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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-22
His Reason.

There was very nice dish Of watercress
on an uptown restaurant table the other
day a pretty young woman saw the cool
and dainty dish and appropriated the
whole of it. 1t happened that a young
man seated at the end of the table had also
cast covetous eyes at the watercress, and
he gave the waiter quarter to steal the
dish from the young lady. When the lat
ter discovered her loss she looked angrily
around the table and saw the watercress
slowly disappearing down the young mans
throat.
Excuse me. SIR" she exclaimed, with
heightened color and infinite sarcasm.
"Can you tell what you took that dish
fOry"
The young man stopped chewing for a
moment. Then, with graceful inclina-
ton of the head, he replied:
Pardon me, madam, but took the dish
because it contained watercress- New
York Journal.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-22
"No Man. Lapd" in Brooklyn.

Every schooIboy csn give you the exact
location Of the curious strip OF land lying
south OF the state Of Kansas popularity
called NO Mans Land" A description
and history has been given Of the original
NO Mans Land, lying between the states
Of Maryland and Delaware Now cones
the story Of a lost piece Of real estate lying
in the heart Of Brooklyn. y. I. II lies al
the head Of the W&lasout canal. and
abuts On the vail Of the Navy YARD ceme-
terv.
The United States gove-zneut oanuo;
claim the tract, As il was never COED 70 X
The city has no title 20 y, u having beer
omitted from the plan made after tie Cnis-
Cd States acquired the W21isbouf lands
The spot is 10 by fest- but snail a. i :
Is quite valuable. An eats8rriSs1g squat
ter has erected small shzrsy Epon =, and
put oct the sign, This l. No Mans Land p
81 -7s-ss Rs.-.-hi;c
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-22
His Wife's Art

Bachelor-Still growing over your do
meStic expenses Haven't you often said
that your wife csn make dollar 20 fur
Their than any other woman you knew
Benedict lgloomilyl-Thss'sju just the trou-
bic. She makes a dollar 90 so Internally
far that / never hear Of it again
burg Bulletin
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-22

f P. Sargent. the head OF the Brother
hood 81 Firemen- was formerly Vermont
Photographic. Then he became a United
States oAvalryulRn in Arizona and finally a
fireman on the southern Pacific railroad
De now rules over 50 lodges, and Is sad
10 D. well Of II this worlds goods
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-29
THE SEA ROUTE TO SIBERIA.
The Lifelong Struggle of a Dauntless Navi-
gator Crowned With Success.

The Lifelong Struggle of a Dauntless Nayi-
gator Crowned With Success.
Commercial and Financial Chronicle )
Hitherto explorations and discover, ,: in the
Arctic regions have been comparatively profit
less. If nothing should occur to cloud the
prospect now disclosed, something like success
of genuine kind has at last been achieved.
A sea route to Siberia would have been the
last thing to be dreamed of a few years ago.
Yet such a route has been discovered. Captain
Virgins, an English seafaring man of some
means, conceived the idea that the difficulties
in the way of a sea route to Siberia were exag-
gerated, and began a series of explorations In
1874 Since that date up to last year he had
made Is voyages in an earnest endeavor to give
his idea practical shape. Captain Virgins ex-
perience was not uniform. In 1887 he was so
far successful as to get his ship. the Phenix,
to the mouth of the Yenissci. In 1888 he re-
corded one more failure, the principa; diff
Guilty encountered being ice foes in the Kara
Sea. Last year Virgins all but accomplished
the task he had assigned himself. In his ship,
the Labrador, he made his way through the
Kara Sea and reached the mouth of the YEN
issci, experiencing no inconveniece from ice.
But Karaoul, the estuary, is broad as well as
long studded thickly with islands, and swept
almost continuously with northeaserly winds.
II was Captain Virgins belief that the waters
were shallow, and. having no steam tug with
him, he refused to run the risk Of attempting
to reach Karaoul.
A syndicate was afterward formed in Eng
land, and no time was lost in getting things
ready for another. and what was meant 30 be a
crowning, expedition. Two vessels we're fitted
up for the purpose. with a little steam tug; and
such was the faith of the promoters of the
scheme in success that they put valuable and
suitable cargoes on board the two ships Un-
happily, however, Captain Virgins was unable
to join the expedition. His vessel had met
with an accident and had to be laid up in dock.
The disappointment was great, but the work
was proceeded with. Toward the end of July
the two ships and the little tug left the London
docks. In 80 days they had not only traversed
the Kara Sea, but had penetrated the estuary
of the Yenissci. and sailed up as far as Karaoul.
At this place, where they met the riverine
boats from Yenisscisk and exchanged cargoes,
they remained 10 days, and returning made the
home voyage in 26 days more. The immediate
practical result of this last expedition is the
establishment of this new waterway.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-29
HOLIDAY PARAGRAPHS.

