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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-01
Domestic Anxieties.

az feel so tired every night, John" said
a farmers wife, as she took up her darn
Ing after the days work was done. ''My
bones ache, and have fits Of dizziness
and no appetite; and Pm worried, toe,
about the heifer, John. When l was
feeding the stock tonight she acted very
strangely and refused to eat. I'm afraid
she's going to die"
eyes" said John, ''I'm worried about
that heifer myself. New York Sun.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-01
The Scent of Moths.

The scent of bloodhoucds is dull COM
pared with that of certain male moths.
Mr.. c. II. Piesse, in a late work, states that
If g newly emerged female Saturnia carpini
IS placed in q closed box, the males viii
come from nearly 8 mile away, though
hills and buildings intervene, and have
even found their way down q chimney &c
the object of their search. --ArkansaT
Traveller.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-01

One of our cousins in Norway informs
the department of state that there has
been discovered n new, simple and cheap
Ingredient which neither changes the
taste of the milk nor Is iniraicaI of health,
for conserving milk in q fresh condition
for months without being Theoretically
sealed. Mr.. NJ. f. Meyer, of Christiania,
Is the inyentor.-ChicaCo Times.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-01
A Profitable Business.

Young Man brakeman on elevated
road)-Chat'm scare, tn strain f. c.tee
ell. chain f sth fer WOW WOW.
Same Young Man tat party in''Harlem)
Yes, Miss Rocky, am in the railroad
business.
Miss Rocky-That must be delightful,
Mr.. Collect; and IS it really true that
some of you railroad people get SEQ, 900
and $50, 900 q y.arf-The Epoch.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-01
A Highly Prizcd Relic.

One Of LISTS feminine pupils preserves
rs highly priced relic handkerchief
which the great master wrapped about
his finger one day when it was bleeding.
A few dim bloodstaias still remain on the
handkerchief, and a correspondent who
saw it recently was told by the fair pian-
list with sigh that sit has never been
and never VIII be Numbered. New York
Evening World.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-01
Forget the Title.

'Eave Yen the-er-'Weke Of Tieks-
burg man asked n a. Austin book
store the ether day. Ills wife had seat
him 70 bur the Vicar Of Wakefield, +"
and that was as near as he came 20 re-
nemberiDg the title Of TIE book--Texas
SFfft-n.-s
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-01
When Doctors Disagree

Why does medicine exhibit such poor
progress toward scientific results when
aPplied' What disease is has not yet
been accurately defined, as no two eeIe-
brated physicians VIII agree in the dag
nosis Of 8 case.-Hall Journal Of Health.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-01
A Big Fossil Egg.

4 fossil egg in the Paris Academy OF
Sciences measures 81 1-2 inches one way
and % inches another. The original is
supposed 10 have been the egg OF bird
three times as big as an ostrich -Chicago
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-01
A Curious Fart.

I. "a q curious fart that f1s- twenty
four inches ca the table Is allowed a man
az LARGE and crowded Glare- OF course,
more is given when there are few people
-NsE ye-s TIL
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-01

Messrs. Frenzy and Verneuil, q Paris.
chemists, have informed the Academy IL
Sciences that they have succeeded n pro-
cuclng real rubies By artificial means.
The tests show thz. this e q tzct Tie
biggest yet male IS the size O. big pin
head, but size il = matter that caa Re reg
Cl4tfd-NeyS To-k Sua-
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-01
Ethics of Rinship.

1t is queer thing that in the ethics Of
Einship man usually rushes for his
Uncle after bidding gcod-by to his ante
lid Bits.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-01

A patent for driving vehicles By cleo
tricity is said TO have been sold in London
for e50,000.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-01

The thrones OF earth are few. and there
Is room for but one man upon each.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-10
Snow Drifts to Talk About.

