Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-10
THINGS HEARD AND SEEN

There is a singer In the city who has a
very knowing little girl The child has
never had nurse. but has been cared for
| all her five years by her mother.
She took the little girl with her one day
to see friend. ''she will be down in a
minute" was the message after they had
| taken seats in the parlor
AS soon IS the servant disappeared again
| little Katharine leaned over and said to her
mother:
Mamma, how long are her minutes?"
The mother stopped to think an instant
| then said:
Why do you ask such a question, dear?'
| Well, answered the little one, with a
deep sigh, papa says your minute is an
hour, and I just wondered how long hers
| is"
Speaking of little girls, there was a cabi-
net officer here a few years ago who had a
| little girl about seven years old. The
nurse took her one day to find the washer
woman They found heic in little frame
shanty of only enc room, which seemed a
great novelty to the child.
On returning home, she was telling her
mother about this wonderful house which
| had just ore room. With sigh and an
earnestness born of deep longing, she said
|
| that house!'
Why. my child. why should you wish
such strange thing?"
Then. don't you see, when I was put to
bed at night I could hear everything that
| was said because you wouldn't have any
| other room TO sit in"
, was there ever a child but what was
| thing the grown people say?
A good story on the late Gen. Dan Nc
| Cauley of Indiana Is related by Judge John
N. Scott, now of Port Townsend, Wash
| ington.
On Judge SCOTS last visit to Washington
| he. with his old college chum, Gen. Joe
Fullerton, and Gen. McCauley, went on a
| trip UP the river to one of the club houses,
The two former gentlemen wanted to in
dulge in some target practice. Gen. Nc
| Cauley protested vigorously.
Being pressed for his reason, he said the
fact was he was such a bad shot he had
made up his mind to quit it last time he
| tried it. He had never hit the bull s-eye
| in his life, lie conffded to them, and he was
a little ashamed of it.
After some little trouble they convinced
him that they were both worse shots than
he, and they'd shoot Tor place."
First the judge shot and made a fair
! showing, then Gen. Fullerton, making a
better. and last Gen. McCauley, who hit
the bulFS-eye.
No one was more astonished than the
gentleman himself He began to be inter
ested. They took another turn. Again he
hit the bull s-eye and yet again and again,
ard the ringing of the gong was music in
his ear.
The others declared they'd shoot no more
with him, and threatened dire revenge for
his deception.
In vain he assured them 1t was the first
time in his life he had hit the buifs-eye.
He II Gated literally, and they all enjoyed
the jaunt particularly the boy who tended
b.
Ter for their visit. They came back to
town, dined at Gen.. McCauley's expense,
and he declared he had made the hit Of
his life.
Dan never suspected u.s." laughed the
judge "of having bribed that target boy to
ring the gong every time he shot. And he
couldn't see the trick in 1t, because his
bullets never even touched the target, not
oner
Who ever heard of a vegetable garden in
fiat? There is one here in Washington
attached TO a pretty little fiat OH the Sec
ond floor
A dinner there with the colonel is a
thing to d. cam Of. Fried chicken to rival
Cabin Johns and vegets hies fresh from his
own garden. If his guest is incredulous.
the colonel will take him out through the
kitchen to the back porch and there, sure
enough, en- a porch three feet by six is a
f1ourishing vegetable garden. In a box
were lot of radishes, I'm another about
eight fine, healthy tomato plants. with the
great, red tomatoes hanging temptngly,
ready for the next meal Even cucumbers-
about five hundred of the lovely little fell
lows have already been laid into brine for
his wife to pickle when she comes home
from Cape May.
The cucumber vines run the length of the
porch. over all the boxes; the tomato
plants stand neal the end of the porch and
are tackled with tape against the house to
hnn nicvHt tod
In the middle is lovely box of sugar
beets.
The colo mel is now contemplating fencing
in portion of the roof and having a chick
en- yard. He thinks it would be sufficiently
out of the neghbors way so as not to be
annoying. and he says the only thing lack
ing to make his existence perfect is plenty
of homemade spring chickens
Fourteenth street is the paradise of doc
tors. They seem to have a great fondness
for an office on this north and south thor
oughfare, and many of those who have
been unable to secure suitable locations on
the street are located in offices on side
streets, SO that their modest signs can be
seen from the passing cable cars. From the
boundary to Pennsylvania avenue, fnclud-
Ing the doctors whose signs on side streets
can be seen from the cable cars and those
on New York avenue, which can also be
seen from the cars, there are about i1fty
physicians located. 1ney nave been count
ed by persons interested in the subject; but
some have gene and some have come, SO
that an exact estimate cannot be given un-
til there has been recount. It is not be-
cause there Is any more ill-health in the
vicinity Of 14th street than in other parts
OF the city that SO many doctors congregate
there. Doctors, you must know, scorn adj
vertising. 1t is unprofessional to run a card
In newspaper or to advertise great cure
But they like to have their signs where
they can be seen.
Onr sailor boys out on the Asiatic station
are not having an altogether dull time:
nor have they forgotten the glorious
Fourth, which passes so noisily at home
The Charleston was at Nagasaki, Japan, on
the Fourth, and since the occasion the mail
has brought evidences that it was patriot
ically remembered. An officer in the de-
partment received two separate Invitations
from friend on the Charleston, sent as
samples of what the sailor boys were en-
5oyfng. small card, printed in English.
but not displaying much artistic skill, an
nounces "A minstrel performance, given by
the Charleston troupe under the auspices
OF the captain and officers" This was to
have taken place on the evening of the Sd,
In the public hall. Nagasaki" No doubt
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