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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-27
Rather l-lHhy.

From the New York Telegram.
The runor that several citizens at New
York had developed gilis owing to the ny
grometric ichncss of the atmosphere,
proves ON investigation Ia he premature.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-27
sluit Fooiing with Marriage.

From the Lamar Leader.
w" hear of ~ runaway weddIng down
near Champion thisw week. but we are al
most afraid tai say anything about the
matter. as we have cccntly had some
trouble about this marrying business.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-27

rToln me StTattOn Herald.
The editor of this religious journal took
exceptions tn an article i'm the Neurs last
week and when the editors met on the
street we proceeded to do him up i'm artis-
tic style, but AS he belongs to the shanty
crowd IL was n small job. We got n little
satisfaction out of him by slappinR his
mouth in good shape, and then marching
down to the Justices office and pa wing IS
and trimmings for our fun. We were then
pulled up before the Justice and asked to
keep the peace and to give bonds for the
same, hut we thought we would not do
that and stood the trial. They sent tn Gull
bertson and for the most brilliant
attorneys they could employ and still they
failed to bind us over. The editor of the
Netcs swore that he was afraid we would
do him some bodily harm. The poor fell
low was i'm the regular army for years and
Is drawing u pension for brave service. II
the regular army IL made up of such fell
lows as Irons, one Indian could put to
flight u whole regiment. All we ask of
Irons il to let us alone and we will do the
same by him.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-27
usmruun, and the lsrtti.h

From the Boston Globe.
Barnum has already shown the LON
doncrs what he knows about the benefits
of advertising. tn the tune OF $2oO.OOO. The
big posters even sssiuced the prince of
Wales into the gallery among the boys len
disguise.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-27

The goinRs on in the Office OF the ser
R-eant-at-arms have long been such as
ought to have aroused the attention OF
every member of the house; and there IL
no sense and no Justice in mulcting the
people of the United States because their
representatives have been blind and lazy
when fragrant licentiousness and undis-
Ruised extravaganza should have made
them yiRilant.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-27
Bruin ~ an Evangsliner.
From the scotia (Neb.) Herald.

From the Scotia (Neb.) Herald.
During the revival here last week., one
lady, I'm giving her exerience, said she
never went to hut one circus, and then
there was q "bar" got loose and she
thought is was the devil. Then she
turned to Jesus. The minister wished q
hear could get after a lot Of Scotia sinners.
But there seems to he q scarcity of that
kind of bruins i'm this section.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-27

would be perfectly feasible, and e would
10 q long way towards showing tbe coun-
Try that the republican party II c In
its avowed opposition 10 trusts.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-27

The Beam 0o0 the 4oeos
From the New York Commercial Advertiser.
The Christian powers of Europe en-
gagged In the partition of Africa may nct
dentally crush the slave trade for the con-
tinuation of which they hold the Moham-
metlans responsible. hut IL In tolerably
certain that greed for territory and not
hatred for slavery In at the bottom Of their
work In the dark continent.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-27

So far ms trusts are fostercd 10y the tariff.
they might bc cfTectually attacked by u
provision of law authorizing the president
To suspend the tariff upon any article ar
class of articles, the production of which
has been m~onopolixcd by an artificial
combination. Such au arrangement
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-09
AMERICAN RIFLES.

England Proposes to Use Them In Her
Army Twice in the Past and Again
Now She Utilizes Yankee Inventive
Genius.
In September, 1882, General ". T. Sher-
man advised the Secretary of War TO con.
tract for $4,000 worth Of a certain mag.
azine rife, tie invention Of Scotch Amer
lean named James P. Lee. Old Tecum-
sch recommended that the arms be then
placed in the hands Of about a hundred
Captains of infantry for trial General
Benet, Chief of Ordnance, suggested that
the sum Of SO, 600 be expended in the pur-
chase or manufacture of three magazine
rifles-the Lee, the Chaffee-Reece and the
Hotchkiss. The last recommendation was
concurred in, and seven hundred and fifty
of each were ordered furnished.
Mr. Lees rife represented what was
known as the detachable magazine system I;
the others had fixed magazines. General
Jasper n. Reece, of Illinois, controls the
gun named second in order. The Hotchkiss
rifles were promptly made by the VIM
chester Arms Company, of Connecscut.
The Lee Arms Company had no factory or
suitable plant. Owing TO the financial diff
fculties under which the company was
lsboring, it was not until 1884 that $50 Of
the Lee rifles were issued to the United
States army for experimental and practical
trial. At that time the Remington Armory,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-09

