Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-14

A Qlngent search or the columns OF
old newspapers will reveal many eX
traordinary happenings, but il is to
be doubted if anything more remark :
able was ever re-
HOMICIDE ported in print than
hr Move. the following, quoted
ny q HAouSe' from London let
ter" in The Star of February 9. 1876:
1T is generally imagined that a
man who is afraid Of mouse enter
tains a groundless apprehension; but
the other day a mouse, which is now
in the London Hospital, not as a
patient, but in spirits of wine, did
actually kill its man. The man was
trying TO catch it and II ran up his
sleeve and on to his neck, and then
in it's extreme terror leaped into the
poor fellows open mouth and down
his throat. Curiously enough, it was
not suffocated. The mouse. it seems,
can endure being without air longer
than any other animal and this one.
finding itself as it were in prison,
tried to gnaw its way through the
wretched mans chest and throat, who
presently expired in great agony. This
IS perhaps the strangest death that
has ever befallen a human being"
:: :.
Half a century ago Congress was
under commission, so TO speak, To
devise a new form of government for
the District of Columbia, the terri
D. c. Government ton having
Plan Proposed. ta al e a cnmm dhe
sionership organization being regard
ed as a temporary expedient. Numer-
Gus plans were being proposed. In
The Star Of February 10. 1876. is the
following:
1.-THE Senate committee on the Dis
trict Of Columbia. who have been in
structed to prepare a bill for the gov
eminent OF the District, have as yet
taken no steps in that direction, but
will probably talk the matter over to-
morrow. 1t is understood that, per
sonally, Mr.. Spencer, chairman of the
committee is in favor of a more eco
nomical form of government than
that which at present exists; that he
believes that the District should have
a delegate in Congress, to be elected
by all persons. including women, over
81 years of age; that the streets and
avenues should be turned over to the
Engineer Corps of the Army. the po-
lice to the War Department and the
Board of Health to the surgeon gen
erals office: that all the taxes levied
and collected should be turned into
the Treasury of the United States,
and that the Government should as
sumo all the expenses of the District.
1t is not impossible that some of
these features will be incorporated
in the new bill
In The Star of February II. 1876, is
announced a new line of express
trains to be run between Boston
and Washington without change of
cars, to go into eff
1HIUuHn CaTS feet about April g.
IN poe+or the cars being car
y" "o''o"' ried around New
York by the steamer Maryland
The morning express would leave
Boston about 9 o'clock and reach
Philadelphia IL hours later. the eve
ming express leaving Boston at 9 and
reaching Philadelphia the next morn
ing. 1t was estimated that the trip
of the steamer between the Harlem
River and Jersey City would occupy
about As minutes.
Although the parcel post system
had not been established so years ago.
there was q large use of the mails
for the transportation of bulky mat
r ter. Indeed
MALLS AOaoeo Win this class of
Eonr-ponnd Do ro.1s matter had
become a
good deal of nuisance, as is noted
in The Star of February II, 1875, as
follows:
THE transportation of packages of
merchandise in the mails has always
given the Post Office Department con-
siderable annoyance because of the
abuse Of the privilege by unscrupu-
lous persons. and the Postmaster
General now recommends that such