The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-02
From the Capital.

! From the Capital.
The Eclipsc--The American Tongu
Sunday Starvation Arts Sign
i'm Heaven-PWblic Architecture
! The Interior Department..
lsQrrespondence | I Of the Star.
ssa WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.
The eclipse in this city passed off with
out ocoasicning any excitement, the SUI
having wisely Kept itself concealed be
hind curtain of cloud until 1T had pu
Itself into a tolerably presentable condi
ton. A gentleman who, in the bewilder
ment Of retiring, had set the alarm O
his clock couple of hours too ea.'
dashed out Of bed at the summons
rushed to the top of the house in ar
indiscreet state of apparel, and attel
taking long look toward the West
through his smoked glass, retired to his
couch swearing that the whole thing was
humbug. The report that Prof. Able
Of the Observatory, caused the object
glass of the big telescope to be smoked
preparatory to making observations o.
the solar coma and photosphere during
the eclipse is disputed-the probability
being that the weather-signs OF Tuesday
evening were such as to make 1t appa.
rent that no observations would be prac.
ticable.
WHERE Is RICHARD GRANT WHITEr
Speaking of the retirement Of the late
lamentable Secretary of the Interior,
the Cincinnati Gazette remarks editori
ally: sThe resignation Is dated July B.
since which time there have been many
protestations of mercenary journals that
nothing OF the sort had transpired" II
that is the way mercenary journals mis-.
use the Americans of this Republic, the
Gazette should 60 for them. ag
sTRAINING A POINT.
The opinion among good people here
appears to be that the escape of the pub.
lie leopard from the corporation menag.
erie in Cincinnati was due to the fact
that the show was open on Sunday; and
surprise Is expressed that the animal
didn't 60 in and chew up handsome
percentage OF the unbelieving specta-
tors. They set different example from
that in this great metropolis OF politics
and piety. Here the holly-tree eating
houses, which are spreading through the
ciples, Theoretically seal their doors on
the Sabbath day. How their boarders
continue TO get through the holy twenty
four hours is unexplained. You may 60
to the good places all the week, but if
you will eat on Sunday you must resort
to where the wicked do congregate.
ARTIsTICAL.
T. D. Jones, the sculp., has completed
his great bust of the late Chief Justice,
and the same is accepted, paid for, and
greatly admired by connoisseurs, and is
probably the least amenable to adverse
criticism OF any work of art in Washing
ton. The bust was executed by Mr..
Mcguire, Of Cincinnati, and is a copy OF
the bust in possession OF the Sprague
family, which was also by the same ar
tist. Jones has recently been modelling
bust OF Reverdy johnson, who is bald,
toothless, blind of one eye, three-fourths
so Of the other, very muoh dilapidated,
and in his earlier days, bore striking
resemblance to bull-frog. This work is
admitted to be success in the style OF
the renaissance.
IN HOG sIGNo.
During the present month, Washing
ton has enjoyed the sight of several re-
markable sunsets; the Western sky
being gorgeous with streaks and piles
of red, blue, green, orange and crimson.
During one Of them, looking from the
dome of the Capitol, a circular opening
of blue in field of gold was observed
directly over the Presidential Mansion,
which many thought to be portentous OF
something in the future of the occu-
pant OF that ediice. But whether the
character of the something is prefgured
by the gold or by the blue-is q point
the interpreters. Constantine was more
Fortunate; he had legend to his pic
ture, with the sole right OF Interpretation
in himself.
OUR PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE.
OF course, when the Government of the
United States puts up building for its
own use, whether it erects one that is
handsome or ugly, c0mmodlous or In
convenient, is mainly its own affair.
Nevertheless, the people OF the city have
an interest IN the matter, ana IL IS not
unwise in them, so far as they have the
means, to look after that interest. The
late experimenting Architect of the
Treasury, Mr.. Mullett, is accused by con-
noisseurs of having introduced into con-
structions of great, a style OF archi-
lecture which is only adapted to edifces
OF small magnitude; and, without doubt, in
some instances, this charge is well
founded. The new State building in
this city is manifestly obnoxious to this
criticism. 1t Is a matter of difficulty to
interfere in such affairs; for as well>as
private interests there are official obsta-
oles and artistic jealousies which stand
in the way Of finding out the right and of
attaining 1t when it is discovered. How
the case stands in Cincinnati have not
learned, but it may be that it deserves
looking into, for the difference between
building that satisfies the taste and
one that does not is thing in which gen.
ouo ionc ara cnncprnAd.