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The Washington critic., 1890-02-02
SCIENTISTS AS LAWMAKERS

I'tIEN IICLo 40 La w III dALito.
The future is the pursuit of science;
the present the business of politics.
Science leads the mind away from af-
fairs. Politics confines it within ma
itrial bounds. The intellects presiding
over these two elements in human
Iioeress disdain each other, while they
could, with mutual advantage, direct
microbes and delude men on common
gIounds. Might not conventions made
up in equal parts of savants chosen by
their own societies and of politicians
elected by the people, with judicial
presidents taken from the Supreme
epches, produce an amelioration of
government
Ever since the French revolution law
yers have swayed the tribunes and con
;rolled the enfranchised nations. Why ?
Because they are the expounders of
Law and should, therefore. in the inter
est of universal harmony, be its au-
thorsy Not at all, for it is they who
confound the laws after they are made,
Because they are especially fired by
the love of human destiny No, for
they are not, as class, given to fretting
for the future.
II is because their profession puts
them into the habit of standing for in
dividual or local interests, of talking and
working for them, of learning to find ol
invent right or wrong to fit speeious
pleading. The relation of lawyer and
client is become precisely the relation
between legislator and locality. There
is the best illustration of this in the
tariff contest, one which affects thu
sum total of conditions in the nation
yet one in which every forensic toreado
fights as if the amphitheatre were a
the side scene of his own election.
Cicero was not an oratorical lawye
merely; II oral science amounted to AZ
occupation with him. His truest ant
best adviser was the speculative Atticus
The judicial minds which took activ,
part in the affairs of earlier republic
followed or moved in philosophic o
scientific schools. While combattin.
for and against the passions Of life the.
rarely lost sight Of its higher purposes
They were not the molecules Of sys
lem whose sun was silver dollar
They we're not men whose abilities wer,
stuffed with straw, and whose menta
digestion was cloyed with corporation
adoms and provincial economics. No
ip the type Of the ancients lost TO expe
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02
THE BRIDGE.

dreamed of bridge OF rainbows,
Airy and dazzling bright,
That arched DER the wonderful abyss
OF a vast and solemn night
Deeper than science could fathom,
Vaster than thought could span,
Swimming with worlds far out of reach
OF the grasplng mind Of man,
III.
II swung across the ether
From space to space afar,
Between a city of glorious light
And dim and distant star.
The souls of men along II
Swept In march sublime,
In close and solid phalanx,
Away from life and time.
dreamed /, too, was marching
Amid that silent throng:
And we were close to the City's gate,
And could hear the angels song.
Yet dreamed that my gaze turned back
ward,
DER the track we had travelled far,
And bade adieu with homesick thought
10 the dim and distant star.
WI
And wonder, oh, wonder
NOW that the dream IS done),
If when wa iaG Va fI,fp Iaofh In Iffa
Aud the gates OF light are won,
VIZ.
We shall rest at last contented
IN our new and happy lot,
And can turn our gaze 10 the darkling sta
Without a homesick thought
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Washington, January 20.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02
10 THE CAPITAL.

In usurping your title, THE SUNDAY
CRITIc offers you its sincere apology
and regrets. Necessity, not desire, is
20 blame. You are the victim of no up
start ambition. Neither impertinence
nor contempt is intended. Those who
value and respect your venerable name
and good will would not thus wantonly
bctray them. For accounting, look
rather TO those to whom you have so
long given your life blood that they
might live.
THE CRTTTC.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02
SOME NEW ROCKS.

RULES OF THE HOUSE. ANEW WoRK.
BY Thomas B. Reed, Speaker
HOW / BECAME SENATOR. By Calvin
8. Brice, Senator-eleet
DELVING IN THE DICTIONARY. BY
John James ingalls,, United States Sena-
tor.
THE MOUTH IN POLITICS. BY Joseph
Btpeon Foraker. Ex-Governor OF Ohio.
CELEBRATED POLITICAL FORGER-
les, By Murat Halstead, editor of the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
SHOWED UNDER. BY General William
Malone.
FOUR OF A KIND. 4 Political TALE
OF MONTANA. Anonymous.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

UNCONSTITUTIONAL Pa TRIOTLSM
The New York Legislature has promptly
passed the Worlds Fair bill, appropriating
$4,000, 600 for the enterprise in 1892. This
is commendable patriotism, perhaps, but
the bill is unconstitutional all the same,
and the scheme to hoodwink the United
States Congress is as transparent as a
French plate. e.--Bdhim0re Herald.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02
SOCIAL MENTION.

