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Wichita eagle., 1890-02-28
HOuse Drains.

House drains as q source OF ground contain
nation are pronounced by Professor John
McMullen to be even more dangerous than the
common sewers, since they are 50 frequently
located Immediately under the house, where
the results Of any defect are more directly
manifested. By unskiilful construction, or
by subsequent careless usage or want OF re-
pair, the filth is effused into the basement or
cellar, and impregnates the soil under the
house. In country districts Isolated outbreaks
of diphtheria, traceable 70 cesspool eRiuvia,
are not at all uncommon. In these cases it
is generally found that there is q water closet
in the house, where there is little or no pro-
vision for any change Of air, that the soil
pipe is never ventilated, and that the closet
drain discharges into a cesspool which is COM
pletely covered up and only cleaned at rare
intervals The consequence is that any gases
generated in the cesspool have no outlet, ex-
cept through the water closet into the house,
and hence result attacks OF diphtheria, ulcer
ated sore throat and other ailments. From
an inquiry instituted by the state board of
health of Massachusetts, respecting the predis-
posing causes of diphtheria, its prevalence,
etc, it is shown that this disease has been
most severe i'll the rural districts where there
are no sewers, and where the drainage is bad.
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-28
Things of 1o,lay.

Maneable and ductile bronze produced in
plates or bars free from cracks and blow holes,
is an article lately patented IN England and
France.
\ New York inventor has patented an
electric refrigerator. based on the fact that s.
current Of electricity passed in me proper
direction across the junction OF swo Sissisnf
lar metals cools the joint.
A submarine ram. claimed 70 be able TO
punch hole in any vessel a1oat, is new in
vention intended TO be carried upon deck on
men-of-war
The system Of freezing the soil with brine,
Tor the purpose OF sinking shafts through
quicksand has been pronounced success
The important fsct is announced that the
telephone can De duplexed, or. in other words.
four people instead OF two can tais over the
wires 81 enc time.
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-28

When the lerva is fully matured it pro-
ceeds to spin its cocoon, and from the silk
sacs throws ont silken thread about 4,OC
yards long While doing this it continually
moves its head around for about three days
The cocoons are white or yellow in color, egg
shaped, and measure from ap inch to an inch
and half in length, and from half an inch
TO an inch in diameter. They are ike q
hard shell with some of the silky fibers on
the outside.
In order to use the cocoons for silk, they
are gathered before they are pierced by the
moths III making their exits from the shell,
thus bursting them and injuring the silk.
Three or four days are required for the sils
worms to spin their cocoons, and two or three
days after they are gathered before the shells
are burst When the cocoons are gathered
the chrysalideS have to be killed by heat,
either dry or steam heat, and are then sorted
according to their size, color and quality.
The mulberry leaf is the principal food OF
the silk worm, and groves of the mulberry
tree are cultivated for this purpose.
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-28
SOCIAL ETIQUETTE.
The Magic Pasteboard and It's Many Con-
venent Uses in Society.

The Magic Pasteboard and It's Many Con-
venient Uses in Society.
To many people the visiting card is but an
Insignificant and trifing bit of paper, but
those who know society by heart" make it
serve as a convenient medium Of social inter-
course For instance, cards have become
very useful as means of conveying somewhat
informal invitations For dinners, balls and
other very ceremonious occasions, they are
inadequate; but Good Housekeeping pro-
nounces them in good taste for dances,
lunches, lat bones and teas, and says:
The words lat home" are written upon the
card by the hostess herself, also the hour and
often the nature of the entertainment, as
Dancing" Progressive euchre" The en-
veiope should exactly fit the card, and while
it is not out of place to send by mail, it is in
better taste that they should be delivered by
a servant
The convenient card is also used in reply
ing to invitations. This is frequently correct,
but not unless the invitation itself was in that
form. Where one more formal was engraved,
or written in the third person, a note, also in
the third person, is necessary. In using the
card the phrases, Accepts with pleasure, :"
or, Regrets TO decline" are proper, but it is
not allowable 10 merely write Accepts or
Declines" as this is too curt form to be
really courteous.
If a call is intended for more than one
member of a family, 1t is well, though not
obligatory. to send up g card for each person.
In event of seeing no one, n card must be left
for each without fail. 1t may be turned at
the corner or not In small towns this is not
The necessity that il is IN cities where there
must be some indication whether the visit
was personal or not.
Ard these are q very few of the many uses
of cards, which, properly understood, sim
pity social duties
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-28
Good Jianrers ut Home.

