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The Washington critic., 1890-03-22
PERSONAL.

Augustin DAILY has theatrical IL
brary which is said to be the finest in
America.
The Gar of Russia has promised to
listen at st. Petersburg to glee club
composed Of Americans studying at
German universities.
A statue is shortly to be erected in
honor Of the late NJ. Chevreul, the great
French scientist,
John Drew of Daly's company is
said to be the finest amateur swords
man in America at the present time
DR.. Joachim, the great violinist, has
given an annual series of concerts in
London for the past thirty years.
The annual income of John D.
Rockefeller, the founder and head of
the Standard Oil Company, is said to be
about $4,000, 900, which is equivalent
to $3.50 an hour.
1t is announced that General Beale
has sold his ranch in California to an
English syndicate for 50 2,000,000 Gen
eral Beale went to California during
the gold excitement and located" an
extensive farm.
Miss Braddon, the novelist, is de-
scribed as fair, with flaxen hair and a
stout figure. She is a collector of brio
a.brac, lover of Dickens and an ac-
complished cook. She was fortunate
enough to marry her publisher.
Lord Randolph Churchill is dis.
| pleased with the way the press and
| public have received his recent speech,
and will leave England for time.
Churchill has thinner skin than GER
tain public men In this country.
A proposal to build festival theatre
at Salzburg, the birth place of Mozart,
| he's taken root, and site has been pur-
chased on the Monchsberg, wooded
hill overlooking the town. 1t is hoped
to complete the structure next year in
time to celebrate the century of Mozart S
| death.
The new Duke of Aosta, VINO would
become heir to the Italian throne iii the
event of the death of the wealthy and
delicate Crown Prince, is tall, hand.
some young man, with perfectly cut
features. He is exceedingly wealthy,
having inherited from his mother for.
tune of $6,000,OO0.
King Leopold of Belgium speak
and writes English with east
and accuracy. He never lets Sunday
pass without writing an autograph let
ter to his friend and ally, Queen Vic
tolia. Whenever he travels he takes
with him his confidential English at,
tendant, Mr.. Charles Murray, whr
has been in his service nearly a quarter
of century.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22
THE Box-OFFICE FIEND.
The AutOmaton of the Theatre VIII,
Deals Out Seats.

Deals Gut seats.
From the Ne0 York Eosntn9 Sun.
There are great many persons who
never approach the box. Office window
of theatre without feeling of awe
and trepidation.
There is something so cold and for
bidding in the mien of the young man
who sits in the dim little gas-lit box,
and whose hands are the only conspicu.
Gus part of his personality. They
shuttle the tickets and reach out for
your bank notes like the hands of an
automaton, and you tremble before the
power that can make you happy by
placing you on the front row near the
aisle or plunge you into discomfort
by sticking you behind pillar with a
dozen stout women on either side of
you.
You cannot disassociate him from his
place in the box office. You cannot
picture him seated in front of a cheerful
open fire with a wife and child
and the evening paper, at ease in slip
pers and dressing gown If you saw
him walking in the street your first in
stinctive thought would be that he has
escaped, and you would look around for
a policeman to lock him up in his cage
again.
If you go to get your tickets, no mat
ter how early in the morning on your
way down town, you will find him in
his box, and If you ask for an admission
ticket late in the night for the last act
he is still there, pale-faced, calm and
impassive, He probably eats, sometime
or other, but if he does his food is no
doubt showed in to him through the
little window, and the plates are passed
out again when he has finished. He
probably sleeps sitting upright in the
box all night. He always treats you
with show of plying contempt OF
toleration, which gives you the idea
that he does not approve of theatrical
performances on the whole, and regards
| them as trivial and vain.
You are quite sure that he never by
any chance goes inside 10 see the piece.
| And he sells out seats for Salvini with
the same air of gloom and disdain with
which he envelopes your tickets for "A
Rag Baby" He seems to gloat over
the fact that he "hasu't seat in the
house." not because the management is
benefited thereby but because you are
disappointed.
lie sometimes adds, gratuitously, that
they were all sold a week ago." as If
to rebuke your implied belief that bust
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22
WASHINGTON, MARCH 22, 1890.
sTKEET EXTENSION.

