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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-10
Long Summer DAYS in England.

The extreme breyisy of the English sum-
rner nights always interests the stranger. 1t
is not fully dark until nearly II O'Clock, and
reading Is possible on clear night up TO
nearly 10 The gray dawn begins to glin-
rper ar about 2 IN the morning. arc by 9 il Is
quite light again This doesn't seem to give
the creatures that 90 TO bed and get ND with
the sun time enough for rest. The roosters
and such fowls have a worn ana slespiess
lock. and evidently suffer from insomnia
These brief nights. Of course, are accompa-
MED by a corresponding extraordinary
length of dsys We ere accustomed to sx-
pect this sort of thing by hcsrsay IN Norway,
Sweden and Russia but il seems 81 first novel
and unfair to find an English speaking coun-
try blessed with such an extra quantity OF
daylight London Letter.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-10
A Valuable Cherry free,

Six hundred dollars seems large price for
ore cherry trea, bus that wss the sun paid
fer one in Santa Clara county. Il Was re-
aured TO be removed to make way for thu
New Al.nsien railroad The owner de-
uIantisd 500 FOR L; experts were appointed
aud il was proved that the tree had for years
yieldeG the owner crops Of fruit which sold
FOR sums equivalent 70 the iutcrest Tn the
amount claimed BY compromise sos wzs
accepted for the tree. This viii give GuE
eastern friends Soa.e iec of the value - .r7Ii:
trees and the profit derived FROM them IL
So. - Cara yaIley.-Reao lNev.) GszsiDe.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-10
FoRAGERs IN THE SADDLE.
Carrying or Hams and Sweet Potatct
in the Face of the Enemy.

Carrying or Hams and Sweet Potatoes
in the Face of the Enemy.
We were proud of our foragers They con-
stituted picked force from each regiment,
under an officer selected for the command,
and were remarkable for intelligence, spirit
and daring. Before daylight, mounted on
horses captured on the plantations. they were
in the saddle and away, covering the country
sometimes seven miles in advance. Although
have said ain the saddle" many forager
had nothing better than bit OF carpet and
rope halter; vet this simplicity of equipment
did not abate his power OF carrying off hans
and sweet potatoes in the face Of the enemy.
The foragers were also important as a sort
of advanced guard, for they formed virtually
a curtain of mounted infantry screening US
from the inquisitive eyes of parties Of Wheel
er's cavalry, with whom they did no. hesitate
to engage when it was question Of q rich
plantation.
When compelled to retire, they resorted to
all the tricks of infantry skirmishers, and
summoned re-enforcenlenrs OF foragers from
other regiments to help drive the "Johnnies"
out When success crowned their efforts, the
plantation was promptly stripped of live
stock and eatables. The natives were ac-
customed to bury provisions, for they feared
their own soldiers quite IS much as they
feared ours These subterranean stores were
readily discovered by the practiced Yankee"
eye. The appearance of the ground and u
little probing with a rauarod or a bayonet
soon decided whether to dig. Teams were
lmprovised carts and vehicles Of all sorts
were pressed into the service and loaded with
provisions If any Anticipated militia uni
forms were discovered, they were promptly
donned and a comical procession escorted
the valuable train OF booty TO the point where
the brigade was expected to bivouac for the
night The regimentals of the past, even to
those Of revolutionary times, were often con-
spicuous.
On an occasion when our brigade had the
advance several parties Of foragerS CONSOLE
dating themselves, captured town from the
cnemy's cavalry and occupied the neigtbor-
ing plantations. Before the arrival of the
rain column hostilities had ceased: order had
been restored and mock arrangements were
made TO receive the army. Our regiment in
the advance was confronted by picket
| dressed in continental uniform, who waved
his plumed hat in response to the gibes OF the
men and galloped away on his bareback mule
TO appriSe his comrades Of our approach
We marched into the town and rested on eacl,
side OF the main street Presently forager,
| IN ancient militia uniform indicating high
rank, debouched from side street to do the
| honors Of the occasion He was mounted on
| u Rozinante with Bit Of carpet for saddle.
| His old plunaed chapeau in hand, he rode
with gracious dignity through the street, as
| if reviewing the brigade. After him came I.
family carriage laden with hams, sweet po-
tatoes and other provisions, and drawn by
| two horses, a mule and COW, the two latter
ridden by postilions.-Capt. Daniel Oakley in
| The Century.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-10
Irish Families In Chill.