"Those fifty foot snow drifts down
east" remarked an old resident after
reading the dispatches from Pennsylvania,
"are pretty tall for the country, but
they are ordinary and tritling compared
with those of the early days. Back in
1915, when Omaha was only the land
ing of ferryboat, we had a winter
There weren't any drifts, but solid snow.
1t filed the valley from the Iowa bluffs
on a dead level to the high school hill.
1 freighted between St. Joe and Council
Bluffs those days, and many a time I
dropped through the roof of deserted
dobies. When the April rise of the Mis-
souri, came down we mad to blast path
through the snow bank to let the water
run out. Omaha Bee.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-10
Doves as Military Messengers.

1t seems likely that carrier pigeons will
play an important part in the next great
European war. The French minister of
war has just given orders for the organi-
cation of the many carrier pigeon stations
throughout the country upon more sat
isfactory footing, and considerable i'm
pOrtance is attached to the perfecting of
these arrangements. In addition to fifteen
Of these stations, there are in various
parts of France 300 pigeon flying societies,
owning among them 10000 "homers. -"
Each OF these societies has a military or
ganization, and in case of war all the
pigeons belonging to them would be at
the service of the intelligence depart
ment.
Germany possesses about the same
number of carrier pigeon stations, and
there are $50 societies, with 80, 900 pigeons
In Italy pigeons are actually in use for
conveying dispatches between the war
Office in Rome and the garrisons in Sicily
and Sardinia. Russia is too cold for the
carrier pigeons. The only birds which
bring tidings of battle in Russia are the
buzZards. New York Star.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-10
Virtue in Onions and Beef.

What is the most strengthening food
for a convalescent? Well, you know, the
beef tea theory has been exploded. The
most life giving and digestible food that
can be given to one just recovering from
an illness is chopped beef. Just take a
pound of the finest round of raw beef, cut
off all the fat, slice two onions, and add
pepper and salt. Then chop the onions
and meat together, turning them over and
over until both are reduced almost to a
pulp. Then spread on slices of rye bread
and eat as sandwiches. People talk about
celery being a nervine, but let me tell you
that there is nothing which quiets the
nerves without bad results like onions.
The use of them induces sleep, and much
strength is obtained from them. That is
my ideal food for those convalescing or
for any one who is in weak state Of
health.-kansas City Star.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-10

Many persons who experienced the
earthquake in the Riviera have since
suffered seriously from nervous shock,
although they did not at the time appear
to be greatly disturbed. This indicates
that more injury may be done to the
nerves by an undue excitement than is
perceived at the time The nerve centers
may, as an English medical journal sug-
gests, be likened to batteries, and re-
garded as apt to be discharged suddenly
and sometimes unconsciously; and when
once their residual stock of energy is con-
sumed it can be restored only after long
time and by the exercise of extreme care.
Public Opinion.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-10
Restaurants in Congo Land.

know no people who get oysters from
trees but the Mandingoes, through whose
country flow the Senegal and Gambia
rivers. The bivalves are taken from the
branches, to which they attach themselves
in high tide. Here is a Mandingo bill Of
fare which Reade, the explorer, leaves on
record for the amusement of the curious:
"Then followed he says, 'gazelle cut
lets a Ia pappillote; two small monkeys,
served cross legged and with liver sauce
on toast; stewed iguana, which was much
admired; dish of roasted crocodile's
eggs; some slices of smoked elephant
from the Interior; a few agreeable plates
of fried locusts, land crabs and other
crustac8; the breasts of mermaids, or
manatee, the grand bonne bouche of the
repast; some boiled alligator and some
hippotamus stakes" While this dinner
does not equal in courses some of the
elaborate feasts of civilized lands, GER
tainly no one will say it lacked variety.
Lotus seeds form one of the commonest
dishes known to the Barri of Central
Africa The pods when gathered are
bored and strung ON reeds and hung in
the sun for drying, after which they get
to the table. Along the Upper Nile
another wing of the BARR tribe bleed their
cattle monthly and cook the blood with
their flour and meal. They esteem this
luxury and the dish is eaten with great
relish.-New York Star.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-10

