Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1877 — Hats—Good, Bad, and Indifferent. [ARTICLE]

Hats—Good, Bad, and Indifferent.

A correspondent at Washington gossips about the tiles worn by the President and his Cabinet iu this free style : “Hayes wears during week days an old black soft felt hat of what is known as the army style. Lt looks like it has done service enough to be turned in. On Sunday he redeems himself by wearing a very fashionable black silk h;d, which he bought in Cincinnati just before he came here to he inaugurated. 11 improves' his looks greatly. Evarts wears during the warm days a small white straw hat alternated with nHirown straw. Key wears the worst looking dicer ever seen. He bought it when he came here to fill Andy Johnson’s seat in the Senate. There arc many objections to Kcy’s.beavcr ; firstly, it is three sizes too small for him, and sits ou the top of his iron-gray bristles ; and secondly, it has not been in style for four years. It is a horrid looking affair, though Key feels happy while wearing it, reared back on his ears. Key can safely sing that comic ballad entitled, ‘I am the man with the shocking bad hat.’ Sherman wears a calico hat which is made upon a light steel frame, and a brown straw which is well ventilated on the sides. Both are what are known as cheap hats. Sehurz has one straw hat which has done him service for two summers, and recently purchased a better-looking one, which he wears when walking—which is very seldom. Mr. McCrary wants a new beaver hat very bad. Ilis present one is in a terribly bad condition. I t needs to be blocked very much, lie has made the same beaver do service for receptions, funerals, etc., fur the past four years. I recognized Ids hat as the one worn by him iu the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress. Mr. Hcvens, the Attorney Cent ral, is more careful. He, when in full dress, wears a handsome and stylish silk hat, on which there is a wide hand of crape. At other times he wears a soft, felt hat, which looks well on him. Ho is very prim in - his entire dress. Secretary Thompson makes a specialty in dress, and of course he wears a beaver to suit. He takes great pains in having his hat look nice, and always succeeds.”

The emigration to this country from Russia, last year, amounted to 5,959 individuals—nearly 3,000 more than the previous year.