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Wichita eagle., 1890-01-25
They Were Friends.

There We're Just two vacant seats in the car,
and the two fat men who numbered on board
at the next station fell into them in the
wheezy breathless fashion which always in
dictates haste when applied to fat men. They
were apparently on first rate terms with
each other, and after they had recovered
their breath they resumed an argument con-
corning the necessity of wearing ear muffs in
cold weather. Both rlen were considerably
past the prime of life, and both were evidently
self made men, The Indications of personal
success were seen in their habit of making
sweeping statements in loud voice and with
dogmatic manner. In few minutes it
was apparent that it would require a very
big house indeed to serve as dwelling place
for both of them.
II tell YOU. sir,n said one of them, 'sthat ear
muffs should be worn, not for the purpose of
keeping the ears warm, but to keep the dust
out. Don't talk to me, sir; I've made a study
Of this sort of thing"
'Well,n retorted the other man, sit may be
necessary to use some protection when a
mans ears are abnormally large, butt
Don't tell me Eve got big ears, sir," inter-
rupted the other big fellow; people that live
in glass houses shouldn't chuck stones"
The train drew up at a station and two
ladies entered the car One was old and
roughly clad; the other wore rich clothes and
was young and pretty. The fat man who
was opposed to ear muffs scrambled to his
feet, and, touching the old lady Oh the arm,
tenderiy helped her into his seat. The other
fat man chung to his seat stoiidly and blinked
absently into space until a few stations further
on q poor old colored woman came in, and
then he, too, forseok his scat, and, numbering
up to his friend, reopened the argument with
the old time vigor.-New York Sun.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-25
Bits About BSauets.

Tall thin women should never wear high
narrow bonnets, but seek always shapes
which tend to soften hard OF angular lines
For such, low tzrban effects are most grace
full and becoming, and concessions 10 prevail
ing STYLES may be strsfied in arrangement Of
trimming, for which tho velvet leaves and
flowers now SO fashionable are especially ID
sirable.
Large faces look coarse under large and
under very small hats, and women with snch
look best in bonnets which follow in shape
the outline of the head.
The Gwerdolens ard tie Uelens always
look attractive in the picturesque Gainsbor-
ough, but they must guard against indnlgfng
in styles which are at best appropriate only
on rare occasions For riding, modified
forms of the most becoming style may be
adopted, hut ordinarily refined taste demands
the smaller MEDIUM slzed hat.
The pretty girls who look pretty IN any
thing and in spite OF everything make On ex-
ception to all rules; bss few faces arc tDde-
pendent of the influence uiiitner's art can
WELD
The soft effect produced by the present.
fashion OF trimming with ostrich bands end
tips is very becolI1ing TO youthful faces and
the jaunty wings bound together by fass5cn
in myriads are graceful coroness for not too
stately queenz.
Bonnets made altogeshor Of fowes are
lovely for ali but mns,rrc faces, md thevel7et
which divides favor, the present season, With
felt Is becoming to all years, and ia rich, er;,-
broidervd designs especially suited 70 the
youthful rnatron. Indeed. such variety in
style aud material is shown that one only
=
sor Of congsnial sloFen Of either q bonues
h,t -1reSz
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-25

puyHoenomy ana general sryle or dress m
arranging the hair. A curied fringe. with q
sailor hat and tailor made yachting dress and
exposed TO sea spray, would be unsuitable.
But it would be quite suitable with broad
leaf hat worn on the back OF the head or with
q wee duck of a bonnet, running up into a
sparkling aigrette and perched on the top OF
the head.
"a tousled fringe would destroy the rcpose
which the sculptor of the VEINS of Milo
wanted to express in her face and whole
form. But it would be just the thing for
minois chiffonnse, without much OF 3 nose,
piquant cherry lips, dancing eyes and a fig
ure hardly more substantial than birds.
The queen as q young girl looked best In Ma
donna bands. Mrs. Browning, who had a
mobile countenance that expressed every
emotion, and a radiant physiognomy, was
delightful with bunch OF corkscrew ring
lets falling at each side of her neck. The
Empress Eugenieis long, regular featuresand
rather poor forehead obliged her coiffeur TO
raise her hair up and to brush it back from
her temples
ION the other hand, the original physiog-
nomy of the empress of Austria WAS most at
tractive when she let her hair fall over her
shoulders in mermaid fashion. Nine Tallisn
was delightful with her hair cut and cur,ed .
La Titus. She chose this mode because it
suited 50 few faces, and was sure TO COM
mand attention In s room where directory
beauties were legion. Sarah Bsrnhardts
swallows nest wig Sarah xlone could wear.
If she and the wig hsd not been so odd the
result must have been frishtful. Somehow
it was not. What's one mans meat is an
other mans poison might be parsphrased
into What's one woman's lovelineSs Is smother
woman's ugliness ~ - Paris Cor. London
Truth
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-25
STRAY BITS.

