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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-17

Among the vegetable articles Of diet Of tbs
Abyssinians the first place is taken by teff. a
herbaceous plant. whose grains are Is small
as apin's head the meal from this forms the
bread in general use. y much inferior black
bread used by the poor IS made from kind
Of millet called .ucusso. frequentinE the low
grounds In addition, the roasted seed Of the
fax plant Is sometimes eaten, as i. was by
the ancient Romans and Greeks. Another
admired vegetable is the flower stalk of the
local plantaiu, called ensete, the fruit Of which
Is unfit for eating. The stem is cooked with
milk and butter. Il Is cut OF Just above the
rootletS and about two feet high. II oh, the
green outer ccar Is peele! off till the white
interior shows 1t IS rs tender as 4 we'll cooked
turnip. with aavor Ike the best new bread
somewhat Uniari0ne. Il Is an excellent dish.
nourish.G.-, wholesome. and ,iigaStl5le.
From meal cakes fsr-rcu-oi d-i1i; oalled
bousa Is H. In
The cyI-e grown i. -Abysssaia IS principally
sent - Djo...da and uppS- Egypt, though not
Of tirst--are qualify, II pcSSee
aroma. auj 3 sold g the rate cs Sl5 v--
caU5aro ol Is -ot-oi say 2,-s rer cyt.H.
The wr@anat Gu~ars make mats e the
.oav5soi thseD~etc. The coca Of tie Abyssl--
iauS. a See5es O ascleT.ad. r-o,i,1ee> n
tough l-a- uSzi II making c--lasa and
tissues on he I.eI Sea literal The bark Z
CllotrCpLs rl-2Et-a affords excellent ft.--.
used for various purposes. The tender !aavas
newly pulled from The St!pa oI the G0s211 palm
are woven into ali kinds 81 mating and hes
ket ware The powdered Ssei Of : large tree
Cailei heye.Gcra j thrown into tire water TO
ssupsfy i-sb and facilitate their capture The
native dress consists q large folding mantle
and close-tEtlnx drawers The houses are
rIZIe coaical structures, covered with iiaa,cA-
Scientific American.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-17

Self-possessio;i is nine points of she law
PucE
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-17

\ gentleman who has had previous ex-
perience with an earthquake writes to The
Post of Washington that he was near Spott-
sylvania Court House. Va, on Monday night,
and closely observed what occurred. At the
first tremOr he looked out Of the window.
The evening was quiet and calm, ard num-
berleSs insects that chirp nightly were in full
blast. suddenly all these voices Of the night
ceased, and there was an intense silence,
broken only by the rumble of the earthquake.
and this silence continued until after the third
shock, and then the insects resumed their
noisy concert. he asks Savants to account
for thiS.-Ncw Yorl. sun
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-17
FARMS.

improved bedged
andc oss-h
Pn with good house, barn,
C Price $500
No 2 50 sores near town. adjoining College price
of cultivation house
good baa an % and he splendid orchard f go
whhs miles, all good land partly eaced
Price sos
miles, good stable and o1.saIngs
0acre sacresi I Or splendid Price $1,000
oabuldiugs wind .p.eadd frlt Price so
Js: stock farm I29 So ade ea
good eaeaP s. ei't
W 25o7. s. u $40
70 oslo Quarter on Is miles southwest VtA
e-aa>-y. Gasp - so
No acres O s2oa
q visE orerta w.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-17
Abyss!nian Economic Productions.

Embossed leather suashadcs are among the
queer imports.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-01
Wrecks in Washington.

