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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
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The walls of the spacious rooms of the
chamber of commerce in the Mutual Life
Insurance building are covered with oil
portraits of distinguished New York nler-
chants who have passed away. There are
about 200 pictures, asd some of them are
invaluable because of their historic associ-
ations. A few were painted more than 100
years ago. This extraordinary art gallery
is viewed by hundreds of visitors in the
course of a year. The other day a rural
party, consisting of two SWANS and three
or four lassies, found their way into the
chamber of commerce rooms and wandered
about for an hour in state of half dazed
delight. They asked no end of questions,
which Secretary George Wilson answered
with his customary geniality. Finally one
of the men, the spokesman of the party,
paused in front of the priceless, full length
portrait of Alexander Hamilton and, point
ing at it with his cane, said: "When does
this auction begin? guess I'll bid on that
there pictur'. New York Times.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
She Knows How to Manage.

A wife whose husband has q bungling
brain and homely face used to try to
make things pleasant at home by express
ing her admiration of his talents and Civ
ing him the pet name of Brains" Her
delicate fattery did not seem to have much
influence upon him, though she kept it up
for whole year after their marriage. One
time not long ago, when she was in a happy
frame of melting mood or meditative state,
she expressed her admiration of his comely
countenance, and at last went so far as to
say she would give him the pet name Of
Beauty" He smiled as she repeated the
word with full consciousness that she had
touched his weak point. And now, what
ever be his mood of mind or the vicissi-
tudes Of life, that word dispels all other
thoughts and the twain are hsppy.-Chi-
cago News
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
Death Singles Ont Strangely,

81 just met while ago." said Mr.. j. W.
Nier, Kansas City engineer, "a soldier
who was wounded At the battle of Wound
ed Knee. He was in the act of firing when
he was shot, the ball from Winchester
passing from armpit to armpit. clear
through both lungs. He was given up for
dead, but today says he is just as well and
strong as ever he was in his life.
ut is curious how death stalks, singing
out some and sparing others who seem to
court visit from him. l remember when
l was in the governments employ at the
Mississippi jetties that the yellow fever
visited the squad of twenty eight on duty
at the jetties, and seventeen became pros
trated with the fever The others became
exhausted in watching their stricken COM
rades, and one night three of the patients,
becoming crazed, broke away and took TO
the canebrakes. The next day they were
found in swamp, and these three of the
seventeen afflicted were the only ones who
recovered. st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
How to Cure Dandruff.

A physician tells in The Lancet that he
has had good results in persistent dan
druff from the following treatment: The
scalp should first be thoroughly washed
with soap and hot water, and then thor
oughly dried with a warm and soft cloth;
there should then be rubbed into the scalp
a glycerole of tannin of the strength of ten
to thirty grains to the ounce Very obsti-
nate cases will require the higher strength
of tannin. This process should be repeated
twice week at first, once week after
ward. If tannin fails, as it will in some
cases, then resort is had to resorcin. After
the formation of dandruff has ceased the
head sho1ld be rubbed daily with olive oil,
containing to the ounce ten grains of car
bolic acid and dram of oil of cinnamon.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
For Destroying Farm Rubbish.

A prairie burner for burning fire brakes
has been patented in Canada by E. c. Rice,
of Mandan, n D., which is constructed of
heavy sheet or light boiler iron and made
any size desired. Inside the box is set of
gas generating burners, using gasoline,
which makes a solid. intensely hot fire.
The blaze is forced and held to the ground
by an iron draught apron, which operates
similar to a high wind and consumes all
infiammable matter over which the burner
passes. 1t will burn brake over any kind
of land, up hill or down, side hill or level
ground at the rate of about twenty miles
per day, at an expense of from nineteen to
twenty cents per mile, according to the
grass to be burned. Behind the fire box
are iron trailers, which put out any sparks
or Goals which may by chance escape from
the fire box.-New York Telegram.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
r. 7 fell off a tree or stumbled and rca