Many of the leading men Of Chilli are
ard have been of Irish descent. Barney
O'Higgins was the hberator-,he George
the republic. and Patrick
Lynch was the foremost soldier of Chill in
the late war. The o Learys and McGsrrys
and other Chillano-Irish families are
prominent in politics and war and trade
There is n sympathetic bond between the
shamrock and the condor. ard nowhere in
South America does thc Irish emi-raut %
pTosperousiy thrive.-Harper' Magazine
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-10
The Top of Washington Monument.

The construction Of suitable apex called
forth much discussion and a number OF plans
1t was first suggested to roof over the struc-
trre with a framework Of iron and glass; but
il was thought that the chemical action OF
the weather on the metal would discolor the
face of the walls The desi On for marble
pyramidion fifty-five feet Ill height, sub
mitted bv Mr. Bernard r. Green, civil engi-
neer. was finally adopted Twelve stone ribs
a foo. thick. three on each side OF the well,
began to grow out from the face of the walls
l7O feet from the base. As these are carried
upward, the rios nearest the angle Of the
shaft meet in the hips OF the pyranlidion,
while those in the center of each face are con
nected stiil higher up by voussoir stones,
forming two arches interesting each other at
right angles. The thrust OF each corner rib
is transmitted to its opposite by the use OF
horizontal stones between their upper ex-
tremities. The buttresses support tie roof
covering of marble slabs, about seven inches
thick
The capstone is tipped with IN aluminium
pyramid. which is connected by a copper rcd
with four lightning rods passing to the upper
extremities Of the iron columns of the eie-
vator shaft, and the bottoms Of these columns
ere grounded in the well in the center of the
foundation Foote IN American Maya
zine
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-10

The Kansas pouisry ana 60. crop is WORK
81, 800
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-10
IN. A CHINESE YAAMEN.
A BOAT RIDE THROUGH A LONG
AND DEVIOUS WATERWAY.
The Chinese House Boat the Most Per-
feet Thing of Its Kiad-Picturesque
Country Bridges-A Rural Family-An-
cesfral Grayes-A Duck Farm.

1ne Sh1htbS DOAt 'hc -N"''
feet Thing of Its Kiad-Picturesque
Country Bridges-A Rural Family-An-
cesfral Graves-A Duck Farm.
Through a consular friend, who IN the
course of some official work had made tbe
acquaintance and gained the deep friendship
of Il civil magistrate, | had at last the good
fortune to visit a mandarin's family III YER
liable yaameu in one of tue Oldest cities OF
interior China Our mandarin host sent a
boat full of his servants down to the treaty
port to give US his greetings and to escort US
through the long and devious waterway OF
river. creek and canal that led TO the hoary
walls of Chang Sha There were three for
eigners in the party and it took two boats TO
carry us in proper state, with a third and
smaller boat for our own servants nnd
fourth boat filled with the mandarin's con-
tingent.
The Chinese house boat is a most parfect
thing OF its kind, with its carved. gilded and
most beautifully vanished woodwork and its
many ingenious contvivances. In country
where there are no roads and no land We
hicles save the sedan chair or the more recent
wheebarrow, with its creaking axle and I'M
certain balance, all travel is by the network
Of creeks and canals that connect the great
waterways of the empire The meanest
Chinaman can pole his skif free and unmo-
Tested from Canton to Pel,ing and from the
seashore to the Great Wall over system OF
water routes that were old when western ma
tions were in their first youth TIE house
boats evolution from the small sampan, in
which whole Chinese family lives, to the
beautifully fitted homes in which the foreign
ers take their pleasurings and men go off on
long hunting trips. was gradual thing. One
carries all the servants and the whole house
hold equipment on boat trip, and, with reg
ular bcds and baths, the procession of courses
and elaborate dinners, the life is little
changed and has no privations.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-10
9ai1Y y eagle
NIGHT.

