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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21
FIenIlanra at work.


she Hon. Carter H Harrison, in his
"Race with the Sum-" describes a visit to
some timber yards and saw mills in Ran
COON, where he saw what he calls the lions
Of the city-the working elephants. The
lumber is not sawed into boards, but the
slab is taken OF and the good stuff left in
the form Of square timber. The logs are
many of them three feet in diameter and
thirty or forty feet long. These the ele-
plants draw from the river and pile in
systematic order. Then, when they are
needed, they roll them to the ways and as
sist in adjusting them for the saw.
After the log is cut the elephant goes
among the machinery, takes the slabs
away and carries the good timber and
piles it up or lays it gently upon the OK
carts to be hauled off.
While we were present a carpenter want
ed lumber from particular log which was
under several others. Oneof the monsters
rolled the upper logs off and pushed the
chosen stick TO the mill. The way was not
clear-the log butted against the others.
He pushed these aside and guided his piece
through them with a sagacity almost hui
man.
His stick became wedged. He pushed
and tugged; it would not bulge, but at
whispered word from the mahout and the
promise of nice food he bent to it. Still it
stuck. With a whistle audible for half a
mile, he got on his knees, Strengthened out
his hind legs, and put mis- whole force into
push. He was successful. We could al
most read his satisfaction in the gentle
flaps of his huge ears and the graceful
curve of his proboscis as he put it up to the
mounted mahout. asking for his reward
Sticks more than two feet thick and
twenty feet long are lifted bodily upon the
great worries, and are then carried off aud
laid upon the gangways SO gently as not to
make a jar We saw one of the elephants
carrying such timber along a path not
three feet wide among masses of loose logs.
He had to plant his fore feet upon the
logs, and thus walk considerable dis
lance. He looked as if he were walking
upon his hind legs. The corner Of fraii
little bamboo hut stood in his way. He
lifted the log over the roof. and bent his
body so that MS sides gently scraped the
corner of the house and did not shake it.
A hundreGth part of his weight would
have caused it to topple from its pile foun-
datiop
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21
ODD OLD RELIGIOUS TITLES.

One of the early religious books pub
lished bore the title, The Shutters of Di-
vine Love"
In the Seventeenth century quaint title
given 20 a book was High Heeled Shoes
for Dwarfs in Holiness"
Crumbs of Comfort for the Chickens OF
the Covenant" was the title given to one
of the early religious works.
"a Pair of Bellows 20 Blow Off the Dust
Cast Upon John Fry; was religious book
published in the Seventeenth century.
In Cromwell's time was published book
on charity whose title was Hooks and
Eyes for Believers Breecbes.''
An old time pamphlet had for its title
''SalvatiOn's Vantage Ground of a Loup-
ing Stand for Heavenly Believers.
A religious pamphlet published in 1926
is called "A Most Detachable, Sweet Per-
fumed Nosegay for Gods Saints to Smell
At"
An odd name given to religious publ
cation in the olden time was, ''The Spirit
ual Mustard Pot, to Make the Soul Sneeze
with Devotion"
Another religious writer in the early
days called his book "a Shot Aimed at the
DEVILS Headquarters Through the Tube
of the Cannon of the Covenant"
An imprisoned Quaker p.blshed book
which he called a Si-. for the Sinners
of Xion Breathed Out of a Hole in the
Wall of an Earthen Vessel, Known Among
Men by the Name of Samuel Fish"
An ancient work was called Seven Sobs
of a Sorrowful Soul for Sin. or the Seven
Penitential Psalms of the Princely Pro
phet David, whereunto are also annexed
William Humuis' Handful of Honey
suckles and Divers Cody and Pithy
Ditties, Now Newly Augmented"
Another lengthy religious title was "a
Reaping Hook, well Tempered for the
Stubborn Ears of the Coming Crop; or
Biscuits Baked in the Oven of Charity,
Carefully Conserved for the Chickens of
the Church, the Sparrows of the Spirit and
the Sweet Swallows Of Salvation"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21
TIE CURIOSITY SHOP.
Interesting Facts and Theories About the
South African Diamond Mines.

