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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
Oxford,a COLLEGE Oarsmen.

The country around Oxford is beautiful
The town itself is quaint and most pictur-
esaus. The life here is one that would charm
either a student or young man fond Of So
ciety and athletics. The river is constantly
thronged BY college oarsmsn. When the
racing season is on, am told, one of the
most exciting events Of each day is the strug-
gle to gain the position known as 1.-The top
of the river" As it was explained to me,
the top of the river means this: Several boat
crews-sometmes to the number Of fifteen or
twenty-will be placed in hne-one slightly
ahead of the other on the river. At q signal
they start off racing for certain point The
object Of each boats crew in the rear il to
run down the boat ahead Of them. This is
called humping. II they can bump the nose
Of their boat against the one just ahead Of
them, that entities the humping boat TO 20
UP above the boat that has been bumped.
And the boat bumped falls back one ia the
line The boat tia. obtains the position Of
the top of the river is the one which is able
to distance ell competitors and 70 draw away
from them in this most exciting of strug-
giles. Very often the boat crew bumped is
turned clear over and has TO pick its way on.
as best it can But this only appears to add
fun and hilarity to the race.-T. c. Craw-
ford in New York World
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
Strange Sights in Cuba,

In Havana bay there are certainly 1000
lighters constantly in use, so that 5000
men are thus employed and at least Is, 00G
souls thus comfortably sustained. Most
Of these folk live over at Re9la, just back
of the Santa Catalina wharves or the still
quainter Gale Baluarte quarter, and in the
narrow streets and through and about their
queer old abodes some Of the strangest
sights you ever witnessed will be seen.
Children of all colors and caste and ages
disport naked among hairless dogs, ag-
gressive goats, demure donkeys and all
manner of fowl, with the utmost inno-
cence, content and good nature. Little is
needed to sustain life, hence happy hearted
ness among them is universal. Night or
day, for nearly all the year, the only real
effort is made to get outside of clothing;
and last Sunday morning, when 1 was
wandering in the vicinity Of the little
old Regla market, / actually stepped over
fourteen naked sleeping women and chill
dren lying in all sorts of postures on land
ings, along galleries and at the doors of
little alcobaS. Some of them opened
their handsome eyes bit, but none
moved or seemed in the least disconnected
by the intrusion.-Edgar l.. Wakeman's
affpr
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
Character in Autographs.

Recent statements about the economic
and wise mother of Napoleon show that
he, while always speaking to her in Itali'n,
wrote to her in French. How she ever
contrived to decipher his manuscript, if
that also developed corresponding contor-
tons of his signature, we cannot divine,
unless, indeed, as often happens, there is
Il way of reading with the understanding
heart as well as the affectionate eye.
VIGOROUSLY bad writers like Choate,
Greeley and Balzac have always some
body contemporaneous who can readily
interpret their hieroglyphics, and when a
noted western editor furnished copy that
any printer might suppose to be ancient
Egyptian, there was born into the world
a compositor in that town who preferred
it to copper plate inscriptions and set it
up with celebrity and dispatch.
Tracing a mans character by his hand
writing is deceptive unless we know the
mans career by heart, and then we di-
vine what is not hidden. At the same
time it is not little curious to follow the
commissions of Napoleon's signature from
the obscure time of an artillery lieuten-
antcy to the victory of Austerlitz, the re-
treat from Waterloo and captivity OH that
lone, barren isle in the midst of the
ocean," We may not agree with the de-
auctions made from the specimens given,
but curiosity will be provoked and graft
fled in a peculiar way if nothing else.-
Baltimore American.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
A BOy on n Firm.

