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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26
ne Greatest Ocean Depth.

The greatest known depth OF the ocean
is midway between the Island OF Iris an
d'Acunba and the mouth Of the Rio de
Ia Plata The bottom was there reached
al a depth Of 40.338 feet. or eight and
.hree-fourth miles, exceeding by more
than 1900 feet the highth Of Mount
Everest, tho lcftiest mountain IN tho
world. IL the North Atlantic ocean,
south of Newfoundland, soundings have
been made 70 depth Of $3.50 fashom.,
or 27.4S0 feet, while depths equaliDz
"a 90 feet, or six and half miles. are
reported south Of the Bermuda islands.
The average depth Of the Pacsfic ocean
between Japan and California . lite
over 1000 fatbons; between Chilli ard
the Sandwich islands, 2.JO0 fatboEns.
and between Chill and New ZssIand,
80 fath0u1s The average depth 81
al the oceans - from Z, 0Oo % z, 800
fathoms.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26
SMART KANSAS.

The Emporia Republican says that, in
CANVASS some years ago in Chase county,
F. P. Cochran, of Cottonwood Falls, aud
Col. Sam Wood had discussion, in which
The former defined the difference between
an accident and a misfortune. He said
that if Sam was on vessel in mid-ocean
and should fall overheard. it would be an
accident-if he should be rescued, it would
be misfortune Sam, for once, couldn't
catch his second wind The audience
cheered wildly, and Cochran was the
victor.
1t has not been very often that Sam
has been downed. We remember tilt
in the legislature between him. and P. P.
Elder. Sam talked one day over some
five minute rule and Elder called him to
order. The next day Sam caught Elder
talking over time and called him to order.
But Elder didn't want to quit, and be said,
''Let the gander from Chase shut up"
Sam responded that he wanted the goose
from Franklin to shut up. Elder says,
''Let the ass Bray" "All right" says
Sam, 81 withdraw my objections; go
ahead. kansas City Gazette.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

In speaking of the execution that was
to have taken place Monday in New
York, under the amended law recently
passed by the legislature of that state,
substituting electricity for the gallows.
the Boston Globe says: ''The doomed
wretch now awaiting execution BY cleo
triclty is subjected to the extra torture
of reading accounts of scores of men
now living who have withstood the
shock OF ZOO volts. One man is said to
have taken 1900 volts. This loose fool
ing with human life is growing more
and more disoreditable to all concerned. :"
That the doomed man was not executed
was no fault Of the jokers, but it seems
that while they Were penetrating their
jokes at his expense he was preparing q
shock not only to them but 70 the court
that passed sentence on him, by formu-
Eating an appeal to the supreme court
for a stay of execution by the mode pre-
bcribed, baSing his appeal upon the un-
constitutionslity of the new law. 1t is
only necessary to add that the fellow
was not executed, and now that they
have commenced to bubble over the val
idityof the law it is doubtful that he
ever viii be.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

The Connecticut legislature seems de-
termined that that state shall have new
ballot law. Not discouraged at the gov
errors vetoing the bills passed in that in
terest, the legislature went about in a
systematic way. eliminating from each
succeeding measure the Objectionable
features that provoked the veto, until
they succeeded in perfecting one, they
think-one the governor could not find
objection to that would warrant another
veto. He signed the bill, but no great
things are hoped from its operations.
Ballot reformers say it was amended to
death
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

The next state to take a whirl at the
liquor traffic through the ballot box is
Connecticut, but the issue is put off SO
long (the election will be held in the
autumn, September) that it causes little
interest now. The Boston Globe regards
1t as a needless test; that it is foregone
conclusion that the proposition will meet
the same treatment it did in the four or
five other eastern states recently. As
the thing stands now, it seems to have
been an unwise act on the part of the
friends of the measure to press it at
this time.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

America boasts many national hum
bugs, but the farce whose breadth the
most nearly reaches the width of the
continent, is the civil service commits
sion. That body's last act was to pro-
coed up to Milwaukee for the purpose of
reprimand the postmaster of that city.
The whole performance was ridiculous
absurdity which caused the average
American citizen to blush as he contem-
plated the possible attitude of commits
sion of egregious asses posing before the
supposed mandates of an unmeaning
law,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

The fences which Senator Ingalls, is re-
pairing in Kansas are rail" fences, prob
ably. ingalls, is noted for railing.
cago Herald.
They are certainly not hedge fences. In
gals knows nothing of hedging. Law
renee Journal.
But again: it is not possible they are
wire fences. The senator never handles
the wires" you know.-C. S. Finch.
Guess they must be picket fences,
since the senator is always on the qui
yivp
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26


