Show THE NATIONAL CAPITAL new aycart day m washington shod dytom in wr society walking mania the zero f 1873 from correspondent the god corn to amile upon new years longer binco the good old canon of ang syne are obsolete but in these latter days generally send us sleet abow or ania as a token of disfavor din favor this they deluged u with all three at once combined with biting blasts and slushy streets making or driving equally unpleasant As a nation wo ore growing deplorably shoddy and the have year by year increased till hey rule society knoo friends upon the first day of the year exchanging greetings and proffering goode with the arab idea of truo hospitality is one tiling but rt promiscuous gorging and feeding is quite truo there are certain circles at the national capital to eliom custom has left no choice in lie matter but alio are compelled to kiako inns of their houses and pump handles of their arms to an in ilif multitude but tant is among the pains and penalties of office the inside of the pill beneath the coating of which they were aware before taking mrs jonesi fand mrs brown receives and sirs smith husbard lias lately acquired a fortuno in pork or oil must do likewise and of course it would never do for MM whore unpaid bills and bankrupt ausband dematia that she keep up appearance app carance as upon that her position depends to bo behind in any matter of display the family may live on pork and beans for weeks beforehand but alio tables upon new years must gronn under a burden of the daintiest daintie st nd costliest cost liest in washington there are various classes who make calls aside from one i acquaintances there are politicians alej to grind hobbyists lobbyists alio never neglect an opportunity the idle and curious who simply want peep at greatness tho aspiring of a lower strata who are perpetually striving to get into so called good society and an army of fortune and adventurers who glora in alio custom as it gives them the rare felicity of a lull stomach there is no stumping out of the anglo saxon blood alio love of feats of strength and endurance by the human frame divine none of the latin races have ever cared for these exhibitions as exemplified in own proper perilous the combat Bof the roman arena were sustained by captives trained as gladiator and the amphitheatres of spain are crowded to witness the s of wild bulls by agile and liaa dors who arc seldom in any danger of injury our prize fights base ball matches horse races boating contests etc are just now and very op for the season overshadowed by pedestrian mania in nearly overy prominent city of the country walking matches arc in progress or in contemplation when one at a distance reads of the enthusiasm created by the completion of so many laps on a taw dust track in a given time by a dional wonder creeps inbur if a man will only turn upon himself tho ayo of hawillo hawil lc knowledge chatas I have navo stated alio caulia has s firm a hold of his feelings as of hose of his countrymen at our capital city ha hai i co far escaped he pr cailing rage but I understand the next week a walking bout of twenty svan hour for ft purse of aaa been arranged between wm caw ford the champion pedestrian of the district and miss mary marshall of chicago who has defeated bertha von lern on several occasions and male pedestrians in Tario iid wc country the only objection I to these athletic co by professionals is eliat elili many of them it is a mera matter of busine w and that often matches are thrown for a satisfactory pecuniary consideration the knowledge of this fact takes awny all tha delicious glamour that doubt of the inu caits over the spirit I consider horte racing the noblest nobl cst sport in the world but give much to a dash between the most noted it I tho victory had been arranged beforehand Noti inci the ath of march 1873 alic day general grant ws alic ccone time liate w had of cold weather w alie one that has been passing ovir us during tho lat few days alio ath of march referred to was onla a tingle day of anteno cold but everybody who was here then will never it nor the incident that occurred then and men in th pro sessions cessions ces had their extremities frozen alio inauguration lau took blaco that night in a temporary i aino building corrected on square it waa impossible to aarm it their ver coats and poured copious il rutht of brandv down their to loop warm flie Lidio their full ires undress most mo st there were not faw of tho iwho their graves in the scenes along the during lie progress of tho proc ion from the white tc the capital were moro like some of hose wo road of on gala days amon the ru and the present i re c illg them with inter cut and if chitto i any dill brenco alio aige of alic is very lower just now and tho saint indication covers u much wider of iho country than it did on 11 occasion referred to tho whole northern portion of tha continent between the two oceans more or from alio intense cold blockade of now frozen bior and a interruption travel and river navigation D C jan i i georga muller tho roan w hia faith in prayer ha accor lucli of charity in tf to and preach in try next year |