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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12
The Extinction of the Sun.

One of these days there will be no sun,
no moon and no stars. That, at least, is
the assertion of scientist who declares
that a time will come in the distant ages
when the spots that are already Gardening
the sun will cover its entire surface. A
solid crust will afterward form, as one has
formed upon the earth, which also traversed
these phases OF the rife Of a star, for our
earth was a sun that had the moon for a
planet, and perhaps even according to Mr..
Stanislas Mennier) a second satellite that
is now broken up. Thesun will, therefore,
be extinguished some day for want of fuel,
but that fatal day will be far in the distant
future. for we can estimate the time neces-
sary for the extinction Of the sun at more
than twenty millions of years, and the
time during which a state of life analogous
to the present one will be able to exist
upon the earth may be estimated at half
that long period.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12

Over in Africa flesh is of value. Among
certain tribes when girl becomes engag-
ed she prepares for her wedding not by
the purchase of a troussesu, but by the
consumption of food. Day after day she
sits almost motionless in a hut and is
stuffed with oil soaked balls of flour. Then,
when her marriage morn arrives, if she
can show larger girth and few more
pounds of gain than the preceding village
bride she is proud and happy, and her hus-
band rejoices, not that he has secured a
pearl of great price, but girl of great
weight
OF a somewhat different nature is the
present vogue in America. Here it is the
corpulent man who claims recognition and
the respect due his avoirdupois. Once the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12
A Serious Fly Bite.

Thomas Morris, brakeman on the Fort
Wayne, now carries his right arm in q
sling as the result of buying some bananas,
as he AYERS. He saw some delicious big
yellow ones in a store, and bought bag.
The moment he opened the bag a slim
looking fly few out and alighted on the
forefnger of his right hand Mr.. Morris
felt a singing sensation on the finger, but
thought nothing Of IL until four or five
days later, when the finger began 10 swell
and then the hand and arm, until he is
greatly concerned fog fear he may lose the
use of bis srrr
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12

GLIMPSE OF THE BROOKLYN CONFERENCE.
dams, while the millennial idea now put
forward has the support of far more power
full and learned ministers than any similar
movement in modern times.
A "pre-millennial convention, " so called,
has just been held in Brooklyn-the out
come of an organization among the Bap-
fists which first took form in Chicago, and
was known as the Baptist Conference for
Bible Study, and some Of the most learned
men in the denomination have given their
countenance to the movement though
there seems still TO be some variance in
their views. OF the organized association
DR.. A. J. Gordon, of Boston, is president
and DR.. j. d. Herr, of Milwaukee, secre-
tary. In the executive committee and
other offices are Rev F. L. Chappell, of
Boston; Rev. DR.. Samuel Mcbride, of
Brooklyn, and others; and it is an interest
ing fact that nearly all the evaneelists,
such as Moody, Sankey and Pentecost,
countenance the movement.
The main tenet is this: Christ's second
advent will be previous to the millennium
instead of after it; IL may now be looked
for at any time, and is certain within a
century or so. II will find the world stepped
in iniquisy and the church in general cold
and indifferent, and the advent of Christ
viii be the beginning Of a revival which
will bring on the millennium instead of
being the windup OF a great apostasy after
the thousand years. Hence the name pre-
millennialists. For all this they have
abundant Scripture, of course, and the
signs of the times-the wars and rumors
of wars, financial revolutions, socialism,
GOODNESS in the churches" and other symp-
toms-are pointed TO.
Of the most general form of nnllenarian-
Ism there are many advocates N all
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12

