Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-05-02


sroNEs-WAsHINGToN AS sANATARIUM.
WHAT THE NEW ZEALANDER WILL DO
WHEN IT Is NO LONGER THE CAPITAL-A
SCENE BETWEEN UNITED STATES SENA-
TOR AND CAR DRIvER-REsUMPTIoN-
The BELLE FROM KANSAS
From our Regular Correspondent.
This warm weather has the effect to
create an adjourning panic in the breast
of many member of Congress- From
physical causes, more easily understood
than overcome, Washington is a warmer
and more unhealthy locality than many
points farther south. The Capital City
is anything but a Sanatarium, even in the
winter, and when the wan Government
clerk, after alternating in sitting fur
nace-heated Department rooms, and SUBJ
sisting on the execrable victuals of cheap
boarding houses, finds himself on the
verge of hot summer, inhaling miasma
from the swamps that flank the city on
all sides, he need not be accused of senti-
mental biliousness, if he discerns mirages
of tomb-stones, or feels sensations of ere
the member of Congress it is much the
same; he is better fed than the Govern
nient clerk, but he lacks acclimatiOn, and
the air that he breathes in the Capitol is
even more pestilent than that of the De-
partments; and we see men of powerful
physique, like Conkling and Blaine, or
tough wierry veterans, like Christiancy
!,
sist on quinine.
In spite of the millions that have been
spent in Washington to make its streets
solid and smooth, and to make its public
edifices rival the architectural splendors
of the old world, the day may yet come
when the capital will be removed to a
more beautiful locality, and when the
New Zealander, or some other fellow,
will wash his fish-nets in Babcock's arti-
fetal lake, and ealk his boat with pitch
from its most aristocratic avenues.
Last night, while riding on an F street
car, your correspondent was edited by a
conversation between a statesman and a
car-driver, which he will relate verbatins.
As the car passed the Ebbitt House, it
was boarded by the dtsttnque military Sen
ator from Rhode Island. The Senator
was, to all appearances, in a state of
Observation-Disclosures from what good So
ciety calls good living, but what Mr.
Murphy calls by another name, and, from
sentences muttered indistinctly, with eyes
half closed, it was inferred that he was
thinking of what he had recently done,
or had yet to do, in the cause of educa-
ton. Suddenly, from lurch of the car,
turning a corner, or from gesture de-
livered in half dreamy oratory, his mill
tary elbow went through the glass win
dow, shattering it into small pieces. The
driver, who is also conductor on this line,
approached him with great politeness and
said 81 don't know but Imay be to blame
for this accident, but don't think was,
and the company will deduct half dollar
from my wages. If [ was to blame, of
course 1 must lose the money 'FOf
course you were,'' said the Senator; but,
| little later, under magnanimous i'm
pulse, he drew from his pocket twenty
five cents, of the remonetized, and ex-
tending it to the driver, said, ''d-n it,
suppose we divide; that's all the money
| I've got.'' The driver reluctantly accept
| ed the compromise when the Senator
called after him, cpl pay you the rest
when come this way again, y and resign
ed himself to the following soliloquy:-
FtRide on these cars three times day,
guess I'll take a carriage after this.' Then
to the driver: tOh! you will know me,
| TO
Capitol, you will find me on the floor.
guess you will recognize my face"-and
getting off at the Arlington HOTEL Re
cognize my face, will you? Well just take
a keen look at these whiskers, take kee'
look at these whiskers; you will recognize
me again, I guess
Social gayety has been resumed will
the expiration of Lent, but the weathe,
is rather warm for violent dancing, ant
Washington has been bereft of many o
its transient bellies who have gone home
and are making preparations for the sum
mer resorts, or for Europe. Last winte
the. best dressed lady at the capital Civ
the opinion of another lady who is a con
noisseur-was a young lady from Detroit
To be eclipsed by lady from ''frontie
village caused the bellies of Baltimor
and Boston some surprise. But there
no reason why a Detroit modiste shoul
not have as good taste as Worth, or be 6
successful in adorning the human forI
divine. Then there appeared anothe
belle from Kansas, near the Indian rese
9 vation, who made her own dresses, an
5 was much admired for her 'Estyle,'' /;
we'll as for her intelligence and thoroug
bred manners. The facts are that the -di
tinctions between rural and urban peop
are not as sharply marked as they on,
1t were, since now newspapers and fashie
. journals penetrate every home, and Il
ID moral is, that taste like genius is conf1n'
to no locality. G. A. S.
70 How Eli Came to Lecture.