Doll r1ne, Metrord Darrei and detachable
magazine. So soon as the success OF the
improved Lee gun became assured m En-
gland 1essrs. Hartley g. Graham, who are
DOW the principal stockholders in the new
corporation owning the Remington Armory,
acquired from the Lee Arms Company the
license to manufacture the rife.
By April the public win be advised as to
the peculiar and essential features of the
Lee system. It has no special claims TO a
barrel; the latter will be Of caliber 1903
inch; number of grooves seven, taking one
complete turn in ten inches; weight Of
rife with magazine, on-bostle and Jag, nine
pounds two and one-half ounces.
This closely resembles the Martini-Hen
rifling, righthand twist There have not
yet been published any Official report of the
trials of military small arms by the English
board. The improved Lee can be used either
as single loader or as repeater. Its
manipulation involves straight backwards
and forwards motion, % thai the gun may
be fired again and again without taking it
from the shoulder. A full magazine can be
substituted for an empty one IN two sec
onds. The balance of the piece is rot dis
charged each time that the rife is fired, as
is the case In other magazine systems
where the cartridges, as in the Spencer
are carried in the butt, or as IN the VIM
chester, under the barrel Mr.. James P.
Lee has fred fifty shots in SIXTY seconds,
using his own rife. The change in arna-
ment In England aroused much opposition.
At the battle of Lang Son, June, 'S4, the
Chinese were armed with Lee detachable
magazine arms and repulsed the French.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-09
HOW TO LIVE LONG.
WHY Captain John Ericsson Is stil Young
Mt the Ago of Eighty-Six.

Why Captain John Ericsson Is Sun Young
at the Ago of Eighty-Six.
"a man ought to be ashamed to die be-
fore he IS seventy-fve," once said Henry
Ward Beecher, addressing con gregation.
The great Plymouth pastor was urging
the necessity Of ones taking proper care of
himself, of living temporarily, Of abstain
ing from excessive dissipation, Of keeping
the brain and body active, and in every way
trying to be of some use to the community
He believed that there was just as wide
a field in the world for old men as for young
men To die in the harness he considered
the best an bition Of life.
There live In New York City to-day, says
the Journal, men who long since passed the
allotted three-score and ten years of life,
but whose vigorous minds still contribute
in no uncomfortable degree to the thought,
the mental development and the material
progress of the world. They take an active
interest in matters in which they are con-
cerned as IN the full OF their prime, and the
death of them to-day would be great and
irreparable National loss.
There is but one Captain John Ericsson
He stands out above and beyond all other
men, incontestably the most wonderful old
man on this continent.
Though in his eighty-sixth year, he re-
sents the imputation of being old, for he is
as healthy and vigorous as he was at forty.
He is to-day capable Of as great exertion,
mental or physical, as any man of middle
age. During the past ten years his personal
appearance has not altered. His hair is as
tawny, his eyes are as bright, his cheeks as
rudy and his voice is as deep as at any
time Of his life. His intellectual faculties
are all intact and his physical powers OF en-
durance have not abated in the least.
He is still hard at work in his modest
Beach street home, laboring to perfect his
great sun motor, and during the past six
months he has performed more and harder
work in connection with this invention than
in any similar period in ten years.
What rare secret of nature does this great
engineer possess that enables him to pre-
serve, In spite of his age, his marvellous
energy Of youtha
If questioned he would undoubtedly an
swer that it was an open secret, accessible
to all, and that he attributed his present
excellent health to the uniform and temper
ate habits of living which he has observed
throughout his career.
Captain Ericsson has never deviated from
the rigid course Of daily discipline which
ne prescribed for himself in early manhood.
HIS first act after rising in the morning IS
to take cold sponge bath, which sets his
blood in glow and invigorates him for the
days work. Eight o'clock finds him seated
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-09

