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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-01-29
S1.OO PER ANNUM,
John BoIgiano's Horse Fly Liquid Is
the Rest.

None genuine without our signature on each
can, John Bolgiano." Beware of false imita-
tions. We manufacture nothing but the best.
Drives flies and insects of all kinds OF horses
COWS, dogs, sc. Pint, Csc quart, Soc; gallon,
$780, We also manufacture J. B. House Fly
Liquid. Drives mosquitoes, reaches, ants,
chinches, and all other insects out of the house
permanently. Bottles, DC. and Csc; pint. 75c.;
quart, S.. Is The John Bolgiano Co., Manu-
racturers, Il East Lombard St, Baltimore, Md.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-01-29

DO you know the.quickest way to cure
sprain or bruisc, burn or scald? Such n
jures are very common and can be cufed
gu ckly If properly treated. Mr.. }. VI. Amor
man. OF Forks z. o., Columbia Co.. Pa, SUI !:
81 have never found anything to compare " it'll
Chambersin's Pain Balm for sprains, bru sea
and burns. We have used il in our family for
several years and feel that we can moi 10
without it." For sale at rs and so cents per
bottle by John s. Richardson. druggist, Bel
Air. Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-07

visit to this country and So
jourr of few weeks in this city, in 1906,
during which he studied the plan of the
city. At that period. he states, there were
100 buses here, with population of GO00,
and the Capitol was so far from completion
that both Senate and House occupied the
north wing That the name city of mag
nificent distances" bestowed upon it by
Thomas Moore, the Irish poet, some few
years after, was an appropriate one, at the
time it was given, cannot be denied, and
for full half a century after the city
had right to such name. Dickens quotes
the phrase, and suggests that it should
have been 1.-The city of magnificent inten-
tions." Our first century has not been COM
pleted, but that the magnificent inten-
TONS Of the founders were not in vain is
seen in the disappearance of the "magnifi-
cent distances" not only from the city lin
it's but from three-fourths Of the territory
OF the District; and the requirement forty
thousand elegant buildings and a CORE
sponding population to constitute the Amer
lean capital one of the handsomest cities
dorsement of the plan as "mcst elegant"
Is more than justified by the results.
Ihe plan OF l. Enfant was like our sys-
TEN OF government, unique and untried,
and while the population believed that the
latter would prove a success there was a
large percentage Of the people here who
looked for a material alteration of the plan
Tor rev could believe that it could be fully
developed unless the rate of tax alton should
be so high to be burdensome The
streets and avenues broad. and the topog
raphy such as to require much cutting and
filling, over a hundred springs from which
runs, traversed the city, and much of the
ground marshy, there was good reason for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-07
His Nose Was His Eye.
From the Philadelphia Record.

Several authors of the sixteenth century
having lost his eyesight, could see through
his nose. The story, much doubted at the
time and pronounced fabulous by physi-
clans, is nevertheless true if the researches
OF f. DouliOt prove correct. 1t seems that
the victim had lost his right eye early in
life, and later on while climbing on a
cherry tree fell upon a fence, the pickets
horribly mutilating the left eye, the chees
and the nose. The surgeon called in con-
sidered the eye entirely destroyed, sewed
up tho wound and il healed in time form
ing large scar where the eye had been.
A year later the man, then considered
stoneblind, laid in the grass, when he sur
prised himself by discovering that he could
perceive through the cavity of the nose
the sky and the color of the flowers on
the meadow around him. From that time
on H., practiced for five or six years 10 see
with his nose, which to MIN became prac-
tically the organ of vision. He gradually
became more proficient in seeing in this
way and could see everything beneath him
while he remained quite insensible to the
light from above.
The condition of this man can be ex-
planned scientifically. Although the lens
OF the eye had been torn from its socket
by the fall. the optic membrane and the
nerves at the rear of the cavity of the
eye had retained some of the seeing power.
Whel the eye had healed together a small
hole in the bone over the nose must have
formed which acted as a lens in the same
way as pfnhole can be used to take a
Photographic picture. This also proves that
the retina of the eye acts like a camera
obscura where the objects from the outside
become visible when the rays of light ar
rive there after passing through small
opening
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-07