The dewy Ynfsts fall down DER sea and lane,
The sky is dark save where the twinkaing star
Peeps through the clouds and, gazing from afar,
Tips every ripping wave that leaves the strand
With sparks and streaks and shimnering threads
of light.
A soft breeze spreads the breath Of sleeping
flowers,
And through the stiffness. signaling the hours,
The whppoorwils sad cry rings through the
night.
The world is wrapped in darkness; shadows fall,
Like silhouettes, beneath each giant tree,
And from the meadows crickets chirp and call,
Aud WOO the frogs in sweet security.
Ger the dim earth the veil of night is thrown,
And darkness now claims all things as her own.
Maud KalbieSch
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-10
Art of ShGeinS Race Horsea

ado you not think there is almost as wide a
| field for the improvement of the art of shoe
| ing race horses as there has been made with
| trottipg horses-the use of toe weights, etc q
Certainly" replied Mr.. Lorillard. Then
| he added, with sudden spirit: I'll tell you
| something you may not know; few did. !
| ran Wanda in aluminium plates in nearly all
| her races"
"On account of their lightness!r
"Of course; the entire set of four plate.
| weighed only two and three quarter ounces
! while you know a set of ordinary racn-
| plates will weigh eight or nne ounces. TIE
| difference of weight must be an advantage;
| l should say it was equal to the difference be,
| tween man running in ordinary street shoes
and pair of light slippers"
How came you to discover the idea of tie
| aluminium piates:'
| We'll, it had long occurred to me that if q
| light shos or plate could be made it would
| give the horse wearing it great advantage.
| had several experiments made in Europe
with different metals. A great many We're
tried and failed. They were light enough,
but not strong enough--liable to twist or
break, and of course dangerous Finally, out
of dozen experiments we evolved the alumni
"Were not even those rather delicate ;ud
dangerous
"Oh, yes. On some horses they wouldn't do
| at all--Drale Carter, for instance / tried
! them Oh him, and he tore them all to pieces
| But on a light moving, perfectly actjoned
horse you could use them: Wanda, you
know, was one of the smoothest, lightest
| movers in the world
| How is it nobody ever discovered your use
! of them!"
I'VE kept our secret. When | first used
| them ByrneS, my trainer, asked me how we
| would keep it from the boys i'll the stable. |
| told him TO urge bad feet or some such ex-
| cuse But it was needless, for nobody ever
noticed itn-New York World Interview.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-10

For Colorado, California, Ore
this is the favoriJe route.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-10
Frank ID. Sherman's August Cherries.

Frank D. Sherman has poem On August
in ST Nicholas, in which appear the lines:
August, month when sleepy cows
SEEK the shade Of srrros3irg bouShs~
Where the robin euirks his bead,
Contemplating cherries red
An August cherry must % a canned cherry
or IN. re,ssi, must BE- feoitng Mr.. Sherman
san Francisco Alta
But wild cherries ripen in August, as any
country schoolboy know. Ihs poet stans.
acquitted
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-10
OFF WITH TIE TIDE.

| OFF WITH The TIDE
| Starting off with the tide we went up the
| river at a speed that gave the lowdab or
! skipper nothing to do but order the course
| steered with the large oars at the stern, but
| ia the narrower reaches OF the creeks and
canals the crew sculled with the big oars and
| put UP the sails TO catch any favoriug breath
| of a breeze We gathered in one boat to haYe
! o'clock tea and for the great ceremony of
! dinner, and at night dropped of TO sleep i'll
our comfortable state rooms to the regular
| thump Of the oars and the swish of water,
varied by strange rappings on the bottom of
| the boat as a bed of heavy topped water
plants slipped under the keel
| When we came out on the little decks Of
our boats in the dewy hours, the string of
brown boats with their gilded portals
! aud red curtains made a pretty picture
under the edge of a grassy bank with
! tall trees reaching their branches half
/ across The narrow waterway. few farm
houses were near the banks, and the place
was a water cross roads, where two canals
| made right angles. Its name OF Sanchow,
three bridges, was apt enough. as the three
nigh, narrow stone bridges were all near to-
gether. These country bridges are TIE most
( picturesque things i'll China line OF narrow
/ lewn stones being laid on stone posts that
hold the footway firmly against all time.
| The massive posts and the long stones are
I often carved with Chinese characters. but the
wonder Of them is chiefly how they were ever
/ laid there and the stone piles driven III the
/ mud without steam OF mechanical appliances
! of any consequence.
! When We scrambled up The banks and wan
/ i.red through the wet t-TaSs toward sbe first
farm house, the rural family cams halt way
| to meet vs. md watched Us stoisdly while we
sathesed wild flowers by the handful. By
/ The aid Of our Interpreter " weat through q
| conversation with the e-i1-nc head farmer,
two assistants and four fen,as relations, with
six children staring like little statues.
LOST ~ ABATEMENT.
/ W. mus, have been -urics..ie4 20 these ~
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-10

