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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-07

country street car companies are put
ting electric heaters 1nto their cars.
The apparatus consists Al coils of wires be-
meath the seats, which afe connected with
the trolley wire overhead, or with the
wire cable in the conduit below. Thus the
vehicle is heated, lighted and propelled by
the same electrical energy. Furthermore,
the heat Is uniform throughout the car. In
stove and scarcely perceptible near the
ends of the conveyance.
Heating Cars.
Such heaters are now in successful opera
ton on about 1000 cars belonging to street
railways in seventy-four cities and towns
in the United States and Canada. One ad-
vantage possessed by them is that they
take up no space; another is that they re-
auire almost no attention, and do not re-
qu're any OF the time of the conductor.
The turning of switch does everything.
and the current Is easily regulated So as to
produce any degree of temperature that
may be wanted. The current may be d.
unfinished or increased to any one of five In
perature may be regulated. it remains con-
slant. With stove, similar control Is out
or the question. OF course, there are no
fires to be built and no ashes to be disposed
OF; when car Is laid off, there is no nre to
be drawn.
The electric heater furnishes a large
quantity of pleasantly warmed air instead
of small quantity of overheated air. In
cars the apparatus is SO PLACED as to dis
tribute the heat as evenly as possible, and
an advantage Is contained by delivering II
near the feet. Thus the warm air IS COM
municated to the passengers before it rises
to the upper parts of the vehicle. A coal
stove, on the other hand, sends Its heat
lirst TO the upper part of the car, while the
cold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-07
BUSHELS OF MAIL HIDDEN.
Fall River Carrier Didn't Have
Time to Do His Work.

A post office scandal has been revealed at
Fall River, Mass, by the discovery of twelve
bushels of mail matter in the loft of the
armory and central fire station, which are
in close proximity to the post office building.
The discovery was made by City Engineer
Gerry who reported the matter to Postmas-
ter Sullivan.
On investigation it was found that hooks
and crannies of the place were stuffed with
mail matter sent from Baltimore, Detroit
Philadelphia, Glasgow, Montreal, Manches.
ter and Paris. At first 1t was thought that
some lazy letter carrier had thrown away
the patent medicine circulars that burden
the mails at all times, but on closer inves-
tigation it was seen that sealed letters and
some of the best-known publications of the
country were strewn about with the most
reckless carelessness.
The post office authorities learned that the
matter was sent between August and No
vember, and was taken from the office for
delivery by a substitute letter carrier,
named James A. Lawson, who was accus-
toned to use the armory as a loafing place.
Rather than do the work of delivering the
letters intrusted to his care. he stuffed them
in the hiding places that were at hand.
Lawson was arrested last night, and con-
fessed. He said he did not have time to de-
liver the mail in the eight hours allotted by
the government officials.
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Healed by n PincushfOn.
n tho IT, RI ford Times

FROM the faIlloTu LINES.
Physicians often meet with people who are
carrying around imaginary ailments and
really believe themselves as badly afflicted
as they assert. Some curious cases have
been noted. A lady had been confined to her
bed for many months with an illness which
wholly deprived her of the use of her lower
limbs. The doctor who attended her failed
to discover the nature of the affection, which
might ordinarily have been attributable to
several causes. EXaminaBon however, re-
vealed nothing calculate91 throw a light on
the matter and the medteQ practitioner, af-
ter patient and exhaustiyS analysis and at
tention. came to the combustion that the i'll
ness was imaginary.
Although he discreahy Aept this opinion to
himself, proof was Eventually forthcoming
as to the accuracy Of his Aw. Being lifted in
the sheets out of her bed One day, while the
mattress was rearranked, the lady surprised
her attendants by syddp4(y jumping from
the couch on which she hatfbeen temporarily
place, with loud epreenion of alarm. 1t
was discovered that She HID been laid upon
a needle cushion Inadvertently left on the
sofa, and that the s4arTsfpoints of several
needles had pressed Yiefet4ly into her back.
The contretemps revealed>the fact that she
could stand easily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-07
A WONDERFUL BATHROOM.
The Buthcr Stands in n Whirlins
Maze of Water.