From the Newcastle. Pa, DcIaocrat.
Samuel Simon, sr, a well-known resident
OF Neshannock township while strolIin;
near his home one day recently. noticed a
NY about half an irch long and of a dark
blue color, with a slim body bearing a
large dead spider. The fly crossed his path
and laid his lead down. 1t then went
about eighteen inches in another direction
ana commenced digging a hole in the
ground His curiosity being excited, he
stopped and watched the work. After the
ny had the hole dug about half the length
CT hlmSelf ne went to where he had left
ihe spider and took his dimensions. After
going back TO the hole he found IL was rot
big enough and commenced digging again.
After taking out quantity of earth he
again went to the spider and took his di-
mensions. He did this eight times and as
often enlarged the mole. When the busy
httle fellow had the hole too deep for him
10 throw the earth clear out he would 90
On TIE bank and force il back with his feet
AIter ne mad the excavation large enough
LOT ms purpose h went for the spider and
LOOK IL 10 the grave. for such il proved 10
De, and dragged it to the mouth of tina
Mole. After he had the body i'm he covered
IL with fine earth first and finished nv
placing small piece of cinder on ton
When he had finished the work he A.,
away. The whole time CONSUMED was o..
Scuy hfty-hve minutes. as Mr. Simon saws
ne sat and watched the whole perform
ance. 'AA
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MIR. WILLIAM BARNES
TELLS OF HIS DEAFNESS
AND RESTORED HEARING
Vim. H. Barnes. 500 F. 1T. n.e Wash

VIM. III. barnes. 500 f st. ne,, WASH
inSton- Mr.. Barres is 55 years of age and has
been In the employ Of the Adams Express Co., In
this city, for SO years. Just what caused nv
deafness. do not know, but it began with a dis
agreeable runbling noise in my head. Both ears
troubled me alike. / was about as deaf In one
the other.
Il could hear very loud noises but IL spoken
TO on the streets could Lot hear 4 word. 1 could
not hea- when spoken to across a room To make
Inc Understand. people would have to sit close to
me and speak very loud before i could hear them
To-day went to church, and, sitting in a back
pew, heard every word the priest said, something
1 had not been able to do for months 1 have been
TO theaters and sat through the whole play without
hearing anything. Now / can hear ordinary con-
versa tion.
Il feel like another person since my hearing has
been restored Before that. when l went home
nights it was hard for my friends to get a word
out Of me. 1 avoided conversation for 1 dislike,l
10 be always asking people to repeat.
Il had been reading of Doctor McCoy's cures
foT some time, but what induced me to 90 TO him
was that night, while sitting in a barber shop,
i heard man speaking of bis own case. He had
been deaf. lie said, for long time and Doctor
McCoy's treatment had cured him.
My improvement began two weeks ago. 1 no.
ticed that the noises were growing less, and that
i wills hearing better. Ny hearing has improved
steadily since; until now 1 can hear conversation
distinctly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-07

bureaus. The Treasury Department of that
day Is included in the present building-that
portion fronted by the colonnade on 18th
street, with the wing extending to the new
west wing-and there were Lbs rooms above
the basement, IS on each fiocr. The Attor-
rey General was located in this Office, as
also the general land office. The Post Of
flee DEPARTING mt was then but half of its
present dimensions three stories in height
and . rooms on each floor, heated by fur
race. containing in addition to its own
offices that Of the sixth auditor of the treas
ury. The patent office building, now in
cluded in the Interior building, then fronted
20 feet by depth of 20 feet on street,
and then contained the museum made up
of the collections brought home by the
Wilkes exploring expedition, and those Of
the National Institute, which became the
nucleus of the National Museum. The city
hall was then unfinished-ttat is, only the
front part of the building had been erected.
were inclosed by circular wall. around
avenue to New York avenue, and aside
from the Capitol grounds. Lafayette Square
and few other public grounds. the reser-
vations were not inclosed or improved.
The municipal Improvements, as stated
above, were tardily made, and excepting In
the lower down town. portion of the city
there were no cobble stones used other
than for cutters, and little foot pavements
of brick were laid. Three market build
ings, four school houses, a guard house and
two small lock-ups. with six fire engine
houses, were the buildings more or less city
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-07
HOW MIR. ARNSTRONG'S
HEARING WAS RESTORED

