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York, and niece of the President, who
has quite often been a guest of the
Tafts in Washington, is going to be
married to Mr.. George H. Snowden, OF
Seattle, Wash, and she will probably
have among the distinguished guests at
her wedding the President of the United
States and the First Lady of the Land.
To such base uses do We come. There
has just been discovered on the GettYS-
burg division of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road the railway car in which President
Lincoln rode to Gettysburg to make his
famous address. The car, which is lit
tie and communicating, anyhow, is
now used as sleeping quarters for a re-
pair gang. The car was used for many
years between Hanover and Hanover
Junction, where it was designated as
"Old IA Recently it was found to be
getting out of repair, and so was as
signed to the repair gang for a sleeper,
and by another singular coincidence
that particular gang was assigned to
the Gettysburg division of the road.
There is talk of trying to have the car
sent to Gettysburg and converted into
historic museum.
After all, why should we laugh at
opera bouffe when it is as near real
. life-yes, in fact, nearer than any grand
opera that ever was written. Down in
Nicaragua there is an opera bouffe per-
formance going on, with man named
Zelaya as dictator. He has been keep
ing that miserable piece of the isthmus
neck in a constant turmoil for years,
and what the United States, France,
England and Germany will do to him
when they get started will be good and
plenty. Zelaya's son is well known here
in Washington as a cock-Sure little
skeezicks, who went to school here
in Washington, fell in love with pret-
ty girl and married her without his
fathers consent. Then the father got
on his high horse and disinherited the
youth AS neither he nor his father
ever did an honest days work in their
lives, the young husband was about to
starve to death when he got position
as piano player in a fiye-eent theater
He has been playing in the different
nickelodeans for the past year. The
father finally forgave the couple, and
the wife is now in South America in
the midst of the turmoil that is being
kicked up by Zelaya. If one were to
sit down in cold blood and put together
all the incidents connected with this
South American fire-eater it would beat
any comic opera that ever was put up
on the stage, and would be so comical
that people would ffout it in scorn-
Right on the heels of the Presidents
speech at NorfoIk-in fact, ON the very
same night-Rear-Admira Robley d.
Evans, retired, spoke at a banquet of
the Society of Naval Architecture and
Marine Engineers in New York, and
Admiral Evans remarked that at no
time during the great voyage Of his
around the world does he recall seeing
the American Flag displayed. and he
continued: "Sueh a condition would
obviously be serious in time of war.
So that in spite of our pride in our
Army and Navy, We cannot help but see
when it is referred to by men whose
opinions we trust as we do those of the
President and Admiral Evans, that
there are things about our Army and
Navy that are not just up to taw.
There was some pretty lively dancing
under the roof of a great big pile Of |
stone on Pennsylvania avenue which is |
called the Post Office the other day. |
One of the clerks was opening the |
dead-letter mail when box was open |
ed, and the minute the lid was lifted !
out jumped a tarantula which was very |
much alive. All lassitude among the |
clerks in that particular part of the |
building disappeared at once. The wo- |
men jumped on the tables and chairs |
and the men simply danced The taran- |
fula got away, and naturally they had |
to declare a vacation for an hour or !
two until he was finally found, captured |
and dispatched.
BENJAMIN G. Judson Bingham. q. s. |
Army. retired, died at his home in Phil |
adelphia, Nov. IS, aged IS years. He |
was graduate of West Point in 1854, |
and at the outbreak of the war Of the |
rebellion he was appointed chief of the |
Quartermaster's Department in the De- !
partment of Tennessee, and later served |
under Sherman on his march to the |
sea. He was an authority on Army sub |
md q mo- in
the Quartermaster's Department until |
he was retired in 1905.
The expense of boarding three SER
wants at the Summer home of the Pres |
fdent at Beverly, Mass, last Summer |
has caused quite a commotion in the |
room of the Comptroller of the Treas |
ury, who did not know just exactly how |
he was going to get this money out of |
the White House appropriation Extra /
appropriations made for the White !
House come under the head of ''re- |
pairs, fuel. etc, Executive Monsion-" |
These servants certainly were not re- |
pairs. they could not be called fuel, and |
the question was whether they were |
''etceteras." The Comptroller of the |
Currency finally settled the question by |
putting these three servants under the |
head of etceteras.
a mover SlRnL was witnessed Dy peO- |
PIE ON Pennsylvania avenue one day |
last week, and at the same time it was |
extremely exciting. A young colored boy |
was flying up the Avenue on his wheel |
when all of q sudden his clothing blazed |
out, and, unknown to him, he was fam |
ming himself into a ball of fire. A gen. |
tleman jumped off a street car when he |
saw the youth coming toward him, |
yanked off his coat and threw ii around
the boy to smother the flames. The |
boy, who had just discovered the fire, |
was frantic. and kicked and raised Cain |
generally, trying to get out from under |
the coat. He was pretty badly burned |
An ambulance was called, and he was
taken to the Emergency Hospital. About |
the time they lifted him into the ambu- |
lance the man who had sacrificed his |
coat found that he had also sacrificed |
about $500 in money, and when he at |
tempted to find 1t he discovered it being |
ground into the asphalt by the feet of |
the crowd that had gahered He was |
able to find every penny OF the $500. |
however, which had been loose in the |
pocket of the coat, and when the pocket |
was burned the money dropped out
A very interesting surgical case is !
now being discussed, the operation hav- |
ing been performed in the Georgetown |
University Hospital. William Byrne. 2 |
years old. had been SUFFERING. for wears i