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Wichita eagle., 1889-12-24
ADJUSTMENTS,
CRAWFORD GRAND.

ZanZlc the magician will appear at the
Crawford Grand, giving a matinee on
Christmas day. a night performance as
well. and for the balance of the week to-
gether with Saturday matinee. Every
performance viii be different. INTRODUCING
the celebrated black art and the most as
tonishing feats In magic As a matter of
TACT Zanzic is human, he can not fiy nor
ran he step into the midst of burning
furnace with .impunity; he only seems to
30 these things. II you expect Zanzic is
going TO smear himself with coal oil and
literally be burned to death coming TO
life IN time to perform his next trick, Won
will be disappointed: he only does what
almost any human being can do if he
knew how. ZanZic not only performs
wonderful tricks himself but makes Others
perform them At recent exhibition of
his power the audience sent him special
request to do certain trick which he at
once performed. Then the lights were
suddenly turned out. the roof of the the
alter was lifted and the entire auoience was
raised apparently in their seats to the level
OF the top of the building Above them
they could see only the starry armament
and feel the chill night air blowing upon
them and the next instant they felt all the
sensations of descending rapidly when the
theater was again ablaze with lights and
Lanzie standing before them in the garb
of q demon
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-24
How Deem Does the Earth O,.l-.o

California and the Pacific coast has re-
Gently experienced one of the most severe
earthquake shocks known in that region
in years, an incident which reyives in
terest in the question: How deeply does
the earth quake when convulsive nature
shakes her crust like a circus tent in a
cyclones At Virginia City, New, the
earthquake of 1879 was not noticed bv
the miners in the great Comstock mines.
but only by people on the surface. The
famous earthquake at the same place in
1874 or 1878, which shook down Chin
neys, fire walls and cracked every brick
building IN the town. was merely noticed
by some of the miners working in the
upper levels, but it did Their, no damage.
not even shaking down loose rocks and
earth. The station men in the various
shafts felt it the strongest, and the deep
est point where ii was noticed was by
the station tender at the 90O-foot level
of the Imperial Empire shaft. 900 feet
below the surface. He said it felt like
faint rhrob or pulsation OF air. as though
a blast had been fred above, below or in
some indefinite direction. In some Of
the mines the shock was not felt at all
even by station men In the shafts.-St
Louis Repuh'N
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-24
Christmas Presents
At Cost.
A great chance to buy your pre-
SentS and save from 20 to
33 1-3 per cent Of your
money.
SALE A BOON FOB TIE PEOPLE.
Presents Sensible, Useful and Or
namental at cost and less.

1t seems enough to say our entire stock OF
dry goods, notions and mems furnishing
goods. so complete and so attractive, will be
closed at cost and less, but we will call at
tention to a few departments.
Silks-We have been in the silk trade
thirty-fve years and have always bought
ard sold the very best makes, and now as we
are about to close out our business we find q
fine stock of black and colored silk on our
shelves which must 20. We offer them a,
cost and less than cost
Dress Goods-Henriettas, broadcloth,
flannels, serges. cashmeres, plaids stripes
and pattern sults, all cut down to cost and
less, to close out quick.
Table linen, napkins, towels, bed spreads,
blankets and comforts. We never had such
a stock, but come in; you can take your
choice; some at cost and some less than
cost.
Cloaks-Well, we know what we have to
dc to close out our cloak stock entirely. We
offer to sell plush cloaks at loss of 81 to 81
per garment, and wooden cloaks at loss Of
81 to 81 each. They must be sold.
Ribbons, collars, handkerchiefs, muffiers,
fine hosiery, underwear, and lots Of notions,
all go the same, at cost and less to close.
Mems Furnishings-Shirts, all kinds, COL
lars, cuffs, ties, cuff buttons, sleeve buttons,
underwear, night shirts, all at cost and less,
to close.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-24
The Queens Gloves.

Queen Victoria will wear nothing but black
gloves, whether kid or suede. She is e1-
trernely economical in her glove bill, wearing
about two dozen pairs of gloves, costing eight
shillings and sixpence each, in a year. There
are great many fashionable women who
think nothing of glove bill if it only comes
to e1OO year. Many women will spend
eco ON gloves during the six weeks of the sea-
son by wearing TWO or three pairs day. The
queen refuses to conform to fashion and has
never worn more than four buttons TO her
gloves.-New York Telegram
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-24
THE COURTS.
DISTRICT COURT.


