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Wichita eagle., 1888-03-27
Forcing in the Public schools.

know perfectly well that shall prob
ably be called an old fogy, if not a crank,
for presuming to think that anything in
the past can be better than the present.
But l insist that the forcing system, as
practiced in many Of our schools, is con-
ducive neither to good education, good
health nor to beauty of face or form. To
learn many things indiffeHentiy and none
we'll is now the practice in most of our
public schools, where so many of our girls
spend six hours of the day trying in vain
to translate some obscure passage in Virgil
OF to solve some difficult problem in alge-
bra. Nor does the hard study end with
the six hours close confinement. varied
only By change from one class room to
another or the climbing Of stairs, which
sooner or later is sure to tell upon the
physical frame Where there are SO many
lessons to be learned. and so long, there
is scarcely any leisure for exercise in the
open air or recreation Of any kind, 10
time for home intercourse or duties and
those talks with mother or grandmother
which in after years viii be so precious to
the woman and remembered long after
Cicero and Euclid are laid upon the shelf
Mary J. Holmes In New York Mail and
EIpreSs
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-27
Fate OF an Indian Doctor.

The Hot Greek Indians have sum-
mary way of treating their physicians
when they fail to cure their patients. The
relatives of the deceased are justified in
killing him. A case of the kind occurred
recently Miss Madge related how the
woman that washed for them lost her hus-
band, and before he died he told his wife
that he could not rest in peace unless she
killed the doctor. an old squaw who had
practiced among them many years. The
considerate wife left hts bedside inst at
dawn, and, stealing into the wigwam of
the doomed woman, dropped slip moose
round her neck and jerked it quickly
tight, so that it was impossible Tor her
victim to utter sound louder than hor-
rible gurgle.
The wife afterward described the whole
CHASTITY circumstance with q fidelity that
proved her keen enjoyment of the agony
of the wretched squaw. She explained in
vivid pantoHlime just how she continued
to tighten the moose by q peculiar twitch-
ing motion, while she dragged the with
ing creature round and round the room.
When she had at last ceased to struggle,
the VIE returned to her appeased lord,
who breathed his last with a tranquili1-
ing sense that he had brought about a
noble vindication Of his death.-Ninetta
Eames in Overland Monthly.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-27

4 Well Shaped Woman.

Art should always be based on nature, and
TO art is true which does not take nature for
Its model \ perfect, symmetrical, healthy
woman of five feet ten inches in height must
comply with the following standard: She
should be 13S pounds at the least, and could
stand I'D to ten pounds more without injury
to health or artistic perfection. The distance
between the tips Of her two middle fingers,
when the arms are extended, should be e1-
actly the same as the height, or ten times the
length of her hand. or seven and half times
the length of her foot, or five times the
diameter of her chest from one armpit to the
other. The distance from the junction of
the thighs to the ground should be the same
as from the former point to the top OF the
head The knee should be exactly midway
from the junction Of the thighs TO the bottom
of the heel
The distance from the elbow to the tip Of
the middle finger should be the SAME as from
the elbow to the middle line of the chest
From the top of the head TO the chin, with
the head posed naturally, should be the same
as from the level of the chin to the armpits,
or from the heel to the tip of the large toe.
The bust Of a woman Of the height named
should be forty-three inches measurement
over the arms, and the waist twenty-four
The upper part Of the arm should be from
thirteen and half to fourteen inches. and
the wrist six inches. The ankle should be six
inches, the CALI of the leg fourteen and the
thigh twenty-five. Any woman of the height
mentioned who has these measurements can
congratulate herself on having as perfect a
form as the Creator ever made OF course
the proportions vary with the heisht-New
York NJ
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-27
Wild Horses of Nevada.

