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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-22

seriously i'll. He was sixty-two years
old last April 4, has reigned forty three
years and is the best known oriental
prince of the age-indeed Of any age
since that Of Aurungzebe. His reign
began amid sea of troubles, and he had
a war with the British government of
India in 1856 and minor wars with vari-
GUS tribes, but the latter half of his
reign has been quite peaceful. He is
rather liberal minded for an Asiatic
ruler and broke the record in 1873 by
making tour in Europe, much against
the will of his people. In 1889 he came
again and his sayings and doings in Lon
don and Paris furnished much amuse-
ment to the western world. His heir
apparent is Muzaffer-ed-Deen Mira, the
oldest son, now thirty-eight years old.
Dom Pedro, ex-emperor OF Brazil, is
but sixty-six years old, and has enjoyed
firm health all his life, so the announce
ment that he is seriously i'll in France
comes as surprise. His death at this time
could make no difference politically, as
he and all the rest of the world are per-
fectly reconciled to the new order of
things in Brazil. His father, Pedro l,
was heir apparent to the throne Of Portu-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-22
ON TOP NO MORE.
A Sporting Life Doesn't Pay at
the End.
MEN WHO HAVE FOUND 1T OUT.

They Once Had Friends, Influence, a
Pull" and Lots of Greenbacks-Now
They Have to Think Twice Before
Buying a Bottle of Wine.
The recent stabbing of The Allen, from
the result of which it was at one time
thought the notorious New York dive
keeper would never recover, has called
general attention to the fact that a sort of
Nemesis has of late been pursuing nearly
all the celebrated sporting characters of
the country.
Harry Hill. Tom Gould and Billy Nc
Glory in New York; Mike Gleason, Tom
Early and Patsey Shepard in Boston;
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-22
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Metals More Costly Than Gold.

The rarest metal-and it is so rare that
recent discoveries have thrown doubt on
its elemental character-is didymium, and
fits present market price, if one may thus
term the quotation of an article that never
appears on the market, is $500 per pound.
The next costliest metal is barium, an ele-
ment belonging to the alkaline earth group;
its value is $3.50. Beryllium or glucinGm,
a metallic substance found in the beautiful
beryl, is quoted at G6T5. Yttrium, a rare
metal of the boron-aluminium group. SO
called because first noticed at Ytterby, ia
Sweden, is stated to be worth at present
4450 per pound.
Medium, or columbium, a name sugges
tive of the American origin of the metal, it
having been first discovered in Connecticut,
is valued today at e400 per pound. The
price of rhodium, ali extremely hard and
brittle substance. which owes its name &c
the rose red color of certain of its solutions
is also e4O0 per pound. Vanadium, deriv.
ing its title from one of the appellatious
of the Scandinavian goddess, Freya, and
at one time considered the rarest of me.
tallic elements, has been reduced in price
to e375 per pound, at which value there
will no doubt be many eager buyers. Irid.
ium, very heavy metal of the platinum
group. so named from the iridescepce OF
some of its solutions, and well known liz
connection with its use for the points oil
gold pens, may be bought today at approx.
imately $40 per pound.
Osmium, another metallic element Of the
platinum group, is hard, infusible and the
heaviest substance known. Its present
value is Gl25 per pound. Palladium, a sill.
yer white, fusible metal used in the manu-.
facture of certain parts of timepieces and
occasionally applied in dentistry. is worth
Gl00 per pound. The present price of
platinum, the better known tin white,
ductile, but very infusible metal is on
par with that of gold. viz. about go per
pOund.-Iron.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-22

rapidly shutting up the old time dives.
The recent closing of the palace Royal
is the most convincing proof of this.
Schoenhauser, the senior proprietor of
the place, at one time stood so firm that
nothing could have shaken him. He was
a power in the district where he lived,
and could have made or unmade politi-
clans. His record was most unsavory
one. He had served a term of eleven years
for highway robbery, but despite this fact
he managed things SO shrewdly that soon
after his release he was running two of
the toughest dives in the city without in
reference from the police.
But the law and order element which
has been making itself felt of late has
proved too strong for Schoenhauser, and
he has gone to join the other "has beens."
The last straw that broke his back was the
noise made a few months ago over the
fate of lot of girls who were sent to his
place under false pretenses by his New
York agent, fellow named EIbogen. The
latter was sent to prison for seven years
by the New York courts for this offense,
and the reverberation from the verdict was
sufficient to knock over any chance that
Schoenhauser might have had to rehabiii
tate himself. In his downfall, however,
he has the consolation of knowing that he
has lots of company from the ranks Of his
former business rivals.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-22
New Plan for Sunday Observance.

