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The Republicans can stand tues
davis election results firsttrate.
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Mckinley is elected governor of
Ohio. His plurality will reach 10000
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behind.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-05
a BACHELOR OF MAINE.

Hesekiah Bette was bachelor of Maine,
But one morning he departed by very early
train,
For fuel is % costly" said the frugal Heze-
kiah,
II am forced 10 find a dwelling where need
not pay for fire."
He took bee line southwark till to Mexico he
came,
he found there volcano with a most eccen-
trio name,
And he built him there cottage, did this
Hezekiah Bette:
He built it near the summit of Mount Pepo-
catapetl.
Whenever he desired TO cook mutton chop
He'd hang it by lengthy string right over
from the top;
From the top of the volcano he would hang it
by string,
And there. until twas nicely cooked, he'd let
his dinner swing
To get bis boiling water he would lower down
kettle
Right down into the crater of Mount Popocat-
apetl:
From the ashes OF the mountain he would
light his meerschaum pipe,
And he felt as truly happy as Jolly little
snipe
But one evening, as it happened, there came
by grizzly bear,
there;
So he tapped him on the shoulder, this poor
HeZekiah Bottle,
Who straightway did fall over into Popocata-
petL
ST. Nicholas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-05
The Raron.s sneash.

In the Hungarian parliamentary session
OF ls4l a certain Baron Szjel lived 10 Press
burg with two intimate friends. Georus
Majlath and Bsrthel Szemsre. One day
the baron became envioGs Of their lAureis
he called Szemsre aside and said % him.
MY good Szemere, write me a speech 4"
Most willingly. my dear friend: about
what would you ike 20 speakf' ct il all
the same 70 me, II the speech Is only nice
0ne-wOnderfully nice" You will be
satisfied with me. he answered. aud next
day brought the manuscripts. The baron
memorized the speech and delivered IL on
the third day. The chamber re-echoed
with ''viyss" and applause.
At this moment the president rose and
asked, Is anybody here 20 answer this
speech" The baron looked snssringiy
around. The members all remained a.
lent. Then BarthoIomaeus Szemers aros4.
He began, Worthy gentlemen, what tie
orator said Il from beginning 90 end 10.
correct. and then be began 20 show 10 al
able speech. the mistakes the baron had
made. Don't you believe hin. gentle
men, the baron cried aagTily. interrupt
Ing him suddenly; "it wss he himself who
wrote the speech for me" Every one Of
TIE ffty-two mem be-s rolled IA his seat
nearly eouTulse3 with lsgghtsr. and than
and there tie baron made a vow never
again 70 SPEAK IA pub.ic--San Francisco
AFgonaut.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-05
CROWN AND scsPTER.

The kaiser has 100 pairs of white trousers.
The king Of Siam is the handsomest ruler
IN the orient.
The queen of Portugal gets her cigarettes
from Dresden.
The queen regent of Spain consumes
Egyptian cigarettes in large quantities
The czarina yields to the passion for
nicotine, but she only smokes in her bou-
dcir, copy of one OF the prettiest rooms
in the Alhsmbra, filed with palm trees
The empress of Austria smokes thirty
to forty Turkish cigarettes every day. On
her writing table there lie silver box with
fne relief work filed with cigarettes and a
gold ash tray.
Prince George of Wales. the sailor
prince" so called, is so poor a sailor that
every time he goes TO sea he suffers ali the
pangs the veriest plebeian lsndlubber en-.
dures upon his first ocean voyage.
Lucy Hooper writes from Paris that
curious spectacle at AK was view of the
Princess louise (the mRrchioneSs of Lornel
imhihjug brandy and soda and smoking
cigars on the balcony Of the casino
Ii is not easy to find a wife for Prince
Ferdinand OF RoumRnia in consequence Of
his very peculiar position. De is Roman
Catholic, but any children ne may have are
70 De brought up as members Of the or
thodox church, an arrangement which
precludes his marriage either with any
Austrian srchduchess or any Bavarian
princess
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-05
Fine Feathers Make the Bird.