She presently came upon packet nestly
tied up with red ribbon and sealed. She
pinched Z. IL evidently contained photo
graph, for she felt tie cardboard, and there
WIS something soft thst might be glove;
ard surely these were witherei flowers that
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-05-23

Corner of Beal and Howard Streets
SAN FRANCISCO. .CALlFOhN1A
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The RisdOn
Iron & Locomotive Works,


Corner of Beal and Howard Streets
SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA
W. H. TAYLOR. ...........r........ 80. President
R. s. MOORE.......,....... .Superlnten eht
BUILDERS OF STEAM MACHINERY, IN ALL
D it's branches; Steamboat, Steamship, Land
Engines and Boilers, High Pressure or COM
pound.
STEAM VESSELS of all kinds built comple etc
with bulls of wood, iron or composite.
ORDINARY ENGINES compounded when adj
visab1e.
STEAM LAUNCHES, Barges and Steam Tugs COZ
structed with reference to the trade In when
they are to be employed. Speed, tonnage ana
draft of water guaranteed.
SUGAR MILLS and Sugar Making Machinery
made after the most approved plans. Also, ~ J
Boiler Iron Work connected Herewith.
WATER PIPE, of Boiler Sheet Iron, OF any
size made in suitable lengths for connecting
together, or Sheets rolled punched and packed
for shipment, ready to be rlVeted on the
ground.
HYDRAULIC RIvETING, Boiler Work and
Water Pipes made by this establishment rlV-
eted by hydraulic riveting machinery, that
quality of work being far superior 10 manu-
work.
SHIP WORK, Ship and Steam Capstans, Steam
Winches Air and Circulating Pumps, made
after the most approved plans
SOLE AGENTS and manufacturers for the Pa
cific Coast of the Home Safety Boiler.
PUMPS-Direct Acting Pumps for irrigation or
civ works purposes, bui]+ with the celebrated
Davy Valve Motion, superior to any other
pump
j. n. S. WILLIAMS honolulu
Room NO. 3, ups airs, Spreckels' Block
- AGENT for hawaiian Islands.
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advertisements.
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.

CECIL BROWN &TTORNEY AT LAW AND
~ Notary Public, Campbells Block, Merchant
street. 776aug9tf
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FERTILIZERS.

THOR PLANTATIONS, GARDENS, LAWNS. ETC
u For sale by HANSON & SMYrH. We are
now prepared to receive all orders for the above
Fertilizer of a superior quality. thoroughly cured
and warranted one of the best articles of the
kind in the market.
Orders may be left with
LIP HANSON, go Queen street.
G. NJ SMYTH, Hawaiian Hotel st.
The Springdale news., 1888-12-07
MISCELLANEOUS

THE Reading (Pa.) Coal X Iron Com pany announced, on the 29th. that it would make no change in the price of anthracite coal for December. II will shut down eighteen eollieries, and run about thirty seven on three quarters time.
 ON the 2d the steamship Bolivia, from Liverpool, arrived at New York having a case of mild yarioloid among the steerage passengers.
 ON the lst County Physician Conway of New York held an autopsy on the body of Mrs. HOnorah De Fledde, who was believed to have been murdered. The result of the autopsy revealed the fact that the woman died from heart failure, and not from vio- lence, and Wm. Campion, who was held for the murder, was discharged from GUS tody.
 THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the first to respond to the suggestion of the Committee on portation to the inaugural ceremonies that the rate to and from Washington from all points for the occasion be made one fare for the round trip.
 ON the Both ut the first of the series of meetings underline aus pices of the Protest ant clergymen of New York City, to con- sider the best means of keeping religious
 
 of the city, was held at Chiclering Hall \ large audience was present.
 ON the 3d the failure was announced of the farming, wool growing and horse dealing firm composed Of Eolney F. Brown and Chester H. and Charles T. Brown, of the town ot Wheatland, N. Y. Their combined liabilities will aggregate nearly S280009, and their assets about one third Gf that alG87znt
 0N the 3d 1t was rumared at Columbus, O., that the management of the Ohio Cen tennial Exhibition is to=be investigated when the Legislature assemblies in Janu- ary. There k q large shortage, and crooked work is hinted at
 GN the Sd, in the Supreme Court of New York City, Circuit Justice Beach directed a jury to render verdict of s4s. 739 against Seymour, Baker X Co. the stocl; brokers. in the suit brought by ". H. NJ. Sanger, to recover S50,009 for breach ef contract
The Springdale news., 1888-12-07
CONDENSED TElEGRAMS.

