Evening star., 1898-10-08
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or more places on some sleepers. and at
least four places on every sleeper"
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Many stories have been told going to
show the marvellous storage capacity of
the average small boys pockets. but there
happens to be in Washington a grown man
whose personal cargo slowed away in his
clothes can easily break any record of the
sort in existence. He is 4 well-known citi-
zen an electrician, and here is the bill of
lading, SO to speak, which shows precisely
what he had in his pockets the other day.
The record was made as the articles were
brought forth:
-Four turtle weights, 1 prescription, 100
lightning rod circulars, 1 pair plain eye
glasses, l pair reading glasses, lead pen
CHS, fountain pen, l bottle lithia tablets,
: bottles liquid medicine, l paper calomel
paper Rochelle salts. s skeleton keys 3
handkerchlefs. bunch of keys another
bunch of keys, sample set of lightning
rods, check book. 90 postal cards, . en-
Velopes, > envelopes stamped l 2-cent and
i special delivery stamp, 1 steamboat
ticket. l ferry ticket. l electric car ticket
book. 1 pair gold eyeglasses, 1 pair blue
eyeglasses, PAIR steel frame eyeglasses, 1
gold watch, l dozen 2-grain quinine pills l
uozen 3-grain quinine pills. 6 soda mint
tablets, q bluemass pills, IL sugar-coated
plHs, 1s-grain morphine granules, 2
dfachms Kerosene "for bites,'' street car
tickets, l pocket book for change, pocket
knife, 10 blotters, 1 bank book, 8 blank
notes, $1,000 worth of unpaid notes, 80 pa
pers in legal envelopes, toothpicks, q
SHRUBS. comb. l box of matches. 8 seDa-
rate keys, l whistle, l bunch OF rubber
bands, e dozen pens, box of troches, l
music box key, iron safe keys, l roll Of
bank notes, l -four tester, / will, meal
tickets, 1 indelible pencil, plats Of
ground. fiat night keys, u ounce of BIZ
/ of r1ins
silver lndelible pencil, l box of leads for
same, 2 pocket ledgers, 1 pocket battery,
piece OF wire, piece of string l copy Of
The Evening Star dozen letter enyeiopes
1 package letter heads, 1 package billheads
and 1 pair of pincers.
Now. who can equal that?
X X X X *
Inc hags on the various department
buildings go up promptly a o clock every
morning and remain up until o'clock in
the afternoon" explained the superin-
tendent of one of the buildings to Starre-
porter. ''and as far as those two hours are
concerned they afford an easy rule to tell
the time. Tardy clerks keep a careful
watch out for the raising of the flags in
the morning, but they give no attention to
the lowering of the flags, for they Know
that their days work is done by other
cans and take no interest in it. 1t is
very amusing when we go up on top of the
building IN the morning to see the upturn-
ed eyes pointed toward US, for the clerks
In their hurry to get in the building before
the nag Is up for the moment forget that
they have watches. and seem to regard the
raising OF the flags as the only means they
nave of telling the time. The flags are
flown on all public holidays as well as
WO1k days. but are never raised on Sum
days. Though there is a flag on the main
portion of The Capitol. they are not so
particular up there to raise it PROMPTLY ri
y 'clcck in the morning. OF course, during
a.
the Senate and House ends of the Capitol
as well, but these are never raised until
hlsh noon, except at rare intervals, when
the hour of meeting of the bodies IS fixed
at an earlier hour in the morning or when
the bodies are in recess. The flags are
always flown during a recess it matters
not how long or short It is. During the
famous debate on the Hayes -TtIdeD presi-
dental contest the flags were flown with
out coming down once for over three weeks
and longer than ever before in the history
OF the country. The life of a department
nag is all the way from three weeks to
three months, the spring or windy months
being particularly destructive though dur
ing the summer months there is but little
wear on them"
saw a statement yesterday remarked
an lexington man who is rather a crank
on the subject of physiology, anatomy and
hygiene. that cur senses do not slumber
simultaneously, but that the eyes close
hrst, then taste goes, then smelling, hear
ing and touch. Touch though last to slum-
Der, is first to arouse, and smell, which is
one of the quickest to CO. is the very last
to come again. That is what the book
says: but | am a living witness to its In
correctness-in one instance at least 1t
was last spring. just after the magnolias
had bloomed. l had gone down the Poto-
mac to one of the far-down resorts for
Sunday, and, coming back, there was such
crowd on the boat l had to take a mat
tress on the floor. 1t was midnight when l
retired, and / don't know when / walked
felt anything, or saw anything, or tasted
aDI thing, | smelled the odor of magnoiias,
ard seemed in some far-Off vague uucer-
tain way to be afOat upon a sea of i'm
paipabie bloom, not tangible or visible nor
in any sense real except to the all-per-
VadInS and penetrating fragrance of the
unseen flowers. After long time l began
to hear voices and feel the shake of the
boat, and then | knew where | was but
could not account for the magnolia dreams.
When at last l awakened fully and sat I'D.
l saw on the table just over my head two
or three washbowls full to the brims with
great magnolia blossoms, which some of
the passengers, coming aboard after I had
gone to sleep. had brought with them and
placed there in water to keep fresh till
morning. | do not say that the sense OF
smell in other people would have been af-
fected as mine was. but l am sure mine
was not the last of the senses to awaken
under the influence of the magnolias."
A Wise Man.