oil City Blizzard: There are some people
who, if given a present, will beg basket to
carry it home in.
York Gazette: The turkey that escaped
Thanksgiving day and Christmas contemplates
New Years day with grave misgivings.
Warren Mirror: 1t is time to think about
what your New Years resolutions will be. The
Young man will generally resolve upon some
thing very easy to break over.
-ClepeLand PLdindeoler: 1t is about time to
hunt up your stock of good resolutions LETT
over from last January. Brush the dust off
them TODAY so that they will be bright and
ready for US next Thursday.
-Lancdster IntelLigencer: There is no doubt
that there are many poor people in this city
who are deserving of charity, but is also certain
that there are quite a number Of imposters. 1t
is the general belief of people that some of the
latter class are now receiving the benefit of the
soup house and other worthy charities. People
who desire to give to the poor should investi-
gate many Of the cases and see whether the ap-
plicants really are worthy
-PhiladeLplxG Times: With the perennial
faith in himself which is one of the moss
charming of his qualities. civilized man will
begin again during the next few days to tabu-
late his individual schemes Of reform, these to
take effect as binding on the first of January.
The universal adherence now given in to this
semi-superstitious observance has frequently
been commented on. So universal is it that
the earlier weeks of any January are safe to be
marked by an amelioration of human con-
dItions and human nature almost equal to q
toy millennium.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-29
PITTsBURG, MONDAY. DEC. %, 1890.
THE CAPITALS rNTEMPERANCE.

According to our Washington correspond
ence the question of intemperance at the
capital is attracting some intention just at
present Recent temperance addresses have
pointed out both the facilities for ornate and
supererogatorv intoxication at the political
center of the nation, and the industry with
which those privileges are utilized. Cold
tea still warns the Congressional system at
both ends of the Capitol, Notwithstanding
periunctory prohibition; and all the signs
indicate that the coordinate branches of the
Government will inaugurate the New Year
in the usual bibulous style, with variations
and annexes as may be required
1t certainly to be hoped that the re-
formatory people who are taking the lid of,
which covers this evil, may succeed in re-
forming the capital, or, at least, inducing
q more sober frame of mind on the part of
our rulers. 1t was to be supposed that the
recent elections would have had a
SOLDERING effect on the majority party
at the capital; but if so, its reformatory
influence has been overslaughed by the
tendency to undue festivity on the part of
the minority. 1t is to be feared that the
task of inducing the governing powers at
Washington to forswear the cup that in
ebyiates more than it cheers, is almost as
heavy contract as to get them to apjure
special legislation, treasury raids, corporate
jobbery, or spoils-hunting.
Indeed there is reason to believe that the
only remedy which will cure this evil is the
one which THE DISPATCH has heetofore
pointed out rs the sole cure for the other
abuses, namely, new breed of politicians.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-29
GOSSIP ABOUT OUR BETTERs.

