The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-04-06

l wonder if any member of the House will have
courage enough to protest. The very commit
tee report which accompanies the bill shows
that the claim is preposterous; that II there is
any claim at all it lies against the State of In
diana, to which the service was rendered, and
not against the Government of the United
States, which had nothing to do with the mat
ter from first to last. Perhaps the House, like
the Senate, will let the bill pass without debate.
In that case President Harrison will have
great opportunity to administer regular old
Roman lesson to q carelessa and cOwardly Congress
by vetoing the bill l cannot believe that Presi-
dent Harrison wants to have Congress appropri-
ate s., 500 of the public money so that he may be
paid over again for service long ago paid by
the State of Indiana.
A pair of fours is not generally regarded as
much of hand, believe, but the pair of fours
that saw the other day was sumner 1t was
a pair of photographs, and each represented four
generations, beginning with old DR.. Scott and
ending, the one with Baby Brooks, and the other
with Baby Mckee. NY friend, Hobart Brooks,
who is one of the best known newspaper corre-
spondents In town, is go closely related to the
Harrison family that If he doesn't be careful he
may be President some day The picture of the
four generations including Dr. Scott, Mrs Har-
rison, Mrs. Mckee, and Baby Mckee has often
Mr.. Hobart Brooks it isn't marker to the pic
ture which contains DR.. Scott, Mrs John n.
Scott Mrs. Brooks, and Baby Brooks 'Rah
for Baby Brooks Long. may he wave And
on forever. All l forgot. Baby Brooks is
girl.
am glad my friend Hawkins will not return
to Chicago or go to San Francisco, as at one
time seemed to be likely He is going to settle
down in Washington and stay here. Among
other things he has undertaken to represent
Batcheller's syndicate of newspapers in this city,
| Batcheller is very lucky. His syndicate will be
we'll represented. During the last few years
| Washington Journalism has had number of
| men who would be ornaments to the journalism
| of any city in America but among them all there
was not one of a brighter, reader wit, better
| taste, sounder Judgment, or wider general infor-
nation than Willis P. Hawkins, the originator
| of 'Postscripts."
Those who were sorry to learn some time ago
that Senator Ingalls's house at Atchison, Kan,
had been totally destroyed by fire will be glad
to learn now that fine new residence has
arisen to take the place of the old one, and that
the new building is about completed. 1t stands
on the bank OF the river, some distance from
! the town, and the property includes large
tract of land, where Mrs. ingalls, says she is
going to practice the art Of farming, in which
she claims to be an adept. She is an able poll
| tician, and thinks that If she could only get
| membership in the Farmers Alliance she could
overcome all the opposition which that body
has been raising against the Senator, and as a
farmer she intends to apply for membership.
Some people have queer notions about min
Cling in society and making social calls. They
call at peoples houses without having either
| invitation, acquaintance, or excuse, and with
out the slightest provocatiou. They evidently
suppose that house of fashion is as open as
the house of God, and that person can and may
go to the one as well as the other Mrs. ingalls,
told me the other day of a curious old lady who
made the rounds just as other social rounders
do. only that this old lady knew nobody when
she called, and was entirely unknown. Not
only that, but she did not even seek to make
acquaintance. She would simply walk into
ladys house on calling days, step into the par
lor or out into the garden, and after waiting
reasonable time would walk out again without
saying word to anybody. In this way shc
went from house to house, and made the roun(
of social calls without speaking and wthou
being spoken to- wonder what her opinion
is of Washington society and Washington hos
pitalty.
This reminds me of q stranger who foiste,
himself in among little group of Congress
men one night. Amos j. Cummings was th,
{ centre of the group. They had all arranged t
! go to his house for little game of whist O
something, and in crossing the street from tn
Office to the house a rank outsider, who wa
passing, joined the group, fell in, and wen
, along, making himself one of the party withou
9 a word of introduction, and without any on
q noticing the intrusion. In Cummings's room
= the fellow grew very troublesome but every
body tolerated him on the supposition that h
e was somebody else's friend. At length. how
g ever, the fellows troublesomeness grew il
n tolerable, and everybody called everybody els
aside to find in a whisper who was the dis
e greeable one's sponsor Just fancy how tn
party felt when they thought OF what they ha
II suffered and found that not one
e them knew the fellow. The discover
of his status had not long been made befo
T. the floor WAS wiped with the offender. The
he was carried out and leaned up against
S, lamp-post, SO that the next passing policema
q might find him and take him to the hospiti
An alarming paragraph in the newspapers Il
next morning about the dangerous condition
man who had been found in that situate
)r created great stir among the members of tn
ic card party and several of them were so bad
III frightened they took the next train for Ne
York. But they soon returned. The on
>" danger the scamp was in was the danger Of II
- ~ ing to play the same sort of a trick again.
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1t was difficult to distinguish the hosts fro
ia the guests at the reception given at the Arlin
| 1as Satn hut tba Ctot