1t is my impression that farm without a
boy would soon come to grief. What boy
does is the life of the farm. He is the facto-
tum, always in demand, and always expected
to do the thousand and one things that no.
body else will do. Upon him falls the odds
and ends, the most difficult things. After
everybody else is through he is to finish up
His work is like a woman's, perpetualIy
waiting on others. Everybody knows how
much easier it is to cook good dinner than
to wash the dishes afterward. Consider
what boy on farm is required to do,
things that must be done, or life would
actually stop. 1t is understood, in the first
place, that he is to do all the errands, to go
to the store, to the postofHce and to carry
all sorts Of messages If he had as many
legs as the centipede they would tire before
night.
He is the one who spreads the grass as the
men GU: it; he slows it away in the barn; he
rides the horse to cultivate the corn up and
down the hot, weary rows; he picks up the
potatoes when they are dug; he brings wood
and water and splits kindling; he gets up the
horse and turns out the horse Whether he is
in the house or out of the house. there is al
ways something to do. Just before school in
the winter he shovels paths; in the summer
he turns the grindstone. And yet, with his
mind full of schemes Of what he would like
to do, and his hands full of occupation, he is
an idle boy who has nothing to busy himself
with but schools and chores. He would
gladly do all the work if somebody else would
do all the chores, he thinks; and yet, doubt
if any boy ever amounted to anything in the
world or was OF much use as a man who did
not enjoy the advantages Of liberal eciuca-
ton in the way Of chores.-Charles Dudley
Warner
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
A Smart Man Silenccd.

There are few neighborhoods that do
not have their smart man. At least they
have a man who, in his own estimation,
embodies the brains and information Of
the world. No occupation pleases him
better than the asking Of catch questions
queries that he has given his whole at
tention. to the exclusion of more useful in
formation that would in general have
added largely to his influence if not to his
income. Nothing pleases him better than
to find some one who has earned reputS-
ton for depth and width of learning re-
moved from the ordinary unable to an
swer some simple question that has been
learned and forgotten ten years before.
Such man, in speaking Of mutual ac-
Quaintance, said to a reporter: do you
call that man smart, Why, asked hin,
something that he could not answer" The
scribe looked at him and asked: ''How
many Of Mother Goose's melodies can you
repeat"' He was silent-Philadelph
Call.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
Curiosity Oyercomes Awe.

Little Gertrude, in the course Of her
four years OF existence, had never seen 8
colored person. Therefore when Pro
fessor Cicero Peters-whose speciality is
legion, and who whitewashes one day and
puts down carpets the next, thus making
extremes meet-came to her house in
spring cleaning times, her first sensation
was awe, which gave way to curiosity
when she perceived that the dark hued
visitor, so far from being an ogre, was
disposed to be a big playfellow. After
the professor had laughed and joked and
told stories, Gertrude ventured upon q
startling personal inquiry:
''Mr. Peters, have You any little tar
babies at homer
To say that Professor Peters laughed
would but family describe the effect of
the question. Dentists show windows
seemed to leap up in his mouth in rapid
succession, one after another: and for
hours afterward he was heard to calculate
''tah babies at five minute intervals
Boston Transcript.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
An Authropometric Laboratory.

An anthropometric laboratory is place
where person may have any of his vari-
GUS faculties measured in the best possible
way, and where duplicates of his meas
urements may be preserved as private
documents for his own future use and
reference. All the various faculties are
to be registered. Accordingly, after the
exact shape, the cubicai contents and the
specific gravity of the individual have
been ascertained he will be tested for pace
on measured mile on land and meas
ured 100 yards in the water. The physi-
cal basis being thus ascertained, the
capacity for self restraint will next be
tried. Then will come the memory tests
and the trials Of originality and intellect
ual endurance. 1t would be impos-
sible, except at great length, to ex-
plain. the various processes avail
able for these latter purposes, but
a brief reference may be made to the
uses of the register when completed.
Evidently the register kept at the labora-
tory may be made use of as reference in
all cases. To persons about to marry the
record will, of course, be valuable and in
dispsnsable. Very great benefits will
accrue to all classes of people. 1t will
abolish the old test of mans faculties by
the work he does and what comes out of
Bulletin.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
Where Quill roothp,ck, Arc Made.