A special day Of rest stamp" is being
recommended by Belgian association
DESTROYS Of sbolishing unnecessary Sun
day labor. This stamp is TO be affixed
10 sn letters posted on Saturday which
need not be delivered TIL Monday IL
stead OF SUNDAY
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-22

sician could decide in ten minutes and
American readers would know all about
it the next day, if there were not, unfor-
tunately, incidental complications. AS
it is, each successive report is fiat con-
tradiction of the preceding.
According to the summary of one
journal, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri
days are Mr.. Blaines good days; on
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays they
make him out to be very sick, and on
Sundays they let him alone. These facts,
however, are admitted by all-that Mr..
Blaine walks and drives every fair day,
eats about as much as usual, and attends
to his correspondence regularly. On the
other hand, 1t is conceded that he was
quite feeble when he went to Bar Harbor,
as the result of overworb, that he needed
along rest, and that he and his family are
apprehensive about his health. And as
to the charge that he is suffering from a
disease generally considered incurable,
no physician has yet stated that as
fact.
On the other side of the world the IA
mons NaSr-e5- DaaO chah of Persia ia
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-22
ESCHEAT.

To my estate no heirs succeed;
When ! have done with it, no man
Shall find il suited to his need,
Adapted to his plan.
The walls were built for me, and when
/ close the door and turn the key
No one shall enter there again,
Or rule in place Of me.
This house is all own; though poor
IL shelters me, and many storm
Has passed il, leaving all secure,
The inner heartbstone warm
But after me no eager kin
Shall hold my former house in pride'
No enemy shall enter ia
As tenant to abide.
The friendly earth Is good and sweet
And kindly to its heart will draw
Estates like mine when they esCheat
By natures chsngclsss law
Meredith Nicholson in New York sun
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-22
just an Average Woman.

once knew genius who was the most
uncomfortable person | ever met. she
thought she could wear your clothes aud
never return them, borrow your books and
give them away, dress like his satanic
majesty, and have IL all excused because
she was genius. Another acquaintance
of mine was one who was spoken Of as be-
ing far above the average woman" and
She was 50 deadly FAR above that she hadn't
Sense enough 10 do what even the dogs do
go in when il rains
Sisters and brothers, specially brothers,
express my gratitude that the good Lord
made me just an average woman. and
shink The 5onheys who object 70 her are
Ear below the average woman and show /,
by the way they bray -Ba5's Letter.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-22

For simple hozrsecess take fresh ezz.
beat i and tA.cksa w5ca pGlverjas1 sg.ga-.
lat freely Of Il aid tie zoAEsenxss vii
SCC2 &c relieved
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-22

Manila rope Is made IN the Philippine
ISLANDS OF the stem Of the banana This
stalk, which usually grows TO be SIX inches
IN diameter AID from fifteen TO twenty feet
high, has very valuable fiber from which
are woven beautiful textile fabrics. Many
of the finest India sAawls ana wrappers
worn by the ladies OF fashion are manu-
featured from this IL re. 80. too, an ex-
celleut article of paper is made from it,
1so.d-l Yates Geographical Magazine.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-22

l. X. POWELL Pres, O. ". IIsrsKE ' Prss1
{. l.. FHAEE. ASH LHstisr
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-22

PAID Up CAPITAL t25O.OOO
SURPLUS. $4,000
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VI. W. LEVY. Pres A. ". OLIVER. Vice Pres
{. A. Walker. Cashier, ID. 4. kramer. Asst cash
Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-28
A Real Distinction.

