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Wichita daily eagle., 1885-03-07

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House and two lots, S,ipa. Vacant lots -
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Wichita daily eagle., 1885-03-07

John Copeland, Of Henry county, Ind,
arrived yesterday in the city upon a pros
pecting tour. \ friend WAS in the afternoon
engaged in driving him about the city and
surrounding country and showing him the
beauties and advantages of this locality
Mr.. Copeland is a gentleman of means and
it is to be desired that he make this his
home.
Wichita daily eagle., 1885-03-07

PERSONAL AND LOCAL ITEMS OF NEWS
Wichita daily eagle., 1885-03-07

SUBJECT 70 Inc decision OF the Republican
Cty Convention {. VI. GARRISON.
Cabbage by the crate is being received
by rail.
Gen. Hatch left for Caldwell yesterday
morning.
Sheriff Fisher went south on the Santa Fe
yesterday morning.
Auction WAS yesterday held at the corner
Of the two business thoroughfares of the
city.
Col Stewart is building some new pens
for his pet thoroughbred Poland China
hogs.
Hill & Gordon will ship car load of
panys to-day consigned to Henry c. Jewett,
Buffalo, \. \.
Elder W. b. Wagner will preach at the
Christian church this evening, also Sunday
morning and evening.
Summers popular register, f. c. Fergu-
son, came up last evening and will return to
Wellington by the a. IN. express.
Mrs. Marion Il. Baxter will deliver a free
temperance lecture under the auspices of the
w. c. I. L., Sunday night. March S.
j. w. Coates has hung out a handsome
black and gold sign at his attorneys office
in the Kansas National bank building,
From the appearance of the principal
business thoroughfares yesterday one would
Wichita daily eagle., 1885-03-07

There was mule matinee given yesterday
afternoon at one of the sale stables on West
Douglas avenue. \ dark Completed gem
tlcman. with a dialect that was mixture of
Mexican, Indian and Chinese. was attempt
ing to catch suckers with his trick mule Il,
was a poor day for fishing. and though he
received liberal applause his pocketbook
was not perceptibly swelled.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-18
The American Type.

Though hasty errors are constantly
made, and in many respects we are not
up to the superiority we claim, yet
Americans fail to grasp a general SUI
periority which they possess and which
is a far deeper and greater thing than
newspapers, art and riches. The
American has grown without knowing
it to be the finest type of character
now on earth. The highest average Of
living and of education, the advantage
of room to spread and to wander, the
wider vision which fellow citizens from
Ireland, Germany, France, England
and Italy have forced him to take; the
variety Of soil, climate and the
quent extreme development of aptitude
and adaptability--these things, acting
upon a strong quality Of Anglo-Saxoh
tenacity, have produced q new type OF
manhood. Its characteristics are .
mind of rapid and penetrating acute
ness, a body of average size, but moro
than average strength, and a manner
alert. graceful and engaging. If We
may believe the opinions of unpreju-
diced travellers, genuine American
men and women are more beautiful
than any other race now living. Ou4'
highest bred men are better speakers.
better takers and better looking by
far than their English cousins .-Kansas
CITY Npses.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-18
PALMIsTRX.

