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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-18
EViCTEO IN a COFFIN,
Carried In Triumph Up a street sitting
an Implanted Box.

Carried in Triumph Up a street Sitting In
an Implanted Boz.
One OF the most extraordinary Incl
dents that has yet occurred In copnec-
ton with evictions took place in Cash
ell on Monday last At the last petty
sessions held in Cashel the Representa-
tives of the late DR.. Daniel Kyle pro-
ceeded against weekly tenant named
Mr.. Frank Dryer for possession OF a
weekly tenement. situated In William
street, for nen-payment Of rent.
The defense set up was that Mr.. Kyle
had left Dryer the house, together
with a coffin, which he kept beside him
in his room. but, Notwithstanding this
contention. the justices gave a decree
for possession. Before the eviction
Dwyer, better known "a Frankly
Doodle made preparations on q
somewhat extended scale 70 barricade
the place.
On Monday morning the town baili5
proceeded with party OF police 20
William street TO carry out the order
OF the magistrates. The house. ss
already stated, was barricaded.
"Franky" making his appearance at
one Of the windows, shouting:
You can't evict me out Of the coffin.
] will go into the coffin, and you
must put me out. coffin and all"
After some further parley Or the
part of Frankly" and the police, be
agreed to give up possession. but only
on condition that be should De evicted
while in his coffin. The key OF the
door was then thrown down, and the
barricades being removed The bailirs
and the police. entering a. once, pro-
ceeded 80 put "Franky" out. whom
they found Sill lying IN the coffin
Owing, however. 20 the stairs being
60 narrow they had TO put tie coin
with its living innat. GU. through
one Of the windows. The sight was
certainly a novel one, and not without
It's amusing sspect-bai.ia and police
lowering an Imprinted and open coffin.
within which was stretched, or rather
reciined. "Frsnky."i In excellent health
and wearing 8 high silk hat. around
which was tyined an old white yell.
As he descended he protested 20 the
assembled crowd agsins: lis Illegal
eviction" but il ore might Judge from
the bcisterous laughter TIA, was heard
On al sides the spectators seemed
greatly TO enjoy tae scene A .ooa
D. the eos.a reached terra frnaa tho
'boss $, VITO seemed inclined for more
fun raised Il I'D. placed II on their
shoulders. and proceeded up the main
street. followed 6y a largs gathering
cheering lustiiy for "Franky~ a. be
sat upright IN it. csonmeIl Ire Csrsa,
ia
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-18
CURIOSITlES OF COAL.
The Almost Uncomfortable Variety of Sub.
stances Derived from Pit-Coal.

The Almost Inconceivable Variety of Sub
stances Derived from Pit-Coal.
Does any one except a practical
chemist ever stop to think Of all the
substances which We get from pit-coal
and the almost inconceivable variety
of their uses? Every body is familiar
with those of them that are in daily
use, such as gas. Illuminating oils,
coke and paraffine, but of the greater
part few persons know even the names,
science advances so rapidly and its
nomenclature is so extensive and so
abstruse. 1t is no wonder that mer-
chants and manufacturers take advan-
tage of this ignorance to foist upon the
public articles Of food. of drink, or for
the toilet that, if they are not always
dangerous to the health, have not in
them a particle of the substances
which they pretend to contain. Though
fpit-coal has been known for some hun
Idreds Of years. the discovery of its
numberless products is confined to the
present century. Illuminating gas
was unknown hundred years ago.
Petroleum has been in use only about
forty years, and it is scarcely more
than fifty since some one discovered
that stone coal was inhammable. Nearly
all the other products derived from
soft coal have been discovered and APP
piled in the interests Of science or Of
fraud within the last twenty-five years.
The first thought in regard to coal
is that it is made to give heat or
warmth; the next that one of its
principal uses is to illuminate. But
there are obtained from it the means
of producing over four hundred colors,
or shades of color, among the chief of
which are saffron. violet-blue, and in
digo- There are also obtained great
variety OF perfumes-cinuamon. bitter
almonds. queen OF the meadows,
Glove. wintergreen. anis, camphor,
thymol Ga new French odorl, yaniline
and heliotropine. Some Of these are
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-18

