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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

Dr. Julia Mitchell Is one OF tho lecturers On
woman suffrage in England
Mime. Sara Bernhardt SAYS abe has Just
paid Of the last OF So, oo0 Of debt=
Miss May Davis, a. Oregon girl only IS
years old, can crack walnut with her teeth
or lift barrel Of four with her hands
Miss Arnold, sister Of Mr.. Husnphry
Ward, and the original Ut Roa-s In 'Rober:
Elsmere," has been visiting friends tn Phiia-
delphia
Bar maids arc going out OF fashion IA Eng
land, much % the disgust and aIoazensut Of
the old FOUNDERS, and they threaten to emil
CRATE unless speedy check is put upon tho
absurd mandate
One d the titled American Ladies now iiy-
ing in Paris Is the COUNTESS q Adhenar. Shs
WIS born u Cincinnati, but has resided IL
Paris for sssrai years. Her devotion %
theos7pay and occult sc.enoc las secured her
u high rank among oriental scholaTa
Mis- Katherine DreIel Ia no. tho only youn,
Woman who has created a sensation Ia Philar
delpaia socLoty By sntertng UPON a. asoetie
LIFE Mia Lizzie Atles, tas daughter d DR..
". r. Aztec, has taken yevs. and viii hence
forth devote herself 70 the services u re-
!gIOt1s community
Dr. Jennie McCo~en, Of Iowa, has been
unanimously elected presiden. ot tbs Dayen-
port Academy of 5cieDos-a rare honor for
woman The retiring president declared that
IN reziguing the chair hs odd 80 with 20
caliAr pleasure 10 one whom hs fslt 20 10 ia
every way competent % worthily 81 the Oh
cal position
Hrz Thomas .. Wana;aAkef, lis daughter
ia-lsw 81 The postmaster general, b cscz1b~d
by socts.y writer a. "aa excoed.nxiy beas-
tfzl yorng voznzn. under twenty-five, With
slight, graceful figure, chsS<uut brown h1ir.
mid, trusssuI tlr1s eyes. add Tat telSc.,e
pink ard white oorupasrion % peculiar @ Ia
PhnGisiph4a GIRL She always wear al
ser gtrcDs sbogs tss va4ss q her Etzzpls
black gown, ard ksr pretty snzvrs as~ Cur
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05
INTERESTING PENSION FACTS.

From the Topeka Democrat.
The disbursements at the Topeka pen
sion agency for May amounted to 1884.
962.37, which sum was chiefly devoted
to the payment of new pensions. The
largest single pension ever paid at the
Topeka agency was paid last month to
Lafayette D. Oxford, of Verona, Mo-,
who received $13,363.67 for total blind
ness.
The Topeka agency has now on hand
about 81, rs, 900 with which to make the
June payment of pensions, which begin
tomorrow. This will not be sufficient
by about $235,O0O to complete the pay
ment for the present quarter, and those
pensioners who are not paid will be
forced to wait until on or after July 1,
next, when the next annual appropria-
ton becomes available. No new cases
will be paid during the present month,
as preference will be given to pensioners
whose names are already borne on the
rolls of the agency. Among the cases
to be paid in July is that of Richard
Gearin. of Boles. Mo-, amounting to
$S,6T.73, for total blindness.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05
OF INTEREST TO DOCTORS.
A Bureau Established to Record the
Mortality and Vital Statistics In
the United States.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
CENSUS OFFICE,

| DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
| CENSUS OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, D. c., May /, 1889.
| To the Medical Profession:
The various medical associations and
the medical profession will be glad TO
learn that DR.. John S. Billings, surgeon
United States army, has consented to
take charge of the report on the mortali-
ty and vital statistics of the United
States as returned by the eleventh GEN.
sus.
As the United States has no system of
registration of vital statistics, such as is
relied upon by other civilized nations for
the purpose of ascertaining the actual
movement of population, our census at
fords the only opportunity of obtaining
near an approximate estimate OF the
birth and death rates of much the larger
part of the country, which is entirely
unprovided with any satisfactory system
of state and municipal registration.
In view of this, the census office, dur
ing the month of May this year, will
issue to the medical profession through
out the country physicians registers for
the purpose of obtaining more accurate
ISluIuS vi UcdCIiS tlou IL ID pOoS1OiO 1oA
the enumerators to make. 1t is earnest
ly hoped that physicians in every part of
the country will cooperate with the
census office in this important work.
The record should be kept from June 1,
1889, to May 81, 1890. Nearly $4,000 of
these registration books were filled up
and returned to the Office in 1880, and
nearly all of them used for statistical
purposes. 1t is hoped that double this
number will be obtained for the eleventh
census.
Physicians not receiving regis
ters can obtain them by send
ing their names and adj
dresses to the census Office, and, with
the register, an official envelope which
requires no stamp will be provided for
their return to Washington.
If all medical and surgical practition-
ers throughout the country will lend
their aid, the mortality and vital Stats
tics of the eleventh census will be more
comprehensive and complete than they
have ever been. Every physician should
take personal pride in having this re-
port as full and accurate as it is possible
to make it.
1t is hereby promised that all informa-
ton obtained through this source shall
be held strictly confidential.
ROBERT G.. PORTER,
Superintendent of Census.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05

