The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-04-12


lunch. shall constitute days work
"A woman weighing 1873 pounds
eloped from her husband at Essen in
Germany lately He found out the
train she had taken and telegraphed
only her exact weight to the official at
the other end of the line, telling them
to arrest her When the train came in
every woman was taken to the baggage
room and weighed; the runaway was at
once identified and sent back to her
husband.
The Atlanta 81 West Point railroad
is placing in the baggage car of every
train on the road and in every freight
caboose large box filled with surgical
dressings and appliances The con-
tents of the boxes have been selected
with great care by the chief surgeon of
the road, and consist of antiseptic dress
ings, bandages, absorbent cotton, plas-
ter and tourniquet.
The 700-ton steel ship being built to
the order of the new Zenith Transporta-
ton company of Duluth will be an in
novation in lake affairs, besides being
the largest vessel ever built on the
lakes. 1t will be fitted with tubular
boilers and triple expansion engines of
1000 horse power, and will not only
have steel hull and decks, but steel
cabins.
Florida has wonderful recupera-
tive powers. When the last cold wave
visited the peninsula, vegetation suf-
fering from the preceding one had al
ready greatly revived. Frostbitten
orange trees had put forth new leaves
and were developing fruit buds, and
early vegetables had been replanted
and were in a hourishing condition.
Frost that would leave its mark for
years elsewhere is forgotten in a sea-
son down in Florida.
The history of Bible publishing in
America discloses the fact that Phila-
delphia has played most important
part in this branch of book making.
The first Hebrew Bible published in
this country was printed by William
Fry, of Philadelphia, in 1914 This
was the second American book in He
brew characters, the press of Harvard
college having issued in 1909 an edition
of the Psalms. The Sauer Bible, of
which reprints are still in existence,
was printed in Germantown in 1743,
and the first Douay Bible reprinted in
America was published in Philadelphia
in 1890.
baltimore seems to have solved the
CT far Hnr-
ago a car fender commission was ap-
pointed and an ordinance passed re-
quiring all cars to be equipped with a
fender satisfactory to the commission,
under a penalty of five dollars day
for each car operated without a fen
der. Several different styles have been
in use for two months, and in the opin-
ion of the city authorities they have
more than repaid for themselves in the
| reduction of expenses from accidents.
Mayor Latrobe says that the cars used
to kill one or more persons week, but
i that they have not seriously injured
anyone during two months use of the
tenders.
1t is about fifty years since Della
ware had a chartered lottery, but
the lottery printing establishment
at Wilmington, which has again
been spared by the legislature, has
for more than twenty-five years
been furnishing tickets to the sew
eral lotteries operating in this coun
try. The printing office, low wooden
building in a side street, not far from
the main business thoroughfare, was
always jealousy guarded from the
eyes of the curious, it's windows being
shattered at all times, and few persons
beeing seen to go in or out. The pro
prietor of the place, well-dressed and
well-mannered man, lived hard by, but
never obtruded himself or his business
upon the public, though he was known
personally by many, and his face and
figure were familiar to half the town
Whenever the effort was made to sup
press the place by legislative enact
ment the reply was that it was an
ordinary business concern without
moral responsibility as to it's relations
with the lotteries.