Two-thirds Of the university studenH Of
Austria are Jews.
The Bank of France has at present $3.50,
300 900 in gold in its cellars
4 carat Of gold received its name from the
carat seed OF the Abyssinian coral aowcr.
Italy has a debt OF s.. SSa. so Goa. the
largest Of any nation in the civilized world
The surest test OF frozee orange Is its
weight II it is heavy in the hand X has ros
been frozen.
According to the United States coast sur
vey reports, the polar ANS Is rwenry-sax
niles shorter than the equatorial axis
Some remarkable caves have been discov-
srei IN west Australia Two CT tiseEa weuld
a9ord recommendation for 20o, GO Eace each.
Il is said that the highest prioed beck ever
sold ~~zs the william missal nreseated 70 King
Hcsry VIII by Pocs Leo Y, WHICH brought
80, coo
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-25
4 SAIL NORTH OF ALASKA.
EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE OF THE
U. S. STEAMER THETiS.

An Open Arctic Sea for the First Time in
Thirty-four Years-Caught in the Ice and
Ramming = Way Out-Desolation's SUI
preme Reign.
The United States steamship Thetis re-
Gently arrived at San Francisco from a
northern cruise which must take high rank
The chances are that such an experience will
not again be possible in the lifetime of any
now living, for, unusual as the past season
has been on the north Atlantic coast, it has
been far more so in the far northwest For
the first time since 1854 q vessel has sailed
far to the eastward of Point Barrow, along
the northern shore of Alaska, and so open
was the sea that Lieut.. Commander Stockton
is positive he could have sailed through to
Baffins bay, thus making the Northwest
Passage though in reverse order.
Abundant proof has been found that
whales have made the passage during the
past year; few whales could be found in the
western waters, and the fact that they do
make the passage has been proved by the
capture of whales in the North Pacific carry
ing Dundee harpoons they had received in
Baffin's bay. Capt. Stockton did not at
tempt the passage, because his orders were to
go no farther than the whalers had gone, and
because his vessel was not outfitted or his
men prepared for such voyage. Still his
vessel and two whalers went east of Manning
Point, being the first to go as far as longitude
IA since 1854. In 1850 the Enterprise and
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THETIs AND BELUGA IN THE ICE.
from The San Francisco Examiner.l


the Investigator, commanded by Collinson and
Mcclure, entered the Arctic by way Of
Behring strait, being in search of Sir John
Franklin. They went within sixty miles Of
the western terminus of Barrow strait, and
there Mcclure was caught in the ice and re-
manned in the Arctic more than three years,
escaping finally by way of Mackenzie river.
Lieut.. Commander Stockton was charged
with the duty of constructing relief station
at Point Barrow and looking after feet Of
six whalers which sailed eastward from Point
Barrow ON the 22d of July. On the 9Th Of
August the Thetis followed them, sailing
through what the natives call 1.-THE Sea of
Perpetual Ice" Four of the whalers turned
back from the mouth of Mackenzie river.
They and the Thetis found abundant sea
room along the coast, and the navigators
saw the ice pack far to the north of them for
the most part, there being no foes to impede
their progress. The Summer was very warm
and the previous winter had been unusually
mild, while long continued southerly winds
had driven the ice pack a long way Off shore.
The Thetis delayed little too long, however,
and was caught while making the turn around
the northern point on her return.
The wind suddenly turned to northerly,
driving tine ice pack down upon the coast,
and the Thetis was soon shut in. Here and
there openings showed in the ice, and when
ever possible the vessel was forced through
them. AT one time she was made fast to a
foe about ten miles long and seventy feet
thick and moved with it as it was slowly
driven by the wind. After two days i'm
prison,nent in one place the commander de-
cided on the plan (which seems hopeless TO a
landsman) of ranBaing a way through the ice
to an open space near, though the ice was
forty feet thick.
The bow of the Thetis Is plated heavily
with iron, backed by eight feet of solid wood.
In ramming the stem cnts into tie ice few
feet; then the momentum carries the bow
upon the ice, and the vessels weight breaks
off the loosened portion. 1t is simply a slow
chipping eff of the foe, and two hours are
required to advance the length Of the ship.
If the pack once, closas in on the vessel ram
ming is imprncticabie. On the third day of
this periious passage through ice and open
"cracks" the psck closed In firmly on the
Thetis, and she was apparently doomed YES
sci. She is strongly constructed, but no YES
sci can be built capable of withstanding such
masses of ice
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-25
This Body of Ours.