The presence OF good manners is nowhere
more needed or more effective than in the
household. and perhaps nowhere more rare.
Wherever familiarity exists there is a ten
dency - loosen the check upon selfish con-
duct which the presence OF strangers invol
unfairly produces. Many persons who are
kind and courteous in company are rude ana
careless with those whom they love beSh
Emerson says. Good manners are made up
Of petty sacrifices" and certainly nothing
can more thoroughly secure the harmony
and peace OF the family circle than the habi.
Of making small sacrifices, one for another.
Children thus learn good manners IN the best
and most natural way, and habits thus &c
CURED VIII never leave them. Courtesy and
kinGliness viii never lose their power or their
charm, while all spurious limitations OF them
are 20 be 6espised
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-28
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN.
PLEASANT READING FOR BRIGHT
BOYS AND GIRLS OF TO-DAY.

An Insignificant Looking Worm That Pro
duces One of the Most Valuable MercAn-
tile Articles of the Worid-A Frank Ex-
PLANTATION by 3 Small Boy.
Among many of the useful discoveries ard
inventions with which the Chinese are
credited is the manufacture of silk, which
is supposed TO have originated with Them
at all events they jealousy guarded the
method employed as a most valuable Sc
cret. and other nations obtained knowledge
of it slowly and only through various IN
genious articles 4 writer in VicSs Maga-
zine from which our cut of the silk moth,
silk worm and cocoon is reproduced. tells that
the secret was carried into Persia by some
monks who had resided a long time IN China,
and knowing that they would not be allowed
openly to carry away the silk worm eggs,
concealed them in a bamboo cane, and III
this way the different varieties of silk worms
were scattered over many parts OF the
world
The Bombyx mort is the principal one OF
the silk producing moths, and belongs to the
family Of Lepidoptera, in whsSS are some OF
the largest and most beautiful insects. Ii Is
OF a grayish color, the body or the male not
half an inch long and that OF the female
somewhat longer and stouter, while the wings
are short and weak The larva Is without
hair of gray or cream color and from three
10 three and half inches long. The silk YES
sells ere two sacs running along the sides OF
the body and opening by one spinnsret on
the under lip of The larya.
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-28
Wholesale Slaughter.

A gentleman undertook to count the birds
he saw on ladies' bonnets one bright after
noon on Broadway, New York We give the
result OF his afternoons count: -Four robins.
brown thrush, 8 bluebirds, Blackburnian
warbler, blackpoll warblers, 3 Wilson's
black capped hycatchers, 3 scarlet tanagers,
/ white bellied swallow, Bohemian wax
wing, % waxwings, great northern shrike,
pine grosbeak, 10 snow buntings, 2 tree spar
rows, white throated sparrow, bobolink,
2 meadow larks, Baltimore orioles, 5 purple
grackles, bluejays, 1 swallow tailed fly
catcher, kingbird, kingfisher, pileated
woodpecker, 2 red headed woodpeckers. p
golden winged woodpeckers, Arcadan owl,
l Carolina dove, pinnated grouse, ruffed
grouse, 10 quails, 2 helmet quails, 5 Sunder-
lngs, big yellowlegs, green heron, l Vir-
glnia rail, laughing gull, 81 common terms,
l black tern, Z grebes-New Orleans Plea
yune
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-28
HiOistylrn IN HOuses.

Few people realize the damage done to wall
paper and other articles in house by sudden
changes from cold to warm and damp
weather, when common sense principles In
airing a house are neglected.
One evening people go to bed with a hunt
for extra blankets because of the sudden and
severe chill in the atmosphere. When they
rise in the morning their bedrooms, parlors,
dining rooms, etc, are vet chilly from the
cold OF the previous day, while the outside
atmosphere has perhaps suddenly become not
only warm, but hot and oppressive with
dampneSs.
InconSiderate persons will at once open their
windows and doors, forgetting that the ex-
ceSSive moisture III the atmosphere will rush
in with the warm air and swiftly deposit it
self on the cold walls, furniture, ETC., and
penetrate wall papers, curtains, bedding and
everything within reach that presents sur
face colder than the air that carries it into
the house.
OF course the moisture looSens and discolors
paper, makes curtains rs limp as .waShrags,
makes beds damp and musty, and generally
spoils everything that water can spoil. All
this could be avoided by following the plain,
common sense rule of not opening houses
suddenly 10 suddenly changed atmosphere,
carrying an excessive quantity OF moisture.
4 pitcher filed with cold water and placed
in room III summer Will sweat. that is as
soon as the outer surface of the pitcher be-
comes cooler than the atmosphere in the
room. the moisture OF the air will be precipi-
tated upon the pitcher in drops This simple
illustration should teach al housewives 20
avoid suddenly opening rooms in q house
when the outside atmosphere is warmer than
the temperature OF the rooms AMI full of
moisture. The only thing 10 be added is
that, when people have thus ignorantly or
neCHgently allowed their houses TO become
damp, they should light fires and dry them
As promptly as posSible.
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-28
How Long Shall We Sleep?

