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The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31
The Mississippi.

We venture to suggest that even II
the project of regulating the flow of the
Mississippi and its tributaries is posi-
BILE to modern engineer ing-and the
question is merely one of time. men and
money-the strain on the national
finances would be beyond all reason,
and would favor ring with opportuni-
ties and temptations of unprecedented
magnificence. Let any one who doubts
spend an hour in studying the habits of
the tiniest brooklet, which are in minia-
ture the habits of the Mississippi. Call
the great river mile wide between
levees, and the brook foot wide from
bank to bank. A combining levee, or
embankment, ten feet high along the
river would be represented proportion
ately in the case of the brook by one
less than half an inch high. How
much, think you, would the brook be
restrained by such barrier after a sud-
den thunder shower in the summer or .
prolonged rain? The United States
Government can do it, of course! It
can do anything! and the mere build
ing of continuous quadruple chain of
mountains along the great rivers may
be effected If the nation sets about it.
Then there is that other pleasant little
project which contemplates storage
reservoirs, wherein the surplus aters
of early spring shall be retained until
they are wanted during the drought of
summer! If the redonbtable Col. Sell
lers had thought of the Mississippi he
need never have wasted his time in pro
viding eye-water at dollar bottle for
the 400, 00O, 600 of weak-eyed Asiatics.
The whole country is interested in hav-
ing the river made as useful and as
harmless as pc So bic, but the way to do
this is to learI tn habits of the river,
and adapt rselves aud our necessities
to its convent snce. No ttrait-iacket
can be made that will restrain this
giant when he puts forth his strength.
The Continent
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

THE news comes from Germany
that the beginning of winter finds
500 cases of influenza in Silesia. 1t
is useless to expect that the same
winds which blow the poison germs
across Europe will not also watt them
over the Atlantic and bind the west
ern hemisphere with a broad girdle
Of disease. This new appearance is
said to have originated in Russian
churches, in an atmosphere breathed
over and over again by the most
wretched and dirty people in Europe.
Formerly the Mohammedans at Mecca
had credit for every pestilence; now
the Greek branch of the Christian
church-of which the Car is sover-
eign pontiff-is the head and front of
the offending. Medical science in
the United States will now be called
upon for it's most strenuous efforts.
Two winters ago the epidemic slew
its thousands and last winter its tens
of thousands. II specific has not
been discovered by this time it is
probable that systems weakened by
the former attacks will give way in
still greater numbers. Experience,
however, must now have something
to 60 upon in dealing with the ear
Hest symptoms. Influenza, in any of
its forms, should not be closed book
to the medical profession. Every
public health Office in the country
should be made an agency for the
diffusion of information as to the
latest and most successful methods OF
dealing with the enemy
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

DIR. KOCH reports that he has puri-
fed his lymph, having eliminated the
matter that induced inflammation
and led to so many deaths. The
lymph under its new form is entitled
to the careful attention of expert
mentalists, but the fad is over, and
what is really good in the treatment
will have to be discovered by the next
generation.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

THERE is said to be a girl 10 years
old living pear Pittsburg who speaks
only language OF her own inven-
tion, although she reads and writes
English. Here is a portion OF her
vocabulary: Sofa, angry; phatota,
fun: tOoky, strong rope; beloh,
papa. Now, il belOh should get sofa
and take tooky and have some
phatota warming the reporter who
spun the yarn, such flctions as this
would be fewer.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

THE fact that the survivor of a
fatal duel in Georgia has been found
guilty of murder and sent to the pen
ttentiary for life is worthy Of more
than passing mention. The field of
honor has long been a source of dis
honor in the South, and this sign of
an awakening to the fact that murder
Is murder whether done vulgarly in a
cutting ARRAY or -honorably" with
seconds and surgeons and deliberate
purpose is a cheering evidence of
the triumph Of the new South over
the old.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

UNLIKE the scriptural leopard,
Garcia, the Mexican revolutionist,
changes his spots" with a rapidity
that makes him little less than omni-
present. In one column Of a metro
politan paper he is fighting the forces
of President Diaz, and in the next
column he is declared to be anguish
ing in a Missouri Jail. He is yet to
be heard OF as victim of Jack Ketch,
however.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

