The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-18
TAscorr has been caught again
Personal.

MIS-. Elizabeth Mckean, widow OF the
late Captain Thomas Mexican ofthc Navy
ard the sister of the Rev 4. T. Price,
wcll-known retired Baptist minister Of
Tuckerton, \. j., died March l6 at Cold
Springs, y. j., aged y.
Americans who visit Madrid are sur
prised to learn that Christopher Columbus
is still living there in excellent preserva-
ton, and still enjoys the title of Duke of
| Neragua, conferred upon the family by
| the King of Spain $50 years ago.
Charles II. Ackerson, an old resident of
| san Francisco, escaped from the Pacific
Hospital at Stockton on February % and all
trace Of him was lost until last week when
his body was found in the eStockton channel
about two miles from the city. lie was
chief engineer of the San Francisco Fire
Department.
A Nevada man, who has just returned
| from trip to Arizona, is now telling the
open-mouthed inhabitants of that coming
| railroad centre of inscriptions he read ON
| the Arizona tombstones. One of them
ram "Charles S. Peterson, died Septem-
| ber 2l, 1889, aged II years; children, 3l;
| grandchildren. 100; grcat-grandfather. 49,"
With twenty such Petersons Nevada
thinks it could show Sedalla clean pair
| of heels.
| Emperor Williams visit to England is
| to begin about July / and its duration is
limited to eight days. Six of these will
see him in buckingham Palace and the
| other two in Windsor Castle. The report
that he intended to visit the British man
ufacturing districts and study the condi-
ton Of the workingmcn is declared to be
| false.
Miss Lillian Il. Perry of Covington,
Tenn, has won prize for the best de-
scription of the kind of man to marry.
and this is the way she paints her ideal;
If ! wished to marry (Which, Of courses
j do not j would desire a man too noble
to commit a mean act, but generous
enough to forgive one. A man as gentle
as a woman, as manly as q man; one who
does not talk scandal nor tell disagreeable
truths. A man whose name | would be
proud to bear, to whom could carry my
doubts and pcrplexities and with whom l
could find sympathy and joy.'
William g. Douglass, one of the Oldest
civil engineers in the country, and for
many years prominently connected with
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, died at
his home, in Wilson County, Va, yester-
day. lie was y years old. His first
Alexandria and Orange Railroad, now be-
longing TO the Danvlle System in Vir-
ginia. He made the first survey for the
Manassas Gap Railroad, from Manassas to
Strasburg, Va, and the preliminary sur
yey for the Rockiish Gap tunnel through
the Blue Ridge for the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad. He was civil engineer on
the Baltimore and Ohio road, doing work
under Chief Engineer Latrobe on the
Hancock division. In 1851 he was di-
vision engineer on the Central Ohio Rail
road from Wheeling to Columbus. He
then formed u copartnership, under the
firm name Of Douglass, Smith Il Co., and
contracted for building ali the ears and
bridges Of the Central Ohio and other
Ia Of .lga ttt. D.. L.
business. In 1879 he was division en-
gineer on the Atlantic and Lake Erie Rail
road, in Ohio.--Spoid 10 ". Y. Tribuao,
March H.
Miss Maud Humphreys water colors
have sale that causes her TO be called
the Kate Greenaway of this country, bat
only little while ago she was poor and
unknown. She had painted little thing
for lady friend, who took il TO an art
about the painting, and at once induced
the painter to work fof him. From that
day She has been happy and hard at work.
The incident that Introduced her 10 com
fort aud fame is what the fools call luck,
but the reader knows that true ability
makes is own luck, as hers did on that
occaslon.-Ne,g York Sm.
William 5. Parkerson. the leader of the
Regulators is only 81 years old is eX-
acily six feet high, heavily built and
dresses in brown tweed suit, with q
plain black neCktie Ills head is large
and round, his forehead broad, his hait
brown and parted on one side. lie has q
heavy brown mustache and double chin
His eyes are intensely black, quiet enough
in repose, but swapping fire in moments
Of excitement, aud look at You from be
hind gold-rimmed speciacles. The mos
striking thing about Parkerson Is hi'
voice, which Is deep, but soft, almost ca