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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28
KANSAS KOLLARY.

The Washington county poor house
burned Saturday night. Loss $4,000,
partially insured.
Ed Lewis, well known young man
of Osawatomie, found his death in the
PotawatOmie river.
Two million pounds of freight are
handled at Sterling each month. That
looks like genuine thrift.
Charles Chambers, who suffered a
sunstroke last summer, cut his throat
with a razor Sunday on his ranch near
Leoti.
Every newspaper IN the state favors
the abolition of the grand jury on the
ground of unnecessary expense.-Downs
Globe.
The disseminating of three land offices
IN Kansas was Mr.. Cleveland's parting
response to that $4,000 majority.-Em
poria Republican.
They are talking about voting on a
$50 900 bond proposition in Morton coun-
ty to secure an extension of the Santa
Fe road into or through that county.
The State Journal speaks of the full
senate" An equivocal compliment to
that body, verify. But its days of filling
up are about over, for couple of years.
On the Jail bond proposition for Cow
ley county, Arkansas City voted loss
against and only 10 for. The balance of
the county will need to have been pretty
solid for it or it is defeated.
The Fort Scott Monitor wants Arbor
Day changed from May l to April /, for
the reason that trees planted early
in the spring are much more likely to
live.
Seibert Carroll, young man about
eighteen years old, broke through the Ice
on the Cottonwood river, near Marion,
about eight o'clock Sunday morning and
was drowned. He was trying TO rescue
two Younger brothers who had broken
through the ice.
Several farmers in Rice county have
tried the experiment OF sowing salt on
their growing crops, and the result has
been, in every case reported, that salt
drives away chinch bugs or destroys
them. Even corn bordering on wheat
field was saved by salt from the ravages
of these insects.-Garden City Sentinel.
The legislature has refused to make
an appropriation for the benefit of the
state board of health, though it did
not forget to provide for the livestock
sanitary commission. The Legislators
seem to imagine that the health OF the
jackasses is more important than the
health of their constituents.-Atch
Globe.
Dora White is editor Of a new Kansas
paper. the Bazine Leader. David Cop
pertieId when ne first met his future girl
wife exclaimed. Dora; what a beautiful
name." We miss our guess If the
newspaper boys don't give Dora a cordial
reception and admit her to the fratcr-
nifty without asking any embarrassing
questions regarding her age.-Abilene
RaHacfnr
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28
FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

THE veterans OF the late war are dying a.
the rate Of 600 a year.
THREE-RIFrHs of the cotton crop is now
produced by white labor.
THE first Chinese divorce ever granted in
America was at Denver the other day.
GoLD coin, if melted, loses none of It's
value Silver coin, II melted, loses much.
FoR the next one hundred and eleven
years we are TO have the figure nine ID each
year.
THE leaves of the fig tree have the prop
erty Of maturing game and meat hung
among them.
IL the last days Of Napoleon there was rs
many as 1900 Americans In Paris Now
there are 10 more than 5000.
HE author Of tie current slang phrase
sin the soup was Philip Frenesu, the SON.
writer OF the revolution. So 1t is asserted.
THREE Englishmen have statues IN
France: Lord Brougham al Cannes, Jeaner
at Boulosne-sur-G and Shake speare st
Paris.
THE State Of Maine has given 70 other
States Of the Union over 40, GO Of her PEG
pie, while the population Of the State Is BIZ.
563 600.
ACCORDING TO a writer in s-No.es and
Queries the regular down-East Yankee
pronunciation cane originally from Essex,
England. where j, still aoarlshes.
New ZEALAND also imported the English
sparrow, AID now ths native birds have
been driven OF: and q reward OF I've cents
each is offered for the death Of every spa--
row. He is hving. chipping pestlence-
TEE length Of the Mississippi riTer has a.
ways been placed az s.iDo niles, bet civil
engineers familiar with the stream sag that
II has shortened Itself over four hundred
niles in twenty years and VII Go as wei II
the twenty 20 cone
ENGLAND takes her census y asinsle Say.
She IS not only an expert IN al Govern
mental statistical matters bet she Is eco
no2Scal. and viii &c. waste ti-Le or money
On tedious ccos1s. By due prera-a:&on
The WORK can be dons more correctly By be-
- a AzEa yz~s.>-<lu
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28
A STARTLING REVELATION.