Ex-senator james G Fair has inst erected
in San Francisco an elegant building, on
the corner of Sutter and Octayia streets,
which will be occupied as school for yolng
ladies by Miss Lake. The edidee is de-
scribed as one of the most complete edu-
cational institutions west Of the Roaldss.
Miss Harriet McEwen Kimball is visiting
Mrs. Theodore d. Wilson at her residence,
1851 Sixteenth street. Miss Kimball is 4
cousin of Edmund G. Stedman, and hersel
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02
EIIE. LITTLE rITrERS.

In order to get the wild oats out of a
boy he must be thrashed. Burlington Free
Press.
Many an actor begins with big bill boards
and ends with big board bills.--LJe.
The burden of some arguments is SO great
that it makes the listeners tired Rome
Sentinel.
We suppose the ship heaves to out Of
sympathy for the seasick passengers. Bing-
hdmton Leader.
The man whose wits go wool-gatherng is
lucky If he doesn't get heeced. = Brooklyn
Illustrated Magazine
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

Mr.. JOHN L. SULLIVAN watched Mr..
Peter jackson spar in New York on Friday
evening last, and at the close of the per-
formance expressed the opinion that before
long he would ''do' the colored man and
brother in about two rounds. How many
moons is it since Mr.. Sullivan was swelling
around like a turkev-cock and gobbling
fiercely that he didn't propose under any
consideration to fight with ''nigger?"
Perhaps the recent speech of Senator Iu-
gals converted Mr. Sullivan to Republican
ism.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

Mr. GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, the nj
pent English Journalist, used to have a
way of vanishing whenever be had any i'm
portant piece of work to 10. Sometimes
the newspaper which was intending to pab-
lish this work would find it necessary TO
communicate with him, and all hands
would start out in hansoms and on foot to
visit the resorts frequented by him. Mr..
Sala used to have that way. He is married
now, and his vanishing days are over for
good and ALL
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

SINCE II HAS got ont that the Chinese
have custom of going about and paying
all their debts on New Years Day our
glorious country may become unit in
favor of the strict enforcement of the Ex-
clusion act.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

The CHAMPION HARP-PLAYER of the
world has been released from prison in In
diana. 1t seems too bad to turn man out
into the cold world, but II prison reform
is going to be accomplished in this country
we must be careful what kind of society
we furnish for the prisoners.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

THE CHICAGO News of January 30 says
that hostility to the Interstate Commerce
law has long been the "raison d'etren of a
certain Illinois Senator. The remainder Of
the NecS of that date is printed in
ENGLISH.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

A WANDERING paragraph says that Iola's
story, "The Dream" is to be turned into a
comic opera. Those who have read the
story must cherish the opinion that the at
tempt will be far more comical than the
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

DISTRICT ATTORNEY FELLOWS Of New
York has flunked once more in the Doodle
cases. All District Attorney Fellows needs
to make pretty good District Attorney is
a new man In his place.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

The MAN WHO started the story that
John Sherman is going to support Mr.. Nc
Kinley for the next Presidential nomina-
tion ought to utilize that imagination of
his in the legitimate field of spring poetry.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

THE CzAR OF RUSSIA is said to be very
illiterate man, but when one stops to think
of the sort of language they have over there.
one is not sure but this is to the Czar's
credit.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

IF THE GRANT MONUMENT keeps ON grow
ing in the direction it has set out upon, 1t
win soon reach up to the centre of the
earth. 1t is now almost as tall as well.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02


Tommy Paw, what is Senatorial court
esy?n
Mr.. Fight means that no Senator is
expected to ask another one what he paid
for his seat. 80. TeTe BdtNe Express.
MR.. UANANAKER'S VALENTINE.
Very great apprehension Is felt now lest
Postmaster. General Wanamaker's new car
mine postage stamps SHOULD not be Issued
to the public in time for ST. Valentines
Day. Chicago Neirs.
IN ITS FiNAL stages there is no disease
more offensive than catarrh OF the nasal pass
sages, aud yet Old Saul's Catarrh Cure
quickly aud pleasantly cures these ad-
yanced and offensive conditions.
When everything else fails, Dr. Sage's
Catauh Remedy cures. 80 eents, by drug
gists.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

