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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-06
Jokes on the Credulous.

GAS far back as l can remember" said a
gentleman who devotes his leisure to the col
lection of curios, every now and then q
hoax has appeared and been implicitly be-
lieved in by the public. But so many hoaxes
have been sprung upon the community OF re-
cent years that people are more skeptical
than they used to be- The first hoax l re-
member that was generally believed in was
that jewelers. would pay IS a pound for
cigar ashes. This craze was in vogue all
over the country, and people used to carry
little boxes around with them to collect the
ashes in. Few ever undertook to find out
whether the story was true until he had the
pound of ashes collected, and then, of course,
it was too late Many sensible people pur-
sued this fad, although moments considera-
ton would show that no jeweler in bis sober
senses would clean precious metals with
gritty compound. People who wrote to the
papers for information in regard to the nom
descript jeweler were consoled with the
knowledge that cigar ashes made an excel
lent if rather disagreeable dentifrice.
'Then came the story that Queen Victoria
would give 81 900 to each person collecting
ZOO, 900 old postage stamps. This appealed
directly to the heart of the small boy, and
many an urchin played truant so that he
could hunt in the ash barrels in front OF the
down town offices. Business men had the
souls worried out of them by youngsters beg
cling for stamps. When the fabulous gen
erosity of the queen began TO be doubted
new story was circulated. 1t was that of
poor old invalid lady who was offered nice
home for the rest of her life as soon as she
had collected the million stamps. Then poo
pie went around collecting stamps for the
beneft of tho mythical old lady. The craze
soon died out It was always supposed to
have been originated By dealers who took
this way of booming the trade in used post
age stamps The button fad followed No
one seemed to know how many buttons had
to be collected on string before the task was
accomplished. It ranged from l 600 to &c.,
900, according to the success of the collector.
While the fever lasted many fond father
went to work in the morning with his clothes
pinned on. The last craze was for business
cards. 1t was almost universally followed,
but soon died out. Fortunes were made and
lost in the manufacture of chrome advertis-
ing cards.-New York Evening Sun
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-06
Rhea on Stage Costumes,

In a recent interview regarding dressing
for the stage, Mile. Rhea said: Il do not see
how an artiste can thoroughly enter into the
spirit Of her role unless she be correctly COS
TUNED. a queens robe and gown give YOU
something of the feeling of queen, do they
noti l know it is SO with me, as least
When put on nuns habit l feel instinct
lively like crossing my hands upon my breast
or holding meditatively the beads which
hang at my girdle. When l don the robes
of fashion my fan and bouquet suggest ct
once to me both coquetry and sentiment
Every dress L wear means something to me.
do not wear it simplyNwith the thought
need a dress, but rather with the thought
that it is TO represent a portion Of the char
acter it will clothe In other words it must
be In harmony with the role play while
wearing il. Buffalo News.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-06
The sculptor OF the Founder9

Many newspaper reports Of the unveiling
OF statues suggest the question whether the
sculptor is as important a parsonage as the
bronze founder The latter's name is ant to
obtain prominent mention for obvious rea-
SONS, while the name of the sculptor cannot
be found even in the list Of "distircuisled
visitors" There are sculptors and scalp
tresses, who seek notoriety by means beit-
ting vendors of patent medicines, but this
class is as well able 10 take care of itself -
the ''eTteTprisingn bronze founder. TIE
casting OF statues is most interesting indus
try, and the manufacture OF artists cclors Is
also interesting, but it is not yet usual tc
mention tie manufacturers name in dess,rib-
irg picture and TO ignore the aItiSt-New
York Tribune
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-06
A FLIRTING HUSBAND,

