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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24
A Bit of Realism.

While in Europe last summer wit
messed a bit of realism that would be a
surprise to our most original theatrical
men who sometimes combine very opposite
business in seeking for new effects Twas
invited to a concert while in Berlin, and
listened to some of the songs and recita-
lions by the best amateurs of certain
set. 1t was all very well except one per.
Torrance by a student, which certainly
startled the audience. He recited Paul's
defense in Greek and went in for the
realism Of the piece. In order to represent
more thoroughly the character of the
apostle, as prisoner, he had himself led
on Che platform by long, heavy chain,
which was bound around his waist How
ever, he went no further in his makeup,
but kept on his white kid gloves and dress
suit The Crock language, the chain and
the gloves had just the opposite effect to
that intended by him.-W. B. Cummings
in Glo5e-Democrat.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24
Working on a Sewer.

alt was bad day to work on a sewer, so
knocked of the men, remarked prominent
sewer contractor one evening. what class
of men are your best workers. asked the
Expressonist. We'll, I've in my employ
Irishmen, Germans, FrenchmeG, Prussians,
Poles. Italians and. Americans. The Italian
will work well and DO a good days work if
YOU can stand over hin, and always be where
he can see you. Poles are good workers,
don't need So much watching as Italians, but
they can't do as much work. Il takes much
longer, too. TO make Poles understand what
you want and how to do their work The
best workers, / find, are Germans They
will work right along, and / can be gone half
a day. When | get back ! find their work
done. A irish:lan is a good worAer-when
he wants 10 workout hes worst OF all if
ne makes up his mind to soldier He'll do Il
right in front Of you, and laugh if YOU
kick."-BufTalo Express.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24
WHY NOT Art AND LATHER?
That's To Prevent the Earbers from TAX
ing q Hint from the PrbIicans?

whats To Prevent the Earbers from TAX
ing 2 Hint from the PrbIicans?
"High ar: in the barroom long ago be
came an incontrovef tible and prominent fact
i'm metropolitan life," said an observing New
yorser the other day High art and rum
as a combine are odd enough, but the coming
innovation Will excel it. High art-and iather
will be here some day, and the art will be
high in double sense, for it will not be on
the wall, but on the ceiling.
''How is it that the barber has not long ere
this added to his colloquial fascination the
charm of the painters brush to draw ducatS
TO his purse: There's money in the scheme,
If the thrifty Teuton will but put on his
glasses and see it. There are BARRIERS in some
of the leading hotels of this city who have
grown independent through their trade, and
may grow wealthy. Let such a man secure
en- artist of the first rank IL the United
States, or from abroad if he prefer it. who
viii transform his ceiling into vast work Of
art, or series of works, which shall delight
the eye and can only Beviewed with comfort
from horizontal position. The ceiling may
be false one, if desired, placed over the
original and made portable, in order that it
may be transplaTted to another sphere if the
rent is raised in consequence.
why do men so calmly TO sleep the mo-
ment they strike a BARRIERS chairs Because
they are sleepy! Not al all. Il is because
the monotonous field of white or of aboInin-
ably figured wall paper spread out above
them for fifteen minutes would in time make
of them nervous wrecks unless they closed
their eyes; and by closing their eyes they in
Sluce sluiaber If, instesd of this ordeal,
man realized that he could enSer a certain
barber shop as he enters the National Acad-
envy of Design or the Metropolitan museum
OF Art he would go tH that shop every time;
while the large percentage of male popula-
tion which persists in shaving itself would in
sist in having its hair cut once or twice
week at least. Indeed, the cause of temper
ance itself might hope for new boom, for
many men who now drop in for drink
would in time come to drop lie for shave in
stead. And as the price is about the same
for each lather would not be hampered in
the contest with rum.
IAN humble bafber in the Bowery has al
ready caught the idea in a crude way. and
has set his aristocratic brethren an example
by covering his ceiling indiscriminately with
attractive figures from theatrical posters and
then vanishing over the whole until it has
the appearance of an artists dream after a
rarebit. It's crude, but the idea is there, and
is bound to he heard from sooner or later
New York Sun.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24

GAME IN THE NORTH.
Marvellous Skill Of tho Native Hunters
Of tho Arctic Regions.