The increase over the internal revenue
receipts for the corresponding II months
of last year, is not less than $500, 715.
The increase in the revenue from Gus
toms duties is less than per cent. The
increase in the internal revenue is more
than 1-2 per cent.
This fact, then, stands forth in impress
sive significance. The internal revenue
Is now working faster than the customs
tariff to swell the annual surplus.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

Final dissolution has set in in the
Cronin case and the stages will be short
and follow in quick succession until the
collapse comes. The whole matter hangs
on Burke, with the very slightest prQba-
bility that Burke or anyone else will
ever hang-not excepting the jury that
NAV try the case,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

Rev. II. II. Manlove writes the Empo-
ria Republican letter beginning. God
of heaven. will the people never realize
the extent of the wrong of intemper-
anceY' Mr.. N. is doing the lofty
tumbling act before his turn. The peo-
pie, the whole people, wildly realize the
extent of the wrong of intemperance.
The trouble with Pennsylvania and
Rhode Island was not want of a reali-
zation of the wrong, but a want of a
realization that prohibition means tenn
perance
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26
Worthy OF Emulation.

We have great admiration for tho
capital city OF our state. and believe that
il will continue for years to come 70
grow in importance in every regard, but
then there Is room enough ASP for a
dozen cities like Wichita, and hence we
regret 10 see so well managed a journal
al the Capital speaking so disparagingly
Of sister city whose enterprise Ia
worthy Of emulation.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

The Democratic leaders are endeavoring,
under the ralIying cry of Sam Randall,
to ''get together" The worst scattered
party of which we have any knowledge
is the Republican party and if there is to
be any "gettlng together" performance
we suggest that the Republican party is
entitled to the bat.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

The announcement comes that the
war in Hayti is not ended as was report
ed several days ago. This announce
ment prompts the suggestion that the
redoubtable heroes of the battle and cap
ture of New Orleans in 1862, to-wit:
General Butler and Admiral Porter,
might find very convenient means and
occasion, in connection with the army
and navy of the belligerents, to give a
practical and fresh demonstration of
their pluck and prowess, and thus afford
the world indisputable and ungetovera-
BILE evidence of those qualities not only,
but also which is the liar. AS to the
controversy between them, the Ameri-
can public is satisfied that both disput-
ants were present on the memorable &C.
casion in question, and that the fort and
city were captured at that time. Further
than this, the said public don't care q
bauble, and don't care if both the valiant
warriors know il.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

The crop reports from the great grain
producing states. which appeared in yes
terday's dispatches, place Kansas far in
the lead in both corn and oats. Her rat
ing in wheat is not given in the report
but there is little doubt that it is
equally as favorable as in the other two
cereals named. Fact is there is no crop
grown in the state but makes unprece-
Gented promise this season. All this
means the expenditure of vast amount
of muscular energy, but Kansas farmers
have of it and are not backward about
letting it out.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26
THE SURPLUS-PRODUCING TAX.

New York Sun:
Last month the excessive revenue of
the United States government was swol-
len by $780,, 1914, received in internal
revenue taxes-taxes un-American and
un-democratic in principal, hateful when
unnecessary, and necessary only in times
of war or great national emergency.
For the II months Of the present fiscal
year the total amount scooped into the
the treasury by the agents of this odious
excise system, was $119, 1868.
At the rate for the past II months, the
whole years revenue from revenue taxes
will be $130, S42, 941. See how steadily it
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

If the bank cIearings of the cities that
make reports may be taken as an index
to the general business of the country,
then the country has never
been in so prosperous a condi-
ton as at present. Last weeks clearing
house reports place every city on the in
crease side, the first time such a thing
has ever occurred,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

The crank Prohibition leader who ran
for vice president last fall, named
Brooks, is out abusing the Republican
party for the defeat of prohibition in
Pennsylvania. 1t strikes us that the
trouble down there was that about a
two hundred thousand majority of that
people have different convictions from
those entertained by the Missouri guer-
,-sllo
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

The esteemed Albany Argus has got
what it evidently started out after in its
criticisms of Census Superintendent
Porter, i. e. public recognition and
formal communication from Mr.. Porter,
Now let it call off and give some mug.
81 chance
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

The local inspection humbug is COM
ing home to roost. The Leavenworth
butchers are on their respective ears.
They are kicking like bay steers against
paying the meat inspectors fees and an
annual license of $50 too. The city gets
between twelve and fifteen hundred
dollars from them for license a year and
on an average Of $50 month fees for
inspecting meat.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
The Ruling Passion

According to the Atchison Globe a
Kansas Pharisee recently went 20 the
gates of heaven. st. Peter said: II
don't know you" "You don't need to
know me-" responded the Pharisee.
'.Show me where God is; He knows me"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26
Characteristic Partisanship.