Now Fortunes Are Told by Inspecting IL
Lines of the Hand
FThe study of ''the fortune on the
hand" is q growing amusement aid
enables people to make themselves
pleasant companions for q short time.
There is a fixed method of divining
''the fortune" and a little study and
practice will suffice to make any one q
fortune teller. Here are some of the
rules: Open the left hand. Hallway
between the thumb and forefnger
there begins, on the very edge of the
palm, a line which runs in a quarter
circle to the middle of the wrist. This
is the famous Line of Life, If it be un-
broken and clearly marked 1T indicates
long life and health. From the same
joint joining it another line runs
through the middle of the palm. This
is the line of the head or intellect. AL
most parallel with it there is a third
line beginning on the other side below
the little finger and leading, when we'll
developed, to the root of the forefinger.
This is the line of the heart. If clear,
deep and even, it indicates a good
capacity for honorable love and warm
affections. 1t is most favorable when
this line, as we'll as that of the head,
have a fork or branch at the end.
From the line of life at the wrist
there ascends a fourth line. known as
that of fate, Saturn and fortune. When
it rises as far as the middle finger it is
said to promise excessive good luck or
prosperity. From the same point at
the wrist there goes toward the middle
finger a line called by some the he
patio or liver line and by others the via
laceta, also the via lasciva. There is
great confusion even in Desbarolles
himself as to these lines, whether there
are two of them. and which is which.
by the lines of life, the head and the
liver, with one even right angle and
two acute angles, it indicates breadth
and energy of character. IF this tri-
angle be divided into two by the line Of
fate, the subject will be susceptible of
high intellectual culture; if the lesser
triangle contains one or two more
there will be genius and a capacity for
knowledge. If the first joint on tho
thumb be long and round and the nah
in it cushioned in the flesh it denotes
obstinacy, but if the next joint be also
very long reason and reflection will
convert the obstinacy to a creditabls
firmness. A line from the ring finger
downward is a sign of a gift for art in
one or all branches. Lines on the
wrist are called the bracelet of Venus
and are said by some chiromancers to
indicate each thirty years of life. All
lines correct and balance one another.
IN. Y. Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-18
OLD AGE.
Some Thoughts Concerning the Possibility
and Probability of ~Centenarians.

Some Thoughts Concerning the Possibility
and Probability of C~entenarlans.
Leaving out of consideration the old
famous species Of longevity and all
doubtful modern instances of men and
women living to be a hundred years
old or more, there remain enough of
centenarians the date of whose birth is
recorded, and the fact of whose living
a century or more is beyond dispute.
Indeed, such cases seem to be growing
more and more common, and attract
no great attention. Yet there are
few spectacles more profoundly inter-
esting than that of a life protracted be-
You'd the ordinary limit Of old age. To
have survived all or almost all Of ones
generation, is itself a proof Of some
sort of superiority of tissue or habit
environment. 1t is to have held
held out longest in the hopeless fight of
all things living against death, and per-
haps to have shown that most men die
before their time.
Let men affect what pretence of pes
simism and disgust with life, they will,
they can not help loving life and cling
ing to it. Religious enthusiasm may
regard it as but a passage the sooner
crossed the better to a higher form of
existence; and inability to perform its
duties or incapacity for its enjoyments
may lead unfortunate natures to throw
it blindly away; but to men of thor
oughly sane organization and
energies evenly developed, life is
something to be loved for itself,
and all means and instances of its pro-
longatiol are worthy to be studied.
Men whom life disgusts or bores are
deprived of the faculty of Judging it
properly. Life is. not for them, but for
those who know how to use it; and to
those who knew, and are so fortunate
in mind and circumstance as to expand
and not contract their sympathies, it
must be as desirable, as interesting, as
we'll worth living at eighty or ninety as
at twenty-five. Nor need the strength
of ever fivescore years be labor and
sorrow if the faculties be, as sometimes
they are, unimpaired.
1t is sometimes said that the men
who really live wear out early, and
that people live to be old by creeping
sluggishly along, burning LIES candle
to the socket by n%igggardly husbandry
of its light. But aside from the fact
that the names of some of the greatest
thinkers and scholars Of the past are to
be found in the lists of the octogenari-
ans and nonagenarians, is it not true
that it is this intellectual sluggggishness,
this want of 1exibility to meet the
changing conditions which the change
of years brings, this want Of interest in
contemporary life, that prevents many
men from attaining to fortunate ODD
age? So long rs a man keeps his fac
ulties employed and interested, so long
as he is alert to all the movements OF
the world about him, so long he
remains young, and so much the
greater are his chances of coming
70 what is called old age. That torpid
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-18
A NEW ENGLAND CHOICE.

