The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-09
EDITORIAL PERSONALS.

Professor Pennington's air ship refuses
to soar in Chicago, which is the cause of
much soreness on the part of the inventor
and Observation-Disclosures Press.
Crisp of Georgia seems to be looming up
as Speaker of the House. He is clearer
headed and less noisy than Mills.-Chi-
eogo Inter Ocean.
The time has about come to put label
ON Uncle Hoar and deposit him in q con-
spicuous place in a cabinet of fossil re-
mains OF the highly interesting and SEEM
ichthyosaurus.-St.L Louis Republic.
The encouraging feature of the Illinois
Senatorial contest is the fact that the
longer IL lnsts the less likely IL is to result
in the election of General Palmer-S.
Loais Globe Democrat.
Governor Pattison has saved Pennsylva-
mia from the disgrace Of legislative APP
proval Of the Force bill. The keystone
State made no mistake when it made Pat
! tison its Governor.--C Coa,ier-J0mradl.
An Oakland woman has begun a suit
for divorce because her lord and master
strobe about the house in that most un-
speakable of conditions known as "just
as God made him." Perhaps she herself
is in fault; possibly when she accepted his
suit she failed to return it to him.-Sai
Fiancisco Examiner.
Galena, H., has finished and ready for
placing statue Of General Grant. The
! little, broken.down Illinois town, where
Grant made living rs tanner, thus
pays homage to a hero. In New York,
where, rs the foremost citizen of America,
he spent the his last days, there is slower
progress in erecting monument to his
memory. -CincinnaH Commercial Gazette.
One Of Mr.. Vance's peculiarities is that
he smokes thirty strong imported cigars q
day, ten Of them before noon. He rises
cigars before breakfast. He is also a
worshipper Of the memory of Andrew
Jackson, ''Since have been in Wash
ington," he said the other day TO Con-
gresham Mansur Of Missouri, 81 have not
failed single morning on getting out of
bed at the Riggs House, where ] live, TO
light cigar, walk over to Lafayette Park,
pause in front of the equestrian statue of
Andrew Jackson and reventially lift my
hat Correspondent Chicago Herald.
Rev. Phillips Brooks is enjoying the
freedom OF the United States Senate cham
Der while he is in Washington, and IL is
pretty safe to affirm that he looms up
head and shoulders above them all.-Bos-
ton Herald.
The farmers of the Kansas Legislature
refuse TO credit Senator Ingalls, even with
an eleventh-hour repentance. They claim
that the dinner-horn had sounded long
before his change of heart came.-MiRas.
| GpoliS Tribune.
A promise of the eminence to which
Jerry Simpsons 10 rise in American states
manship was given in speech made by
him at Wichita, Kan, the other day, on
| the financial question, viz He is opposed
TO taking gold and silver from the earth,
| because they might be stolen or carried of
| by victorious enemy, and would leave
them remain in the earth, taking an esti.
mate of their value, and on that estimate
issuing paper to a corresponding sun
| Jerry Is useful in showing how big foo
this isconntry can produce PttsJuiy Times
Cleveland and Hill, in parting, as
sured each other that they would meet
again at Phillippi; but whether the ex,
President intends TO slaughter the Gov,
ernor in 1892 or the latter stab the former
under the fifth rib next year. the by,
ISLANDERS could not determine PiusJ0y
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