National Republican., 1878-04-17
Chit-Chat-

Cbit-Chat
Tho annual exodus to Newport, Fortress
Monroe, &c, has evidently begun.
General Porter's young daughter is said to be
one Of the best horseback riders in the city.
The good die first, and those whose hearts
are dry Is summers dust burn to the socket"
Miss Julia Maynadier, of No. 9l4 Nineteenth
street, Is receiving a visit from Miss Annie
Barbey, u New York belle.
Miss Watnough. one of our most popular
bellies Is visiting in New York ut the convent
where she was educated.
Rear-Admiral and Mrs. Taylor are at Fort
rcss Monroe, and will soon be Joined by other
of our most prominent society people.
Miss Cameron left the city last week for
Harrisburg to make the home arrangements
for the reception of her stop-mother-elect.
Rear. Admiral Case aud family have taken
possession of their Newport villa for the sum
mer, as has also Rear Admiral Selfridge and
several others.
Carlyslc says there are depths in man that 20
tho lengths of lowest hell rs there are heights
that reach to highest heaven for are not both
heaven and hell made for him and by him,
everlasting and mystery that he isF'
A boy stood an umbrella, with cord tied
to it, in u public doorway. Eleven persons
thought the umbrella was theirs and carried it
away with them-the length of the string.
They then suddenly dropped it and weutOf
without once looking back.
Miss Alice Barton, of Georgetown. left New
York for Europe, on Saturday, with Mr. and
Mrs. Backlan. After visiting London and
Paris, Miss Barton purposes spending some
time with her sister, Madame BOdisco, ut
Peterhof, summer resort near st. Peters
burg, Russia.
Miss Ella Brent, only daughter of the late
John Carroll Brent, of Washington, has taken
the VOWS of a Sister of Charity at the Mother
Home of the order in this couutry--St. JO-
sephs, Emmitsburg Nd, where she has been
postulating for year past She has been sent
OH her mission Of love to St. Louis.
Come to think OF II, what q magnificent
thing our postal system Is to be sure Here
comes u letter all the way from San Francisco,
over 900 miles, rs unsoiled and uubrUken as
when IL first left the writer's hand. 1t is laid
upon our desk by the ever-wecOme gray clad
postman--and all for three cents. Beside il is
postal card from the same distant cty-ths
cost Of the card and its safe transportation be-
ing only n single penny. Postal Affairs arc
certainly getting down to very hne point.
Great are the lamentations In London over
the departure from those shores Of the Enpress
of Austria. She was, while in England, per-
feet mine Of wealth to the shOpkeepers of tho
Towchestcr hunting country. In fact 1t was,
ere her visit terminated, discovered that I'M
ported butter eggs &c, from distant Pesth
and Innspruck was decidedly less costly than
buying them in the neighborhood As for her
tailor, he must be in despair, unless Indeed ho
bs sustained by the consolatory hope that tho
imperial Diana will probably return next sea-
son BY Christmas last she had already pur-
chased sixteen riding habits, and ever so many
more have been bought since that date. 1t is
said that, finding tho British sundays in tho
country deploraby dull, she usually passed
the afternoons of that generally sleep pinspiring
day in trying ON these different taultlessly-
fitting garments.