How did the South African diamonds
ever get there? How much deeper are we
going down? Are diamonds going to be
found in as large quantities as at present.
There are various theories as to how these
mines have been formed, but all agree,
says a writer in Longman's Magazine, in
attributing them to volcanic action.
They are all funnel shaped, the sides of
the funnel being composed of a dense
igneous rock, known in miners parlance
as reef" 1t is of a soapy nature, easily
acted upon by the atmosphere, consequent
ly most dangerous, as large pieces weigh
ing hundreds of tons get detached. There
are no means of snoring it up; and with
out warning these enormous slices will
slide off into the working portion of the
mine, burying the claims and sometimes
killing the employees. The whole of the
funnel is filled with this blue" ground,
the reef sloping at various angles, but on
an average of one in fifteen. The theory
is that in time the sides of the reef will
meet at some great depth.
The hot liquid containing the diamonds
was forced by some great cataclysm of nat
ure through the solid earth the bulgings in
the sides of the mines being very soft and
shay, showing where the rock was not
sufficiently hard to resist the enormous
pressure. Now it has been observed that
in Kimberley there must have been ten dis
tirct upheavals: in Dutoitspan, twenty
five; in Bultfantein, three or four, and in
De Beers three; and this has been proved
by the varying nature of the ground. If
one upheaval only had taken place the CEN
ter of the funnel would have contained one
particular kind of soil As the miners 90
deeper great alteration is noticed in the
character Of the soil. They have actually
found pieces OF the top reef and top soil at
a depth of 400 feet. This shows that in the
succeeding upheavals vacuums were form
ed and the whole funnel became in state
of tumult, the upper layers of oxidized
earth returning to their ancient depths to
give place to the other carbonaceous mat
ter, which by successive exposure TO the
atmosphere became oXidized, and assumed
the yellow color seen 50 frequently in the
heath and entertainments of rejected debris.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21
.t-onee lvanderinrs of DereIlct..

An interesting instance Of the strange
wanderings OF der2iicss at sea, which
throws light on tie old stories Of drifting
relics carried from America 20 the coast Of
the Old World before Columbus sailed, is
furnished, SAYS The Times Democrat, by
the Atlantic pilot chart for Septemb Der
On Nov. %, 1856, tho Port Royal buoy,
having gone adrift. bean is career Of ad
venture off Charleston haraor Drifting
out into the gulf stream it remained in
the warm waters of the current during
the remainder of the year, gradually NOV
ing northward in "A ZigZag course. probably
under the influence Of conflicting winds
It was last seen in the gulf stream on Dec
4, 1885 Three months later it was discOv-
cred floating off the eastern edge Of the
gulf stream, some 30 miles north Of the
Bermudas. Then it started for a more
southern latitude, and during the month
Of May voyaged along past the southern
side of the BeTmudas.
For more than year it was lost sight Of,
but although it had been in and near the
track of the great hurricanes IL vas seen
in good shape on June 9, 1883, 60 miles
northwest of the Bermudas. II remained
IN that neighborhood, always drifting, and
sometimes retrscing it, tracks, bat never
venturing more than 100 miles in any di-
rection. IL was seen by passing vessels sew
eral times during this period At last it
took another trip south, and according 70
the latest advices on Sept. . last, IL had
again got below the latitude Of the Der
mudas, but keeping go or 600 miles to the
eastward Of the island II was still in good
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

Mrs. Lease, the Kansas prohibition ora
tor, weighs 200 pounds.
Mrs. Andreas, Of Pomona. Cal. has a
geranium bush that is thirty feet high.
Laura Jean Libby, the BROOKLYN author
esS, in the last five years has made $4,000
Miss Frances Z. Willard is credited with
the ambition 10 be elected a bishop of the
Methodist church
Dr. Catherine Northrop is one Of the
prettiest Of Philadelphia's now numerous
young lady physicians.
Mrs. Harrison has given notice that here
after no visitor to the White House is to
be admitted to the red parlor.
Blanche Willis Howard. now the wife Of
DR.. Teufel, of Stuttgart, is said to have a
different finger ring for every day in the
year.
Mrs. Mary B. Morgan, who has served
as county superintendent Of schools in Ne
bRska, is also the editor OF newspaper
published at Alma.
The beautiful London house in which
Whistler painted peacock room now
owns as its mistress the Mrs. Leyland who
was Miss Jensie Chamberlain.
Carmencita, the Spanish dancer. will be
Copsigned 10 immortality nv tsTo norlraits
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21
ANIMAL REMEDIES.

