Evening star., 1897-02-13

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Written Exclusively fer Tie Evening Star.
BARRIERS are blowers as well as work
ers," observed a down town barber, "and
when they talk of shaving one hundred
men in day they are stretching X just
little. If barber can properly wait on
sixty customers in day, he is doing a
hard days work, as he will find out before
the days work is done. Even In the best
shops-I mean by this in the shops where
the biggest steady trade is done-the fast
est BARRIERS are satisfied with shaving fifty
customers. though if they are pushed herd
they can shave ten more. In inauguration
times. when customers are satisfied with
anything in the way of shave, or during
any big rush, they may handle even more
but regular customers will not stand any
such a hurry. 1t takes longer to get the
beard properly lathered and moistened
than IL does to shave customer. Custom
ers will stand a rush as far as dressing
the hair Is concerned, but they want to be
gone over slowly when the razor is being
used In dry, cold weather it takes much
longer to soften the beard than during
damp weather, and as rule it takes twice
as long to shave a customer in winter as
1t does during the summer time. The actual
time needed to shave customer Is fifteen
minutes This includes getting the beard in
condition, shaving and dressing the lair.
To do this barber Is doing about all he
can do / was present at BARRIERS picnic
once out in San Francisco. where there was
a competition for medal. One barber got
away with the prize with a record of fif-
teen seconds actual shaving time. We all
sympathized with the victim. for he stood
mighty good chance of having his nose
or chin trimmed off as we'll as his beard.
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"All the talk of the ch:linless bicycle, of
which so much was heard last fall, has
simmered down to the fact that it will be
some time yet before the chain can be dis
pensed with remarked a well-known pat
ent expert. The bicycle makers are after
the same thing that the agricultural ma
chinery manufacturers have been expert
menting with, without any marked success,
for the past ten years I do not say that
the chainless bicycle will not come, but 1
think / am safe IN saving that the
chain will linger VITA US for some years.
1 ID not know, eithar that any of the
bicycle makers of the popular patterns
styles are very anxious to do away with
the chain OF course, they do not desire
that any of their rivals should put a chain
less wheel on the market for whether it
was success or not, il would catch all the
buyers for a while AS it is now i IN
formed that the bicycle combine, who
control the high-gra.ie wheels, have a::re.1
among themselves that they VIII rot make
any more efforts III that direction :
far as the wheels for 1897 concerned.
The second grade or lower price wheels are
crowding upon them that they have as
much as they can do to keep the market
from them. without spending any money
Upon experiments on chainless wheel.
and for which there never was any demand
except from what are known as bicycle
crankS.'
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Il had rather peculiar experience once"
Szf6 a vs-alI -t---1 1xt-r,
understand but little of dreams. their
causes meaning. 1 know that the one I
had caused me to think considerably 1
vas doing very well professionally, and 1
had made UP my mind that 1 would buy
lot AID build NE a house for a residence
though l nae not thought of any particular
locality a few nights after that l dream
ed that had bought a lot and that when 1
took possession of it l found that there
vas goat upon the lot, and / was told
that the goat went with the lot as a sort OF
chrc cno. i did not want the goat, fer
never admired goats, but 1t appears I had
to take him, and 1t was one of the Billy
brand The dream was silly that / did
not mention 1t, even TO my wife Some
weeks after that / actually bought a lot
ard after the preliminary papers were made
out went up there one afternoon with my
vile to show II to her. Here comes the
strange part OF my story. In the rear part
OF the lot stood the goat had seen in my
dream. without any mistake. even to a
broken or crumpled horn on the left side
Then told my wife of my dream Of three
weeks before. 1 tried to drive the goat
away, but he returned a5 often as L DID so
Wen my wife liked the lot, and so did l.
and TIE purchase was completed. tried to
ascertain VINO owned the goat, but could
not get any very definite idea as to it's
ownership: The goat hung around the
place while i was buiidlng and Though 7
QtQ not want TO keen the 7 had To
So Billy died a few days since, having
been decided nuisance to me and others
Ter long time Here was a case where
coming events cast their shadows before
III there ever was a clear, weIl-est ablished
case OF the kind 1 have no explanations
or theorles about 1t. bat have stated the
facts as trey occurred L leave the expIa-
ration for psychologists or dream experts. -
Il am glad TO see that Congress ia like
iy TO appropriate money to erect a r,onu-
nent to the memory of Major L'Enfant.
The engineer who planned this city" re-
marked an OLD citizen, FOR / am one of
tne very few persons left who ever saw the
major 1t may not be generally known.
but 1t is fact. that in his latter days
Maj LEnfant had a rather preearious ex-
isterce- He had no regular income. and
Eyed by kindnesses OF friends In addition
10 his great skill as an engineer he had
graceful manners, a kindly nature and a
remarkably fine personal presence In the
Closing days of his life ne was almost to-
any supported by Mr Dudley Diggs. who
then resided at Chilum Castle Manor lust
outside OF the District line, and which Ia
now a par. Of the Riggs farm about a
nne and half distant from the Soldiers
Home There Mai L'Enfant lived during
the last two or three years of his life. and
on that farm for nearly fifty years rested
his bones in the garden OF the old home
stead. Through the beneGcence of the Iate
W. W. Corcoran. all that was left OF the
great engineer was afterward removed TO
Oak Hill cemetery"
The heating and boiler plant OF the
State. War and Navy Departments build
irg." said Commander Baird, U.SN, sup