tar, inseed oil, rancid grease and other
substances not usually thrown around
loose, and she swears that he promised to
marry her, then married another woman,
and has got up the criminal charge against
her merely to discredit her suit for breach
of promise.
1t is q queer case and the force of social
pressure in Ellenville and vicinity may be
gauged by the fact, that though the double
ended scandal has been public property
for months, neither of the local papers al
luded to it, even in the heat of the cam
paign, until it came regularly before the
court. The Hon Isaac n. Cox. when he was
plain Mr.. Cox in 1878, paid his addresses to
Mrs. Sarah Melville, widow employed in
the Terwilliger house. According to her
testimony and that of her friends, he was
very devoted, promised marriage and to
various tender missives signed himself
"Your key" Much to the peoples sur
prise on Jan. 5, 1888, he married Miss Liz
zie Stoddard, of Mountaindale, Sullivan
county. The deserted widow brought suit,
which was delayed by a most remarkable
series of accidents-one lawyer died, an
other ran off and two others declined to
act.
During all this time, according to Mr.
and Mrs. Cox, their house and grounds
had been dehled as aforesaid. There were
twenty-six distinct outrages, and so many
lady callers had their dresses injured that
the secret could not be kept, though they,
strangely enough, took no legal action.
At length they employed one James
Thorpe to watch, and one fine evening last
October he grabbed Mrs. Melville in front
of the gate. There was great cutlery and
struggle, an appeal to the neighbors and
then Thorpe was arrested for assault. He
swore that he caught Mrs. Melville in the
act of dashing linseed oil on the gate, and
Mrs. Cox swore that from the window she
saw a woman throw something; that she
rushed out and found Mrs. Melville strug-
Cling in the grasp of Thorpe. Mrs. Mel
vile proved that she was going on per-
fectly legitimate errand, and that her
dress and hands were free from any sign
of oil. 1t also turned out that Thorpe
was doubtful character, so it is the oath
of one woman against another-the sue
cessfully married against the Tilted one.
All Ellenville is nightly excited, and the
district generally.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12
rHE rNpIAN "v1RGrN MAnrn on rR1A1

THE INDIAN VIRGIN MARY" on TRIAL.
churches. Bishop Cleveland Coke. Gen.
Booth and many others living believe the
last days are near, and Alexander Camp
bell thought the thousand years might be-
gin in his lifetime. The much ridiculed
Mr.. Miller figured it down to 1874, and the
enthusiasts of southern Indiana set the
date OF Aug. IL, 1S4S, as to which one Or"
Burroughs, of Indiana, has lately over
hauled the calculations and discovered
that they made an error of Just one CEN
fury and that the climax is to come in
1913. So even the white Caps" will have
lime to repent Joe Smith set this very
year as the date, while the Iowa prophets"
OF few years since named 1887, and the
Virginia enthusiasts have lately been
gathering in the faith that the advent is to
be some time within the next three years.
The Indians are far more specifics nat
ural outcome of ignorant fanaticism and
lack of facts on which TO base their claims
and the excitement among the Sioux has at
last led TO an uprising and panic fight of
the border settlers. For years the belief has
been spreading through all the tribes that
q great Indian Messiah" was at hand who
would roll the whites back, raise the dead
Indians, restore the buffalo and other
game, and make all things lovely in an
"lnjun heaven" But difference of opin-
ion prevailed. Chief Gall, John Grass and
other talented Sioux maintained that the
Messiah would do all the work himself
there was no call for the red men to strike
a blow-a great wave of mud would bury
all the palefaces; and as Gall explained
this to an interpreter there was something
very like wink in his left optic
The more aggressive Indians maintain
that the Messiah has already come and is
rafting in his mountain stronghold; that
only the witchcraft of the whites now keeps
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12
MASONIC.
The Chicago Masonic Temple VIII Be
Ruf w<h