If fell Off a tree or stun bed and rCn
| when running it waS always "a d that my
head overbalanced me. Nj ciioonnates
always made me the subject their With
cisms, which would often n2-1c me rush
home IN agony and refuse to DC comforted.
Once / had my epitaph written and, un-
like the general run of epitaphs, it did not
extol my many virtues, but simply said:
Here lies the remains of Jimmy Clinnitt;
he'd a tremendous head, but nothin' in it."
But my uyhappiness was greatest after
cleft my mothers apron strings"
No one can imagine the unutterable an.
guish l feel on going to hatter's and be-
ing told, when tine assistant has gone over
the whole of the stock, that they have not
hat big enough On one occasion had
gone through this trying ordeal with the
usual result, and when l asked the man TO
have one made to measure he, in whis-
per, asked another gent" behind the
counter to lend him a double length tape.
When | am at the BARRIERS all eyes are
upon me, and to prevent them telling me
that nv head is a big "un. seldom go to
the same shop twice IN succession, and l
believe there are but few shops in the town
| have not patronized. One grasping in
dividual, when 1 asked his charge after he
had welded the scissors round my era
mum, replied:
"My usual charge is threepence, but,
begging your pardon, sir, your head takes
some getting roundp' 1t was enough. l
handed him sixpence, inwardly reproach-
ing nature for her way'wardness in placing
such a bane on my existence.
fl 90 to the theater my trouble is still
with me- I was once seated in the pit
waiting for the curtain to draw up. when
a man behind shouted for plumber to put
q piece of glass in my head so that he could
see the stage.
When l complain of headache my
friends, in sympathy, say how L must sui
fer if it aches all over. All my male &C
quaintances seem possessed with desire
to try on my hat, apparently finding great
fun in hiding their eyes and ears from view.
Only once in my life have l been in love,
and then cared not for my "deformity,"
as Blanche appeared to reciprocate my feel
ings. But had rival. One day I had
nv head out Of the carriage window of a
train saying a few parting words to
Blanche, who had come to see me off, when
I'D came my rival and inquired if he could
render any assistance in getting my head
back again into the compartment. l was
about to make whitening reply when l
saw Blanche laughing at this cruel joke.
At that moment the train pulled off, and
as I sank back on to the seat 1 knew that
for me 'loves golden dream had passed"
London Tit-BitS.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
Perfume and Cleanliness.

How many ladies know that the sweet
odors with which they love to surround
themselves are really stimulating and re-
freshing-lavender and lemon that our
grandmothers folded away in chests of
linen, roses and violets that breathe in
gentle fragrance from every fold and frill
of sweet woman's habiliments today, even
the homely scents Of sage and benzine.
There is an occasional grumbler who, for
want of something else to criticise, pro-
fesses an aversion to this perfume habit
among women, and descants learnedly ON
the approximation of well bathed natures
own fragrance emanating from clearly
person clothed in fresh linen.
But the grumbler doesn't understand
that the faint, delicate fragrance of per-
fume is the sign manual of perfect cleani-
ness. Sweet odors, like fresh flowers, fade
swiftly when brought in proximity with
person which, from disease or carelessness,
emits any poisonous vapors. So the next
time you meet lady with that faint, in
toxicating fragrance lingering in her gar
ments you may know for a certainty that
the cleanliness that is next to godliness is
the basis and beginning of the fragrance
that delights you.-New York Sun.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
Books and Conversation.

