WASHINGTON LETTER NEW SHORT STORIES
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Special Correspondence.
Visitors to the capitol who admire
"the beautiful decorative work to be
eeen in the rotunda and in the corri
dors, especially in the senate end of the
building, will find additional interest in
the work of the artist when they learn
-the source of his inspiration for many
f the female figures that appear in the
designs. The aged artist Brumidi,
whose brush did most of the most
beautiful of the decorative work of the
-capitol. married in this city Miss Jen
nie German, a young lady well known
for her beauty, which has been perpet
uated in maty of the paintings exe
cuted by her husband. Features a lit
tle too weil rounded to be thoroughly
classic, black hair, a fair complexion
and blue eyes, together with a shapely,
form, were the characteristics of Mrs.
Brumidi. She was the third wife of
the celebrated Italian artist. She was
greatly admired not only for her beau
ity of person, but for her qualities of
mind, which made her a general fa
vorite here. One of the figures in the
-ceiling of the rotunda is said to be an
.- xact likeness of the artist's beautiful
wife, while most of the figures he
painted in the capitol portraj some of
er characteristics.
The President's New Team.
1 President Roosevelt, who has been
scouring the country for a pair of high
steppers suited to the needs of the ex
ecutive mansion, has found- what he
wanted in Baltimore. They are Admi
ral and General, cherry bay geldings,
five and six. years old. sixteen hands
high and weighing about 2.3o0 pounds.
They are full brothers and were sired
by Abdullah Belmont, by Lakeland Ab
dullah. 3.11. by Ilambletonian. 10.
Their dam was by Red Archie, Jr., by
Red Archie. The geldings were bred
and reared in Michigan. They make
an extra high class pair, with fine
iheads and necks and a bold, resolute
Iway of going. Tbey are beautifully
.mannered, and it is safe to say that no
handsomer pair will be seen in Wash
ington. The sale was conducted
fthrough A. G. Ilurly, foreman of the
(executive mansion stables. The horses
were inspec ted by United States Veter
inary Inspector Brown,
j Keoev-iisi Foe Coleriage-Taylor.
Mr. S. Coleridge-Taylor, the young
iAnglo-African musical composer of
.London, has written to friends In
Washington of his purpose to make a
fvisit to this country during the winter,
and plans are on foot by the colored
people to entertain him. One of the
purposes in view, it is said, is to form
a large chorus of L'UO or 300 voices,
Shave the Ring.irs thoroughly drilled in
the pro .Juvtlcn cf his masterpiece of
choral music, 'Hiawatha," and to give
a public presentation under his direc
tion. It is known among masicians
that the colored people of Washington
have amor?;? their number very many
good si : '-;-! and that thay have al
ready done considerable chorus work.
Acting upon the suggestion of Mr.
Taylor's coining and the desire to hon
or him as one of their race, the leading
colored musicians and citizens general
ly have formed a choral society and
have named it in Mr. Coleridge-Taylor's
honor.
Repairs to White House.
! In his lafat monthly report to the war
department Colonel Bingham, the engi
neer cfHcer in charge of public build
ings and grounds, showed that in order
to provide accommodations for the
servants in the White House it became
necessary to utilize a portion of the
attic which had never before been
used for living purposes. Two new
rooms were constructed in that part of
the building, and to light and ventilate
them it was found necessary to put
dormer windows in the roof. For heat
ing purposes gas stovea will be used,
and gas pipes were run into the rooms
on that account. The rooms were pro
vided with electric lights and were
furnished with beds and other neces
sary furniture.
i President a Good Narrator.
' The cabinet has a new rule of proce
dure. It used to be the law that when
that Illustrious body assembled at 11
o'clock on Tuesday and Friday morn
ings business should be taken up at
once. But that is not the practice now.
Instead of getting to work at once on
the supposedly great questions of state
-the president takes from fifteen to
twenty-five minutes to tell his advisers
the experience he has had with the
.gentlemen who have been giving him
"hot air" about offices and schemes
they want him to recommend to con
gress. Xfle president is a pood narrator, and
therefore the first half hour is unusual
ly Jnteresting. He doesn't tell stories to
Illustrate a point he is making, as Lin
coln did, but tells everything that has
pse. happening that has impressed It-
Eelf upon his mind. His sense of hu
; lor is good, and the humorous side of
Ithe pictures that pass before him is not
Overlooked.
! I3isi Prices! Real Estate.
A lot at the corner of F and Tenth
streets, which is in the heart of the
best business center, has lately been
sold for what is said to be the highest
rate ever realized on land in this city
namely. $.12 a square foot, equivalent
o $2,265,120 an acre or to $10,400 a
front foot for Main street lots running
tack 200 feet to Washington street.