Without going so far as to say that every
article Of mans apparel ought 70 be wool
en-, it is an undisputed fact that this material
Is the best suited for underclothing either in
winter or summer. And the reasons are not
far TO seek. Neither linen nor cotton is capable
of protecting the body from external heat in
the summer nor of conserving the warmth Of
the body IN winter, because, bang good con-
ductors Of heat, they allow it TO psrneats.
Wool, ON the other hand, is non-conductor;
and there Is little doubt that the death rate
in this country would be greatly reduced,
and the wards of the hospitals for disease of
thechest less crowded, were wooden garments
TO be worn by young ande
But, to parody the WORDS of an ancient adj
vertisement, when we ask for wool we should
see that we get it. Two kinds of articles will
be placed on the counter before the intending
purchaser cheap and dear. The latter,
however, VIII be the cheaper in the long run,
for ten to one the former is a well put to-
gether mixture of cotton and wool. II is easy
to show any one how to tell such mixture at
a glance almost. but difficult TO describe on
paper, so the novice m this matter should take
some one with him, or her, when gong to
shop, and should pay q fair price and deal
only with respectable tradesnen-
Beware Of wearing dyed fiannels next the
skin. | know there is a great run on red but
this color is just as likely TO contain poison
Gus matter as any other. Sax for the under-
garments Of men with tender skins has much
to recommend il, though it takes but second
place to wool. Then, IN point of cold resist
ing qualities, comes rnerinc. This may be
worn next the skin by men wearing the time
honored linen shirt The under vest or sam
met must not be Of dyed material.
Another thing may be said in favor Of
wooden underclothing git keeps up the health
full action of the skin far better than any
other material can--ExchangeL
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-25
BUSINESS BETTER.
Increased Activity, Easier Money, Quicker
Collections Than for Some Time.

NEW YORK, JAM 24-R. 6. Dun g. Co.'S
Weekly Review of Trade says: This has
been a more favorable week for business
in general. Colder weather has brought
increased activity and improvement in
prices. Heavy disbursements by the
treasury for bonds have brought easier
money markets, and some troublesome
labor controversies have been adjusted.
Speculation is still restricted and moder-
ate in volume. The wooden business has
been a little improved for all grades by the
colder weather and it is fairly active for
cheaper cassimeres and worsted, with
some gain in heavier woolehs. The
speculation in cotton has marked up the
price sc. The boot and shoe trade is rath-
er better while hides remain low and show
no improvement. The trade IN rubber
goods is moderate. Lumber and building
materials are in steady demand. The
grain speculation halts with sales of only
II DOC, 900 bushels. Wheat Is &c lower with
corn only &c. Oats have risen Lee and
pork products are little stronger.
Except in cotton the speculative markets
show no unhealthy activity, though money
bhere has been decidedly easier. Exports of
wheat have been decidedly small since the
recent rise and flour shipments are light,
while even corn exports appear to fall be-
hind those of last year.
Most reports note Improvement in. wealth
er and in trade, and at Chicago grain re-
ceipts double last years and there are
gains in provisions. The money
markets are easier ut Philadelphia and ST.
Louis and Omaha firm, with ample supply
at Chicago. fairly active with good de-
mand at other western points, but slightly
slack at st. Paul. There Is much less
complaint of tardy collections and special
Improvement is noted at Kansas City and
Detroit. The general improvement is re-
flected in higher prices for stocks. which
have advanced during the week nearly SO
cents per share, and railroad traffic and
earnings continue to show large gains
over last year.
The business failures number 33S, as
compared with a total of $50 last week.
For the corresponding week OF last year
the figures were 342.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-25