Nevada horse raisers and ranchmen on the
Phoebe and White Pine ranges are complain
ing Of the wild horses of that region In The
Shellback mountain are bands Of from $50 10
200 of these horses, each under the leadership
of powerful stations and they make regular
raIC on the ranches and run off the horses of
the hchmen. A horse once gone is gone
for ,.er, the Nevada men say, for the wild
horses are very cunning and wary, and will
not let a man get within rifle shot OF them.
The nuisance became so great that last spring
fifteen experienced horsemen and hunters
started out with the object of killing off az
many of the boss stations" as possible. In
ten days hunt they managed to kill juss
one horse. The wild horses of Nevada aver
age about 500 pounds weight, and when
caught are about the most ugly beast alive,
But if they can De thoroughly subdued and
broken, they make the most serviceable and
hardy horses imagins ble-New York Sun.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-27
How u Vendetta Was Ended.

A singular festival was recently held at
Bitt, in Sardinia. In the presence of the
project of the province, the archbishop Of
MORO, provincial deputation, the syndic
Of Sassari and other authorities a formal
oath was taken by the members of two
families, which had been at enuity for
many years, reciprocally to pardon all Of
lenses and to live in peace and harmony
The number Of members of the two fam
lilies was GO persons. A large crowd
filed the parish church in which the cere-
mony was performed, and the next day
a banquet was given in the country for
which had been ordered ten oxen, fourteen
pigs, sixty sucking pigs, 200 weight Of
macaroGi. 500 weight of bread and five of
fruit, with ten hectoliters of wine.-Lon-
don News.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-27
THE HON. RlNeBoNE elvlNs
Begins = Lecture Before the Limekiln

Begins Lecture Before the Lmekiln
Club.
When the meeting opened Brother
Gardner announced that the Hon. Ring
bone Bivins, of Kankakee, had arrived in
Detroit for the purpose Of lecturlng before
the Limekiln club. The subject Of his
lecture was: elias de World Advanced
Fur 'Nuffs'' He had been before the COM
mittee on inquiry, and had answered all
questions. and he would now be brought
in and given every opportunity to acquit
himself with honor 1t was subject OF
deep interest to every member OF the club,
and it was hoped that each and every one
would pay the closest attention to the
strangers remarks.
The committee on reception and abduc
ton escorted the Hon. Bivins into the hall
amidst profound silence. He was stately
looking man of middle age, having cast
in one eve and some trouble in one Of his
knees. He bowed right and left with the
grace and suavity Of an emperor, and
upon ascending the platform gently OBJ
served:
"My frens, do not come befo' you as
an impostor nor yet as an adJudicator. /
come heah bekase feel dat l know mo-
dan you do, an dat it ar my dooty to di-
vide my knowledge wild you. hev often
heard dis club spoken of, an allus in
terms of de highest disrespect. 1 am
highly pleased to stand face to face wild
SIGH an ignoble audience, an if any of
you desire to meet me arter dis lectur' is
over an invest twenty-five cents in box
of de celebrated Biyins con an bunyon
7 will har hov
cause to regret it"
"Misser PRESIDENT called the Rev.
Penstock, as he suddenly shot up, has
| dis gem Ian arrove heah TO dehber lee
| tur' or to peddle a nostrums
s'Dat's what 1 should like to hev him
answer" replied the president.
81 hev bin ON de platform twenty-five
long y'ars,' said the Hon. Ringbone, as
he looked around the hall, San dis ar de
| fust time was eber insulted. shall re-
fuse to proceed until dis club has rendered
an apology"
"If you has lectur' you kin 90 on wild
| it," said Brother Gardner, but If you
cum heah to advertise con cure de
sooner you retire to de alley de better ii
will be fur US all. -
'.It ar PERFECTLY plain to me-" said the
orator, with peck or SO of sarcasm in his
voice, "dat any lectur' could deliber be,
| TO- dis club would be frown away.
darfo' withdraw. / wish you all good
night"
~ want to warn de gineral public right
beah an now" said the president, after
| Bivins had retired, 'dat dis club ar nc
sheepfold fur CON doctahs. De mex pus
sen who works his way in heah an tries
dat game on US will be made heart sicE
| fur de balance of de winter. Will Brud
der Givedam Jones see dat de gem lar
finds de alley stairs all rights'
Brother Jones had already slipped ou
and with this purpose in view. He wa!
gone ten minutes. When he returned bill
necktie was gone and his coat torn dowI
the back. The Hon. Ringbone had evi
IDENTIFY resisted, but the keeper of the b'a
traps measured the dent in the frozel
ground in the alley and said it was jus
the size of pork barrel and ten inche
deep. The lecturers suspender button
must have been driven higher than hi
ears.-Detroit Free Press.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-27
Artistic Tastes in Dienpe.

