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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-08-04

From the Philadelphia Record
The baggage-master at the Broad street
station moved over 200 heavy trunks yester-
day. and it was not considered a very big sum-
mer days work either. On an average about
15OO pieces of baggage are passed through the
baggage-master's room at the depot every day
during the summer months At a rough guess,
the perSpiring baggage-master yesterday found
time to calculate that 3. 900 trunks are checked
out of Philadelphia every day during June,
July. and August.
Last year there were 800. 600 trunks checked
| out and about 800 600 received into the baggage
room at Broad street alone. The heaviest month
was August. when the average per day was over
| LOGO trunks outward bound, and over 1000 re-
| ceiyed from abroad. During the latter part OF
| September and in October and November the
| baggage flows back at the rate of about 900
per day. On the Saturday before the Fourth of
| July this year there were 2 500 trunks checked
out of the baggage-rOOm at Broad street station,
which was the biggest days work on record.
Hanging on the racks in the outbound and
| inbound baggage-rOOm are over 400 600 checks.
| covering all the important railroad and steam
| boat routes in the United States and Canada.
A trunk can be checked even to London Paris,
Rome, or Ierln.
I'm the winter" remarked the baggage-mas-
ter at the station. 1--WE have cool weather. less
baggage, and comparatively small trunks, but
In the summer, when it is hot, the baggage be-
comes enormous in number and size. If this
thing of building big trunks keeps on, the rail-
road companies will soon be compelled to con-
struct cars with doors as large as half the length
of the car. Dog houses which come so large
that they were the subject of general remark
| few years ago, are considered small affairs COM
pared with some of the immense receptacles
now in use by fashionable ladies ON jaunt to
Long Branch or trip to Europe"
| box full of gold bricks could scarcely be
| watched with more care than a trunk is looked
after by the big railroad companies in these days
of travel. The destination of every one of the
1,5O0 pieces of baggage which goes out of the
Broad street station daily is recorded in book,
and every time it changes cars receipt Is taken
by the train baggage-master and sent back to
the Philadelphia Office. If, for instance, in a
journey from Philadelphia to New Orleans the
trunk changes ten times ten receipts, showing
whose hands it passed through and who deliv-
cred to the passenger and received the check,
are taken and returned to the men who started
it on it's voyage. trunk which left Broad
street station year ago can be traced by the
receipts here through all the routes and through
whose hands it passed to Its destination. Thus
it happens that Of the 3OO 900 sent out last year
not single trunk was lost
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Midsua an lncr.

It is time OF bloom Wild roses lean
From out the hedges. and the roadSideS glow
With daisies and red clover, and we CLEAN
Lilies OF scarlet that beside them grow.
Out from the crevices of the rocks they spring
The cOiumbineS, that nod In every breeze.
Which the bee sucks upon its busy wing,
And pauSes on their treasured sweets TO seiza.
Upon the sluggish stream white lilies rest;
Along its banks the purple flowers unfold:
The white clements rears its dainty crest
Among the stones o'ergrown by moses old.
On mountain sides hang out the fairy bells,
The seashore shows It's pimpernel with pride,
And every sheltered nook In perfume tells
That Summer reignS and earth Is glorifledl
How He who made us must love the flowers we SCI
For through these bright and fast-departing day
They meet Us whereSOe'r our footsteps nee,
Lured by the sunshine through earth'S pleaSan
ways.
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THE sFss %asH ss Hes g!ErHxrsr
me! frh hAf july slE h isss
TRAINS LEAVE WAsHISGroS. FROM STATION coRNEn
For and f the hiesso Iinitss rrpre.
e ESQ Sleeping aS with St ssS as a4s r rs
Harrisburg to Cine matt. Western txpres. 80 p.
nat. Also connects except Saturdays. Tor chies-
GO : via G 90. 1s,,l and &. st. l. &PRR: with
$50 m. daily for lnttshurE and the West. with
sePr AID Ar f R shiGs
For Erie. Canandaieua. Rochester. Buffalo. Niagara
son HA TO cansndaiSaa. AND NH HarrsSars %
For WilIismsport Lock Haven and Elm,ra. at $50
Ia a. m daily. EXCEPT SUNDAY nm
For Sew aStt a1d .n taf 6a mo- ON
aPs 1870 M d.s Espss;s q Pullman
For Boston without change. 1880 week day.
For Br SRS1s III through trains oonnee. -
thirsty City with 5oa,f Of BrOkyn Annst afford
fae New y York t' avoiding
fFs5isS Sa iSsoa m. l.se 40
iosor m Limited Express s"s $50 a. M daily. sH:
For Baltimore 40. $780, $780, $50, lo:4o {. M. and
80 $50 10 40 81 $50 .: so and 100 K.
ESQ and p ISsS p. s S b. H. 420 '2O ''
For Fopes Greek Line Gao am. and 4:so p H. daily.
For Annspolis. Gao am. and 44o pm. daily. e,oep,
Lex ssS ssgHs Gus
For Alexandria, ESQ., 100 9:2o IL 90 and II 80 M
200. 4:20. 500, 600. 500 and IL 30 pm. On
Sunday at $780, 3. 90 IL 90 a. m.. $500 y. M.
For Richmond and the South $50 and III 90 am.
daily. and 5 90 ~. m. daily. except Sunday.
Trans leave Alexandria for Washington. Goo 500
1908 and 10: 20 m. $780, 8. On. 3:27. 5l0 700
and 10 p. M, and IL 100 midnizht ON Sunday a
800. and 0.0S a. IN. z 20 and 3: 10 pm.
Tickets aud information at the office. northeast
Of 9Th street and Pennsylvania avenue and at the
station where orders he ett for the checking Vt
laggagc TO destination from hotels and residences.
}. r. WOOD. General Passenger Agent.
CHAS. T.. PUGH. General Manager. jy9
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Texas Drinking Water.
From the Sanitary Engineer.