Cleveland carried New York four years
ago by /, 047 votes, which was only de-
termined after days of curious shuff1ing.
Blaine, it will be remembered, stated
that it was his belief that he had carried
New York. 1t is claimed that Cleveland
was counted in. General Nv. Boynton
makes the charge or revelation, and the
country knows Gen. Boynton. There is
no better authority for a statement of
fact connected with the American press
than General Boynton-and this is what
he says:
The evidence exists and is now obtaina-
BILE that Mr. Blaine and not Mr.. Cleveland
was elected president in 1854. | thas been
vaguely charged that votes for General
Butler were counted in large numbers for
Mr.. Cleveland. Mr.. Buffers friends now
have the absolute proof. They know, for
instance, that in two districts in New city
from 1900 to LOO Butler votes were
counted for Cleveland. These alone,
without going further, would have over
come the Democratic majority and have
given the electoral vote of New York to
Mr.. Blaine. The friends of Mr.. Butler
have been looking into the matter for some
time. They declare that they now have
absolute proof.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28
AMERICAN RECKLESSNESS OF HU
MAN LIFE.
Brooklyn Eagle,

Brooklyn Eagle.
Unfortunately, the whole tendency
of the times is to cheaper the value OF
the lives of human beings. With popu-
lation concentrated in the large cities,
and with intense competition born OF
modern methods of business, there Is
woeful want of protective care IN all
spheres of endeavor. Every invention
in machinery, every new mile or rail-
road, every steamship added to the ocean
fleet, every additional loom In the facto-
ry, all serve to increase the danger by
which we are surrounded. A fresh ar
raw of adversaries has to be constantly
encountered, and more lives are now sac
rlficed every year to carelessneSs IN the
handling of machinery, to slovenhness
in building methods and incorrect I'M
derstanding of the forces of nature than
were lost in any of the fierce conflicts OF
the times of old. Not by any means has
the protective genius kept pace with the
onward march of improvement, ana
thus 1t is that nearly every day the pub
lie is startled by the narration OF some
shocking catastrophe which sends scores
of human beings to their reckoning IN
the world beyond. The truth is that, IN
the hurry and IVORY of life, we have not
time to give the close investigation to
the risks we would demand, and, all
things remembered, it is perhaps sur
prising, not that SO many lives are lost,
but that the lumber is not very
much greater How many people IN
Brooklyn, for example, know beyond
question that the walls Of their houses
are secure, or even take the trouble to
examine into surrounding sanitary CON
ditions which are liable to produce dis
ease? The subject is startling in the pos
sibilities it presents, and it is one which
which should receive the most careful
consideration of our law makers Every
consideration of personal consideration
seems to have been subordinated either
to cheapness on the one hand or comfort
and luxury on the other-sacrificed. so
to speak, to enable the cloth manufac-
turer to turn out his product at few
cents per yard less than formerly, or to
provide the traveller with the means of
going sixty miles an hour with all the
elaborate surroundings that wealth can
supply. What is needed and what
should be imperatively demanded is bet
ter corporate and municipal means for
the protection of existence. Is there
anything really cheaper, as matters now
stand, than human life, and is 1t not
time to awaken public sentiment to a
keener realization of the worth and sa-
credness which belong to the character
of every blessed one of Gods subjects?
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28