The Chicago Masonic Temple Will BE
the Largest Building on Earth.
Norman T. Gassette, the prime mover in
the Chicago masonic temple project, re-
Gently said to Chicago Herald reporter:
at will be the largest building on earth,
and in many ways totally different from
any other structure in existence. The
halls and corridors on the various floors
will be named and numbered as are the
streets and avenues of city. Instead of
being known as the first floor, the main
corridor of the second story will be called
Quincy street in honor of I. I. Quincy
'This is the only name as yet decided on,
but all the streets will be named after Ma
sonic notables. The idea of giving them
names is to do away with all ideas of alti-
tude. The building will be eighteen stories
high, and the mere me3tion of the seven
teenth or eighteenth story might discour-
age some people, if they were looking for
an office. The foundation will be of steel
rails. Each floor will be like span of a
cantilever bridge. They will be drawn to-
gether with red hot bolts, SO that there can
absolutely be no vibration. The atmos-
pheric pressure has been figured in an ex-
aggerated way. So has the velocity of the
wind. To particularize: The temple will
be built so as to resist successfully the
wind at velocity of 135 miles an hour.
Such a wind would level all the ordinary
business blocks of the city. We have pro-
vided to have each floor strong enough to
sustain a weight of as many people as
could be packed in solid as sardines on
every foot of space.
1.-THE upper floor will be as strong as the
lower. Built on this principle it could be
safely made forty stories high on that
The only objection would be
it would require too much room for eleva-
tors. We now will have fourteen elevators,
eight foot cars, all arranged in circle.
That's more elevators than there are in
any other building in the city. Externally
the four sides of the temple will be exactly
alike. 1t will appear the same, no matter
from what direction viewed. Work will
be rushed right along. The temple will be
and occupied on May l, 1892, an
even year before the Worlds fair opens"
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Joke makers pierced him with their shafts
OF wit, but they failed to reach any vital
spot protected by his adipose tissue, and
have consequently turned their attention
to the phenomenally thin individual who
"eDjoys" dyspepsia, melancholy and the
intimate society of his physician.
Fatty" is no longer pariah, but an
aristocrat He takes unto himself others
of weight and standing and forms clubs.
He debars from these associations all lean
and hungry citizens who scale less than
200 pounds. He eats CLANS, delights in
turtle soup, SHORES loudly at night, and
when he wakes of a morning looks out
upon the world and declares that it is
good thing to be alive
The palm for being chief among equals"
In this comfortable class of humanity be-
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The aaeha Daily EAGLE griaay gormms neeenrb IL 1890

boys like to get him wound up on rnem
just to hear the chair legs creak and move
in their sockets when his fat sides begin to
shake with laughter. One of the most
thrilling of these stories is regarding a
personal exploit.
During fierce engagement big shell
landed near where a crowd was standing
close to deep ravine. None saw it but
himself, and on the impulse of the moment
he grabbed and hurled it down the bank
No sooner did it strike the ground than 1t
burst and the fragments scattered IN all
directions, narrowly preventing great exc
cution. Upon being commended for the
gallant act 'Ras" turned around and re-
piled, by gracious, ii 1 had known she
was so hot I wouldn't have grabbed her"
Another veteran of the war has grown
In bulk of late. True, he possesses frame
capable of taking on much adipose, for he
is 6 feet inches tall His name is Abra-
ham Coburn, and he was right file of Com
cany G, Ninety-seventh regiment Pennsyl-
vania volunteers. Joseph Abel. who meas
ures 5 feet inches, was left file. These
two men fought in twenty-five battles, and
neither got scratch.
Recently their old captain brought the
''long and short of it, together and had
their photograph taken. The right file
was found TO be 16 inches taller and It's
pounds heavier than the left file. Coburn
is railway engineer in Pennsylvania. and
Abel is a resident of St. Louis.
A fat man descended from fat men is
John A. P. Fisk, of New York city, who
recently celebrated his ffty-fourth birth
day. Mr.. Fisk scales 463 pounds and de-
sires further increase, he also being am
bilious of attaining the 500 mark. He is
the fourth In his line of descent to keep
chop house and attain a weight exceeding
300 pounds. Yet he is small eater and
consumes but two meals day.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12
SCALE BOOKS!
THREE FORMS.
STANDARD,
HOWE AND
FAIRBANKS!
When ordering state WHAT form IL
wanted.
characteristics OF tho Am.--.--

The American citizen is not content to
exist as mere animal. Physical well
being does not limit his desire or aspira-
ton He is especially solicitious for the
welfare and advancement of his children.
and freely depletes limited income in
their education and training for career
in life, often upon other than ancestral
lines This tendency may become Excess
sive, and is already to some extent creating
distaste for useful industry and desire
for conspicuous position, for accumulation
without labor and speculative rather than
productive occupation. Thus the average
American lives upon a high plane, exciting
the envy and emulation of people of other
countries ard inducing extraordinary i'm
migration.-New York Commercial Ad-
yertiser
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Nnfes.