In a grotesquely horrible way recent story
from Texas brings out the Indifference of people
to the condition of their drinking water. A pub
lie we'll in Brownsville was cleaned out short
time ago. and in it were found the remains of q
prisoner who had disappeared, it is said, severa
years since. Then the people remembered thatl
to be sure the water did at one time taste bad
and hair and flesh had been found in it. But as
it was supposed these came only from drowned
rats or cats they went on drinking the water un-
concernedly. The question Of dirt was of no i'm
portance; distilled dead animals they endured
with equanimity-only when it proved to be
dead prisoner did they attach any Importance to
the bad taste and smell.
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Mfghtier than the Plumber.

From the Cincinnati Saturday Night.
The bathtub waste pipe had clogged up and
the family plumber was viewing the remains.
'.This is terrible!" he exclaimed. "You didn't
send for me any too soon." Then he went away
and ordered the water turned of.
Next day he sent around two men. a boy
with spirit lamp and wagon load Of tools
The men dug up the hydrant, after which
they were compelled to go to neighboring
saloon and play seven-up for the champagne,
and the boy had to go to baseball match and
hedge few bets.
When the small boy of the household came
home from school In the evening he stuck q
switch into the waste pipe and the bathtub was
soon cleared of It's contents.
By this happy chance the plumbers bill was
cut down to $197
This story teaches that the small boy ie
mightier than the plumber.
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wild Times in the Gay Capital-Amcr.
leans to the Fore.

Cable 10 the Carson Appeal.
PARIS June 26.-The round Of amusements
which Mr.. Mackay is providing for the Ameri-
can colony since his return from the great fetes
at Moscow are the all-eclipsing topic of the
hour. At the ball given last Saturday Mr.
MacAay hired the King of Sweden to dance with
the American ladies'. paying him 81 900 an
hour for the work. About midnight he struck
for higher wages and Mr.. Mackay stood the raise
with true American sang froid. BY o'clock the
king was completely blown with his social exer-
c;ses and taken from the room in q fanting con-
dtion. Mr.. Mackay offered to pay all his funeral
expenses ifhc died which generous offer made him
many friends among the Swedes. The Prince of
Wales teie"raphed for an invitation to the ball.
but the American millionaire remarking that
Wales Consolidated was a good short, declined
to issue an invite. When his little bon mot was
translated in the morning journals the city was
cOnvused with laughter. Several descendants
of the Bonaparte family who attempted to climb
i'm the windows of the ballroom were thrown
into tine basin OF the fountain by Mr.. Mackay
who stands over six feet in his socks. and is
called the strong man of Nevada" This grace
full act OF courtesy to the straight rcpubs of the
empire is we'll appreciated Although Mr..
Mackay danced until daylight and went Off
shift at six o'clock. he whipped two editors of
the royaiist faction before breakfast for publish
dresses worn mt the blowout When the bodies
OF the editors Were borne away in an ambulance
to the Hospital dies Invalides the crowds ap-
plautied in the streets.
On sunday last Mr.. Mackay was taken with
chill, and, feeling that his hour was near, pur-
chased the tomb of Napoleon for family vault
and had it at once taken to his garden. On re-
covering in the afternoon he sold it to the car
at an advance of fifty per cent. The Journal of
Finance applauds this mastery stroke of busi-
ness. To-day there was Il rumOr that Mons Pat
toun. imperial keeper of 5000 crosscuts of the
Union. had struck birds -eye pOrphyry in the
Hale Norcross Wine, and that there was
much excitement. Some of Mr.. Mackay's
friends immediately formed company to i'm
port p0rphyry to Paris. and he kindly allowed
them to take 10000 shares OF the Union stock
at par. The Grand Consolidated Birds Eye
POrphyry Company OimitedD is now one of the
solid stocks of the Bourse. The first shplOad of
pOrphyry will arrive inside of a month.
The only accident which married the harmony
of the grand ball was when the eldest daughter
of the Count de Chambord fell into one of the
tanks OF champagne. which had carelessly been
left in the corridor. and was drowned. The
tank held 1000 gallons, and the body was not
discovered until the floor managers had drank
the tank nearly dry.
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.Blinkers.
From the London Lancet.