tanning II, requesting her 10 test her mys-
terious power on the contents. She held II
tightly in her thumb and forefngcr and at
once said " He Is scolding you about some
thing The magnetism is dark and repel-
liant" / asked her ii she could get tho
name of the sender, and Ia reply she traced
with her finger upon book which sne
held the name exactly as 1t was signed
20 the letter. For moment this Lady
seemed 10 me a verItable Pythoness. By
excited fancy contemplating her In tho
growing shadows Of evening, surrounded
her with dark. mysterious forms that
fitted to and fro at her bidding; that
peened into the hearts Of men and told her
their Utmost secrets; that croPt into I'M
opened letters, and By the Hghtof their own
eyes read the contents for the information
Of their mistress, that followed me about
horrible thoughtD watching my most Sc
cret actions, revealing to the weird enchant-
ress my inmost life and thoughts. But She
was no witch Meet her on tine street or IN
the drawing room ard you would not find
her different from others OF her sex. she
could laugh and Jest and be merry That sw~
full mysterious power ever with her by
which she could read tbs Utmost secrets Of
her companions Ia colonial times she
might have been hung for witch, but in
these days she is sought by ladIes and gen
tlernen Of refined society, who marvel ~
her strange revelations Of their lives.
The phenomena which have narrated arc
facts. 40, fiction, and until scientific men do
more than curl their lips IN scorn and sle-
vate their spectacied noses at the merest
mention Of field Of phenomena outside tho
pale 81 their material Investigations, shall
hold that the human organism, 50 - fearful
IL and wonderfully made" contains powers
and faculties stil undreamed Of. ard that
the orthodox enumeration Of mans chan
nels Of knOwiedgs nus. be revised, by al
ding TO the 1--WE senses Of old-tIfue physios-
o,-y sixth, whose range is larger, whose
i,npressibiiiiy IS flner, whose penetration 10
dec per than that Of al the ether ave pat 70
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28
DECREPIT HEN FRUIT.
How Il often Eggs Are Utiixsd by the Gee
fsetsozcrs Of the nsb-

How Rotten Eggs Are Utntxsd by the Cas.
fseseacrs Of the nss-
They nus, utilize Is city asarI y every thin
n Boston, according 70 TIE following azso.
do.e t,v The cores portsent fran that city &c
the 81 Louis Globe Democrat. he says:
Eyery thlze 10 this word. they say. has
sorreuse. Eyea rotten ergs are sold here
=, tb-ee or four cents a ooxsu " Hebrew.
- .he lo.-ea, Class. VINO suvrecaase tsefs
.rer. However. TIA. hss bess fos ID Ia bae
.or foy hack nuru Der products Of isse nArs
xzrd Only a few dawn sxo a sy7~r,d O, tAs
v~vs,er chano.d 70 sec a erocnerooer sn tks
az. Of dumping a bare>afssi Of egg. sron
q cs,x wha,f az, n.~xacsx-s~s.. Bsy. ws4ss
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28

Mr.. Powderly rarely appears to the
public without saying something that is
food for thought and valuable. That is
so even in the controversies over the
management and control Of the associa-
ton which lie represents, with which the
public has little to do and cares even less.
In an address lately delivered he made
reference to the effects resultant from
the extensive use of machinery, which
is now so largely doing the work of the
world, and is in the coming time 10 do
much more of it, and declined to accept
the respondent views taken of that
agency by some of the friends of labor
He vigorously repudiated the idea that
loss and injury accrue from this cause
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28

The advance statement for January,
1889. of William F. Switzler, chief of the
bureau of statistics, shows that the total
export of beef. hog and dairy products
during the month was S11.152, 151,
against Sc, s26, $50 for January, 1888, an
increase of 81, 325, TT. The increase in
dairy products exported was only $685.
0S, beef and hog products making the
great bulk of the increase. In fact. for
the nine months ended January 81 there
was falling off of more than 1890, 900
in the exports of butter and cheese. The
exports of fresh beef for tho month We're
greater by some 5000, 600 than for Janu-
airy. 1888. The American hog had a
great boom in spite of Bismarck. The
bacon exports were S3.6i5,3s7, against
$2,514,714, while lard exports were So
500, 561. against s., 692, 994 for January
1888. For the three months ended JAN
uary 81 the value of lard exports was
SS,116,025, against S5,964. 500. The
American hog has the bulge on the
American COW, as it were.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28
Dangerous Thing to Monkey.