PRINCE DAMRONG, Of Siam, is now
in Paris, where he is said to be the
god Of the concert halls, several &C
tresses wearing diamonds presented
by him. He is apparently, from a
moral point of view, trying to live up
to his name.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

ROBERT BONNER offers S., 600 to the
horse which shall first make record
of 2:O5 on a regulation track. 1t
now remains to be seen whether
money makes the mare 90.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

THE observer at Lick Observatory
has discovered snow on the noun
tains of the moon. The traditional
blood upon that luminary will not be
visible until next election day.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

DANIEL DOUGHERTY, the silver
tongued orator, made his first money
driving one of his fathers bus teams.
Possibly that is whyso many Jehus of
to-day are so eloquent while hand
ling the ribbons.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

TAKING Lion by the Tail" is
the title of story of adventure in
one of the papers. That is the way
America took the Kipling lion-by
his tale of 1.-THE Light that Failed.
No one has found much to grip him
NV since.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

THE dollar which the jury awarded
to ,Donnelly comes about as near to
being the 100000 he sued for as his
Bacon cipher does to proving that the
English Chancellor wrote the plays Of
Shakespeare.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

THE giraffe is threatened with ex-
'tinction, but as long as the collar
makers and the dudes work in har-
mony naturalists will be able to study
the pec1liarities of the CRATES neck.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

NoNPAREIL lace is popular article
of feminine neckwear. 1t is worn by
both the bourgeois and their minions.
Why it is so named writer's say not.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

SINCE the advent of Ruth Cleve-
land, boy babies are said to have
gone out of fashion. It's safe to
wager that if that young lady could
express her sentiments this idea would
be forcibly condemned.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

THE apologists for poverty, injustice
and the wrongs inflicted upon the peo-
pie by monopoly are still talking
about the big crops.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

THIS rapid adoption of the new
Australian system by American States
demonstrates that it filed a need,
and it is not likely that the new bal
lot law will be repealed in any State
where it has had fair trial, though
many of the laws will doubtless be
amended in vulnerable points.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

EVERY ONE says he believes the
world will come to an end some day.
II it should come to an end during
your time, whom would you rather be
with?
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31
The news that there are bugs in
cigarettes is indeed terrifying for the
bug.

1T is not the man who pays the
highest price for pew in church that
is Surest of heaven.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE.

AiMasni6cent Sermon ON the Temptations
to which Young Men Are Suhjectsd-An
Exhortatlou to Hold Fast to tho Bibles
Truths.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

A NEwsPAPER cartoon represents
John Chinaman aloft in the air
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31
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PUBLISHED By

THE GLOBE PUBLISHING co.
sDodge CITY, kansa.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

What is the inscription on the Whitney
monument to be? Will it be ITO Eli Whit
ney. He got there"
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

The Atlantic cable alone would entitle its
constructor to live in history as the true Cy-
rus the Great.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

"Honesty may sometimes stan for poll
cy," remarked Uncle AbsOlom, but policy
doan' stan fob honesty by or long shot"
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

Chicago is excited because four messen0e.
boys have been missing for the last week
Perhaps they are answering calls in the sub
urbs.
The Globe-republican., 1891-12-31

from now, after he has been under trial
in such an establishment. Here he
stands in the shop to-day, his cheeks
rudy with the breath of the hills He
unrolIs the goods on the counter in gen.
tlemanly style. He commends them to
the purchaser. He points out all the
good points in the fabric. He effects the
sale. The goods are wrapped up, and
he dismisses the customer with cheer
full ''goOd morning." and the country
merchant departs so impressed with the
straightforwardness of the young man
that he will come again and again, every
spring and every autumn. unless inter-
fered with.
The young man has been now in that
establishment five years. He unrOlls the
goods on the counter. He says to the
customer, ''Now those are the best goods
we have in our establishment" They
have better on the next shelf. He says.
1--WE are selling these goods less than
cost" They are making 20 per cent.
He says There is nothing like them in
all the CITY," There are fifty shops that
want to sell the same thing. He says,
'.Now. that is a durable article; it will
wash" Yes, it will wash out.
The sale is made, the goods are
wrapped up, the country merchant goes
off feeling that he has an equivalent for
his money. and the sharp clerk goes into
the private room Of the counting house.
and he says, swell / got rid of those
goods at last really thought we never
would sell them. told him we were
selling them less than cost. and he
thought he was getting . good bargain.
Got rid of them at last" And the head
of the firm says, That's well done,
splendidly donc!'' Meanwhile God has re-
corded eight lies-four lies against the
young man, four lies AGAINST his en-
ployes. for undertake to say that the
, 1891-01-31
HOW A BULLET TRAVELS.
An Explanation for IL, Three and some
time Four Different Motions.

