New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-31
SHTNGTON NEWS NOTES.

Washington March 80
a MASCOT IN DIPLOMACY.-General Sickles,
the veteran. Is In Washington. The General
SAYS he could not keep away from the pageant at the
formation OF Government. II think" he
said last evening TO group OF friends. that am
mascot in diplomacy. I was Minister TO Spain for
some years under Grant. and there several
gentlemen In my service. See what has become Of
them. Adee my Secretary of Legation. He Is
permanent Unuer- Secretary of State and bosses
Ambassadors. making them uncomfortable or
otherwise. John Hay was also a secretary of my
Legation Now he IL an Ambassador and Will have
Adee bossng him in few days. John Russell
Young was with me FOR months during the revolu-
ton especially whom Amadeus went down and the
rgpu3llc came m RE- was maze hnVoy 10 Ghina.
ton and learning his Spanish at Madrid Now ne
you see what school for diplomacy kept. II
Mckinley does not make me Governor of Cuba the
shall ask his permission TO open a prepa ratory
school Of diplomacy and refer 10 my Madrid pupils
as my record
NOT HIT BY \ WHITE HOUSE DOOR-"The
Post" says: 1T will be remembered that some days
ago Senator Plat. OF New-York. while passing ont
of the Senate. struck the forehead by one
OF the heavy mahogany doors and had his head bad
~ cut. How did you hurt your head. Senator?'
asked asked ire9d me other day i was passing hur-
struck by IT, But it wasn't the White House door,
added the Senator with smile"
NEW METHOD OF TESTING TEA-The board
Of tea experts appointed by Secretary Gage to se-
lect standards OF tea has submitted report in
which IT recommends that the comparison OF stand
ards with teas shall be made not only with regard
TO favor. but particularly with regard 10 the ap-
pcarance OF the leaf after infusion In color of in
fused leaf and in freedom from admixture with
black and decayed leaf all teas should be equal
to the standards but any consideration OF the
make so-cailed style of the dry leaf should be
omitted. The leaf OF the infusion must equal the
standard I'm freedom from scum and gritty sub
e
Department issue instructions that all teas be la
b,lled with their proper trade names. so as to
The Importance of this point has been pressed
upon them 10y the trade and they cannot too
teas Of Which the Pngsuey Kinds haye beeE 10
hereto fore labelled "Moyune." The standard teas
Annoy ooiong, North China Congou South china
Congou. India tea Ceylon tea and Pingsuey green.
4 VALUABLE LITERARY ACQUISITION.-A
frnd has been discovered from which a New-York
City Directory may be purchased for the library Of
the Interior Department. The library has not had
a directory OF the metropolis later than 1892 the
last Administration apparently not having cared
for such an article Mrs Fuller the librarian
asked for this valuable piece of literatrre several
times in the course of the last year. and she made
an especially urgent request when II found
that Inc new Secretary was TO be a New York man
The inVarablc reply of the chief clerks office was
that there no fund for the purchase OF New
York, city direct9ries on the second day OF the
library for the directory Mrs Fuller the 1892
copy 10 y nm Tho sbn ccr oc thnt parS Of he
fund I'm its possession was available for the pur-
chase OF a directory. The library now has 1896
directory.
ILLNESS OF MRS. r. 9. PLATT-The friends
OF Mrs r. &. Plat, wife of the Senator
greatly alarmed yesterday attack of what
seems to have been kind of heart trouble
which seized her UNEXPECTEDLY and which did not
yield 10 treatment until late this afternoon. To-