There are around Washington just
now looking for clerkships. says the cor
respondent of the Cleveland Plaindeat-
err, hundreds of bright, brilliant young
fellows, who, if they achieve their aim
and secure clerkships, will enter into
small offices. where they will leave am
bition behind. The young man with
education and ability enough to make
name and career for himself ought
never to seek clerkship here. They,
it is true, when they accept the positions,
anticipate promotion, or intend, as soon
as they get little ahead, to return
to their homes or go west or south, and
commence business or begin practice.
But they become fascinated with the
life they lead, not physically hard
one, but one that keeps them subordi-
nate, not leaders. After getting into the
mausoleum of a public department
their ambition gradually gives way and
they accept series of routine duties as
their life work, and become to other
men-like the extra car horse that is at
tached to the car leading up the hill-a
mere help, not a participant, in the
struggle that young manhood ought to
look fearlessly upon. Richelieu's words:
'.In the lexicon of youth, which fate re-
serves for bright manhood, there is no
such word as fall" is not an incentive
to the department clerk. He is willing
TO sit down and take his stipend without
making any effort to push his own for
tune. He becomes dependent and
generally in the end a mendicant. My
advice to young man is not to come
to Washington to accept a mere clerk
ship in public Office as long as he has
brains and energy to make a living
away from it. The ambition to become
senator or a congressman or to hold a
leading position in some of the depart
ments is laudable one, but the records
do not show that any man has ever
been called from clerkship to the cab
met. The record is all the other way.
Bright and able young men who have
drawn themselves out of the whirl of
Washington society, out of the charnel-
house of the departments, and struck
out boldly for themselves in the west or
adjoining states are now men of high
repute.
The best, the strongest, and the ablest
men we have in the nation are the men
who, when they were boys, struggled
bravely on the farms, in the workshops,
in the law offices of our country to pre-
pare themselves for the nigh positions
that have been assigned them by their
fellOw-citiZenS.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-01
monitomof pilot.
THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1886.
A Clever Thief.

Anything new this EVENING"" asked
a reporter Of the clerk in a downtown
hotel while he filled his vest pocket with
toothpicks.
1--WE will have a new box of tooth
picks opened in minute or two if you
will only wait" replied the clerk, as he
tanning the picks The reporter took
the hint, and the clerk continued:
Il have something real new in the
swindling line"
Then the writer at once settled down
into a comfortable position, and the
clerk related to him the history of a
female-sneak thief who was captured in
the hotel.
"You see, we keep a lock-box in the
office for contributions to charity assO-
citation, and the amount received during
a month is sometimes quite large. The
travelling public is very generous, and
after supper, when he is feeling good,
some drummer's eye will strike the sign
on the box, and through pure good
nature he will put in dollar or two.
We clerks never notice it any more than
we would a letter-box Now, about a
month ago a plainly-dressed little
woman came into the Office and said
very modestly:
IL am collecting agent for the
Charity association; will you please
show me their box?'
''She was motherly, kind-faced
woman, and called the porter at once.
He pointed it out and she opened it up
| and took out its contents. As she
passed the desk she graciously thanked
ME for my kindness. Ireplied in the
same strain and she went out. About
every other day she came in and al
ways greeted me in her usually pleasant
way before opening the box. Often a
| guest standing at the counter would
say: Who is that?' and | would al
ways reply that she was a benevolent
soul who was devoting her time to as
sisting the needy"
There is nothing new in that" said
the reporter
1.-The newness came when the real
collecting agent came into the office
yesterday and opened the box. He was
simply dazed and gasped:
Why, what is the matter?'
Il answered that be was rather late,
because the female collector had been
here an hour before.
"'What female collector?' demanded
he.
why, the one that collects for your
society. Real nice lady
"'We have no female collector, re-
turned the gentleman. She is fraud!
"And she was, 100. They captured
her working the same dodge at another
hotel. But she begged off and they die
not prosecute her.
"How much did she getP" asked thu
reporter.
'.At least a dollar day on an aver
ACE -C171cin31nti SIN,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-01
Unconscious Counting,

1t has always formed part of the pro-
fessional conjurer's education to acquire
the power of making instant mental
ingenious article in the Gartenlaube,
suggests the idea that the ability pos
sessed by most people, of Distinguishing
from three to five objects at a glance,
may be SO perfected that the mind will
find it possible to take note of at least
thirty articles in the same length of
time
Indeed, well-known arithmetician,
Dase, who died in 1861, declared that he
could count thirty objects of the same
kind as easily as other people could
count three or four.
The truth of this assertion was often
proved when the arithmetician, with
lightning rapidity, gave the correct
number of herd of sheep, of the books
in library, or the window-panes in a
large house.
Apart from the usefulness of this ac-
quired power, the method of teaching it
may be found very amusing as a game
The test of ones ability In counting
may easily be made by placing several
small objects, such as pins or coins, I'M
der sheet of paper, then lifting the
paper so that one may glance at the az
ticles, and give an immediate guess as
to their number.
AT first the eye finds it possible to dis
tinguish only three or four objects, but
practice soon enables it to manage any
under ten with the same facility. Above
that number the process becomes more
difficult. Conscious counting should be
avoided; the articles should merely be
valued.
To perfect ones self in this practice,
black spots may be made, forming vari-
Gus geometrical figures, upon squares of
white cardboard, the number being
gradually increased, and the position
altered
1t is also found advisable to open a
book at random, cover part of the
page, and guess at the number of lines
left visible. Unconscious counting.
though difficult at first, thus becomes
purely mechanical
Herr Preyer, the advocate of the sys-
tenn. says the sensation of a person
practised in unconscious counting, when
looking attentively at large numbers of
objects, is that their mum Der shoots rap
idly through the head. Youths Com
pc1ton.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-01
Jersey weather-Lore. So