Dieppe is the Atlantic City of France.
1t is n sunny, breezy, little town, where
they hang the street lamps out of the Sec
ond story windows, and is famous for the
rarity of its carvings in ivory and terra
Gotta. The rough, crooked streets are
lined with shabby, Insignificant shops,
whose every window is show case of
itself and representative of a modest for
tune, and the designs therein are exceed
ingly beautiful, giving evidence of the
artistic tastes Of the inhabitants. Obiets
dart of the highest order are to be !Sad
for mere song, but then carving is the
pronounced trade Of the majority of the
population--the very gamin of the street
mechanically model Jumps Of clay, as they
dangle their sabots in the gutters.-Cor.
philadelphia Times.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-27
Nature of Infectious Diseases

This discovery of the parasitic nature
of infectious diseases is Of more than
scientific interest: it is OF vast practical
value. 1t has no: yet, perhaps, contrib
uted very materially TO the methods Of
treating disease directly, although we
may confidently expect great results in
the future along this line. There is moth
ing TO prevent direct experiments with
germicides upon living bacteria in the
laboratory, and we NAV hope IN this way
to get more scientific method of curing
infectious diseases, after the theory Of
their parasitic nature beconfs more truly
the property of doctors as vel as scien-
lists Thus far. however. the value Of
the theory has been rather as the founda-
ton Of the science of preventive medicine.
Here its importance cannot De oyerrsted,
and Is only beginning 70 become realized
II. ". Conn IN Science
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-27
Wanted an Easy Chair.

a Nashville furniture dealer tells a lit
tie story that shows how some people are
constituted 4 lady ordered an elegant
easy chair of a peculiar kind 1t was
made and sent to her house. She exam
ined it carefully and critically, finally re-
marking that it suited her exactly. with
one exception-it was too soft. She had
the man take the chair back to be made
n trifie harder. The chair was returned
to the store and put aside. Nothing was
done to it After the lapse of about q
week the chair was sent out again. The
woman again examined it, and this time
the chair was too hard. She was sorry,
but when she paid so much TO get an
article for her own comfort she wanted
Il about right. so she sent it back to the
store for another change The chair was
again put aside for week or ten days
and sent out for the third time without
having particle of change made. This
time it was just right. She took the
chair, paid for it, and was sorry it had
not suited her at first. The poor woman
never knew that the chair had not been
changed particle. News.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-27

Never use sharp Saife in cleaning the
nails FIJI under the nails with soap, and
then remove i. BY brushing with = nall-
brush
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-27

Women are henceforth to be admitted TO
the competitions Of drawing and modelling il
the Paris School Of Decorative Art.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-27

Canned tomatoes should Be Kept where II j.
dark and dry. Light iujures them
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-27

Cover jeuis with sugar whso 1T away.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-27

Do not make jelly in damp or cloudy
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-27
FOR SALE.

Improved and Unimproved City Property
on the best improved streets in the city.
Lots on the inside on street Car lines and In
outside additions Suburban lots on the east
side in Maple Grove addition.
Business lots and business blocks for sale
at special bargains: Several fine tracts near
the city for sub-dividing and plating.
Improved farms and grass lands in all
parts of the county; also ranches in this and
adjoining counties.
All parties wishing to buy would do well
to call and examine my list before buying
elsewhere.
w. A. THOMAS,
The Oldest Real Estate Agency In Wichita.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-27

For Colorado, Calf ornia, Ore
gOn and all Pacific Coast points
this Is the favOrite route.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-27

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FEMALE FOOTPADS.
The Windy City's Latest Novelty
in the Criminal Line.