Mr.. CLEv ELAND has lost rs pounds in
weight, but he could well spare it and is more
robust than ever.
NAPOLEON BoNAPARTE dictated and after
wards signed his love letters to Josephine-a
somewhat formal method of loye-making,
surely.
SENATOR NJ. s. QUAY is spending the holi-
days at his home in Beaver, Pa, but declines
to talk politics or discuss matters now before
Congress.
LEO Kill, who is an able fnancier, has
already accumulated a considerable amount OF
money which is invested in foreign stock and
deposited in foreign banks. The money is
destined to create reserve fund for the inter-
ests of the church.
VICTOR EMANUEL, the heir-apparent to the
crown of Italy, assumed a fictitious title while
travelling in Russia and Germany not long ago.
The title happened to belong by heredity to an
impecunious Italian, who has now sued the
Prince for compensation for Its use.
IT is related of Queen Elizabeth that it was
her delight to tantalize her courtiers during
the Christmas season by donning an unusually
stiff and wide ruff and standing under the
mistletoe. 1t was upon one of these occasions
that Bacon having remarked that it was a
pretty ruff on the Queen. Shakespeare replied
that it was 'also pretty rough on the court"
THE notable Russian Nihilist, who is known
throughout Europe under the pseudonym OF
Stepniak, is Slav in the prime of life, and
formerly was distinguished IN the higher ranks
of the Russian Empire under the title of no.
bility, which he inherited. His movements are
constantly watched by the agents OF the
Russian police, and he lives in danger all the
time.
STRAUSS recently suffered severe loss. The
third act of his new opera, "Ritten Pazman,"
disappeared in most unaccountable way. The
opera was complete, and about to be given
over to the artists, and the composer. before he
had left his country house for town, thought
he had locked it safely In a cabinet, but it can
be found nowhere. Some time ago the COM
poser gave a heap of old manuscript to his
valet to be burnt, and he now fears the third
act was in that heap.
THOUGH Mr.. Spurgeon's sermons do notpro-
fess to be profound. and though their freshness
is in the illustration and the setting" rather
than in the though they are as compact and
coherent as the most systematic mind could
desire. The direct preparation only takes
few hours-although it must be remembered
that in another sense all the preachers life has
been preparation-and nothing is committed
to paper beyond the "heads," which fill half
sheet of note paper.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-29
PRINCIPLES AND PART1sANsH1P.

Senator Hoar has Just assumed the same
unfortunate position as Speaker Reed, in
being found to have put himself strongly
on record as believing,that the parliamentary
privileges which he has made up his mind to
try and suppress are necessary and impor-
tant safeguards of free government. Mr..
Reed, in 1880, declared that the privilege of
the minority to withhold their votes and
force the majority to pass partisan measures
by a quorum of their own number was an
essential protection against the tyranny of
the majority. Senator Hoar, having Just
made up his mind to urge change in the
rules SO as to shut off the Democratic
speeches against the elections bill, is con-
fronted by the following extract from an ar
ticle of his on the Senate, published in the
Youths Companion no longer ago than last
November:
In this assembly 1.-THE United States Senatel
speech is absolutely unfettered- Every meas
uro can be discussed fully without restraint
and amended without limit. This is of immense
importance not only to the perfection of legis-
lation, but also to the dignity OF the Senate,
and in my opinion, to civil liberty itself.
II member OF the Senate, for no partisan
purpose, aud simply to expedite business,
should desire to provide in the Senate rules
for moving the previous question, he would
be exercising the right OF individual judg-
ment and would find many people to agree
with him. But Senator Hoar and Mr..
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-29
A PRIMARY REFORM.

There is a good deal of sensation in the
many circles which committed themselves
TO admiration of General Booths book on
Darkest England" over the assertion
which appears to have been substantiated
that General Booth did not write the book.
The allegation made is that the work was
done by some one else, and that the very plan
which gave that work its character was not
his. That this is true as alleged, is not yet
demonstrated; but as the most yet asserted
in the Generals behalf is that he actually
wrote two chapters OF it, it looks like con-
iession as to the rest of the work. The plan
for transplanting and reforming the poor of
London, set forth in that work, is good
one; but as part of reformation all around.
General Booth, as we'll as the destitute
cockneys, should be reformed of the dishOn-
esty OF passing off other peoples writings as
their own
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-29