before his draughtipg- board, thinking and
planning and calculating new lines and me
chanical problems.
At eleven O'Clock he partalces of break
fast, which is a plain and simple meal OF
only such food as tends to nourish and
strengthen him. No coffee or other stimu
LIANT is served. immediately after break
fast he returns TO his work.
His study is a large front room on the SIC
ond floor, with an aloove, in which LIE sits a,
his table all day, needless of the rattle and
confusion BY which he IS surrounded, COM
pletelT absorbed il his ov.n great labors.
Around about him in his room, on tables
and under glass cases, are the models Of his
many mechanical inventions, and his library
of scientific books is within easy reach.
When not engaged in draughting or tigur-
ing he is studying, and he finds his sole
recreation in reading and thinking. He isa
man who literally never wastes a moment.
Between four and i've o'clock in the after
noon Captain Ericsson has his second meal,
which is as modest as the first he never
eats oftener than twicea day, and then he
resumes his work until about nine O'Clock.
when he retires.
The mercury in his room never mounts
higher in winter than IS degrees Fahren.
heit. THIS he finds is a good thinking and
working teUperacure There is large
CRATE fire in his study, but IT is kept sub
dued, es there are other fires in the house.
The windows n many of the rooms are kept
open SO as to insure pure air throughout
Captain Ericsson has always Sustained
from all kinds of liquor snd tobacco. he
has never smoked, and in ten years he has
not drunk half a glass Of VINE
Such is the manner Of living observed by
one of the world 5 greatest cid men.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-09
OID.TiME GAMBLING.
Some OF the Card Parties That Were
Wont to Assemble in Washington.

Some Of the Gard Parties That Were
Wont to Assemble in Washington.
In the old, old times, says the Minneapolis
Tribune, every body prominent in public
life was fond of cards. Washington was
flooded in those days with gamblers Of the
professional sort. There were dozen faro
tanks on the avenue within sight Of
Gadsby's, on the corner Of Sixth street.
Members of Congress unhesitatingly en-
tered these places. Sergeant Smith Prem
tiss was said 10 have lost $50, 600 in his first
term in Congress.
1t was In one q these places that Henry
Clay won from Count Brodisco the corner
lot up near Lafayette square, which he
afterward traded for an Andalusian jack
ass. Fox, the British Minister; General
Scott, Secretary Marcy and q score Of
famous men played poker in those tunes.
President Tyler was fond of "loo,' and
often made up game at the White House
and played all day. The stakes were never
large, but Mr.. Tyler was just as happy as II
he won his thousands. Atone time General
Scott, Henry Clay, Mr.. Fox and Count
Brodisco entered into compact to play whist
once a week all winter, and the stake every
night was sl00.
They played matched game. Scott and
the old Russian against Clay and the En-
glishman. They were evenly matched, but
Clay and Fox came out ten games ahead.
Scott's loss was said TO be as much as 81, 200
in this little social amusement. Old Thad.
Stevens in later days wss q famous man at
cards. He didn't hesitate to go into the
worst gambling resorts to get his sport.
He played with frigid quiet and coolne.s,
and in the course Of his play kept up a con-
slant fire OF brilliant conversation. Prooa-
bly, there are not twenty-five men now in
Congress who are at all given 70 card-play-
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-09