The question has often been asked, "Why
do horses wear blinkers9" We cannot answer
the question. 1t seems to us that they are use
less, ugly, and, to some extent injurious to the
eyesight. The most beautiful feature of the
horse is it's eye. If It were not ''hid from our
gaze" it would serve to denote sickness, pain,
or pleasure. Many time would driver spare
the whip on seeing the animals imploring eye
The argument in favor of blinkers is. we believe,
that horses are afraid Of passing carriages.
This objection, if valid, is Of little weight, as
such timidity would soon be overcome. We
trust, now the cruel bearing rein has been
cast aside that blinKers will also be abandoned
course which would. we feel assured, be attended
with advantage to both man and horse.
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RAILROADS.

TACK ON GROVE CAMP
METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH.
ID. L. X. X.
Trains leave Washington daily except Sunday. $40.
3, $50 M. 80. 40 and 62O n. Sunday trains
$3.50 a m. & 20 pm.
Popes Greek Accommodation from Bowie at 1863 q.
m. week days only.
Trains leave Baltimore daily. except Sunday. T. Is.
1855 an. 3:l5, 4:l0. 10 ami 7l0 pm. Sunday
trains 1885, IL :35 Ain. q, 7:l0 pm.
WM. j. g.. DULANY,
jy31 :augl. 2. 3 and 4. aug7.9.ll.h President.
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Hungarian visitors at the recent nati0na!
fetes in Paris said that in passing through Turin
they saw Kossuth, who, at the age Of eighty
three years, was remarkably well.
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Engineers SuperstitiOns.