A Pretty Girls Punishment of q Married
Niasher-A Car Scene.
Do the foolish men travel more than the
Others, or does it make man silly to put
him on a car and send him away from home,
ask this question because meet so many
men acting like idiots on every journey /
take. Directly in front of me on a recent
Journey sat pretty girl, perhaps z years Of
age, and across the way was a fine looking
middle aged man with sweet faced wife,
two lovely children and a nursauaid This
party was evidently returning for some pro-
ionSed visit to the country, and heading for
'Grandma's" to stay until the holidays The
conversation of the children told all this to
every one in the parlor car Presently when
mamma was deep in new book and nurse
had the babies on a sofa at the end Of the
car, the scamp of a husband opened the cam
paign by surreptitious smiles in the looking
glass at the pretty girl During the day he
flrted with her. As the Madonna faced wife
bent over her novel, the man would make
eyes right over her shoulder to the a1nuse-
nlent and disgust Of the passengers
Finally be went TO a rack in which teIe-
graph blanks were deposited, took one and
retired. After a while he came back, walked
to the opposite end of the car and as he re-
turned he swayed with its motion and
adroitly laid folded paper on miss knee.
1t was the telegraph blank and on it was
this: II am strangely interested in you and
desire further acquaintance. Win you
write me on your return to New York? A
note addressed to John johnson, 964 -
street, will reach delighted man. Give me
some signal before leave lat the next sta
tom that l may know my fate" The girl
read over and over this impuGent communi-
cation. Then, as she felt ,uc eyes of half the
passengers upon her, she got afraid of the re-
suit and she turned TO lady, passed the pa
per over and asked, what would you do
were you in my placer
An old gentleman in front spoke UP: "Give
that paper, whatever there is on it, to that
insulted wife,
Well, bless mel if she didn't get ND. cross
over to the chair in which the wife sat. place
the open communication on her lap, and say:
The gentleman with you gave me that a
moment ago. / don't quite understand it."
Nearly the whole car load watched the devel-
opments with intense interest Some were
sorry for the wife and felt vexed at the expo
sure of the man for her sake, but the lady
quietly read it through She was pale as
ashes, but she turned glance of such con-
tempt on the man that we all knew there was
trouble in store for that delusion and snare.
Then she faced about and said pleasantly to
the pretty girl: Thank you; you have rem
dered me very CREST service" The cars
stopped and the party withdrew, the flirting
husband making desperate attempt to look
unconcerned, but the outlook for one fool Of
traveller was by no means pleasant, if We
could read faceS.-New York Sun.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-06
FAIR CIGAR FABRlcATORs.
Women Far Superior to Men I'm Their
Delicacy Of Touch and Dexterity.

The life Of q female worker in "Fabrica
de Tabacosn is laborious and not very Wen
paid, but it is CHEEKY. Two millions OF
rounds of tobacco are on an average manipSi-
lated in, factory employing, say, 400
hands. a de1terous female operative may
make in day from ten TO twelve ''atados'
or bundles, each containing fifty cigars, and
it is questionable whether her average sti-
pend exceeds the Spanish equivalent of one
shilling and sixpence dag. Elder women are
enployed in making. at somewhat higher
wages, a very fine rappee snuff called 'tabaco
de frailes,n or monks mixture, which is gar
bled with ''alulagra," red earth brought
from the vicinity of Carthagena-
1t is not alone in the great cities OF the
peninsula that the cigar making industry
gives employment to crowds Of women, for
the most part young II may be mentioned
incidentally that tie Spanish "cigarreras"
are very healthy race and enjoy remarka-
bic immunity from febrile maiadies. In the
city Of New York alone it is estimated that
there are q, 900 cigarmakers, a large proper
ton of whom are women, and it is note
worthy fact that the industry is almost
wholly native, cigarmakers by trade form
ing but tiny quota in the great army Of
course Of every year on the shores OF the
United States
Possibly the German cigarrnakers car find
as much work as they want at Bremen, at
Hamburg and at the east end Of London. In
the Philippine islands the ladies have de-
cidedly the best of it il comparison with the
ruder sex as cigarmakers, there being at
MAMMA a cheroot factory employing 1000
female as against only 200 male artificers,
while at Cavite there are 5000 and at Mala-
bon 1000 cigar workers, the great majority
of whom are women. Negresses, mulattoes
and quadroons are also extensively employed
in the cigar factories of Havana.
Formerly they suffered keenly from the
competition of the Chinese coolies, who at
present, to the exclusion of female labor, are
the chief fabricators of cigars at San Fran
cisco: but in the historic factories of Havana
the prime brands Of cigars are always lin
ished by white men. Otherwise the dexter
ity and delicacy of touch of the female hand
have marked its ow Ter as specially fit for
the craft Of cigar rolling and covering. In
the application of the touch of gum at the
tip, on the proper disposition of which the
comfortable smoking Of the weed depends,
woman is said to be sometimes ezcelled by
her arrogant rival and tyrant.
1t is difficult, however, to find a civilized
country in which prodigious numbers Of wo-
men do not habitually earn a livelihood by
working in tobacco OF cigar factories, not
because their labor can be cheaply obtained,
but because they seem to have special apti-
tude for carrying out the processes employed.
London Pc, er.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-06
-RxsSSSNilS~
9aily eagle
MCOMPlETENESS,