The biggest of all really powerful flying
birds are. | believe, the wandering alba
tross aud the South American condor; for
the roc l reject outright as worthy only of
the most restricted Arabian and nocturnal
ornlthoiogy. seen on the wing or even
with the wings expanded merely, both
these great existing birds nave a most ma
Jestlc and colossal appearance But feath-
ers IN such cases are very deceptive; they
make tine birds out Of very small bodies
For example, our well known little Eng
hsh swift, which looksso imposing in flight
as 1t passes overhead with pinions poised,
Is hardly as big when plucked as a mans
top thumb joint, aud weighs only half
an ounce. So, too, the slbatroSs, though
Its expsnSe of wing Is said 10 exceed that
OF any other known bird. amounting some
times 70 nearly ten feet from tip TO tin.
does not average in weight more than fif-
teen pounds. which is just exactly the
poulterers statement for my last family
Christmas turkey. As for the condor.
while he spans from wing to wing some
eight feet, his length from beak to tail is
only three and half. and / doubt if he
would pluck into anything corresponding
to his magnificent outer show-thouEh
am bound 10 admit that I have never per
sonally tried the unpleasant experiment.
says correspondent in The Cornhiu Mag
azinA
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this season. In 1889 she got a 2-year-old
record OF 2:29Sl under the piIotage of heI
breeder, Z. B. Emory, of Centreville, Nd
She was but once a starter in 1890 and
met defeat in her only 3-year-old race.
This season John Turner, of the Quaker
City, took Happy Bee in charge and soon
made her name well known. At Pitts
burg she was second to Redmont, who
won one heat in 2:2L At Cleveland she
buzzed into first place in the 2:27 class and
won against Play Boy, Ryland T and 9th
ers in straight heats. Her best time was
2:17I.
She was again victorious at Buffalo. and
then her hackers cast envious eyes upon
the rich 80, 900 Flower City stake at Roch
ester. Happy Bee went her noisy and in
dustrious little namesake few better and
improved each shining second, defeating
Little Albert, after a hard struggle, for
the $1,000 honey. Albert got the first heat
in 2:ls}4, but Happy Bee outtrotted him in
the three heats following
At Springfield Happy Bee won the s, OOl
stake In the 2.2S class after a desperate bat
tie with such fiers as Fanny Wilcox and
Martha Wilkes. Happy Bee finishes the
season with the reputation OF having been
one OF the best 4-yesr-olds ever cam.
paigned She WAS foaled in 1887, and was
by Happy Russell out of Beeswing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-05
R0R SINS

two or three others, released him, mortal
! ly wounding his guard, one Dalbrugh, and
| killing DR.. A. B. Pugh, who had stopped
| to chat awhile with Bob. In less time
than it takes to tell it, the citizens were on
! hand and with arms, for the rescue took
| place early in the evening. Bob Sims got
away, but Bailey was killed. A rapid ex-
change of shots resulted in the death of
negro and the Wounding of several citi-
zens
Jim Sims was the last to mount his
horse and get out of town, and as he rode
up to the others Neil Sims, mistaking him
for pursuing citizen, fired and gave him
fatal wound. This balanced the losses
not counting the negro-two white men
killed Oh each side Jim, however, might
have lived, but the citizens were so enraged
that they took him into the woods and
hanged him. A mob had already warned
the Simsites to leave, and the whole sect
twenty-six families-joined in a mad flight
into Mississippi. In few hours the daugh.
ters of Bob Sims drove in with an oxcart
and took the bodies of Jim and Bailey
home for burial They next appealed to
Governor Jones, and he directed the county
officials to protect the Simsites in return
ing to their homes.
Take it all IN all it's an extremely queer
case. Seven years ago a mob decided to
lynch Bob Sims in the belief that he was
circulating counterfeit money, and had
him under the proper tree, with the rope
around his neck, but they made the mis-
take of letting him talk first. In ten min
utes he had the whole crowd awed, if not |
frightened. He said he was prepared to |
die. but if hanged his spirit would haunt |
every one of them, and he portrayed the |
horrors of the haunt" with such moving |
eloquence that the men who held the rope |
dropped it and fed, and the others soon
followed. A few years ago Bob was poor
man. Now he is rich, and his neighbors
think counterfeit money did it. His fam
lily does all the work on little paper he
issues called The Veil Is Rent Besides
the son who was killed he has four daugh-
tiers, all smart and two of them very pretty
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-05
WOMAN IN GERMANY.
A Point Over which Female Advocates o.