can DO can possibly be as well done as
what man, under exactly the same
conditions and circumstances, could
accomplish. 1t is they who rail against
women doctors, women lawyers, women
writer's, and who, ignorantly and
blindly, do so much to retard their
own progress. A very wise and ex-
perienced woman once said to the
writer that. throughout her life she
had never found truer or better friends
than what she called her reformed
lovers"-men who had sought to win
her love, but, failing to do so, had
ended by becoming staunch and earnest
friends, brotherlike in their affection
for her. A woman can have friend
ship for man free from any thought
of the difference in sex, such as he
rarely feels for her. A mans friend
ship for another man is free, open and
hearty, rejoicing in his good fortune,
overlooking his faults, never harbor-
ing that sense Of rivalry or jealousy
which so often taints women's friend
ships. In most friendships, as in most
marriages, there is usually a positive
and negative side; that is, one per-
son is only too happy to give, and the
other quite content to receive, affection
and self-sacrifice. The ideal relation
would be the perfect reciprocity of
affection, but how rarely do we find it?
In woman's love Or friendship there
is always feeling of self-abnegation, a
longing to utterly forget herself, to lose
herself in the object of her affection.
Some one tells US that Friendship is
akin to love" Should not the perfec-
ton of love be friendship? When, in
all cases Of mutual affection, each vies
with the other in self-sacrifce and eff
forts for the others good, then we
shall have arrived at the eternal fitness
of things.--ISam Francisco Call.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-18
A MODEL KITCHEN.
1t Did Not Cost Very Much, But Is q Marvel
of Convenience.

OF Convenience.
Here is unique kitchen worthy of
description: It-is not large. having
been built to fit a very little woman.
The pantry is to the rear of it, tho
dining-room to the right, the hall in
front and all out doors to the left,
though it stands on narrow city lot.
The kitchen projects beyond the hall.
giving room for a door in front, and
there is a second door in the front
leading to back porch and garden. The
range chimney stands against the outer
wall, and from door to door in summer
the breeze blows perpetually past it.
There are windows according to cir
cumstanees, some high, some low,
some big. some little, some in the upper
panels of the doors.
The temple of the household gods is
is finished entirely in wood, for es-
thetic reasons, quite as much as utili-
tartan. Wood finish means that not
an inch Of plaster appears. Ceiling,
walls and floor are all OF deligh tfully
polished yellow pine. The castings of
doors and windows are fat for ease of
washing, and all the joints are as tight
as tight can be. The work was done
slowly and carefully under the super
vision OF the presiding genius. While
the woodwork, perfectly plain as be-
fits kitchen, makes a really beautiful
apartment, the veinings of the wood.
the rich coloring and the lingering
forest odor suggest pleasant thoughts
and typify the home refinement of the
lady who joyfully gives bread TO her
house rather than the drudgery of
mental toll so often put forward in its
place
The laundry tubs and sink are of
solid white porcelain. But the Won
derfui economies of space and numer-
Gus step-saving devices are the features
of the place. There are slides from
the pantry to the dining room side
board. There are shelves in the tri-
angular space over the cellar stairs.
There is table which pulls out of no.
where, just opposite the range, and
vanishes into thin air when the cook
ing is done. There are -four bins
which swing out into the room when
wanted and push in flush with the Wall
again. When the mistress of the es-
Enlistment wishes to put any thing
down cellar" she doesn't go down
herself. though the stairs are of gen.
tie slope and easy of access. She
touches mysterious lever with her
hand or foot and up comes a section of
the kitchen floor, bringing with it
series of shelves. Disposing the vari-
Gus articles thereon, she reverses the
lever and down goes the whole thing.
The floor is as solid as ever and the
shelves are hanging in the dry, cool
air of the cellar.
CostlyP Not at all Economy and
convenience were the prime consider
ations. The house was built by an
artist who planned first the kitchen
his wife's wOrkshop-then the studio
his own-and let the rest of the house
group itself round these two. The
kitchen cost no more in money than
the most dingy type Of city basement,
and its owners call it worth all that it
cost of ingenuity.-N. Y. Mail and En-
press.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-18