SERIOUSLY, NOW, HOW many of you fell
lows who are writing brilliant paragraphs
about the impossibility of understanding
Browning have ever tried to read him?
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

IF CHAUNcEY NJ. DEPEw and Thomas C.
Platt should really contend for the Senate
somebody would get left. And it wouldn't
be Thomas c. Platt.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

II A MAN WANTS an exciting game OF
chance, let him deposit his money in New
York bank to-day and guess what he will
have tomorrow.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

certain Illinois Senator. The remainder of
the NevS of that date is printed in
English.
A WANDERING paragraph says that Iola's
story, "The Dream" is to be turned into
comic opera. Those who have read the
story must cherish the opinion that the at
tempt will be far more c0mical than the
result.
The MAN WHO started the story that
John Sherman is going to support Mr.. Nc
Kinley for the next Presidential nomina-
tion ought to utilize that Imagination Of
his in the Legitimate field of spring poetry.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY FELLOWS of New
York has tlunked once more in the Doodle
cases. All District Attorney Fellows needs
to make pretty good District Attorney is
a new man in his place.
THE CZAR OF RUSSIA is said to be a very
illiterate man, but when one stops to think
of the sort of language they have over there.
one is not sure but this is to the Czar's
credit.
IF THE GRANT MONUMENT keeps on grow
ing in the direction it has set out upon, 1t
win soon reach up to the centre of the
earth. 1t is now almost as tall as a well.
SERIOUSLY, NOW, HOW many of you fell
lows who are writing brilliant paragraphs
about the impossibility of understanding
Browning have ever tried to read him?
IF CHAUNcEY NJ. DEPEw and Thomas c..
Platt should really contend for the Senate
somebody would get left. And it wouldn't
be Thomas c. Platt.
! II MAN WANTS an exciting game OF
chance, let him deposit his money in New
York bank to-day and guess what he will
have tomorrow.
SPEAKER REED SEEMS to have a happy
faculty of settling things. Perhaps he
could put an end to tile horrible struggle IN
baseball circles.
TnE CRrrIo is probably the only paper
Ia the United States to refrain from men
tioning this morning that this is GROUND
hog day.
A PROPHET at Oakland, CAL, predict,
that Chicago win be destroyed inside o
eighty days. We shall wait as patiently al
| possible.
BARNuM HAS BEEN giving lectures n
London for the benefit OF the Irish indus
trial Unlon-aud Banum.
WHAT PESSsYLyANfA NEEDS Is new
bottom one that viii keep her towns froa
leaking through,
SENATOR FARwELL comes from Illinois
but he is no sucker.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02
Washington, D. G., February ].


Editor critic. have hopes The issues of
your new deal incline me TO think there may
yet be brains and honesty combined In the
article on the Gladstone goody-goody inter
view Is good. X. E. W.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

SPEAKER REED SEEMS to have happy
faculty of settling things. Perhaps he
could put an end to tile horrible struggle in
haseball circles.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

TnE CRmuo is probably the only paper
Ia the United States to refrain from men
tioning this morning that this is ground
hog daY.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

Mrs. Senator Payne gave beautiful
luncheon yesterday in honor of Miss Betty
Thompson of New York, who was here last
winter as Mrs. Whitneys guest. The table
was decorated all in pink, pink roses for
favors and the tapers burned under pink
shades, The guests were Misses Fuller,
Harlan, Corkhill, May Sherman, Coudit
Smith, Mary Taylor Carter, Preston. Flor
ence Bayard, May McCulloch, Voorhees,,
Boardman, Harris of Cleveland, Nellie Bid
die, ingalls, and Pugsley. Mrs Payne is a
great favorlte with young ladies, and the
luncheon was one of the daintiest Of the
season.
MRS. KENNEDY's RECEPTION,
Mrs. Ulrich Kennedy held a most de
lightful reception Friday at 25 Lafayette
Square, the last formal one of the season,
serving to bring out her friends in full
force. She was assisted by her sisters, the
Misses Kennedy, Miss Bryan, Miss Dapray
and Miss Harvey. The young hostess Is a
lovely blonde Of delicate beauty, and the
pretty group Of girls formed bright en-
scmGie harmonious and CHEEKY for this 0c-
casion. Miss Julia Kennedy is petite
demi-blonde, very captivating, and d
charming addition to the coterie of
debut antes this season.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

WHAT PENNsYLyANIA NEEDS Is new
bottom one that viii keep her towns from
leaking through.
SENATOR FARwELL comes from Illinois,
but he ia no sucker.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

A PROPHET at Oakland, CAL, predicts
that Chicago win be destroyed inside Of
eighty days. We shall wait as patiently as
possible.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02
THE PRESIDENTS TRIP.