Everybody who knew him is sorry on account
of the recall of Senior Valente, late Brazilian
Minister. The little, dark featured man was
one of the most genial and affable of diplomats,
and if loyal to the monarchy was prince of
democrats in conduct. When he had good
bit of news and his newspaper friends failed to
come to the legation for it, he would go to the
newspaper office, be it day or night. That is
my style of diplomat or politician. But if we
speed the parting guest we must surely well
come the coming one for Senor Mendonca, the
new Minister,:is another good fellow, with
Maine Yankee girl for a wife. He is rich and
cultivated. and a liberal patron of the arts. He
has a costly collection of old Spanish and
italian masters, and many fine specimens of the
modern school. What is best of all, he does
not decry an artist because he is
an American and still living and
painting. A few months ago he brought Max
Weyl, of this city, and one of the foremost
American landscape painters. to the Adiron-
dacks with him as his guest, giving the artist a
splendid chance for autumn skeIchIng, and not
only that but bought several of the resulting
pictures at good prices. Such patronage from
severe critic of art is giving Weyl quite a
boom, and his excellent work bids fair to be-
come the fashion. Mr.. Fischer the leading art
dealer and fine critic of art works. has sold sew
eral Weyl landscapes at high prices during the
HOLIDAYS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-29
TRIBUTES TO SCHLIEMANN,

-C1eueldnd Plain dealer: DR.. Schliemann's
labors in the field of Homeric archaeological re-
search have made his name world famous, and
Americans have reason TO be especially inter-
ested in him because he was a citizen of the
United States
-PhiladelphtdJnq Through his indefa-
tigable efforts we are brought into closer touch
with the Greece of 1000 B. C. than was Pericles
What Mariette did for the Egyptology Schlie-
mann did for the archaeology of Greece and
Syria. His loss will be felt keenly, but the re-
suits of his labors will remain a lasting monu-
ment to his genius.
philadelphia Press: Heinrich Schliemann,
wonderful as his archaeological discoveries
were is as likely to be remembered for what
he was as for what he did. But the question
which will thrill the learned world on the news
of his death will be-where do the wonderful
finds 20 which make up his great private col
lection, one of the most valuable to-day in pri-
vate hands.
NetD York World: When it came to actual
work he brought to bear upon Turkish stolidity
and indifference the wiles of an irresistible
diplomatist, and secured whatever concessions
he needed for his excavations In the progress
of the work he combined the imaginative hope
fulness of an enthusiast with the coldly reso-
lutte temper of the scientific searcher for truth,
any fairy tale. No life could be richer than
his in instructiveness, and few have been more
fruitful of enduring results.
philadelphia Times: Thanks to Schliemann.
Troy is now a reality; the treasures of Priam
have been found; the house of Agamemnon at
Mycena laid bare to the sunlight, and the relics
of a lost age-the gold, the ivory and the Jewels
SO long h1dden-have been preserved once more
to gladden. the eye of the artist and quicken the
heart of the poet of to-day. He will be remem-
bered also by the generosity with which he pre-
sented his priceless collections to the various
institutions of learning throughout Europe and
his unselfish devotion to a work which renders
every student of the classics deeply his debtor.
Philadelphia Record: There are few lives
around which greater romance clusters than
that of DR.. Heinrich Schliemann, the arch 9olo-
gist whose death Is announced. Born in poy-
erty, and compelled in his boyhood to toll early
and late. when he reached manhood he set him.
self to the task of studying languages alone
and unaided. Unexpectedly coming into posses
sion of fortune, he devoted himself to arch8-
ology and by his researches showed that
the Homeric epics were not mere legends; that
the blind old man of Scio's rocky isle. who
sbeheld the niad and the Odyssey rise to the
swelling of the voiceful sea-" sang of men and
women who lived and struggled; that the Plain
of Troy was not myth, and that the treasures
of AgAmemnon were real and palpable things.
No greater work than this was ever done by
scholar or antiquarian in unearthing the history
Of the Golden Age of the world.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-29
A S1eighing Carnival.