Judge Reed was busy yesterday picking
up the loose ends and winding up thu
terms business.
The habeas corpus case of John Alta
Doffiemeyer will be heard in this court to.
day.
PROBATE COURT.
S. A. Robinson and Cora A. Hedger
both of Wichita; ira T. Smith. Amues
and Minnie A. Halsey. Piotone; John w
ia, and VIII Beatty and Dollie Fletcher,
both of Wichita, were licensed to marry
yesterday by Judge Buckner.
Settlement of c. III. Miller, admins
TRAITOR Daniel Boyd estate, made.
Motion filed by mother of John Alta
Doffiemeyer to set aside the appointment
of guardian OF minor. The motion was
sustained and letters of guardianship re-
voked.
COMMON PLEAS.
Judge Balderston was not on the bench
yesterday and the janitor took the oppor-
tunity to clean house No important is
sues were filed during the day.
POLICE COURT.
On Sunday the police court docket shows
the arrest of Fred Parks, S. l.. Gardner,
Carrie Wolf and Kittie Gilbert for an Of
Tense against public morals, each fined So
VIM. Horton turned over to the state; L.
Beaver for keeping open Sunday, ETC., fined
$50; Matt Brownell, bad drunk, fined So;
VI. Williams. vagrant, fined $50 and COM
mitted; John White, vagrancy, fined S25;
Joe Smith, for keeping a gambling house,
paid $25; A. Jennings, for carrying con-
cealed weapons, paid 81; Jack Bolton and
Roxy each paid back fine.
JUSTICE COURTS.
Nothing but civil cases of minor import
ance were tried in the Justices courts yes
terday.
Andy Wood, charged with rape, had his
preliminary hearing yesterday before
Judge Museller and was bound over in the
sum of $500, in the absence of which he
wat sent to Jail.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-24
PHILOMATHIAN SOCIETY.
THIS TIME IT is STEVENS COUNTY.

At the board of directors meeting of the
board of trade, yesterday. the president
appointed B. II. Campbell, p. V Healey
and d. L. Green committee 10 solicit aid
for Stevens county.
Mr.. L. r. Shirley, an old resident of
Kansas, Is in the city from Stevens county
i'll the interest OF the destitute in that Sec
tion.
This committee will meet at the board
Of trade rooms at 9 O'Clock this morning,
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-24

When she WAS Child she cried for Cas.o-i..
When she became Miss, she chung TO Castoria,
When she had Chil5Ven, she gave them Cas.o-.a
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-24
NOTICE.

The regular quarterly meeting of the
board of trade of Wichita will be held at
the board of trade rooms the first Tuesday
in January, at 40 D. M.
The annual meeting for the election of
twenty-four directors will be held at the
board Of trade rooms, on Thursday. Jan
nary 10th, at : o'clock p m
w. s. CoRBETT, President.
II. L, PIERCE, Secretary.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-24
LA w Y e r S.
EXCURSION RATES FOX THE HOLIDAYS
Via The Great Rex Island Ronte

The Rock Island will sell tickets during
the holidays at single fare for the round
trip TO all points on its line within 81
mics Of the starting point. Tickets will
be On sale December q, Is. 81. and Janu-
arr |, lsaU limited 10 return ND TO and iu-
Gliding January 3, $50. and viii be good
for passage in either directions ND TO and
including the above dates. For tickets
and Information regarding the above call
al The city ticket 'ofiice, 100 Fast Douglas
avenue. corner Main street. and at paszen-
ger station. corner Douglas avenue and
Mead avenue {. A. RUTHEgPoED,
Ticke. Ag't C. X l. q T.. R'y.
JSo. SEBASTIAN. Wiehi;a, Kan
6. 2. & T. A. G. z l. * r. Nv,
H1 ChtcANn. Ill
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-24

Judge 90 the police oficerl-Are you sure,
CIR, that the prisoner was drunki
Oficer-Isi it dhruEk, yer honori Sure. az
se I'd shpolse through the uliphone the hriia
Nv i'm I'd have made the poles shtagger. -
Exchange
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-24

WUAlas5SWlfE
A SYNOPSIS

Of such portions of this Wonder
full Serial as may have appeared,
will be given, Immediately under
the heading of each insta1lment,
after the First, as publication Of
the story progresses.
With the aid Of this Synop-
sis a reader may take up the
Serial, at any point, with a
sufficient understanding of the
Story in all its bearings.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-24
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
MODERN woRKMEY OF ANrBrc.