The plan Of street extension which
has been prepared under the auspices
of the Board of Trade, and which has
been so ably advocated before the House
District Committee by Messrs. Trues-
dell and Worthington, is beyond ques-
ton the plan that should be adopted. 1t
has been substantially embodied in the
Senate bill, and it is properly urged
that the Senate bill should be substi-
tuted for the House measure, which has
The proposed object in view,
Anyone who knows anything about
the difficulties which beset the whole
matter of suburban street Improvements
will readily understand how the ques-
ton not only concerns every land owner
here, but also every resident Of the city.
The orderly and uniform system on
which the city is laid out is one which
it is desirable to continue to project and
10 perpetuate through all the territory
which its inevitable growth will neces
state. The need for a carefully CON
sidered and fully accordant plan is al
ready apparent.
The suburbs have been mostly plated
without any reference to the city's gen
eral design. Neither at lie DrOit Park
nor al Mount Pleasant has any attempt
been made to conform to the general plan
which exists within the Boundary. But
in both those thriving and ambitious
adiuncts, which the city is now about to
inclose, the disadvantages Of this neglect
have become not only conspicuous but
largely detrimental. The fence war
which waged for some time at lie Droit
Park is one illustration out Of many of
this fact
The general inconvenience and loss
which the want of proper regulations
entail may be judged of from the state
ment that between 1874 and 1888 there
were laid out 235 subdivisions conform
ing in plan neither with each other nor
with the city. The construction of
sewers and the extension of water, gas
and other like privileges make this a
very serious matter. 1t would seem,
therefore, that the bill which is sup
ported by the Board of Trade, aul
which has been sustained by cogent
reasons and able advocacy, should
be passed without hesitation or delay.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22
THE BOOK OLE LOR

Recently a Presbyterian divine was
in serious trouble because in sermon
he had described this canonical book as
poem and its hero as myth. And
now the Rabbi Solomon SCHNEIDER of
Boston comes forward to say that the
story Of Job is of value for it's pOetical
form and for the philosophical theory
il discloses, but for nothing besides.
There are people who believe, in
some incomprehensible way, that the
collection of productions which is
known as the Bible and which is really
the embodiment of Hebrew literature,
was thrown down from the clouds and
so specifically authenticated that. in
every part, it ought to be regarded as
of Divine authority. For such persons
the discussions ON the book of Job,
which have Just been referred to, will
have little or no interest.
Yet biblical and literary critics are
tolerably well agreed that "Job" is a
poem, and that its extravagantly dra-
matte incidents and its wholly undra-
matte colloquies are fictitious. The
his time, manifestly radical thinker.
He questioned the doctrines Of fore
ordination and fatalism. He taught
that human goodness was not indissolu-
bly, bound up with human prosperity,
and that calamity was not necessarily
and arbitrarily the concomitant of want
of merit. He enshrined his theory in
form which has been much admired
and equally misunderstood, and men
from that time to this have gone on dis
putting about him and his work.
But, after all neither the book nor
the philosophy seem hard to under
stand, A man wholly dissatisfied with
the idea Of Jewish exclusiveness, elec-
ZION and peculiar favoritsm tells the
story of an Eastern emir who was a
good man, a just magistrate, and in
every way noble and an exemplary
citizen. This man Is overtaken with
The direst misfortunes, but in his last
extremity he refused to abandon his
allegiance to God, virtue and duty,
This fact is the kernell of the poem
and its purpose is to show that man,
goodness will not inevitably make hin
prosperous nor his evil always reap
swift and condign punishment. In
short, the philosophy of the poem il
the fact of experience, Wickednes
and prosperity often so hand in hanC
and grow apace, while patient meri
fails of its Just reward.
The book Of job can be read profit
ably and wisely when 1t Is clearly un
derstood that neitherprosperous nor al
verse circumstances can be relied upor
as an indication Of moral character o
condition. 1t has been both the foil,
and bigotry Of men in all the past t
regard a mans outward success and en-
vironments as tokens Of the Divin
favor, II is perhaps worth knowing
tlatth worlds Oldest poem is intende,
10 present protest against that idea.
Matthew Arnold's cautiouslbelief tha
there is IN the universe and in history
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22
WIT IN A. SMALL WAY.
A well-rounded bust. Failing for
a million. .-PhiladelphjG Press.

