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The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-24

On the 25th of this month Mir. John A. Mackey will reappear at the Chi cago opera house after an absence of five years, in a piece which used to pack the theatres of the country: "Pop" is it's title. This is the piece in which Kate Castleton made her first great hit. Mackey has been for the past five years amusing the New York and Boston public where he is an ex- traordinary favorite. The piece is full of pretty music, rollicking humor, and it's cast embraces large bevy of pretty girls. The engagement is linn ited to one week.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-24

MT. Hardup goes to the party in his shiny Prince Albert. As he stands brushing his hair before the mirror in the dressing room gentleman crowds up behind him.
 Hardup-"I beg your pardon, sir l am using the glass"
 Mustachios-"Don't trouble your- self to move. can use your back."- Burlington Free Press.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-24
Poultry Raising in Arkansas.

The opportunities for raising poul- try in our state are not excelled by any other part of the country, and it will not be long before northern poul- try growers will see it and avail them selves of the many advantages we offer. They can come down here, pur- chase lands cheap, and with our mild winters raise spring chickens and place them in the St. Louis, Chicago and other northern markets before the snow banks up there have melted away or the northern hen has com- menced to think about laying eggs for her spring brood.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-24

MT. O'Flaherty Crushing into depot just as train is leaving)-"Gimme & ticket-quick!"
 Ticket Agent-"Where are you go- ing?"
 MT. O'Flaherty (enraged)-"None O yer business phwere Pm goin'. Well, l loike your impudence. Gim- me ticket, quick, or Oi'll lose me train. Boston Beacon.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-24

ball clay, and they come from the eastern part of the state. At and in the near vicinity of this city we have every article entering into the con- position of all classes of crockery ware, from stone jugs to the finest china, except feldspar, and that las been found at less distance from us than what is brought for use at Trenton or even the English potteries at Staffordshire. Some day Little Rock will be the Staffordshire of America. We have seen specimens of all kinds of ware manufactured from our raw material that could not be excelled anywhere.
 "Where IS that better land?"
 Arkansas has within the past six months placed her fruit for competi- tion on the shores of the Atlantic and the Pacific, and no state or coun- try claimed superior. At every com- peting- place she has been crowned king of the cotton tield-she has the largest and best variety of forest trees on the continent <; she has metallic and non-metallic minerals in kind and quality sufficient for every want of man; she has more miles of navigable waters than any other state she grows every product known to the husband man within ten degrees of latitude she has salubrious climate, never too hot or too cold for outdoor work she is near the center of population of the United States, and she has a gen. erous and just people, where every one can sit under his own fig tree and worship God according to the dic- tates of his own conscience. "Where is that better land?"
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-24
"I hear Della Rant is going on tn

"I hear Bella Rant is going on the stage"
 "Indeedl What line of parts?"
 Functional, believe"
 "Has she any talent in that direc- tiOn?"
 "I should say she had! She has seventy-fiv thousand dollars worth of Paris clothes and most narrowing, heart broken sigh" ToVn Topics.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-24
Consumption Surely Cured.

To the Editor:-
 Please inform your readers that have positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy FREE to any of your readers who have con- sumption if they will send me their Express and P. O. address.
 Respectfully, T. A. SLOCUM, M. O., 1s1 Pearl St., New York.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-24
A New Book.

A pamphlet on the nature, causes and successful treatment of asthma, bronchitis, catarrh and consumption, by Dr. Robert Hunter, of 10S State street, Chicago, will be sent free to all persons afflicted on application as above.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-24

Are you going to Chicago via Gin cinnati or Louisville2 If so, buy your ticket by the "Monon" route. It is the daisy line between the Ohio river cities and Chicago.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-24

Of course Solomon was the wisest man. A fellow with 700 wives has a chance to get instruction.-Josnal of EducQtioa.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-24

This was heard at the policeman's ball the other night:
 He-"Will you dance this waltz with mel"
 She-T would like to, but I can't recherche"
 He did not press the point.-Kansas City Nescs.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-24

These patent clamp skates for girls may be all very we'll, but the young men complain that it doesn't take any time at all to put them on.-Jouynal 0f Education.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-24
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The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-24

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The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-24

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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-14
Method of Electric Writing.

