Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-29

Organ grinders have routes" answered
one of the wheeling piano players in reply
to question, las well defined as the
routes in other lines of business, and have
their regular customers also. There is now
and then some interference in the business
but the street music players are as careful
not 80 interfere with each others rights
and customers as are the ordinary
street peddlers or arabs. There is very
little music played on the streets just now
as more than three-fourths of the machines
ere being worked in summer resorts or
seaside cities. In a couple of weeks the
street music players will have returned
for the fall and winter season. Though
the spring and summer season is the best
for street players the fall season is profit
able in some sections of the city, and es-
pecially in the west end. The best ma
chimes are used in that section, too, while
the old WORKOUT ones are used on the
back streets and out-of-the-way places.
The street pianos which return through
Philadelphia are furnished with new mu-
sic. That city is the headquarters for the
street piano players as far as the east
is concerned. In the west Chicago Is the
headquarters The street piano costs all
the way from 800 TO $3.50
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1.-The Kneipp cure though just NOW
fad in some sections, and especially in
New York" observed weli-known physi-
clan, is by no means new thing or a
Few idea. TIE theory of the cure is that
ii eaualiZes the condition of things and
for that reason is specially beneficial for
rhe uTnatsm and similar affections. OF
course, exposure to the damp grass would
be harmful if carried to any great ex-
tent, but a bare-footed romp in the grass
fer half hour so is beneficial to al
nest every one 1t is walking about on
sftf.ra IN aPt h.
feet. which makes bathing SO beneficial,
rather than the actual bathing IN the wa
ter The ordinary person comes in con-
tact with the ground too Seid0n for per-
feet health. Take the average person in
this city. for instance First they wear
II .ck-sOled shoes. Next they walk on con-
crete. granohth:c or brick foot walks. OF
course brick Is the nearest to nature, but
even then it is far removed. Persons ge.
into fevered condition unkn owingly.
watch could often he removed if they walk
ed on the natural dirt roads. My idea is
that the kniepp cure will work just
well in the evening in the early morn
ing. the theory which it is based and
correct one. too. beng that We bene-
flied 10y coming in direct contact with the
earth
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"a new industry has sprung up of late"
remarked clerk in one of The upper de
partmeats (which 1 fee, sure IS something
n-~: under the sun 1 refer to the bicycle
cleaner. The average rider of the wheel
seldom has time. and even more seldom the
inclination. to cleanse his wheel He knows
pretty well that it should lie cleaned. but
postpones doing it. Here is where the BIZ
cycle cleaner comes in. Every Saturday a
colcred man goes the rounds CT the wheels
stored in the courts of the War, State and
Navy Departments. He at first cleans the
wheel on his own hook, taking chances
that he will get his fee, which is 1o cents
n for .4 al no HTrk !.
il pretty sure of a weekly customer. 1t is
an accommodation to the rider, and. De
Sides the cleaner is well supplied with the
tools brushes etc, which enables him to
make a good lob. In cases where the
enamel is Clipped off. he touches that Nd.
and actually makes an old wheel look like
new for 10 cents
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''Watermeions were never more plentiful
than they are this season, ard never in my
experience better" said grower who re-
sides or the Cone river. from which coun-
try this city gets its largest supply, but
somehow other the market for them is
not good. Hard times, think. is the cause
of lit, ard the thousands who bought
watermelon as religiously every Saturday
night and often during the week several
times. as they bought the other market
frg, are not buying them now. The result
is that il does not pay us to ship them.
There are at least thirty thousand melons
now on different farms along Cone river,
which will he fed to stock allowed to
rot. for stock get tired of them, and be-
sides the crop all gets ripe about the same
time and is much more than the stock can
consume.
THE old-fashioned barber ina gined that
the cutting qualities of a razor was bene-
fitted by dipping it in very hot or boiling
water" explained a talkative knight of the
he.
ei because the hot water removed resin
Gus substance which collected on it, The
razor was improved. but not for the reason
given 1t has been found out that a razor
or other fine steel cutting tool is best tenn
pered heat of III degrees That is the
exact point of heat where the best edge can
be put on a razor. Two hundred and twelve
degrees of heat is also boiling point of
water, and consequently when a razor is
clipped in boiling water it gives 1t a new
cage again. The oid-fashioned barber was
right. therefore, though he did not know
why he right
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Horse power as spoken of In machin-
cry remarked an experienced and we'll
Informed engineer. is to some extent a
missioner these days. Watt who first ex-
perimented and wrote on the subject, as
certGined by long study and experiments
tnat the exact force exerted by the strong
est horse in the London breweries was suffi-
Gent TO raise $1,000 pounds one foot high in
one minute. This he called the horse
power Thus. an engine of two hundred
morse poweS would be the power of two
hundred horses each lifting So 900 pounds
one loot high in one minute. Horse power
as understood now refers more to the size
or the cylinder than to the power exerted
The value of the unit has been Tins
changed. so that now what is spoken of as
horse power may mean any thing, one or a
half-dozen horses even.''
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Tine darker the night the greater Diff
hculty there IS in locating a fire." said a
member of No. fire company. The cause
of the mlscalculation Is the intense bright
ness of the fire in contrast with the dark
ness. 1 remember one night last fall a
man came running into our engine house
saying that there was a big fire, which he
said was two or three blocks away He
said 1t was in the locality of 18th and r
streets. Just as he was telling us about 1t
the alarm came in, and We started. He was
only mile wrong, for the fire was out
near Howard University. And yet that
man supposed he was good judge of dis
tances, and in fact was one of the army
engineers at the District buildings"
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