Everybody knows that a bunch Of quill
picks can be bought at drug store for
nickel, and there the popular knowledge
ends A reporter started out to find the
fountain head of quill toothpicks. The re-
tail druggist said that he bought them OF
the wholesale dealer in drugs and notions.
The reporter made tour of the wholesale
drug houses, and at every one he was in
formed that they purchased them either
in New York or imported them from
France and Germany, and that was all
they knew about it. The feather dealers
had little or no light to throw upon the
subject. The manufacturers of feather
busters were ignorant regarding the quill
pick industry.
Finally gentleman, who is the buyer
for large drug house, was found, who
had seen factory where the quill picks
were made. When asked the question,
he said: II do not know Of any factory in
this country where quill toothpicks are
made. We buy ours from broker in
Paris, who obtains them from large
mandatory near that city. NJ. Bardin,
at Joinville lie Pont, near Paris, had the
largest mandatory in the world engaged
in the quill industry. He has 1000, 900
geese, and produces annually 2O,OOO,OoO
quilts. Formerly this factory made quill
pens, but when these went out Of general
use the quilts were used to make brushes
for artists and toothpicks The picks are
made by machinery, and are put up in
bundles of ten each, and these are in
packages containing 1000. The price is
so low that there is very little margin OF
profit in the business.
The wooden toothpick has taken the
place of the quill, and these latter are
made mostly in the east but there are
factories in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and
Wisconsin, where wooden toothpicks are
made very cheaply. Fond du Lac, Wis,
has factory that turns out millions OF
wooden picks every week. They come
1000 in box, and cost but five cents per
box to the consumer The quill pick costs
five cents per bunch Of ten, but they are
far better than the wooden ones. OF
course there are a great many feathers
grown in this country, but other uses
have been found for the quilts. A big
factory in Michigan, located at Coldwater,
makes featherbone for whips, corsets,
etc. Brush factories use the quilts for
camels' hair pencils, but do not believe
there is factory in America where quill
picks are made.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
REPEATING Stamped Tinware.

In the process Of forming stamped tin
ware fat sheets of metal are placed in
powerful presses and forced by means of
dies into shape. This shaping process
and enormous pressure on the metal COM
pletely disintegrates the tin coating,
breaking the fibers and rendering the sur
face of the wares fractured, rough and IN
finished. This defect is remedied by re-
plating, which contemporaries and reunites
the surface, correcting all fractuosity and
making the ware bright and new. The
ware to be replated IS dipped into cald-
ron of boiling tauow, SO hot that the origi-
nal tin plating is softened up and melted
from the surface of the sheet iron. Then
the article so treated is dipped into pot
Of fused tin, where it takes on new coat
ing of that metal It Is then dropped q
second time into the grease pot. which has
the effect Of evenly distributing the coat
ing of tin, taking off the superfuous
metal. 1t is then put into box of bran,
where it is cleansed of the thickest of the
grease, and finished by being rolled in
-four and middlings, which completely
cleanses the ware, leaving it smooth and
briGht.-Ame1ican Artisan.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
Life Among the Tarascans.

zone thing at time'' is the principle
Of life among the Tarascans. Perhaps II
is carried to exaggeration, but 1t produces
wonderful results If of Sunday morn
ing you saunter down the road leading up
from the lake to Patzcuaro you will meet
thousands of the Tarascans coming tn
market with their wares and products to
sell. Each Tarascan. or family OF Taras-
cans, will have stock of one thing At
may be earthenware: it may be the nat
pancakes called tortillas; it may be fish; it
NAV be feather work Whatever 1t Is the
quality will surprise you.
The traveller sees good deal OF the one
idea principle il other parts OF Mexico.
Going down through the heart OF the Ia
bic land from Ell Paso to the City Of Mex
leo he encounters it in striking manner.
At Leon he is beset to buy the woven
wraps called serapes. The numerous
peddlers have nothing but serapcs to sell.
A few hours further down the road, at the
station of Queretaro, the stock in trade of
the platform vendors is opals, nothing but
opals. At Celaya fifty men and boys
thrust boxes of ''dulces'' in ones face and
will not take refusal to buy, as long as
the train stops. The dulces are sweet,
lIosSlc ilhc SoiiiPoui!'ios Aa'olcA "lti PiiiC-
apple and other fruits. They are offered
in little, round wooden boxes, and are
of all sorts of colors. The round
boxes are assorted, according to
favors, and packed in long boxes Of
varying sizes and prices. Celaya is
known all over the republic for its sweets.
Within two hours ride of Celaya is Ira
puato, where Strawberries can be bought
at the station every month in the year.
The peddlers have nothing but strawber-
ries, but they always have them put up in
quart, two quart and three quart home
made baskets of willow-great, luscious
berries. Probably the fruit could be cul-
tivated with equal success elsewhere, but
it isn't Irapuato has the monopoly Of
strawberries. Even Mexicans, passing
through and going 500 miles beyond, buy
q basket of strawberries at Irapuato, just
as they always get off at San Juan del
Rio, further down the road, to buy lari-
ats. There is little rope walk in front
Of nearly every house at San Juan del
Rio, and the people do scarcely anything
but manufacture lariats the year round.
Cor. Globe-Democrat.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
Milk Hospitals of New York.