President and Mrs Harrison, accom-
panied by Chief Justice and Mrs. Fuller
and the Associate Justices of the Supreme
Court, with their wives, will leave to-
morrow for New York, to attend the CEN
tennial celebration of the formation OF the
Supreme Court. While in New York the
distinguished party will be the guests of
the New York Bar Association.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-02

dimtJb buCCtbolulll. ollSS oldttv 10 Il
Washington girl, and on account of her
fathers prominent connection with the
Grand Army, that body is taking consider
able interest in her career.
Bette Padelford, nee Ordway, is in Stet-
sons Comic Opera Company, organized by
Edward T.. Rice, which will open in Gilbert
and Sullivan's opera, "The Gondolers," at
the Amphion Theatre, Williamsburg, to-
morrow evening.
The Dramatic Mirror of yesterday con
tains an exhaustive article on the present
state of theatrical business throughout the
country and has the following about the
local theatres: "Ihe managers report good
business and in many cases an increase
over last season. The National: Up to
January : the business of this house is
claimed TO have been the largest in the his
tory of Washington. Since that date there
| has been slight falling, attributable to the
influenza epidemic, but during that period
| the business has not been so bad as 10 JUS
| tfy complaint. AiLdUgh'S; The business at
! this house has been fully double that of
last season. There has been noticeable,
| but not serious, falling off within the last
! two or three weeks. The depression is
clearly the result of la grippe. Hdrrls'
| BJOp! The season at this house has been
| larger than that of corresponding period
! last year, Notwithstanding a marked de-
cline during the past two or three weeks.
| The recent decline is no doubt owing to the
prevailing illness KerHdn's: La grippe
does not appear to have affected business
at this house, which has been gradually im-
proving, and the season compares favor
ably with last
Mr.. Frank Of Missouri recently intro
duced ia sle House Il bill to prohibit Army
and Navy bands from competing with civil
ian organizations. The Secretaries Of War
and the Navy have been appealed to IN
vain and the musicians have concluded that
the only way 10 be protected from enlisted
men is by law
The Naftyn ademy Of Actingh lately
moved fron i,s oixth-street home to Ola
| Twelfth street northwest. The new rooms
are large and handsomely furnished, and
the school has larger classes than have
ever ass embed there before. Webster
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-05

At another time figured in a way not cal
culated to increase my reputation as diplo-
mat Royal persons deem it a duty to adj
dress, as far as possible, every one in the cir
Gle. Her royal highness one evening entered
into conversation with me. Among other
things she said she was very fond of reading,
but sometimes had difficulty in getting inter
esting books With the innocent inexperi-
ence of an American replied; "Why, your
royal highness' palace adjoins the Royal
library" had sense enough to perceive that
had made mistake, but, as Macbeth says,
retreating is worse than going ahead, fin
ished the sentence as l had first intended:
"And there are 100000 volumes on its
shelves" In German this speech would not
have been very leniently judged. But, with
tact and grace, she answered very kindly:
THAT is true, but we sometimes want new
books" | think she was rather pleased with
my mphcity.-Theodore s. Fay in Phila-
delphia Times.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-05
Origin of the Waltz.

The generally accepted story is that the
waltz comes from Germany; but little in.
vestigation will show that this statement is
open to discussion. As far back as the
Twelfth century the waltz was known in
Provence, but under the name of the volta.
The song which accompanied 1t was called a
ballada. Under Lewis VII it was brought
from Provence to Paris, and was the fashion
during the whole of the Sixteenth century,
especially in the luxurious court of the Va
lois.
Then the Germans adopted it, and the Pro-
vencal volta became the German waltz The
years passed, and then in or about 1890 the
waltz once more crossed the Rhine and was
introduced into France. From France it was
taken to England; thence it. spread to this
country and soon became the favorite dance
of the civilized world.-San Francisco Chroni-
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-05
The OATMEAL Craza.

