The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-07-31
Tho Capital In MIdSummer-A WO.
mans View of IL.


WASHINGTON, D. O., July %.
Certainly, Washington is-slmulta.
neously-lhe hottest, coolest, wettest,
dEieat and muddlest place In the world
Half Of the time you eat breakfast un-
der an umbrella, and hleep In India.
rubbers. between damp and Blnuous
linen. Your pillow feels % II Il had
belonged 10 ATAby's daughter, and had
been lying under Oman's green waters
ever since. Nothing 10 dry Except
the hotel loAfers-they always are) and
you feel as much dlsguat for water 40
II you were O mad dog. There's no such
thing % keeping wArm-even with tho
matutinAl mint julep and the febrifuge
which one takes every half hour-and
we blaBphemously wish that Moses had
taken out patent for his burning
bush. Presently, however, the clouds
liz, and the thermometer pops up like
q Jack In = box. The hleB-as big 90
eaRIes-Bpring from undiscovered
bournes, and effect forcible entrances
into your eyes Snd mouth, and stick
considerably closer than brothers TO
your nose. You get hot and shiny, and
feel that you look like small pyEotech.
MIC display. The fans have been used I'LL
there ID no more wind left In them, and
you see your neighbors becoming dis.
lolvlng views without the power 10
Aelp them. II there's breeze II brings
with II such clouds OF dust that there 10
only question between premature In.
lerment with the windows open and
premature ignition with them shut.
For the first time In your modest ca.
reer you want to dress like Lydia
Thompson.
There ls no ono In town but O few
clerks who have been removed, and q
small number who haven't been. The
Departments are beeleged by mourning
Rachels who will not be Comforled-
aud you Wish you had been q clerk,
and that Gen, Grant had removed you
80 far that you would never be able
10 get back again In the whole course
OF your llIo-and your heart Is filled
with envy, hatred and malice, and all
uncharita blenesS toward those who are
going aWay-and you wish Providence
would make new division In your
iAVor-or, that you had died with Sir
John franklin among The icebergs.
Oil for q Whit Of Long Branch, or
Cape May for the sea breeze or the
surtI Bat these are not for you. The
tickle jade has evidently NO fortunate
number for you now, and you must
walt for q new revolution OF her wheel;
perhaps you may 90 up to the White
Mountains, or down 10 the White Sui.
phur.
Eat your supper now, and take your
muskeloes AfLerWard In bed; they al.
ways murder sleep, and, unles you can
do as Miss EYanS's heroine does-sit
up all night and amuse yourself with a
lelescope-you will almost wish the
earth hadn't turned round, since dark.
ness brings you no rest. Joshua de-
served q set Of silver plate for having
cheated the pests out OF one nights
meal. Those that iniest Washington are
grand, gloomy, and peculiAr-wrHpped
In the solitude Of their own originality;
they are the biggest, the most presever-
Ing, the most unllrlng, and the most
recuperative, and they hold more than
any moSketoes you ever saw. l killed
one particular one over and over again;
l Weltered him In bis gore at least
seven lines; but he rose like = phpnix,
with new energy, multiplicity OF
deaths seemingly acting like an appe-
tlZsr. Christmas 10 the only straw held
out 10 drowning men-when heat is a
thing Of the past, and muslEotoes come
not. l shall hail that day with mild
dellght-thAt 10 10 say, II, by that time,
am neither consumed, devourRd, nor
buried with dust.