Preferred to be a Young Widow Rather
G. Than to Live an Old Maid.
For a year John Henry's health had
been wretched, and the physicians
finally told him he had only one
chance in ten of recovery. Hewas en-
gagged to be married to a girl in a New
England town where mon were scarce.
and he stopped on his way to the sea-
shore to see her. She noticed his pale
ness, but thought it was only over
work, and told him how glad she wa
he was going to have a rest.
"Ah, my DEAR" he sighed, II fear
the rest I shall soon get will be for
ever"
''Why, what do you mean, John?"
she asked, in a startled tone.
II mean, dear, that my case is dan
gerous, and one of my objects in COM
ing to see you was to absolve you from
our engagement, for it is not fair to
ask you to marry a man whose death
is probable at any moment"
"Don't talk that way, John; oh,
don't" she sobbed, with her head on
his shoulder.
"But, darling, it is best for you that
I should, though Heaven knows I do it
with a breaking heart"
80 John! o John! I can't give you
up! I won't give you up!" and she
clung to him convulsively.
''Think, dearest, what you are do
ing. Don't you know that even if we
should be married I might have only a
few short weeks to remain on earth,
and our married life would only be a
sorrow and a care to you. Think,
dearest, of that!".
II have thought of it, John. I
thought of it when you first mentioned
the subject, and I'd ever so much rath-
er be a young widow than an old
maid"
Again about his neck she threw her
arms, and her tears came thick and
fast. John Henry was moved; his
breast heaved with %contending emo
tons; he bowed his head upon hers
and wept with her. Then with devo-
ton worthy of a hero he said, in q
choking voice: Darling, you shall
have your wish"
She smiled like an angel and cud-
died up on his collar. zrGv-
eZer.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-18
and dark old age wherein the physical

and dark old age wherein the physical
powers have feebly survived the decay
Of the intellectual 10 but death devoid
OF its peace and dignity; but what time
OF mans years Is more splendid and
imposing than the tranquil old age ola
life which has widencd as it length
ened. the majestic age of Plato, Michael
Angelo and Gothep
The ordinary life of man seems to DO
deprived and defrauded, compared with
these lives to which wisdom and length
of days were given. The full century
Of existence which Sir Moses Monte
foire filled with beneficent activities is
not too long to live. Indeed, instead.
OF regarding lives so long as something
abnormal and extraordinary, they
ought perhaps to be regarded as com
ing nearer to the full measure and best
rule of existence, while the lives of
most men are shortened and cut off
before their real maturity. Old age,
has been and is too much regarded as
but the lees of life, ENJOYABLE, squalidl
and pitiable, as the Greeks were always
bewailing it to be. Men want to live:
long, but hate old age. The grand
secular life which ended at Ramsgate
the other day, would serve to teach the
thoughtless and the foolish how noble,
and desirable is an old age of activity
and wisdom. Men at the longest do
not get so much of life that they can
afford to neglect wen the smallest part
of it. And in view of such lives as that
of the Hebrew philanthropist, a we'll.
conditioned old age seems only a con-
tinuing and ripper youth.
1.-THE best is yet to be:
The last of life, for which the first wss
made.
N r. San.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-18
LOVES CRUCIAL 1Esr.

