Daily Republican., 1890-05-24
street Car ,pltters.

the floor OF street cars. On many OF
the lines placards have been lacked
up, reading, "Spi,ling on the floor of
this car is positively prohibited" and
it is said all the street car lines will
enter into combination 10 exterminate
the disgusting habit, even ii the spit-
ter has TO be elected from The cur. This
thing OF splitting on street car floors
seems TO have become such confirmed
habit in our city that passengers who
TO not spit, when they enter resolve to
bear with the filthy annoyance as well
as possible, us f. street car ride is soon
over and tho sufferers will soon be out
again in the fresh air of heaven, not
contaminated with tobacco spittle and
consumption phlegm. Some people
who ride in the street cars are most
extremely filthy in the habit OF ex
pectoraiing tobacco saliva over the
floor on the carpets and mating, in
the cIeviCes OF wooden and wile
graliDgs in the street cars. Ladies'
are compelled to sit demurely and look
on the disgusting sight, ard have the
greatest difficulty in tucking their
skirts around them to keep them out
OF the range OF the tobacco squrter
and to keep them from trailing in the
nuisance upon entering and departing
from the cars. Some tobacco sQuirters
become proficient marksmen, and with
the utmost sang-froid keep firing at o
particular mark or speck on the floor,
and exhibit the greatest pleasure the
closer every shot brings them 10 the
mark.
Some time ago We were the only
passenger in II street cur in this city
besides man who occupied au end
seat ut the entrance, whom We depomi'
mated in an art,c.e "a Human Hog"
He was well supplied with squirting
ammunition anu his squiiter iron
constant practice had assumed pscu
liar puckered shape that added fore,
and pgecsion TO the protected splotcl
- of black staa that sped oR its way to q
particular crevice Ia the wooden CRATE
that covered the floor. This human
hog seemed to have brains, for as he
expressed the Juice out of his enur.
NOUS quids which he rolled in his
cheeks he took the qulds out with his
hand when they lost their substance
and put them down In the squares of
tuC ElhtiuH, uHu lpOl
on them rammed them home In q
ride of about halt mile he had sew
ersl squares in the grating filled up
and the space around completely
black washed, The "hos' smiled
com mplaisantly al his work as he lett
the car. Who can imagine the Ian
guage used by the stout stomached
person whose lot it was TO clean that
carr
Disgusting, however, as 10 thc.habit
Of tobacco squirting in the cars is the
real injury to health is nothing com
pared to the accumulated expectora-
lions OF consumpled persons.
DR.. Samuel Dixon OF Philadelphia
has TO some exteEt been invest eating
the injurious effects arising from cor
sunpted dexpectUra,iors i'll street cars
lie uses device called germ col
lector" with which he collects the dns
in street cars. By this device he wai
enabled to zee whether The dust on Il,
glasses contained germs OF disease re-
sulting from expecioraiions ON th
floors of the cars. OF sickly persons
This is part OF what he rays abou
the test
~ have taken tubercular bacilli an,
nsyasated them with bellows luto th
general gtmos lEefe of Il chamber whpr
IRbSItG were confined. In this way
have iDoeulaled the animals and cause
death. Sometime since got consuml
tive to wash her teeth with tool
brush. rubbed the brush against
color glass aud found there tuoereul
bacllli. Now II that brush had rubbl
.gainet tooth brush used by "a healthl
person, the latter would certainly ha
been inoeulst ted.
In concluding the account OF Lis /
vestigations DR.. Dixon says:
~ pity the weak when they go in
the cars. Especially are tho fatigu
shop ghis the object OF MY coinmi5tr
lion. They are predisposed to iphale 4
tubercuiar bacifli srIsing from dr
split and finally become consumptivt
! really believe that many People CO
tract consuupton from the street ca
10 this manner. Cars should be dis
iected at least once in two weeks.
person should oe allowed to spit on ,
floor, There should be no plush sel
They should he cane or wood or lcathe
THE week winds up at Washing'
with two less Democrats and t
more Republicans in the House
Representatives. Langston OF
ginis takes Venables place, and Nil
Of South Carolina takes the 8
usurped by Elliott Tie South Ca
lima district has Republican major
In il CT some 1900 and when it v
laid out 1t was never expected that
Democrat would be elected from
But as bul,duzing and frauds becR
the recognized modes of carrying
elections, that district was forced
succumb and misrepresent itself
sending free trade Democrat to {
gress instead OF a Republican. tn
are still quite large number Of So,
ern districts that are misrepTeseI
in Congress in tho same manner,
the fact that the House refused
admita Republican TO lake MoIg
seat from Mississippi, shows that {
servative measures are to prevail
JUSTICE has triumphed so IA
Hudson County that Mcdonald,
State senator who had 5000 majo
has been ousted and Stuber, hts
publican competitor, has been SET
Now let Albeit, the Democ
Governor, elected by the same fr
step down and out and let Gel
0rubb, the honestly elected GoveI
take bis seat The Democratic fr