Conversation demands knowledge, and
to say it could never have been carried very
far without books is but to say it could not
have fourished without a record of the
best, and, it must be said, the worst, which
men have done. thought and imagined.
For us, of course, it is impossible to imag-
inc life without such record. Society has
been called "a strong solution of books"
Science and letters agree in representa-
lions of life without literature as life in
which not conversation, but coarser pleas
ures played the chief part.
What conversation would be possible
among the degraded Australian savages,
referred to by Darwin, who use very few
abstract words and cannot count above
four? Even the early Greeks themselves
preferred good living. Feasting with music
is declared by Ulysses the "fairest thing in
the world" Conversation and literature
have grown up together, and, like the
Glove Birds" we cannot have one without
the other. No sustained conversation goes
far without some aid from books, no witty
conversation would be Ineligible without
knowledge of them.
Miss Lydia White, brilliant Irish wo-
man and Tory, used to give famous par
ties in those days, at the beginning Of this
century, when the Wings were for gen
Grafton or more in a hopeless minority. AT
one of these parties all the guests were
Wings, and they were complaining of the
sorry plight of their party. yes" said
Sydney Smith, eve are in most desperate
condition-we must do something to help
ourselves; think we had better sacrifice a
Tory virgin" Lydia White at once caught
and applied the allusion to Iphigenia. Il
believe" said she, there is nothing the
Wings would not do to raise the wind. -
Gentleman's Magazine.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
SOCIAL ETIQUETTE.
The Perfection of Manner as Found in q
Few Delightful People.

Few Delightful People.
There are people of whom one never
tires, no matter how often one sees them
nor how intimate the associations may be-
There is about them that air of perpetual
charm and variety that makes them de-
Gghtful companions. They are sure to be
good tempered. There is never any fear of
finding them in pet nor prey to some Ill
humor wholly unreasonable and unex-
plainable," says The World.
''They are pleased when you are pleased
and interested in what you have to say.
They are so sympathetic that your ills and
troubles become their own, and your
friends become SO dear to them that not
for the world would they do anything to
rob you of them.
Sometimes with these bright, sweet ma
lures you find the added charm of origi-
nality, and when you come across such a
one treasure it and preserve it as one of
the pearls of your life, for seldom. indeed,
are talent, originality and good nature
found combined in one mortal frame 4
nature that is SO richly endowd is three
fold talented. 1t has the talent of magnet
ism, the talent of keeping good nature and
the priceless talent of originality"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
A Hint About Sponges.

Never use new sponge, says an ex-
change, unless you have thoroughly soaked
it. This will take out the muriatic acid
used in its preparation for the market If
you buy sponge from drug store or any
where at retail you do not get the virgin
article that is dragged from the bottom of
the sea. 1t has seen a number of changes.
Sponges are bleaohed white with muriatic
acid, and the men who do this work have
sore and sometimes bleeding hands, on &C
count of the strength of the solution. After
bleaching the finer ones are dyed yellow
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
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PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.
A Clear Description of the Symptoms Tha.
Usher in an Attack of Pneumonia.

A Clear Description of the Symptoms That
Usher in an Attack of Pneumonia.
There are well marked symptoms which
warn one of the approach of pneumonia.
These are described by Halls Journal of
Health as follows:
The symptom that ushers in an attack OF
pneumonia is chill. If you do not have
decided chill there is not much need of
anxiety. Other symptoms are headache,
backache, pains in the limbs, coryza, some
cough, with expectoration. You probably
will get stitch in the SIDE" which may
be due to pleurisy or to Inflammation IN
the lung itself. A great many have these
symptoms who do not have pneumonia,
but it is far safer to take care of the simple
symptoms of influenza. Beware, always,
of chilli The second stage of pneumonia
is condition in which the mucous mem
prane lining the air cells is overstimulated,
and throwing out too much mucus. There
is also slight presence of the red and white
corpuscles of the blood. The red corpuscles
impart to the expectorated matter a rusty
color This matter is tenacious. If the
second stage is allowed to continue for any
length of time it is very likely to run into
the third stage, which is that ofsuppuration.
In this third stage the corpuScleS Of the
blood pass through the walls of the blood
vessels in great quantities; the actual tissue
of the lungs becomes dead, and separates
altogether completely fill the at first re-
mote air cells, later the larger air cells; the
lung solidifies, air is not allowed to enter
the lungs, the blood remains impure, poi
sonous, and you die of suffocation. 1t is al
most impossible to save person in this
third stage The first and second stages
are serious and need the utmost care to es-
cape the third stage. There is present in
all Of these stages high fever, 103 dogs. to
104 degs.; pulse 10 to 100, and respirations
forty-eight to the minute.
The journal quoted advises that the
symptoms described above be always treat
ed If you get a chill use at once the best
means at hand to reduce the fever that Is
almost sure to follow. Pneumonia is a dis
ease which needs careful watching. The
let alone policy is almost sure to be fatal.
You must go TO bed. You must keep warm
and have complete rest. You cannot be
falsely brave and declare that ''it is moth
ing but a cold" Pneumonia is disease
in which you need plenty Of nutritious
food-sometimes warm stimulants-the lat
ter being commenced early.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
JUDGE NOT IN HASTE.