A small needle is vibrated to and fro BY
the alternate currents. Attached to the
end of the needle is siphon about the
hundredth part Of an inch In diameter,
through which ink flows constantly. The
point of the siphon or pen rests on strip
Of paper which is automatically pulled
under it, and "a the needle vibrates the
pen marks the vibrations in zigzag lines
on the paper. The OPERATOR reads the
signals off as they pass before him and
writes them on the usual blanks, while
an attendant coils up the paper strip and
files it away. There is NO noise as with o
Morse instrument, and no calling"
The paper goes along continually and
when the operator at the other end Of the
cable has a message to transmit he goes
right ahead with it. The sending opera
tor sits to the right of the receiver and
manipulates two keys side by side, one
for the positive and the other for the
negative current. There is no sounding
instrument except the keys, and the
operator has no means Of knowing how
well he is doing, except that when it does
not reach the other end distinctly the
sending operator there notifies the re-
ceiver at this end, who tells his associate
where to repeat from
A Morse operator unacquainted with
cable work would think the sending
operator was merely drumming" on the
keys, as there appears to be no system
about 1t to the uninitixted. New York
World
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-14
Reecher and His Word Pictures.

If | were required to sum up Beecher,
as be seemed TO me during the first
twenty years of his experience in Brook
lyn, as | grew up beneath his eye
from little boyhood tc mans estate,
should hesitate not one second in answer
ing, heartiness. He was hearty In every
thing he did; his aye meant aye, and his
nay meant nay. He was peculiarly tena-
cious about his expressions, SIS, for in
stance, one time ne described vision.
Standing in apparent rapture, at the
very front of the platform, with his eyes
thrown far beyond the horizon, he spoke
of the goddess of Liberty with Il diamond
scepter in her hand.
When he came home that night / said:
Il had to laugh when you spoke about
the goddess of Liberty with diamond
scepter in her hand. OF course you
meant a diamond pointed scepter, there is
no such thing as diamond scepter." He
was lying on q hair cloch sofa in mothers
back parlor, but rising quickly, and rest
ing himself on one elbow, with tremen-
deus emphasis, he replied:
Nonsense! | guess | know what
saw"
That of course led up TO an interesting
discussion as to the illustrations, pic
torlal, for which his public utterances
were noted. He lived in pictures, and
during the discussion he said:
Why, certainly, l see them. Else how
could | describe thenY' Ii other words,
his imagination caught with nervous
hand upon the tail Of fancy, and drawing
it TO him, enabled him to describe. in
words, for the understanding Of his hear
erS. that which TO him was an apparent
realiJy.-Joe Howard in Once Week.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-14
Some Curious Garden DESIGNS.

The art OF the doris. has made wonder
full advances of late. Thousands Of per
sons have visited the Danvers Mass. hos
pital grounds the last few weeks. The
object IN view by the many strangers is
TO see the marvellous flower beds designed
and arranged by tie florist and gardener.
Etore TassinaTi, which are now in prime
condition and rival anything of their kind
in the United States.
The largest design is Chinese pagoda.
seventeen feet high, with a dome sup
ported by six pillars. and an archway be-
meath high enough to pass under without
STOPPING. There are three fountains and
thirty varieties Of plants. The front Of
the base has calendar Of growing plants
IN portable boxes and the back shield.
flags and draperies. Florists from far and
near have pronounced this design the best
they ever saw. A solar clock or sun dial
attracts much attention, as it accurately
tells the time OF day by pole Of growing
plants placed at an angle Of IL dogs. and
pointing 70 the north stSr. The shadow
falls on aoral numerals in the rim of
horseshoe shaped bed of plants. There
ere numerous beds OF lesser note, and
several photographs have been taken of
the principal ones.-Troy Times.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-14

One Thousand one hundred and eighty
che young women and girls attended tho
free day and evening classes connected
with tho Young Women's Christian as
ISOLATION last year. There are free classes
in stenography, type writing, bookkeep-
ing, commercial arithmetic. business
training, drawing, modelling and design
ing, rebouching photo negatives, physical
culture, choir music and dressmaking.
Said a lady interested in the association
to the writer: Surely the women and
girls of New York ought to embrace these
advantages and make the most of them"
One bright looking young woman,
though perhaps not patient and persev-
ering enou Oh, looked rather obviously at
the speaker as she remarked: But the
market seems overstocked now with
stenographers, typewriters, bookkeepers;
in fact every department of woman's
work seems crowded to OVERLOOKING. At
the Cooper Union Free School Of Tele-
graphy they viii not take pupils, unless
some prominent Tnan, or some person with
& good standing in the community, comes
forward and guarantees them positions.
Mark Twain" said the lady, with
his characteristic force, on the other
hand, expresses himself as follows: All
trades and occupations are cramped and
hindered for want of people to do the
work, not for want Of work to do. When
people tell you the reverse they speak
that which is not true. If you desire to
test this you need only hunt up first
class editor, reporter. business manager,
foreman of shop, mechanic or artist in
any branch of industry, and try to hire
him. You viii find that he is already
hired Il is the same with women as il
is with men. The best, the most skillful,
are always in demand New York Press.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-14
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Ha1lm - eagle
Sunburn without Heat.