a league from the coast, seward, and
that while 1t prevails fresh water depos-
tied in jars continues deliciously cool,
even in summer.
Fortunately for the people who live
here, the night air is not injurious, as it
is in many semi-tropical countries, for
when the warm weather is fairly begun
the inhabitants, rich and poor, are obliged
to abandon the interior of their houses
and pass the nights in the corridors and
courtyards; the poorer class lie on blankets
in the streets in front of their huts. The
purity of the atmosphere, the dryness Of
the soil and the purifying effects of the
winds which sweep over this country all
tend to make this a very salubrious
climate. The enormous death rates are
attributed entirely to epidemics aggra-
waited by unhealthful sanitary conditions;
there is no sewerage and the streets are
filthy. In spite of this the longevity Of
those living here is remarkable; several
are more than 100 years of age, and two
have attained, one to ia and the other to
130.-Laura B. Starr in Cleveland
Leader
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-10
Australian Mound Builders.

In Australia and the neighboring ISL
ands are seen many large mounds Of
earth, which were formerly supposed to
be the tombs Of departed natives. These
remarkable Misunderstanding as much as
fifteen feet in perpendicular height and
sixty feet in circumference at the base
are not the work of man, however, but
are now known to be the incubators built
by the jungle fowl and other species Of
the small family of Megapodidae, or great
footed birds, Each of these great piles
consists of fallen leaves, grasses, etc.,
which the birds deposit in place by
throwing backward with one foot. Though
the mounds are usually in dense shade,
the decaying vegetable matter has been
found to raise the temperature at the CEN
ter as high as 95 dogs. The eggs are
carefully placed with the larger end up,
about twelve inches apart, and are COW
cred to depth of at least two or three
feet.-Arkansaw Traveller
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-10
Catching Runaway Slaves.

learned yesterday historical canine
fact, which will, fancy, be as new TO
some of my readers as it was to me. A
negro stevedore, as strapping and power
full fellow as have seen for a good
while, fell into conversation in my pres
ence with bulldog, remarking that he
had great fondness for dumb animals.
He seemed to greet the dog as an old
friend, and he displayed considerable ia
miliarity with that kind of beast. Nat
urally joined in the talk, and the man
told me that down in North Car'lina,
where he was slave in slave days, bull
dogs, sometimes white and sometimes
brindle, were trained to catch runaway
or refractory "niggers" by the neck. And
they did it so nicely, he said, as not to
break the skin or soil the captive's shirt
collar; they would hang on until told by
their masters to let go, but without doing
any injury.-Bo3ton Post.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-10
The Ants and the Cyclone.

1t is stated that about century since
there appeared on the island of Grenada
numberless colonies of ants. No one
knew whence they came, but they so
multiplied that they became fatal to the
sugar cane, and as that was the prin-
cipal industry the gravest results were
apprehended. All expedients failed to
dislodge them, and the government, in
ITS, offered reward Of $780, 900 for any
invention to destroy them. In 1880 nature
came to their relief in the way of terrible
cyclone and rainfall, which blew down
what cane was standing, drowned out the
ants, and a new prosperity followed
Toledo Blade.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-10
Japan's Foreign Improvements.

The regeneration which Japan has in
recent years experienced, through the in
PRODUCTION of foreign improvements, is
credited to the United States. While
eminent Frenchmen have been called in
to organize the army, Germans the schools
and English the navy, to Americans have
been given the supervision Of the depart
ments of finance, postoflcs, telegraphs,
railroads, telephones and lighting by
electricity, embracing the newer and more
progressive arts. American institutions
are in high favor in Japan, with the
possible exception Of modern politics and
baseball. Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zetts.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-10
Sraking an Artificial SILK.

Chardonner recently announced to the
French Academy of Sciences the results of
his experiments in making an artificial
silk, which are certainly of remarkably
ingenious nature. To solution of nitro
cellulose (gun cotton) m alcohol and
ether is added a solution of ferr-
nose chloride in alcohol and also some
alcoholic solution Of tannin. The liquid
thus obtained is elected from fine ducts,
like the apparatus in silk worm. AS the
thread comes from the duct it is received
in water calculated with nitric acid, from
which it is drawn out, dried rapidly and
reeleG up. 1t can be obtained of any color
by coloring the mixture from which the
thread is made. ThisGew thread is trans
parent, pliable. cylindrical or flat, and in
appearance and feel like silk. 1t is very
strong. 1t burns, but the fire does not go
beyond the place heated. In every way it
is remarkable invention, and no one can
tell to what it may lead.-New York Mail
and Express.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-10