Ne'er De hasty in your Judgment,
Never foremost to extend
Evil mention of a neighbor.
Or of one you've calld a friend.
OF two reasons for an action
Choose the better, not the worst.
Oft, with soQe, the meaner motive
Ever strikes the fancy first
Then be gentle with misfortune;
Never foremost to extend
Evil mention Of a neighbor,
Or of one you've call'd friend.
Judge not with detracting spirit;
Speak not with disdainfal tongue,
Nor with hard and hasty feeling
Do one human creature wrong.
Words there are that, sharp as winter,
Strip the little left to cheer.
Oh, be yours the kinder mission.
Prone to soothe, not cause tear.
Then be gentle with misfortune:
Never foremost to extend
Evil mention of neighbor,
Or of one you've call'd friend.
New York Ledger.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
Norwegian Engagement

leap year reigns forever IL this beathen
land" exclaimed an Eaglish tourist stop
ping IN NorSay village One evening he
had been taking s lesson IN Norsk from a
young lady, good nasured Norwegian
being present. VINO had just walked six
teen miles across me mountains hen
the lazy rose 10 :, 70 her lodgings IL 81
adjoining house 70. Englishnaau offered 20
escort her through the darkness.
She declined the offer, and in 50 abrupt a
manner as 70 surprise him. When she had
gone the Engllshraau asked the Norwegian
IL be smoke English ''Nos mucb-ozlx
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
Homemade Stained Glass.

Imitation stained glass, which may be
turned to good account for flower or land
scape tablets to be hung before windows
to add, in addition to any attraction of the
design, color vivacity to room, may be
executed by covering the glass with thin
film of turpentine, and painting on this in
varnish colors somewhat thin. The glass
is to be placed in warm, dry place for a
few days. The design may be placed be-
meath the glass or outlined on its face by
means of transfer paper and tracer
Ladies' Home Journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
Washing the Hair with Ammonia.

Never put ammonia in the water in
which you wash your hair" is the advice
given by one who has tried it to her re-
greet. She at least attributed certain I'M
timely gray hairs that appeared to its fire.
quent use on the parting Of bang and the
locks about the temples. However that
may be, borax answers the same purpose,
and is free from deleterious results. Use
only sufficient quantity to render the
water soft and smooth to the touch, and it
will leave the hair sweet and clean and
fluffy. A few drops of violet in the water
used for rinsing will impart pleasant
fragrance.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
Very True.

Its a great deal easier to write a poem
to the first snow storm than to the last"
remarked the poet.
Why is that?' asked the friend.
Because" replied the poet, you are
never certain that the last storm is the
last. n-Munsey's Weekly
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
The Situation Described.