Charles Armstrong, 1887 1-2 18th st.
NV: Mr.. Armstrong has for years been engaged
the grocery business at the above address. and is
We'll knowE and highly respected In the northwest
My right was stCne deaf.
With II L could not hear sound, mind
Low loud
My left quite deaf.
After being under treatment some time, my
Ii airing returned to srddt My.
Last Sunday / heard with my right ear, the
that had been stone deaf. the ticking Of my
y.atch. and that is acute than the
left.
My deafness began In my left ten years ago
and growing gradually. in time 1t extended
10 the right Ny right became deaf very
rapidly and in a short while stopped up entirely
and lost all Of sound
TO add TO my discomfort there was a rumbipg
noise IN my head that at times almost drove mo
wild.
'rh unnatural noise in my head has been stop
ped. and hear again distinctly"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-07
THE sIICRoMoroscopE.
II Is Used to Take Photographs Of
Microscopic Motion.

1t Is Used to Take PhotorraDbs os
Microscopic Motion.
| From the Scientific American.
Inc principles of the kinetoscope have
been applied to the microscope with SOM
interesting results by DR.. Robert L. Wat
kiiis OF New York city. The outcome of DR.
watkins experiments is thus described nv
D. F. st. Clair:
Inc principal difficulties in making a
microscope out of so delicate an instrument
as the microscope are the light and the
leTs. Every electric lamp in the market
men its hight has been concentrated suf-
short time. with its heat, kill, dry un or
impair almost any kind of life in the
microscopic field.
hatever Is to be photographed, once it
to horizontal plane. Near one end of the
microscope is placed an electric lantern
containing small arc light concentrated
On the OBJECT. Near the other end is the
DIX mat covers the apparatus for moving
the long, sensitive gelatine film. The film
runs like belt on wheels and passes in
front OF a tiny window in the box and on
dlrect line with the lens and light. This
machinery is turned by a crank, and its
ordinary capacity Is about 1000 pictures
per mirute 1t Is possible to increase II to
700 or 900. but for most purposes 1000
OF even less per minute will record every
The advantages Of mutoscopic photog-
raphy to microscopy are quite evident,
especially as regards the action of bacteria
and blood cells. Nearly all the numerous
families Of bacteria have motion,
often motion that the eye cannot
Always follow clearly. 1t has al
ready been discovered that the same kind
OF bacteria VIII act very differently under
different circumstances. For instance. n
flash of bright light will suddenly drive
some kinds to cover. Some kinds will read
lly seek the negative pole of the battery
They Will also seek food with avidity and
reject poison with true instinct. All such
Phenomena can, of course, be followed with
the eye, but not with the same detail in
the microscopic field as in a series of clear
photographs. The fact is that, on account
OF the motion Of some bacteria, 1t has been
well nigh impossible to photograph them
The books have had to depend upon the eye
and hand of the draughtsman and vagiIe
description.
blood cells, after the btbod has been drawn
are comparatively slow at best. But the
amoeboid movement of the white cells and
the changes taking place in the nuclei are
complicated and often hard to intelligently
watch. in the field. Many of these changes
occurring in the white cells are certain to
escape attention, but all of them will be
clearly recorded orp thesrapidly moving SEN
sitive film.
With the microfnetoscope 1t need no
longer be impossible teto photograph the
blood In actual ciFtsflation. With a better
light the cells maye seen In the thin It's
sue of the ear or the web of the fingers.
They have often been examined in the
peritoneum durinslianpperation. and DR..
Watkins himself has made close study Of
them In the web feet Of some birds and the
tails Of fishes. NJ III
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property, and about thirty churches
commodated the church goers.
NefghbOrhOOd Names.