Not all the world knows that there are
such things as milk hospitals IN the sub
urbs OF this city. The idea Is German
one. These hospitals are for the cure Of
every physical Ill, on the principal Of max
ing the blood entirely ovcr and keeping 1t
pure by taking milk, milk, nothing but
milk as food for weeks, months, years,
Iu fact, the doctors Of milk hospitals fix
upon three years as the limit OF time
necessary TO make . patient completely
over. Then, il he wants to stay made
over, he is advised to keep Oh with the
milk diet and leave solid food alone for the
remainder of his days. When q patient
six quarts Of milk q day, which is in
creased gradually to eleven and twelve.
This seems an incred.bl. amount for any
one, particularly an invalid, TO consume,
but the facts are as stated. The milk is
administered IN cupfuh every ten or if
teen minutes, and must be drank slowly,
slipped as Partisan takes his sbsinthe.
Sometimes the patient grows deathly
sick at the very sight Of milk, early in
action. Perseverance is the only medi-
cine he takes 70 overcome this nausea.
Whether he gets sick or well he is sure TO
get fat: and the fatter he gets the more
does his doctor rejoice. He Is weighed IN
the balance daily and never found want
ing. Should he not climb up into the
hundred weights fast enough, . quart or
SO more is added TO hts daily allowance Of
milk. Meantime, while he drinks the
milk, he is expected TO lie sbed all the
time. his only recreation being . daily
hath In hot water After he Ia satisfsc-
torily made over aud pronounced well, he
drops down TO a gallon of milk per day
and gets on famously. Ladies take TO the
milk cure more readily than men do.
Some Of them have found /; beneficial for
the restoration OF broken down nerves,
but they deplore the excessive flesh il
brings with it--New York Press, Every
Day Talk"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
Emperor william ut Waterloo.

The Emperor William, Of Germany,
commanded regiment at the battle OF
Waterloo, and Gen. Simon Cameron, OF
Pennsylvania, had nearly reached mans
estate when that battle was fought And
yet when we read of the first Napoleon
and his deeds we think Of it all as belong
ing to some far distant period-indeed, it
reads almost like fable. How many
people, by the way, on the whole face Of
the earth, are now alive who were living
when the Emperor William and Gen.
Cameron were born? Can there be moro
than 1,0O0-or perhaps 2,OOOs-Philadel.
phia Times.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
AFRAID to 60 Home.

Country Minister-Don't you know,
little boy, that it is wrong to fish on Sun
day. Why don't You go home?
Little Boy-Im 'fraid TO.
Country Minister-Your father will
punish you, will he?
Little Boy-Yes, sir. IL 1 don't bring
home more fish than Eve ketched so fer
The Epoch.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
PRIDE.