The election of officers of Wichita Camp
No. $40. occurs this evening at $50. in rear
hall, fourth floor of Getto block. Every
member is urgegtly requested to be pres
ent. BY order Of The camp.
Il. c. HOOP, V. c.
E. A. FIEpLER. Clerk.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-24

The Unitarian church society decided
last Sunday to hold their regular services
in Council hall, located at No. 213 South
Water street. This is new and well
furnished room and Will afford the society
a pleasant, comfortable and convenient
Meeting Olace
, 1889-09-28
RULED OFF THE TRACK

The most sensational piece Of news that
has lately been received here is the in
formation that A. G. Beckwith, of Evans
ton. was expelled at Denver from all
tracks Of the members Of the American
Trotting. A ISOLATION for extremely
abusive language to the judges of the
races and the officers of the association,
the said abusive language being ad-
dressed to the Judges while they were in
the stand" Joe Bryan, his driver, was
fined 500.
The whole affair grew out OF a ruling
of the judges in regard to Gypsy Queen.
II may be said in the FIRST plate that
Faust, Mr.. Beckwith's entry, is a Swear
old while all the others are aged horses.
Faust's foreleg was badly skinned in trans
portation to Denver aud it therefore
seemed necessary to use suspenders on
him. These-h he had never before worn
and after scoring several times he got of
to an exceedingly bad start and, I'M
used TO his forgery, broke badly.
lie lost the first heat. Ca the second he
won. Gypsy Queen being left several
lengths behind the distance flag. The
driver of the Queen claimed a foul. not
IRON Faust. but from some horse in the
held. Notwithstanding that the foul was
~substantiated on the uncorroborated evil
dence of the driver Of Gypsy Queen it
was allowed and he was admitted in the
next heat. against the protest of Faust's
driver. This caused the trouble at the
end of the fifth heat when GYPSY Queen
won the heat and race.
BRYAN went to the judges stand to ask
for information and from all accounts he
acted in a perfectly gentlemanly way.
lie was cut off with scant ceremony aud
persist ny that 1t was proper to ask for in
formation at that time and place, was
fined 800. 1t was at this point that Mr..
Beckwith used the offensive language at
iributed to him and while in the judg-
ment of many disinterested people he had
great cause for aggravati n it might have
been better for him not to have acted
under the first impulse.
There is no doubt in the minds OF any
disinterestcd spectator that the Judges
acted harshly. No charge has or could
have been brought against the horse OF
the driver aud under average circum.
stances Faust could have beaten airy horse
IN the field. There was only tie evidence
of one interested individual to sustain the
charge of foul and, az closely as we can
gather the circumstances, we have no
doubt tina; Mr.. Beckwith has every reason
TO feel nCgricyed over his treatment on
the Denver race track.
, 1889-09-28

A useful example of the proper care
of the voice is to be found in a very I'm
expected quarter. The Emperor Nero,
as is well known, believed himself to be
n great artist, a notion OF which those
about were not likely to disabuse him.
His dying words, "Qualis artifex pereoIp
show that he had at least one feature Of
the artistic temperament, He sought
fame by many paths, in poetry, iddling,
driving and other branches of the fine
arts, to say nothing of his scientific ex-
periments on the bodies of his nearest
relations. The imperial virtuoso was
particularly vain Of his voice, which /
can well imagine to nave been soft and
sweet, qualities which often enough ac-
company a cruel nature.
He was proportionately careful of SO
precious a possession. His system is
worth quoting. In addition to such gem
eral measures as attending to his liver,
and %abstaining from such fruits and
other food as he fancied to be injurious
to his voice, we are told that at night he
used to lie on his back with a small plate
of lead on his stomach.
This was probably for the purpose of
checking the tendency to abdominal
breathing, the less perfect way in respi-
ration for singers. In order to spare his
voice all unnecessary fatigue he gave up
haranguing his troops and ceased even
to address the senate. As in later times
there were keepers of the kings con-
science, Nero gave his voice into the
| keeping of a phonascus. He spoke only
in the presence of this vocal director,
whose duty it was to, warn him when
his tones became too loud, or when he
seemed to be in danger of straining his
voice. To the same f~unctionary was in
trusted the formidable duty of checking
the emperor's eloquence when it became
too impetuous; this he did by covering
the imperial orators mouth with a nap
kin. 1t must have needed no small
measure of courage to apply this effect
ual method of '~'closure" to the arch ty-
rant of history when intoxicated with
the exuberance of his own vo~calization.
Contemporary Review.
, 1889-09-28
LIeHTNINe's STRANGE FREAKS.