An Explanation for Ito Three and some
time Four Different Motions.
Howard Carr, an authority on shooting
and a gentleman vol informed on all mat
ters OF detail pertaining TO the bulls eye,
gave a reporter some Interesting informA-
ton on the queer actions Of a bullet after
being discharged from the muLZle of =
gun.
A bullet, he declared, sighted for 1000
yards has three separate and distinct mo-
tons, snd In cases whore the stubby and
blunt express lead Is used IL has four. The
frst is its velocity or straight motion of
journey; the second Is the rotary motion.
caused by the bore of the gun, which
makes 1t pillow through the air. and the
third Is the trajectory motion, or drift, at
Tibutahle to the attraction Of gravity,
which forces the bullet sideways. When
the express bullet Is used il follows a line
similar 10 the edge Of a corkscrew. The
latter is ascribable to the extra friction on
the bottom Of the ball, which is constantly
lowering.
had this illustrated by placing sheets
Of paper forty yards apart on n level, and
the course of the bullet could be seen by
collecting the papers and laying them one
over the other.
A ball has n large drop when travelling
any great distance. For instance, take
lrulo lhTlHs lht bllltNf II Keeping Lne
course IL originally started out to follow,
would land a distance OF over 225 feet
above the bulls eye. But il starts TO drop
Immediately after leaving the muZzle OF
the gun, and at between $50 and 600 yards
the ball is only sixty feet above the line OF
the bulls eye, and a considerable distance
below the line OF sight. At 200 yards 1t
has decreased in proportion, and the aim
Is only forty inches above the bulls eye,
but at 500 yards It is over sixteen feet.
II takes about three seconds for a ball to
travel 600 yards with an ordinary charge
Of powder behind it. The first second IL
travels 1900 feet. In the next second 1t
travels only three-quarters OF that distance,
and In the third second II travels only one
half as much as it lid when leaving the
muzzle.
/ made the claim here n short time ago
that a ball made more revolutions-that
Is, its rotary motion increased in proper
ton to the distance IL traveled-as 1t APP
preached the target, han 1t lid In the 100
yards Immediately after leaving the muz-
zle, and I will explain. The friction OF the
atmosphere does not lessen the rotary mo
ton as fast in proportion to the distance 1t
has travelled as II does its flight through
the atmosphere; consequently, while In
the last 100 yards the ball is only travelling
at a rate just one-half OF its original speed,
the rotary motion Ia just AS great, and
having more time makes more reyolu-
tions.-San Francisco Examiner.
, 1891-01-31

In a shop window on the Bowery is a
most realistic and exciting representa-
ton of the Y~ale-Princeton football
match. The back of the window is COW
cred with a strip of canvas painted to
represent a grand stand filed with peo-
pie, and the floor Of the window is spread
with green stuff to represent grass. The
players are dolls dressed in the appropri-
ate costumes and colors of the players,
and a lot of them are massed on top of q
small football in the center of the field.
The names of the players and their po-
sitions are posted at the side. with the
announcement that these two teams have
been engaged to play an exhibition game
for the delectation of the employees Of
the firm making the display.
1t would be interesting to hear Capt.
Poe and Halfback Meetings. remarks If
they heard they were advertised to play
before the cutters and basters of a Bow
cry clothing store.-New York Evening
Sun.
, 1891-01-31

