The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-03
St. Louis Graphically Described.

| u. anu M. hOdu. IcOp1o mere HdVeH u
time to call over such string of vowels
as g Ohio and Mississippi" Life here
is too short to make a speech when one
wishes to signify mere name. So, Oh
the stations the paint go. and M" in
big letters, and language is abbreviated
and mems hearts are rejoiced. The o
and M. runs free parlor cars to Louis
vile and St. Louis, and Captain Pea-
body, Superintendent of the Road, is
sample Cincinnatian who can make
things lively socially, while keeping
things correct financially.
In St. Louis you commence feeling
the real Great West. You are on she
buffalo and " Injun :" side of the Mieeis-
sippi. Freight cars for San Francisco
are plentiful and people commence
talking sbits " instead of dimes There
is room here to spread, and they do
spread. Grass plafs reserved for the
children to play on in the public squares,
and at eve the offspring of the lower
middle Glass; may by the hundred be
seen rolling, tumbling and imbibing
through the naked little pores of their
naked and dusty little black and white
feet the fresh earth magnetism of the
green. st. Louis has honored herself
in this respect above some other Ameri-
can cities and deserves to be called up
higher. The mule in st. Louis throws
out something more than mere skir-
J spish lpe, and one great sale-stable
latter an6ther on Fifth Street is Furnished
I for his accommodation.
| Fine Custom-house, permanently I'M
finished, q Ia Hartford, Cincinnati, Pitts
burg and many other cities. Frame
houses outside the levee near the out
skirts semi-amphibious, being built on
platforms against high river, the lower
portion used for stable or storehouse.
Dust on many streets averages two
inches in thickness, and the same
in mud when the water cart
goes over it. Dust white, very
fine. Soft coal smoke also makes
its mark within and without the house,
and an old st. Louis carpet walked over
a few times in pair of white stockings
will leave the bottoms simply black. AS
to color, the standard of cleanliness in
the heart of st. Louis can not be that of
New England city, for no amount of
sweeping or serubbing can overcome the
tint distributed everywhere in the air.
White petticoats and stockings in St.
Louis streets keep fresh about one hour.
Still, they are extensively worn, and
wash bills, like the Prophets gourd,
swell largely in single night. Children
average well-shaped, robust limbs.
Gents clothing, judging from prices
in shop windows, as cheap as in New
York. The Chinese wash man, English
sparrow, SO and scent store, 81 nickel
watch and "Newport tie," ladies' shoe
boom here also. Chart business direc-
tories of single streets are in vogue
Saloons, barber shops and furnishing
stores open and active on Sunday. The
natives as thus far encountered seem to
speak German and English with equal
| f1uency. To know but one of these Ian
guages in st. Louis is to be lngually
lop-sided. Drinking water not crystal
line, and somewhat cathartic in quality.
Pavements largely brick, with occasion
al loosened disordered spaces suitable in
| the dark for sprained ankles and suits
against the city for damages. Streets
promptly named on the corner lamp
shades; houses carefully numbered 100
to the square and no more, la Phila-
ger, and st. Louis in this respect sets an
example for Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Bal
timore and New York. Strawberries
three quarts for quarter and gas $3.50
per 1000 cubic feet. The gas meter in
as bad repute here as elsewhere. The
1O-cent Oriental parasol everywhere.
The St. Lousian advertises by the
square yard in his favorite paper. The
farther West the bigger the advertise
ment. The " boundless prairie " causes
like desire for room in every thing.
The st. Louis saloon-keeper can draw
as much froth in the 5-cent glass of
beer as he of the New York excursion
boat. Good butter seems universal.
Bread ditto. More mud on the streets
than in Paris-much more. Slate roofs
common. The scent piece always
known as " nickel" Best cuts of
beef shilling pound at retail.
Street cars without bells, car horses
in better condition than ours, car con-
ductors in gray uniform, ve:y civil, and
will leave their car to deposit infants
safely on the curbstone. Street water
carts a tank on wheels, and they
sprinkle deluge from q New York
point of view. Gentlemen here prompt
in giving up car seats to ladies, and Ia
dies as in other places, somewhat remiss
in acknowledging the courtesy. 1t
should be remembered that mans
legs, after an all days labor, may be
even weaker than a woman's after
three hours shopping excursion, and
that the common articles of politeness
is as binding on one sex as the other.
Hotel porticos one, two and three storied.
Awnings of wood very lofty; perhaps
the Hottest in the world. Numerous
horse and mule sale stables, plentifully
bestrewn with sawdust and filled with
horse and mule buyers and sellers.-P.
Milford, IN N. Y Graphic.
Mrs. GOOdington's Anniversary Refiec-
lions.
WHENEVER Caravansary Week