Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-11-23
A New Brand.
From the Detroit Free Press.


tan, lame negro has been In the habit for a
year past of calling at Michigan avenue gro
Gerry and begging a few potatoes, bit of cod
fish. or anything else likely to be given to him.
The other day the grocer took flour sack and
made up mixture of sand and when the negro
came around he was almost pulyerized to hear
the grocer say:
Now. Sam, if you won't come here again for
three months you can shoulder that sack and
take il home"
''Am you in airnest bOss?n
Yes, 1 mean what say"
wall. l reckon I'd better eotch on to dat
chance, an may de Lawd Dress you fur hun
red vars to come, :"
He shOuldered the sack and walked Off and
was not seen again for three days Then he en-
tered the store with the remark:
Say, boss didn't mean to come back, only
want to ak queshun."
Go ahead"
'It's about that -four you gin me. De ole
woman an NE doant take de same view of it,
hold dat il am new way of grindin' up wheat
an she says it am a new process fur usin' up
gravel banks Kin you frOw any light on de
eubjick:"
at is a new brand OF my own" replied the
grocer. - The wheat was raised on sandy soil
Can you recommend it,"
Mot 'Zactly sab. bat il Won could change
via me lur peek of beans raised on side HILL
IN put de ole trees an stunps an stones i'm one
BAG an de beans in anoder il would save heap
VI argument in de family"
The N0st Attractive City in the COum.
try.
Non resident American in The Contemporary Review
Washington was formerly the least attractive
OF our cities; but since the war there have been
great changes there. No city in the world has
more beautiful government offices, and great
Efforts have been made To improve the streets
and adorn the city. The hotels still swarm with
Otlicehoders and office seekers; but they seem to
to- liz. haft
first visited the city. There is certainly much less
drunkenness and barbarisn to be seen i'm the
public rooms and about the Capitol. But aside
from this nOnadic horde. there is now an estab-
nshed resident society in Washington. which is
becoming every year more agreeable and more
numerous. There are many who already regard
II as the most attractive city in the country. 1t
Is. at least, unlike all other cities. number
OF novels have appeared within few Years, pro-
Tossing 10 give faithful pictures of life in WASH
lngton; but they are unworthy of attention.
lhey are low, vulgar and scandalOus, without
literary merit and presenting view OF society
Too ABSURD TO be even founded on fact. There is
vice am corruption enough i'm Washington. and
IL Is easy for a man To ind it who seeks for it;
but there Is no more OF il in Washington than in
New York. These books would not deserve
mention II they had not been widely circulated.
tiOn.
From the GAINESVILLE Gazette
When the case o. smallpox was reported to
me mayor he ordered the city marshal to get a
Ieu Tag and nail il Up on the house. Hogan
accordingly hurried after bit of red flannel
ana :ath. and soon hung out the signal 1t
happened that an old stove and some furniture
oeioiSihg 10 the family we're standing or the
Potea, the house not being fairly settled. ard
passe-s-5y, seeing the ARA, of household Goods
ana The red flag. concluded there must be an
auction, and began docking to tie house. The
req nag was promptly taken down and yellow
Oh IL, so that there could be no mistake.
religious controversy at Nevada, Iowa. re-
suited IN the election Of four anti ,,ristans cut
OF fhe six SCHOOL commissioners and the Bible
has consequently been excluded from the puolic
school