TO reach high heaven, and fail in entering;
To sight love in his glory and his grace,
AND turn back to this heavy hearted place;
AM surely is the load of pain we bring
Desires unseted and fond hopes that cling
Lkeivy on our souls, still worse 10 bear
IMAM all the WEAKNESS tinged with despair,
1hat comes of knowing full how sweet thing
Love is. No perfect hour through memory
Shali make hell heav'n by its preponderance;
The gloom shall ne'er be raised with thinking
once
Lie was not so. Our hungry souls shall be
FED On ripe kisses eft untouched and see
Trying for light, no trace of any dawn
But that one day we turned our backs upon.
Flora Mcdonald in Chicago Times
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-06
One on the Hoosfer Srhoolfn aSter,

o. A. Stevens relates in The Los Angeles
Tribune that some years ago he met Rev. Dr.
Edward Eggleston in Switzerland, and went
with him to diligence bureau to secure him
a place to Chamounix Il acted says Mr.
Stevens, las interpreter, and noticed the
clerk looking with awe at DR.. EggleSton's
tall form, long hair, sombrero and novel cut
Of clothes, for he affected the western air
then. What is that man there, an Ameri-
cam the clerk asked me in French. Yes
answered He hesitated a minute and con-
tinuei, looking again at the hair and hat, Is
il that he is savageF Savage! not at all :
Il beg 10000 pardons, but it to ne occurred
that he is by all hazard an Indian All! not
exactly,' 1 replied. He is not IN Indian, but
an Indianian.' All, precisely, / thought
so And, thanks to the mans justification,
DR. EsgleSton got seat in the imperial that
bsd already been engaged"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-06

A New York paper says that How.lls,
Curtis, Warner and Lawrence Hutton draw
together So, 900 a year from Harpers, Let's
figure thst up. W. d. Howells gets $4,000
year So does @. W. Curtis Charles Dud-
ley Warney gets $1,000. That is SCI 600 So
poor Hutton has to work for nothing and has
evidently TO pay Earpers 5000 year for
being allowed to do so.-DStrpit Free Pres
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-06

Leigh screens of Turkish red calico or IN
oieaeaed muslin, scantily friIled on 10 IN
painted wooden frames, are most useful il
the SICK room, either to prevent draughts or
moderate the heat Of an open fire, which
Should always burn there if possible, as the
most efficient ventilatos yet devised.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-06
A Sad Event,

Jack-What have you got Grape on your
hat for, sissy!
Sissy-Didn't you he4I. deah bcy' tt,
queens lost her favorita dogf-The Epoch
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-06
LIFE IN JERUSALEM.
CHRISTIANITY AT ITS WORST, MO-
t1kMMEDANISM AT ITS BEST.

A Returned HissiOnary's Interesting Ac-
count of the state of Affairs in the Holy
City-Dessftute Jews from Arabia-The
American Colony.
Rev. T. F. Wright, who has returned from
Jerusalem recently, talked with a reporter in
regard to the condition OF affairs there at the
present time.
'.The state of religion in Jerusalem is very
interesting. | remained five weeks IN the
city, and was brought into contact with per-
sons of every class 1t must be confessed
that Christianity is seen ct It's worst there,
and MohamnledaniAn at its best. The Mo
LamI1elan in the early morning hears the
cry: Sod is great, prayer is better than
sleep arises, prepares himself, puts on his
white outer garment and goes up into the
mosque ground where Solomon's temple for
merly stood, and there goes through with his
devotions, bowling down before God and ask
ing that he may be guided through the day.
This means 70 him that he must be strictly
temperate, truthful in every statement, kind
to all men, and that he viii in no case bow
down to any idol In all Mohammedan lands,
Idols, images and pictures are utterly ex-
Guided The single exception to this rule Is
an equestrian statue of Mehemet Ali in the
great square or Alexandria in Egypt: and
the erection of this statue was strongly OPP
posed ON the grounds that it might become
to some of the people an object OF worship.
'The Christians in Jerusalem are in state
of bitter sectar;an conflict. They are not
agreed among themselves as to the sacred
sites, and they have more than once come to
bloodshed in acting together in the celebra-
ton Of some of the Christian festivals. In
the Cave of the Nativity at Bethlehem, where
a silver star in the pavement marks the place
where our Lord is believed to have been
born, Mohammedan soldier of the
Turkish army stands always with loaded
musket to keep the Christian worshipers
from Staying each other. In the
Church of the Holy SePulcher, in Jeru-
salem, the traveller notices at once group of
Turkish officials who have no interest in the
place and spend their time smoking and
drinking coffee and chatting with each other,
but whose presence is needed to keep the
monks from actual warfare At the time of
Easter the Turkish guards are increased to a
whole regiment, SO that it is difficult to make
ones way through them to reach the interior
Of the church.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-06
A wo1nan's Translation.

