The National tribune., 1885-01-29
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
The Weekly Collection About the Ma
tiOnal Capital.
WASHINGTON WEATHER.

WASHINGTON WEATHER
Somebody once said in reference to the vari-
able climate of New England that they " didn't
Jlave any climate-only samples"
The usually equable climate of Washington
s ems 10 be made up this Winter of samples
brought back by the Greedy rescuers. There
ave been billiards that would have passed for
:. fair average in Minnesota, and dry, icy winds
at pierced TO the bone and recalled the
Icy wind of Sarsar,"
hich the Turks believe blows out of the
.wcls of the earth TO chill the life out of men,
si-ct. snow and drenching rains have alter
rated with these other unpleasant meteorologi-
IL phenomena, so that the elements have been
10 a constant turmoil that accorded with the
perpetual row the head of the Signal Bureau
has OIL hand.
What makes this "a sort of doings" especially
obnoxious is that nobody calculates upon them
in connection with Washington. Everybody
comes here to enjoy him or herself, do sight
seeing or hunt office. In either of these pur-
suits bad weather is an infliction which they
arc likely 10 regard as personal injury and
..tIont.
- If the weather wants to be bad" each one
thinks, let it be as bad as it peases when /
am at home in Ohio Tor Illinois or NIichiganl.
There we expect it and are prepared for it. 1t
s.9nt cost me cent more whether it comes or
says away. But it is taking mean advantage
sHf fellow that can't hit back to drop on him
IAis way when every days stay here bites into
sis bank account like a hungry newsboy into
minCe pie"
In short, Washington is likely to lose its
reputation for the finest weather on the CONT
ncnt unless it rstrieyes itself by balmy airs
;Id blue skies from now until after the 4th of
I..arch.
But the city is not exceptional in its weather
experience. A wall comes up from all over the
South at the biting cold and bone-searching
damp. The Southern house is constructed
with much more regard to ventilation and
GOODNESS in the Summer than warmth i'll Win
ter, Sd that when q genuine cold snap sets in it
is as c0mfortlesS dwelling as one can readily
find. All the Southern papers contain eX-
haustive homilies on the subject of house
building so as to secure measure of comfort
in Winter and check the ravages of pneumonia,
which is now epidemic everywhere south of
ason and DiXons line.
ANOTHER DIPLOMATIC SCANDAL.
The most disgraceful set of young reprobates
II be found in official life are the attaches of
The diplomats. As a rule frSt-clasS young men
are not sent here, for the reason that the Wash
jngton mission does not rank high in the diplo-
matte SCALE 1t is Of little advantage to really
aspiring young diplomat to be sent here, be-
cause he learns nothing at all of value IN his
profession, compared TO what he would learn
IN even the most insignificant of European CAPT.
the "culls as a lum5erman would express it,
of their profession. They are particularly
of color" in regard TO women. No European
man has the chivalric feeling towards women
that an American gentleman has, and these
young blades are especially destitute of re-
spect for women's honor and good name.
Therefore, not season passes without an er-
pose in which these scapegraces appear in a
very bad light. A year so ago there was a
wretched revelation Of the way couple of
them took advantage-in the house where they
were guests at grand entertainment-of the
beautiful daughter of a prominent official who
had unfortunately taken more wine than her
young head could stand. They had the impu-
dence to boast of their achievement but the
summary manner in which they were expelled
from their clubs and had doors everywhere
shut in their faces, showed them that the moral
atmosphere of Washington was quite different
arom that of European capitals.
Last Friday night Castle Stewart" one of
the finest houses in the city, was reopened
with grand ball During the evening young
scapegrace, attached 10 a South American En-
ha5Sy, insulted Young lady. son of Con-
gresham Holman heard of it, and started out
10 avenge the fair enc. Finding Senior Don
Carlos de Castro, Secretary of the Venezuelan
Legation, in the gentlemens dressing ROOM
and supposing him To be the guilty party, he
promptly knocked him down. A general row
ensued. stalwart Californian = friend of
Mrs Stewart's-interiered to save her house
being disgraced by brawl and succeeded in
quoting the disturbance, but not until several
Others had been knocked down. Young Hol-
man found that he had smitten the wrong man,
and tried 10 apologize. but the Venezuelan
VOWS that the insult can only be washed out
in blood. In the meanwhile Holman is look
ing cut for the real guilty party.
THE BELLS OF sHANDoN.
Everyone of our readers has without doubt
read Father Prout's tuneful little poem. 1.-The
Bells of Shandon,' and had the memories of its
sweet melodies ring through his or her ears for
years, even as the sound Of the original of the
poem filled the authors soul with melody
wherever he went.
With deep affection
And recollection
often think of
Those Shandon bells,
Whose sounds so wild would
In days Of childhood
Fling round my cradle
Their magic spells.
On this ponder
NheTe'er wander
And t!us grow fonder
Sweet Cork, of thee,
With tly bells of Shandon,
That sound grand on
The pleasant waters
OF the River Lee.
I've heard bells Ginning
Full many cline in,
Telling sublime in
Cathedral shrine,
W lille at Il glib rate
Brass tongues would vibrate,
But all their music
Spake Raugbt like thine.
I've heard bells tolling
Old Adrians mole in,
Their thunder rolling
From the Vatican.
And cynIbals glorious,
Swinging uprodrlous,
Ia the gorgeous tnrrets
OF Aotre Dame.
But Thy sounds were sweeter
Than tine dome of Peter
Filings DER the Tiber,
Pealing soemnly.
o. The bells OF Slandon
Sound far grand on
The pleasant waters
OF the River Lee
The State Department has just received from |
VIM. Egan & Co, of Cork, model in solid |
silver of the Church of Shandon. The model, |
which is an exceedingly beautiful and artistic
piece of work, is intended for the exhibition at
New Orleans, and certainly no better memento
could come from Ireland.