Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-10-31


The Senate transportation committee may re-
tire. there is no longer any need of their ser
vices. The transportation problem has been
solved by. "a genius who has laid before the
"grsngers" scheme by which grain can be
transported thousands of miles with "prompt-
ness and dispatch ;" and at very moderate rates
His plan is TO Law pipe six inches in diameter,
or larger. from Chicago to New York. "This
pipe" he says, "may be Land above the surface
of the ground or beneath 1t, over the hills and
beneath the deepest rivers, and no grading will
be required. AT each end of this pipe have a
steam engine-one to force in the air and the
other 20 pump II ont" Now, if the reader will
pay close atten ION he will discover how the
thing is 10 be done. when the engines are in
operation" i>'rT saws this inventive genius
''yOu will perez 2 that there will be a power
iIll current OF sir passing through this pipe
When the pipe filed with this COMPRISED cur
rent OF air, let H. the grain through a pipe, or
tIbe, hall a. lar as the one with the current
Of air. When "pa ration is TO be stopped, keep up
the current OF i till the pipe is clear of grain,
The following kingly original mathematical
proposition shuv that the writer has given the
subject deep thought: "The quantity Of grair
deliverd dayley you'd depend upon the size of
the pipe and thr strength of the engine. A
bushels Per minute" Remembering that some
doubling Thomas may cast ridicule upon his
scheme, he puts damn er upon skeptcs in the
following postscript: "Dont believe any one
who says the grain will waste or wear out while
Passing through the pipe-the air being com
pressed the grain will nearley float"
We suspect the writer of the above has been
reading something about Brisbsne's pneumatic
tube. IL might perhaps be better to wait until
the latter Wh1ch xOulI he hnf aho hoIf
mile long, is in successful operation before con-
>tructiDg one thousand miles in length.
The postal money order system which was
adopted by the government during the war and
which grew out of the necessities of the rebel
lion has become popular institution and the
business OF the Post Office department in this
direction is yearly expanding. The report of
Judge Martin, Sixth Auditor of the Treasury,
TO the Secretary OF the Treasury, sets forth the
wonderful growth of the money order business
during the fiscal year which ended June 80,
ISIS. The number of domestic money orders
issued was 3,355,6s6 against 2,513 $40 for the
fiscal year which ended June 30, 1872, involving
the sum of s57 SIG 2li.69 against sis5i5 .532.12
IN lSs3; showing the large increase in the short
period Of year of $1,000 ,6sl.91. The increase
IN the number of British international money
orders issued was also very large. These orders
s'AtNuhtNN " against - " ,iSbIs IN
1s'2; an increase of s611 ,O5O.2l. The Swiss
orders amounted to SIS, 3l393 against SIS, 1892;
a decrease for some reason OF - 1850. The
German international exchange of money orders
began on the LIST of October, is72, and from that
lime uP 10 June 3Oth last orders amounting to
Sl2o,'2--l2 were issued. The total amount of
domestic money orders paid during the year
was s56 900 % against SIS 042 4O5.sS in 1872;
OF an Increase of IS ,S51 1885. The number of
British money orders paid was s2I5,Os,.6 81
against >i53, slo.SS; an increase of ISL ,276.7s.
october has been delightful month in Wash
'rgtoni with golden sunshine and an Indian
summer haze nearly every day, with Just
enough freshness in the atmosphere at morning
and night todrive away the languor of summer
This. the last day of the month opened brightly,
and in many sheltered places the trees are stin
clothed with green, while outside the city the
autumn cOloring of the woods has never been
surpassed for the beauty and dellcacv of the
iinting. Many of our city gardens are still filed
with flowers. Our climate Is certainly excep-
tionable, for there have been fiurries of snow
during the month north, south, east and west
of Us. In Ohio they have had heavy snow
storms, and in Canada snow fell to the depth of
six or seven inches this week, with severe cold
ON the other side of the Atlantic they have had
similar experience. Snow Is reported from
various parts of the provinces of England. Six
inches fell in London on Tuesday night. The
weather was cold, with heavy gale blowing
A Disguised agricultuIist who don't believe in
80 much poetic license is ont In the New Eng
land Farmer with . criticism on Longfeilow's
Aftermath" He particularly objects to the
following stanza as containing objectionable
snachronisms:
"when the summer fields are mown,
When the birds are fedged and down,
And the dry leaves strew the path;
With the failing Of the snow,
With the cawing of the crow.
once again the fields We NOW.
And gather in the aftermath
Nov TO the ordinary reader this has very
pleasant poetical jingle, but this bucoic critic
calls attention to the fact that Farmers always
cut rowen by the middle Of September, gene
rally before hard frost, and long before the
snow flies" Think, !" he adds of curing rowen
in a snow storm" This critic is an iconocIast
IL he had only let aftermath" alone not one
reader in thousand would have ever discov-
cred its defects.
Miss Anna Dickinson has found a new way of
stimulating applause. Heretofore tears, the
genuine saline production, have been very ei-
feeuye in her discourses, but even these lose
their virtue after a while, and 30 Anna has
taken to a new method. She misses train on
the evening Of her lecture. Does she sit down
and weeP over her misfortunes? Not bit OF
H. She Charters a special train. steamer
ana last horse, so runs the report, and at a