A well-rounded bust: Failing for
million,-PhiIadelphjG Press.
The suffering man can never make a
pronounced uccess.-DGcenport Gu.
zen.
Dam breaks are usually due to dam
carelessness in constructioD.-,SGiJ FrGh-
cisco Alta.
The husbands S idea of model wife
is one who is firmly rooted in the belief
that he is model husband. -lSomertiNe
journal.
We often hear man say: Il would
But that's Just the trouble; he hasn't
a ind,--Boston Courier.
Rev. DR.. Talmage says it is possible
for an editor to become Christian. He
means Brooklyn Christian, Of course.
--New Orleans Picayune.
Meet your wife with smile on your
lips, says an exchange. Better wait
until the odor of the Smile" has abated
somewhat, though -Tecas SJtings.
Josie Can Mr.. Hugg drive with one
hand, Ethel?
Ethel-No.
Josie-Not much fun driving with
him, then.
Ethel-Oh, yes, there is. drive
Epoch.
When the poet wrote of the "break-
ing waves" he undoubtedly had in
mind the seaside resort and the grasp
ing summer hotel keeper. --Rearney En-
te1prise.
We've got better scheme now than
holding up whole train" remarked a
Western train.ro bber to friend.
What is it?"
eve simply kiduap the porter and
hold him for ransom. ~ y, SuR.
The Habit Strong-(Ardently); Lucy
Rib encounter. .slife would be worthless
to me without your love!
Dreamily)-My heart Is yours, Harry.
y Where will you have it sent?
--Chied9O Tribune.
Her father GRABBED him by the neck
And struck him with his toe.
''He's a sort Of surplus here" he said
And so he had to go
-Phjladelphia Times,
First Euglishman Gust arrived) How
many Irish people there seem to be in
| New York!
Second Englishman Gust arrived
Well, do you know, Just heard some
one say that it is called Manhattan Ire
land. -Harrdjd LampooH.
''You look sick. What is the mat
ter ?" asked Nobbs of Dobbs at the
poker table, and Dobbs, who had just
drawn the deuce Of clubs to four hearts,
feehly gasped, Heart failure "-BoStoa
Bulletin,
If Heaven had a high board fence
round it you'd see dozens of pesky sin
ners trying to climb In on each other s
shoulders way down in the far corner
while the gatekeeper's attention was
held by single dead head in 'front.'
ashland Press.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22

FROM me LOHdOn IlDleS.
Totally unexpected by most persons
was the decision of the House Of Rep
resentatives to make Chicago the scene
of the Worlds Fair in 1892 The claims
of Washington, ST. Louis and even New
York have been set aside, and Chicago
is preferred by large majority. The
supremacy, social and commercial,
which New York has always claimed
is challenged, and would seem to have
passed to its young rival in the West.
Probably most Englishmen, including
those that fiattered themselves that they
knew America, took it for granted that
the choice must fall upon the former.
II is one more lesson how swiftly things
change in the United States, and how
the most accurate knowledge Of them
becomes antiquated.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22
Monuments Which Overawe.

FroD, the Commercial Advertiser.
The Sona has withdrawn its opposi-
ton to WINDOWS plan to convert
Liberty Island into an immigrant sta
ton, on the ground that the Statue of
Liberty does not fill its editorial soul
with satisfaction. The people will not
fail to see that the SIMS sudden horror
for "monstrosities" has manifested
itself in all sorts of ways since the
Worlds new building began to climb
heavenward. The question now is
whether or not New York is to be
obliged, in addition to being governed
by hayseeds, to have its public monu-
ments defaced by country squire in
Washington.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22
TWO POETS.