If the contribution of money and ma
terials could compensate the people of
the flooded district in Pennsylvania for
all the losses they have sustained they
would be more than made whole by the
generous outpour of relief from all
parts of this country and from foreign
lands, but while this will so far to re-
lieve the distress and suffering that I'M
avoidably ensues even among the more
fortunate, the wealth of the world and
the sympathy of the human family ex-
tant could not restore the losses. and heal
the wounds that have been made and
must remain agape through time
Whatever our beliefs and social and
local distlnguishments, incidents like
this are but the touch of nature that
proves the kinship of the world.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05
The Oldest Obeiisk.

Augusta Chronicle.
The Oldest Of all the obelisks is the
beautiful one of rose granite that stands
alone among the green fields upon the
banks of the Nile, not far from Cairo
1t is the grave stone of a great ancient
city which has vanished and left only
this relic behind. The city was the Beth
shemesh of the scriptures, the famous
On, which is memorable to all bible
readers as the residence of the priest of
Potipherah, whose daughter Assenath
Joseph married. The Greeks called it
Hellopolis, the city of the sun because
there the worship of the snn had its
chief center and its more sacred shrines.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05
RECORD BOOK.

County Superintendent Pence's class
ifacatiOn register is the most COM
plete thing of the kind ever published.
John Mcdonald, editor OF the Western
School Journal, writes: II examined
Superintendent Fences Classification Reg
lister, ana was much pleased with t. A
number OF superintendent pronounce II
superior 10 any other now before the peo-
pie, and they are OF the opinion that the
Register should be placed ia our county
schools. There is no reason why Kansas
money should be going To distant cities
when we have better article in our own
state. Address X. L. MURDOCH.
Muuauer 4 ACfR
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05

BY the recent decision of the United
States supreme court, if the drawer of a
check upon bank does not use proper
protection to prevent the alteration and
the bank innocently pays the raised
check, the drawer must stand any loss
occasioned thereby. The decision says:
When the drawer has drawn his check
in such careless and incomplete man.
her that material alteration may be
readily accomplished without having a
perceptible mark or giving the instru-
ment perceptible appearance, he him.
self prepares the way for fraud, and if it
is committed he, and not the bank
should suffer-"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05

The limit of alternating remedies seems
at last 10 have been reached in the
familiar peanut. 1t now bids fair to
take proud place in the pharmaco-
poea as a panacea for insomnia. This is
promotion indeed for this humble yece-
table, this companion of the street arab,
the admired Of the circus goer. the be-
loved of the small boy and the delight of
our colored brother. Incredulity on this
subject is met by high clerical authority
IN the personal experience of Bishop
Lyman of North Carolina, the home of
the ''goober," who has most successfully
tested Its virtues and now gladly pro
claims them to a suffering world. We
knew that the despised jimson weed had
been utilized by the medical fraternity
as remedial agent, and nobody has
ever filed any objection, but now that
the precious peanut is to be classified as
a medicine, the foundations of our do
mestic economy are shaken TO the base.
and yet why not?
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05
Laughter.

Carlyle.
No man who has once heartily laughed
can be altogether irreclaimably bad,
How much lies in laughter; the cipher
key, where with we decipher the whole
man! Some men wear an everlasting
barren shipper in the smile of others lies
a cold glitter of Ice; the fewest are able
to laugh, what can be called laughing,
but only sniff and litter and Singer
from the throat outwards; or at best.
produce some whiting husky cachinna-
ton, az if they were laughing through
wool; of none such comes good. The
man who cannot laugh is not only fit
for treason, strategem and spoils, but his
whole life is already treason and
StrateCem,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05

1t is not Lord Dunraven's new yacht
Valkyrie, with which he threatened to
come over and beat the worlds record
and carry away all the cups and pennons
andsoforth. that the American yacht
owners fear, but that other English
yacht mot named) that beat the Valkyrle
the other day in English waters.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05
KANSAS RAILROADS.
Kansas Democrat

The state board of railroad assessors
nave just concluded their long and ardu-
Gus iabors OF inspecting and assessing ali
the railroad lines and branches in the
state. The result Of their work shows
that there are now s,7o616 miles of
man track in the state and that the as
sessed valuation of all railtoad property
ID Kansas is S57 ,44S, 12s. 3S.
The total increase in number of miles
OF main track over that possessed in
1879 Is So4 50 miles, while the increase
IN total assessment over last year is 81
oIS, 40. 2s. Only six counties. out of the
luo IN the state are without railroads
ana these are remote and newly organ
lied.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05