EDltsOFlh tIlIIII.It7III
The leading Democratic candidate for
governor Of Ohio, Congressman Camp
bell. says that the Democratic conven-
ton cannot make platform that he
cannot stand on. He would stand on
his head If the convention required u,
and the convention il likely 10 require II
if it shall appear that the chances Of sue
cess will be thereby promoted.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26
Gratifying Assurances

Lawrence Tribune
The Wichita EAGLE thinks there is
some doubt as to what will be the politi-
cal complexion Of the next Kansas legis-
lature. Two things the EAGLE may put
down as certain, however. The first is
that the majority of them viii not bo
Democrats. and the second that the mem
bers will be men with more sense than
'the majority Of those who occupied seats
in the last house
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

Kansas City, Kansas, has got far
enough along to order her houses num-
bered. The multiplication table will
hardly be exhausted, but it is the thing
to do, you know; rather.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

Some "Windy Wonder" signing him
self Kansas" in the Wichita EAGLE.
wants to throw for Omaha-not that we
love Omaha, but that we hate Kansas
City for its assumptions that we are de-
pendent on it," The EAGLE should muz-
zle some of its asses.-Kansas City
Gazette.
When the dark-eyed leader of the
Wichita bar and author of the article
aforesaid meets the sanguine-headed
specimen of temerity who so holly holds
forth meath the shadows Of the Sni
Hills there will be a different, louder
and better defined squeal than was ever
before heard in the vicinity of the
Armour packing house, and for the
reason arising from corresponding fear
the EAGLE has gone out of the muzzling
business.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

The falling off in bond purchases re-
Gently has run the surplus up to $685.
100000. The Globe-Democrat says this,
however, is about s45.O00,O0O below that
Of last year at one time. A week hence,
when the fiscal year 1890 begins, the
surplus will be reduced to the extent Of
$1,000, 1000 or $S.0OO.O0O by payments of
interest on government bonds. With
the large amount of funds put in circula-
ton 10y the stated disbursements by the
government, added to the already flatter-
ing condition Of the country's finances
and general business, it would seem that
we are, indeed, at the very threshold of
the Compromised ''good time coming"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

months past. All over the state we hear
of sugar plants and canning factories be-
ing erected, while Neodesha emulates
the example OF Rip Van Wrinkle, with
no time limit. Ia, there! Wake up..-
Register
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

They are quarreling up in Atchison
now about the immersion Of DR.. Munhall
In the Jordan river, some say he was and
Others not. Atchison might get some
good counsel on quarreling by reading
SiawkenberginS's Tale in Trestam
Shandy, though it was written by an If
religious person.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26
A Correction and Explanation.

A new cooler" Is being built AZ Seo-
desha- Suppose when 1t y finished they
will have a warming Wichita EAGi&
II Is Altoona that is TO have tie new
cooler" Neodeslla needs none. The one
we have has not been occupied for
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26
MARSHALL NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.

The old John Walruff brewery at
Lawrence is now occupied as a shoe
mandatory.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

The Illinois theory, advanced a year
ago, for Kidding the country of the in
sect pests by not sowing small grain and
thus starve the little destroyers out. was
either not put to practice or is failure if
it was, for the insects are said to be as
numerous and destructive this season as
they ever were. Suppose the farmers of
Kansas had acted upon that idea and re-
Trained from sowing wheat, as was sug-
gested by some, what mistake they
would have made. Not only is the
wheat crop one of immensely but the
total absence of cinch bugs and cut
worms has been remarked throughout
the season. The EAGLE is still of the
opinion that the burning of stubble and
dead grass and weeds at the proper time
is a more effective means of destroying
insects than starving them out, which
simply can't be done
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

What few Indianians are not in Wash
ington have received commissions as
consuls and gone scudding off to the
Paris exposition.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

That is stirring description of the
way the Derby was won, found in the
last number of Scribner.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

A man named Teuchter was bitten by
a vicious dog in Cincinnati about six
weeks ago. The wounds, which were
in the face, healed very readily. and in a
weeks time were completely cured. But
the hydrophobia effects returned last
week, and despite every remedy known
to the pharmacopia was tried upon the
case, the patient died in forty-eight hours
from the attack of the rabies. The ply
stefan who treated the case is satisfied
that it was case of hydrophobia IF
there ever was one, but insists that it
was more mental than physical dis
order, the victim laboring under the ap-
prehension and dread of the disorder
from the time he was bitten. Christian
science would have had a magnificent
test of its virtues in the case.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

The mysterious murder of the wealthy
bachelor whose body was discovered in
his room in a Chicago boarding house,
recently, received the most casual notice
at the time and seems to have at once
been dismissed. The Cronin case has
demanded the exclusive attention of the
authorities and with their best efforts it
now appears that case will down them.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes, one of the
most earnest and delightful women that
ever presided in the white house, is no
more.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