Paternal care had not yet come into fash
ion; the fashion was, indeed, the reverse
when ! was a child. Thus my early years
were cheerlessly spent in an outlying dis
trict Of Paris, At the age OF 4 / was still
there whom | accidentally fell from the top
OF a cupboard and dislocated my foot. The
woman 10 whose care | was intrusted only
Informed my family of this several months
afterward. The truth became known only
when my parents sent for me to go to Peri
CORD to visit Nine. de Chalais, my grand
mother, who had oppressed a wish to see
me. Although Nine, de Chalais was my
great-grandmother | always called her
grandmother, very likely, | think, because
that name implied a closer relationship.
The dislocRtion OF my foot had been neg
lected too long to be remedied; ever my
other foot, having had to bear alone the
whole weight Of my body, had grown weak.
er, and thus l remained lame for life.
That accident had a great influence over
my after life. 1t indeed led my parents
TO think / was unfit for a military career,
or at least that in such l should labor un
der great disadvantages. They were thus
induced to seek for me some other profes.
sion, which in their eyes would be best
lily, for in great families the family was
far more cared for than its members indi.
yiduBlly, chiefly those young members
who were still unknown. These consid-
e~rations are rather painful to my mind, so
| will not dwell further on ~them.-Talley-
rand's Memoirs In Century.
, 1891-01-31

One of the most astonishing features
of the running of the civil courts of this
city is the excitement which n harmless
citizen can cause by walking into the
court with his hat on. OF course
no n is so ignorant as not to know
that it is not the proper thing to keep
his hat or in the presence Of a judge
holding court, but it frequently happens
that a man who is strolling about the
corridors of a court house will step into
q court room and absent mindedly fail
to remove his hat. Now there may be
a court officer within two feet Of him.
He taps the offender on the shoulder
and whispers to him to take off his hat.
That is the curious feature of it. he
doesn't do any such thing. Instead, he
shouts at the top of his lungs, Hats
OFF, The officer in the corner, who has
been doing, wakes with a start, also
shouts Hats OFF, and the third officer,
who has had his back turned toward the
offender, in the act of handing a paper
to the witness on the stand, wheels
around and likewise shouts Hats OFF,
Judges, lawyers, witnesses, jurymen,
all are startled at the sudden outcry,
and the offender against court room Ell
quette sneaks out of court, abashed and
wondering why he couldn't have been
asked to remove his hat without SO much
attention being attracted to his offense.
New York Times.
, 1891-01-31

While reading one of the humorous
papers a few days ago 1 came across a
sunny story which carried me back
to months ago when, sitting in my room
n evening, 1 was summoned by mes
senger to the sick bed of a friend. He is
perhaps one of the best known funny
photographers in the country, and his
work finds a ready sale wherever offered.
Upon arriving at the OOH Of my friend
1 found him in a high fever. tossing on a
bed of perfect agog. 1 had not sat long
by his side wheel turning over, he said
to me: my deal fellow, my copy is
due tomorrow forming at the office of
-. Won't you take a pad and write
down some paragraphs at my dictationT'
1 took a pad, and for a half hour my
friend dictated to me a continuous string
of jokes, many or them 80 funny that 1
could scarcely repress laughing myself.
One story 1 especially remembered as ex-
ceedingly bright and witty, and yet it
was dictated between groans. There
are indeed people in this world who suf-
fer to make others laugh.-Edward W.
Bok's Letter.
, 1891-01-31

TIE device lately hit upon by a mem
Der Of the Paris police force for catching
a thief was certainly an ingenious one,
but now that the light fingered fra
territy know of the trap they will prob
ably be on their guard in future. At one
of the large dress warehouses in the
Faubourg St. German there had been,
it appears, for several weeks past a
number OF robberies committed, and
though the strictest watch was kept by
the inspectors it had been impossible to
discover the thief. In the majority of
cases the unknown shoplifter took away
with him elegant and costly mantles eX-
posed for sale on dummies in the shop,
choosing his time for operating 50 well
that his identity remained a mystery.
The police were at length appealed to,
and in order to catch the rogue one or
two agents were, at the suggestion Of q
member of the force, ordered to substi-
tute themselves for the dummies-or
rather, to hide themselves inside their
wirework frames. 1t was not long be-
fore the plan succeeded. A day or two
since, just as a richly trimmed mantle
was being cleverly removed from the
shoulders of a dummy, the individual
engaged in the act felt himself grasped
I tightly by a pair of strong arms, and
held a prisoner. The shoplifter's fright
at finding the dummy to be, SO to say,
inhabited, was 80 great that it deprived
him of speech and action, and he made
no attempt to escape from the constHble's
grip or to explain away his conduct.
He is now lodged in prison, and on IN
future thieving expedition of this kind
he will probably be suspicious of dunn
mies.-London Standard.
, 1891-01-31