That which have heard, and have
recorded from time to time, appears to
have originated where now, or where it
lately was, in use. To a great extent, l
believe it to be original with the descend
ants of the immigrants that settled Gen.
trail New jersey and the country gener-
ally about Philadelphia; but portion of
ii, very possibly, was derived from the
Indians.
At present, portion of this weather
lore is repeated as nursery rhymes, and
it is due to this that it has been preserv-
ed to the present time; and, so far as
have been able to determine, not one of
the rhymes or sayings has ever been
published. That among the earliest
papers and almanacs of the country
there may be found some of them, or
slightly different versions of the same,
is probable, but my searchings therefor,
in the larger libraries, have not resulted
in any such discoveries.
The main interest, however III con-
nection with weather-lore, is to deter
mine whether they do or do not correct
ly represent the relationship of the ami
mails mentioned to the given condition
of the weather In other words, is the
zoology of the weather-lore misrepresent-
ed or not? AM forced to declare that,
as rule, those who by virtue of their
ingenuity framed these rhymes and
brief sayings did not correctly interpret
nature.
Very many of the early English
settlers were, no doubt, excellent OBJ
servers; but they appear, at times, to
have more desired to be looked upon as
prophets than as naturalists,
and strove to have glib nonsense-sayings
pass current as evidence of their wis
dom, instead of taking pains to correctly
interpret the course of nature and deter
mine the relation of animal life to its
environment.
Often, during my rambles in the
neighborhood, have questioned the few
remaining descendants of the original
settlers concerning the local weather.
proverbs, and find the impression is
still prevalent that the purport of all
these saying is substantially correct, and
therefore, to great degree, that my
neighbors are laboring under erroneous
impressions. us there not wisdom in a
| multitude of counselors?" they ask; and
l, standing alone, am voted the fool,
| while they pose as sages.
Let us consider this weather-lore, bit
| by bit, as have gathered it from time
| to time, and discuss its merits, if it has
any, and also its absurdities. c. G.
| Abbott, IN Popular Science Monthly for
| March.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-01
An Anglers Story.

passed down the stream, casting in
near the shore as I went, but meeting
with little success until. l reached
fence that had been built out into the
water as a cattle-guard. Approaching
this stealthily and quietly looking be-
yond, l saw quite number of bass of
various sizes basking in the sunlight IN
the angle between the fence and the
shore. Selecting favorable stand,
attempted to cast my lines into this
angle, but, agitated by the exciting
prospects, my hand had become SO I'M
steady that my flies actually dropped on
the wrong side of the fence. Withdraw
ing them gently, and at the same time
recovering my composure, sent them
in an artistic curve to settle as gently
as thistles down over the very spot |
aimed at. 1t seemed as if every fish
darted simultaneously at the tempting
fictions, causing the water to foam at
their fiery zeal. In an instant my
GRIZZLY King" and Governor Alyord"
were each deeply imbedded IN the
throat of a large bass.
Next the contest commenced with a
vim l have never seen surpassed. At
uISl llcy Gavin othCA, VIC
string to seek safety in opposite direc-
lions, then they darted down the stream
side by side, like Kentucky thorough
breds With their united strength
against me l could do nothing but give
them line. The music of my reel was
sweeter far than any chorus ever
awakened by enthusiastic hunter.
dared not attempt at first to check them
il their wild rush. My large-sized reel
was almost empty when noticed the
pressure lessening; they were again at.
tempting to diverge in their course.
Quick to take advantage of their un.
skillful tactics, commenced to reel in.
The effort to regain my lost ground was
slow at first
In curving researches,
Back and forth they dart in unconscious
strength,
Describing arcs and segments in the shadows
of the rified pool.
But gradually and surely l am forcing
the fight at shorter range; weaker ano
weaker became the resistance of the en-
envy, until at last have the satisfaction
of seeing the white bellies OF both turned
up in token of their capitulation, ano
my heart throbs with thrill of victor,
as see them submissively yielding t.
the landing net.-Southern BlUouac.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-01
Detained on the Road.