Queer and Serious Things Done In y
TwinkIing by the Subtle Fluid.
James Craig, a Scottish servant en-
ployed by Elias Rogers, a. carpenter
who resides at Allentown, n. j.,
was the victim of a queer prank
of lightning a few years ago.
He was sitting in the kitchen
broiling a piece of meat over the
fire, and a fierce thunder storm was
raging without. A flash of lightning
struck the house and the electric cur
rent came down the chimney, knocked
Craig se~nseless, and threw the meat
and spider into another room.
Craig was given up for dead, but in
an hour came to and stated that he had
not been insensible since the second
when the shock occurred, but had been
unable TO move a muscle, although he
had heard everything that was going
on about him. His left side was badly
burned and one of his shoes was torn
from his foot and found nearly twenty
feet from where he sat when the house
was struck.
Two peculiar cases of death by cleo
tricity occurred in Asbury Park a few
years ago, and the story is oft told
there. James Young and Henry
Brooke, two house painters, were at
work on the exterior of a cottage on
Wesley lake when u terrific thunder
storm came up. They fled to the in
terror of the house, and after the
storm had passed and the sun was
again shining they went back TO their
scaffold.
Just as each painter touched his
brush to the wet woodwork a flash of
lightning came, followed quickly by a
crash of thunder, and a workman in a
near by house saw both of them fall.
Shortly afterward it was discovered
that both men were dead although
their bodies bore no marks, save dull
black lines about the fingers which
held the paint brushes.
One day a 6-year-old child in a Con-
necticut town was playing in the gar
rett during a severe thunder storm. A
chimney was struck. The bolt ran
down the side of the house to the
ground. The family were extremely
frightened, but unframed. They
missed the golden haired darling of
the house, but soon found him, unin-
jured but completely dazed. But in
stead of yellow curls, the child's hair
was changed to n jetty black.
A queer experience befell Miss Jen-
ME Button, of Springfield, Mass,
when n residence on Florida street
was struck by lightning. Miss Button
was standing in her room with a hat
in her hand when the current shatter-
ed the door frame within a few feet of
her. The shock knocked herdown, and
for some time she was deaf in conse-
quence. An examination of the hat
showed that the lightning had skele-
tonized the feather on her hat com
pletely.
Miss Cora Kirkland, who was stand
ing down stairs in the dining room al
the time of this shock, held a knife in
her hand, and the shock drove the
knife through one of her fingers, cut
ting it TO the bone-New York Press,
, 1889-09-28

To begin with, art for the class in ques
ton means oil painting and nothing else.
At the great Philistine show there are
room for water colors and sculpture,
but these are never crowded, and the
majority of the visitors are those who
come to find a seat. Philistia, as a rule,
is kind to its votary, and gives him what
he wishes to look at-landscapes, with
yellowy green trees and blue gray shad-
ows, with packed up clouds and proper
sized patches of sky thrown in between.
In genre, the poor governess and the
fsherman's wife are safe cards. The
Irish peasant at m time was n great
favorite, and it is still almost impossible
to overdo the market with the varying
humors of babyhood and serio-comic
animals.
Portraits must be smooth and pinky-
a little extra carnation thrown in for
the ladies, and for the men guns, with
fiybooks lying about for territorial mag
mates or apocryphal sportsmen, while for
the frankly commercial the silver ink
stand and the crimson curtain are still
valuable properties. Any departure
from these canons is liable to cause the
picture to be branded as outlandish, OF
fanciful and new tangled; and works tc
which such epithets as these can be ap.
piled are not often hung upon the walls
of the upper middle class. But for sew
eral years there have been signs that
Philistia is uneasy, and they point to
open revolt within her very walls.
Our middle class gazer, whether he
will or not, has to look at landscape
painted, apparently, in SCOT and water,
with skies the color of the Thames at
Poplar; at haggard faces staring out of
dreary expenses of gray and dirty white
by way of genre, and at portraits in
which the SCOT has again been called in
to denote shadow and the whitening
brush for the high light. The mind stag,
gers in contemplating the result, should
this revolt become a revolutions; but
Philistia will probably be wise in time,
and not suffer the eccentricities of ge.
MUS to check the cheerful flow of shil-
lings at the turnstiles.-A the Year
Round.
, 1889-09-28
A Mind Reading rawnbroher.