Gould one ascend with an unheard OF flight,
An skyward skyward without limit soar,
AS il the pinion Of god he wore,
Til earth were left dwindling star. whose hgns
Flew faint upon his track: at last his height
All height would vanqush; there in deeps oil
space
Were neither upper nor inferior place;
Distinctions little zone below him quite.
Oh. happy dreams OF such a soul have l.
And softly to my heart OF him l sing,
Whose seraph pride all pride doth overwing;
Scars unto neekness, reaches low by high,
Aud, as in grand equalities OF the sky,
Stands level with the beggar and the king.
David Atwood WATSON.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01

The deadly car stove has been advised
to go west and snow up with the
country"
namma,- sald little girl Of 4. who's
father pays very little attention 70 the din
ner hour, papa is just ike tie moon, isnt
her
"Why, my dearF
Because be CONES . little la:aI ever
nicht"-Tbe Epoeh
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
HawAii's Lepers.

The Island of Molakai. Hawaiian re-
serve for lepers, has received . 500 victims
of this disease during the last fifteen
years. and contains a constant population
of 700 to 800 lepers, with an annual death
ate OF $50
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
a Quick Trim.

A Frenchman, Aristide Dumont. pro-
poses to take ten days from the time of
passage from Europe TO Bombay by means
of a railroad down the valley of the
Euphrates from Antioch through Aleppo
and Bagdad TO the Persian Gulf. And
thence 10y steamer. The new railway
would be rival TO the Suez canal for pas
senger traffic, but Lesseps says that by
developing Mesopotamia it would benefit
the canal rather than hurt it.-New Or
leans Times-Democrat.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
Her Pretty Curls.

Mstress-Annsi Whatever has be
come OF all your pretty curis, Maid
fou sec, ma am, the regimsnt has left
our town, and 50 have had 70 give . lock
OF my hair to several OF my scqaaint-
ances. Biae;ter.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01

DINNERS for a penny" are given every
week to 1000 people out Of employment
BY Birmingham, England, charity or
1anizarion.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01

A comparison of the mails across the
Atlantic and Pacific shows that the news
of an event in Singapore reached New
York by the Pacific route one day ahead.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
CSld and Distant.

Miss Clara-Have you met Count Shor-
eroffsky, Mr.. Featherly?
Mr. Featherly-Yes, last evening.
Miss Clara-He has great deal of dig
nifty of manner.
Mr. Featherly twho is nothing if not
funny)-Yes, most Russians are cold and
distant, you know, Miss Clara.-New
York Sun.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01

In Turkey when q man is caught In q
lie an Official is sent around 70 paint the
front Of his house black
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01

The site OF the city Of Boston was sold
u 1885 BIZ John Blackstone for $50.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01

Some little folks talks big: take keer,
htu bust er muxzle loader gun Ter 81
hik 2anaiai oAnsaa hAllA-
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01

The manufacture Of false teeth for horses
is mentioned as among the industries that are
springing up.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01
Excursion : Tickets

To San Diego, Los Angeles, San
Francisco and al California
points. via the Great Southern
Route, good for six months with
stop over privileges and
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-01

n. G. KEERAN,
Pass q Ticket Agent.
The Washington critic., 1888-06-04
Uncle Sam is Poor PAY.

Says Washington dispatch to the Gin
cinnati Enquirer: The Government of the
United States to its honest claimants is
profoundly unjust. Any other first-class
power will advertise to find its creditors.
Our Government, however, treated its
creditor class as thieves seeking plumber.
A celebrated claimant, who for more than
twenty-five years has asked his rights, is
William McGarahan. This man is fa-
miliar figure in Washington. Under a
Spanish grant, claimed to have been ac-
quired by purchase, the Panoche Grand
quicksilver mine became his property
Ten years ago, when the product was
high and quicksilver scarce, the yearly in
Its possession was held by syn
dicate having behind 1t the pow
erful Bank of California. Under
Lincoln McGarahan claims patent was
directed to be issued to him, which also,
he claims, was muilated in the General
Land Office of the United States. Since
then, as previously, he has besieged each
Congress to restore him his own. Weary
at last he begged the Congress to send him
otis own court to determine the owner
ship. Even this recourse is denied him,
and he will probably go to his grave
without redress