Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-16
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taSe over most OF the other remedies In
that IL is food as well. / don't know that
any particular quantity is necessary my
1uie being to let the child drink as much
as it desires, The child should get 1t at
least twice day. morning and evening"
, OF all the peculiar combinations I ever
heard of. or read of, there is one in Balti-
mere that 1 think surpasses any," said the
| foreman of one of the rooms in the gov
eminent printing office to a Star reporter.
me location Is on East Baltimore street
ana went over there to see it after hear
ing some OF our men speak of it. On the
corner or the street Is drug store, next is
doctors office. Two doors distant is an
nndertakers place of business and the third
Mouse away is livery stable which makes
d specially In supplying funerals with
nearses and carriages. Adjoining the stable
Is dissecting room, the property of one
OF the medical colleges. A half block away
Is an abandoned church yard. with some
~ 'he grave stones still in sight. Should
me uoctof and druggist start the process
sion, victim would have easy sailing the
rest of the way" INV
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fostase stamps, said an enthusiastic
coiiector, who prides himself on having a
coiection or stamps which has cost him
over N,Vo In money besides five years of
constant effort in the way of purchase. col
lection and exchange, get their value
A-''i a VI circumstances, but
usually because they are scarce, but few
having been printed or because nearly all
were used and destroyed. Several of our
own stamps have got great value because
there were errors made in issuing them;
that is, errors in engraving them In other
words, because they are imperfect or
course. as soon as the government discov-
ered they were imperfect corrections were
made and as far as possible the imperfect
Had
be got and destroyed. The imperfect ones
are held as great prizes by collectors
Some OF the biggest stamp concerns have
been established in Hong Kong, China and
by advertising themselves In stamp collec-
business.
The heather Chinee has set himself I'D
IN nearly every part of the world. In many
parts he figures in the laundry business
ana this appears to be his principal pur-
suit in the eastern part of the United
States In the extreme west he is a COM
petltor as barber, farm hand and as a
lnechanic- One of the well-known things
about Chinaman is the fact that he
regularly sends his address back to China.
In This way the stamp collection concerns
reach him, and they give him commission
vi any rare stamps he may be able to Sc
cure The Chinaman says nothing. but
freezes very hard to any stamp that he has
peen told has value. Having such an
enormously large force of collectors in con-
lroi, scattered as they are all over the
world, 1t Is easy to see how the Chinese
concerns have an advantage in the collec
uon OF stamps. Besides being industrious
every Chinaman is educated, because com
Puisory education is part of their law.
OF course, stamp collectors can oct the
benefit of their labor, but they have to nav
LOT IL. Two of the big Chinese concerns
nave branch establishments in Paris and
London" N
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of the leading thoroughfares of the streets
OF the large German cities" observed !. re-
Gently returned military gentleman. 70 a
Star reporter, mot however. because no
would not like to be seen there bpt hec,uso
1t Is quite job for him should he show IN
in crowded street In Eurone II ts DIE
Ierent from this country for military off,
GERS have to wear their uniforms constant.
~. Indeed. many of them have no other
ciothlng and no use for them IL they had
IN TINS country, 1t is extremely rare To 500
an oIncer In uniform, and never unless he
- going TO or returning from some func-
uon "here UNIFORM is necessary, and which,
as say, Is very, very rare. There are in
all OF the large cities and towns of Cor
many hundreds and hundreds of officers
II is an imperative duty of the soldier to
Iormaily salute them every time one passes.
even II the same officer passes him five or
ten times in an hour. The private soldier
generally takes side street. so as to avoid
meeting officers, for saluting every five
minutes IN a day, and sometimes oftener
winch would be the case should he travel
III the principal streets, gets to be tiresome
after 1t is observed for three or four hours
the soldier Is nearly always loyal and
taxes pride in saluting his superior Off
GERS but there is often too much Of a good
thins IN military life as there is In other
walks of life Even in the side streets he
mas considerable saluting to do. but nothing
in comparison to what he would have to do
should he venture on the largely Travelled
streets The officers are very particular in
insisting on salutes, and should a soldier
attempt TO pass them without doing mill
tary honors. on the excuse that he did NOT
see the officer, the result would be some
what serious to him."