A Point Over Which Female Advocates OF
Emancipation of Their Sex Lament,
In Germany freedom belongs to those
only who are able to fulfill all their duties
toward the commonwealth, who are fit to
bear the burden of freedom. The prime
duty is to defend, sword in hand, the native
soil. Whoever, man or woman, was not
able to do that, had no claim to the exer-
else of power in the community, to per-
sonal independence, no civil rights, not
even the right of administering private
fortune. The child, the invalid, the old
man, were temporarily deprived of these
rights; women were excluded from them
altogether.
With regard to the girlhood of Germany,
a change was brought about at the end of
the Fifth century. The right of the Ger
man girl to own property dates from that
time. The administration of her fortune,
however, was left to a guardian. She was
partially free, and not until the Thirteenth
century did she really enter into the indie
pendent possession of her fortune, did she
become legal person. not indeed accord
ing to public, but to private right, and so
she has remained to the present day.
Only in so far as the legal position OF
the married woman must exercise q moral
influence on the life of the unmarried is it
necessary to say a word of the legal foun-
dation of marriage in Germany. 1t rests
entirely on the view of the superiority OF
man, Of the subOrdination of woman.
Even the notion that she is bought by her
husband survives, in however slight a
form, in the ceremony of betrothal Her
husband Is her master, her guardian, her
natural supporter; above all, he is her edu-
Gator. She shares his rank, his name, his
dlgnities, his fortune, but without him she |
cannot administer her own "In the do |
main OF law she remains subject" Sohm |
concludes, land if she reigns at all, it must |
be by the free will Of man"
In country like Germany, where, in all |
matters connected With moral and intel |
Iectual lie the hnks of tradition have |
never been severed, the present is ex-
olainsc by the past. Disdainful silence is
he mildest form of criticism opponents
VIII offer whenever on the platform or from
he professional chair the attempt is made
% plead in favor of women's political
lights, says the English contemporary from
which we quote.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-05
"Good Wine Wants No Bush u

A sign common to the licensed victualer
was the "Ivy Bush" or BUSH" hence the
maxim Good wine needs no BUSH" as
houses where good and wholesome bever-
ages could be obtained needed no bush or
sign. A writer in 1903 says, "Spied bush
at end of pole, the antient badge of an ale
house" A further quotation will show
the generality of this sign in Good Newes
and Bad Nerves" The host says:
rather viii take down my bush and sign
Than live by means of riotous expense.
Publicans were not the only users of this
emblem, but all persons displayed it on
articles for sale; hence the fixing Of bosom
or birch broom at the masthead of a vessel
on purchase. In Harris "Drunkard's
Cup" we meet with the following:
If house be not worth an ivie bush,
let him have his tooles about him, nut
megs, rosemary, tobacco, and other appur-
tenances, and he knows enough of puddle
ale TO make cup of wine"
A wisp of straw was once the sign of an
alehouse in Scotland and parts of Eng
land In Staffordshire and Bucks, within
the last fifty years, bush was customsriIy
hung at an alehouSe door, or, as they are
termed, mug houses" in the former, and
Jerry houses" in the latter Prior to that
period, beer shops at provincial fairs and
wakes displayed a green bunch, or branch.
over the door.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-05
Killed by Chlnrnfnrr,

