The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-09
PERSON AL.

a private letter received in Washington
from Bogota, Colombia, announces the
probable appointment. of DIR. Carlos Mar
iincZ Silva AS Commissioner from the Re-
public of Colombia to the Worlds Colum-
bian Exposition at Chicago. DIR. Silva
was a delegate from Colombia to the re-
cent International American Conference
held in this city.
Joel Chandler Harris ("Uncle Remus"),
now 60 years of age, is a great pedestrian,
and is said TO have walked thirty-six miles
in cne day recently.
The richest man in the next Congress
will he John j.. Mitchell OF Milwaukee.
who is credited with fortune of $1,000
600. The surprising thing about it is that
he is a Democrat.
The New York SIN calls the Woman's
Congress "voiceess votes,h while the
Brooklyn Times tries to be still wittier
ard calls the women 'vote!ess voicers."
The Queen of Denmark Is fine pianist,
and her daughter, the czarina, is nearly as
coed. AT the Danish court chamber
music is daily occupation, generally
Quaitette, with the Queen at the piano.
beethoven and Brahms are the favorite
composers.
Edwin Booth reappcared before the
New York public Monday night, enacting
the role of Shylock in The Merchant Of
Venice The great actor was in good
received. Lawrence Barrett was the Bas-
| sanio.
| The sale of paintings and pastels by
| William NJ. Chase, i. s. A. A., y. A.,
held at the Fifth-Avenue Art Galleries.
| New York, was not success; III fact, IL
was q slaughter. The sixty-two paintings
| and pastels sold--iive of the works in tho
catalogue not being offered-fetched but
$3.50.
Governor Humphrey of Kansas has
signiiiod his purpose to sign the Woman
| Suffrage bill lf il passes, Constitution or
no Constitution. The Governor is the
father of a fed-headed boy who takes
after his mother.
Miss Urne Tsuda, u japanese woman
who is teacher of English in the Peercss'
school at Toxic, is one of the special stu
dents at Bryn Mawr College. Miss Tsuda
was one of the five little girls sent in 1871
by the Japanese Government To be edu-
Gated in this country, she and one COM
ranion remaining here for ten years.
Olive Schreiner. the author of dreams"
and of ''The Story of an American Farm"
has her home at Matjesfontein, Cape
Colony. The place consists of farm, q
hotel, mill, Warehouse. a station and
few mean houses, and lies in the very
heart of the wilderness, surrounded by
such scenery as Miss Schreiner has often
described in her books--level wastes of
gray sand and ragged ridges of rock
a year or two ago the venerable DR..
George w. Dame who for fifty years has
been rector Of the Church of the Epiphany
in this city, Went to the depot here to ia Ike
the train for Richmond. While there he
saw a widow with seven children who
wanted To reach some.pont ON the Rich
mond and Danvile road, but hadn't the
requisite sum to pay her fare. She ap-
pealod to DR.. Dame for aid when the
good old man gave her all the money he
had, picked up his valise and walked back
to his home on Clolquhonn street, prefer.
ring rather to iofego his trip than that
the widow and her little children should
want--DonciNe { Po,) Rtgister.
Lord Randolph Churchill is going on q
six months tour IN Mashonaland Africa
He Will be accompanied by Mr.. Morteu
, Frewen, the American ranchero. He is
going on big hunt.
NJ. Nerestchagin, the great Russian
painter, sailed from Hayre for New York
ON Saturday. He is, going to California
and Yellowstone Park, and will make an
extended tour among the Sioux aud
other Indian tribes. His design is to Sc
cure data for great work on the red man
as lie exists under Government control IL
, the United States. He declined to say il
he had an imperial order for his work
but the general impression is that he has
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Ex.Unted States Senator Joshua Hill
of Georgia died March in Madison, Ga
lie was born in South Carolina in 1872
studied law and began practice at Madi
son. He was elected Representative
, from Georgia TO the rhirty-iifth Congress,
, as an American and to the Thirty-sixth
serving from December Z, 1857, 20 Janu
ary 20, 1861, when he resigned in obedi
encc to the Whistles Of the Georgia Con
/ vention. Mr.. Hill was a strong Union
man, and refused To affiliate in any way
2 with those in Congress who sought to dis
r rlpt the Union. He resigned, he said, be
Q cause he did not wish to represent an I'M
b willing people. During the war he re
) manned in seolusion, but was appointee
| Collector of Customs at savannah in 1885
l and Register in Bankruptcy in 1867. III,
served in the United States Senate from
January 80, 1871, to March 3, 1878, anc
7 stood pre-cminent over all others sen
! from the South by the Republicans. Sen
) ator Hill was a man of wealth and extcn
| siye family connections.