used for favoring. Among the explo-
sive agents whose discovery has been
caused by the war spirit of the last few
years in Europe are two called dinit-
robenzine, or bellite, and picrates To
medicine coal has given hypnone,
salicylic acid. naphtol, phenol and
antipyrine Benzine and naphthaline
are powerful insecticides. There have
been found in it ammoniacal salts
useful as fertilizers, tannin, sacchar-
inc Ga substitute for sugar., the flavor
of currants, raspberry and pepper,
pyrogallic acid and hydroquinone used
in photography, and various sub
stances familiar or unfamiliar, such as
tar, rosin, asphaltum, lubricating oils,
varnish, and the bitter taste of beer.
By means of some OF these we can have
wine without the juice of the grape,
beer without malt, preserves without
either fruit or sugar, perfumes with
out flowers, and coloring matters with
out the vegetable or animal substances
from which they have been hitherto
chiefly derived What is to be the end
of all this? Are our coal-beds not only
to warm and illuminate but to feed and
quench the thirst of posterity? We
know that they are the luxuriant vege-
tation of primal epochs stored and
compressed in way that has made
them highly convenient for transport
and daily use. They are natures saw
ings laid up for a rainy day of her
children. the human race, and it is
probable because they are composed Of
the trees, the foliage, the plants, the
roots, the fruits and the flowers of the
ancient world that they now so largely
supply the place Of our forests. plains,
fields and gardens. San Francisco
Chronicle
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-18

speaking OF names, Miss Van
Acknowledgement ventured young
Jonesby. doesn't the length and the
the cumbersomeness of your name
sometimes cause you annoyance when
introduced to strangers or thoughtless
persons?"
Quite often" returned Miss Van
land ! have some
times thought seriously of taking the
necessary legal steps to have my name
changed to something shorter and
more easily pronounced"
Isis there no other way by which
a change might be made?" suggested
Mr.. Jonesby. loosening his collar nerv-
ously and swallowing a cannon-ball Of
prodigious size that had risen in his
throat.
None" said the young lady. posi-
lively and emphatically. and Mr..
Jonesby presently took his hat aud
left.-Chtcq0o Tribune.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-18
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
Skirts, Redingotes, Dress Materials Al
Millinery for Early Autumn.

Early
Skirts wholly undraped and very full
at the back grow in favor. The point
bodice and belted waist are the two
styles of corsage popular with these
skirts.
Directoire redingotes will be highly
fashionable this autumn. These are
glove-fitting, simple and severe in
style, and the skirt portion falls in
straight stately folds at the back.
They will be made of cloth of every
description, of velvet, striped MORE,
and fancy mixtures in silk and wool.
Some of the new bandana plaids are
conspicuously large and gay in pattern,
but there are cases Of other designs,
especially among the more expensive
wool fabrics and surahs, that are ex-
ceedingly tasteful and attractive,
blending with the plain materials with
excellent effect. Many of these new
plaid combinations will be adopted this
year by those who have not favored
the style heretofore, for the reason
that in the most desirable patterns all
startling or snowy effects have been
avoided by the manufacturers, and
handsome solid grounds OF moss. olive,
brown, gray, or blue are exhibited
simply crossed by hair lines of con-
trasting color.
A costume Tor autumn walks and
excursions in the country shows a
plain, full skirt of dark blue and leaf
brown Amazon cloth crossed with
half-inch lines of amber. with a hair
line of Florentine red close beside it.
The skirt is plated to belt with most
OF the fullness at the back. The open
jacket of the same has Charles Y.
revers collar, which is one that does
not meet in front. Beneath the jacket
is waistcoat OF golden-brown corded
silk braided in celors that match
those in the plaid. The collar and
cuffs are similarly soutached.
The caprice for borrowing details
from masculine attire is more and
more evident, and in riding-habits,
tennis suits, and tailor-made travelling
suits there is really but little. except
ing the skirt, TO distinguish them
from mems dress. Derby hats arc
worn, stiff neck-ties and scarts with
scarf-pin. waistcoats with cutaway
jackets, jockey caps en- quite, with
long tweed redingotes and listers. and
so on. Abroad young women and girls
wear round hats Of soft velvety felt, in
white and c0lors. in the shapes fash
ionable for men. With plaid COS
tune. the hat has band Of ribbon in
one Of the colors OF the plaid With a
plain tailor gown. there Is bandsna
kerchief knotted a la crcole.-E. Y.
Ere-1lsls Past
"A Lady has little coiored girl az
a sort OF body servant. who is very
much pleased with her place. One
day the lady started down street is
you gwine 10 my folkses? asked the
child No. Let to-day" replied the
lady. Il wisht you was" Why.
whats the rna.ters- '.Oh, cause I
wants dem uiggers 10 see what kind o.
folks Ise kespin' comp'ny wid- z
you'll 60. you needn', pay ne no wages
70 dis ger week wuk" The lady paid
the call and gave the child zen cents
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-26
OUR GIRLS AND OTHERS.
Diamonds in a Dump---Much Talk
About Maidens-..Chat.