Kansas to the front again. Fay
Templeton got drunk and painted things
along the boulevard in Paris, and was
arrested. This shows that prohibition IN
Kansas is q failure.-K c. kan J
Gazette.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

The very latest news from Hillman IS
that in company with Tascott he is still
a-bobbin' around, hunting for Charley
Ross.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26

The Wichita EAGLE has a new coIumn
called 'Suniiower Shadowings.r which is
one of the most readable in the state press.
State Journal
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26
Cloth and Flannel D

This is the REGULAR COST SALE of WHITE
the
which they conducted. Everything advertised
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-26
WICHITA AND THE CLEARING
HOUSE.

asst season
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1889-11-11

1t weighed about 1900 pounds and was
about an inch and third thick. After being
put into reservoir Of pure water to green it,
it was beaten for one hour every day with an
iron on a largs anvil. After being ten days
in pure water it was left for another ten days
in water with about 4 per cent. of salt. Then
it was replaced in pure water again for twen-
ty days. During those forty days 1t wss CON-
stantly in soak.
The head and feet, weighing about 800
pounds, were then removed and the skin
hung on spikes in the drying room. After
hanging one day it was put in vat contain
ing potash and q small quantity of sulphur of
sodium In the following proportions: Wa
ter, one thousand parts; Stacked lime, twen-
ty-five parts; patash, three parts; sulphur oi
sodium, two parts. After being two days in
this bath it was rinsed in pure water of a
Temperature of twenty degrees, when 1t was
again placed in the drying room. After this
double operation was repeated three times
the akin was ready to have the hair taken
time and gave about seventy-fve pounds of
hair. Another day was spent in cleaning
and sorepipg. By this time it lost thirty
per cent of its weight. The operation of It's
preparation lasted two months and it went
through the same course as eowhide, with
the difference that each phase OF the work
took three times as much time. The skin
should be stretched IN the pit and placed in
the middle of cowdidss. Six layers of pow
der are then thrown in; two first, two second
and two third layers. Altogether the tam
ming takes three years. The partition of
time Is thus: Becoming green, forty days;
worked, sixteen days; preparation, fifty
days; repetition, sixty days; first pit (dou-
ble), two hundred days; second pit (double),
three hundred days; third pit (double), four
hundred days,
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1889-11-11
THE IOWA RAILROADS

It ia supposed that the election in Iowa
last Tuesday will result in farther display
of hostility to the railroads by the legislature
of that State. Tho work already done
against these railroads is an important one
For years the ..railread commission Of the
State was the ahlest and the most censerva-
tive in the West. In those years railroad
mileage doubled, but In the last two years
its railroad commission has cut rates until
there are few railroads under like conditions
carrying freight cheaper. The average fall
in the per ton psr milo freight charge on the
three leading lines in Iowa from 1886 to
1883 was frem 120 to % cents, q fall of "a
Per cent, and two-thirds of this reduction,
which the cuts Of the past year make full
30 per cent, afect $5o5, Y2e, ,571 of the rail-
road capital.
All this is having its effect. Only thirty
six miles Of railroad were built in Iowa last
year and 1t 10 impossible fer bonds to be
placed On q line in the State, and banking
firms avoid all plans for the raising Of capi-
tai for new roads within Its limits. At the
same time there is room there for $75, ,00e, 900
more of railroad capital which could be
made to earn dividends under normal con-
ditions of railroad enterprise. The people
of Iswa are very short-siahted in their per-
sistent attacks upon the railroads. They
cannot afford to deal too harshly with what
has done 80 much to develop their State.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1889-11-11
NOVEMBER IL, 1889.

found. It may be that these bones were
placed where they are found long before the
limestone was formed over the water course.
How they came there, and to what race the
people belonged, are interesting questions for
archeologists.
Some of the politicians of Massachusetts, do
not seem to be quite satisfied, as reeounts are
being demanded in a good many districts
where the plurality Ut the apparently suc-
ceseful candidate Is 90 small as to suggest a
hope that it may disappear by the correction
of mistake. 1t is said that petitions will be
filed for the recount of the whole vote of Bos-
ton for State offices. The purpose in that
case is not to change the result of the elec-
ton, which is plainly impossible, but to find
out where the Democratic vote of Boston has
gone, though 1t does not seem likely that
recount can throw much light on that mys-
terry. Says the Worcester Spy: The favorite
mugwump theory is that the Boston liquor
interest preferred Brackett to Russell, and
that the falling of in the Republican vote
elsewhere is due to the progress of free trade
opinion. But there are other theories at least
equally good, and but a meagre basis of fact
for any Of them to rest upon. The process
of rccounting under the new voting system,
as well as the original counting, is less liable
to error than under the old.