Ammonia is extracted from the manure
Of animals.
Ordinary potato bugs, dried and pow
aered, are used for raising blisters.
A tree insect of Mexico, the lac dried and
powdered, serves as an admirable astrin-
gent in cases of dyseRtery.
Real haztshorn, made from stags' horn,
IS a medicinal article now, being made into
shavings for market, boiled to a Jelly, and
prescribed by physicians for ricketts,.
The cochineal insect is mostly known
for its use az a dye, but it has also an adj
ditional value for relieving neuralgia pains
and for checking the spasias of whooping
cough.
Powdered cocl1roaches contain an active
principle called "anti-hydropin, II" which is
most effective in the stimulation of the
kidneys, and serves as a check to the COM
plant mentioned.
Musk, derived from two little sacs on the
belly of the musk deer, is regarded as a
most important remedy for nervous trou-
bles 1t would be more used were it not
that it is so costly.
The digestive fluid of the pig, known as
pepSln, Is NaluilSo Tor indigestion or
dyspepsia For the same purpose the fluid
is scraped from the inside of the gizzards
of barn yard fowls and sold
A green insect called the Spanish f1v,"
reduced to powder, is applied most effect
lively as blister infaming the skin through
the operation of an active principle which
the powder contains, called "cantharidin. {"
Leeches are caught for market in swampy
places, mostly with rakes, though some
times animals are driven into shallow
waters infested by them in order that they
may be fastened upon by leeches and bring
them out by the quantity.
Crabs eyes are employed to some extent
as a remedy for acid Stomachs. They are
not actually the eyes OF the crab, but sim
ply small concretions of lime found in the
stomachs Of crGyiish at the time when they
are about TO cast their shell and make new
ones.
IsinGlass is simply the swimming blad-
ders of fishes, by the expansion and con
traction of which they change their specific
gravity and rise or sink at will. They are
simply split and dried, having the interior
membrane taken out They are readily
dissolved and are most valuable as a con-
stituent of many preparations useful TO in
valids.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21

..-..o wnIcn JonE .. Sargent painted in
Paris. and that which William NJ Chase
s to paint in New York.
Georgiania, Dowager Baroness de Ros,
f London, who is 50 years old, danced at
be ball given at Brussels on the eve of the
attic of Waterloo. She was daughter of
nc Duke OF Richmond, who gave the ball
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher recently at
ended an apron sale held at the residence
[ Rev. S. B. Halliday, Brooklyn The af-
air was under the auspices Of the Kings
Daughters, for the benefit of the Beecher
Memorial church.
Countess Elizabeth Koenigsmarck, said
20 be the handsOmest woman in Germany,
was recently welded in a novel dress of
led and white, the color of her husbands
regiment. The bridesmaids also wore
Gowns OF scarlet and white.
Miss White, missionary attached to the
China Island mission, is only awaiting an
suspicious opportunity to attempt feat
which no Englishman has accomplished in
the last half century, that of entering the
dominions Of the Grand Lamar.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21
Wages Of Cincinnati Teacher.

A principal Of a district school gets
$500 salary; an intermediate principal,
s., 100; the high school principals, s. COO,
and the superintendent, $500. There
is but one man in the city getting as low
as $50. The superintendents Of music
and drawing get each $2,1OO, and the
principal Of the normal $1,000, or $40
per day.
The average daily wages Of the teach
ers is t413, or $3.50 per year. They teach
SIX hours per day, and get from IS cents
an hour up to $3.50. In other words.
some of the principals make more money
In one hour than many workingmen do
IN two days.-Cincinnati Times-Star.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21
A Penal. Athlete.

Mrs n. Z. BUrmeyer. Of New York, is
an unusually accomplished athlete. She
walks thirty miles 81 an outing. at a pace
of three miles and half al hour: makes a
days journey on bicycle OF rough roads
without resting. climbs mountain peaks
with neatness and dispatch, i q long dis
tance skater. an excellent swimmer, a dex-
ferrous and powerful csHoeis-, a sculler and
ROVER who might compete with college
crew. and a Eyrnuast we lifts 50 pounds
Of iron when CT Of practice and 6S5 when
at her best. Vitkal she has Astounding
health.-Harper' Bazsr.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21
IN THE MEADOWS.

