National Republican., 1877-08-14
WATERING PLACE NOTES,

REvERDY JOHNSON, of Baltimore, is at Sara
togl.
some of the hotels at Long Branch make
their own gas.
BILLIARDs are no longer played by daylight
at Long Branch.
The Buffalo Polo Club is expected to arrive
at Newport In q few days.
AT MANY of the mountain resorts impromptu
hop arc Instituted 10 consume time.
SINCE Josh Billings left the mountains the
trout in the brooks thercabouts are happier
THE piazza concerts ut the hotels at S S,ratoga
are The great attractions of mntutinGl life there
Mr.. CORNELIUS Vanderbilt and family
occupy magnificent cottage at Monmouth Beach.
GEORGE BANCROFT, the historian, may b,
seen among the roses every morning at his place
at Newport.
SURE, indeed, a lot of bcaux arc wanted at
me While mountains Immediately. None incligi-
BILE need apply.
THERE are more babies, and consequently
more mosglitocs at Atlantic City, than At any other
resort on the coast
MRS. LoRISG ANDREWS has recently joined
her sister Nlrs. Budd, al the United Stites hotel
and Is ranked among the handsome ladies of that
hotel.
A CAPE MAY correspondent says that lust
Sunday, at s.. Johns church. Lott was the only
really tastcfully and moiestly dressed lady under
thirty In the church.
MAJOR DOwSINu and his band at the Con-
gress Spring Park, Snrntoga have touched the pop
ulhr pulse ana dt'crVe, as thcy receive the cnco
| miuins of the visitors.
THE married people at the watering places
4 mag each other just the same as they always did
and are encouraged by Interested friends who
hope thereby 10 create a coolncss
ONE TO be on any Of the fashionable ave-
MUGS at Newport at the present time would never
think that incomes had been reduced or that
stocks, bonds, &c. were paying smaller interest
HATS interfere intellectually with the traffic
OF haifdrcsserN at the whtcrng.plaCcs for they are
worn to breakfast dinner aud supper, and In bail.
rooms saving both labor and expense in dressing
| the hair.
NEITHER hard times nor the evident disin.
Saratoga this year seems to discourage the deaiers
In dresses and millinery from asking fancy prices
| for their wares.
HERE and there, but lawfully scarce" as
| the young ladies say al Long Branch, turns up
beau, or, more correctly speaking a young man
who plays billiards, smokes cigars, drinks mint
| juleps and drives a horse.
IT IL SAID that the landlords of the leading
hotels at Sarutoga wear eongated vlsages, and make
desperate ehortS W bC cheerful but there il no dis
guisiIg the fact that the haering assurances with
which the season opened have not been realized
PUNCH and Judy delights the children and
nurses at Long Branch. These men travel Ocean
avenue frUm the east TO the west end several times
day Some days they makes break as far north
| as Monmouth Beach where they are sure of a good
audience Of babies and nurses.
A NEW departure in trade In Saratoga Ia
noticed. local Of that village contains the follow.
Ing advertisement Mr.. -, MANICURE n psrii-
fmC, Is In Saratoga for the season. Ladies' finger
nails, treated In Parlsinn style, specially" This
| style Of wearing nails is To have them very long
and somewhat pointed, aud aTtislically whItcnei
until they are opaque under the angcr.tips, This
resorts. but husbands of high.sprised wives alto
gether discourage the idea
THE very latest fashionable dodge" of the
young lady ~ the watering places when the paz zzas
OF The great hotel are fun Of guests aud visitors
from the cottages loling in ther chairs is 10 start
and amblo along IN front, suddenly give her head
toss over her leit shoulder as II expecting some
one, proceed few steps further, stop, look down
In rejecting manner. then turn and go back as
| fast a. her pullback will permit looking as fIrssy
and a. distracted as II she had two Minutes 10 pay
note ai bank