Olathe Democrat,
The News says that quite hornets
nest was raised in the legislature last
week by Jake Admire. who proposed that
the name of Kansas City, Kansas, be
changed TO Wyandotte merely aS joke
on Geo. Martin. On the 14th the board
of trade committee secured $3.50 names
to remonstrances, and not less than 100
representatives were IN Topeka storming
the legislature. \ gentleman who re-
turned from Topeka last evening, said
that when the Kansas City, Kansas, dele
CATION started up town from the depot
after their arrival they marched in a
body to the legislative hall. and without
hating, created a sensation. 1t was use
less to attempt TO proceed with the regu-
lar order of business until the delegation
had threatened 10 mop the earth with
any member who voted TO change the
name of the city TO WyanGotte. 1t only
toak one honr 10 do the work, and the
COMMITTEES spent the remainder OF the
day in looking for Jake Admire, who, It
appears, had lodged the cyclone. Late
in the afternoon one of the delegation
ran down the Usage City representative,
and upon dem anding an explanation,
Jake declared that he only wanted TO
have some fun. He was very forcibly
reminded that it was q dangerous thing
to monkey with a buzZ-saw.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28

against those who subsist by manual
labor. Machinery, he says, should not
be considered as labor restricting, nor
called indeed ''labor saving" but more
properly, wealth producing, and as a
Punishment of machinery and a return
to the days of handwork is impossible,
he thinks that the great problem of the
future for workingmen is how to adjust
themselves to the new order of things so
as to reap their full share Of the benefits
of it.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28

General Noble, of st. Louis, who may
or may not be in the new cabinet, haS
engaged rooms at the Normandie. Wash
ington, (adjoining Mr.. Blalnes' by the
wav) until after March 4. He IS SAID TO
he very much such a looking man as
George Francis Train.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28
Nv Best Friend.
Grasshopper Smith.

Nondescrlpt.
The first cadet appointed to West
Point from Kansas was Lieutenant
Sebree Smith, at present an artillery Of
ficer in the army.-Kansas City, Mo-,
Times. And he came to west Point
from Kansas during the grasshopper
period, long -legged, lean, tall and lanky,
seemingly faded out blonde, and the
postoffice address of his parents was
Grasshopper Falls-now Valley Falls.
Of course, where every cadet has a nick
name. Sebree was known during his
term of four years at West Point as
CHRISTOPHER Smith.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28

The applicants for federal positions
from Kansas are sufficient in number 10
fill all of the places. other than local at
the disposal of General Harrison. The
lot of the Kansas senators and lepreSen-
tatives is not an enviable one, and the
next general election in this state VIII
be a comparatively tame affair SO far as
hundreds and hundreds of fellows are
copcarnpd
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28
Tending to the Phonetics.

Atchison Champion
Major Hudson will be compelled to
abbreviate the name of his paper. His
esteemed and lazy contemporaries are
now speaking of it as the Topeka c. c."
This is as bad as writing the name of
George Martins town ''y&." or register
ing on hotel books "11worth.'
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28

young lady in one of the depart
ments at Washington, while at friend S
house remarked: president Cleveland
Is a pig" The president hearing OF H.
lncidently, had her bounced, demon
strating that he was fully developed
pne. of the male gender.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28

The American tenacle Of that huge
octopus, the English beer trust, Is now
reaching out for the brewers of Chicago
Six of them are said to have given the
syndicate's agent the figures at winch
tbev are willing to be swallowed.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28

President-elect Harrison and family
reached Washington Tuesday wee,
President Morton and family arrived
Yesterday. The putting off OF the Oh
and putting on of the new progresses
satisfactorily, SO far.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28

"Praise God from whom all blessings
flow" sang the Dakota legislature when
they heard of the admission OF their
territory. And full grown blizzard at
once took up the refrain and carried 1t
avfa0f
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28