Lord Tennyson S Muse is as pure as
she is noble, says the London edition of
the New York Herald. Walt Whit
mans poems were interdicted by the
State of Massachusetts,. 1t goes with
out saying that Whitman is poet. The
two men have striking and impressive
heads, but they are not alike in counte-
nance nor similar in physique. Both
have high foreheads; both gray, lank
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22
That Tired Feeling
Debility and prostration which follows
I.a Grippe or the Influenza

Debility and prostration which follows
Ia Grippe or the Influenza
Is the most dangerous stage of the disease,
because in the weakened condition of the
body and the decline Of health tone, the sys-
TEN is very susceptible to relapse, pneu-
monia or typhoid fever. To overcome that
tired feeling take
Hoods sarsapnrilIa
The best tonic and blood purifier 1t gives
strength and vigor to the whole body, re.
stores and sharpens the appetite.
~ can't begin to tell all the good Hoods
Sarsaparllla did me, My pains and aches are
relieved my appetite improved Had re-
allied how muce good single bottle of
Hoods Sarsaparlla would do me | would
gladly have paid ten dollars for it. say to
Others who need good medicine, try Hoods
Sarsaparllla and see."--GEoRGE f. JACKSON,
RoXbury station, Conn,
Renewed My Grip
Hoods Sarsaparilla has renewed my grip.
l am 65 years of age and was all run down
and discouraged. l have taken Hoods Sar-
saparilla and on looking myself over find that
] am much betteT in fact, quite a chap. OF
course the medicine will not discount my
years, but II comes nearer to IL than anything
else, ,"-CHAs. b. Long, Shrewsbury, Mass.
Hoods Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for s.. Pre-.
pared by @. !. HOOD s. CO., Lowell. Mass.
100 Doses one Dollar
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22
Genera, Caprivi,s Advantage,

from me baltimore american.
Otto Edward Leopold Won Bismarck
Schonhausen's successor is Concha di
Caremba Caprivi Caprava di Monte
cuculis. General Caprivis name is
somewhat longer, but, as for brain
power and ability, the large majority
still remains with Bismarck.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22
CONVERSATIONAL POWER
IN THE
FRENCH 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 science by Pro"
fessor Colliere, rendering the results as cer-
tain and mathematically true as that two
and two make four,
There are but four simple cardinal laws
based on one fundamental principle, which,
when strictly adhered to, create the French
voice.
This principle and the four cardinal laws
the Professor claims to have discovered.
Applied to a recently published method of
attic, connected French Conversation they
produce results that are absolute, a pro-
nunciation and accent next to perfect, and
the ability to speak in French after
A SIX WEEKS COURSE
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22
The Arlington.
THE ARLINGTON" "
WASHINGTON, d, c.,
March G, 1890.


My DEAR DR.. LIGHruLL;
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 a deaf man all his
life. Knowing of other cases in which
you have been equally successful, I
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, T. E. RoEssLE.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22

IT WILL BE sad news to a certain
class of oratorical statesmen, but the
fact is that Mr.. Carnegie made his
financial start in life by speculating in
oil and coal, and made big fortune in
coal-oil lands before he ever manufac-
tured a pound Of iron or steel.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22

FOUR BARGAINS
WASH GO O DS.
Buying in immense guam
titles at bottom prices enable
us to offer the following ex-
traordinary bargains in this
seasons new Wash Fabrics:
BARGAIN No. 1.--5,ooo
yards of American Printed
Challies, IS inches wide and
warranted fast colors. Only
&c per yard.
BARGAIN No. 2,--4,ooo
yards Corded and Figured
Challies, in original designs,
richly colored. Only SC per
yard.
BARGAIN No. $50, 900
yards Of Fine-Quality Amer
'can P-inted Challies, in very
attractive figures and color
ings. go inches wide and
only Ioc per yard.
BARGAIN No. 4.--3,5oo
yards OF 36-inch Figured
Batiste, soft finish, lovely
colorings, and warranted to
launder beautifully. Only
Ioc per yard.
All of the above goods are
already meeting with a
steadily increasing sale, be-
ing extensively used fol
making House Gowns
Wrappers, Bfouses, Chill
dren's Dresses, &c.
Second floor
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22
Fewer Coin.

