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��strongly marked characteristics, but beaming with good nature, was here with Mrs. Waits. Like Mr. Hayes, he is en- gaged in educational work when his judicial duties will permit him to do so. He is a member of the Peabody and Slater Fund boards. A remarkable figure and character were those of the venerable and honorable Robert C. Winthrop, of Massa- chusetts, whose form is bending slightly under the weight of years that have been full of honors, and whose hair is whitened by time. Over his tall figure he had usually a long, old-fashioned black cloak, by which he was made still more con- spicuous. Equally noticeable was Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, by reason of his great height, exceeding spareness, and black garb. He dresses entirely in black broadcloth. His coat has a clerical cut at the neck, is single-breasted, and the skirts reach below the knees. His hat is a soft Western felt, worn like an itinerant preacher's. With a lean and sallow, smooth-shaven face, and long straggling locks of once jet black but now iron gray hair falling on his shoulders, the eloquent prelate looks like one of the gaunt fathers of Xew England who came over in the Mayflower. A portion of his work in late years has been among the Indians of the Xorth-west, over whom he has acquired much influence.

Two men standing by the office coun- ter in conversation are almost identical in height aiid general appearance, except facial expression. They are tall, well formed, aristocratic. You would know them to be Southerners from their bear- ing. They are ex-Go v. Brown and ex- Gov. Porter, of Tennessee. The former is a receiver of the Texas I'acific Pail- road. He has a face marked and scarred and bronzed, like a veteran warrior. Gov. Porter's skin, on the contrary, is soft and white. Gov. Porter was assistant secre- tary of state under Mr. Bayard, but re- signed Lilliputian diplomacy to return to a lucrative law practice. A historic figure is that of A. H. H. Stuart, of Virginia. He

��was called to the interior department port- folio in the cabinet of Franklin Pierce, be- fore any other selection was made. He was then a power in Virginia and the South, whose foi'tunes he followed in 1860, and has since l)een retired from active life. The present United States minister to Mexico and his immediate predecessor are in the house — Judge Thomas C. Man- ning, of Louisiana, and Gen. Henry E,. Jackson, of Georgia. Coming down the stairway of the ladies' entrance to take a carriage was seen Daniel Manning, ex- secretary of the treasury. It gives one positive pain to observe his slow and weary movement, with one foot dragging after the other, and to observe with the ixnhealthy color of his large round face that look of anguish which comes to strong men when stricken by a malady that impairs their powers.

It is always amusing to watch the crowed in the corridors as " Old Tecum- seh " comes through to get his letters. They turn and stare after his weather beaten frame, reddish face, and grizzled whiskers. One touches another and whispers "There's Sherman," until every one has got a look at the hero, who goes ambling away on a sort of quick step, utterly oblivious of the commotion.

A very distinguished looking group of men (some of them of stalwart frame) stands for a moment on the corridor, and then passes out. It is Gov. Sawyer of Xew Hampshire, and judges of the X. H. supreme court and others, who are re- turning from the great constitutional centennial.

A man with a statesmanlike face, smooth-shaven and pallid white, Mith firm set lips and twinkling eyes, is Gen. Xathan Goff, of West Virginia. Senator D. ^I. Sabin, of ^linnesota, ^^ith the plump rotundity that belongs to a United States senator, raven black hair, black eyes, and business attire, comes down from the dining-room with a tooth-pick protruding from under his big black moustache, and falls into conversation

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