An English paper declares that the pres
ent year has for some reason been un.
usually prolific in deaths from chloro
form Two were reported during sin.
gle week at British institutions--one at
Middlesex hospital and the other at
Liverpool The Manchester iufrmary
alone has been the scene of four or five
similar accidents since the beginning o.
the year. Juries at coroners' inquests
have in all cases returned formal verdicts
of death by misadventure, which under
the circumstances was all they could do
Nevertheless, says the paper. the i'm
preston is forced upon laymen who have
read the medical evidence given at these
inquiries that doctors are very much ia
the dark respecting the action OF chloro-
form upon heart and lungs. IL does not
carry us far TO say that death resulted
from syncope, for, in one sense or another,
all death IS due to syncope. The question
to decide Is whether chlorofOrm acts first
upon the heart or upon some other organ
The Hyderbad commission, which inyesti-
gated the matter with much labor, came
TO the conclusion, II we remember rightly,
that the primary effect was not upon the
heart, but upon the respiratory organs, aud
if this finding is true, it should be possible
with appropriate remedies, to prevent fatal
accidents"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-05
FLOWER AND TREE

An effort is making to introduce the
mango, delicious East Indian fruit. into
Georgia, where it is hoped it will thrive.
There are two bearing apple trees in In
diana county, Pa. that were planted in
1's1 One of them is ten feet in circumfer-
ence
George A Avery, of Dover, y. H, has a
eurrant bush in his garden which. il is
said, stands twenty feet high, and when
loaded with eurrants they are picked with
the aid OF ladder.
There are said to be about -. 600 600
acres OF forest in Hungary. OF these the
government owns ,about 3.50O.OOo acres
buys more each year and refuses to sell
any that it possesses
Two gum .rees, which tower ovar no
feet above q little church in Guatemala
are sixty feet IN circumference. and their
streng raets have pushed the foundation
Of the church out eft place.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-05
BASEBALL BREWTIEs.

John Chapman, the Louisville baseball
magnate, recently lost 81 500 by bank
failure.
Pitcher Davies. of Milwaukee, is a medi.
cal student and the son of clergyman.
The young twirler is playing ball TO pay
the expenses Of a college course.
"Silver" King, the Pittsburg pitcher, Is
said 70 draw a salary Of s., 900 He has
shut out the New Yorks twice this season.
David Rowe is quoted as having senten
tiously remarked that next season Western
association salaries must 90 down or the
association up.
The poet laureate OF the baseball bust
ness is Curry Foley, OF Boston, but o. p.
Caylor is threatening TO enter the lists and
play Foley a series Of match games for the
poetical pennant.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-05

One who has tried il assures the public
that in spite Of n cats having nine lives it
may be easily put 10 death by the follow
ing plan: Draw a sock over pussy's head SO
that the toe Of the sock is brought 10 he-
nose or nearly so; then pour about half
teaspoonful Of ehloroform on the sock close
to her nose. Almost as soon as she has be-
come frightened by the unusual smell OF
chloroform she quietly goes Of TO sleep;
little more chloroform is added-perhaps
twice-and pussy never wakes again. The
indiscriminste laying down OF poison for
cats or anything else that may come along
cannot be too strongly denounced. If the
cats are not IN hand" that are rec u!red
to be poisoned they may De caught IN wire
traps, ike large rat-cage traps, and chioro-
formed oy spray from 3 small spray pro
ducer. without removal from the cage an
IL asleep or dead
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-05

MASCULINE MENTIoN.