An old custom here in the event of snow Is
a asleighiDg carnival on ''the avenue" meaning
always, as you doubtless know. Pennsylvania
avenue, which, with all the movement in other
directions, will remain till the end of the Re-
public the great avenue of the Capital, and
destined to be the grandest avenue of the
have just come in from a glance at this
carnival. Everybody who can muster a pair
OF runners, with something on them to sit in
ana horse, or the shadow of a horse, to pull
them, is out on the avenue. The street each
sloe the car tracks is much wider than the
entire width Of most Streets and both sides
from treasury to Peace monument. a full
mile. are abandoned to the winter madness,
which is excused and encouraged on account
OF It's rarity. Big country sleds holding eight
or ten couples drawn by toughlooking plow
norses; single, double and triple cutters,
magnificent In pattern and decoration, whisked
along by two, four and even six English
thoroughbreds with tails locked short; fast
trotters in cutters SO light and graceful they
gnde over the snow as bird on the wing; the
conventional livery rig. which can be discerned
as Iar as one can see; a tally-ho coach body on
,poDs;' rough boxes hammered together for
the occasion, on runners of plank; hogsheadS
sawed IN Two, and even a big wash tub, are
made to de duty as sleigh boxes; and all are
mingled together and driving pell-mell with oc-
casionally an upset and a runaway to vary the
performance. which would be quite lively
enough without them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-29
THE THIRD PARTY POSTPONED.

A Topeka, Kan, correspondent gives else
where the factors developed by the trip OF
the Kansas Farmers Alliance representa-
tives through the South. showing third
party movement as the result of that organ
ization to be impossible, at least for some
years. The reason is, briefly, that while the
old issue of race supremacy is at stake the
Southern farmers will not consent to aban-
don old party lines, except upon platform
which saddles the principle of white suprem-
acy upon whatever new issues the third
party should raise.
This view is probably the result of the
contact between the most strongly Repub-
lican element of the Alliance with the
Southern members who adhere to the most
bigoted of the Southern Democratic
views So long as these conflicting
elements keep up their divisions on
old issues, the best thing they can do is to
stick to the old party lines. But it may be
questioned whether considerable elements
OF the Alliance, both North and South, are
not approaching the point where they can
discover the old issues to be settled, and
amalgamate on the more recent ones which
are still to be decided by the people. The
organization of colored Farmers Alliances
in the South as auxiliary to the white
bodies is most encouraging sign that
certain element IN the South is on the point
of finding out that the best solution of the
race question is for the whites to cooperate
with the colored people on points in which
both are interested, and to rely on the
superior intelligence and abilities of the
white race to preserve its supremacy.
The growth OF that idea may, it is quite
evident, be SO slow as to postpone the for
nation of third party; although it is no
less a fact that some of the Alliance leaders
expect to get their party into working order
by 1892. A postponement of the third party
might accomplish one of two decided though
very different results. 1t might dull the
ardor which now inspires the organization
and disintegate its political forces; or discus
sion might purge it of its present economic
vagaries, and give its platform real
strength that would command great respect
and possess actual force by the latter part of
the decade.
One thing may be counted upon, however.
If the third party does not materialize there
will be enough left of its original elements
to make politics decidedly uncertain for the
naxt few years.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-29

Reed have by their own acts convicted
themselves of readiness to throw overheard
their own convictions in order to pass par
tisan measures. Here is parliamentary
right which Senator Hoar has lately declared
himself to believe "of immense Importance,
not only to the perfection of legislation, but
also to the dignity of the Senate, and, in
my opinion, to civil liberty ITSELF" and Sem
ator Hoar proposes to throw aside the
dignity of the Senate and civil liberty in
order to carry out Speaker Reeds plan Of
"doing our counting and making out our
own certificates"
Senator Hoar should understand that the
partisan ship which leads public men to dis
card their avowed convictions is Of the kind
that m ost surely earns the public condemna-
finn
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-29
Everybody in the Swim,

Liberty and equality. If not fraternity, are
supreme. The retired millionaire is of no more
account than the ex-slave, still slavish enough,
but full of the spirit of the times who has
loaded the body of his ash cart on improvised
runners of slabs, and endeavors vainly to whip
his bony Rosinante into decent trot Sena-
ators and cabinet officials and small clerks and
messengers; great capitalists in business and
their $40 month counter jumpers; prohibition
Its and saloon keepers; speculators in real
estate and stocks; gamblers on margins and
gamblers on green haize with cards and ivory
chips; grand ladies of the haut ton, who occupy
the front pews in the most fashionable taber-
nacles, and the not less elegantly clad of the
prescribed class from glittering drawing rooms
"below the avenue" mingle together, for once
on common level. and the presence and mer-
riment of the one apparently never dampening
the enjoyment of the other.