boys who live in the woods and follow the
plow vary the sameness of their existence.
On clear, frosty, nooniess nights they go
out, armed with pine torches and switches,
to clearing, where the birds roost IN brush
heaps. A circle is formed, the birds are
flushed, when they are killed on the fly by
a stroke of the switch
81 wuz down ter Dobel's new groun' this
evenin', ~ said Ras VIM, a round-shouldered
boy with strained features, sam seed ef
millyun sparrers. Sposen we go thar"
sDid yer count em, Ras,n asked Link
Maxey, whose fat nose tempted some one
to pull it ont from its resting-place between
his fat cheeks.
'No, an mout er made er mistake. l
made one ter night when / tole Their boys
you'd be too lazy ter go with US. But we
hain't thar yet, an you may git tired an
turn back"
ard kill ez many birds ez you, eff did"
"What yer mean by thatl''
"I mean you couldn't hit one eff Wuz ter
light on yer nose.'
ser bird won't never light on your'n,
fur he couldn't fin it with er surch-war-
runtn
81 b'lieve FL go back, boys. 'Taint no
usen gwine, nohow, for Ras WINS blow
ms done skcered Their birds away"
You're clean ofen ther scent" said
Ras. "They herd yu WIZ er comm an
laughed theyselves ter death. All Wen
halter do will be ter buil' er fire, turn over
Their bresh, an pick 'em up"
"Come, now, boys" interpesed Doe Ev-
ans, a spindle-shankcd fellow with craw-
fish eyes and nervous air, don't quar'L
We started out ter have some fun"
Git erway, Doe,'' spoke Ras, she
haln't been feelin' well sence he stole some
patriges frum my trap in the wheac-fer.
They stuck in his craw when he eat 'em,
an they're thar yit."
Link gave the "le," which brought a
blow Then the battle ragged, in the popu-
lar "bte an scratch" style. They fought
down the road, through the thicket, over
the fence. On the creek bank they clinched
and rolled into the stream.
Ras told his mother his torch went out
and he fell INTO a blackberry bush. How
such an accident could split his left nostril
she could not understand. Link said he
.en from the fence and snagged hole in
his cheek. This was true, but it did not &C.
count for the erratio scratches that made a
highly -colored map Of his countenance
If the birds called roll next morning they
found none missing.
CHARLES s. BLACKBURN.
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rne Corrnor.nt OF Countries.

Great Britain is the cormorant Of coun.
tries. The splendid trope used by VI Webster
TO describe the extent of its dominion in
every quarter of the globe is truer to-day
than at the time of its utterance half cent
ury ago. TIE sun never sets upon the scar
let uniform or the tax gsthe-er for the Brit
ish crown. Out OF the little island, once a
conquest OF the Roman Empire, has spread
coionizing and conquering people whose
dominion has spread 10 worlds unknown
by Alexander and Caesar. No continent IS
free from its sway From the little island
Of Hehgolsnd, less than a mile in extent
held under the very frown of Bismarck,
and the slightly larger fastness of Glib
raltar, which is grasped firmly in the very
face of Spain, Great Britain, having pos
sessions in every continent and in every
group of islands. asceuds TO complete and
plriless Dominion over the peoples Of India
The mere schedule would iii column. The
total area is nearly 1o. 0oo, 600 miles: the to-
tal population only less than s15.00oco0
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.SSAMfl<.
pai1s eagle


Ve Cannibal and We Missionaree.
A cannioai lived on a csnnioal isle,
And was thinner than thin could be,
His legs were as lean en- the tail of rat
HIS head ratified round in his number five hat
And he left no mark on the sand where he sat
Oh, woeful ,ght was hel
So he was
A dienal sight was he!
Now, there came to this island from over the
main
a laudable mission aree,
His weight was three hundred and forty-three
pound,
Bis paunch and his iowls and his tousure were
round,
And he left a mark whom he sat on the ground
Just two and 8 halffeet By three,
So he did
Just two and half feet by three.
But the moral I'm trying TO teach II my song
You soon will be able to see,
For tire Christian proved docile and teachable
quite;
he learnt from the heather the thing that was
right,
Ard one Sunday morning as soon as twas
light
tie ate up the canuibaleei
Yes, he did
BE ate up the cacnibalee.
n -
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-09

Composed Of day coaches, elegant free
reclining chair cars, and Pullman sieepers,
leaves Wichita AZ Ills a. IA RUS
through 10 Ga Louis scisd. arriving there
az GO a IN, next day. This In one aud
o.e-balf terfsquick.- than any .othsr line
running both reclining chair cars and
Pullman sieepers from here fErodga With
out change City ticke. Office 49, Main
street
E E BI4ECKkEY,
6f4cts Pass andTscxs. Agent
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-09
hs;sspent LIMO.

sDo you see that old gentleman hcbbling
along across the streetn'
''Oh, yes, / know him very well Nhyr'
"He saved my life once''
s'You don't sayl'
Eyes, he pulled me out of the water when
was drowning"
so, sol l heard him say the other day
that he had wasted half MS life fishing for
mulligrubs ''-Arcola Record.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-09
RUSTIC SPORTS.
Coy Fights and Dog Fights MIXED mp with
Bird Hunting.