The editor of the Kansas City, Kan,
Gazette improves the opportunity af-
forded by the passage through the lower
house of the state legislature of the act
changing the name of Davis county
manned IN honor of Jefferson Davis who
was at the time secretary of war; to
Geary, in honor of the first territorial
governor of Kansas, the occasion to fire
at the public a column and half OF
Observation-Disclosures biographical data
with which he says he has been loaded
for twelve years. George must have
kept the charge carefully protected the
while, for it gives forth resonance of
sound that is perfectly thrilling, SO
much so in fact that if the shot had been
fired at any time since it was prepared ii
could not have failed to accomplish the
object its discharge is now meant to eel
citrate. 1t is powerful fine reading.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28

Up in Sioux county. Iowa, rurai
Judge has just dismissed a complaint
against two christian SCIENTISTS Oh
the ground that praying with and Tor a
sick neighbor is not practicing medicine.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28
No Sugar in Dead Beats


Kansas may be able to make good
sugar from beets; we can't. There are
several beats in Carthage out OF which
we have been trying to extract little
sugar" for six months and so far there
is not even granulary appearance on
the outside skin,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28

Notwithstanding the fact that Boston
has at her doors red granite in mex
haustible quantities, committee OF her
common council reported last week
unanimously in favor of the asphalt
That city is going to put down $780,
500 worth additional. The committee
report among other things that the as
phalt bears the test of greater tonnage
than the Medina stone, and that one
horse will haul the same load on asphalt
of two horses on the Belgian block and
three horses on common red granite
block, and that asphalt is the most eco
nomical, everything considered.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28

Clark Conkling, of the Lyons Republl-
can, is urged by his neighbors for ap-
pointment as railroad commissioner. lie
expresses great appreciation, but says,
1--WE would prefer for the boys to wait
and help up us to something that we
might want. and that would be attaina-
bic bv a coyote" He says he knows
what he wants, but the stars are not
right lust now. He is not in the milky
way, but thinks he'll comet all right a
litfla later
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28

The latest news concerning Stanley
comes by the way of Brussels. Lieuten-
ant Baert who was at Stanley Falls when
Stanley's letter to Tippoo lib was deliv-
cred. has arrived there. He says that
the messengers were closely questioned
and they confirmed the details of the let
ter. Lieutenant Baert believes that
Stanley only reached Wadelai by stren-
uous efforts, and that Emin Pasha re-
heved Stanley instead of being relieved
and revictualed by him. Stanley was
enabled TO return TO Murenia IN eighty
two days, whereas the journey from
Yambunga to Wadelai occupied ten
months. Baert adds that fresh letters
from Stanley for England written when
Stanley departed from Murenia to rejoin
Emin, arrived at Stanley Falls just as he
left and may be expected shortly. He
says that Stanley will not return either
via the Congo or via Zanzibar. but that
he intends TO capture khartoum and
wrest the Soudan from the Mahdi. Baert
expresses confidence in Tippoo Tbs
fidelity, and says that Tippoo's refusal to
accompany Stanley was due to his fears
of risking the consequences of a pro-
longed absence from Stanley Falls.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28

Word comes from Ottawa that hu-
morous Tory members Of the dominion
parliament will soon introduce a resolu-
ton authorizing Sir John a. Macdonald
to enter into negotiations with the gov
eminent at Washington for the purchase
by Canada of the six New England
states. This, taken in connection with
the admonition of Lord Stanley, gov
ernor general, to the Dominion Artillery
association a few..days ago, that there
were serious questions to be settled, that
no one knew at what moment the ne
cessity for fighting might arrive, that
England wanted Canada to be ready for
it, and that the latter had only to ask
the imperial government for modern
guns and amunition for all her forti-
fications to get them" is calculated to
create peculiar emotions, to say the
least, in'the breast of the average New
Highlander. But the Canucks are so full
of their jokes that one never knows
when to take them for serious.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28

The west does not want WINDOW as
secretary of the treasury under any pre-
text that he is western man.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28

Atchison has a citizen who choked his
uine months old child to death. The
singular part of it IS than nos single
Atchison paper headed the account,
Jack the ChokeT.a
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28

The people of Kansas are promiseu
that by today noon the grind at Topeka
will cease. But its only a promise.