NefEhbOrhOOd Names.
Outside of the more populous portion of
the city the names of avenues and streets
were seldom used, at least by the old Wash
ington people, in their mutual intercourse
Every heighborhood had a name known
throughout the city, and the newcomer,
first learning that the larger divisions Of
the domain of Washington each had a
name, and that there were residences, rows
OF buildings, runs, ponds and pumps to
which some popular proper name was at
tached would soon possess sufficient knowl-
munity. The publication of Washington
directory had taken place every few years
from early in the twenties, but it was not
a popular book, and to nine-tenths of the
population business men included) was OF
but little use.
The directory of those days was of less
than 200 pages, not over half the present
size. and contained, in addition to the
names and addresses of citizens, depart
mental register, congressional directory,
almanac. advertisements and numerous
tables. This work was, like the city, slow
OF growth. While according to the laws
the municipality was divided into wards,
they were much less known as such. with
the exception of the first ward, than the
subdivisions "City," Northern Liberties y
"Slashcs." Capitol HILL" Navy Yard
Island" and Commons" The central
part of the municipality was known as
the CITY and in the popular mind lay
between Capitol HIP on the east the
canal OH the south. the treasury on the
north.
The first ward" included all west OF
18th street. The Northern Liberties was
reckoned as extending from the patent Of
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THE final
MONTH
During WhichDoct
McCoyExtendsthe
So Rate.
One Weeks Treatment in the Mild
August Weather as Good as a
Month Of the Trying Weather
of Fall, Winter and Spring.

There is Tut one month of summer, but one
month more Of the So rate.
The mild summer weather. the weather which so
diseases of a Catarrhal nature. is at its best dur
ing the coming month So there are three great
reasons why those needing Doctor McCoys services
SHOULD make delay:
FIRST. his fee Is lower than 1t will
be again. He extends to all the s. rate
until the list of September. After that
date all must pay his regular fee
SECOND. one weeks treatment during August does
much good, ordinarily. a month s
treatment during the changeable and se-
weather Of fall. winter and spring.
THIRD, at this season. when the power of
tie skill of the Master is doubled through
Natures aid, Doctor Mccoy can see and
for twice as many patients as he
can during the severe months of the year,
consequently he now, better than at
any other time. afford to extend the
So rate to ALL
He wishes to make 1t perfectly plain to all that
he cannot for any reason extend this opportunity
} of the low rate beyond the 1st OF September and
he makes earnest request that all desiring to
take advantage of this offer do so at once in OIL der
that they may have the benefit of the mild August
days, and also that there may be no crowding or
confusion during the final days of the month"; with
the consequent disappointment of those who failed
to see the doctor; for the LIST day of September
this offer will be finally withdrawn, and never
mind what the plea. it will not be extended to any
patient whose pame is not enrolled before that
date.
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the property owner to fear that the COM
plete development OF the plan would lead
to confiscation. 1t is not, therefore. diff
cult to account for much of the old-tine
easy-going, plodding habits of the old
Washington people Fifty years ago I'M
improved real estate, save in the heart of
the city, was held at surprisingly low fig
tres. much of 1t at a mill or two per foot
(and some of this has since been sold at so
many dollars per fooD, ard was assessed at
even less The amount received from taxes,
with the receipts from the sale Of lots
ami from other sources, by the municipal
ity would not Justify any very speedy de-
velopment OF the plan-even the mere
opening of the streets on the outskirts.
Progress Was Slow.
The progress Of Improvement was slow
by the general government, the corporation
and the citizen, and they were apparently
hand in hand, all improvements being be-
hind the growth of populations for the rule
of each appeared to be to follow the actual
demand and necessity for making an i'm
provement Thus 1t was that the accom-
modations for the employees Of the govern
ment were only provided when 1t was
found that the expenditures for rented
quarters exceeded the interest on the cost
of buildings; the corporation ordered the
opening of streets. the location of pumps.
etc, when the public necessities required
for himself or when he saw an opportunity
to rent house to advantage.
In the 40s the executive departments emf
ployed less than 800 persons, and some OF
these were In rented buildings. The State
Department was where the north wing Of
the treasury now stands-a two-story brick
building. with portico on the north. sup
ported by six columns, and 1t contained
thirty-two rooms on the two principal
floors. besides an attic and basement. In
addition to the State Department Offices
| two of the treasury bureaus were accom-
modated in this building.
The War Department and Navy Depart
ment were situated on what Is now the site
OF the State, War and Navy building and
| were precisely similar to the State Depart
ment building in style and dimensions.
Some of the war bureaus and the second
auditor Of The treasury were here quar-
| tered. but several other bureaus were In
| rented houses in the neighborhood. In the
| Navy Department the fourth auditor of the
] treasury found quarters, as well - the navy
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flee to the ''Slashes," with the "FrankItr
KoW sec ton and first ward on the west and
English HilP' on the east, between q anC
" 4th ana 10Th streets. Capitol HILL as
popuiarly known. lay between LIST stree,
west and 4th street east, and the two
Chicken Cock Hills were between north
ana south ID streets. The Navy Yard en-
oraeeo the southeastern section of the city
tnen received the dignity conferred nv the
ute or South Washington" and was an
apt Illustration Of the geographical term "a
nooy Oh iand entirely surrounded by
Over the Tiber.
The canal. entirely cutting It Off from tho
remainder of the city, made It necesss rv ~
throw bridges over the TYber. to sunnIv
means of communication These were At
18th. 18th 9TH and Az streets, MARYLAND
New Jersey and Virginia avenues. and N
street. and were wooden structures. with
the exception of that On New Jersey ave-
nue.. which was of brick. Formerly a Stone
arc1 was at New Jersey avenue but his
mao peen replaced by a brick archwav
wnfch. built on an angle and in a sunerb
manner. attracted much interest and FOR
long time was regarded as a master n,aca
of brick work. 1-S~e
w ny the names were given these divisions
OF the city IS easily explained, excepting "a
10 To- the Northern Liberties" and the
3Os, when the erection of the patent office
was III progress, that there was quite n
DC ON north Of that building. Among other
settlers was Philadelphian. who estab-
lished saloon near 7th and @ streets. He
named 1t for the section he hailed from
The Northern Liberties House, and the
name took the fancy of his patrons. and
they applied It to the section northwari.
The origin of the name 'SIashes'' is In
some doubt. but one OF the old citizens is
authority for the statement that from ths
iact that al that part Of the city was 80
covered with a growth Of bush and briar
and much cutting or 'slashing" was ie.
qnired to open a roadway, the name natur-
ally came to be applied. These, we NAV
say. were the grand divisions OF the civ.
and were well known by the general public.
young and old. but In the geography OF the
CITY there were many backward In prac-
teal knowledge until they reached the age
OF maturity. In almost every section Of TIE
city there was Q Jealousy toward the bows
OF other sections. and It was not always
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-07