From the New York World.
Nothing delights the civilized man or wo-
man more than to view well-ordered, con-
venIent bathroom. This is an account of the
best bathroom in New York. 1t is at the
Montefiore Home for Incurables and Chronic
Invalds, one of the most deserving charities
in New York. After one has gone through
its clean halls and wards one is prepared for
something excellent in the way of a bath
room. But one is surprised and more than
pleased when its full beauties are displayed.
This bathroom is in the basement. OF
course it has the usual things, including the
box In which one may be parboied in hot air
or steam. with electrical accessories. 1t has
the marble foot bath and the needle bath,
the shower and the hose, and in addition it
has other things that make it impossible for
any human being to leave it with the re-
hottest trace of uncleanliness.
In the center of the large room is a marble
stand on the fiat top of which are dozen
stopcocks, two lines of hose, thermometers
and steam radiators. In a corner is what
looks like the usual combination of needle
and shower bath. The attendant takes his
position behind the marble stand and with
the aid of the stopcocks controls over score
Of baths and combinations of baths.
He who seeks bodily purity takes his stand
In the center of the circles of pipes that make
the needle baths. The attendant turns a
cock, and several thousand streams of hot
or cold water, as he chooses, issue from the
tiny holes in the pipes and center upon the
body. He turns another wheel, and a shower
of water descends fom the ceiling. He turns
a third wheel, and from the floor under the
feet rises a powerful fountain. The bather is
now standing in whirling maze of water
under high pressure. Round go the Wheel,
under the hands of the attendant, and the
water stops Then he turns another wheel,
and steam issues instead
The man who is bathing now comes out of
the needle bath and stands against the wall.
The attendant points the hose at him and
turns wheel. The cold water rushes out in
a great stream. He gradually reduces it's
temperature and. by turning another wheel,
makes hot water, almost boiling, issue from
the hose. third wheel controls steam, and
this may be projected through the hose.
THE hottest bath any man takes here is
40 degrees" said the attendant. THE cold
est is below zero. We have the water artifi-
cially chilled as well as heated"
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sHEATHING BY ELECTRICITY.
A Device Which 1t is Believed VIII
Keep the HuIls of Veasela Glenn.

A Device Which 1t is Believed VIII
Keep the Hulls of Vessels Clean.
From the Providence Journal.
Clipper ships with copper bottoms are
the pride Of the seas. Salt water has no
effect upon their bilges. except, perhaps,
to make them brighter. In a dry dock In
having copper sheathing plated on her
hull below the water line. and when it
is completed it should not only keep the
tug from fouling, but make her at least
knot faster.
The process Is simple to an electrician,
but mystifying to a layman. Imagine
thirty or forty flexible. watertight baths
or boxes about four feet square and six
inches deep fitted to the shape of the boats
hull and held close up to 1t by props, which
are kept against the sides about two days.
Into these baths is pumped chemical So
luton stored in a large vat. The power
is supplied by four dynamos, the current
passing through two solid copper bars to
the anodes. which are sheets of copper, in
the big vat or reservoir. Here they are
entirely consumed in the solution. and the
copper from them Is pumped in the chemi-
cal solution directly to the baths, fastened
against the vessel sides. The positive sup
ply bars are connected to the vat the mega
tive to the boat
With copper plating on iron and steel
hulls there will be an immense saving in
dry docking expenses, inasmuch as bar
nacles will not attach themselves to a cop
per-sheathed craft All of the big liners
have to be docked sometimes more than
twice year to be cleaned. and every time
they go into dry dock it costs thousands
of dollars.
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ABOUT FLAX GROWING.
How the Crop Is Grown and the
Effect the Soil.