Willis Menard, the first negro congress
man, is clerk in the census bureau al
S120 year.
Ex-Congressman Pidcock, of New Jer-
tey, Is an extensive peach grower, and con-
trolls about half the orchards in Hunterdon
sounty.
Mr.. Blaine's fortune is estimated at
nbout $4,000, a friend of his says, and
much of it is invested in railroads and
mining properties.
Franklin Pierce was the fourteenth pres
sdent, and mis- initial letters stand for
Fourteenth President. There are fourteen
letters in his name.
Bishop Spalding, of the Peoria Qlls.)
diocese, is as fond of a good horse as any
Iayman Is He handles the ribbons in
truly scientific manner
Baron Nathan de Rothschild is an ANA.
teur photographer, who goes trampinR
around the ltaliaI frontier of Austria tax
ing snap shots at pretty views
Mr. {. K Flint, of New York, probably
holds the record for extreme brevity of
tenure of office BY grace of Balmaceda
he was Cbilian consul ia the metropolis for
something less than twenty-four hours.
Gilbert +. Jones' who succeeds his late
father as proprietor and editor of the New
York Times, is forty years of age. thor
oughly conversant with all branches of the
business andR man OF exemplary character.
Francis Darwin, son of the great APOSTLE
OF evolution. is becoming famous for his
researches in biology. aud was recently
elected president of the biological section
Of the big Demograph!c congress in Lon
don.
Edward Atkinson, the statistician and
social economist, is good looking and
robust old gentleman, with snow white
hair and whskers, and has a hearty mag
netlsm of manner which insures his popu-
tarity
John Fitzgerald, the president of the
irish National league in America is the
richest man IN Lincoln. Neb, having a
fortune OF Sl,5OO,OJO. He began his career |
a. a laborer with pick and shovel on a |
western railroad
Archbishop Kenrick, of St. Louis. is as
fond OF taking long walks as Cardinal |
Gibbons is. He never enters a street car.
but as a result of his frequent iaunts about |
the city on foot nearly everybod in St /
Louis knows him by sight.
John +. Plummer is again on his feet in
the financial world 1t has exhausted
nearly every penny of his wife's fortune to
meet his obligations, but he has made an
arrangement with John d Rockefeller
which will probably result adyantageousIy
Ex-senator Reagan, of Texas, a hard
beaded, practical man of the world, got il
from an old darky that it would bring
him Ill fortune TO put on his left shoe first,
and never once IN all the years that have
sped has he failed TO give the right foot
preference
Clarence n. Freeman, the champion
checker player of the land. is a muiatto
With slight tlnge of Pequot Indian blood
DE used 10 be porter and errand boy in |
In old tavern IN Providence, where be /
ives. and begas 10 play checkers when he
vas seven years old
John Mackay, though one Of the wealth
est OF the Pacific coast miIIonaires, is a
nan OF very simple tastes He Is ALWAYS
veil dressed, but never displays any lew
Try, not even watch chain He is a
lain eater and is very abstemious in
even when entertaining I
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-05
PEN, cHlsEL AND BRUSH.

Kate Field claims that within ten years
Washington viii be the literary and intel
lectual center of the United States.
Robert Browning once said that he con-
sidered "Thyrsis," by Matthew Arnold,
one of the most beautiful poems in our
language.
NJ. II. De Young, the California editor.
started his first newspaper in San Fran
cisco in 1865 on a capital of twenty dollars.
and that loaned him by more prosperous
acquaintance.
Harriet Hosmer has, in her studio at
Rome, a plaster cast of the clasped hands
of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
This cast was made by Miss Hosmer in
Rome in 1853
A new German poetess, Elise Frapan,
has appeared She is described as of a can
did and sensitive nature, and her poetry is
read because she has new way of looking
at things and charms with her unexpect-
edness.
Donald g. Mitchell Ok MARVEL is now a
venerable man with the locks of a patri
arch. He leads quiet and studious life
IN his country home on the Connecticut
hills, devoting his time when out of doors
10 his beautiful lawns and garden.
The most prolific of English novelists is
said to be Mrs. Alexander, who sits at her
desk every day and forces herself to accom-
plish a certain amount OF work whether
she feels in a mood for it or not. Mrs. AL
sxander is a well preserved woman of
matronly appearance. She is of Irish
birth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes attributes his
vigor TO the care he taxes of himself The
temperature of his sleeping and dressing
rooms be guards with great care, and the
thermometer Is also scrupuloDsly EN-
ployed before he gets into bath. Instead
OF becoming tyranny, this habit affords
him entertainment.