"A San Francisco lady is out abont So
500 worth of jewels, and this, according
to spicy chronicle in the San Francisco
Bulletin, is the way the whole astonish-
ing business happened:
Several weeks ago she left the Golden
Gate for a summer resort. Her level
case, containing $4,000 worth of dia-
monds, was left at home, and the
daughter, as we'll as the housemaid, was
cautioned to watch over the precious
caSket with ceaselesS care. No sooner
had the mother left the city than fears
of burglars began to prey upon the
nerves of the custodians of the Jewels,
and finally as clever ruse the case
was carefully concealed in the
coal hod In the kitchen. The
cook knew nothing of this ar
rangement and last Saturday morning.
when the scavenger appeared as usual
to remove the accumulated ashes of the
dumped from the hOd into the barrel
and from the barrel into the cart with
no greater consideration than if it had
been decayed watermelon. Thence it
was carried out to the public dump on
San Bruno road. The tail-board of the
cart was lifted and the diamonds went
rolling among the debris concealed by
the dust that accompanied the fall of its
plebian fellOw-travelers. The cartman
took his departure, but at this moment
another figure makes its appearance. AS
the cart deposited Its load a ragman,
with long stick, tipped by a two
pronged rake, stood ready to receive it.
The dusty pile was raked over in the
usual carless way and bright sparkling
cluster of gems was picked up along
with rusty oyster cans and old nails and
put in his pocket. This proved to be the
great find Of the day; The ragpicker OBJ
tanned $40 for it. The loss of the Jewels
was not discovered until the following
day. and the feeling that resulted may
better be imagined than described.
After long search the cluster of dia-
monds found by the ragpicker was
traced and recovered. 1t was a beauti-
full brooch containing seventeen stones
and valued a $500. The remainder of
the jewelry has gone apparently beyond
recall. No trace of it has been discoy-
nraA
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-26


ample, here is one, used over three
years ago, that was made for likeness
of G. G. Hoyt, the headmiller at Pills
bury A mill. This is a copper-faced
plate on wood base, and is in every way
unsuited to the process of stereOtyp-
ing now in use by every Twin City daily
paper. The first cuts of domestic man
ufacture were cruditity itself. The pro-
cess was primitive and the results un-
satisfactory. A coating of prepared
wax was laid upon a steel surface
and the artist etched the picture
with a sharp instrument like a
needle. The plate then went
to the foundry, where it was
electrotyped i'll copper and mounted
upon wood base, as in the picture
above. By this process fine lines were
an impossibility, and it was soon aban-
dOned as impracticable. Next came the
chalk plate, or kaOletype process, which
permits of very satisfactory results and
is now in general use in both cities. 1t
has the merit of being extremely rapid,
and the picture once drawn the cut can
be turned out IN any well appointed
newspaper establishment. The process
is simply to etch the picture with a
stylus, through chalky coating laid
upon a smooth steel plate. The plate
goes into casting box and hot type
metal poured upon it, the molten
metal filling out the finest lines
and most delicate shading. A solid
block is produced, and, with a
few finishing touches, is ready
for the forms. The accompanying cut
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-26
CLEVER CLIPPINGS.

All the worlds a stage, and most of
the men and women on it are merely
supers.-Puck.
When meter is out of order it is
probably troubled with the gas-trick
fever.-Pitrsburg Chronicle.
What's the use of a nine-column
paper in the hands of three-column
editor-Springfield (Ga.), News.
A cat makes the most noise when
everything is still-that is, everything
but the cat.-Yonkers Statesman.
This wise amateur base ball PLAYER
that knoweth his own trousers after he
has scored on sllde-Oil City Blizzard.
One would think that weeping will
low and a pine tree should be placed in
the same class.-Yonkers Statesman.
Wages in China are 2 cents day. No
wonder Cinnamon can't afford to get
their hair cut.--Burlington Free Press.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-26
LESS THAN A SPAN.

