Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-23

Garlic taste in milk and butter Just now
Is unavoidable" said a well-known dairy
man, where COWS are allowed to roam in
the pasture. OF course, If COWS STALL
fed there will be no trace of garlic in their
milk, but the milk will be by no means as
rich, either in color or quality Some dairy
men feed COWS all the year round in their
stalls. They escape the garlic in this way,
but those who drink the milk do not get
such nOurshment as if the cows were al
lowed to eat grass in the pastures. The
garlic will only last couple of weeks more.
My own children dislike garlic much as
those of any of my customers, and it was
only recently that l learned of a way to
nrutraliZe it. Just let the child. or grown
person. for that matter. who dislkes garlic
rub an onion to their lips. After that they
cannot taste the garlic 1t is very serious
matter with some children who drink freely
of milk. to have their supply cut short by
the garlic taste. The onion will remedy it
fully"
THE lightning bugs you have here" said
a newly arrived attache of the French lega-
ton, ARE something entirely new to me-
There is no such bug in Europe. at least in
the portions where 1 have resided. Certain
ly there are no lightning bugs in France
They were a veritable mystery to me the
lew nights since. Though by no means
student of bugology. l thought I was more
than ordinarily Informed on such matters.
i may have read of the lightning bugs in
the books, but If so the fact escaped my
memory; for awhile | thought there was
something wrong with my eyes l am so
much interested IN them that 1 studying
them, and will write an article on them for
La Lantern.
They are having a big row out in Cali
ornia just now" reports a gentleman who
has returned from there. over the Grant
statue. which is to be erected at San
Francisco. The cause of the row is convict
labor 1t appears that bids were asked of
number of contractors for supplying the
stone for the foundation and pedestal of
the statue, and an award was made. 1t
turned out that the successful contractor
is having the stone quarried at the quarries
belonging to the state of California at San
Quentin, the state penitentiary, and tina;
the conyicts are getting out the founda-
ton stone and are also cutting the stone
for the PEDESTAL The labor organizations
OF san Francisco are up in open revolt.
They have teIegraphej Mrs Grant, who
resides here. to take a hand in tine mat
Ter, but she has replied that not being fully
informed of all the facts in the she
can make no expression save of gratitude
Tor the honor that is being done by the
people of San Francisco to the memory of
Gen Grant The state stone quarries in
California have caused more trouble among
labor organizations there than any and all
things else, and il is surprise to me that
tncy have not been abolished by the leg
iSlature
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1T may he superstition of the most ex-
EGserated kind remarked lady in the
hearing of The Star writer but as
cured my self of headaches by 1t, am sat
listed. For some years, Ike a number of
other women. L suffered very frequently
from headaches, and like number of
others used nearly all the popular head
ache cures Some Of them worked we'll
enough at first, but in a little while they
seemed to lose their effect. l was comb
ing my hair one day, and was about throw
Ing the hair gathered from the comb out
OF the window to get rid of it, when a
lady who was in my room told IT e that she
had cured herself of headaches by hiding
the hair behind the mirror. 1 thought 1t
v as nonsense, but as / knew one of my
headaches was then corning on, / did as she
suggested and the headache never came
and have rarely had any since. Now my
headache cure is: Never throw hair out of
window. and if possible hide it behind the
mirror Let others find it and dispose of
it"
Il had no idea of the little gamble among
the treasury clerks on the question of the
said a patent office clerk. until read of
it in The Star. With US it is different.
Though some may risk a few bets, a lunch.
cigar or something like that on the num-
Der of bicycles or express wagons the ma
Jority OF the clerks here bet on the wheels
themselves. Five minutes before lunch we
make up pool 1t is penny, or a nickel
TO .Ome in. the nearest to sweep the stakes
Eyeryb body guesses how many BICYCLES will
Pass a certain window in five minutes The
one who does the counting cannot be in the
pool
''Out IN Arizona We have a way of brae-
ging on the purity and Clearness of our
air. said Judge Murphy, the delegate from
that territory. and We have reason for it.
for there is nothing like it in the known
world The air Of California may surpass
that of Arizona from a photographer's
point of view, and it Is claimed that II
does. but the Arizonian only cares for
air for breathing purposes. We are not at
all Jealous on that point. We can see
mountain tops for over one hundred miles
and some here claimed that mountains 40
miles distant, can be discerned with the
Iaked eye. | was speaking of this TO some
friends here recently when / was blandly
informed by Scotch clergyman who was
fere on visit that that would hardly be
regarded as in any way remarkable in
Scotland. where, too. he said the air was
very clear We can see further than 1870
miles in Scotland he said. We can see all
the way to the MOON"
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There Is perambulating enterprise in
this city" said citizen, which 1 noticed
the other day for the first time 1t was a
goat. wagon and a colored boy. The goat
was harnessed to the wagon. and showed
every evidence of fully understanding its
business. On each side of the covered top
of the little wagon were signs bearing the
words Snow balls and In the wagon were
bottles OF sirup ice and an ice shaver
The cOlored boy drove his team eyery-
where. and stopped to sell snow balls. The
goat would browse on banana Feelings
shoe strings. tin cans, and other digesti-
Die articles he could find. The owner of
the outfit seemed to be doing a right UvaIv
business His apparatus attracted all tho
boys in whatever neighborhood he STONED