Marvellous Skill Of tho Native Hunters
Of tho Arctic Regions.
The natives of the Frigid Zone know
how to set effective traps for deer, wolves.
and other animals, without the aid OF
wood, or white mems implements. A
deer trap, for instance, is made by digging
hole in the deep snow and covering it
with snow blocks held in position by rest
ing upon each other. For bait, little
lines of sailed water are led to the center
of the covering of the pit, and following
up one of these the unsuspecting animal
falls in and becomes an easy prey to the
hunter.
A wolf trap is made by coiline into as
small space as possible slender strips of
whalebone about foot in length and
tying Their, with thread made from sinew
Each coil is then imbedded in small
chunk of meat and thrown upon the snow.
where it is subsequently found by the wolf
and bolted without chewing. In Little
while the frozen meat thaws, the sinew is
wet and slips the loosely made knots, the
whalebone straightens and pierces the
stomach and intestines, and the animal
dies in torture.
In winter the northern native knows
how to find the elbow hole" in the ice
fields. where q seal comes up to get q
fresh supply of air for his lungs. This
elbow hole'' is very different in reality
from that which is usually pictured in the
illustrated stories of Arctic travel GEN
orally they are represented as irregular
openings in the ice from two to six feet
in diameter. The fact is, one unfamiliar
with the habits and haunts of these
marine mammals would pass directly
over a blow hole in winter or spring and
not see it, as it is not usually more than
from half an inch to an inch in diameter
at the surface of the ice. The native seal
hunters are greatly assisted in these
searches by their dogs, whose keen noses
scent the odor Of seal meat, and guide
their masters to places on the right or
LETT of the line Of search, that would
otherwise have escaped the notice of
even these keen eyed hunters. When
found, the location is marked for fu-
ture reference, and at some subse-
quent time. when NEST is scarce in the
snow hut that shelters the hunters house.
hold, he repairs, with snow knife and
spear, to one of the places previously
marked, and building shelter or break
wind Of snow blocks, sits down to await
the return OF the seal. Sometimes these
vigils are prolonged not for hours only,
but for days, at sitting.
In the spring when the seal comes out
upon the ice to bask and doze in the warm
sunlight, the hunter approaches him by
lying down and advancing cautiously, at
the same time initiating the motions of q
seal, keeping his feet and legs, which he
crosses at the ankle, close together, SO
that they much resemble the headquarters
of q seal. Indeed, when at distance, |
have frequently found it difficult to tell
which was the seal and which the man.
Il is the early training of the northern
savages that has taught them to do all
this skillfully.-W. II. Glider in The Co.'S
mopoiitan.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24
Uncle SANS Curiosity Shop.

The National museum al Washington con.
tains a set of the phGI'nlacDpcsias Of all ma
lions. furnishing q complete list of the worlds
standard medicines. From these q universal
pharmacop9ia is TO be compiled. The de-
nartmeut of Materis Medica in the museum
illustrates the worlds past and present meii-
cal practice, and is designed TO irclude every
kind of raw material, preparation. instrsi-
ment and appliance ever used in medicine,
surgery or hygiene. Several thousand speci-
mems have thus far been collected. showing
the materials and processes Of modern phar-
macy. together with such olT-osities as ALI.
gator oil, frogs, tosds, tortoise shells, amber
girls, cod liveTS, pearls, s.lsLs, snakes and
ether odd Substances TO which healing powers
have been attributed Traveller.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24
THE DRUG STORE SHOW BOTTLE.
An Invention that VIII Help to Place 1t
on the Retired List.

