The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-12
EDITORIAL PERSONALS.

There ought to be consuship in a
warm climate for Hon. Joseph Cannon of
pinois.-ffovidence Journal (Iaa).
Benny's got his gun and is going hunt
ing. The President should devote more
of his time TO sport. He could be spared
from the White House at almost any
time.--Courier-J Journal.
will be celebrating the inauguration of
James q. Blaine as President. Laurence
(Rdn.) Journal.
Frisbie Hoar is chairman of the Elec-
tions Committee, which does up the South
in winter; and also of the Committee on
Relations with Canada, which takes in
that resort in summer. Hoar can be truly
Pan-American when he tries.-Phiiadel-
phi0 Record.
There is much humbug about the right
of the House majority to rule. That
right has been questioned by nobody. It
was not for that that Mr.. Reed contended.
He set up the claim that he could rule in
the name of an absent majority, and it
was for this usurpation and for the offense
of lying about it that hisparty was pun
ished in Novembcr.--Ch Chicago Herald.
Within four days after Senator Hearsts
death, his son, Mr.. William II. Hearst,
had received 100 newspaper obituary
notices from press-clipping bureau. He
telegraphed from Washington, "Send me
twelve sets of like notices." If the bu-
reau is able to carry out this order- Mr..
Hearst will have a collection of 5000
clippings, and the bureau will be in re.
ceipt Of Mr.. Hearst's check fon 81 ,0oQ.-
4Neo York Continent.
The attacks of Rudyard Kipling and
Senator ingalls, upon our marine lighting
equipment remind us that we do have a
navy. 1t is just this kind of an attack,
by the way, that our navy can best with
stand Chicago Ne,cs.
If Sir John Macdonald finds the Ameri-
can sentiment steadily increasing he may
conclude in good faith TO swim with the
current, but he will not do so until fully
convinced of his inability to stem it.-New
York Recorder.
II is q significant fact that the Y. w. G..
7. Unions everywhere are occupied with
physical culture. The girls are not get
ting up muscle for nothing. Let all whom
Il may concern take notice.-W Q. 4. u.
Bullefin.
Benjamin Harrison is the first President
OF the United States within the last thirty
years capable of appointing all of nine
new judges from his own party.-N Y
World.
There is good joke on Senator Pelfer.
He Is in Washington actually intending
W o'HAly up tilt pruttlchl WoTklnBS Dl tue
Government departments, and the Sena-
tors remaining there are holding their
sides with laughter Mt this strange idiosyn-
crasy .-I'f0yidence Journal.
While the President is ont hunting
ducks among the reeds and rushes, o, the
thought should occur to him that he has
run away from some very good cunning
in the Pension Department For rare
old canyas-back who ought to be cleaned
ont he is respectfully referred to Raum,-
Ne'o YORK. World.
Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew regards the ar.
rest of the New Haven directors as absurd
and ridiculous, and declares that there is
no law under which railway directors can
be held for the consequences of accidents.
He remarks that he is a director in more
than thirty such corporations, and Pres-
dent Roberts Of the Pennsylvania in more
than hundred.-NeW York Hraid.
II appears that President Eliot of Har-
yard has made speech on the floor of the
Merchants Exchange in St. Louis which
did not meet the views OF his auditors,
and which still more emphatically failed
to command the assent of some OF the
public journals of that town.-.N0 York
Times.