Cup to the fifteenth year most young peo-
pie require ten hours sleep, and until the
twentieth year, nine hours" The Analyst
laws down this rule and then says: After that
eye every one finds out how much he or she
requires, though, as a general rule, at least
six to eight hours is necessary. Eight hours
sleep will prevent more nervous derange-
ments in women than any medicine can cure
During growth there must be ample sleep if
the brain is to develop to its full extent; and
the more nervous. excitable or precocious a
child is, the longer sleep should it get, if its
intellectual progress is not to come TOT prema-
ture standstill, or its life cut short at an carly
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-28
ALL AROUND THE HOUSE.
Charming Arrangement of Flowers Upon
the Satiny Damask of the Dinner Table.

the Satiny Damask of the Dinner Table.
Floral decoration for the table has grown
to be almost as important a faultless
menu. At large dinner recently given in
Washington space in the center of the table
nearly forty feet long and eight feet wide
was sunk so thai the 600 potted ferns with
which it was filled rose but short distance
above the table CLOTH Innumerable little
electric lamps were scattered under the fern
fronds. No other lights were used in the
room, and the effect was charming.
For modest tables glass dessert sets and
vases are fashionable and particularly beau
tiful flower holders, and old fashioned silver
cake baskets filed with wet moss AID white
flowers, such as stephanotis, arums, etc., look
lovely, especially if lightly yelled in maiden
hair ferns. $500.
London florists use baskets Of different
shapes, lined with white plush or brocade, in
which are hidden receptscles for water, and
these are filed with flowers and green, the
latter trailing over the handles and being
kept in place by streamers of satin ribbon
and silver cord; while the bags of satin or
brocade, shaped like sacks, and caught in
round the neck with silver cord, form de-
hcious cachepotS. Such bags are easy to make,
and are most effective if made loose enough,
while entirely hiding the vase or not, to fall
carelessly on the table.
Jars of metal--brass, copper and silver
are universally appropriate to the decorative
pls1cing of flowers. Blue flowers in bowl
of FURNISHED brass, with brown gold draper
les behind and beneath them, are JOY for
ever; and any one who has ever arranged a
group of pink orchids in a classic silver vase,
rejecting all their elegance of form and
changing beauty of color from the mirror
like breadth of snlver placed below then,
will not soon forsvo the lustrous pearl like
quality of their beauty. Such an arrange
ment finds its proper environment in white
drawing room or upon the satiny linen Of a
dinner table
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-28
AFTER THE CURFEW.
the play Is over. While the Light
Yet fingers in the darkening hall
leone to say a last good night
Before the final cxeunt all.

Yet fingers in the darkening hall
leone to say last good night
Before the final exeunt all
We gathered once, a joyous throng;
The jovial toasts went gayly round;
With jest and laugh and shout and song,
We made the floors and walls resound.
We come with feeble steps and slow.
A little band of four or five,
Left from the wrecks of long ago,
Still pleased to find ourselves alive.
Alive. How living too, are they
Whose memories II is ours to share!
Spread the long tables full array;
There sits ghost in every chair.
One breathing form no more, alas.
Amid our slender group we see;
With him we still remained the Glass;:
Without his presence what are we?
The hand we ever loved to clasp,
That tireless hand which knew no rest,
LooSed from affections clinging grasp
Lies nerveiezS on the peaceful breast
The beaming eye, the cheering voice,
mat lent to life generous glow,
Whose every meaning said Rejoice,
We see, we hear. no more below
The air seems darl1ened by his loss,
Earth's Swallowed features look less fair
And heavier weighs the daily cross
His willing shoulders helped us bear
Why mourn that we, the favored few
Whom grasping time SO long has spared
LIES sweet illusions to pursue,
The common lot of age have shared:
In every pulse of Friendships heart
There breeds unfels throb of pain;
One hour must rend it's links apart.
Though years on years have forged the
chain.
So ends the boys" a lifelong play:
We, too, must hear the prompter's call
10 falrer scenes and brighter day;
Farewell. l let the curtain fall!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-28
Damp Soil and Consumption.