While walking along the new elevated
tracks Of the Pennsylvania railroad, as a
train passed over it at q fair rate of
speed, the steel work gave forth a dis
tinct musical sound, as though a great
v~ioloncello were stretched from Hender-
son to Monmouth streets. There was no
tremble or jar, or click at the rail joints.
Indeed, the sound did not come from the
rails, but from the steel girders and pill
lars, and continued until the locomotive
had struck the solid ground six blocks
above. The sound is an octave above
the deep bass of Niagara falls.
With a long vestibule train the effect
will be startling. venture to predict
that the jewellers along the line will not
complain of the noise of the passing
trains, for, though somewhat loud, it is
yet h~armoniously musical. Hence it
will not disturb anybody. Philadelphia
Bulletin.
, 1891-01-31

The Rock Springs Indepeadeat has the
following sensible comment on the force
bill:
We are glad to see that the force bill
has been virtually defeated by knocking
It out of it, place in the order of business
before the senate. 1t was defeated
through five Republicans voting with the
Democrats. but neither Senators Warren
nor Carey were among the immortal
five. The evils which the force bill
sought to remedy will right them
selves 10 time and the bitterness and
sectional feeling which il would stir
up would almost create a revolution. The
objections TO the bill we're not confined to
the South, but we're also strong in the
North. The Wisconsin legislature passed
a resolution against il. To be sure it is
Democrats who oppose 1t, but if the
Democrats we're IN power and should try
to pass such a bill, the Republicans you'd
make Just as big a howl against it as the
Democrats DOW do.
, 1891-01-31

Curt Abel, retired corporal in the
Wurtemberg contingent Of the German
army, has been condemned to fourteen
days arrest by a court martial in Fret
burg. Abel's offense was hat he ex-
posed the abuses ~practiced by German
merated in several sensational pam
phlets cases in which soldiers had been
beaten, burned with cigars, and cut
with knives by ~lieutenants in command
of them. The ostensible reason of his
punishment, however, was that he had
observed these abuses without reporting
them. Abel's trial and sentence have
aroused much indignation in all the
German Liberal dailies which consider
his treatment a matter of simon pure
Observation-Disclosures Letter.
, 1891-01-31
oesRoN,s LAsI COUNCIL.


II, on some woodland lawn, you see a ring
OF darker hue upon the paler grass-
The strange green growth which children =
they pass
Still tell each other Is q fairy thing
Left by the Elves DER night-lst 20 ur soul cling
To the sweet thought that there the Elf Kin,
was
With all his crew at dawn; but thai, alAsl
They met there for their last, last gathering
For they are dead: and though the sunshine stu
And still the squirrel nibbles and the mouse,
The little folk are gone who used TO oil
The hazel c0pses where the wildwood dove
with cross laid tWigs still builds her little
house.
He called a last assembly Of the Elves.
Hundreds OF Fairies In the forest met
Meath one huge oak tree-Sprites Of dry and
wet,
Pixies and ImpS. and every gnous that delvss.
And oberon said: I'VE lurk by tens and twelves,
Starved in the woods. Mans faith-our food As
yet
Feeds US no more; the fairies sun has set;
We are but shadows of our former selves.
IT'S time TO lsave the woods and to depart.
When faith quite ends $50 say the high decreesO
Then death WIN strike us with his icy dart.
Long have we nestled in the hearts OF trees;
Now we must nestle In the poets heart
The only place in which we ne'er shall freeze"
Eugene Lee Hamilton in Academy.
, 1891-01-31


The legend of the spectral fishing feet
Of st. Mary's Bay is of modern Or
igin. In 1862 a fishing fleet, homeward
bound from the Grand Banks, was driven
by stress of weather into st. Mary's Bay.
The storm increased in fury, and 100
boats went down on that August day in
the storm tossed waters. There are now
hundreds of fishermen ready to wear
that ever since. when they have sought
shelter in fog and storm in st. Mary's
Bay, they have caught glimpses of a
phantom fleet, heard the Tapping of the
sails and the shouting of the sailors when
no feet was there. This may be &C
counted for by the fog, which nearly al
ways hangs about the bay, for any one
who has sailed in a fog knows that he
a see and hear almost anything he
pleases in it.-New York Tribune.