IItUUTWs
A curious proposal has emanated
from some Philadelphia people TO es-
tablish the coinage of 15-cent piece.
The petition for the new coin will be
refused. The fact seems to be that the
United States has larger assortment OF
coins than is really needed. The day
when the use of the cent, cent, &c
cent and SO coins was necessary (it
there ever was such day. has gone by,
and the tendency should be toward
fewer coins rather than more.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22

The Plaiuest Woman Cannot be
unattractive who exhales the deliciously
refined fragrance which ATKINSON supplies
in Extracts and Sachets.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22
FRENCH coNvERsATIoN.

Course opens next week. Free trial lessons
daily at the aforementioned hours and
place.
a native of Paris, France. Twenty consecu-
tive years experience in the District.
Residence-170S st. NV. mrls,d&S,1 ,1w
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22

IT is REPORTED that the Washington
Baseball Club will retire from the Ma
tional League and Join the Atlantic AS
sociation. 1t is well Perhaps the
Senators can now get away from the
tail end.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22

THE CAUSES OF Catarrh and influenza are
many, and the effects disastrous, but the
remedy is safe and sure one, Old Saul's
Catarrh Cure. 1t is known from East to
West Price only 25 cents.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22

A REPORT COMES from Rio de Janeiro
that the provisional Government of
Brazil intends to annul the decree con-
voking the Constituent Assembly and
to prolong the dictatorship for five
years. If that be true, the Brazilians
will be convinced that in swapping the
Empire for the Republic they eX-
changed King Log for King Stork.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22

PoNDIERY SEC Is Pommery mort now.
At least Madame Pommery of cham.
pagne fame is dead, The popularity OF
her brand of fizz enabled her to leave
a fortune of 81, 900, 900.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22

power that works for righteousness Is
not really opposed to the idea and pur.
pose entertained by the author Of the
book Of job. On the contrary, the
poem almost reaches that highest moral
intuition which feels that goodpc-e
should exist for itself alone and simply
because it is good, without any hope of
reward either here or hereafter
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22
EREE LECTURE AT THE MASONIC HALL
NEXT FRIDAY AND SATURDAY

At 2:30, $3.50 and y. m.
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
acoent.n
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22

THE FACT THAT in modern civiliza-
ton one mans advantage is another
mans disadvantage is striliingly shown
during the present open winter. The
mild weather is boon to the poor and
destitute. But the slack demand for
fuel has thrown thousands of miners
and other workmen out of employment.
Besides, what is the ice man going to
do next summer?
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22

IT mas LONG been known that, to get
the news, one must so away
from home, The latest instance is
from the San Francisco city A,g0s,
which says.
"The oldest Democratic member of
Congress is General Spinoa, who is 80
years of age
General Spinola was born in 1921
ard was just go years old on the 10Th
instant. Eighty indeed To
look at him and listen to him ia public
debate or private conversation, you
womb not susnect him Of moro than Il.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22

The husbands idea of model wife
is one who is firmly rooted in the belief
that he is model husband. -.Son1e1sjNe
journal.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22

We often hear man say: II would
do such and such if / had mind"
But that's just the trouble; he hasn't
a mind. Boston Courier.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22

Dam breaks are usually due to dam
carelessness in construction. FaGn.
cisco Alta.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22

Rev. DR.. Talmage says it is possible
for an editor to become a Christian. He
means Brooklyn Christian, Of course.
--Nelo Orleans Pic0NLle.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22

If Heaven had high board fence
round it you'd see dozens of pesky sin
ners trying to climb in on each Others
shoulders way down in the far corner
while the gatekeeper's attention was
held by a single dead head in 'front.'
ashland Press.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22
Hoods Sarsaparilla

Sold by all druggists. 81; six for s.. Pre-.
pared by G. /. HOOD s. CO., Lowell. Mass.
100 Doses one Dollar
The Washington critic., 1890-03-22

The suffering man can never make 8
pronounced success. .-D0cenp0rt CHI
zen.