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Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-12-28

NYANfED-A situation, by II Young mar az
w as clerk IN d store or any light work or
p .,apyist address W. ". lord AZ postoflice
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-12-28

VXyASTEB--Hcrses and mules at Mulnix 4
w AId-n's He'd Flag Auction House
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Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-12-28

NOR sALE-A clean neg stock of dry goods.
II clothing. boots aud shoes. etc. Stock will
invoice about $ ,!s-. The building will be
rented very cheap. his store is in the c-nter
of one of the best business towns in western
Kansas, address :. Z. fullen, Pratt, Kansas.
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Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-12-28

WAMTEpnMaTIiedh man. without 9t, children To-
work a farm adjoining Cheney, to occupy
house thereon and board two single men. Ref
erences required Add.cs VIM ID. Motor
mick Wichita, kansas dls3-u
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-12-28

WANrED--Anyone who wishes any infor;
useful pstent they want sold or traded, or have
81 cks Of goods you ,sant to dispose Of. call on
OF address ksnsas Employment and Patent
Agency dla5-j'
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-12-28
WANTED IMaEDIATELY--we want for

XTYANTED--To trade good suburban Kansas
w City property for wichita city property
or Sedgwick county lands. Enquire of Wichita
Land and L. y. Glsst6
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-12-28

XXyASTEn- 900 families TO buy the Excel
w sior Sewing Machine Oil, warranted not
to gum The inest y. NJ oil in the world, put
up in triangular bottles holding full measure
he sure and ask tor the Excelsior, and take no
other j. r. HOLMES
disc ;.0t
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NYANTED-Par;ies to inyes. q small amount
w in simple but useful article that will
pay from Eve to ten dollars per aay. Kansas
Employment and Patent Agency. room Is, up
stairs, Elliott's block, Dou. las ave, iioS-6'
, 1884-06-28
FOR SALE.

THE unincumbered Sugar Estate "Anna's
Hoppe, Company'S Quarter. St. Croix,
containing 225 Acres of land, Of which ia
are in cane cultivation and highly MANFRED,
over 5000 tons Of pen and other manure
having been used on the Estate during the
past 4 years. he buildings consist OF a
dwelling House, ana gers and Overseer's
Houses, Works (steam-mill) &C., all in
thorough order, To the Estate IS attached
theneighbouring Stock Estate Of GATHERINGS
Rest, containing about 800 Acres, OF which
50 have been leased out to peasant proprie-
tors, and bring in an annual income Of $500.
The crop on the Estate for the 5 years
from 1880 to 1884 has averaged 157 Hhds.
Of 1j0OIbs. Danish) nett.
The Estate is contiguous to the Peters
Pest Station Of the ST. Croix Central Fac
tory.
Apply to
II. G. HENDERSON Esq.
Mt. Pleasant,
st. CrOix.
, 1884-06-28
It e L e G r A NJ S.
ST. THOMAS STATION.

nOunceu lnaf the new Ehfh Cdpl'dI-
ist, Commodore Garrison, hos ma Q
an assignment ofl,is affairs, although
il is stated that his assets are oyer
whclmingIy superior to his liabilities,
but they are locked up.
The Oil market is said to DE b0r-
dering ON a panic.
Intelligence from Cairo states that.
pilgrims arrived from Khartonm re-
port that the city was safe and well
proyisioned on the twenty first ot>iay.
Lord Edmund Fuzmaurice an
nounced in The House Of |omno
that The last news which the Govern.
ment h d received relative to Mayor
General Gordon was dated the 25th
Of April.
At a meeting in Paris Of the Com
mittre Of The ~uez Cana! Company,
a resolution wa pissed in favour Of
the widening Of Jhn present CauaI M
stead of building new n".
A Paris despatch reports that me
Government proposes to ~Incrcasei.ae
duties on the importation OF %caIilr,
and ABANDON me intended increase
in tlr Intlae ou nour
The MOSCOW "Gazatla,'. in an ed:-
+,r;aI rvtols the German Colonial
~nnl;ry which :, uroos Ru>sia to imi-
tate ,snrriIry rs rruar1S q fleet Of
cru;scrs lorIhe pacifc
New work Juna 23rd.-Tho death
:, o~nrouucrd oClbr Prince Of Orange.
1hr o,pxtiou If rbo succession 70
the throne Of Holland Is causjn@
nrnat o.v;ctv rviuo - fine supposed
~inlen,;on orprincr Bismarck 10 ad-
nnca C.rn,.n' int.r..t.
Mnch nrxi,,v continues 10 be cx.
,pr1pnrrd il London with regard to
Inc d~rnani,rrs and extraordinary
nrrcou2;nns have bccn adopted tor
tho nrotrclion Of The Houses Of Par.
Tandnn, TLo dvnamitc scare has
rx,rnded to Romr vhcrethe Vatican
l. ,hro9,cnod
T. !, oxnnc,ol ,ho+ tha show Of
Ama,;con ~rrodncts At tho exhibition
30 ho b.lJ - L.nndon in 1886 viii cx.
coed onvtL;nr ~nrryion~lv altrmDted.
Tho rocpnf f,ilurp If Garrison Of
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This powder never varies. n marvel OF
purity, strength and wholesomeness. More
economical than the ordinary kinds, and
cannot be sold in conn etition with the null
titude of low test, short weight, alum or
pho=I to powders. Sold only in cans.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., LOG Wall
strent New York.
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He Was Not n Horse.

