80 HAND-BOOK OF WASHINGTON. ASSOCIATIONS AND SOCIETIES. Of these there is so great a number in Wash ington that we can only give their titles without any comments or particulars. Of Masonic frater nity it has two Knights Templars, 5 Chapters, and no less than thirteen Lodges, viz: Federal, Naval, Potomac, Lebanon, New Jerusalem, Hi ram, St. John, National, Washington Centennial, B. B. French, Dawson, Harmony and Grand Lodge. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows have a very fine Hall, where seventeen Lodges and Encampments are in the habit of meeting; of the Order of Red Men there are four Tribes and one Council; of the Sons of Temperance several Divisions; and of United Brothers of Temperance four Associations. The Washing ton Asylum is a large brick building near the Congressional burial ground, with a large garden cultivated by the inmates. It is under the man agement of a Board of Commissioners, an intend- aut, matron, and other necessary agents, all of whom are appointed by the Mayor aud the Board of Commissioners. Metropolitan Mechanics’ In stitute meets in the City Hall every Thursday in each month. The Orphan Asylum was erected twenty years ago, on what is called Mausoleum square, owing its existence mainly to the gener-