From the Albany journal.
''Amsterdam is now on the dead list" said an
old griZZed engineer of the New York Central
railroad last light as he glanced Overthe account
OF the third fatal accident at the crossing in that
village. A Journal reDOrter was ignorant of tn e
significance of the term "dead list" HeeXpressed
his curiosity.
''By dead list l mean," said the engineer,
responsibility. " that that crossing is now out of
danger. Three deaths, you know, baptiZes it.
That is what the boys say. You know they be-
lieve that if one man or woman is killed at a
certain point there are dead sure to be one or
two others before long. Superstition? Yes.
that is what it is and no mistake. But some of
us engineers who have run machine for twenty
or thirty years, as 1 have, take stock ia it
because we have seen it proved time and time
again. I don't believe that three deaths are
sure to come one after an other but can't help
wondering why it is so often two. That's what
they call the duality. isn't it? When you come
to think of it, everything goes by twOs. You
haye two legs. two eyes. two hands, two ears,
two nOstrs and two rows of teeth. There are
two parts to a day, two divisions of the year.
winter and summer, and two orbs Of light. The
pair is the natural number. l have record
home of the accidents that have occurred while
have been on my engine l can show you the
| dates to prove that they have been in eight
| cases out often two at a time. Several times
| three have happened in succession, but two is
| the usual number. People would say that was
superstition, but when you see it over and over
again you can't blame us. | know engineers
| who will knock Off for week or so. after an &C
| cdent to their train in which somebody has
been killed. rather than run the risk. There
was case when young Platt Truax was killed
near Schenectady, in 1878. You know they are
now trying three young fellows in this city for
derang the train. few days before freight
| on which he was running had an accident. in
which the fireman was hurt so that he died.
| think he debut the accident was not at the
same point; it was west of Schenectady. The
| train men told me afterward that Truax had a
premontion of death. If had my book here l
could give you heap of information about
death on the rail to show you that there is
something strange in it. Anyway, most OF the
engineers have rather strong fear of repetition
whenever blood is spilled along the line. OF
course there are those who are as superstitious
as old women. Those are the fellows who see
ghosts"
"See ghosts?"
eyes, the dsembodied spirits, as the mediums
call them, of people they have run over. Not
long ago an engineer YOU know by name re-
signed because he said the spectre of woman
he had ground to peices at Fonda used to ap-
pear every night at the exact spot"
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7. d. Jones of Durham, N. c.. says that at the
surrender of Johnston to Sherman, after the
signing OF the articles OF surrender, appleiack
was passed around without the fOrmality Of
glasses. and that the bottle was seized and kept
as aifhistOr;cal relic.
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1OOO-CUYLER CLAY-ls83.-BY CUYLER,
looOfrst dam Bridget by Geo. NJ. fetchen. This
i royal breeding indeed As Q Eepressntaaye o. The
ing would lie hrrd to find. Esprit Of the Times,
Stands at Arlington stables. 1s2l q street. J.. h
CLARK, Manager. Vl6-lm
old WINE AND OLD FRIENDS ARE KNOWN Al
II the be1t % In USTHS Old Stand knoWp fog year1
ss tbe only place where 6rst-claas SECONDHAND
CLOTHING can be soli ~ respectable prizes. Addg1s
sbsTHs oM Stand. No. sls strest: bsswssa sA -
9Th gtxIeSs northwest.
N.ts-koteby mau prompCU ausndoa -
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NORTH GI,RMAN LLOYD
IN STEAMSHIP LINE BETWEEN NEW YORK, HAvRV.
LONDON SOUTHAMPTON AND BREMEN
be steamers of this company will sail EVERY WE'D:
NJ SDtY ASD SAT UkDAY from Bremen pier, foot
of Sd street, Hoboken. Rates of passage: From New
York to Hayre, London, southampton and Bremen.
first cabin $780, second csbiu. SEQ steerae, $50.
paid .teerage .tes s22 For freight or
York: ". q. METZEROTT CO. y25 PennsyiyaIia
avenue northwest Agents for WASHINGTON jai2
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STEAMERS.
A LIAM LINE-sUMMER SERVICE.

A LIAM LINE-SCMMER SERVICE.
Quebec to Liverpool every Saturday. making the
shortest ocean voyage. Only five days from land to
land Accommodations unsurpassed. Cabn-$7V and
$50 single; $l3S and $50 Excursion.
Baltimore to Liverpool every alternate Tuesday. Wis
Halifax and st. Johns. n. +.
intermediate Passage. $40. Prepaid Steerage S2l.
LEVE & ALDEN. General Agents.
207 Broadway. New York; or.
At Washington, d. c.:
d. A. BROSNAN, 612 9th street.
JAMES BELLEW, I'll 7th street.
G. w. MOSS. .25 Pennsylvania avenue
jyl1-w.s m 6m
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NUNARD LINE