USTIC sports are NOT
numerous, but o n e
often involves an in
cident not down on
the pr o gr a m N e .
Postum hunting fire.
quently ends with Q
dog-fght.
"Bird-thrashin' 1" is
a winter pa 8 ii m g
with which Southern
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-26

Paris votes tomorrow for her representa-
tives in the chamber of deputies. The cleo
ton ia test of Boulanger's popularity in an
other section of France. Already a deputy
from the department of the Nord, there was
no necessity for his becoming a candidate. But
he has done so to extend the proof of his pop
ularity and gradually make apparent his hold
on all France. His opponent. M. Jacques, is an
amiable gentleman, whose popularity is due to
good manners and good wine, the latter Of
which he produces in great quantity, being
one of the leading distillers in Paris. His can
didacy means nothing except the desire to de-
feat Boulanger. He has been favorite, how
ever, winning his political victories quietly and
easily. For eighteen years he has been a men,
Der of the genexal council. Boulanger's vic
tory would indicate the strength of the popular
desire for constitutional revision and dissatis-
faction with the present form of government,
as well as Boulanger's popularity and the desire
to move steadily though gradually towards war
with Germany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-26

The lexington electric road proposes in its
extension from its present line to and 18th
streets to use the underground conduit system,
which is successfully used in Allegheny city
and Boston. The capital will welcome a full
trial Of electricity as a street-railway motor by
a system which does not add to the overhead
wire nuisance. 1t is perfectly practicable to
use both overhead and underground wires on
different sections Of the same road. and the
wisest method appears to be to employ the I'M
derground conduits on crowded city streets.
and 10 run the lines overhead on suburban
roads, in villages, and in sparsely settled re-
gions in general
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-26

The experiment of wearing knee-breeches or
Knickerbockers at fashionable ball was very
successfully tried by some of the young gentle
men leaders Of society in New York the other
evening. and it is predicted that the style thus
set by what is termed the upper circles" there
will soon become the rage in other parts of the
country. 1t may and it may not This is one
Of the class Of cases in which very much de-
ponds. In this particular instance it will de-
pend altogether on the size and shape of young
mems legs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-26

The answer which must be made to the in
Hairy Of "a Veteran" in yesterdays STAR
Where shall he find the monument Of Zachary
ksylorf-ought TO bring the blush of shame to
the cheek Of every American citizen.
Why the old hero's name and fame have never
YET been commemorated by the erection of .
statue or monument, it is difficult to explain,
except upon the not very creditable hypothesis
that what 10 everybody's business is nobody's
business. Certainly, few American soldiers or
soldiers Of any country have better deserved
such recognition; and, odious as comparisons
may be, it Is perfectly safe to say that many
men who merited less have received much
more. Aside from the debt of gratitude the
country owes to General Taylor for the ex-
tended and rich addition made to its domain,
he illustrated at once and in a high degree, the
noblest characteristics of trained warrior and
the sterling virtues of plain American citizen.
The country has had few soldiers who were
drawer, more patriotic, or less assuming than
he. It is eminently proper, therefore, that the
suggestion so pertinently made by our corre-
spondent should be carried out. He was HIM
self gallant commander under General Taylor,
"a he was in the country's later struggle, and no
more fitting person to inaugurate the move
ment and lead it to a successful issue can easily
be found. Are there not enough Of his old
companions in arms still left in the country to
secure for the memory Of the simple-man-
nered old hero visible and lasting recogni
ton at the national capital, such as other sol
diers, no more worthy, have received? If the
Mexican Veterans Of Washington should take
the matter up, and set the ball rolling as they
ought to, and can, we feel sure their efforts
would be promptly and ably seconded by their
comrades elsewhere, and that there would be
quick and generous response on the part of
Congress, and, behind Congress, of the country
at large Who will step to the front, and take
the initiative?