1t may be interesting TO many delicate peo-
pie to know that a popular scientist declares
that the Scotch race owes nearly all its hardi-
ness of brain and body TO its national food.
Now everybody is eating oatmeal, and, un-
like the majority Of fashions, this happens to
be one which every one should be induced to
follow. One firm, manufacturing a brand
known TO newspaper readers all over the
United States, is even said to have great diff
Guilty in supplying the demand. A member
Of the firm said the other day that the de-
mand was nothing less thae an oatmeal
craze" and that no man or woman who as
pires to live correctly nowadays would think
Of emitting that savory dish from at least
one meal during the day.-New York Tele-
gram.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-05
INTELLIGENT EAGLES.
They Fed Their Captive Young by Drop
ming Eish Into a Pen from NIId-Air

They Fed Their Captive Young by Drop
ping Fish Into Pen from Mid-Air.
81 see great deal of talk in the papers
every little while" said IL man who has built
many miles of railroads and contracted for
any number of big engineering enterprises,
''about the foolishness of having the eagle as
an emblem of our country. He is represented
as a co~ardly, thievish, unintelligent bird,
and any number of other fowls of the air are
put forward as candidates for the proud po-
stion Of the nations bird Now am not an
ornithologist, so am not prepared to argue
over the relative merits of the different
flyers, and / must confess that the eagle is
thief always and coward very often, but
that he is lacking in intelligence most EN-
phatically deny Let me tell you one little
story Of him that puts him in very favor
able light.
"Years ago." he began, 81 was engaged In
building big western road, and one spring
day we pitched our camp on the banks Of one
of the turbulent rivers of the region and set
tied down for three months job on ravine
bridge. A few days later we noticed an
eagles nest perched up the bluff across the
river and the following Sunday two of our
men swan the stream during the absence of
the old birds and brought back two vigorous
eaglets with them.
"We hurriedly patched up pen of pine
slabs for the captives, making it about seven
feet square and leaving lots of space between
the slabs on the top and sides so that we could
have good look at the squalling punches of
feathers. The parent birds came back about
noon, and when they found their little ones
gone they kicked up frightful row and few
about in search of them as though they were
distracted. When they finally discovered
where the eaglets were they circled around
in the air over the pen, keeping out of reach
of our rifles and shrieked advice to their
chicks about keeping up their spunk and
making themselves comfortable as plainly as
human beings could
'Then the old birds flew away and came
back after a little with two big fish in their
talons They circled and circled around over
the pen, and finally let the fish drop straight
as die right between the slabs in the roof.
They kept up this performance every day for
a fortnight, and never in all that time did
they miss hitting the pen with the fish they
dropped. Their parental affection and intel
ligence so worked on us that we put the eag-
lets back on the other side Of the river again,
and tell you it was really affecting to see
the way those two old birds hung around and
caressed their offspring. They seemed to un-
derstand after that that we were friendly to
them, and during the rest of the time that
we were there they flew all about the camp,
andthad no hesitation in coming down to pick
up the scraps of meat and fish we would
throw to them. | can't say that they shed
tears over our departure, but / will warrant
that they felt the pangs of separation as keen
ly aS we did. n-Omaha World Herald
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-05

A great deal depends on the cut of states
mans hair. The reputation of some is based
on it. The barber has much more TO do with
the making of some statesmen than any
pedagogue or philosopher ever had. There is
Nh Blank, who dreams in his seat all day,
with his white hair brushed back, from an in
tellectual brow, his white mustache dropping,
and little tuft on the upper lip Of his chin,
and is regarded as man Of great profundity
while Mr.. -, from Virginia, gets no credit
for his ability because he don't comb his
whskers right. The barber can make states
man, even If the tailor is slovenly. Mr..
Evans, of Tennessee, looks fierce because he
twists his goatee to point and curls his mus
tache up at the ends. But he is a most mild
and gentle hammered man. Gibson, of Mary
land has got the reputation Of being lady's
man and vain because his hair is parted in
the middle. Washington Cor. in Philadel-
phia Telegraph.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-05

the Puritans Congregational, which DR..
George B. Cheever brought into particular
prominence by his vehement Sunday evening
anti-slavery sermons, delivered on the break
ing out of the civil war, was, after demoli-
ton, put up again. stone by stone, in another
part of the city. When it stood on the west
side of Union square its gray granite walls
covered with ivy and its two irregular tow
ers were for years conspicuous to the Broad
way throng. In its present restored condi-
tion in Fifty-third street, near Seventh ave
nue., its walls are ivyless, which so alters its
appearance that it readily escapes recogni-
tion, especially under the name of the Colored
Baptist church, which purchased the old edi-
fee and had the material carefully removed.
New York Commercial Advertiser.