
live, p piain. e everyday. common.sense idio4-
attic, connected French Conversation they
produce results that are absolute, a pro-
nuncation and accent next to perfect, and
the ability to speak in French after
A SIX WEEKS COURSE
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21
A CA r D
FROM
MR.. T. E. ROESSLE.
PROPRIETOR OF
The Arlington.
THE ARLINGTON" "
WASHINGTON, D. c.,
March 6, 1890,

Ny DEAR DR.. LIeHTHILL:
1t gives me great pleasure to state
that you effected 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. 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, l
cheerfully give you leave to refer to me
at any time, and hope that your prac-
tice in Washington will prove distin-
guished success.
Yours, truly, r. L. RoEssLE.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21

IT Is WELL KNOWN that some ancient
Athenians got tired of having Aristides
called the "Just." The Philadelphia
Record suggests that the new German
Emperor may have wearied of hearing
Bismarck called great.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21

W1eGINs is once more predicting de-
vastating storms. There is no surer
sign of good weather. Arrangements
for picnic parties may be made with
out hesitation.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21

ALL DERANGEMENrs Of the kidneys and
hyer pains in the back, tired feelings and
weakness are cured by Hoods sarsaparilla.
This medicine Is purely vegetable. II is
sold by all druggists.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21
FRENCH CONVERSATION.

Course opens next week. Free trial lessons
daily at the aforementioned hours and
place,
Professor LUCIEN E. C. CoLLIERE, A. NJ,
native of Paris, France. Twenty consecu-
tive years experience in the District
Residence-170S L St. w. r1S,d&S,iw
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21
OBSERVE THE LIMIT

THE CRlTIC is always in favor of the
"old flag and an appropriation. 1t
has no sympathy with the niggardly
policy that would save the receipts of
the Treasury regardless of the national
prestige or the needs of the public
service.
But there is, in the nature of things, a
necessary limitation, Some philosopher
or other long ago discovered that hui
man affairs are relative and conditioned.
This truth holds good even in the case
of an exceptionally rich and prosperous
nation and, accordingly, it may be
worth the while Of our national legisla-
tors to remember that the Treasury sur
plus may have an end, and that all
reasonable taxation may be brought to
verge on the edge of depletion.
The administration of John Quincy
Adams was arraigned for its prohigacy
because the appalling sum of $16, ,0OO,-
600 had been expended for Govern
mental purposes. In the first year of
Lincoln's Administration the whole
revenue of the Government was little
less than $42 100000 At present the
current expenses Of the United States
may be placed at $400, 900, 600. OF
course this includes pensions, fortifica.
tions and other appropriations of that
sort
But anyone who carefully regards
these figures will readily see that,
regard to the expenditures of the Gov.
eminent, the limit may be quickly
reached. If onehalf of the measures
that are now being offered in Congress
should be enacted, the Treasury would
soon be hOpelessly bankrupt. Politi-
clans of all parties have sufficient in.
telligence to know that national
deficit would be national danger. 1t
is, therefore, in order to call the atter.
tion of Congressman and their urgent
constituents to the fact that the funds
in the Treasury are notineXhaustible.
s ---
In ALL LIKELIHOOD the bill will pass
which gives to Chicago the World 5
Fair Of 1892. The Columbus celebra-
ton should be worthy of the occasion
and the country. The various details
of the House bill seem generously con-
ceived and wisely practical. But one
thing is now sufficiently clear, Chicago
must raise $40, 200, 900 or jeopardize the
whole scheme. The Windy City must
put up or shut up. The game of bluff
will not answer in this instance. If
Chicago wants the International EX
position Chicago must pay for it; but
it would be a national disgrace, in the
circumstances, If she should mistake or
belittle her opportunity and be found
tardy and tagging in her duty.
lT IS THOUGHT THAT New England
Congressmen will oppose Mr.. McKiu-
| ley's attempt at tariff revision because
of two of its features They will OBJ
ject to the restoration Of the duty on
hides and the increase of the wool du-
ties, The policy which has thus far
obtained was favorable TO the New Eng.
land leather interests, and the manufac-
ureTs of that section have been de
manding free wool On those two
questions representatives from that re-
gion will stand together without regard
TO partisan affiliations This BODIES no
good TO the Mckinley measure.
The CRIuc some days ago referred
TO Senator Allison's change of base on
the subject of tariff reform. II indi-
cnfnd thai n1f Of rnnarh "a ,,nl,lin nn,,ti
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21
THE NORWOOD INSTITUTE.

KgnGct from a priUdte gsttey:
In reply 10 your request for my advice as
with confidence recommend Mr. and Mrs,
Cabell's Norwood Institute, In Washington,
d, 2. The standard Of scholarship there Is
high, the Instruction thorough and the inau-
ences good. L. q. @. LAMAR,
Justice U. s. Supreme Court"
The school opens Sept.SO. au26 d&stt
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21

THE APPOINTMENT of the commander
Of the Tenth Corps of the German
Army as Bismarck's successor illus.
trates the idea which underlies the new
regime. An army officer will simply
obey his superior, and the Emperor
can row count on unhesitating ac-
quiescence with all his views.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21

Theatre Manager-That was pretty
severe notice of yours You say that
the play is unmitigated rot. And yet
you were applauding vigorously last
night
Critic-I was only clapping my hands
to keep them warm. .-B9st0A Traa-
ScLiM
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21

No MATTER HOW pleasant the weather
outside may be, the House of Repre-.
sentatives will have Mudd on the floor.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21

Are you a connoisseur in cham
pagnes ?"
mo. never studied fizziology. -
Chdtter
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21

The rose and lily side by side
Were in bouquet pent
"AhI' the rose exclaimed, you're fair to
see."
And the lily said, ''Of course, tee heel
But you cannot borrow aught from me,
For haven't got cent"
-PhilddelDhid Press.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-21
EREE LECTURE AT THE MASONIC HAL

NEXT FRIDAY AND SATURDAY,
At $3.50, 4:3O and p. IN.
Saturday Morning at II O'Clock for Ladies'.
Subject: THE easiest to learn to speak is
unquestionably the French Language, be-
cause Of its uniformity in pronunciation and
acCent.m