Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-03-08
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How blessing br Rhten they take their fight ~
For years the canal-or rather the mile and
half of night-soh, ditch water, dead cats, old
boots, rotten FISH, and last years hens eggs,
that goes by that nsme-has been considered an
unqualified nuisance. Innumerable have been
the attempts o. remedy the evil, but now that
the Board of Public Works have entered upon
the task in q way that promises success, instant
~ protest l. raised against its removal. Its
efiiuvia Is now discovered to be not at all often
sive, and decidedly healthful. Crane bankers
afterit- Severson saws IL is the most delightful
smell he ever smelt in all his life. DIR. Hail, "a
citizen of 50 much intelligence that IL is q mat
ter OF surprise TO find him amongst the obstruc-
tionists,) declares hat the people couldn't spare
this mile and half of nisht-soil, ditch-water,
dead cats, old boots, rotten fish, and last years
eggs. any account. Just so sure, says
he, Won M up this salubrious, health -inspir-
irg slough, just 80 sure will the city be given
over 10 pestlerce.
Now this is very bad. One by one the treas
ures of antiquity are slipping from our posses
sion under the new order of things. The fra
grant pigs have been banished from the streets
by the Odious District government. The sloughs
and cow-pastures, covering the vacant lots of
the recent past. are replaced by rows Of modern
buildings. Well-psved streets supplant the hog
wallows and dirt-heaps of the fossiliferous
period, to which We are invited to return The
mOss-cOvered sheds OF the old market, with their
bsrn-ysrd surroundings, where are they?
Gone, too, are the ruts and cobble-stoncs of
Pennsylvania avenue. Gone the green
seummed, surface cutters. Inch by inch the
croakers have had to give way, and the
canal is their last ditch. Shall they
be blamed for making stand in behalf OF this
familiar joy? Certainly not; but unfortunately
flara IA a.
has been filled up irretrievabiy. Yet section
may be saved for the delectation of the antiques
Let it be rooted in as a health and pleasure re-
sort for the good men who devote their lives
nObly TO the work of getting up memorials to
keep things a. they are. Let the relic be kept
Pungent and potent. As long as sewers run,
and cats die, and fish decay, and eggs outliye
their usefulness, let the contributions to this
preserved section of the old slough be ample to
afford consolation TO the doleful minstrels who
have hung their harps on the canal willows,
New Workers have suddenly lost their appetite
iOI veal in consequence of the discovery that
Brooklyn butcher had slaughtered a number of
inoeulsted calves, which he intended to sell in
the markets. but was prevented by the health
officers. 1t appears that French physician
had iEceulated the calves with the genuine COW
pox, and in this manner had been able to get a
large amount of vaccine virus, which he sold
and also exported. The doctor thought the
calves " were just good, if not little better.
after being inoculsted and recovering from
the effects. Intended to purify them.n The
thing had been done in France for years, he
said The FIenchmen ate the veal, and not
trenchman had yet been poisoned. The New
York World, too. which is nothing if not scien-
tiic, endeavors to allay the terrors of the veal
eaters by the information that the virus of the
SMALLPOX even may be swallowed with perfect
IMMUNITY. Notwithstanding these assurances.
/" vaccinated veal" is not likely to become a
popular dish.