NOTICE.
LANE ROUTE.
1BF CUNARD STEAMSHIP COMPANY LIMITED
BETWEEN NEW YORK AND LIVERPOOL.
FROM PIER 10 y. K NEW YORK
Eothnla. %. Wed. Sux. & Gaia. Wed. Sept 8.
PaVonia. We'd Aug. Is. Bothnia.. We'd en- IL.
Seryla. We'd. Aug. 22 PavonIa .... We'd. Sep. ~
Scythla Wei.. Aug. o. Servia..... We'd. ep. 26.
AND EVERY VIZ d. ESDAY FROM'N TORh.
Rates o. passage-Ssu ana $780, according to accom-
H. odation.
steerase at very low Storage tickets from v-
eloo and Queenstown and all other parts Of Europess
lowest rates.
Through bills of laden eiven for Belfast Glasgow,
HEyre Antwerp and other ports on the Continent and
For freight and PASSAGE apply at the Company's ocs.
No. Bowling Green. or both steerage and cabin to
9IIS BiGEAOw d Co. 6O5 eth street. Washington.
VERNON H. BROWN K CO., New York,
Or to Messrs. OTIS BIGELOW CO.,
janl2 COS 9TH street. Washington.
NEW YORK. ROTTERDAM. AMSTERDAM
IN The frst-class fnI powered. Clyde built Dutch
Steamships Of this Line, AMSTERDAM. ROT TER
DAM SCHIEDAM EtKDAM. ZAANDAM. p. CA
LAND. w. A. SCHOLTEN. MAS, carving the u. 8.
Mails to the Eetherlanda leave panys Pier foot Of
Sussex street Jersey City n j.. regularly every WE'D
NESDAY for Rotterdam and Am sterdam, alternately.
First cabin. $40: second cabir, $50 steerage. $26
b. CAZAUA, General Agent. 81 South William street
New York. For Passage apply to w. q. METZEkOTT
4 CO.. 925 Penn. ave-. Washington.
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F1NHE STEAMER MATTANO LEAvl = WASHING
u ton on Sundays. Tuesdays aud Thursdays, at
o'clock NJ, for Potomac kiyer LANDINGS. Lands at
Grinders wharf Sundays and Tuesdays down, Wednee-
days up. Brent's wharf and Chapel Point Thursdays
down. and Mondays and Wednesdays up; Msttox
Creek (destnation) Sundays Tuesdays and Thursdays
Packages received aud information given at Offices Of
q. L. SHERIFF.. 1913 and lila Pennsylvania avenue
G. I. JONES. Agent, 18th street wharf. mhl2
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READ READ"
DR. MOTIFS FRENCH POWDERS
Certain for al Urinary D1seasea Impotency GleA
Syphilis &c; GonogEhoes cured s. g houri WIN:
avenue northw est ice s. per box cent BY maui undsa
seal on receipt OF price aull
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The steamer SUE. Capt w. c. Geochegan. leaves
Stephenson's wharf foot of 18th street, every SUNDAY
at O'Clock M, for Baltimore and River Landings.
Returning. leaves Baltimore every FRIDAY at O'Clock
p. m.
All accommodations strictly frst-claas.
kiyer freight must be prepaid and will be received
SATURDAYS only.
STEPHENSON BRO, Aeents
ml6-6m 7th street wharf and 18th st. and Pa ave-
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Sharp Practice.

A few days since three men, with two
horses and a single seated top buggy, be-
longing to an Elyria livery stable, over
took Fred Anderson and wife On their way
to Oberlin, and offered to sell him tooth
powder, which Anderson refused to buy.
The teams had stopped and one of the
strangers climbed into Anderson's wagon
with four boxes of what purported to be
tooth powder, and opening one, counted
out $45 in bills, and put into it, then pro-
posed that Anderson should have his choice
of the boxes for $50. After some urging
he drew and got the right box, then repeat
ed it with equal luck, and then took out
his own $35 to give in exchange; but the
stranger wanted to draw once and quickly
changing the boxes and snatching the $35
was getting away in haste. Anderson
would have beaten him in the struggle,
but the partner drew q knife and slashed
his over coat, and by that time Anderson
let go and the men were soon driving rap
idly away with both .Anderson's money
and their own. Anderson took one horse
leaving his wife with the other, over
took the villains demanded the money
and succeeding in getting $50. He will
probably not attempt to play any more
games with sharpers.
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County Inirmary.
70 the Editor of the KxrrErHIsr-

To the Editor OF the ESrEEPEIsE-
Fifteen years ago the people of Lorain
County purchased the farm and erected
the present Infirmary building at an ex-
pense of 1900. On the Gath inst at
call OF the Commissioners a meeting was
held in the Court House at which was
voted to submit to the electors Of the Coun-
ty at the next election, proposition TO
build a new wing thereto at an estimated
cost of $4,000 or $4,000, which opens the
door for any amount which design or bad
management may suggest.
We voted $780, 900 for a new Court House: /:
when that amount was expended twas too
late TO pause, and ut the present time $40,
900 is nearer the cost The building CON-
menced on an estimate of 10000, when
that sum is expended it is too late to stop,
and any amount demanded must be fur
nished.
The State Legisl ature has proposition
to add to each of the several asylums a
wing for the incurable insane. If this be
comes law the main exigency is provided
for The County is already in debt on the
Court House 100000. This adds to the
levy one mill. The floods washed away
bridges so that the Commissioners are
forced to levy one additional mill for bridge
fund. If the State adds to the State levy
for the contemplated additional asylums,
and Lorain County votes to levy this $20,-
600, for the same purpose, it is piling
double expense on our people. At the
meeting this suggestion was secuted at be
cause at was assumed the State would
never do it. But the recent visit of Leg