Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-05-15
EVENING STAR
moNDAH............ May n, lS5o.
Pleasures or the Fair.

How DO we live at the new city OF the
ssxnoinong L viii tell you. Take myself
beard ct the United States Hotel. II IA
one OF nve or six immense hotels an close
,ogetner, a campot truants. They hold as
many or more thousand people They are
open all night There are enough police
around and about them 10 protect even the
unpro.ected British female. whom no man
ever struck except In self defence. They are
full OF cosy little cells, carpeted In new in.
grain, with walnut furniture perfectlv nev
therefore, the early bug cannot catch the
worm. i sleep like q man stunned with
wonders. i rise knowing there are fresh
worlds TO conquer. 1 descend 90 the ONCE
and see the familiar bell-boy with the brush.
He observes my boots, fuh of yesterday's
mud, and he shies of. But he has been Oh
served and intercepted; IL is too late. He
takes part OF the exhibition or me-s part OF
soft asphaltum, few puddIes OF Schuyikill
splash, the spltnters OF some French cases
and quantity of red clay. He sweats at
comforted with the observation that AZ only
happens on &c I'm a hundred years.
Around the Office sit early risers, waiting
for the bar to he open. As they are govern.
ment people they want Congress water.
They inform me ABOUT poliucs-the supreme
end OF an Americans destiny. There I see
Mr. Orth, Just returned from Austria and
little gray. and he is looking in a critical
way at his democratic competitor, Mr.. VIII
liasns, who wears shirt of niue jean.
W "a
revival of the days OF ia In an i'm home
spun, modern jefferson"
lie tells us-Brother Orth-about the Aus
trian empire: He says II is patchwork
state, q good aud comedy state. what Meter
nlch once called Italy-a geographical ex-
preston. We hear him relate with a name
less awe the last talk he once had with the
emperor. He calls him Joseph-a Joseph,
and so youngi He feels confident OF carry
Ing Indiana. We feel that our country is
We eoa ,,a,r o.,,o~ x.o.xro O-...-- 49,
by among them. He has yong wife, aud
that makes any man young. But ft deprives
him OF part OF his elOquence. We see the
great Ike Cook, who is exhibiting his wines.
Wesee the correspondents OF many foreign
newspapers, and there is one gentleman who
says he represents the Fuzzledeifer Gehan-
nigspatcher. We believe that is the name.
he says we are great country, and have
we ever been to Munchen? We are not that
kind of man, but we hear all about IL and it
seems 10 De very expressive. We see gov
errors OF states and foreign agents, and men
who make pottery, and people with patent
horseshoes. II makes us little absent al
times TO know how we are to remember and
write IL all, but then It will be a hundred
years before we have another. We indulge
the faint hope that in the course of the hum
dred years recess we will know something
about this exhibition and cure the blisters on
our heel; for we are ID. T. That is, we are
slightly tired.
THE CATALOGUE.
The oficial catalogue, for the concession
OF wnlcn the sum OF slO0,OO0 was paid, has
appeared-a rather cheap and an imperfect
book In small paper backed volumes, each
OF about leo peges. The insertion OF adver-
ments on every alternate page is not an adj
vantage to the reader, who is already at a
loss to identify anything by its number
Paintings representing historic scenes are
found to be catalogued as landscape or a
vase, and one great canvas with four figures,
which excited the wonder OF a crowd, was
finally pronounced by a rustic to be "Adaru
and Eve on first beholding Moody and San
key."-("Gdth" ia Graphic.