New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-24
another kind OF life begins which ought TO D. ruer
ar. Of our life, the artistic cultivation OF the people.

Tho influence OF ahor-sayng machinery 10 accumulate
oOis and produce stoppagos il generally per
'elyed, though the knowledge IA not applied Judge
Kelley ntimates that IL viii be necessary for the manu-
actuTiBg operatives 10 work shorter day and spend the
rest OF the time in seltimprovemcnt. Mr. BoOkwater
thinks that these guts indicate the retiring OF pattern
making machinery In a little while, that kind Of ma
chnerY where o pattern duplicates itself almost anto
natcay. lie says that the work in the world IL
tho work Of the human hand in which the Eastern
tons excel and that 81 Is proved by send
nothing OF beauty TO jar an India, while groediy
buy from them tho and other articles TO which
taste has risen 10 might be a blessed day II labor in
stead OF being collected in great shops given thing
do nothing else for years and years would have ts
own little ateers close 20 tho family fe and the
1avs NJ parent produce the furniture etc. spcoi
mems OF which rarities aud prizes
The old National Hotel at Washington on whose site
inn Of kind since the beginning Of the
century is partly by DR.. Richard Stuart Of King
Georges County Virginia connection OF the Washing
ton family who may he recalled by some persObs AZ
having refused TO entertain John Wilkes Bovth ana
Herod his house after they had crossed the Potomac
One Of his negroes took OF them for one night IN
cabin and hauled them the next day in cart 10 Port
Conway. The hotel IA kept by Mr. Tenney Of Man
chester, NewHampshire, and now rather meloUng into
rund age During the present winter this huge hotel
as Is has been crowded with people,
and for many years t has been tho money making
in Washington. Henry Clay spent his last years
there. David DAY and other Justices OF the Supreme
Court adhere TO It the present time II was James
Blu hauan'a faVOritc When Guy kept it IL
considered the best hotel the United States. u
Of the largest biliarrOOms IN the Union and
stranger would find it almost difficult 10 find HIS way
around IN tho vast lower story with lis nOoks aleoycs
etc.
was talking ~ patent lawyer recently about the
leading in his class, who said the two most daring
IN patent law DiekersOn and Harding. Dlcker
son Is perhaps the finer IN quality but Harding started
earer AMI became mechanic in order to be lawyer
He is Of Jasper Harding. Old Philadelphia
editor and ~ the Philadep ia High School demonstrated
fondness for mechanics, which WA diverted into the
law by friendly adviser. He admOnishe'i Of the
rising Importance Of patent rights in America and began
20 study patents at the old Franklin Institute which
gave great annual exhibitions. BY the time he was ma
tured in both law and mechanics the great of patents
same on and he appeared In the great Mccormick
reaper ny tho side Of EW VI. Stanton and Abra
lam Lincoln and the fee Lincoln received in that
las always been said to have endowed him for his
political holiday. Ny informant said that Mr. Harding
once ade hat before the Supreme Court, though
am not sure about IT, as the Supreme Court seldom listens
TO evidence He did, however, introduce milling and
reaping machinery before the tribunals and Of ais
models much original Inventions Ike the
steamboat.
Democracy T. the devcuring gospel; a Pennsylvania
Quaker BENJAMIN West. venturcd to paint hattie
In which the warriors the clothes they had IN the
fight instead of being hair naked in armOr Ike Roman
uers Nearly Oh the criticism OF that day remarked
This Is Nat basphemy" But one shrewd observer,
after looking at the painting tlc,I think it the
death Of wolfe-saId: There will never be another
Roman costumed picture painted for Enslishmen."
thought Of this anecdote stood before the statue of
Robert Fulton in the old Hall Of Representatives at
Washington. There sits man IN rather slOuching
n0stOn on q chair, holding In his hand the erudely
whitfield model CT a steamboat He coarse woollen
stockings cheap knee breeehcs, lOwquartered shoes
with buckles and Is his shirt-sleeves yet somehow
there il humanity about those clothes which brings
Robert Fulton through thrccquarers OF century
to our side and sight II VIC had Just shaken hands with
him. while the other heroes around the chamber dressed
cOaks cnete military clothes etc. seem to be more or
less Foreigners People go 10 Washington and look
at Greenoughs great statue Of the naked Washington
with Roman appendages between establishment and
SMILE as IL Sc might bo joke perpetrated the public
ny act Of Congress. Yet In Ia day that was com
nondei and s has its merits but it has do de-
mOeacy and therefore does not sub even our arstocrat
Frank HuTd Of the Toledo District Ohio Is more re-
ferred 70 than recognized. He IL bachelor think, OF
somewhat boyish cOuntenance and address and little
rcmcnbes the late Oliver r. Morton having DARK hair,
eyes rather wide apart somewhat heavy face. and
rather large body permanently lame and this may
have litte frecd his serious nature and given him
some OF that combatyeness which saw in Thaddcus
stevens / should say that he q large man. weigh
ing quite 200 pounds. His sister married John Delano
the son Of 1ecrctay DclanO who despite good deal
of contention at Washington ls regarded by many Of bis
Democratic neighb0rs excellent Gan. lIurd comes
OF strongly Opinionated family; his father was urst
A NTH gOO "a I'm the Tine He Il
rather self nugent hut has periods OF study while his
combatyeness Is unntermi;tent He attracts respect
for Tho seadiucs of his opinions and IN intercourse is
often found quite hind and reciprocal.
As an instance OF how Southern WILLOWS et along IN the
North may mention the daughter of John Bell Of Ten
pessee who Was the Union candidate for President IN