How the Crop. is Grown and the
Effect on the Soil.
From the New York Tribune.
1t is now several years since 1t was fully
demonstrate in this country that the tex-
tile fiber known as tibrelia could be manu-
factu1 ed successfully from flax straw. and,
although the predictions that it would be
generally used a substitute for cotton
may not have been entirely fulfilled. it is
used to a considerable extent with goods
made of wool and cotton. The attention
called to the new fiber gave an incentive
to flax growing, however, which has re-
suited in much larger acreage of this
We're abandoned in New England, or in
former days raised flax for spinning, We're
planted with this crop, and the general
output last year was enormous. the real
extent to which fibrelia is used in the man.
ufacture OF goods can be gathered partly
from the fact that in 1880 over 1,OOOWO
acres of fax straw were burned in the
fields after the seed had been gathered,
while today little, if any, such straw is
thus destroyed.
In the west the fiaxseed is sown broad
cast for the fiber at the rate of two BUSH
els to the acre, and all the cultivation
given to 1t is that required to keep down
the weeds until the leaves shade the
ground. The plants are allowed to rpen
their seeds. and then the straw Is pulled
and put up in small bundles for drying.
The seeds are thrashed out good deal as
an ordinary farmer would thrash his oats
or wheat. that is, with fail or with ma
chine thrasher, the latter being the more
desirable, 1t does not injure the straw
so much. Some still resort to the 'rotting"
process, so common in early New England
days. The bundles are taken to the shall
low pond or brook, and stood in it with the
butts downward. After standing there for
five or ten days the core will come out of
the fiber when the stalks are broken. When
rotted sufficiently the bundles are taken
out with ptchfork and stood up to drain
ard dry.
The next process is that called grass
irg." The stalks are spread out upon the
grass and turned over once or twice day
for week. This improves the color of the
fiber. The ''breaking'' process which fol-
lows is done by a set of f1uted rollers and
the "hatchelling'' by a machine that sepa-
rates the fine and coarse fibers New and
improved machinery has been invented for
all of these processes, and some factories
take the fax direct from the farmers be-
fore the rotting and bleaching processes
produce 600 pounds of fiter to the acre.
SO per acre.
But fax seed IS exhaCstirg to the soil.
and, after it has been grown two or three
years on one field. period of from five to
eight years should elapse before another
crop is planted. The soil has to be heavily
MANFRED, fl ON 400 to GOO pounds of mineral
fertilizers being required each year to the
acre, besides barnyard and other manures.
Potash and phosphoric acid are the chief
ingredients that the soil requires to pro-
duce good fax.
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as they have been. and it is well. for they
were most ridiculousy ruffled about the
shoulders. making most Of their wearers
look Geforned.
having their sleeves crushed wearing coat
or jacket, and yet are cold In a cape. might
apply the Idea in the Illustration of the
tight jacket waist of Persian lamb. with
wing-like sleeves OF cloth or velvet trimmed
with bands of the lamb 1t makes a jaunty
and misunderstanding wrap, quite warm
CROUCH for ordinary wear in this climate
Just suggestion OF outdoor neckwear to
those who have no furs and cannot afford
them or feather boas either Get two yards
of black India silk, that which costs about
fifty cents yard. and cut it in six-inch
strips-lengthwise Sew them together
neatly, pink each edge and plaft 1t In triple
box plaits. 1t will be a yard or more in
length when completed, and is an excellent
substitute for a boa of fur or feathers. Put
narrow black ribbons where YOU wish to
boa, if bought at the shops, would cost
you about three dollars. 1t reed not cos!
you over a dollar, If you desire one for the
neck only. 4 yard of silk cut In three strips
viii suffice 1t will be very pretty edged
with narrow lace. A visiting dress that is
charming In design is made of opalescent
SIX. IN which tan and green and red give
Persian effect in certain shadows. 1t has d
simple rufIic at the foot of the unstIffened
skirt, and the waist is made in blouse ef-
rect with vest of cream lace and bands Of
green velvet, an odd but attractive effect
in bows OF lace with jet buttons giving a
F'renchy touch The sleeves are of green
velvet with dark shaded red roses stamped
on the fabric. The jaunty bonnet is of
green velvet with white lace rosettes The
description sounds bizarre, but the effect is
really strikingly elegant
New gloves are heavily stitched in colors,
ana the thicker kids are selected for WIN
ter wear. They are unstinted as to shades
but the cruder colorings not worn by
ladies' of taste Large buttons of metal or
me me pearl are both worn. and a few who
like the close fitting glove wear the hook.
1t Is little old-fashioned, but there are
some things, like Queen Victoria's congress
CATERS, for instance, which never go out of
is ShiOn-fOr some peOula
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scandalous. The dressmaker says to mad
am: Now. let me see. 1t will take four
yards of double width goods to make your
sleeves. Well. I think you may bring me
ten yards of forty-inch material!' A few
years ago four yards OF forty-inch goods
would have been oceans for dress skirt.
with some left for sleeves.
Then there are the capes! Why in the
world does a woman want to burden her
self with a great lot of goods in n cape,
which weights her down and flaps over her
head, wraps itself about her escort and
let's her fairly freeze in cold weather. when
the air slides up under its folds? 1t isn't
quite settled that they are so fetching,
either; for a dumpy little figure in cape
looks like Dutch doll whereas it would
be quite witching in a jacket a long
close-fitting coat The skirts almost
scarecrows in some instances, but the reac-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-07
IN THE Tolls.
The Visitor Knew the Ropes and
Acted Accordingly.

