Show yASH QUA SEEING SlON T 01 61 1 LET couo 0 R 1 si kotars on ft 1 oct 1 As it stile the autumnal fruits frosts tint the pirk park and street foliage of washington with brighter bri gIlter lines entire 0 city lehs begins le L hs livelier arid and gayer appearance ppe arance the president I 1 arid iri liis his walicia 1 family returned iron ironi their vacations is tle the beaks in the departments MAW filled the reap of styli stylish a and ild tile familiar crowd on oil the avenues venues i ind and a general increase of L interest in business i ll 11 those these are arc signs 16 b ns that the anson of social en cn te arid of gf eloquence arid and negligence 0 agnec and of referred ren erred cd lator lal orin ill clerical and in business circles is aloze il at hand secretary manning is back nt at liis his aci 1 again attending to hia delics in the old way ivay contrary to the oft repent d assertions of gloomy prophets ins its I 1 work seems see in s to agree with him bini and lie looks better than when lie ington ing too ire ho is occupied with official work exclusively and spends touch much of his Teon on ina his annual report ills 10 i bd I 1 e vhf er that 1 I 1 ni alv ma main i 11 n or of the report will be liis his appeals for reduction and for currency 1 delorm reform tile city is is full of strangers the approaching session of congress is ia already shown by the presence of the usual advance guard of lobby its and officio on acu icu sec seekers keris there are arc also aleo a number of politicians here who have come to make complaints or give advice to the president the departments and all other places of interest fairly swarm swarin with eight seers from the te I 1 thoe the doors tire nrc irin tile the morning until tho the hour for closing ho treasury Treas nry i 1 19 s probably more inore interesting till than I 1 n any ally other ortho of the E cecii i v i departments depart ipe tits tho state aarand navy dell en IB occupy ono one building L mil ding which is tile most ornate structure tria in washington 0 the patent ollion lias has for curioni tice the model rooms where an idea aay ba obtained of the wonderful inventive skill of the american I 1 people tile alic pat on office ico depart nahe hars miny many bureaus worthya wor iritI test particularly the dead leter office where there is a unique a and n tl varied collection taken from froin llo mails in transit and where grything front from in an indian idian tomahawk to a danake in colvil may be found athe The agricultural Department too is worth vor th a 1 visit it may inay be ba to chozo choso who receive it containing ining alj the e w s seeds eo 0 nicely pa packed ck to know how bow this is accomplish ell ad nearly nil all the work is done by women voni cn the paper pickets are cut by machinery then they nrc are folded and pasted loy by hand then counted and labeled d t 1 hrc are made every day each iolder folder in im tv to make at ai least 1000 1 inco tile first oi of uns line not far from r three h ace million pockets have ban bee printed at the department after cards the pockets are arc filled by vy dox iti crous bands arith rap clity LY then closed USO bcd tied in ill iddles lun dies and are arc ready s P fur for agricol over tile the land ladt tile ho uly department baitin more anoro objects of interest iian ran illy any of the ilie above ine mentioned dic itself io one of the 31 dest in ibis ibi i coin coina deiv licia hy y arid and lias has not the ilia fresh look of ic 0 other government edifices here ere I 1 fitlin it lin thine tiie inny be seen the bucs gillley a collection of hoto 0 grapis of counterfeiters counterfeit ers a I 1 I 1 1 rious ions display of comiter counterfeit feit t 6 ny noy the 1 cash boorn I 1 aid ivl with ih colored marbles the et t vaults or of flie united SL ats uncle sama sn nis stroda bowtho cry rv containing t tho a pre of aw 0 the C dis dismay A of eriq lo 10 0 fh C acim d tw 10 1 0 f lala another a collection olay may be freen there it consists congieta cong ista of r number of of jewelry silverware writches writ lies thes portraits portrait etc that were le capi captured tired by the U S n riny during the war and deposited 1 r posited ill in the iry there ore are ganv many valuable and III costly ornaments borno porno ome or of the gold ier ay iy of L j tho lat bt qun quality time is one handsome hands onte set r of f exquisitely cut ca cameos nicos surrounded by pearls one to I 1 ox x is filled with rings broo brooches clies buckles buckle pins arid and dockets lockets lock ets all of pure native gold some sollie I 1 of tl ie jewelery is gives evident feigns of having been collected in ill great haste one of the most anost curious things in the collection isan is an old fashioned english 0 bulls eye ayo gold watch with vil hits its crystal a quarter or of an inch thick therease there Ther eare are also borno sorno seals graven with heraldic and a number of precious diamonds pearls pearl topazes to pazes and others the articles arti clea firo waiting for sonic some one to claim thern them arid and prove their ownership |