From the Philadelphia Record.


The human heart 10 practically a force
pump about six inches in length and four
Inches in diameter. 1t beats seventy times
per minute. 400 times per hour 1O0. 500
times per day ana 36. ~. 600 times per year
ana 2,o9a.i400o0-say two thousand five
hundred and seventy-five millions four hum
dred ard forty thousand-times in seventy
years, which is mans appointed three
score years and ten" At each of these
beats II forces 2h ounces of blood through
the system, LIS ounces per minute ,,5in
pounds per hour. or 7.03 tons per day. All
tne blood IN the body. which Is about thirty
pounds, passes through the heart eyery
three minutes. This little organ pumns
every day what Is equal to lifting l22 tons
one ioot nigh. or one ton I'D feet high
mat Is. one ton to the top of a forty-vard
mn chimney. During the seventy wears
OF mans life this marvellous lItfle nun,n
, m.hou. Z single moments rest. night or
isy, discharges the enormous ouanfitv ~
iss.soo tons of human blood. VI
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Delicate Carving.
From the Hartford Times.

From the Hartf6rd Times.
There Is a cherry stone at the Salem
(Mass.) Museum which contains one dozen
silver spoons. The stone itself is of or
binary size, but the spoons are so small
that their shape and finish can be clearly
distinguished only by the aid Of the micro
scope.
DR.. Oliver gives an account of a cherry
stone on which were carved 124 heads SO
distinctly that the naked eye could make
out these belonging to popes and kings by
their miters and crowns 1t was bought in
Prussia for the equivalent of S15,000 and
thence conveyed to England, where it was
considered an object Of so much value that
its possession was disputed, and II became
the object Of q suit in chancery.
One of the Nuremburg toy makers in
closed In a cherry stone which was ex-
hibited at the French crystal palace. a
plan Of Sebastopol, railway station and
the Messiah" OF klopstock