"The big price was paid by a saloon
Steeper. Hardly any other business
u!d stand such a rate.
Divorces In the District.
The District of Columbia Is rapidly
becoming the most popular place In the
United States for mismated couples to
Jeek separation. Scarcely a day passes
fhat the courts of Washington are not
'Isked to grant anywhere from three to
six divorces, and in nine cases out of
jten the applicants are accommodated.
This is a rather sad commentary upon
(the morality of the nation's capital.
x JBut it is a fact, nevertheless.
Mr. Cleveland's Test.
In a speech at Norwich, Conn., the
home of his grandfather, delivered dur
ing a recent visit, ex-President Cleve
land told the following anecdote:
"When I lived in Buffalo, a good many
years ago, a man also lived there whose
occupation was largely the collection
of bad debts. He was so persistent
and followed a debtor in a manner so
destructive of peace and comfort that
he was quite commonly known as
'Pestilence.' He originated in Norwich,
and I determined that if I ever had an
opportunity I would test his Norwich
pride of nativity. One day he called
on me, and since he was not on a colT
lecting errand we began a pleasant
chat. He soon remarked that he had
often wondered if I was in any way
related to Deacon Cleveland, who used
to live in Norwich. With the opportu
nity I had awaited so fairly presented
me and anxious to make the test
as thorough as possible I replied that
I was somewhat related to the deacon
as a grandson and casually indicated
my doubts as to his fair dealing in his
business as a watchmaker and repair
er. The test was most effective, but
the explosion was terrific. For an in
stant I feared physical harm, and be
fore the door was slammed behind a
raging figure I was told with vigorous
emphasis that I was a disgrace to my
name and that if I ever became a man
one-half as honest and respectable as
my grandfather who lived in Norwich
I would be more lucky than I deserved
to be and more of the same sort. Now,
of course I knew it was wrong as an
ordinary proposition to speak in the
way I did about my grandfather, but
in aid of an important research and for
the purpose of testing a most interest
ing theory I sacrificed my sense of pro
priety. I have fully made up my mind
that under no stress of temptation will
I ever again even appear to scandalize
or speak lightly of my own or any one
else's grandfather if he was born in
Norwich."
Cael Schofteld.
Site Knew From Experience.
"Seems to me that the rising genera
tion is rising very fast," said the bach
elor who expects soon to become a ben
edict after his friends had given him
up as hopeless. "I was out walking
wtih my intended the other day, and
her small niece, a girl not over seven
years of age, accompanied us. Natural-
"OH, don't misd me!"
ly the conversation, owing to the near
approach of our wedding day, took a
turn that was interesting to two of us,
but not to the third.
"Finally I turned to the young lady
who is soon to be my bride and said,
with a smile:
" 'I suppose all this talk is over the
little one's head?'
"Before she could reply the nose of
the 'little one' went up several degrees,
and she answered icily, her words fall
ing like so many hailstones on a tin
roof:
"'Oh, don't mind me! ,1 know what
It is! I've been in love myself!'
"It was several minutes before I
succeeded in catching my breath." De
troit Free Press.
Pretty Sore Indications.
A story is told of a conscientious
ministerial golfer who had boon offer
ed another pastorate, much better than
the one he held and with an ideal golf
course attached. The family were all
enthusiastic pfayers. Happening to call
one day at the minister's dwelling a
friend of the family and a golfer him
self met the daughter In the hall and
asked her, "Is your father going to ac
cept the offer?" "Well," the girl re
plied demurely, "papa is praying for
guidance in the library, and mamma is
up stairs packing."
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Only One nnd Little of It.
Colonel Dutassey, an officer of volun
teers during the civil war, was sent to
Sing Sing by sentence of court martial
for too free indulgence in a variety of
peccadillos. "I am Count Dutassey,"
he said to the keeper of the prison by
way of introduction. "I speak five
languages" He got no further, for
the keener broke in upon him with the
explanation, "We speak but one lan-i
guage here, and we want mighty little
of that."
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One-Third Faster.
Older Than That Himself.
One of the last letters written by W.
S. Gilbert, the comic opera librettist,
before his recent sickness was address
ed to Clement Scott on the occasion
of Mr. Scott's sixtieth birthday. Mr.
Gilbert's note was enigmatic. "Nor do
I think," he wrote, "that the fact that
you will have achieved sixty years on
Oct. 6 Is a reason for general jubila
tion. I am sixty-five, and nobody seems
to care."
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