An English physician advances an array of
statistics in support of the theory that not only
does a damp soil greatly promote consump-
tion but that its presence may be abated fully
one half by the introduction of suitable drain
age A well known Massachusetts, physician
holds similar views, and considers that the
amount of moisture in the soil is fair cri-
terion of the proportion of consumption
among residents.
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-28
PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.
High Altitude Treatment. OF Consumption
Danger in the House Drain.

In considering the treatment OF conSImp-
ion BY high altitude, a MEDICAL writer
snuInerates certain desirable conditions q
climate: u Extreme purity OF the ar, g
serial rarefaction, . low relative humidity,
and - immunity from wind. fog AMI nias-
nal enlanations. The cases sent 70 soCh cir
mates should be carefully selected No case
should be sent in which there Is seniie cnsuge,
!aryngeal liberation, govt, rheumatism or
ganic nerve disease, o. hysteTia- When there
Is no marked eIisc.atloc. seys1e pTTexs. Or
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-28

Tea leaves scattered over carpet before
sweeping brightens the colors and keeps
down dust
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-28
Great Relief

is. instantly afforded sufferers from
i Bronchitis, by the use of Ayers
Cherry Pectoral- Either as an auo-
dyne, 10 allay inflammation, or an ex-
pectorant. to loosen and bring away the
mucous, this preparation has no equal.
Last winter I contracted a severe
cold. which. by repeated exposure. be-
came quite obstinate. I was much
troubled with hoarSeneSS and bronchial
irritation. After trying various medi-
cines. without relief. | at last purchased
q bottle of Ayers Cherry Pectoral- On
taking this medicine, my cough ceased
almost Immediately, and ] have been
well ever since. - Rev. Thomas 4.
Russell. Secretary Holsto:I Conference
and L +. OF the Greenyille Dist. NJ. Z. e,
Jonesboro. Tenn.
my mother was sick three years and
very low with bronchitis. We feared
nothing would cure her. One of my
friends told me about Ayers Cherry
Pectoral. She tried it, has used eight
bottles. and is now WELT. II. ID.
Chamberlain Baltimore, Nd.
New-York tribune., 1890-08-08
THE SUHMER'.S UE4D-GEdR.

II is remarkable that the high white hat is not
holding its own this summer. Close observation
shows that only one high white hat is worn this
summer where three were worn last summer.
Various theories have been advanced to account
for this, all more or less improbable. OF course,
the men who wore high white hats last summer
are not going bareheaded this, and the hat which
seems to have thrown itself into the breach is
the black straw, though not every man who
formerly wore the high white now wears the
black straw. Indeed, it is probable that only a
few of them do, more Of them having, IL would
seem, fallen back on the derby, while great num-
bers Of the former wearcrs of the derby and light
straw have taken up the black straw. The high
whites, if we may 50 designate them were always
taken as rule, q somewhat exclusive portion of
the community, coming into town the nine
forty-fve train Indeed, many of them habitualy
took the ten-thrty train, while the rank and file
Of men-the derbys and strows-come in on the
seven-foriy and eight-twenty trains. This season
the few high whites which are left still affect
the late trains but their number is small and late
or early they are swallowed up in vast throng
OF plebelan derbys and lowly straws
Whence comes this great decline In the high
white hat? We are inclined TO think that there
must be an area of financial depression in this
part Of the country which no one has noticed
The high white hat would naturally we suspect,
be one of the first things on which man would
economic. 1t is expensive and its hour is brief.
IL cannot he worn the second season. No one has
ever discovered what can he done with a high
white hat in the fall. 4 man may, when done
with il, give his high black silk hat TO his coach
man, if il is large enough for him, but rot so the
high white. No sell-fcspectiug coachman or cab
man will wear anything but silk hat. 1t may
bc a season or two behind in the matter OF shape,
and the fur may have been rubbed the wrong
way, but he will cling 10 it while life remnins
II the downfall Of the high white hat has been
the negative event OF the season, the upcoming Of
the black straw has been the positive event
There were no black straw hats in New-iork last
summer and not above five or six In Brooklyn
There has been suspicion abroad, fostered large
New-York tribune., 1890-08-08

