The Washington critic., 1890-03-24
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Cruel Story About Delegate Dubois
A Texas Professor - The Presi-
dentinI Breakfast Hour-Anuthor
HarbinGer of Spring.
Some friends of Delegate Dubois
started cruel libel about him last
week. He is young man, being still
on the sunny side of 40. and his hair
and mustache are black as the ravens
wing. The other day a box con-
spicuously labeled Professor IS
Failing Hair Dye" arrived at
Willard's addressed to him, aud the
story was rapidly circulated that the
blacknCss of his hair was due to the use
of that.compound. The box contained
nothing but a fine sample of Idaho
wheat, but the lie got good start aud
Mr. Dubois has not yet been able to
head it of.
Professor Cresspan of Texas, who
has recently been appointed a special
agent of the Census Department, for
duty in this city, is q man with a his
tory. He went out to Texas way back
in the '40s, after having been Tilted by
New Jersey girl. Smarting under the
effects Of his rebuff he threw himself
into border warfare with great vigor, in
hopes of meeting death. After an en-
counter with band of hostile Indians,
who relieved him of his scalp, he got
tired of his chase after the grim de
stroyer and took to school teaching. He
was engaged in the business for score
of years and obtained reputation
among the young border toughs who
liked nothing better than to break a
schoolmaster all up, as "a bad man to
fool with" In appearance the Pro
fessor is one of the mildest hammered
men you would meet in q days walk.
He is also of slight physical build, but
when aroused to anger is said to be a
Sampson He is now obliged to wear
black wig, in order to conceal the
ravages made by the Indians.
1t is $50 clock in the morning and
the tinkle of silver bell has just been
heard in the private dining-room in the
northern end of the first floor Of the
White House, and penetrates up the
staircase into the family rooms on the
second floor. The President has been
up and stirring for some time, though
as yet he has not been visible outside
the door of his chamber, the windows
ofwhich overlook the green plain of the
White Lot. The sound of the break
fast bell calls the entire family down
stairs. Mrs. Harrison is already bust
ling about the dining-room, and as the
President enters the nurse brings in the
king of the household and the ruler of
the President, little Benjamin Harrison
Mckee. Breakfast is leisurely meal.
There is a great deal of cheerful morn
ing chatter around the board and after
it is over the President and Baby Ben
always have romp upstairs.
What an American would call buck
and German book beer, is special
brewing which is only introduced once
in season-about the latter part of
March or early in April. Some of il is
out now. The beer is always heralded
by card representation of rampant
buck and rather pretty cup-bearer OF
the female sex. The rampant buck is
Indicative, some say, of the condition a
man will be in if he drinks too many
glasses of the seductive beverage. 1t is Q
very nice but a strong and heavy beer
1t should be drunk in moderation.
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A former citizen of Washington, who
now resides within the golden gates Of
California, was yesterday looking at {
newly finished building on Eleventh
street, between G and H, and SO wa:
THE CRITIC. The Californian, mid
dle-aged gentleman, remarked to tht
scribe: when left Washington there
were no houses around about this local
ity-nothing but vacant lots. | am sur
prised at the way the city has improved
within the space of fifteen years. l
has almost doubled in buildings ant
population"