1t is useless for housekeeper to at
tempt economy with colored servants
Their ways are naturally wasteful, and
they entertain a scorn for all attempts at
thrifty management. A lady whose war
time experience had taught her that
twelve biscuits could be produced from
one pint of -four, lost several servants be-
fore she discovered that their detection was
due to disgust at her frequent enuncia-
ton of this theorem in domestic economy.
Let the mistress be never 80 close, or ever
liberal she will be utterly unable to re-
strain the extravaganza of her servants.
When supplies are measured out it is fire.
quently the dining room table, never that
of the kitchen, which is stinted.
Servants out of employment time their
visits to their friends inservice so as to in
clude at least one meal hour of the family;
and the cooks husband, son or fourth
cousin usually appears during the progress
of dinner to escort his relative home and
to assist in the transportation Of any I'M
usually heavy burden. A stranger trav-
ersing the streets of New Orleans at night
fall and seeing the hundreds of homeward
bound cooks, each with her ssgging basket
upon her arm, would imagine the whole
colored population to be on the way to a
picnic. They are merely, however, trans
porting what they seem to regard as their
rightful spoil Of food, and wood, and coal.
The statistician has yet not risen with a
brain large enough to compute the col
lectivs value OF this daily universal drain.
-NswYork Post.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-10
Where Bank Note. Arc Printed.

The president of large bank note COM
pany in this city recently said to the
writer that it was absolutely impossible
for any Of his subordinates to steal any
thing without being detected at once.
Every imaginable safeguard is used to
prevent the company's suffering through
the dishonesty of its employees. In print
ing bank notes, or stamps, or bonds, or
tickets the paper to be used is carefully
measured beforehand by one Of the higher
officials. Only enough to make the num-
Der ordered is given to the workmen, and
they are held responsible for it thereafter.
If single stamp or ticket is lost the doors
are locked and nobody is allowed to leave
the workshop until it is found or salts
factorily accounted for.
With bank notes and bonds extra pre-
cautions are used, and they are counted
after going through each process. If a
mistake occurs all have to be done over,
and the first batch is destroyed. II one
is lost and cannot be recovered all are de-
stroyed, and new series printed in en-
tirely different colors.
An instance of this kind occurred sew
eral years ago. A bank note company in
this city printed some bonds on contract
for the Virginia government. One pack
age was stolen while they were being
transported to the treasurer. OF course
none of them had been signed, and they
were therefore not valid; but all the rest
were at once destroyed, and new set in
different colors were ordered.-New York
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-10
WORKING on SPACE"
Results OF Paying for Newspaper Work
"by the Yard"-The Bohemian's Hope.