Helen Spurrell, OF London, has made a
translation Of the Bible which Is highly
praised by scholars, and il said 70 be far
more enjoyabie - the English reader than
the revised verxsonT Of the committee This
lady, we are told, seems to have drunk il tia
dramatic spirit Of the Hebrew more PRO
fcundly than the male translstcrss while her
original arrangement Of the Psalms, Song %.
Solomon. and several other books, furnishes
key 70 q clearer Interpretation In the Ian
glage of a reviewer, NO translator in the
future viii venture 10 ignore hsE work.
Denores;A
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-06

Fog Is an excellent cosmetic. To il is DIE
much OF the beauty Of English compilations,
and those who live IN hot and t;rv climates
must be douhly careful to guard against
their desiccating effect if they would escape
thA . 70 No Of
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-06-21

In reading over the columns oil your
pAper 1 u6ties that quite Q mum Der Of
gentlemen have offered themselves for
uominatiou w tho -Rspublioan party
for the ofiie- pt sheriff OF New Castle
Coauty. Nwt,h enc exception am par
eonally AcoaAinted with all of them
they are ali good men and true Repub
licnus, snd any one OF them II noni
Atsli oaght ID and would receive the
fall vote OK the party, ~ we'll as msrg
aepSlemen oh tho Democratic party
who are fally convinced that ths tiEie
has bscozos Iipe for . cbsuse in'ci,
ooanty end State I'D ADMINISTRATORS, eui
there is ont nAm ed Who, in uy opinion
has large clalms upon the party, shpc
who soxld, Il. nominated and elected
be hus receiving what Ia justly duehtm
| IN the Z pper part of New Cast g5un-
~ thers nv 9 d waya besn Eazne hoS.r II
| being u RapIblicnp, cut IN thu howe
huudreda until recently is hae 'sAksi
moral courage to Tee thAt EspuoRcap
| voted
ENas N. Moore was nqnSl 10 III
l-amsrr no. while n hnisk.d gent iepaI
! whom Dsmobynt. wore Compelled TO "
sr ect, hs ~aA hrm stay upon ~non
Republicans could lean. Tue TOE
I iustebou Co torn In tbia county an
l,s,nts. There will be opportunities II
m3uy Repuh l'cAns 10 come 70 tAe iioe
hut this time let US pomlunte Nj
| Moore and thersbY honor the man vi
bass oil by u, ever s'uce rhere BIZ
been 9 Republican party,
RGPuD1GoAN,
| ,Csetsa, June 10 1883.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-06-21

PHILADELPHIA, June 21.-Mrs.
Agnes MorlooB, OF 1922 Howard street,
died yesterday FROM injuries said to
have been received at the hands Of her
husband, Adam Murlock. The pair
were married last september in Dam
den, but shortly afterwards, according
TO the wits'o story, the husband began
to ill.treat her.
A few days before Decoration Day
Morlock met his vile on Howard street,
above Columbia avenue. Mrs. Sweeney,
the mother OF the woman, said her
dsug ter staggered into the house and
declared that Morlook had beaten her.
II was very late and the neighbors said
they had heard the quarreling outside
the door.
On the 29:h of May Mrs. Morlocl
| went to Magistrate O'Brisn and swor'
out warrant against her husband.
The warrant was not served, but tn,
| magistrate, when he heard OF the seri
| Gus condition OF the woman. declared
that be would have Morlook locked n
aud arrested to await the result OF he
injuries The woman went out o,
Decoration Day, but shortly returne'
TO her mothers residence In gres
agony. DIR Tbaddeus Bruce, of Sec
ond and Oxford streets, WAS sent fol
and Mrs. Morlock declared TO him thu
her husband had kicked her. Dl
Bruce declared that the womAn'B ser
GUS plight Was the cause OF violence.
AT the residence OF Mrs. MoriocK laI
night the family refused to talk OF ii
affair. Mr. Morlock Is held in hig
esteem by the neiShbors, who blame q
wife Up to a late hour last night Il
husband mad not been arrested.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-06-21
A mucn Twisted message.