Ironworkers, glassworkers and others
sie constantly exposed to heat Of 400
or 900 degs. F., and yet do not become
burned, and there can be little doubt that
the enormous radiation from heated rocks
and valleys, in addition to the direct rays
of the sun, make up an amount of heat
far greater than Is ever experienced on
even q very sunny snow slope, and vet
one does not become sunburned No doubt
the surface Of the snow reflects and dis
burses much heat, but certainly far less
than it receives, as heat rays are absorbed
and rendered latent by the snow melting
and evaporation. Experience fully cor
roborates this, for one may lie on ones
back and freely expose the face for long
periods to the sun and yet remains IN
burned There must, therefore, be some
one factor in sunburp than heat alone
In discussing the subject with Professor
Tyndall he added the very interesting and
significant fact that he was never more
burned on snow than while experiment
ing with the electric light at the North
toreland lighthouse, where there was no
heat sufficient to produce such an effect.
! am aware that sometimes, in peculiar
conditions of the atmosphere, the direct
suns rays will burn. / have met with
some singular instances where several
persons have been burned on the same
day. even in England, who had never pre-
viously suffered IN that way. l am fur
Their aware that sometimes, not always,
in dead calm on a ships deck, one may
be severely sunburned, and that in boat
ing the same may occasionally happen.
Masks and wells have long been used as
protection on snow, and are more or less
successful, brown wells and glasses in my
experience being the most efficient As
bearing up this | may mention that a.
friend of mine, after an ascent on snow,
had an enormously swollen face, and l OBJ
served that in the general swelling there
were many pits and depressions, and that
each pit cores pended to freckle. The
irritating rays had been intercepted by
the brown color of the freckle.-Nature.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-14
The Garden of America.

Bearing on the proposition Of Maj.
Powell u reclaim the Colorado deserts,
for which congress has already made q
preliminary appropriation, is an article BY
Joaquin Miller on The North American
Nile He urges that the land instead Of
being desert is in reality enormously
fertile These ruins Of Arizona are
older than history-as Old ~ the oldest
ruins on the Nile OF Egypt. The region
then was densely populated No allure
ments Of gold; uotsing but the generous
soil and the genial climate built up cities
here that rivaled in extent those Of Egypt.
Ii then these primitive people made q
garde en- OF this land, where we now insist
on locating desert, can We not do some
thing with our improved methods" Very
clearly this region was once the garden OF
America. and IL Is reclaimable Miller
says he never ate finer bananas than those
grown near Fort Yuma Hts article is
full Of enthusiasm and poetry, but also Of
facts and sound sense as well No doub.
he is right in calling IT the North AIneri-
can Nile: and every way more interesting
for its antiquities, as well as natural
z.A.><sA..,a- Aka. Ala ALL - 49,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-14
Artisans Dwellings In France.

In connection with the strikes in France,
and the general movement among the
working classes which they may portend,
It is interesting to note some recent
efforts to improve working1nen's dwell
ings. At Rouen society has been
formed, with capital of 920, 900. which
has erected six blocks in the center Of the
town, capable of accommodating ninety
families. At Lyons a similar society has
built five blocks, accommodating sixty
families. The rents are fixed ct about
the average rate of the several districts,
but the tenants have complete sanitary
arrangements and good water supply
into the bargain. In each case q direc-
tor of the company visits every tene-
ment once a week with a view Of receiving
complaints and entering into kindly re-
lations with the tenants. The COM
pnnies have succeeded so far in paying 4
per cent. on the capital invested.
A feature of the scheme at Lyons is
that portion Of the capital was provided
by the local savings bank, and II is hoped
to induce similar banks at Marseilles and
elsewhere to do likewise. But even SO it
viii be long time before France can vie
with England IN provision of sanitary
dwellings for the working classes.-Paris
Journal des Debats
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-14
RemarkabIe Change Of Climate.