Results Of Paying for Newspaper Work
"by the Yard"-The Bohemian's Hope.
One of the most demoraliZin9 features
of newspaper work is the space system as
it is practiced in many newspaper offices.
1t may be the cheapest for the paper, but
it is neither fair to the writer nor the
public. Under the space system the man
who knows enough to stop when he gets
through has no show. The successful
writer is the man who can reel his story
off through wearying eternity of YER
biage, and who has the skill to write so
that it is difficult to cut his matter down.
Thus the public, which pays for the pa
pers, frequently gets a infinitely circum-
stantial and heavily padded account Of
some matter which might well be con-
densed into few lines. Quality does
not seem to enter into the question, and
brains are sold, like calico, by the yard,
and they do not bring much better prices
in some markets, either. The supply of
wordy writers has become so much in ex-
cess of the demand that space rates have
steadily gone lower ana lower.
1t is the conscientious men, too, who
suffer most. The writer, honest to his
paper and himself, who writes his story
for all it is worth-and no more-is handi-
capped by the facile 'fakir,n who has the
knack of writing columns and saying
nothing. Again, the unfairness of the
space rule is seen in the fact that in most
offices the writer has no guarantee as to
the size of type his matter may be set in.
1t may begin loaded and run down to
solid, or a story may be finished in a
smaller face of type if the eXigencies Of
make up demand it. The Harper's sys-
TEN of $40 a thousand words is fairer,
and, in a weekly publication, is the only
method of fair compensation which can
be made.
But the great objection is the element
of chance in the space system, which tends
to demoralize the working newspaper man
and keep him poor. His "string" may
only measure up $50 this week, but there
is always the glowing hope of a "big SEN
sation" next week, which will run it up
into the eighties or hundreds. AS a mat
ter of fact, the working journalist makes
as much money as the average young pro-
fessional man. But his business makes
him gambler in spite of himself. He is
always looking for change in his luck.
He may stumble on to "big story" to-
morrow, which will pay all his debts and
enable him to take a vacation besides. 1t
is not from choice that there are so many
Bohemians in journalism. They are
forced to Bohemia by the men who buy
their work. The ambition to make large
papers has been one cause of the space
system. The value of newspaper has
come to be judged, not by the amount of
news it contains, but by the number of
pages its news items are stretched out to
cover. When news is beaten out to cover
so much space, like gold leaf, it becomes
very thin.-The Journalist.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-10
The Villages of Cuba

Cuban villages or preblos have always
interested me deeply. They are of little
Importance as we measure things. There
is nothing about them in architecture or
human activities to make them worthy of
account. They are seldom populous and
are never busy. In them and between
them, enterprise, rivalry, aspiration, are
unknown. But on this great earth are
not other spots so full of simplicity and
effortless rest.
There are just enough people in them
to make human presence an agreeable
consciousness. There is never any labor
done in any way that tires. Nobody
hurries. There is no fretting or Tuning
about anything. No one is supposed to
be in haste. Nor could any such notion
ever come to surprise and annoy the
mind. Every animate or inanimate OBJ
ject seems at rest. If you desire to set
Cuban village in an uproar of indignant
wonderment, you have only to hint of do
ing, or of desiring something done quick
ly. Even the winds that blow move in
soft and soothing breeZes, eloquent of list
less dreamfulness. The birds sing in
subdued notes as if half asleep. Univer-
sal siesta rests upon everything. The
very air wings narcotic, and pulses balm,
to the sense and soul. Despite your own
contempt for Cuban Illumination, after a
little your best efforts are overcome; you
yield to the insensible sirens of scene
and scent and sound; and the enthrall-
ment possesses you wholly.-Edgar L.
Wakeman in New York Mail and Express.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-10
Phase of the "Faith Cure"

The blood Of dying gladiators in the
ancient amphitheatres was popularity be-
lieved to be a remedy for the failing
Sickness" or epilepsy. 1t was eagerly
drunk while still warm by the sufferers
from the malady. The practice denounced
by CELSIUS as 'miserum auxilium," has
not died out even in the Nineteenth cent
ury. Des Changes, in his edition of the
Roman Hippocrates paris, 1916, men
tions the then recent case of an old epilep
tic woman in Sweden who, on the occa-
sion of criminal being guillotined, was
seen at the foot of the scaffold ready,
when the head was severed from the body,
to plunge into the blood yet reeking from
the victim, piece of bread she had des.
tined for her cure.-Chicago News.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-10
Tho West Coast Of Mexico.

Warm weather commences here in May,
and the heat becomes extreme during the
months of June, July and August; in
September the rains begin. A hot wind
occasionally makes its appearance, and
such is the fury of the whitening blast
that it seems to scorch the skin like .
furnace. 1t comes when least expected,
and continues sometimes for four and
twenty hours. 1t is remarkable circum-
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-10
The Nineteenth Century.

We live in different world from that
Of our fathers. No other race has ever
known its like. 1t has Witnessed trans
formations SURPRISING the greatest of
miracles. It has seen cities spring up on
the prairies and become magnificent CEN
tiers of business and population in less
than a score Of years. 1t has seen one
of the greatest cities of the world, tho
rival Of the oldest and grandest centers
Of foreign wealth, rise in its might at
the ocean gateway OF the Empire state