An Angel Until She Began Pooling Around
the Flour Barrel.
"Oh, Herbert, dear, you do not love
me! l know it, and the thought will
kill me"
"But Madge-"
"Why didn't I die before I found il
outp Oh, why didn't die two months
ago-yes, before we were married?"
"But, Madgie, dear"
Don't say that, Herbie, for you
don't mean it; 1 know you don't. Oh!
won't youhear me, Madgep I-'
ooh, Herbert! Boo-hoo!"
"Madgie-"
"Boo-hooW
':Precious, what is the matterP"
you don't love me any more, Her
bic! Oh, | know you don't"
"Yes, 1 do, darling; better than
ever"
DON'T"
Eyes, 1 do, sweet; honor bright
do!'
"No-no; no-no!"
What put that silly notion into your
head, little girlp"
81 can tell. Herbie! I've noticed
you, and l see that you don't love me
one bit any more! Oh! oh! Boo
hoo!"
"Wha does this mean, darlingp
What have Idone, and what have you
seen that troubles you so? Tell me, al
once, Of I'll go distracted, too"
"Oh, Herbie! I've watched you-boo.
hoo!"
watched met Good heavens!
Madgie! What does this meanp What
are you sayingP Speak at once-this
suspense is tortured"
"Oh, Herbie! You-you-you-''
"What is it, Madgie? In heavens
name; speak, before I lose my senses.
Out with it! What have I done?"
ooh. Herbie! You don't-yor
DON'T
".Don't what, darling? For the sake
of all that's precious, tell me without
losing another minute"
You don't eat my bread any more
Herbie! I've watched you, and yor
haven't even tasted it for two whole
days; andI worked so hard to make it
| too!n
Heavens, child! Do you want m,
to commit suicide?"
"No-no, Herbie; but if you lovet
me, I know you'd eat my bread"
Glove you, Madgie! love you a
the growing plant does the sunlight
as water does its level-but life is swee
to me, dearest, and [ havn't the cour
age to take such awful chances. Yes
darling. I love you with d fervor that j
frantic; with a passion that is madness
without you; but l can't go your bread
my dear, and chance the consequences
Let us put it where the neighbors' cat
can find it, and patronize the bake
from this time on, and we can be eve
so happy! You're an angel, Madgie
till you get to fooling around -four bar
rel. Don't do it any more, darling
and you'll always be a cherub."
"But l can't throw it away, Herbie
It's the first I ever made, and I havn'
the heart to do it. I know you don
love me, or you'd eat it on that accour
boo, hoo!"
swell, there, sis-don't boo-hoo an
more, and I'll eat it if it kills me; an
I feel dead sure it will. But if 1 GU
live this loaf, please don't try it agar
if you love me."-Micago Ledger.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-18
The Saturday RevseeU, commenting

The Saturday Revieav, commenting
upon the effort of a writer to prove,
from Shakespeare's works, that he
was a lawyer, makes the point that
similar processes of reasoning would
prove him to have been a bishop, q
privy councillor, a traveller, q soldier,
an apothecary, a painter, a forester.
an artificer and q husbandmap, as well
40 . lawyer. =
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-18

pretending, yet everlasting service?
Clear pack in the country there is a
boy who wants to get to college and get
an education. They call him a book
worm. Wherever they find HMM the
barn or in the house-he is reading a
book. "What a pity it is" they say,
"that Ed can not get an education" His
father, work as hard as he will, can no
more than support the family by the
product of the farm. One night Ed had
retired to his room and there is a family
conference about him. The sisters say:
" Father, I wish you would send Ed to
college; if you will, we will work harder
than we ever did, and we will make our
dresses do" The mother says: Yes, l
will get along without any hired help;
although I am not as strong as l used to
he. I think 1 can get along without
anv hired help" The father says: swell,
T think by working nights I can get along
without any assistance" Sugar is ban
;shed from the table, butter is banlshed
from the plate. The family is put down
on rigid, yea, suffering economy, that the
how may go to college. Time passes on.
Graduation day has come. Think not that
mention an imaginary case. God knows
r. happened. Commencement day has
oo,na. and the professors walk in on the
stage in their long gowns. The interest OF
the occasion is passing on, a1ter
awhile it comes to a climax OF interest," as
the valedictorian is introduced. Ed mas
studied so hard and worked so we'll tna5
ba had the honor conferred upon him.
There are rounds of applause sometlmes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-29
SPOILING A STORY.
Close Investigation Destroys the Narrative Of
Haunted House.

Close Investigation Destroys the Narrative Of
q Haunted House.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
New YORK. Nov. 28-An entertaining ghost
story is utterly spoiled by your correspondents
Investigation. The New York Hospital is sit
uated chiefly in West Fifteenth street, where it
has an imposing frontage erected few years
ago; but in the rear Sixteenth-street house of
greater age has been incorporated into the gen.
eral structure. This portion is big in itself, and
has fine garden. It used to be the residence
of the wealthy Thorn family. and in those days
was the inclosure of elaborate and LUXURIOUS
festivities. Forty years ago Colonel Thorn
spent parts of several seasons in Paris, where
his hospitality We'd with that of Louis Philippe
Two of his daughters married French noblemen
and became ladies in waiting to the Empress
Eugene. Thus the Thorns were unexcelled
in social eminence among New Workers.. Only
one of his fourteen children is now alive
however, and the other descendants bear other
names. Their once palatial home is given up to
hospital use A few days ago an account
went from mouths to ears that the building was
haunted-that O. nights the dead and gone
Thorns materiaized in the gorgeous costumes of
Louis Philippes time and held high carnival in
the old parlors-that the inmates of the hospital
were witnesses of these goings on. Persistent
inquiry resolves the many spectators down to
one, and he is out of his mind. His visions are
real enough to his own thinking. however and
he sees the snowy balls of forty years ago re-
produced in all splendors and details. This was
accepted as proof that he really did enjoy super
natural advantages, for he described the people
and their doings with what old listeners recog
nized as accuracy. But even this prop of super
stitious credence is knocked out by the discovery
that the mild maniac was once servant in the
Thorn family
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-29

