The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-01-13

Senator conklisg 4 repeated 70 have apo-
ken ofseesstary eshufz = . ''profsssionaa
foFeigner.
Colonel lpgee6o1l's idea q innsestaltty
ssThere was dire when / was ~, affer
that was, now IN. The question h, shsll
live againY Issply that Il II fully = prob
able that shah I'VE assin whea I Do live,
- that should have lived when I did not.
I have got start, % ssy the least Of 4"
The London zSMss, II eommenting on
what Il regards % remarkable increase in
our population durias the past decade. cd
mits that Britain has occasion to be envious.
II alDudes to the fact that The eleven million
people that have been sdded are nearly I'll
intelligent, well educated people. who nm
derstand their duties - men and citizens.
Mr.. william h. Vanderbilt, on Christmas
day, made each Of his daughters . present Of
1000 shares Of Lake Shore stock-market val
ne Of each gin. els7, ooo.
The marriage Of Goveruor-elect Porter, Of
Indiana, to Miss Stone, took place January
5th. At the residence Of Walter s. Gurnee,
the uncle Of the bride. The wedding was
private, and only few Of the relatives were
present. The couple LEFT for indianapolis
via the Pennsylvania Central Railroad.
A strange fatality occurred At Addison.
Michigan, New Years night. A lady named
Mrs. Canneld fell while dancing with her
husband and her hand was slightly lacerated
by his boot heel. Inflammation sci in, tetan-
Us followed, and In twelve hours she died.
Professor Swing employs two tones while
speaking. One is an ordinary rasping, harsh
tone, and the other seems down In his boots.
These tones are united by sort Of whining
drawl down which his uncultivated voice
sinks until 1t becomes lost In the cultural In
distinctncss Of the toue In the boots.-Detro1
Free Prsss.
Henry Ward Beechcr believes in stopping
over. He said in his sermon last Sunday:
"Woe to the man who makes no mistakes.
I am sorry for him. II man has big buck
ct and only pint Of water he wont spill II,
but IL the bucket Il even full, can he help
stopping over: honor the man who slops
over. He is man Of measures and magni-
tudes. They live in an illimitable expanse,
| and across their souls plays the quivering
light Of God"
Macaulay's mind" says John Ruskin in
one OF bis recently published letters, 'swell-
ed like puff-ball in an unwholesome pas
ture, and projected itself far round in delete
rious dust"
A German shoemaker in Chicago, "a years
of age, made bet the evening before New
Year, that he could drink ten s'schooners''
Of beer in five minutes. He won the bet and
was dead inside Of an hour.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe manage
ment has decided to increase its capital stock
%, OOO, 900, distributing the shares pro rata
among the present stool. holders, rather than
nut the road under q bonded Indebtedness.
A real danger iu connection with the pos
siblc spread of pleuro pneumonia among
American cattle is pointed out by DR.. Ly-
man, the government veterinary surgeon
who has been investigating the subject.
This danger consists in the purchase Of
calves in Eastern States, where the disease
prevails, for shipment to the West, where
they are raised as beef cattle. The calves
can be bought cheap at the East, where milk
commands high price, and the business Of
shipment is profitable, but 1t is attended
with the risk of introducing plsuro-pneumo-
mia into localities not now infected, and fed
eral legislation to prevent the practice is
earnestly recommended.
Earthquake shocks have been unusually
numerous Of late in all parts OF Europe, and
scientists boldly affirm that they have been
steadily ON the increase during the past GEN.
fury. All kinds Of hypothesis are again be-
ing propounded to explain earthquakes In
general and this alleged increase in their
number in particular. DIR. M0vsk, Of Pesth,
| Is the last learned man who has entered the
field, and he boldly says that the earth has q
multiplicity of motions apart from its revolu-
ton around the sun and its rxtatiOn on its
own axis, and that these other motions sre
shifting the equator and the pole, and that
the earth's crust is cracking in the effort to
! to adapt itself to the altered circumstances.
Secretary Evarts is reported to have said
that Senator Blaine will be Secretary Of State
| In Gen. Garfield's cabinet. The other men,
beers, according to the same authority, are
Secretary Of the Treasury. James F. Wilson,
of Iowa; Secretary OF the Interior, ID. o.
Mills, of California; Secretary Of War, Sena-
tor Don Cameron; Secretary Of the Navy,
Southern Republican; Attorney-Gcneral, a
New York Republican; Postmaster General,
an Indiana Republican.