The grand lodge of New South Wales
has recognized the grand lodge of Tasma-
mia and the assumed grand lodge of New
Zealand.
Samuel Murrell, the oldest Mason in
Kentucky, died recently. He received the
master Mason degree in 1916.
1t is reported that the grand orient of
France has attempted to form a lodge in
New Zealand.
1t is reported that the new Masonic
temple at Denver, Colo, has just been sold
for 100000. 1t cost S4OO, 900, and was dedi-
Gated July 8, 1890.
There is new Masonic lodge at Gering,
Neb., with twenty-one charter members.
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CHIEFS GALL AND GRASS.

him back, and that it is necessary to
slaughter few palefsces TO start the
movement At the Standing Rock agency,
N d., the alleged Virgin Mary of the
Sioux has been arrested, but refuses TO tell
where her sor is. II is plain 70 the agents
and interpreters that Gall and Grass and
Other talented chiefs do not believe any
part of the new propaganda, and only ad-
vocate the passive theory to restrain the
other Indians.
At any rate the craze has spread 20 far
as TO threaten general Indian war, and
troops have been concentrated at the sgen-
cies, while hundreds OF settlers have fed
from their honea
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
An Iowa Brother Who Weighs Seven Hun
bred Pounds-Various Notes

An Iowa Brother Who Weighs Seven Hun
bred POunds-Various Notes.
John Hanson Craig is undoubtedly the
heaviest man upon whom the three ranks
of the order have ever been conferred.
Says The knight Errant: HE was born in
Iowa City, Ia, and bis place of residence
is Danville, Ind. He weighs in the neigh
borhood of ZOO pounds. He came to join
the order at Philadelphia through an &C
quaintance with George Moore, of Adher-
ent lodge, No 124, and was admitted, with
forty-three others, on Dec 20, 1875. On
April 10, 1876, be was presented with gold
medal by Adherent lodge as being the
heaviest member of the order. Craig's
grandfather was killed at the battle of
Bunker Hill. His grandfather on his
mothers side was DR.. Hanson Catlett, sur
geon general of the United States army"
The grand lodge of Ohio levies a per
capita tax of fifty cents per annum upon
tts 81 900 members Within one month
after the close of the grand lodge session
dispensations were issued for seven lew
subordinates.
Savannah, Ga, has Cos knights and five
lodges.
Banner lodge, No. 219, of Chicago, rightly
deserves its name. 1t was organized last
August, through the efforts of Gen. Brand,
with charter membership of about two
hundred, which number has been in
creased by frequent additions until it now
has about three hundred, and no lodge in
the order can boast ola more worthy mem
bership.
The order is growing famously at Zanss-
vile, o.
There are LOO Pythian Knights in Kan
sas City and thirteen lodges
A lodge Of Knights of Pythias is now
being organized at Sydney, New South
Wales
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12
The Owner of Youths COMPANION.

Daniel S. Lord is the Perry Mason &
Co. (the nominal proprietary of the Youths
Companion He bought it some thirty
years ago, after it had been in existence
about thirty-three years, for five or sir
thousand dollars, when it had only few
thousand circulation IL now has an i'm
mense circulation, close upon 500, COO His
income is reported 10 be not far from
500, COO one-hslf of which be distributes
in charity. A business reason for adopt
ing the name Of Perry Mason s. Co. is
that there may be no change in the pro-
prietorship in case Of the resi- owners
death or retirement-Writer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12

Two scions of a well known Detroit
house were recently locked up in 8 room
by way Of punishment. in their eagerness
to escape they adopted heroic measures.
Piling dresses, bonHets and he'd clothes in
the middle Of the floor, they started bon
fire that brought out the ire department
ID gave il plenty of work, toe The little
-ascals went 20 bed that night As warm as
though they had not escaped from the
burning rool.-Detroi; News
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very light eater. and never uses tobacco or
intoxicants At the hips he measures s
feet inches, and forty-one yards of cloth
are required TO make him a suit, while
three pounds of yarn will answer for a pair
of socks
Erastus II. Lewis lives in Jersey Ory.
M. HE'S 46years Old, weighs as pounds,
and his waist measurement and height
are the same-6 feet . inches. He served
with distinction during the civil war, and
was mustered cut after winning commits
sion BE wasn't feshy in those times, but
after going TO work for the Erie railway
be began 70 accumulate fat and never
stopped until he reached his present pro
portions. he hopes ere long 70 reach the
800 mark His wife. like Mrs Craig. IS q
small, slender womsn. The couple have
one child, daughter.
The war stories that "Rss" often tells.
says recent visitor 20 his home. are full
of thrilling interest and hUnor. and the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12

malicious tres
pass, and is COM
planned of by the
widow Melville.
He says, and his
wife and hired
man swear to it,
that Mrs. Melville
daubed his gate,
porch, front yard
and the appurte-
nances thereunto
hal&~~-- Al
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12