Tramping through the meadows
In the summer day.
Under the blue arch Of sky.
When the clouds so sailing by
On their windy way.
Through the bending grasses
Tall and busy green,
All alive with tiny things,
Stirring feet and whirrinS wings,
Just an instant seen.
Down each fragrant hollow,
Up each little hill,
Leaping bitches. crossing brooks,
In the heart Of shady hooks,
Fresh, and cool, and still
Past the spear like rusheS,
Swaying to and fro,
And along the rivers bed,
Where grows the broad leaved arrow
head
wonder where the bow!
Lost somewhere in tie meadows,
Like what meant to sing;
Who can tell what way it went,
Or lies it in my mind unbent,
A bow without a string?
Richard Henry Stoddard
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21
Eomnn,s Worst Enemy.

The worst physical enemy woman has
eveT bad has been the narrowness Of life
which gave her 50 little 10 think OF tha;
she had endless tirne for worry. She gains
IN physical force with every step she takes
toward intellectually and spirituality.
Nor does she harden her hear to,vs-i
humanity ana deSpise the home The
--i's,!!c ,s';c-,:o- - 20 hons instced az bc.
iGg ignored. is a,iag treat ID with scientific
care aid unsparlCy devotion.-The ChaG
taunuEp
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21
REAL ESTATE.

FURNISHED by the DEAN Abstract COY
The following transfers of real estate
were filed for record in the Office of the
register of deeds.
Rufus Cone, shf, to Henry Smith -
blk IL Allen & Smiths add 26 %
blk II Allen g. Smiths add shf d.. %
J L Conley TO NJ + Bricker 60 and G2
Ford ave Tilford's % add wd..... l
Florence r Chambers to Charles A
Schwendinger and cas- half 3 ave
ID SherwoOds add W d.............. 400
Geo { Mastin to G G Fees north 200
fl lot IL blk ID Fees snbdiv w d..
Geo G Mastin to Catharine i Ran
son south l0l fl lot II blk ID Fees
SuDdlV W ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. /
5 ID Wallace to Mary + Hazard hf
Sc or 80 25 2e w d.. .............. 1850
VIM Burris to John Becker ne i sw
a % 26-l w......................... 1900
Addie NJ Tricky to John w Walters
sw 4 30-2S 2 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1850
Frances c Rowley TO Charley Sewer
n Z Sc 4 19-26-5 w.................. 1000
Peter NulgamOre to Jennie Martin
81 50 Chicago ave West Wichita. 200
Peter Vulgamore to Julia A Baenish
IS 81 Chicago ave West Wichita. 200
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21

Sprinkle places infested by ants With
boTax and vou VIII soon = I'd q them.
Blankets aud furs put sway well sprin-
killed. with borax and done up ar tight viii
never b troubled v.-h moths
\ little borsx plt II tle water before
washing red o. red b0res-ed tzO!sclOths
OF napkins win prevent fheir fading
Riugro-ns VIII yield . borax treatment
Apply stroaE solution three times daT;
also dUst on TIE fae dry powder very Of
tel.-Errte
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21
An Ambidextrous Compliment.

Miss Sharpleigh-You are looking quite
well tonight, Mr. Smolwytte.
Smolwytte-Thanks but. really I'm not
feeling so well-a biz stupid, YOU know.
Miss Sharpleigh-HoT strange! never
saw you looking more like yoursef.-Pitts-
burg Bull-ti-.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21

Do not forget the basket social to be
given this evening by the Unitarian ladies
Mt Council hall, 2l3 S. Water street. a
musical and literary programe will be
rendered and the Unity club will be organ
lied. All are cordially invited, without
regard to church connections.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21

Do not be deceived by speciously worded
advertisements of other lines. The Frisco
Limited is the fastest train to St. Louis by
more than one hour with incomparably
the finest equipment. No charges and no
delays at junction points. dll3-tf
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21
In the Stu.IiO.

Sculptor-There. How is that for a
polar bear?
Critic-Admirable So original, too. To
tally unlike any polar bear we have seen
before.-New York Berald
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21
Wlere She Was.

Mrs. Gazzam Ito Sadie Bloobumper)-
Where's your mamma, Sadie?
Sadie-She went over to Mrs. Gargoyle's
two hours ago to stay five minutes.-New
York Sun.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21

Wun Yam-How muchee smallee Iawtch?
Jeweler-Seventy-seve dollars.
Wun Yam-Me no takee. Buy clock
ticees big two dlollee.-Jewelers' Weekly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21
ATTENTIoN KNIGHrs TEMPLAl

There will be n regular meeting of Mt
Olivet commandery No. u X. L. this even
ing ut $50 sharp.
BY order r. c. DEAN, Z. G.
j. A. HOLLINGER, Rec. pro TEN.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21

The Altar chapter of St. Johns Guild
will meet with Miss NARROW, in the
Fletcher block, this friday afternoon at
O'Clock. GENEVIEvE MARROW, Secy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21
ANNOUNCEMENTS.