but. to compensate for faulty form, her face is
notably pretty, frightened by beautiful blue
eyes, and Swallowed by masses of dark brown
hair. She is eighteen years old Her father is
Robert Minturn, SON of the founder of the old
mercantile house of Grinnell, Minturn & Co.,
but the family has for years been wholly retired
from despised trade. Her uncle, John Minturn,
committed suicide. She is connected in
several directions with fashionable families, be-
sides her potent alliance to the Astors. A
ball is to be given by Mrs. William Astor to in
troduce her formally into society, after the man.
ner now fashionable to distinguish the doffng
OF short frocks and the DOMINIC of long trains.
The Vanderbilt protege is Miss Annie Webb,
sister TO son-inlaw of William n. Vanderbilt
She is granddaughter of the James Watson
Webb who edited the Courier and Enquirer, and
daughter of President Webb. of the College of
New York. Her mother is Remsen, and she is
of approved blood all around. None of her
family is in business. She is not yet eighteen,
and has a fine figure, dark hair and eyes, and a
bright complexion. Tennyson's lines may be
applied to her: "Roses are her cheeks, and q
rose her mouth" She has an older sister, Bessie,
who is recognized belle, and her brother,
Creighton. is one of the most modiste Of men
about town. Her father is West Point eradu
ate, and was general in the civil war. wherein
he got at Spottsylvaniaa bullet hole that remains
still Enclosed in his head. While neither Miss
Minturn nor Miss Webb is a superlative beauty.
their social positions and connections make them
vastly interesting, and they are bound to be the
most famous bellies of the season by reason of
the remarkable entertainments to be given in
their honor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-29
THE SILVER GRILL.

This Famous Resort Distinguishes Itself by
New Form Of viciousness.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NEW YORK, Nov 28.-The Silver Grill, already
notorious as the place Of several fights between
rich young handles over girls whom they had
taken there for midnight suppers has now dis
tinguished itself by more sordid sort of vicious
ness. The concern is handsomely QUILTED
chop-house, on the London model in the neigh
borhood Of the upper Broadway theaters. In
itself, it is open to public observation, for even
the more secluded hall the second floor is free
Of access Only in eating and drinking and the
turbulence that arises from too much of the lat
ter, are the extravagances Of jollity remarkable.
But raid by the police on gaming-room ad-
joining has revealed something worse. Thirteen
fellows, half of whom were scions of pretentious
wealth, were taken prisoners. With them,
when the raiders dashed in. we're five
young women, who made their escape
by quick rush through q back door,
aided by employees, who had evidently been
instructed for that particular service whenever
it should be requisite. These birds Of ready
fight were stool-pigeons, who had Iured the dan
dies into the den. Subsequent investigation
proves that an ingenious and alluring scheme
had been in operation for a week. The stages
Vt four Of our theatres are now occu-
pied by burlesque and comic opera PER-
formances, employing numerous chorus
girls, and among these fair ones are q
few with sufficient wickedness to use as decoys.
Their roles in this outside farce were those of
merely giddy young things who became captives
to the Washers and consented to be taken to the
Silver Grill for refreshment. Once there, and
wine having flowed considerably, they contrived
to impart to their escorts the secret of the
gam bling-r and then begged, as though on
a sudden impulse, to be taken into it for curios-
ity's sake. The trap thus cleverly baited and
sprung was sure to catch the intended victim,
whose certain losses at faro or roulette afforded
percentage of gain to the girls. The matter is
the talk of the idle town.