The BIRTHS consul Al Bussorah, on the
Persian gull, in his last report states
that remarkable Improvement has taken
place IN the climate Of the country round
Bussorah. with rhe substitution of date
and wheat cultivation for that Of nee
The Hlalarious fever. 70 which Bassorah
gave its name. is now comparatively rare;
and sallcv compieIiors and worn locks.
which some years ago were universal. are
now 10 logger seen The northwest wind.
which prevails in the hot weather. instead
of being moist and claaEy. a. it used to
be. il dry and hot TIE month of Sep,en-
be-, when the marsh which i. formed
yearly by the overflow Of the Euphrases
Is drying Cd. is still the least healthy
season December and January are cold.
July and August are intensely hot- Tho
rest Of the year Is very much Ike the
spring and Summer of so0snern ERcvpe-
-RA>&. T.>.-A
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-14

an Interested but silent Spectator or the
attempted slaughter. John acts upon the
advice with q promptness that proves
that he knows good thing. The ak is
procured. and again the wriggling bird is
imprisoned John carries it in triumph over
to block Of wood. lays its neck out as
evenly as the muscular contortions of its
body and legs will permit, and then raises
the keen blade for the fatal blow. It de-
sends with unerring aim, and the severed
head rolls of the block. But before John
has time to congratulate himself on the
success Of bis expedient the head gives
one futter that Is its last, and a tiny
stream Of blood hardly bigger than darn
Ing needle spusts from the gaping wound
like geyser, and stains bis white shirt
front deep red. Then he vows In Ian
guage that will hardly bear reproduction
that he has killed his last chicken. If
the victim is an aged and tough hen with
n steel spring neck and extraordinary
vitality the work of slaughter Is even
moro difficult. This is the way q man
kills chicken Intended for his own table
Down in South Water street there are
fourteen chicken slaughter houses that
turn ont an average Of about thirty
thousand dead birds every twenty four
hours- The process is simpler and more
rapid. There Is an institution near the
corner of Clark street which alone is
ready to kill OF the feathered tribe at the
rate OF 10000 day If the consumption Of
chicken meat warrants the wholesale
slaughter. The chickens are brought to
the place by thousands and turned loose
In immense coops that occupy whole
floors, and there,they crow and cluck and
eat corn until the remorseless hand of the
professional butcher closes on their necks.
When this happens there is no time for
another crow. The needle-like point Of
the keen knife that the butcher carries in
his right hand is deftly inserted behind
the victims ear, and the next instant its
ifeless body is shooting through spout
that leads to the floor where the plump
ing" room is located. It is all done in the
briefest part of second, as will be more
readily understood when 1t is stated that
this butcher, single handed and alone,
can stab 10000 chickens in day of ten
hours. 1t does not make any difference
to him whether the victim is spring
as easily before the plunge of his knife as
the other.
But it is in the ''plumping" room that
eAC IG4 Ado q CAdAiCC W GALLUP AIS Nltdul}
In one corner of this apartment, which is
always half filed with wet feathers. is
big iron tank full of boiling water. Into
this the bodies Of the birds are thrown as
fast as they fall from the butchers spout,
and after they have been there half
minute they are hauled out by the legs
and stripped Of their feathers. This pro-
cess requires but two sweeps of ham
like hand, and the bird, denuded, is
flung into a cooling box. From there
they go downstairs to another cooler, and
then they are packed for Shipment
Chicago Herald
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-14
The Old Norid.k Railroads.

We are, as yet, only Al the edge of the
great projects Of railway and other
methods of INSTRUMENTATION. Tho
time viii come when every remote hamlet
Will be centralized, and 10 land will be
out of easy reach to the tourist and to
commerce. The next great steps of pro-
gress are 20 be taken IN Asia Besides
the roads projected and building in Siberia
and China. there is now a ,400 mile road
proposed from Constantinople to Bagdad.
This VIII open new route to China
shorter by ten days than that by the Suez
Canal Americans understand very well
The rapid changes that follow the opening
Of such q line. Science says: 1t viii
create new Asia Minor" Then again
Basdad viii become one of the worlds
great cities. Lovers of the Arabian
Nights viii associate considerable no
nance With this latest project OF COM
meCe.-GlObe- Democrat