,r,ined ut q standstilI. Realizing the neccs-
sity of putting an end to this awkward uoaa,
lock the Emperor summoned the leaoers vi
tho rival factions to Vienna last winter ana
hv dint OF great personal persuasion, by ap-
meals 10 their patriotism, and by the exercise
Of much diplomacy, he at length succeeded
in efrecting n compromise on terms most al
rantapeous and honorable to the Czechs.
Although the moderate and conservative Sec
tions OF the Bohemian Nationalist party were
well satisfied with the compromise to whicn
Herr Rieger had affixed his signature at VIENNA
and greatly pleased with the new CONCESSIONS
which he had secured, his action was rcpud'-
atcd and censlIred in the bitterest manner Dy
tbc advanced and radical faction-which de-
scribes itself as "the Young Czech party
| The members of tho latter claimed that llerr
Riecer should have refused TO consent to any
covenant that did not provide for tho complete
and absolute separation OF the Bohemian uoV
ernment from that of the remainder Oh tno
Empire. They added that the only bonds
which they would recognize between their
country and Austria were those OF dynastlc
nature in the person of the Emperor, stipulat-
ing. however. that he should agree to be
crowned at Prague as hlnS vi Donoi"'"'
ing the last six months they have been actively
engaged in propagating these views in the
small towns and villages, particularly among
the less educated classes And so successful
has been their agitation against the vienna
Convention that Herr Rieger has realized that
the sceptrc he's been torn from his grasp ana
that he has no longer either the power or the
Influence to assure the execution OF the com
pact TO which he agreed last winter on behali
Of his countrymen. lie finds himself pushed
aside and ignored as too conservative and de-
Iberate by the "Young Czechs" and, accord
ingly, he has done the only thing that re-
mained for him under the CIRCUMSTANCES
namely. withdraw into private life.
New-York tribune., 1890-08-08
PERSONAL.

The Hon. Samuel Fessenden has gone to the White
Mounttns
PRECEDENT Gates, Of Rutgers College, who is also
preSidenteec of Amherst. is visiting Amherst College
as the guest Of President seelye.
When he was at Odessa, not long ago, the Gar
visited the barracks which had Of course been newly
painted and cleaned for his inspection The. com
mandant with the idea of lmpresslng the Imperial
mind with the care taken OF the soldiers hired lot
Of warm bright blankets and sheepskn mats. which
were placed on aud by the side Of the mems cots.
The Car was highly pleased, and. ON leaving turned
TO OF the sentries at the entrance TO the dOrmitory
and asked him If he found the blanket enough.
I've never tried 1t, Little Father the innocent
reply we have no blankets but our overcOats."
Southern papers kindly saying that Mr. wilkin-
son, who is sooh TO wed the daughter Of Jefferson
Davis. is quite handsome and looks ~ though
he might have been born and reared In Mississippi or
Louisiana, little does lie exhibit his Northern birth
In appearance or manner
Lady Alexandra Leveson Cover, only daughtc, of
the Duke Of sutherland. Is studying nursing at a
London hospital
Word comes from japan of the death OF Matsudara
feudal chief lord OF Echzen, of the greatest
OF the old daimios, and one who played large part
In his day in Japan. Prior TO tho downfall on the
SLOGANS he was guardian adviser Of the Inc
shoain, and In 1891 he into violent conflict with
the famous Regent I-once familiar TO all European
in Japan II Kamou no kami-about the nomination
Of successor These chiefs, including Matsuhara
retired from the Shogn's service Ia consequence but
the success OF II shorthved, for the REGENT was
New-York tribune., 1890-08-08

financial accommodation can be secured In
London, the printing presses must be started
again and currency, already largely exceed
ing the REQUIREMENTS of business, still further
inflated So long as President Celman re-
mained in Office the English bondhoders were
only willing to make advances on the condi-
ton that the money should be deposited in
London in reserve for interest payments. The
new President may be able 10 drive better
bargain, although bo was Overreached IN his
own negotiations with English investors a few
years ago.
If the imitation tendencies can be counter
acted and law enacted In the direction OF
ultimate contraction of the currency, Argen-
tine finances can be gradually but surely re-
claimed from disorder and ruin. The country
is rich in agricultural resources, which can
never be worth anything less than their real
value in gold. Let the reign OF gamblers and
speculative adventurers he brought to an end
and Argentina will inevitably be restored to
its normal career of phenomenal progress In
material wealth.