CHICAGO, Aug. 1S.-The latest nov
city in Chicago's criminal record is
trio of female sand-baggers. Early this
morning Minnie Daily, noted pick
pocket and shoplifter, and wife of an
expert burglar, accompanied by two
other women well known to the police,
stopped well-dressed gentleman in
front of the Brevoort house on Madison
street and attempted to rob him. Two
of the women grabbed him, while the
third struck him several times in
the face with pair of brass
knuckles. The man shouted for
help, and an officer heard him and went
to his rescue. At the sight of the officer
a cab driver threw two of the women
into his cab and started away at rapid
pace. Minnie DAILY made her escape
through an alley. The officer followed
the cab and ordered the driver to stop,
but he refused. The officer finally got
into buggy and caught the cab at the
corner of Canal and Adams streets.
The women and the driver were placed
under arrest and locked up at the
armory. On the way to the station the
two women pulled out large roll of
money and offered the officer 500 to
allow them to go free, but it was re-
fused. The man who was assaulted
was not seriously injured.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-19
DYING BY INCHES.
A Case of Tubercufar Leprosy
Discovered in Chicago.


CHICAGO, Aug. 1S.-August Johnson,
Dane, aged 81, came to the county
hospital Thursday to consult the doc
tors about a loathsome skin disease
from which he was Suffering. After
careful examination the physicians de-
cided that the patient was suffering
from tubercular leprosy and he was
placed in an isolated compartment
of the contagious ward. johnson
came to this country when but
three years of age and enjoyed the best
of health up to eight months ago, when
the disease made its first appearance in
the form of a small red blOtch on his
right loin. 1t spread until it became as
large as a mans hand. Similar tubercles
appeared in different parts of the body
until he is now completely covered. His
neighb0rS began to Shun the man, and
finally his appearance Oh the highway or
in the field was the signal for general
scattering of his former companions.
johnson could not stand this for long,
and gathering his few effects together
and drawing from the bank his small
savings. came to Chicago. The origin
of the disease is mystery to the doc
tors. They can only account for it
from the mans nationality, and that the
portion of Norway from whence he
came. near Stockholm, is infested with
leperS. If this story be true the malady
had lain dormant for eighteen years at
least
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-19
HINSON SHOULD HANG.
A Southern Regulator DeIiber-
ately Murders a Law-Abiding
Citizen in His Own Store

OsvKA, Miss, Aug. 1S.-Dr. W. F.
Simmons, ex-member of the legislature
and one Of the largest merchants, was
shot this morning in his store, twelve
miles east of here, by Lee Hin
SOD. The cause of the shooting
dates back some months. DR.. Simmons
took very decided stand against the
practice of Regulating" in his neigh
borhood, and thus incurred the enmity
of several persons in that section. This
morning Hinson and some of
his friends came to the store.
After a few words, Hinson drew
his pistol and shot DR.. Simmons
twice. The first ball entered his side
and the other struck him in the back
The wounds are pronounced fatal.
Hinson and two others were arrested
and taken to Magnolia jail. AS both
parties have large family connections,
it is feared there will be more blood
shed
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-19
PLUCKY TRAINNIEN.
They Spoil an Attempt to Rob a
TranscOntinental Train.

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 1S.-An at
tempt was made at o'clock this morn
ing by masked men to rob the Union
Pacific east-bound overland passenger
train. At Dana Station, near Rawlins,
three masked men covered the engineer
with revolvers and compelled him to
throw up his hands. Brakeman Frank
Tillman grappled with one of the rob-
bers, the express messenger came to the
rescue and the masked marauders were
put to flight after thirty or forty shots
had been exchanged. Fireman Nash
and Brakeman Tillman were seriously
wounded, the former shot in the hip
and arm and the latter in the side. One
robber was dropped, but was carried off
by his pals. The sheriff of Carbon
county, with posse, is in pursuit.