A well dressed gentleman entered an
Eighth avenu pawnbroker's, and taking
a silver watch from his pocket said to
the proprietor:
"rd like So, please"
Cant give but S1.50 on that" was the
reply.
"But you gave 50 before"
THAT may be, but I'll only give SIS
today"
The gentleman insisted on 50, but
finally took the 81. so and went out.
"Why didn't you give him sep asked
the reporter, who overheard the trans
action.
Because 1 knew he would take 81. 80.
The watch is worth SIS. / can sell it for
So easy. That's a pretty good profit on
S1.5O. The odds are 100 to 1 that he
won take it out. The first time he came
l gave him SO, and would have given
him S. if he had asked for 1t. You. see,
he is new at it, but now that the ice is
broke he'll no take it out If he makes
a raise he will buy a new one and let
this go. Over two-thirds of the people
who hook a watch the second time do
not redeem it."
But you say he is new in pawnbrok-
ing experience. How do you know
that?'
my friend, l haven't been in this
business thirty years without learning to
read a man pretty quick. If 1 swallowed
all the stories told me by i~mpecunious
people I'd be in the poorhouse in six
months. I'm a mind reader. New York
Sun.
, 1889-09-28
THE QUESTION OF SUBMIS
TTON

"a question that is now beng quietly
discussed is whether the constitution will
be submitted to the people for ratification
at the November election or without rati-
fcation be submitted to congress With an
application for an enabling act under
which the constitution may he subse-
u~uently ratified and adopted by the PEG
ple.
This question has also received some
discussion in other territories but we
have not vet heard any very satisfactory
arguments 10 favor of the proposition to
hold over for the congressional enabling
act. The people of Wyoming delegated
10 fifty-fve chosen representatives the
duty of framing a constitution, which con-
stitution it was understood at the time Of
the election was to be submitted to the
whole people for their approval or disap-
proval.
The constitution is now about framed.
While it contains a few innovations as
compared with other constitutions it also
contains important provisions concerning
which there may be reasonable differences
of opinion. II the constitution as it
stands is submitted to congress it can only
be presented as the work OF tiity-ive citi
zens of Wyoming. 1t does not contain
rho seal of ,ommenda,;o, which tho moo.
I-u
, 1889-09-28

Since 1870 the aspect of Rome has
considerably changed The old mar
row winding streets are a thing of the
past, and are replaced by large, wide
thoroughfares. Blocks of the old
houses have been knocked down and
large modern palazzi have sprung up
in their stead. The narrow Corso of
old times will soon be no more, as it is
gradually being widened by half again
its original width. The charming villa
Ludovisi, with its beautiful trees,
shady walks, and sparkling fountains,
mas been turned into q new quarter,
with wide street and large houses.
The gate of Porta Pia, where the
breach was made in 1870, and outside
of which there was nothing but vine
yards and fields, will soon, instead of
being the limit of the town, be the
center, because houses are springing
up nov to a good two miles outside
that gate. The waste ground and fields
all around st. John Lateran are no
more, a new suburb having sprung up
there.
The Tiber also is being widened and
an embankment is being built on each
side, and handsome new bridges cross
the river at different points. The
widening of the Tiber is necessitating
a slight change in one or two of the
old monuments, such as the Bridge of
st. Angelo, to which will have to be
added another arch; and the Temple
of Vesta runs some risk of being tam
pered with; but it is hoped that, as
just at hat point the river curves, and
by doing so makes it sufficiently easy
for the width to be effected on the OPP
posite side, that advantage will be
taken.-London Tablet.
, 1889-09-28

Union Pacific contemplstes an early ex-
tension of its line to the Pacific coast.
The Central Pacific has long annoyingly
Disseminated against it in favor of its
southern route and has had the Union
Pacific practically at its mercy on all San
Francisco and Southern California trade.
, 1889-09-28

No stronger vessels than those of
the Dundee whalers are built; they
are from four hundred to one thou
sand tons displacement, have power
full, well secured engines to resist the
shock of ramming or stoppage Of the
propeller by ice, and are built with an
eye to the easy and rapid replacement
of the rudder, propeller, and propeller
shaft if damaged, these parts being
carried in duplicate. Above all other
considerations, they possess strength
for ramming as well as resistance to
lateral pressure when nipped.
Another very important feature is
that the bow shall have considerable
inclination, which permits the vessel,
when ramming very heavy ice, to
lift slightly and slide on it, thus cas-
ing the shock and assisting the cutting
action of the bow with the downward
crushing weight of the ship. In this
way it is possible for these steamers at
full speed to ram ice over twenty feet
thick, receiving no immediate inca
~pacitating damage.
If the ice is not too heavy, the shear
like rise and fall of the ship is repeat
ed several times as the vessel steams
powerfully ahead until her Roadway
is checked The difficulty then is to
extract the ship from the dock she has
cut by her advance; the foes press on
her sides, cakes of ice and sfush fill
her wake, and there is nothing but
the ice hampered propeller with which
to overcome her inertia and draw back
out of the nip. Frequently this is in
sufficient, and the ship may be crush
ed.-Ensign A. A. Alderman in Pop
ular Science Monty.