An Invention that viii Help to Place 1t
on the Retired List.
A very attractive and effective novelty in
the way of sign may be seen in front Of a
down town drug store 1t is, indeed, 50
prominent and dazzling feature. especially
at night that no one can help seeing it. 1t Is
| an illuminated drug sign, the invention OF
| the druggist himself.
The sign is conveniently formed In the
shape of a case, its thickness about half its
width, having door giving access to the m
terror In the sides of this case are arranged
glasses of the kind commonly known as
'.bulis eyes of different sizes and colors,
forming the translucent parts of q druggist s
compound show bottle, the round bulls eyes
forming successive portions of the bottle. 1t
is the intention to make the remainder of the
| design iieurcd work upon the outside of tho
| case in bright colors, such as gold or silver
leaf, which will reflect the light, and the out
line thus formed carry out the outline Of q
show bottle. At night the light passing
through these bulls eyes viii also illuminate
these bright outlines, and the show bottle APP
pearance viii pe carried out even more fully
than by daylight. The lights, as arranged
inside the case, are OF gas, but where gas Is
not obtainabje, oil will DE found TO answer
the purpose nearly IS well. The patent also
covers the use of bottles with colcred waters
placed behind the bulls eyes, and also the
use OF white or uncoiored bulls eyes, with
strips of colored glass slides interposed be-
tween the bulls eye and the light.
With The old style show bottle, which has
been in use for couple Of centuries or more,
a person cannot see the drug light when the
windows are frosted or covered with sweat,
and if one is on the same side Of the street
where the drug store happens to be in the
middle Of the square, the show lights are not
visible twenty yards away.
With this improved combination drug
sign ard show bottle no drug store can have
its light hid under bushel The sign is at
tached to pillar at the entrance, and, ex-
tending out two feet or more, may be seen
for more than mile up and down the street,
as the bulls eyes never sweat or get covered
with frost. The lower bulls eye in the sign
is OF a beautiful ruby color, eight inches in
diameter, with a magnifying lens four and
one-Eaif inches in diameter. Above the
ruby is one six inches in diameter, with q
three and one-half inch lens, and above. this
a four inch amber bulls eye. These bulls
eye glasses are of the same form as those
from thirty to forty miles away.
The sign will certainly do away with the
time honored show bottles, long since voted
a nuisance by progressive druggists who
have recognized the fact that they do not
comport with the improved fixtures OF mod
srn times -Indianapolis Journal.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24
Packing Boxes for soldiers.

Ths packing Of boxes dEiag the war be.
came almost a fine art. 20 crowd the great.
est possible amount into given spare was
the ambition OF the packer, as in the ,iays OF
expensive postage the letter writer filled hi,
sheet TO overfowing with 8 multiplicity O.
words, Every little corner of the 5,ox was
utilized.
Not stuffed with paper by tho who un.
aerstood their business, thus was ing space,
but filled with q potato, an sppl., a handful
Of peanuts or some Other edible substance
These and other articles occuJ led the cram
MES between carefully wrapY ed glass Jars.
or bottles OF toothsome press YES, or boxes
of butter. or cans Of condense milk. or we'll
roasted chickens, and the tur key which each
box wss wont TO contain. II there YVES n
new pair OF boots among The contents, the
feet were filled with little things.
Then there was likely 20 be. among the
merchandise already spe ,ified, roll of ban
dages and lint for the al contingencies Of
battle.-Y oush's Compa aion.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24
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9ailu Ea9le
OLD MUSIC.

Turn the leaves tenderly, just as you'd touch
A flower her lips had pressed whom long ago
You loved unspeakabiy; in just such
Reverence, hold that dear old book. so
Worn and stained in happy days of yo-e.
Fer yet my life boat from the shore
Had drifted, drifted with the tide,
And sunny youth, upon The further side
Was left; they whom loved, and |,
Together sang them. those upgathered songs;
Sang them in voices clear. and high
As meadow Ministries: unto them belongs
An untold worth: nearest her heart.
Nature her richest gems doth hide:
So. In my own, my love hath set apart
A Shrine, which Oft at cventi3e
j seek from that far vanished shore.
Then floating. come 20 me
Over LIES widening sea:
Sweet echo songs; and with g yearniDg cry
Answers, my soul can never die;
My love for them. still in my heart twill dwell.
Until that pulsing heart hath hidden life farewell
Sarah Louise Morris il Inter Ocean.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24
An Accom- plished Wife,