IN the Senate, on the 4th. various an- nual reports, including that of the Seere- tary ot the Treasury, were presented and appropriately referred. MT. Frye made an unsuccessful attempt to have the Union Pacific Railroad bill considered The Tariff bill was then taken up, but it's consideration was postponed until the 9th. ........ln the House. the Speaker presented the annual reports of the Secretary of the Treasury and Comptroller of the Currency. which were referred. Mr. Mcdonald. of Minnesota, presented petition of citizens of North Dakota for the immediate admis- sion into the Union Of South Dakota and Montana.
 SENATOR ALLISON, of Iowa, denies the statement, attributed to Railroad Com missioner Campbell, that he has been of fered the Secretaryship of the Treasury.
 TIE brothers Kendall, through whose lnstrumentality the defective work on the Washington aqueduct tunnel was brought to light, were before the investigating committee on the 4th. Nothing new or especially important was brought to light
 THE Historical Society of Fairfield, Conn.,. has petitiOned Congress for an ap- proprlation to cover the expense of bring ing to his native land the remains of Joel Barlow, Minister and Envoy Extraordi- nary to France, who died in 1872, and was buried at Wilma, Poland.
 \ BILL was introduced in the Senate, on the fth, authorizing the construction of two steel rams to be armed with heavy ritied dynamite guns and pneumatic tor pedo throwers capable Of throwing high explosive torpedoes containing a charge of 600 pounds distance 0f not less than two miles.
 THE Patriarch of ConstantinopIe de- clares that the decree of divorce granted to King Milan of Servia from Queen Natalie was legally pronounced.
 ROBERT G. WARDEN, at one time Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, died in Washington, where he had practiced law since 1873, on the 4th.
 THE opening session of the annual con- vention of the Nebraska Woman's Su- frage Association at Omaha was ad- dressed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
 THE people of North Dakota held mass convention in Jamestown, on the 5th, to devise some method to obtain speedy ad- mission into the Union.
 THE New York .SHH of the 4th deyotes half a page to a recital of the wrongs in- tiicted upon the helpless Aleuts of Alaska by the gigantic monopoly known as the Alaska Commercial Company.
 THE funeral of Corporal Joseph Cham bers, the Irish revolutionist, took place in South Boston, Mass. on the 4th.
 SOME of the Southern members of Con- gress who favor the Blair Educational bill have hopes of securing its passage this winter upon the argument that if the Democrats refuse 10 pass.it the Republic ans will smash the Solid South with it during the Fiftyfrst Congress.
The Springdale news., 1888-12-07

JOHN BOWMAN, the wealthy x-5rewer of Marshall, la., who was recently en- joined by the United States District Court from selling liquor i'll the original pack age and fined S1,000, has been committed to jail for disobeying the injunction.
 ON the 3d a collision between freight trains on the New Jersey Central railroad, by which both firemen were killed, one en- gineer fatally scalded, the other seriously injured and forty eight cars wrecked, took place at Solomon's Gap, Pa. The accident was caused by disobedience of orders by one of the engineers.
 WHITE CAPS, it is reported, have organ ized in the vicinity of Glendale, Hamilton County, O., and that several persons have received notices from them to leave the neighborhood.
 WHILE resisting an attempt to levy black mail upon him, Phil Daly, the we'll known sporting man and proprietor of the Pennsylvania Club House at Long Branch, N. J., was shot and slightly wounded, on the 3d.
 ON the morning of the 3d the powder mill at Gambo, Me, blew up for the sixth time. Only the kernel mill was destroyed, but man named Branham was instantly killed. The concussion caused by the ex- plosion was heard for miles around.
The Springdale news., 1888-12-07
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

A GANG of Italian laborers who were digging a trench for a sewer in Philadel- .phia, on the 30th ult., were caught under a fcaving bank. One man was killed, anoth-
 CT fatally injured, and the others suffered fractures of limbs.
 | ON the 3d ore man was killed and eight
 seriously injured by an explosion in the Midland mine, at Denver, Col. Several
 of the wounded will die.
 ON the 2d the propeller Michigan took fire near Sandusky, 0. She was sighted
 by tug and towed into that port, where ! the local fire department extinguished the i flames. Her entire upper works were con- sumed.
 : A DUEL between NJ. Paul Deroulered ! and Nj. Reinach, editor of the Repu6lique ! Frdncaise, took place near Paris. on the
 30th ut. Pistols were used Four shots
 w.re exchanged, but neither eambatant IT as hurt.