81 have heard Mr. Wright" said 6
man who had travelled extensively, ad.
dressing Kentuckian; "that you arc
going to move to Cincinnat.n
eyes, l am, What do you think OF
the change ?"
81 think it's bad one"
"Your objections, please ~ asked the
affable Kentuckian
"You will find in Cincinnati, explain.
ed the man who knew, "but moderate
supply of rain water for washing pur.
poses, and as for fresh, hard water fol
drinking purposes, that's out of the ques.
ton
"Water for drinking purposesw ex-
claimed the nettled Kentuckian, scratch.
ing his head. Then as if suddenly com.
pretending the remark, he turned red
with anger at the supposed insult, and
exclaimed:
''Do you think drink water Do you
take me for horse ~
And he stalked away like a man in.
jured to the very core. Scissors.
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Speaker and Chaplain.

Says the Charlottesville (Va) Chrona.
Gle: Some one tells good story on a
former chaplain of the University Or.
William S. White, we presume). The
story goes as follows: When J. L. Orr
was Speaker of the House he spent a
short time at the Warm springs, in
North Carolina, where DR.. White was
also. The two had been sitting for a
time apart, each engaged with his own
knot of immediate friends, and y.and-
bye the doctor arose and walked across
the room with the old-time limp in his
gait. Mr.. Orr Immediately recognized
him, and asked him if he were not the
chaplain at the University of Virginia at
such time, naming the year. The doc
tor replied that he was.
81 was there" said Mr.. Orr, "a stu
dent at the time, and knew you by the
peculiar limp of your step"
"Well, said the doctor, a little Sc
verely, though with twinkle which told
he spoke jokingly, cit seems that my
limping made deeper impression on
you than my preaching"
All, Doctor quickly replied Mr..
Orr, 81 deem it the highest compliment
we can pay clergyman to say he is
known by his walk rather than by his
conversation"
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her future life are settled and sealed
Ten or dozen years later they pilgrim.
age together to the nearest Greek church,
which may be fifty or a hundred mile,
away, and are married.
For all these Yakuts are Chr stians
though should not like to assert thai
they understand very well the mysterie.
of the faith t. which they were intro.
duced in such a summary fashion. ]
noticed when we started on our journeys
that the mounted yemschick in front OF
my sled invariably took off his fur car
Immediately after starting out, and with
a long series of crosses commended him.
self and the party intrusted to his care
and guidance to the god of the Greek
church. But all along the road on the
trees were tufts of horse hair and bits OF
rags, ard these learned had been placed
there by the Yakut yemschiks in order
to propitiate their old divinity, Shamai,
and to induce him to give them good
weather and good roads. But neither
horse hair nor rags were of any avail as
regards speed. -Neo York Telegram.
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TraDDing "A TigresS.