when l lived in Kansas" said De-
troiter, who was telling stories in an in
surance Office few days ago, II insured
my house with an agent against fire.
Along came another agent who insured
against lightning, and took that in.
In few days a chap called on me who
insured against cyclones, and l struck
bargain with him. The next caller in
sured against water spouts and explo-
sions, and thought l might as well en-
courage him"
"a house couldn't be much safer than
that" remarked one of the listeners.
land yet l lost it inside of six
months"
"How could it be?''
''Well, there came freshet in the
river and house, barn, fences, haystacks
and all went sailing down stream. The
agent who insured against freshets got
there just one day too late. Detroit
Free Press.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-01

Captain Harry f. Rulon, of Phila-
delphia. late of the United States Mint,
has in his possession a shovel which for
seven years was used for no other pur-
pose than transferring the silver coin
of the realm from drying pan into
boxes. By constant use of the nipple
ment about an inch and a half was
worn from its blade, thus rendering it
useless for raising precious metals.
During the seven years of it's use, ac-
cording to a calculation made by the
chief clerk, Captain Rulon handled the
almost fabulous sum of $685.. 100000
with that shovel. The Captain pur-
chased it from the government for
rs cents, and is now using it in his
coal bin.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-01
They Found the Will.

In the year 1903 there died at Bath a
lady who had amassed considerable
money. On the inside of her pillow
slip was pinned note which ran thus:
II have made will; if you would be
rich find it." There was something
charming in this idea. The old lady
must have been of humorous turn of
mind. No doubt she often pictured to
herself her young and aged relations,
male and female alike, in pursuit of this
phantom fortune. Carpets would be
ripped up, the contents of cushions and
beds scattered about the floor, the wall
paper torn down. the garden dug up,
and, in fact, everything turned topsy-
turvy. The story goes that the search
went on night and day for a week, each
party being anxious, naturally enough,
to find the will, when just as the search
was about to be given up in disgust the
document was found tightly sewn inside
the skin of the lady's wig. Then the
family gathered together to hear it
read. 1t consisted of one clause, and
that was to the effect ''that the finder of
this will. in consideration of his labor
and good luck in finding it, shall have
the sum of penny day for his natur-
al life, the rest of my property to go to
charities named below" Here the
story ends. Nothing is said about the
feelings of the will-seekers, which is
disappointing, for there is as grand
scope here for the pen of the novelist
as there is for the brush of the painter.
Manchester Times.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-01
A FEW years ago when Scottish parlia-

A FEW years ago when Scottish parlia-
mentary candidate was canvassing his
constituency he called at the house of all
aged couple. Finding the old woman
alone he entered into conversation with
her and asked her to use her influence
IN getting her husband to vote for him.
While they were conversing, the would
be m p. noticed kitten amusing itself
on the floor, and, taking it up, praised
its beauty, and offered her f5 for it. The
bargain was struck, and on leaving be
again expressed the hope that she wouId
secure her husbands vote for him.
"Weel, sir" answered the woman, Gas
said afore, Johns a man o'his ain mind
and just does what strikes lis ain noddle;
but at any rate, sir, you've gotten real
cheap kitten, for yer opponent was in nae
farer game than yesterday and gae me
f10 for his brither."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-01
A wor6 to Workers.

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TWENTY FIVE years ago Young Scotc

TWENTY FIVE years ago young Scotch
man named Garrick went to Australi 4,
leaving his wife behind him. After some
wears she heard that be was dead, and
removed to Hamilton, Canada, with her
little son, and there married Mr.. Mich
olson. Six years ago he died. Mean
while Garrick, who had not died, returned
To Scotland with uice little fortune. and
began hunting for his wife. Two weeks
ago she received a letter from him, and
a week ago he joined her in Hamilton,
and they were again regularly and law
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