Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-06
VOL. LXXIII.

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Too MANY FLIES Chicago seems to be a
sort of fly paradise, according to one Of our ex-
changes aud the ''oldest inhabitant' vouches
for the truth OF the story that this year beats
the whole record in the, fly nuisance at the res
taurants and about the city. A good story Is
told how Mr.. Billy Baxter cleared his estab-
lishment of his winged visitors, and here it Is:
Since the fire, Chicago can boast Of many
good, bad, and Indifferent restaurants. Wher-
ever there is met saloon, or clothing store,
or a gambling room, or jewelry shop, or q
theatre, there is located restaurant or lnnch-
room. No sooner was a table set In one OF
these places than the flies were on it. When
hungry mortals undertook to dine, there ensu.
ed fight for the spring chicken, or the broiled
salmon, or the raspberry rolls, If the man was
lucky enough to get it, he enjoyed not only the
meal, put the consolation of knowing he had hn-
ished scores Of the troublesome pests. = ~:
Billy Baxter had long been troubled at his
restaurant on west Madison street with the
flies. He bad tried every way possible to rid
laughed at poisoned paper, and as for those 10
genously contrived wire traps, they stood on
the castors and on the cigar leases, and actually
turned UP their little noses 1t was becoming
more, and more annoying, and even Blliys
good nature was fast disappearing.
On Wednesday afternoon q green-looklng
sort of chap stepped into the restaurant and
informed Baxter that he could rid his house of
flies, and that he would do so for the small sum
of s2 Billy's big belly shook with delight,
and be closed the bargain on the spot only
stipulating the money would not be paid until
the absence of the flies could be noted. ..
r.. The green-looklng chap took from a dllapl-
dated carpet-sack hemispherlcal case nearly
foot in length and three or four inches in diam
eter. He laid this "torpedo-like arrangement
on the floor IN the middle of the room,n sprink-
led layer of powder for nearly two yards, then
applied match Almost instantly there was
an explosion The ''business had busted"
with terrific roar. So had the windows, and
the crockery, and the flooring, and George
Coles new white hat. There wasn't whole
pane of glass, or a tea-cup, or water pitcher,
or . fly to be found in the room;i And worse
still, the queer looking chap had departed with
ont leaving his card Whether he is the pro-
prietor of rival hashery, or Was Belzebub IN
disguise, no one can tell 1" It is only certain
that whoever asks Baxter would he like to be
rid Of his flies will have to look out tor broken
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=. A ROAD CYLINDER. Mr. w. NJ. Bernard,
blacksmith and wagon maker OF Salano county,
California, proposes to exhibit at the California
State Fair road cylinder which he is :coutidept
will revolutionize the constructor OF wagons IL
IS a combination of a barrel within barrel, and
like an ordinary carriage is destined to be
drawn by horses The she'll perspective looks
like wine vat lying on It's side. Within this
!. nlaced another cylinder closed at the ends
and upon the outside of which are three tracks:
of iron, conforming to three within the other
cylinder. TO the centres Of this inner cylinder
j. the shafts are attached The freight is placed
in the inner cylinder and the machine is ready.
to 20. The force required to move 1t ls just
equal to the force that would be required to
slide the inner cylinder Cd three rails we'll oiled
1t is in one sense sled which lays track tor
itself as it. goes. Experiments have been made
with one roughly constructed, only four feet I'm 10
diameter, which was treighted with 900
pounds of iron and seven men on the outside,
/ which was carried easily over level roads by
one horse. The tracks were rough, and the
entire model imperfect, but the experiment
greatly encouraged the inventor, who has ap-
piled for patent t-Bdh. Gazette.
CoFEEE AS A DEoDORlZER.-The tPoona
British India) Observer says:-After numerous
:. experiments with roasted coffee, the result
seroyes that it is one the most powerful means.
'nek only of rendering animal and vegetable :ef'
,Huy;a Eiinnoxiuous, but of actually destroying
then. A roomin which meat 10 an advanced
degree of decomposition has been kept for some
fine was instantly deprived Of an smell on an
,open coffee -roaster being carried through 1t
CONTAINING a pound of coffee newly roasted In
:, another room the ef1uvium occasloned by the
clearing out of cesspool, SO that sulphuretted
hydrogen and smlnonla could be- clearly de, =
tected, was completely, removed within halt
q minnie on the employment of three ounces OF
fresh coffee. The best mode of using it, asa
disinfectant is to dry the raw bean, pound It 10
mortar, and then roast the powder on MOD
erately heated iron plate until It assumes a DARK
brown hue, when it is ready tor use 1t must,
however, be remembered that the conee, TO pe
effectual, should bo perfectly pure Aduterat;,
ed rubbish will only make matters worse, and
it has not yet been discovered that chickory pos
sesses any deodorizing qualities. =. l,t
i HEAPS oF,S1LvER. ER.-The Carbon mine, up
in Boulder county, is the representative mine
in that district, if not, indeed 10 the Territory
though in seeing it we have, moi, seen all the
rest concentrated in one, About the mouth
; of the niue Is always heap OF ore. There IS
princely fortune in those piles OF quartz,
which to the uuintiated eye is but heap OF
broken rock, fit only for building walls or ma,
8 cadamizine public streets. Once'in the shafts,
a close inspection shows that the walls the
ceiling. the Aoors, are of silver, even the very
dust in the bottom of the shaft is one; fourth
siver. Here is lump that yields a dollar
pound, another two, another three, another
five, and 30 on! They say that there y q mii-
lion dollars, worth Of silver piled before one %
eyes in those gloomy shafts and levels. Ialk i,
Of the power Of gunpowder, ..ef steam. OF the
whirlwiud, of the earthquake; here is power
which is greater than all! Their Operations
are but local, partial, and temporary; TINS gag
what they have hurled down.-Deare- Ne'cs,