The Visitor Knew the Ropes nnd
Acted Accordingly.
From the Boston Transcript.
1t certainly was an unfair advantage to
take of man; but business is business
He was expecting dun. and he instructed
his office boy to say, in case anybody called,
that Mr.. Pilgarlic was out to lunch. Pres
emily there was a caller. He was stopped
in the outside room by the youthful
Cerberus, who delivered himself of the
formula according to instructions. DE-.
"Oh. he's gone out to lunch, eh?' said
the visitor; I'm sorry for that. 1 wanted
him to take dinner with me-
PIgarlc came out of the inner room
precipitateIy, and with a face glowing with
anticipated pleasure. But the visitor caus-
ed the blood to recede, for the visitor was
a dun and knew his business.
"If you can make it convenient" he said,
ito pay that little bill"
But why dwell upon the agonies of the
situation?
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ton is coming. slowly and surely. From
across the water the rumor is borne that
Partisan costumers are fashioning sleeves
of almost skin-tight proportions, and that
the skirts of ballet dancer width have had
their day. Nobody wants to see the hid
eous tight sleeves again, but smaller ones
would certainly be a boon to lean pocket
books.
While sleeves are as large ever, or a
little larger, the fullness comes in differ
ent place. falling through graceful manip-
ulation about the elbow, leaving the upper
portion near the shoulder perfectly fiat. Sec
lions or cores are features of nearly all the
sleeves, especially those of the coats and
long. ulster-like garments. Three pieces are
have not the time to cut your old sleeves to
cord and brading, gimp or fur in strips
answer quite as well. An example of fur
of black satin. The bottom of the skirt IS
tucked and has seam down the front. The
large sleeves have stripe of the fur down
the outside, and the revers to the jacket
front are bordered with fur With this cos
tune is worn a bright brocade silk scarf
with a deep fall of lace on it. the whole
thing being attached to a ruff of the black
silk
The fancy waist is as popular as ever.
You see 1t in silk and velvet, in crepe and
cotton in wool and in the thinnest of all
fabrics-chiffon. They are made on close
fitting Innings, and are deliberately trimmed
with anything that fancy dictates for gar
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An Unfair Advantage.
hicago Times-Herald.

FlCm tho Chicago Times Herald.
Speaking of gambling, I once saw three
darkies down south who had made bet of
"a quatah" each as to which could name the
two best things to eat.
They drew straws-to decide which should
have the first name"
That one who got the first straw proudly
declared:
well, gemmen, spring chicken en- water
million is good enough for me-.
This made the man of the third straw look
somewhat wild, and when the other sailed In
and announced:
you kin jis gimme possun an sweet-ta-
ters" the other man grabbed the money and
ran away saying: "Yo use fools, if you think
you gwine TEX my money-namin' everything
in de worl right fUs' clip"
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EXPERT MEDICAL TESTIMONY.
1t is Proposed to Intrust Such Quite
to n Board.