She was captured about nine months
ago in obedience to an order sent to
India by Mr.. Reiche for one of her kind.
\ tiger track was found in the Jungle
leading to the reedy banks of river. A
pit about twenty feet deep was dug in
the path and covered over with branches
of trees and brushwood The natives
then concealed themselves, and at night
the tigress, going down to the water,
crashed through the covering, and lay,
half stunned and wholly helpless, at the
bottom of the pit. She was allowed to
lie there for a week The mouth of the
pit was again closed, and for seven DAYS
she lived in darkness, without food OF
water. Such treatment very often kills
a tiger, but it is the only known mode of
reducing them from the savage frenzy
succeeding their capture to anything like
submission.
When at last the coverings were again
removed. the then un- named Fanny was
found to be anything but subdued. She
was, however, weak, and her furious
bounds to reach the mouth of the pit
were short at first, and grew shorter with
every effort Then the natives began to
angle for her. 1t was hard and danger
Gus fishing, but slowly moose after moose
was dropped around her body her fore
legs were drawn tightly to her sides, and
size was pulled up at last. firmly bound
and powerless. Other cords were thrown
around her, and with her feet in the all
and her back down, she was dashed to
bamboo poles and carried by score OF
men to place of embarkation. She had
very little life left in her when she was
put ON board ship and dispatched to Ger.
many.
When she landed in Europe, however,
she had quite recovered, and Mr. Reiche,
who is living in Germany, was delighted
with her appearance, He gave her the
name of Fanny, and secured her passage
to America. She is now worth perhaps
SD, 800. -Nep York SIM.
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A Wonderful Luminous Shrub.

There Is most remarkable tree or
shrub in small gulch near some springs
about twelve mics north of Tuscarora.
1t is about SIX or seven feet in height.
with trunk which a. its base is three
times the size of a mans wrist. 1t has
innumerable branches and twigs and re
sembles somewhat the barbary tree or
bush indigenous to certain localities in
the Eastern States. But its only remark
able characteristic is its foliage, which at
certain seasons of the year is so luminous
that it can be plainly distinguished in
the darkest night for a distance of more
than mile, while in its immediate vicin-
ity it emits sufficient light to enable a
person to read the finest print. Its foil
age is extremely rank and its leaves re-
scmble somewhat III size, shape and col
or, those of the aromatic bay tree of Cal
ifornil. The luminous property is evil
IDENTIFY parasitic and consists of sort Of
gummy substance, which upon being
transferred, by rubbing o persons hand
imparts to it the same apparently phos-
phorescent light, while that on the leaf
entirely disappears. The only reasonable
explanation for this phenomenon that we
can imagine is that the leaves possess
some quality which either generates or
attracts phosphoric matter. The Indians
regard it with superstition and will not
approach it even in the daytime if they
can possibly avoid it. They have name
for it which literally interpreted signifies
witch tree An old Shoshone informed
the writer that there were but two Others
in the entire country, but the closest
questioning failed to elicit the slightest
information in regard to the localities.
He would only shake his head gravely
and calculate dad medicine" We do
not remember having read or heard Of
trees possessing this popularity before,
nor do we imagine that the species is
generally known to the scientific world.
The specimen we have alluded to is well
worth the attention of the naturalists of
the Pacific coast. 1uscdrora New
Times Reriet5.
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From Jumping Creek,

Sayn he called, as he walked across
the street to policeman yesterday at
the circus grounds, have you seen a
SLIM little chap, with red mustache and
diamond pin!'
:" | don't remember"
"Well, | want to hunt him up. II
you'll help me find him I'll give you a
woke of two-year old steers
"What's he donel'
Say! I'm mad all over. but l can't
help but-ha. ha. Ina laugh at the
way he gumfuzzled me half an hour ago.
I'm a fiat, am I'm rich pasture for
cowsl I'm turnips with he ad of green
tops!'
What's the story2"
"Well, | was over there under a
wagon counting my money. l brought
in Sl3. was wondering whether Id
better keep it in my hind pocket or pin
it inside my vest, when the little chap
comes creeping under and says. Part
ner, there's a wicked crowd around
here. Put that money in your boot +
Sayw
Yes"
I" Struck me as the sensiblest thing :
could do. 1t was in bills. And / pulled
of my right boot and chucked 'em ia.
Say dye see anything green in that"
mo"
"Well, l hadn't walked around long
before chap come up and remarks that
he has s. to bet to quarter that he can
outjump me. Say, dye know met"
mo"
"Well, when I'm home I'm the tall
Jumpest of Washtenaw county. l jump
higher and further than anything, animal
or human. kiver more ground than a
panther; | sail higher than a jumpin'
boss. am open to even bets day or
night, and go out and jump 'leven feet
jost to astonish the children. When that
ere stranger offered SIGH odds | looked
at his legs for a minute and remarked
that was his huckleberry"
Il see"
"Say up went the stakes. off came nv
butes, and | outjumped him by three feet
six"
"And whatW
And when | looked around for nv
butes that little hornet with the sandy
mustache had made off with the one the
cash was in. Say!"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-12

1t is estimated that $40, 900, 900 worth
of grass is annually consumed by the
prairie dogs In Northern Texas.
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A Quaint Old House.