Wood stone is the name Of s new com
pound material composed Of sawdust and
cslcined msgn-siA Tie mixture, having
been well worked up wiki water, is pat
into mods and pressed into whatever
shape may be desired A scientific Authori-
~ says il Is incoIrbust50le and imperme-
able 10 water. = srlsoepfiale 81 a fne pol
- arri i r.7----r-- -rses
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12
Coincidenc. in Name.

We have in this city lady. Mrs. II. K.
Chadwick, who is one Of a family Of seven
children, the names Of every one Of whom.
as well as that OF the mother, end with the
letter A. The mothers name was Anna,
and the names Of the children are Martha,
Amelia, Maria, Julia. Georgianna, Henri.
eta and Ella-Gardiner (Ae.) Home Jour
nal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12

The average hie Of a rabbit is put st
about nine yesrs The doe may have Young
eight tunes year, averaging eight each
time The first litter is produced when
but four months ole. The progressions
based on these figures lead TO astonishing
resuits- For three years the possible prog
sny Of two rabbits has been calculxued at
over II, go, ooo. and for seven years at l.5o0-
naaa0A
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12
Good At Excuses

Snodgrass-Why didn't snOoper come to
the club election,
Snively-He sprained his ankle
SnOdgrass-That' Just ike hin-al~ays
letting some little thing keep him away
He didn't come the last time because his
wife died.-EDoeh-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12

An Incident of the New York Postofacs.
1t is not difficult to find examples of
postoffice efficiency which strike one as be-
ing only little short of the marvellous
The speed of the department in handling
monstrous mails, and the great skill shown
in deciphering illegible handwriting and
Interpreting imperfect and laundering ad-
dresses, are often commented on. And this
wonderful SYSTEM brought about result
recently which was indeed the exception
which proved the rule. A man who daily
receives vast amount of letters went out
of town. His name evidently has become
so familiar to people in the big postofiice
that letter dropped there with no sd-
dress On it would promptly be sent to his
Office. Here is the proof:
A letter was mailed from his own Office
to him at the place where be was staying.
1t never went beyond the postofice, but was
promptly returned with 1.-The correct" ad-
dress on it-nsmely, that of his Office. The
postoffice officials no doubt thought that
they were saving some one from q stupid
blunder. The comedy of the thing. how
ever, was what followed. The letter came
back in the afternoon. II was reposted
that night and was back again the next
afternoon For three days that letter was
kept flying between the mans Office and
the postoffice. There was 9 wstchful
picket line which it could not pass. All
this goes to show that it is sometimes in
convenient 70 be known too well.-New
York Tribune
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Forgetting His Loss.

It is not unusual for people who have
lost the use of sense or of a member to
talk, more or less unconsciously, as Il they
still possessed it. Not long ago gentle
man in the west, who had been totally
blind for many years, cut who manages to
travel about notwithstanding his afilic.
tion, wrote TO a friend in New York:
81 am going to New York this summer
to see how the world wags, and l hope 70
see you while am there. '-Youth's Com
nanion
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12
WHO DAUBED THE GATE?

Congressman Cox's Trouble with Sweet
heart of Other Days.
. Congressman-elect Cox, of the Four
tenth New York district, complains of
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lIlll!ifs!!sEagle
THE COMING OF CHRIST.
AsUBJEcT NOW AGlTATING CIVILIZED
AND SAVAGE MEN ALIKE.

The Conference of the Pre-MillenniaI Ad
vocates at Brooklyn-Faith OF the Sioux
i'm the Existence of an Indian Messiah.
Strange Developments.
1t is an interesting fact that there is a
great revival of what is called "millenari-
snism" among the whites just at the time
that the Indians of the whole northwest
are excited by the hope of an Indian Mes
siah. The Messianic idea is held by the
most active, independent and energetic In
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-12

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