A gentleman, named Knight. who
had made arrangements TO return from
London to Bridsend, England, BY an
express reaching the latter place early
in the afternoon, missed the train, and
thereupon teleRrHphed to his daughters
the three words: "Heme at seven, :"
with his signature When the ladies
received the dispatch they fennd 1t
worded: "Come ct onoe." and, think
Ing their father must be very Ill, they
took the next train for London. Ga
arriving ct BsioaeDd, Mr. knight dis
covered what had happened and sue.
oeeded in stopping his daughters halt
way in their journey, although they did
not get home till late the same night
In letter 10 the London Times ON the
subject Mr.. knight says: VI impe'
diately made q representation OF ths
circumstances TO the Post-ofioe, de-
mandinK an inquiry into the very
serious blunder that had been commit
ted and o rel N bursement of the not In
considerable expense had been put TO
am told In reply that the Department
ia not liable for euch expenses, ans
the only redress / get. after rome cor
respond ence, is an Expansion OF regret
an offer of Is, (deolinsd) the cost Of To
telegram, and an intimation that tn
telegrsphiste in fault had been suitabl
dealt with. What this last expresBto
means am not informed, but whe
DISTANCES Of gross careltssuess such q
this occurs think Undesirable that the
sh ould not be passed over as matters
course, but that the public shout
, be made aware what risks they run an
how much they are at the mercy OF q
irresponsible department"
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-06-21
rnE HAsxr AND FLowEK.
HORACE b DunANr.

a harp within garden b,wer.
Hung where tn day was closing;
while round 1t twinsd q en- ling nower,
Amid It's o. ords reppsing;
Aud % the I've ing no )hyr orept among
Its tuneful strings, hap by song IL sung
Upon the calmly passing hour.
put soon q ten post veiltd the heaven
Ine angry winds we're Ing;
And from It's peacefu, aroor riven,
The harp was lowly lfins;
Y ct still about the PROSTATE Tyre bound
The faithful, twintog n1wsr was found
while othere far away were driven.
How often thus. in lie; whom enssHnE,
Some emile ut 10 utc Tvs u.s.
" AT an adverse hour Appearing,
Wtll quickly, % Oily leaVo us;
., the$ alone are friends, aHge who shaso
with us all changes, WHISTLER dark or TAFT,
and cling TO u, with trust unfesrinC
fTrue friendship, high or lowlJ springiry,
l supports mo heart whom brekon;
Trus faith and consolation bringing,
when bitter words ara sp 5ken:
Its soft'ning touch DER rugged life it'9 tBEs
And Ioenes Of former giVesn, Nhero'sr 4
elipgs,
Win hopeful notes are ringing.
But cold AID i>ylosa a-o lhe'e pieasures,
1 Unblest VITA friendly gieetit <;
Hut Inflow, strains and stately III easufes,
4 whers no warm hearts sro upa ling;
tPercnanoa tits best ~ Il mas.to foot tue bio
THAT humbles In the oas., that We ma
know
what sre our real treasures.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-06-21
IN. N~w r,rs. RsHosr.

'.Do you see that machiner' eyes, !
see Il; It ia strange thing. What u
it fora brick yardf" "0h, no; 1t is
called q suffer- "To stuff sausages!
s'No, 70 stuff school children. Come
and examine It, You put child from
40 to IA years of age into this end, and
into the ether you place thirteen ex-
,emrlesiin fractions, three pages OF
history, two of grammar, three OF or
Typography, an hour of writing and q
yard Of algebra, and when all Is ready
loosen this spring, and the child Ia
duly stuffed" at must be very
, nioe.'' ''It is. The schooling OF the
average pupil can be shortened NJ
several years by this process, much TO
the honor and credit of the teacher
"But don't pupils die under the stuf
fingP" Lots of them, but 1t is lait
to too active BRAIN" Are there
many suffers in user "There is ar
leverage of one to every school in t0wr
and some have two. You may nov
run up and down four pair of stairs Il
expand your lungs"