The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-02-02
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
From our Special Correspondent.

From our Special Correspondent
People in New York are getting dis
gusted with Old Probabilities and Signal
Stations, and the talk about storm
areas" centres of disturbance" "depres
sions," danger lines" and all the shib
bOleth of the weather reports Especial
ly is this the case with the Oldest inhab-
liant. when we trusted to the goose
bone, and the weather-cock, and TIL
Almanac, then weather was weather.
sid one Of these worthless day or two
ago. But what is it now, should like
to know? They talk about storm areas
and keep you shiyering for a week q
lhinkin' about what's comm, and in the
mean time there amt no dependence to
be placed upon the weather you have
got The rheumatic used to be good
sign, and corns, but now they begin to
twinge about a week aforehand, because
these fellers tell about storms brewin'
way out in the Rocky Mountains or
Frisco, thatl get along in week or so.
l don't take no kind o stock in these
here inventions"
The more cultured of us don't say it
but we all agree with the old settler
who by the way is neither Van Ren
sellaer nor Mason Jones. Such
weather was never known before cur
ious people began to pry into the matter
and We wish they wouldn't 1t is very
discOuraging, and they had better let it
alone.
Rumor says that Mrs Commodore
Vanderbilt isn't satisfied now, and every
woman agrees with her. Still, she was
an old mans darling, which is more than
can be said of Mrs Haskell. She married
Mr. William ] Haskell when she was
IL and he about So supposing, as every
one else did, that he was worth at least
100000. He abused her all his life
not dying until he was over eighty, and
then left her only 4 widows dover in
their house on Twentieth street He
owns house in Williamsburg, and Mrs
Haskell thinks it only reasonable that
after being an old mans slave for so
many years, that she should have some
thing more.
DR. Liewellyn Bevan, who was called
from England to the pastorate of the
Brick Church" here has been very much
censured. for requesting some person
whom he could not see, but who was
coughing necessarily. lit could not be
suppressed to kindly withdraw from the
church. He SAYS had he taken the same
course in England. nothing would have
been thought of 1.-THE did it as courteous
ly as possible, but he supposesthat being
a stranger, ii was not liked in him. Mos
people would have supposed that the
afflicted party would have been glad to
leave without waiting to be asked to do
So
In the way Of art, the opening Of the
Lenox Gallery and the wa.er color
exhibition at the Academy of Design
have been the leading events, with the
exception Of the art sales. The Lenox
Gallery pictures are valuable as speci-
mems of certain artists. but the portraits
are for the most part very true TO nature
/ imagine. for they are exceedingly
ugly, and il is gallery of pOtraiis.
The water colOrs in the academy arc
fairly good with a few gems. 1t takes a
! far more cultured taste 10 appreciate the
delicacy Of "a fine water color, than the
richer, heavier coloring in oils; therefore
an admiration for water cOlors is sill in
is fancy in this country.
Mayor Ely is new broom in Office
and he is sweeping clean, theoretically;
but will he do 50 practically? The tax
PAYERS Of New York most deyutly
hope so.
The halfsisters of Eugene Sue, daught
ers of Nathaniel Miles, are sueing (nC
pun intended) for the revenue Of theil
estate in this city. One of them IS the
wife Of Gen Adam Badeau to whom She
was married about a year ago. They
are the heroines of the Wandering
jew" Their father. a widower. nAarrieC
Eugene Sues mother. a widow, anC
hence the connection So they are no
the great French novelistis grandchild
rem as has been stated: Tney are wei
known and much esteemed in New
York social circles ~
Bergh is growing fat he was never .
busy in all his life, and never so happy
but he is running the horse Of the futur'
They already know him, land wheneye
they think their load is too heavy, the
just stop till Bergh or one of his mel
|, comes along to tighten itlfor them Th