The most remarkable and interesting
private residence in America, says a letter
to the Chicago Inter- Ocedn, is that OF
Major Ben: Perley Poore, the veteran au.
thor, raconteur and correspondent, at
Indian Hill, four miles from this place.
There are few ancestral or historic houses
in the new world, and scarcely any, be-
side Mount Vernon and the Hermitage OF
Andrew Jackson, that are familiar to the
people, where an attempt has been made
to preserve the frame in which the do.
nestle picture was once embraced, or re.
tain the relics of past customs and man.
ners, which often change, and are soon
forgotten.
Around Major Poore's country home
cluster not only the family traditions,
which are as precious to him as they are
romantic to others, but he has pre-
served in permanent and vivid form
a picture of home life as it was in the
colonies more than two hundred years
ago.
The family mansion itself, in quaint.
ness and antiquity, has no rival in the
United States. 1t had commenced to
crumbie before the declaration of indie
pendence was framed, and four genera
tions had been born, lived and died
under its roof before the gallant DR..
Poore strapped his medicine bags and
case of surgical instruments upon the
old mares saddle and rode down to
Bost On to dress the wounds of the heroic
rebels who fell at Bunker Hill.
1t was away back in 1900 and some.
thing early, that a certain man by the
name of Poore, recent refugee from
political persecution, came over to New
England and engaged in driving team,
half stage and half express wagon, be.
tween the colonies below Boston and
those on the Piscataqua river, where
Portsmouth now stands. The Indians
were frequent and troublesome then, and
they attacked Mr.. Teamster Poore, killed
his oxen and burned up his cart.
AS an indemnity for the violation OF
the rights of common carriers, even in
those early days the Indians were com
PEELED to grant Mr.. Poore a certant tract
of land on the Merrimac river, and with.
in sight of the sea, known as Indian
hill. 1t was the highest point of land
along the coast, and was famous as the
rendezvous for Massachusetts tribes,
whose signal fires, when blazing there,
lit up the whole sky from the White
mountains to that tip end of the Yankee
land known as Cape Cod. The docu-
ment, written in quaint style and signed
by several of the Indian chiefs, is Major
Poore's title to his home, and it has never
been questioned.
1t was in 1850 that the residence Of
Mr.. Poore was completed on Indian hill
and he took his family there to dwell,
and they have dwelt there continuously
eight generations of them the property
improved by each successive possessor,
until it is now great mansion of sixty
rooms, covered with clematis and honey.
suckles which have fed upon the frost
and sunshine of more than two cen
turtles
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-12

Notwithstanding the frequent recur-
renee OF eclipses, wieh nothing particu-
larry bad after them, most primitive
peoples associate with them an omen of
some great danger to the earth or the
moon. The Greenlanders have a per-
sonal apprehension in the matter and be.
lieve that the moon rummages their
houses for skins or victuals. and DESTROYS
those persons who have not observed
due sobriety. The South American Chi.
against dog that has worried it till
its light has been colored red, and ex-
tinguished by its streaming blood; and
they shoot arrows into the sky to drive
away the dog. Charlevoix give SINH
lar account of the Guarani, except that
with them tiger takes the place CT the
dog; and in the language of the Tupis
the literal translation Of the word for an
eclipse Is, The jaguar has eaten the
sun" So, in Asia, the Tungueses be-
lieve an evil spirit has swallowed the
earth's satellites, and they try to fright
en- it away by shots at the darkcncd
disk. In Sumatra and Malacca the fear
IS aroused that great snake will swaI-
low the sun or the moon; and the Nagas
OF Assam set up great drum beating,
as If in battle, to brighten away
the devouring monitor Among
the American tribes are some
who believe that ecipses are warning
Of the approaching disappearance of the
sun and the fall of the moon at the end
of the world. The Pottawattamies tell
of demon in the shape of an old
woman, sitting in the moon weaving
basket, on the completion of which the
world will be destroyed. A dog con
tends with the woman, tearing the bas-
ket to pieces every once in while, and
then an eclipse of the moon takes place
others imagine that the moon is hungry.
sick or dying at these times while the
Alfuras of Ceram think he is asleep, and
make great uprOar to awake him
These superstitions are not so remote
as they may seem at first sight from the
impressions which the heavenly phenom-
ena make upon many persons who con-
slider themselves civilized. Circles may
be found in nearly every nation upon
whom the appearance of anything un-
usual IN the sky carries an apprehension
tina something dreadful is about to hap
pen; and by whom even the most ordi-
nary phenomena are invested with occult
influence upon things that we know have
no connection with them; and it is only
two or three centuries since the dire por-
tents of comets and eclipses were prayed
against in all the churches. Popular
Science M0hthlV.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-12

