Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-14

the cake walkers have come from New
York, where cake walks have been quite
:, feature for some years. People who look
ut these contests often go away with the
fiea that they are net real Now. the fact
3 they are conducted in dead earnest. and
While the performers. of course. receive a
salary, as agreed upon, theysmake all kinds
of efforts to win the cakes and other prizes.
There are today at least thirty attractions
on the road in which cake walkers are the
stars, that is, the drawing cards"
X X
THE circus printing for the coming cir
Gus season." remarked a clerk of the Con-
sress.onal Library, will be specially fine.
The corporal ton which owns the two big
shows has spent . great deal of money in
getting out their show bills for fences and
windows. Like all the other show and
theatrical people. they copyright all the
printing. and as it comes in day after day
now for copyright, we have chance to see
1t in advance of its posting. Most Of this
printing for the entire season has already
been done, and is being prepared for ship
ping to the sections where it is to be posted.
There has been such an advance made in
show printing that the most elaborate dis
plays do not cost over cne-half what the
same character of work did only few
years ago. The competition in the printing
business in this work is enormous. Buff
faiO still; has the most of 1t, notWithStand-
ing all the efforts of other cities to cap
tuTc it,
!. X * X
Il have learned today that there Is some
thing new under the sum- after ALL" said
the wife of leading representative in
Congress. 1T is what the owner calls a
funeral dress. The novelty is not the dress
itself, but what composes it. Apparently
it. is an ordinary black silk dress. 1t is
made up Of funeral sashes such as are
furnished pallbearers at congressional
funerals, and consists of sashes that were
worn by prominent men at the funerals of
Vice President Wilson. and Senators Sum-
her, Carpenter and Logan. The lady who
owns it keeps our boarding house, and she
got The sashes from those who wore them,
after the funerals. A great portion of the
dress consists of silk that once was useG
in the gown of a justice Of the United
States Supreme Court. The purple velvet
collar was given by the wife of a we'll
kr own diplomat, and the lace by the widow
OF the most prominent Senator who has
died in the past SIX years. The lady who
owns 1t attends many funerals and always
wears the dress on such occasions"
x y
Judge Harkness, from one of the south
ern States, has been in Washington for
several weeks. assisting in contested cleo
ton case. TIE judge prides himself on his
ability to do most of his errands on foot.
He OILY takes a carriage or car when
hoiSeu " w So vi w 6unGSQly night ne
started from the Capitol for his rooms, ac-
conpanied by wcll-known Texas repre-
ser tative. They had walked some squares,
but the snow and rain made walking any
thing but pleasant. Finally, when the cou-
pie got to az street. the Texas representa-
tive stopped and said: Judge, 1t is a
rough night. and I think we had better
take he-d.c-" Il am with YOU" inno-
Gently replied the judge, for it is one Of
my bad habits to take something in the
way of a warm drink before eating dinner"
X x x x ):
Senator Tiliman's enthusiastic constit-
uents in South Carolina have sent him a
small silver pitchfork as token of their
appreciation of his speech in the Senate,
when he welded the "pitchfork'' so vigor-
ously.
The best joke ever gotten off on Senator
Tillman," SAID one of his admirers twas by
a newspaper man. Six years ago, when
the Senator was a plain farmer in Edge
field. he suffered very 1huch from indi.es-
ton. He didn't weigh over 11J pounds. and
had sal1ow compile zion and a broken
down look His various successes in the
state seemed to have done him good, and he
rapidly grew stouter. A year or more ago
he weighed 115 pounds. The newspaper
reporter secured picture Of Tillman in his
sailoW-looking days and one taken in his
prosperous days. He published them side
BY side, with no other remark than Before
and after taking-Dublc paD'n