faraell and many other susps.sfs va~e re-
LEASED FROM the prisons Of frstHA Altar
ward, when the Gladsteoisa pntAcy Of j,-
tiee f5r Ireland was on trial snda yeQssxl
Of coercion ives hzstled for IN the sous. u
commons, O'Shsa was found 70 bs only .
half hsar:sd champion after al. In 1856
Psrpen nominated him for . Vacancy ia
Galway for parliament This ssassd . hub-
bub throughnus Irslapd. and orsha va
openly denounced rs a nastor 20 chs National
cause.
In the cribs Parnell ErrFsef 10 Galway,
and at his bidding tho fszatfon changed al
once He made a speeca, and dscAxrcd thns
o'Sbea's election was pafseirai nsossi;y.
Although Ia was stu regacd~d with diatavoe,
he was elected, and the grwnsbeug e-ased-
No sooser Lad ns tzAsa an sszA thaA ha
st6ed with tho Tories, notwithstanding hts
pledge To Irish Nationalist 10 support party
neasarss or resign He was pov kiakcd ous
of bis Galway seat and PsrIssu was nos
streng snungh 10 save hiIn- Ia tbs t1vsstigs-
aoH os she famous forged lettsr 0'6asa stood
for The Times and ssVors that II believed tbs
Parppil signature TO DO guurtna. AZ tho cxss
ef tue Galway election ths present scandal
was hintsd at as the real reason for PzrnsEfs
tfisadshtp fnr OShea, aud yet the ofics wa
accepted without protest and without effort
On bis part - clear up tho clogd pgs upon hLs
~ites hosso-, The porerak. "a from q SKETCH
ihstls Of Capt. O'Shes When he was testify,
ssy bsfons ths Psrnsu commission.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-25
FOR BUSINESS, NOT BANoUETs.
The COlored Troops Fought NObly,' But
Comrades Draw the Line.

AUGUSTA, Ga, Jan. 2+-The depart
mental encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic was held in Augusta to-
day at the headquarters of Augusta post
No,2. Charleston, Savannah, Macon, At
lanta ANA Tallahassee posts were repre-
scented. Colored delegates from Beaufort
and Savannah claimed admission to the
encampment from the colOred posts which
they represented. The committee on Gre
deutials submitted majority and minority
reports, the former against the colored
delegates and the latter in favor of seating
the colored delegates. The majority re-
port recommended the formation of q
separate encampmeut for colered posts
The minority report was adopted by a
vote of Is TO /, whereupon l. ID. Crawford
Commander II. Burns, Adjutant Phillip
Hiesingefeler, representing 5. Jones
post No. 5, of Macon, withdrew from the
encampment under instructions from their
posts. The Augusta post Will give ban
Quet to the encampment tonight to which
the colored delegates are not invited.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-25
CAUSED BY NATURAL GAS.
Two Terrific Explosions at Columbus o.,
Kill Three and Wound Many.