Irate Customer" Why can't you fell
lows be honest! That telephone you put
in my store is fraud. You said that
words could be distinctly heard for TWEEN
ty miles"
Telephone Man-''Well, they can"
"They can't, | say. They can't be
heard five blocks"
ooh, you are mistaken"
"But l am not. yelled myself hoarse
at a man last evening only five blocks
and he could not hear a word l said.
He said So"
"Queer, very queer; but, by the way,
what was it you said to himi"
81 asked him when he would be
around to square up his account. "-PhU-
a lelphia CALL
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A COniurOr's Cent.

BY the way, no miracle claimed ior
Nine. Blayatsky, the theosophist, is
more marvellous than one saw performed
by conjurer in Calcutta. 4 man
brought out a dozen or more little figures
under two inches high-little dolls
and setting them on their straw-like legs
on a table, babe them dance. The man
stood quite yard off, but whenever he
babe the figures move, they moved, He
ordered two to come out and waltz in
the center of the table, and they did so.
The tiny things trooped up and down the
table as he commanded, in the most
amazing way. Finally the conjurer in
vited me to lay penny on the table.
did so, and the coin instantly galloped
across the wooden table and pitched it.
self in money box. And yet the man
was not thought reader nor a theoso
phist, but an avowed conjurer, perform
ing in tent on the wayside. d.
C0RUdy.
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DOIDn Send six aents for postage, ard
A fHlIH, receive free, a costly box of goods
I'LL which will help you to more
money right away than anything else / this world
All, OF either sex, succeed from first hour. The
broad road to fortune opens before the workers,
absolutely sure. At once address, TRUE & Co.,
Augusta, Maine
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REASONS FOR HILARITY.
HUMOROUS STORIES DRAWN FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Gave Himself Away-A Telephone
Eraud-He was Not a Horse
Speaker and Chaplain. Etc.

81 tell you what" airiy exclaimed
Perkins, as he sat down to the supper ia
BILE, II was in tight place this after
noon"
"Yes, know you were" Interrupted
his wife, in clear, cold utterances that
cut like knife, 81 saw you coming out
of it"
And then it flashed across Perkins
that he had incidentally stepped into a
saloon with friend for the purpose of
examining a doubtful political statement
with the aid of a magnifying glass, and
his contemplated anecdote slipped from
his grasp like money at a summer resort,
while the supper was finished amid 81
lence so profound that he could plainly
hear napkin ring.-Hochiand Courier
Gasette
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The Fearl ess Widow.

A New York widow was taking the
fresh air in Central park with her two
children, when she met former lover
with whom she entered into converse
ton.
IL am completely brokcn up, Amelia, >
he said, Selling her hand There is nc
telling what might not say and do if il
were not for these children
Children" said the fond mother
pushing them away, run over yondel
where the goat carriages are, and play
until send for you. "-SytiHgS.
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tYes.n

eyes"
II live on Jumpin' creek. I'm the
creek myself I'm called daisy when
I'm home, and every time trade bosses
or shot-guns or dogs paralyze the other
fellow. I'm previous. Pm prussic acid.
I'm razors. Sayl"
Eyes"
"If | kin lay my hands on that little
chap, I'll make every bone crack But
1t was a good one on me- Eli! Ever
see it beatenl Played me fur fool and
hit me the fust time. Say! If you see
me ha! ha! ha!-laughing, don't think
I'm tight; I'm mad. But say old Jump
ing Creek was too smart, wsn't he2 Need
ed something to thin his blood, and he
got it from a chap who didn't seem to
know putty from the band gonl Say
Hal ha! ha n'-Detrou Free Press.