Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-05-06

Such perfect days as No expect Us Z
matter Of course. in u climate, sspe'
cially after it has shown that it can have
q rough side so persistsntly as during
the past Winter, have visited Us thii
week, and Pennsylvania avenue hal
looked very lively on the bright after
moons. A great many Of the members
Of both Houses Of Congress and some
Of the Justices OF the Supreme Cour'
make q practice OF walking to and from
the Capitol daily via Pennsylvania ave
nue.. On this thoroughfare tho diplo'
matists. too, make q practice Of prone
nading every afternoon. / never have
seen President Hayes walking there,
but General Grant, while President
used to walk on the avenue very fire.
qusntly. he would sometimes joir
ladies Of his acquaintance and walk viii
them. keeping up conversation in {
lively way. altogether different from his
~proverbisl tsciturnity.
Looking down from the Reporters
gallery, 1 never bsheld within my ro-
membrane OF least, sc many ill.favorsd
and absolutely ugly.featured counte'
nsnoss congrsgated together under the
dome OF the Capitol as at present. Fol
this, the Forty-sirth Congress, with it
"Brigadieis" on both sides Of the line,
will DO famous long after their windy
debates and chickering's are forgotten
The man whom Lincoln was fond o.
quoting as being even homlier than him
self, is surely there, but 1t is difficult tc
distinguish him among several score
who might with propriety claim thai
distinction. Is it true that mightiosi
brains lie beneath ugliest fsaturesl Il
30, We challenge the world to produce
more s~tupsndous h%ead.works than are
presented by our National Legislature o.
to-day. What an array OF oripplss ar,
among them, too The ons.eyea, The
deaf, the bald.headed, the sickly, the
halt, ''ths lame and the lazy" attended
by a wilderness of wigs and glass eyes
canes and crutches. And there. again,
their habiliments are enough to drive
Chesterfield crazy or q respectable vale
to the verge OF despair Evidently
most of their Tailoring" has been done
ut home by unskilled housewives, OF
purchased on our seventh street or at
Hebrew shops OF similar ilk in different
parts OF the country-"ready.made and
warranted to tt," whether the wearer b,
long or short, thick or thin. obese Of
scrawling. %"joost like the paber on tn,
VAIL" as Isaac would insist.
Very curious developments crop on
in consequence OF the patronage giysr
to members of the two Houses. One
follows, az l mentioned in q former let.
ter, the too free giving Of passes to thu
reserved galleries rs q result OF which
the members wife sometimes finds her
self close beside 'the particular friend
of O member who has NO wife or whose
spouse Is not in town. In consequence,
Of soms disagresable meetings IN tn,
private gallery some OF tho ladies o.
members families, whom / heard
holding q little aucus Of their own. re
Gently resolved that inasmuch as the
reporters gallery had been given Owe
10 the exclusive control Of the gentle
mon of the press to make their owl
laws regarding tickets OF admission, the
galleries for members aud Senators
families should be given up to thes,
ladies and they alone should rsgulat,
the disposition Of the seats.
Another occasional source OF trouble
in members families can be traced Il
the privilege the members possess o
giving orders on certain OF the Govern
msnt gardens. More than one wife haI
gone to ask for her husbands share ant
has been told he had given orders whisl
had been filled for all the flowers ant
plants to which no was entitled, and il
proof the gardener in charge has shown
the list with the names and addresses Il
which they have been sent-all ordere,
by Hon. Bardwell Slote. NJ. c. Tablsau
Every day groups Of people stop II
the rotunda Of the Capitol to watch tn
work Of Signor Brunsidi, the Italian
artist, who il celebrating q rare fresc,
OF historical scenes in the inner circle o
the dome. The venerable artist is owe
seventy, infrm and paralytio. An at
tendant aids him along with feeble
shutting steps, as lettering as an infan
Just learning to walk. "Once Q man
twice q child" But in art he is n,
child. His eye is as clear and bright q
in youth. He is lifted into o little DO,
that swings round and round Al It i
drawn slowly up to the s~caffoldlng
where he sits and makes the figure
grow beneath his def fingers. He leave
of always on some curve OF q figure
that they may be no deiacing lines wher'
the work stops, day by day.
This il Brunsidi's last ambition, biz
last inspiration. He thinks 1t will re-
quirs Ave years to complete 1t, abou'
ons-fourth is now done. Tho artis
seems so infrm one naturally doubtI
whether he can over live to complete tn,
undertaking; but there is nothing like Q
f~avorite work to make life worth living
and a will tenacious Of existence keep.
death long in waiting. Signor Brunsid
advises young artists to go abroad tc
study. Abroad they are willing to &C
through so much more labor and intense
study, which is absolutely necessary Il
success. Our habits Of study are moi
severe enough; We do many things mod
srately well, no one thing To perfection