The strides Of progress making by
Kansas will soon place her at the head
Of the column in everything except pop
ulation, and her rate of gains in this
particular is to say the least exceedingly
gratifying. She already occupies second
place in railroad mileage, in the produc-
ton of salt. and this years crops will
beyond doubt place her as well up in
corn, forage crops, live stock, sugar and
silk. She is capable of taking first place
in everything, and she will not give up
the contest until she occupies that posi-
ton.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05

Senator Morgan, of Alabama, predicts
that "Mr. Cleveland's will be the only
name mentioned In convention for the
Democratic nomination for president in
1892" 1t doesn't take much Of prophet
to discern that the trend of sentiment in
that party is decidedly in that direction
at this time. And it is not betraying a
secret to state that the wish of the Re-
publican party is in perfect accord with
the Democratic desire on that point.
They would like an opportunity to prove
to him and them that bis election four
and half years ago was the accident
and not his defeat last fall.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05

The managers of the Texas Spring
Palace, at Fort Worth, now just clever
ly opened, did a very clever thing
in promptly giving a benefit to the
Johnstown, Pa, sufferers, They tele-
graphed guarantee of $1,000 in advance
of the benefit exhibition. Charleston
and Savannah and Memphis and New
Orleans and Galveston and numbers of
other southern cities have given prompt
and generous evidence Of kindly re-
membrance of similar occasions of dis
tress, when they were the recipients of
prompt and unstnted benefactions from
northern communities and the country
at large.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05

The Illinois legislature has passed the
bill requiring all directors of banks or
ganized under the laws of the state, to
own at least ten shares of the value of
500 each. The governor has already
signed the bill and it is now law, and
we take it to be one of general interest.
The purpose of the law is too patent to
need explanation.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05

Prof. Blake still sticks to it that Kan
Bas, Missouri, Nebraska, Texas and the
adjoining territory will this year have
rains for an abundant crop of all kinds.
He says that some other portions of the
union will experience severe drouths.
His prophesies In many cases have been
remarkable for accuracy, and are up to
this hour good as far as they apply to
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05
Their Faith mistaken.

Emporia Republican.
The fact that two large English syn
dicates are trying to buy up all the
breweries and distilleries in this country
shows that the English people have faith
IN the ultimate triumph of the Lemo-
cratic party and of Democratic ideas and
habits, and are willing to speculate
on it,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05

By the Tigers Door. Tramp-SAy, Fort,
couldn't 700 lend ms triAe to get nights
lodgingi used 70 be a gambler u1yssH once
Asa Shunum-Tbea why the deuce DO you
want 70 deep q. night Go on you're sn tn
r,os+rr.-Texas Stf..nSa
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05

To undertake to place the responsible
| ty for the terrible Johnstown disaster
just now, in the midst of the indescriba-
bic horrors and distress when all the sur
vivors are sufferers alike, would seem
like cruel mockery. There is or was
primary responsibility, perhaps, but at
whose door it should be laid it were diff
cult to determine. The people of the i'll
fated district cannot lay the blame
wholly upon the owners of the reservoir
for they were not the builders thereof,
and besides we are told that the people
had been repeatedly warned of the un-
safe condition of the dams, and even
when the break occurred they were mott
fed in time to have escaped to the high
ground near by before the engulfng
flood came upon them. And, then, but
for the great railroad embankment that
cut off escape for the flood below the
town and made sea of the basin for the
time, there would have been compare
lively little loss sustained The affair
might have been averted, but it was not,
and it is useless to try to place the blame
when no good can come of it, and where
so many are blamable.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05

In no single battle of the great war OF
the rebellion was there as many lives
lost as during the brief period OF the
Johnstown flood. A more terrible vlsl-
tation it is impossible to imagine.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
Commendable Thoughtfulness.

Commendable Thoughtfulness.
Lawrence Tribune
Three men have been murdered in
and around AtchiSon. and the Globe
suggests that the murderers be drought
to justice" The Globes thoughtfulness
in this particular is to be commended.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05

Oklahoma has not been visited by a
cyclone or flood, yet it has experienced
its calamity. Gen. Weaver and Sam
Wood have taken up residence in that
midst and opened law offices.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05

yudge--k there acy reason why shall net
prooo1noe seutezce upon ycEt
rrsonr-So; DO By ne just as yoa would
do By yourself vert yoc IN M position
Omaha World
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05

lina-and other Kansas-suffragists re-
member that the women of Kansas hold
in grateful remembrance and constant
appreciation all those who espouse the
cause of woman and the home.
n
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05
Millions In T.