'Well, Nellie, does Your husband still
drink!n
YES, mother, and its worrying the life
on. of me-"
did you try the plan Of breaking him Of
the habit that | suggested to your
'NeS"
Did you put whisky in his cofieer
YES
What lid he sayr'
'Iie said | 8as the eEly wolnan he had
seem since MS mother died VINO knew now to
make coffee rs should be made. n-Li2cois
S0urrlaA
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24

4 yoang German officer. rather new to
his vcrk. was drilling = squad Of raw re-
eTElts. AID gave tie word ct command:
Lift The right iegF' One Of the soldiers
iIv mistake raised his Jeff lee. 20 thai it
joined closely to the right leg Of bis neigh
Dor "Doanerwef:e:r' exclaimed tie
officer, what jaosaaapes has lifte1 both
his ecsy ~ ..e-epde Batter.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24
Stolc Her Wedding Int

1.-THE queerest case of. shcphfting ever
saw" said the head of department. in big
store, was when a girl stole her wedding
hat. The poor girl cried as if her heart
would break when We caught her, and she
said she took it because she has no5 hat fit
to be married il. Her sweetheart was tele-
graphed for, and he came to the city, paid
her 1ne, married her and took her back with
him without more than two or three finding
out her real name. Buffalo News
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24
Love in a Cottage.

There is more coziness, more warmth,
more homelike friendiiness in . small house
with small rooms than there in in big
house with big rooms. The big house be~ii-
ders. separates, silences and subdues its in
mates. They have not the elbow touch of
companionship Philadelphia Record
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24

In cases of freezing rub the body with
snow. ice or cold water Get up all the fric-
ton you can with these articles After .
while let heat be applied in the mos. gentle
manner If animation does not return try
artificial respiration, as IL cases Of drowning
Heat first applied is certain death
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24

HaIfeck is the coolest place or the line OF
the Central Pacific 1t is terrorto railroad
men. AT that point a current of air comes
down from the north through a series of val
leys--a sort Of trough that extends up into
arctic regions. -Vfrginin tNev.l Enterprise
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24
REPRODUCTION OF SYMPTOMS

In further conversation DR.. Hamill said
that the first inoculations were made from
the spinal column Of healthy, freshly killed
calf. and thereafter mainly from the SUCCESS
sive dead dogs. Every symptom described by
PaSteur had been thus reproduced, but not
all III the same dog. The inocuistions were
made in the brain, and common soap seemed
to produce the most violent symptoms He
thought that most Of the 30 called mad dogs
were either suffering from arrangement Of
the stomach or from lockjaw. He considered
the bite Of humsn being in s FRENZY almost
as dangerous to lie. When dogs are sick
they ca: things that a Harlem goat wouldn't
touch One killed recently had over pound
of rag carpet in his stomach. The expert
mentors in this city, Dr.. Haraill said, would
give q good deal of money for a dog suffering
from indisputable hydrophobia.
SIN Belgium concluded DR.. Hanill. '4they
regulate these things better than we do.
There all unlicensed dogs are shot, no matter
WIN: the saaDon OF The year. Each dog mus.
bs taken 70 the examining doctors once .
month. II he passes ali nigh, the color and
form Of his new collar indicate stat tact Until
the next examination day. II be il III IN any
way be is placed in solitary conf n<neot in the
dog hospital. and treated until his recovery
il conpk1e or pronounced hopehess Under
this sysssgn there have been cut SIX cases Of
% called hydrophohia in Belgian in seven
years-NeN York Evening Sun
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24

When fine feathers have been strewn over
the floor dampen the CARPET slightly, you can
then get the feathers together with light
sweeping and take then up IN = wad
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24

A decided Improvement in the eating bib
for children is made Of a towel 1t IS better
10 have the towel white Hollow out The
neck before binding, and bind with white
taUe
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24

A man VINO underts tkes 10 carve duck
with :. duil knife. AMI with no knowledge
OF tie birds anatomy, deserves the
prayers Of everybody 1t the dinner table
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24