1t is Proposed to Intrust Such Duties
to n Board.
Albeny Letter to Buffalo Commercial.
An important measure to be introduced
into the legislature during the coming ses-
sion will be one to abolish expert medical
testimony in this state. SO far as 1t Is now
given by physicians and surgeons of any de-
gree of ability who may be called by the law
yers in trial case.
During the last five years in this state both
the medical and legal professions have view
ed with alarm the growing frequency of the
introduction of expert medical testimony, es-
pecially in cases of murder where the de-
Tense has usually become to be a claim of in
sanity. Any physician however shallow his
knowledge, has been called upon to TESTIFY
and in some cases there are known to have
been men introduced experts who have
proven to be purchaSable in their opinion.
Several prominent members of the medical
profession whose names cannot at this time
be mentioned have drawn a bill which will
be presented to the legisla ture early in the
session of 1896. 1t will be very radical in it's
terms and will lodge the right to give med
ical expert testimony in the courts of this
state in a non-partisan board appointed by
the governor, subject to the approval of the
senate. The province of the board will be to
act in the capacity of instructors and advis-
ors to the courts 1t will be large enough
to provide amply for all criminal trials, and
the quorum will be small enough to allow
sections of the board to act with the courts
in various localities.
The members will be chosen from the ranks
of the most expert alienfsts, having a high
ascertained qualification. The function and
power of the board will be to examine with
reference to the sanity or insanity of any &C
cused person and will have the power to call
for any evidence throwing light upon the
case. When any section of the board dis
agrees upon the questions involved, the
whole board may be called together for de-
cision. Under no circumstances will any
physician not a member of the board be al
lowed to testify in any of the courts of the
state unless it be upon the absolute facts of
the trial.
Any such expert may however, appear,
before the board and give evidence The
matter of remuneration of the board has not
yet been decided, and the bill may be amend
ed SO as to make the board consist of the
medical heads of each of the state hospitals
for the insane in the state. In any event the
departure is SO radical that the proposed
measure will be sure to call forth a great
deal of discussion.
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Wound Up the Cat.

FlCm the Louisville Commercial.
An old German. noted for his veracity
and his regularity of habits, had his face
all scratched up. His friends asked him
what was :he matter. After much per-
suading, he consented to explain his facial
disorder: Well you see. / vos very reg
ular in mine habits. Usually by nacht I
drive out mine cat and Wind up mine CLOCK.
Now, last nacht 1 get me minesef full a
little bit Won beer. 1 gone home, und being
a little mixed, 1 put dot CLOCK out of der
house and wound up der cat. Der cat OBJ
shected, and dot is allies"
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NOVEL BOYCOTT by STUDENTS.
Rutgers Men Indignant ut New Bruns-
wick Women for Giving n Reception
to u Princeton Club.

wick Women for Giving n Reception
to Il Princeton Club.
Because of a dance the young social wo-
men of New Brunswick. N. j.. gave to about
fifty Princeton students Tuesday night the
men at Rutgers College are up in arms. The
reception was patronized by many of the
most prominent women in town, including
the wife of Austin Scott. president of Rut-
gers College, and the wives of several pro-
fessors and trustees Of the college and was
given after a concert of the Princeton Glee,
Mandolin and Banjo Clubs.
Few Rutgers men We're invited, and some
who were refused to go: The Rutgers men
declare that they. through the college classes
and fraternitfes, give no less than ten dances
a year. to which the young women are in
vited and that, in consequence, they de-
served reception much more than the
Princetonians. The affair is looked upon as
a direct insult by Rutgers men, who have
now threatened to boycott those who gave
the dance Last night the Beta Psi fratern-
ity were to give a dance at their chapter
house. but none Of the girls who helped to
entertain the Princeton men were invited.
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The Hygienic Treatment of Constipa-
ton and Ordinary Dyspepsia.

Sir John Andrews, the English
professor, believes that in the vast
majority of cases constipation may
be successfully overcome by taking
a teaspoonful of the genuine import
ed Carlsbad Sprudel Salt dissolved in
a tumblerful of water (half a pint,
cold or hot, early in the morning,
and, if necessary, on going to bed.
Best taken when outdoor exercise
can be had.
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semeHterie which also makes the belt and
the bands 10 the prettily puffed sleeves,
which are quite moderate In size. 1t is girl
ishly neat and pretty.
Furs. and then more furs. 1t Is really
remarkable the amount of fur that one
small woman can dispose of about her per-
son, and how dear fine furs are to Il NO.
mans heart! Plush and velvet IRE 81 used