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City Brevities Policeman Curry is sitting up and improving rapidly. Mrs. Abbie King of Thirtieth street is risiting friends in Rockville, Md. The asphalt is being repaired on Fourth street, near A street, southeast. Several brilliant meteors were seen to flash across the sky last night. The drill of the High School Regiment yesterday took place at the White Lot. Maple trees have been set out on Massachusetts avenue between Ninth and Tenth. The walks in the park between Second and Third, D and E streets, have been regraded. Pennsylvania avenue, between Twentysixth and Twenty-se enth streets, 18 being repaired. Mr. Levi Marsh, of No. 1516 Thirtyfirst street, has returned from a trip to York, Pa. The reconstructed molding shop at the yard will be ready for occupancy in about a month. Mr. Dudley Berdine, of Laurel, spent last with his cousin, Mr. Artnur Baum. of 500 B street. New water mains are being laid on Georgia avenue southeast, from Thirteenth to Fourteenth streets. The Bon Ton Dancing Club held its weekly dance last night in the Masonic Hall in Georgetown. A bad leak in the water main at the corner of Third and E streets southeast repaired yesterday Workmen were yesterday repairing the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad near the navy yard tunnel. Hope Lodge of Masons will give their innual banquet this evening at Freund's, No. 815 Tenth street. The north side of M streetin Georgetown, between Thirty-fourth and Thirty-sixth streets, is being repaved. Mr. W. H. G. Simmons, of No. 715 M treet northwest, IS confined to his bed with a bad case of grip. A large excluation for the repair of a water main has been made in East Capitol street, near First street. The soldiers stationed at the Marine Rarand the navy yard were at practice yesterday at the rifle range. Miss Blanche Cox, the Salvation Army eader, will start for her new post in Worcester, Mass., Sunday evening. The few open-air exhibitsat the east end if the National Museum building have been placed in their usual winter coverings. Col. Clum. of California, lectured to a audience last evening at Carroll InHall on, "The Glories of America." George U. Morris Post. 19, of the G. A. will hold its annual election of officers its headquarters, in Georgetown, next Monday night. A shed has beenerected at the New York ivenue terminus of the Eckington and Soldiers' Home Railway for the shelter of the car horses. Henry Clayton. while bicycling last collided with John Hurst on Q street, near Twenty-ninth. Neither one seriously burt Prof. Egan, of the Catholic University, deliver the next lecture in the Father Matthew course at the university next Thursday afternoon. A lady cyclist collided with a wagon at Second and Massachusetts avenue yesterShe escaped uninjured, although her wheel was wrecked. Rev. Dr. John 0 Foster of Ohio, a deleto the Anti-Saloon League, was run down by a cyclist on F street yesterday and was painfully injured. Mr. Griffin Coleman, of Twenty-ninth was elected one of the directors the Metropolitan Railroad, at the last meeting of the board. The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed x-Congressman Thomas A. E. Weadock receiver of the East Saginaw, Michigan, National Bank. Miss Agnes Stack, of England, the noted temperance worker. will be the guest of Mrs. M. E. Westcoot, No. 918 Twentystreet, while in the city. Val Austin, of 107 Fifth street northeast, collided with an unknown wheelman at Ninth and G streets northwest. yesterday, and badly wrecked his wheel. Mass meetings will be held in the diferent churches in the city on Sunday, December 20, to appeal to the people to abstain from the use of intoxicants durthe holidays. James Freeman, a colored youth, is ocked up at the Second precinct charged with housebreaking. and incidentally, with the larceny of an overcoat from 809 Secstreet northwest. The eable slipped the roller at the corof Seventh street and Pennsylvania avelast night about 11 o'clock. The "hurry-up" was called, and scon everywas running smoothly. A slight blaze in the kitchen of the home Mr. J. W. Williams. No. 50 N street
