The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-11-15
RANDOM NOTES.

The President has spent the week closely confined
at work on his message. He has had frequent con-
sutations with the different members OF his Cabi-
net He has considerable portion Of the forth
coming document already In shape. lie will touch
upon many points with his charact cristic vigor.
During the coming week ne will only see people
who have the most pressing business With him.
Miss Cleveland returned last night She has not
been engaged In literary pursuits, as has been so
frequently asserted this summer. She has simply
been spending the summer quietly at her home In
Oneida county. N. Y, and returns much refreshed
to .resume the social duties at the White House.
Mrs IIoyt Is still here. It's not known how much
longer she will remain, but II Is probable that she
will soon leave for her home.
The o'Bren.sterlng wegner case has been ex-
alted by some people into national issue. 1t bade
fairly TO be as much talked OF as Higgins But II
will probably now collapse. am told that the
President cared very little about the case but be-
lievcs that the best thing under the circumstances
has been done.
on the 18th Of the present month Dr. +. o. st.
Clair the present eficcnt head OF the Consular Bu.
rcau, finished his twentieth year of continuous ser.
vice In the State Department. The Doctor was
Department. May he live long and flourish.
1t Is astounding to note how deep In their ruts
many OF the clerks in the Departments do get. II
they have done one kind OF work for few years
they are bound not TO try anything else under any
circumstances, II they help 1t. Some Of the new
heads OF bureaus have felt disposed to change the
clerks about little, and In a good many instances
the clerks have resigned rather than te transferred
This is but a practical Illustration OF Waiter Bape.
humap mind as The main of n new idean I han
nened IN no In au,,,or N,,onvii,ea of,co tho o,bc,
,lay when lady clerk was nro,es,,nu with ,ear,
against being sen, to tho Money order Dv,s,op n,
the ONCE. In vain l,d inc uoo,.na aure Auditor y
plaIp tina, n was no, intended as nnnlshment or
Degradation. lie told her ,hat no w,s bonnd IN have
the hes, ,aIen, in hls oce in hat pnr,icuar dvsor
where. he had assigned nor. m, shc s,ili ,nas,ed
she was certain. she said uthot she con,d neve,
do the new work. and she aid ike her old Mace
I'm, the Auditor was immoyable. and the c,erk wi,
be Obliged 10 learn the new work or get a transfe,
or resign.
There probably never was a Cabinet Minister OF
other public man here who had so many houses al
furnished and kept up as Secretary whitney. He
has an elegant one in the most fashionable portion
of New York, another in Lenox, Mass, one out IL
the country beyond Georgetown Heights, and thu
Frellnghuysen mansion here In the city Is beinJ
fitted up for him. While the aforementioned Is be
ing prepared for occupancy the Secretary has taker
furnished house on Massachusetts avenue.
President j. II. Davis, Of the Texas Press Associa
ton, was In the city during the week. He Is arrang
ing TO have excursion Of the Texas editors to th
Capital. He says they have never cared to come un
til now. But they want to see the Democratic Ad
mtnistration at work.
Inc removal OF MI. w. ID. Howells, the tavoru
american novelist' from boston 10 new YORK, re
cans some very interesting points whlcn MS brother
MT D. A. Howeils' OF Jenerson, ONO, gave me thi
summer lie showed Me le'ter from iittle W.
howels Jr.' the son OF Inc novells', whlcn said !
substance that ne was studying geometry. lie sal
'hat MS ather was very oasy wr'ine every DAY, AM
was greatly bothered when asked anything abou
mathematics MT. howeas sa.d thas us prothe
never hau any patience with ngures am could neve
make any heauway with them lie said that fror
| the oeglnning MS prothers writing had been sue
cess on. account OF Its realism. The first lterar
production or importance which MI. Howells put
lshed was volume Of poems In company wit