Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-10

morning ?" The answer was .'No, we hain't received it from the committee yet Then
 he stopped down, picked up straw from
 the floor of the car, broke of piece from
 the best of it and proceeded to use it as
 toothpick.
 It has often been said of Philadelphia that
 all the houses used to be alike, and that the
 typical residence of the city of, Brotherly
 Love was 8 distinct species. think the Philadelphians may say of Washington that it's houses come pretty near being as similar
 in pattern. Two or three stories high, the hall at one side, bay window, or swell front,
 to parlor and principal chamber, and there
 you have it. saw Q row of thirty four such
 houses on one of the streets of the North west district the other day, and thought to myself, if any man who lives about the mid
 dle of that row should so far forget himself as to come home little bit tight, he would have an awful time locating his own house.
 Last summer the season was very late be-
 cause Congress did not adjourn until about the middle of August, and very few people went away before that time. They will, probably feel disposed to compensate them selves this year by going much earlier, and we look for the commencement of the exc dus In May sometime, when Washington will become quiet, humdrum and stupid. Two nights last week the National Museum was thrown open to the public to give them an opportunity to see the exhibit prepared for the London Fisheries exhibition in May. great many ayailed themselves of the privi- lege and were well rewarded for the trouble The exhibit is comprehensive and does credit to the country, and Professor Baird, United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries under whose general supervision it was prepared, may safely feel that he has 8 good chance of walking away with the first prize again. The exhibit is now being packed up and shipped. It is estimated that there are about 750 tons of it alto gether, but that, I fancy, is rather too lib eral an estimate fond of the expression, Hon. A. B. 0. ''dlned' Hon. X. Y. z. at such and such a time, and every evening we read of some body dining the President or being dined by | him. As dinners have been very much in l order for the last ten days the expression l has been in constant use, and ex-President ! of the Senate pro tenn. Davis has been the ob- | jectiYe point of much of this dining. I sup | pose the next thing will be to drop into good ! old English and say that person fed SO l many, or was fed by someone else.
 The ambassadors from Madagascar ar- rived here yesterday afternoon. The embas- l sy consists of Ravoninalutriniarvo, chief am | bassador; Ramanarika second ambassador | Rabibisoa secretary, and Ranjahahy, Mir. A. \ Tacchi, translator, and Mon. Adrianisa, in, | terpreter. The object of the embassy was to | confirm the treaty between Madagascar and | the United States, but this having been &C., complished before they reached here they | have only to sign the necessary papers. At I half past 12 o'clock today Secretary of State | Frelinghuysen waited upon them at their | quarters in the Arlington Hotel and escorted | received by the President in the blue parlor ! and accorded 8 lengthy interview. They were attlred in simple evening costume and wore tall silk hats. REX.