The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-29

! was about oelock in the afternoon when
! he put one of the frames together and stood
! it up in the door | went out, and as he
began to smile with satisfaction said:
Mr.. Bowser, that door is sgueegawed. "
''SqueegaHed? SqueegaWed7 What does
! that stand for in the back coupties9"
Your deor is wider at the bottom than
st the top"
| at can't beI''
'FBut your own eyes will convince you.
There's an inch diIerenceP'
'FNeEeri I'll bet you a million dollars
there isn't hairs Dreadful"
ran for my tapeine and soon proved
! that the difference was over an inch.
4'Oh, well, can fix that in moment, -
he said, but it was 9 o'clock that evening
before he came in.
It was 10 O'Clock next forenoon when /
went out to the barn. He had the door
covered with the wire cloth and proudly
called my attention to it.
(which is the outside of the doors" I
asked
"Why, the side this way, of course"
"Then you've tackled the cloth on the in
sidei"
''That's where it belongs"
'You never saw it there, Mr.. Bowser-
neverl And look at the way you have
tackled the stuff on. It's bumped up in a
dozen different places, because you pulled
it askew."
There isn't one hump-not the sign of a
hump. Pll give any man billion dollars
to make better job of it! All that door
needs now is painting"
But don't they paint the frames before
they tack the cloth on? How are you going
to paint the inside of the frame"
Don't you worry yourself about this
job, Mrs. Bowser. | wasn't born alongside
of q huckleberry marshP'
Mr.. Bowser had been at work an hour
next morning before | went out. He had
the doors at the front, and he seemed to
have some trouble about hanging them.
you see what you've done, don't your"
asked, after a survey of the scene.
81 don't believe Pm either near sighted
or color Blind he said.
''Well. you've got one door wrong side
up, to begin with"
"H-how?"
Look at the panels and see. Then you
have been trying to hang one to swing in
and the other to swing out"
II have, eh? That shows all you know
about it. Pm simply fitting the screens so
they will shut tight"
Just before noon he got hang on both
doors, and as / looked at them from the
hall had to sit down on the floor and
laugh. They didn't meet in the center
within two inches and each was half an
inch short at the top and bottom. He had
also hung them with the cloth on the in
side. Just then a neighbor came along
and turned in to the steps. After looking
at the doors for half a minute in great as
tonishment he queried:
Something just from Paris, Bowser?"
what do you mean?"
why, you've got new idea in screen
doors. suppose the space at the bottom
is for bugs, that at the top for mosquitoes,
and the center for flies see you have left
the frames exposed. They will make CAPT
tai roosting places for horse flies and pinch
bugs, Did you do this job?"
yves"
well, if l had girl 10 years old who
couldn't beat it I'd make her go barefoot
all summer"
Il didn't make these doors for your
house, sir"
Thank Heaven for tnatl Bowser, you're
brick-a soft brick! I'll come up this
doorsP'
When the neighbor had gone l suddenly
felt the back end of the house lift up. 1t
was Mr.. BOwser pulling those screen doors
off. He couldn't even wait TO take the
screws out of the hinges. They came off
in detachments and the pieces were flung
into the back yard When he had finished
he came in and said:
Mrs. Bowser, want TO have a talk with
you-a very serious taIki''
But didn't tell you how it would bef"
"Never You encouraged me to go ahead,
and to please whin of yours I'ye lost
three days time, pounded myself all over,
spent $6 IN cash and BEEN made butt of
ridiculel Mrs. Bowser, this is the limit
the tinis-theendI Make ont a list of what
furniture you want and let Us q ee on the
alimonyP-Detroit Free Press.
Tenny, with II5 pounds up, won mile
race in I,Ao Nth ease at Morris park,
Westehes&erk H he had been sent along
a little faster in the early part of the race
1t is the general opinion Of good judges
who watched the performance that ne
would have beaten Ten Broecks record of
1884, against time, which has stood since
1877.
Lurline, the dam of Darebin, was found
dead in her paddock in Australia recently
She had been shot, but Mr.. Gardiner, her
owner, thinks il was done accidentally by
boys out hunting parrots. Size was con-
sidered one Of the best mares II Australia,
and during her career on the turf won
many valuable races, among them being
the Sydney cup and the Adelaide cup.
The sense of smell is strongly defined in
q horse, and 1t depends more on this sense
than on that Of sight. A horse VIII leave
musty hay IN bin untouched, no matter
how hungry. He viii not drink of water
to his questioning sEif nor
from bucket which some other odor makes
no matter how thirsty HIS in
telligent nossrils VIII widen. CULVER and
query over the daintiest bit offered him by
the fairest Of hands.
One Of natures strange freaks may BE
seen at the farm of Joues Stanford, four
miles north Of Flora, no. Il Is colt. not
unlike other colts, except a mark in It's
fsee. Beginning on a hae with the lower
part of the nostrils and extending 70 a
point just below the eyes Is a perfect cut
line OF a raetlesazke- It's mouth and eyes
are perfectly formed On its tail seven
rztGies and a button may be distinctly
seen, and, stranger still, the outline of the
snake i raised, being about rs large as q
lead pencil and not hair on l.