1t remained for San Francisco man who
was seeking an office from the president,
and who had been in town some time wait
ing for it to make one of the best after din
ner hits. He was called upon to speak at
a banquet and boldly proclaimed that he
was after an Office.
And here" he went on, '1've been four
months waiting and waiting and lowering
between the certainty of an appointment
or a disappointmentr-W Washington Star
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

In addition to its employment for cool
ing water and other beverages, in the
course of time the value of ice as an agent
for preserving meats fruit, etc, was recog-
nized, and as consequence the demand
for it was greatly increased
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
An Old Acquaintance,

She-Why, sir, you have not known me
above an hour, and already begin to talk
of love and naarriage
He-Ah, my dear young lady, l have
known you for some time through our
ledger. You see, / am bankers clerk,
and your father has deposited your dowry
ln our bank mtransigeanI
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

An innovation is an electric railway ex-
press service established in a western town.
by means of which, for small charge, all
the packages bound outward for the sub
urbs are gathered up at the depots and
then delivered along the route.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

In making call do not on any account
take out your watch to note the fight of
time; such an act would be considered a
great piece of rudeness, unless you are
anxious respecting another appointment,
in which case you must apologize and ex-
plain.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

Poisoning by tyrotoxicon is generally
followed by some gastro-enteric irritation,
which can be controlled By sedatives, and
unless the doctors services are Immediate
" available some such antiseptic as thy
NAL should be employed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

There are about 105 women TO every 10
men; one-quarter Of the population OF the
world die before the age OF seventeen years:
only one in Thousand lives to be 100 yearr
old and onIE six in thousand reach sew
eQlE-aEA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

Mr.. R. ". Wood, Jr., has submitted ice
at melting point 20 pressure OF twenty
tons per square inch without liquefying it.
He concludes, therefore, that the peculiar
motions OF glacial ice cannot be due to
layer OF pressure molten water beneath the
mass
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

By beating out between pieces o. mem
brane gold may be formed into leaves OF
such thinness that 81, 900 Of them will
make pile one inch in height; single
ounce Of gold may thus be spread over a
hundred square feet
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

There are several tribes OF Indians in
Mexico which believe in witchcrsft, and
the other week woman was killed be-
cause it was commended that sbe drove the
sun over into the United States and flied
~ the space with rain--Dktroit Free Press
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
SORROWS OF A BIG HEADED MAN.
He Describes Some of His Feeling from
Youth TO Manhood.

I'm memory again | recall the time
when and my playmates used 10 make
mud pies, ami at this delightful occupation
l was always IN great request, for more
dirt could De carried 20 the clean path in
my hat than IN any ether. This distinction
L then was proud of, but as l grew into
boyhood the phenomenal size of my head
was often the cause of an aching heart, and
my sensitiveness was increased by the ire
ouent illusions which overhes-S
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

E. r. POWELL Pre'n o. ". LARIskR V. Prsst
C.E FRANK. Asst Cashier.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-13
THE GOLD SHIPMENTS.


 The exportation of gold from this country is not cheering, but it will not be calamitous unless it is much more exten- sive than it now seems likely to be. The United States can spare a good deal more gold and then have enough left. The stock of gold in the United States on the 1st of this month, according to official figures, was s6s9, ,495, 900, against $7O4,- 597,000 on January 1st, falling off of only $15, ,1O2, 900. The current production of our mines is about $32,O0O,0O Dur ing the last calendar year $17,465, ,OG0 of foreign gold was imported into the United States and melted at our hints, and nearly s3,OOO,OOO of our gold coin was brought back, total of S20,- 900, ,OO0. Notwithstanding the export of over $61 1000, GOO of our gold bars in the summer of 1889, and nearly $16,0OO, ,0OO in the summer of 1890, the stock of gold in the United States on the 1st of this year was about S15, 1000, 900 more than it was on January 1, 1890, and within $500, 900 of the gold stock on January 1, 1889. The treasury has in it's vaults S2S0, ,000, ,000 in gold, and the United States has to-day probably the largest stock of gold of any country in the world, with the possible e1- ception of France.
 Expert fnanciers are somewhat puzzled by the long continuance of the gold ship. ments, but it is generally expected that they will stop soon, and perhaps the vel low metal will be coming this way ir few months. -'..---