The Frsternal Mystal Circle meets this
Friday evening at $50 o'clock at K of II.
hall, Getto building A full attendance is
requested. PERCY LoNGLANDs,
w. Recorder
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21

Goldfish is picked up and bones and skin
removed. then it is packed in old fruit cans
with paper neatly pasted ~ the top when
the original covers OF the cans are missing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21

Eastern and Foreign Exchange
bought and cold. United sfAteA bond
Of all deEOmin afiors boz ghf and cold
County. Township AID A1nleipEl
Eends bouzhL
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21
RUNNING WILD.

1t is long time since the Court Street
theater has put on better play or had
better house than that of last evening.
After the galleries and boxes had been
filled by people who could get no seats any
where else. the last of the corners went
away to return perhaps some other nigh .
Running Wild" is much funnier than
the average light fun, the puns and say
ings are new and taking, and the claim OF
miscellaneous made by the show bills, IS
well founded, for not only in the imitation
but in the regular songs all acquiring
themselves creditably. Running Wild"
will continue TO keep all IN an uproar.-
Buffalo Express.
Thursday and Thanksgiving matinee at
Crawford opera house. Advanced sale OF
seats at usual place.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21
lII1lI(l s,agle
ADJUSTMENTS.
CARLTON OPERA co.

JEANNE Winston's operate training and
methods were never seen to greater advan-
tage than with the Carleton company.
The wedding party in the first act of
"Nanon" as given by the Carleton com
pany, is extremely amusing. In this
scene Clara Window appears in a make
up, that, although bordering on the gro
tesque, gives evidence of her ability as a
character-actress, and the same applies TO
her performance in ''Erminie."
Opera house Monday and Tuesday even
ings.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-21
DIRECTORS:

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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05
Technical Education,

Some valuable advice was given to young
engineers by w. h. Baily in his address to
the students of engineering at the Man
chester (England) Technical School. 1.-THE
study of engineering history" he said, 'is
the quickest and surest method of getting
at the wisdom OF the past; it will enable
you to understand, compare, value and
measure the present, and thus enable you to
assist ennoble and enrich the future. You
may map out the sequence OF events with
their relation to each other, and give sys-
TEN and order to their thinking. Such
course of mental discipline will prepare the
way for all the logical methods that will en-
able you to reject the false and discover the
good, the true and the beautiful; and if you
are fond of essay writing, which by all
means you should cultivate, it will enable
you to give proper reasons Tor the opinions
you hold, What is this historical knowL
edge but the rich record OF the work OF the
best and cleverest and most successful men
who have worked in the same direction as
that in which you may be engaged? You
can examine their difficulties, and appre-
ciate their obstacles, and measure their mis-
takes and errors of judgment, and not only
study their best but also their worst work,
and see the wise course which would have
been successful, and sometimes why care
lessness or want OF Judgment led to failure"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-05

The following is a simple and expeditions
way of removing specs from the eye. The
only instrument needed is a wooden tooth
pick or match, made sharp at the point.
Hard wood, however, is preferable. The
sufferer stands in good light and rests the
body and head against door post or some
fixed object. With the thumb and finger
the operator holds the eyelids sufficiently
apart to see plainly the front of the eye, and
also to prevent winking. If the speck be
on the corner it may be verv difficult to see
it, and it can then only be found by chang
ing the direction of sight until favorable
position is secured. The most difficult part
OF the business is to have the inexperienced
person fix the sight on some object and hold
the eye perfectly quiet. If this can be done
only for a few seconds the operator ap-
proaches the mote with the point of the
stick, still holding the eyelids, and with
gentle passes and gradual advances soon
touches the speck and brings 1t away. The
transparency of the eye makes it necessary
to approach the surface with care, or il will
be reached before it is expected. If the
mote be hidden underneath the upper eye
lid the eyelash should be gently raised,
while the upper part of the lid is held down.
ward with the stick. When turned the
stick is withdrawn and the lid is held in this
position by the eyelash. Where iron is
worked particles of metal are sametimes al
lowed to remain in the eye for several hours,
when they seem to rust fast and cannot be
removed bv a stick. In such cases the
point of penknife blade, made quite sharp,
is used, and il it is magnetized so much the
hetter