COLUMBUS, o., Jan. 2i.-At 5 O'Clock
this evening the streets were thronged with
people whom the pleasant weather had
attracted out of doors. At that time an
alarm of fire called the department to the
corner of Wall and Noble streets, where
an explosion had occurred in a two-story
building. The inmates had been injured
in the explosion and their cries and means
could be distinctly heard. Thousands OF
people focked to the scene and
crowded the streets and alley. The
fire was almost under control when
a terrific explosion rent the air, sheet of
flame burst from the building and great
mass of bricks, beams and stone flew with
terrific force through the air.
The scene that followed was terrible. In
moment trembling women tottered and
ran across the alley and streets, and
shreking men with foreheads and Shout
ders drabbied with blood staggered from
among the debris. A woman enveioped IN
a sheet of flame, bareheaded and ShrleklDg,
ran from the house across the alley. A
fireman who held the nozzle of a hose saw
her danger and turned the stream on her.
1t knocked her down but saved her life,
extingulshing the flames. Her name was
L
the ruins and carried to place where
medical assistance could be given him. He
seemed to be in dying condition. But
the saddest of all, fearless mother with
her heart frozen by fear and grief staggered
from the ruins, holding tight to her breast
she seemingly lifeless form of her s.
months -old babe, and SO on through the
long list of killed and wounded.
The explosion resulted from an accumu-
lation of natural gas in the cellar of the
house, occupied by Michael Bowers and
Mrs. Marriott The exploded vapor, after
doing its terrible work on the south side of
Noble alley, leaped over to the north side
of the alley and completely destroyed the
house at "a West Noble street, occupied by
Edward Otstot and Mr.. James. Here the
terrible force of the exploded gas was
shown. Everything was blown to chips.
A force of workmen at work for a
week could not reduce the house to
kindling wood so thoroughly as did this
explosion in one short moment.
The work of getting out the dead and
caring for the wounded has been attended
with great excitement.
THE LIST OF DEAD.
Five were taken out dead:
CHARLES BECHT, a barber,
JOHN SEYMOUR, a colored boy,
Mrs =. MERRETT,
bNhNOWN MAN,
UNKNOWN BABE,
INFANT CHILD OF CHARLES BERRY. 1t
was dashed from its mothers arms by the
force OF the explosion and almost immedi-
Rtely was run over and killed by passing
fire department team.
The wounded are DIR. 7. X. Wissinger,
William Brady, William Mel, William
James, Mrs. William James, - Blank
niger, Theo. Schooling, Officer Lynsky,
Charles Lycklighter, William Riley, Bell
Smith, Elmer Gates, Mrs. Corn, Ed
keemer Elmer Coach. Charles Lowery, -
Westlander, Petty Marriott, Thomas
Doyle, Flora Bowers; Emma Bowers, aged
Il, badly burned but not fatally; Aaron
Boone. Ben Morgan Shawnee, Marshal
Kilbourne, - Berry, - Wolfe, Peter
MarrOtL-
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FROM Ihe san fr1n19co- fsx0rGfneF.l
On the fifth day the iogsert reported q
small brekk in the les TO tho Westward. The
inc,ostng walls Of ics soon gave way a little
the wind cazne from tbs east, and ramminy
was once moro practicable. Every foot Of
sdvancs counted a. ehe wind now aided. and
by the Close At TIN fifth day the Taetis was
once more In open wster. The wine; held
from the east fcP q month, and thereafter
there was again abundant room along the
shore. Lieut. Commando Stockton S report
odds much to osrr knowledgeoi the northern
shore.
Despite the chser Of 8 WITH summer and
the consequent vegssat,sn. gloomy silence
reiyns along tbs sha-s Of northern Alaska
From PENS RArr0v e2sr~aCd thers Is not @
siga Of hznaa hnidsafiaAA The nasigxtors
had sons beysnd Tn regions occupied BY
man Ii sorndx <sxUzs ss hearsftae north
ward jouruers' It tk> Es9uimaux. yss they
only visit tEze rySM IN sulauIsr~ end then
for but smart eEzs. There p very
seldom any xzsza scs-A On a. south-
era end Of EeE<bxi Island tsss Thstis'
crew found q v1naEa ESQ aiu1aax hit made
OF drifswu-cd vssch had Srifsei down tas
Aacksazs AMI acrass to sas Island. showing
that tie cassrss yiik tax. distant point
in SUMNER hH was an Eszuiufaux skull.
TO eunp6asize Tn crssvness Of theplace, oa.
no Sims of heece reee2S hAh.sztsca- Posi-
bly, the skal mas that Of a ssntEy, driven
taith.r ars ecnne1sa e lager and de ssoas
in rude hss Of fkse~1 eszs.Tvresoa-
From SUBSIDIARIES ard Ra.svcs farther
socta Il wns lsar.sca ta.A. Lord IssEsssk tad
really made tae juurzeT do~n tss Earkeo-
re and across AiasEa e. relsSad, 5sz. I. h rot
tseegst that be r=acs-d SA~xsf aanA Re
stssugtt hianseA farther rsrsa saas he really
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-25
NATURE IN CONFUSION

Is terrific. Volcanic eruptions, cyclones.
earthquakes are awfully and tremendous
ly picturesque, but scarcely desirable to
emulate in action and effect by the adj
ministration of remedies which produce
CONFUSION and agony in the abnormal por-
ton of the human frame Such is the eff
feet of the old fashioned violent purga-
tives happily falling more and more into
disuse. and of which Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters is the wholesome. pleasant and far
more effective succedaneum. They weak
ened the intestines-the Bitters invigor-
ates them. They left the bowels inactive,
because incapacitated by ensuing feeble
ness The Bitrers, on the contrary, and
because it enables, not forces, them to act
"a vast and fortunate difference-peroetu-
ates their activity and regularity. The
liver is beneticialiy stimulated. as the kid
neys also are, by this medicine, which
easily conGuers, also, malaria, nervous
ness and rheumatism.