The Worlds bubble and the life of Man
Less than span:
In his conception wretched-from the womb
So to the tomb:
Curst from his cradle. and brought up to
years
With cares and fears.
Who then to frail mortality shal ] trust
But lmns on water or but writes on dust
Yet whilst with sorrow here we live opprest,
What life is best?
Courts are but only superficial schools
To dandle fools:
The rural parts are turned into den
Of savage men;
Aud where's city from foul vice so free,
But may be termed the worst of all the
three?
Domestic cares affiict the husbands bed,
Or pains his head:
Those that live single take it for curse,
Or do things worse.
Some would have children: those that have
them moan
Or wish them gone.
What is it, then, to havoc have no wife,
But single thraldom or double strife?
Our own affection still at home to please
Is disease:
To cross the sease to any foreign soil,
Peril and tCil
Wars with their noise alright US; when they
cease
We are worse in peace,
What then remains but that we still should
Cry.
For being born, or being born. to dies
1ard Bacon.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-26
Logan as a Boxer.

Philadelphia Record.
Senator Cullom tells good story about
the late Gen. John A. Logan, who was
quite sparrer. Prof. Collins was his
first trainer, and he had been taking
lessons about six months. He was sure
his teacher could not knock him out,
and it having been agreed that they
should have a regular set-to, the general
induced Gov. Oglesby to be witness.
When Logan came out stripped for the
bout and stood up before Prof. Collins,
Oglesby cautioned him to be careful or
he would get hurt. This put the former
on his mettle. and he went for his an
tagonist so viciOusly that in less than
ten minutes he planted the ex-pugilist
one under the chin, laying that gentle
man in far corner all in heap.
Oglesby was surprised and Collins was
simply dumfounded. He got up, walked
slowly over to the general and said:
'Mr. Logan, it's the greatest pity in the
world you aren't a fighter, for you
would be a daiSy, sure"
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-26
THE YOUNG WOMAN GOT 1T.
Four Men Offer a Pretty Girl a
Place. While a Spinster S tands.

New York World.
A tall, thin old maid waved parasol
at down-going Broadway car at Fif-
teenth street yesterday morning. The
seats on both sides of the car were lined
with men, except in the far corner,
where an old woman sat with big bum
men glanced up as the thin maid
entered the car and then became
suddenly intent on their papers.
A fat man with a shining bald
head looked fiXedly out of the window
and seemed profoundly interested in the
passing sights. A young man opposite
him, who had been humming tune the
moment before and was as merry as a
grig, pursed up his mouth, put on an
air of deep melancholy, stared steadily
at his left shoe and seemed lost in an
Interesting calculation of its length and
breadth. Those who had newspapers
in their hands found them SO i'm
mensely interesting that they could
Meantime the spinster clung to strap
and stared at one young man who,
bOlder than the rest, looked at her. He
shifted about uneasily in his seat for a
moment then, with poor attempt at
having suddenly remembered some
thing of vast Importance, plunged his
hand into his inside coat pocket and
drew forth bundle of old letters.
which he began to sort with the utmost
diligence and care.
At Twelfth street pretty girl got on.
She was dressed in tight-fitting cloth
dress, which set off her well-rouuded
figure to advantage. There was just
the hint of coming color in her cheeks,
and when she smiled white teeth peeped
through the red of her lips. She shook
out her dress with pretty little air of
Irritation. The fat man with the bald
head all at once ceased to take any in
terest in the street sights, and rose
precipitately to offer his seat.
His head bumped against the
young man on the other side,
who had discovered all he wanted
to know about his left shoe, and who
also rose to tender his seat. The man
who had been reading his letters, and
who appeared to be SO careful with
them, stuffed them all into his pocket
in confused mass and fell over his
neighbor's legs in his frantic efforts to
be the lucky man. The baldheaded
man glanced about trlumphantly like a
harvest moon when she accepted his
| seat and gave him merry glance and a
| sweet THANK you" The three other
men scrambled back for their seats and
the older woman still clung to the
| StraD
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-26

what makes the impress sion that he
calls picture or how the work of cut
manufacturing is accomplished. The
GLOBE is the pioneer paper of the
Northwest i'll the line of cuts, having
been the first TO introduce the system
which has since been copied by its
every contemporary in the Northwest.
The system of cartoon was also first
used in the Northwest by the GLOBE,
and proved powerful political factors,
first in the mayoralty campaign in
Minneapolis in 1856, and afterwards in
the congressional and state elections in
the same year. Three years ago, when
the first picture appeared in the Min
neapolis department, it was thought
fairly good, but the process was neces-
sarily crude. and such cut would now
be considered fit only for the hell box
in the light of the improved processes
now in use. This cut was portrait of
of Mayor Pillsbury and fac-simile is
here reproduced for the purpose of COM
parison and contrast.
In the beginning of 1885 there was no
plant in the Twin Cities for the manu-
fdcture of cuts other than the slow and