Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1897 — A Radical Defect. [ARTICLE]

A Radical Defect.

“I wonder how it Is that no liquor law seems to work satisfactorily.” “Well, none of them abolishes thirst.” —Puck. The Locust Point yards of the B. & O. are completed and that ocean terminal at Baltimore now has a capacity for 3,600 cars. During the past few weeks the wisdom of making the improvement has been amply demonstrated. Thousands of cars of export grain were handled without a single blockade and with such celerity and ease that the old-timers were greatly astonished. The B. & O. has a coal chute at West Fairmont, W. Va., that fills a tender of a locomotive with coal in eight seconds, In Spain the goat is the domestic substitute for the cow, that country having 4,530,000 goats.