National Republican., 1883-11-19
THE MAN ON THE AVENUE.
Small Talk About Men and Measures

Small Talk About Men and Measures
A hack driver, while transporting quar-
tette of sightseers over the city the other
day, stopped at the corner of Vermont avenue
and N streets, and, after pointing to the new
Christian church, and narrating tho connec-
tion of Con. Garfield with the congregation
of that institution changed his finger to the
direction of tho peculiar residence on the
southeast corner and said, And hero is the
residence of Con. Moigs, the honest old quar-
termaster general"
"An honest quartormnstor exclaimed one
of the tourists; "hold on, let me take off my
hat. / never heard of one BEFORE"
Gen. Meigs really bears tho reputation of
having boon one of the most conscientious
officers in the service. When he was quarter
master general he never availcd himself of
the use of government horses or transporta-
tion for his personal use, nor of tho labor of
government employees about his house, as Is
too frequently done. 1t was not known, how
ever, that even the haokmen had applied to
him tho soubriquet of ''the honest old quar-
tormaster gonerap until a REPUBLICAN man
happened to overhear tho above conversation.
&ae
II think" said a shrewd old politician,
chat Randall has the best of this speaker
ship fight so far. In fact, he has had tho OK
perience of similar contest before, and am
inclined to believe that those votes on which
he relies arc certain, while in reference to
the claims of Carlisle there is a good deal of
southern bloviation or bluster. You may rest
assured that Randall knows what ho is talk
ing about and who the men are that oonsti-
tute his support. In regard to tho other can
didates there is good deal of sentiment, but
in Randall's case it is business"
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The week ending Nov II, 1888, will long
be remembered as very cold for the season.,
and it may confound those who are some
what yet not fully acquainted with the
weather map. signal service man made
the situation appear clear as a MONDAY sky
by the following explanation ut has been
often stated" he said, that high low will
cause it to be warm and the week, Nov. 10
to II, we had considerable high low Qow
barometer on a high line of latitude). hut in
addition to this we had extensive and con-
tinued areas of high, and, as often explained,
no warm dir can come from high. Tuesday,
illustration of the effect of cold weather in
this locality with the area of low
barometer far to the north. If the map for
this day is consulted it will reveal the fact
that high was very extensive in the south,
as we'll rs in the west. When high thus
lays to the south no warm air from that
quarter can reach us. There is no movement
of air toward high; it is all from the high to
the low. When high is thus to the south,
the winds therefrom will be cold. During
most of this cold weather it was as warm in
the extreme northeast-in Nova Scotia-as in
Texas. The line of equal temperature ran
from northeast to southwest For the reason
that low was in the northeast, high to the west
and south. Thursday, Nov. 10, there was good
prospect for warm weather the next day. Low
was in the lake region and high in the west,
but this low travelled very rapidly, and the
high followed it so closely that there was no
| opportunity for this part of tho country to
| become heated. In the northeast however,
| it continued warm, and the line of equal tenn
perature, as before, was from the southwest
| to the northeast-as cold in the gulf states as
| at the mouth of the st. Lawrence.
"Years ago such strange phenomena could
not have been explained-indeed, it was one
of the great myteries of nature which seem ed
past finding out-but to-day, by the weather
map, it is as easy to explain as an eclipse OF
the rotundity of the EARTH All praise to the
wonderful instrument which has brought u'
thus face to face with the great book of ma
ture, and in this our day revealed to us mys
teries which our fathers would have been SC
glad to know"