"Thy do yoo sgh, Hslnr
''Oh, nothing Tes oaly wishing tia.
could bur tia. usan ltst around the corner q
the screen AZ my Valuation, azd sell biz. 3:
bis owr -Ti--e
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05

The clerk of the weather has slipped a
cog very badly during the past week.
Frost that nips the early garden truck
and makes the tender flowers look sick
is unreasonable. The tender youth and
even the tough old veteran have been
forced to resume their winter fannels,
and the bull-frog's gentle note has been
silenced and the nightly strolls of callow
lovers have been toward the comforting
warmth: of glowing fire. The rain
comes in frequent showers heralded by
the flashing lightning and the thunder's
hoarse rumble, and the entire vernal
system is out of gear. That is to say,
that was the situation up to yesterday,
but days bright, warm sunshine puts
different face on everything.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-01-12
IN HER SONS BEHALF.

The venerable mother Of Charles
Stewart Parnell. who is now occurring
i'm the East on the cause OF Ireland,
said, in the course of her remarks IN
philadelphia few days since, that i'e1
xsyn will bs financially ruined by the
Commission, but that she will ondeavor
au every way possible To aid and assist
.z,;,p in raising enough money to tide
him through. Like her son, Mts, tPsa;''
NELL is both noble aud faithful in Erin's
cause, and though, we'll along III years,
zs NOT satisfied with doing moderate
,ge,ryice-~~s,2ch as would he expected Of
x,ne in her stage OF life. While the
enemies Of Ireland are making their
greatest effort to break down the pow"
er of the intrspid leader. the Irish heart
everywhere liberal In any worthy
4,ause-is becoming more and more im~
sued With this spirit as the trial wears
on. Such devotion, too, as manifested
bY Mrs. Parnell, is strong incentive
an ircentiye that is sure to arouse In
every liberty glowing breast still greater
sympathy and encouragement for he
who mas been SO sorely tried and never
found wanting.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-01-12

THE enthusiastic character of the 1n-
auguratlon, for the second time, Of
Gov. David B. Hill, at Albany, New
Years day, says the Boston Republic,
was 8 deserved tribute to a Democratic
leader who has twice demonstrated his
ability to carry the Empire state in
spite of the combined opposition of the
malignant Mugwumps and the Repub-
lican rascals. 1t showed in what high
estimation the New York Democracy
holds the man who twice within three
years has led it to such signal victories
as were it's triumphs over. Davenport in
1885 and over Miller last year, and the
cheers that greeted Governor Hill as he
passed through the streets. and the ap-
plause which his statesmanlike inau-
gural evoked from the thousands who
listened to it. indicated that New York
Democrats-and not they alone-recog-
nize in Governor Hill, aman who could
as easily lead his party TO national as
to state triumph, and who may before
long be called upon to do SO.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-01-12

A COMMISSION has been appointed by
the Salisbury government to consider
and report on scheme of Home Rule
for Scotland. This shows the animus
as we'll as the policy of the Tories.
They think by satisfying demands of
the Scotch for self. government they
may overcome the feeling Of that PEG.
pie in favor of Irish Home Rule. The
character Of the persons appointed to
the commission indicates a scheme to
strengthen the Tories in the north,
where they are particularly weak.
Ireland needs Home Rule more than
Scotland, but .ge are glad to see the
government forced into movement
which cannot be confined to any one of
the three kingdoms. Local govern
ment is a necessity, and whatever the
Tories may attempt, the coming radi-
cal administration will carry the idea to
It's full frultion.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-01-12
a GOOD RECOMMENDATION.

Among the recommendations made
nv GOV. McGill in his message last
Wednesday was that of the appoint
ment of a pardon board. 1t seems
natural enough that such a recommen-
dalton would suggest itself to the re-
firing governor--looking back over his
two years career as Governor, which,
in MANY respects was highly commen-
dable. But there are those who will
believe that he carried thepower OF
uardon to the extreme-which is sonae-
ti,nes the fault of a man honest and de-
w5rous of doing right, but unable to
repsl the influence brought to bear up
ON him By friends Of the criminal
serving out q sentence. 1t takes man
of indominitable will to be equal to the
occasion, aud therefore it was both
wise and timely that such recommen-
aation should be made, The legislature
should not forget to consider that part
oc Gov. McGill's message in which he
urges the appointment of a pardon
board,
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-01-12

THE Vatican has deemed it neces-
sary to contradict the report circulated
by correspondent to the effect that
the Holy Father had instructed Cardi
nal Gibbons to express the qualification
felt by the head OF the Church at the
result OF the recent election in the
United States. OF course there was no
foundation for such a statement.
Americans, especially American Cath
olics, know very we'll that the Holy
Father can have no possible interest in
American politics, The triumph Of
one or the other party is a matter in
which he feels no concern whatever.