After buttering the tin for boiled pudding
dust it with pounded bread crumbs: baking
pens can be treated with -four in the same
way and the cake viii never stick
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24

A bureau OF journalism has been estab-
lished at Johns Hopkins university and is
Dow under full Roadway
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24

Not one Of the four presidents of the
French republic sance its origin, IN lsJ
was harp IN Paris
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24

To make corset feel cornfo. ishle. lacs up
70 III the form neatly. then scs i've CT siI
straps of gum ribbon acres -: remove the
strings
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24

Keep your bread pans and pie aistss free
from III favor by always wsstin- .hssa 10
hot water after using.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-24

For Colorado, California Ore
ROn and all Pacific Coast points
this L. the favorite route.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1888-05-03
A Judge Of Horses.

A city hall official who has owned q
bay horse for the last seven years has
been talking Of buying another 10
match him. and the other day some OF
the boys went up to the barn and
brought his equine down and hitched
him In front Of the building. and then
had the owner come out and look at
him.
THAT bsast." he said. rs he looked
into his mouth, '':s all of twenty years
old. l also notice that he Is spavined
and weak IN the back
"Oh. you are mistaken. sir. 4" replied
the seller. 81 warrant him as sound
as a dollar"
Don't attempt 10 jockey meI' said
the owner II wouldn't give you
seventy-fye dollars for him. Talk
about matchl Why. he's three
shades lighter. two hundred pounds
heavier. and looks like an old COW be-
side my horsel You'd better make a
dicker with some expressman.
When the truth came out the bill for
''setiing 'em up for the boys was over
four dollars. -DsfroH Free Press
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1888-05-03
HUNTING THE BUFFALO.
Excitinr sport which once Delighted the
Hearts OF Many Hunters.

Hearts OF Many Huntera
On rushed the herd, now thoroughly
frightened, and as we hurried on after
them we fairly shouted in triumph, as
we saw that right in front of them ran
q ravino which we could see at n point
beyond, was at least forty feet deep.
The ravines in this light subsoil, torn
out by the deluging rains that occa-
sionally fall on the plains, were COM
monty broken of at the edges Just as
steep as soil could hang, and ms the
buffalo were sweeping on like torna-
do, with little time to look before they
leaped, felt sure that our hunt was
ended, the meat supply assured, and
only regretted the unnecessary slaugh-
ter sure TO follow rs the fated herd
plunged down the steep. would not
have thanked any man 10 insure us
fifty head Of dead or crippled buffalo.
over they went, three hundred yards
ahead of us, and we slackened our
pace TO a walk and began planning
how to get the meat Of the slaughtered
herd up the nearly perpendicular walls
Of the ravine. When within two hun
dred yards Of the brink, TO our
amazement buffalo appeared
clambering up the face Of the
other wall Of the ravine at point
that we. afterward found taxed the
climbing powers Of a footman. Another
came hobbling up, and we drew up the
horses, utterly dumbfounded, to see
that every one, even the calves, had
made the plunge in safety.
This, TO me. was one OF the most
noteworthy things that ever came un-
der my observation. Many times af-
terward we saw buffalo tracks on the
slight projections Of the walls Of these
deep gullies, in places where we could
only stop and stare. The shape of the
limbs, too. seemed utterly to forbid It.
As the bulls at this season Of the year
were fatter than the cows, VIC very
naturally chose them for beef, and as,
like all tenderfeet, we were ambition;
to kill the largest specimen to be found
It followed that nearly all we killed
were large bulls Yet when standing
over the body Of my first buffalo, and
noticing the extreme slenderness of tn,
legs just above the hoof, l then and
there began to measure each and every
one we killed for meat. besides large
ones found dead-when they did moi
smell too badly. l found only one
whose foreleg failed to span with tho
middle finger and thumb of one hand
Tho size and weight Of the animal
would seem TO necessitate a leg a,
strong as steel for the downhill plunge'
the buffalo can safely make.-Fores
and Stream.