John B. Furay was once post office in spector and on one occasion was sent down into Louisiana to take charge of an office from which the postmaster had decamped, A fight arose over the vacant position, du- ring the progress of which Major Furay re- mained acting postmaster in the quagnires of Louisiana, devoting all his spare time to shaking with the orthodox sgue: and the longer the man stayed the more he shook, and the more he shook the more profsne he waxed. He had been there three weeks or more when one morning while the fog was rising from around the little post of flee, Inspector Fursy sat astride keg of buttermilk reading "Pilgrim's Progress" 7" A tall, lean genus homos of the swamp en- tered.
 A solitary suspender band held up pair of blue jeans pants; white felt hat of doubtful age rested on the mans head and his feet were encased in pair of cowhioes
 ssHowdy, psrd," said the stranger, ad- dressing the inspector, "be you the federars agentp
 'I am the post office inspector" replied Major Furay, without looking up as he waded into Paradise Regained."
 'I am the new postmaster" said the stranger, rendering his commission.
 "Well, I'll be d." was the only reply as the inspector dropped his book to the ground and gazed at his visitor.
 "Yes, sir, "continued the stranger, squirt ing 8 mouthful of tobacco juice on the in spector's new trousers. ''Yes, sir, and I've come to be qualified"
 Rising to his feet, Furay sighed, inspec- ted his visitor from head to foot, and ex- claimed:
 "My friend, I am but human. I can only swear you in. All hell couldn't quail fly you.n
Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-28

manufacturing towns, the gipsies have well defined routes of travel, and are nev- CT scourged or chased by the constsbulsry as they are in the midland shires, where they have chiefly come under Mir Smiths observation. In Whsrfedale, in the vicin- ity of nkley, are many families of respec- table gipsies. Up about Northsllerton they are the only countryside peddlsrs and tinkers, and do much in the way of buy ing and selling horses and other live stock. In Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, from Grimsby to Trent, and particularly about Nottingham and Hucknall- -Torkard, are very many prosperous gipsies, whose families can be traced nearly as far back as some of the nobility, and often with quite as favorable results. In the county of Norfolk I have passed some of the most delightful days of my life as the gdest of gipsy families, who, making summer house boats of large punts, pro- vide the hosts of sportsmen that annually resort to the "Broads," or msrshy lakes, with wicker baskets and bait, and often act as guides to the most desirable fishing and hunting grounds.
 In all the west and southwest of Eng lard the gipsies are welcomed and treated most generously. In Cornwall they are generally called ''vagrom men," as the sturdy Cornish folk class all persons, even to commercial travellers, literary tramps and tourists, who for any reason wander from place to place; while in Wales sim pier, more unsophisticated, kinder hearted people do not live than the gipsies. All Welsh people love them. They never leave Wales, and they are as much an in- tegral part of the concrete social structure as are the Welsh peasantry themselves.
 The difference between British gipsies nr,l A,,,n sAa,, D,.@ after all it is only difference of condi- ton. The evolution of our gipsies from ignorance and degradation to opulence, in- telligence and some considerable educa- tional scumen, is simply the result of libe- ration from hard and often grinding life here, which anywhere fosters the worst of human traits; precisely as British lowly, transplanted from life battle for mere existence, shortly become with us men and women often of competence and ire quently of culture.
 The British lowly are hard to get along with anywhere in Ireland, Scotland and England, because they suffer sorely from grinding lsbo and an, to us, almost incon- ceivable poverty. British gipsies, like their Gorgio brethren, are degraded and bestisl just in proportion to their degree of poverty. The same family which Phi lanthropist Smith finds shivering under a rotten sheet by the English hedge, with perhaps not even a skinny hedgehog for the Sunday dinner, transferred to Ameri- ca, nevermore is found among lswbreak- CTS, and in ten years time becomes one of the vast army of ever welcomed middle men between American farmers and me- tropolitsn live stock markets, riding from hamlet to hamlet in wagons like palaces and literally eating their ample food from plates of burnished silver.
 EDGAR l.. WAKEMAN
Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-28
TRURFLE-HUNTING.
An Experience with Pig in th South
 

An Experience with a Pig in the South
 ofFrance.
 lFrom the Paris Correspondence Boston Tran
 script
 lately went truffie hunting with pig. It was not near Paris, for there are no truf- fles hereabouts, but far to the south, in the region of the Dordogne. The pig was about the ugliest and most depraved looking beast of its kind that can be imagined one with suited back and shockingly exaggerated nose, having the curve of a pump handle, but, like many human be- ings who are not beautiful it was exceeding ly intelligent.
 Its greediness of course made it so, but greediness is not always corrective to stupidity. The trufie hunter in chief was the pigs master, and as far as appearances went there was really not much difference between them. He had also a bent back and nose that seemed to have been de- signed for no other purpose than that of turning up trufties.
 Nevertheless it was the pig that did all the digging work, the mans part of the business being to take care that the cryp- togams did not get swallowed on the spot. To guard against this accident he had filled his pockets with maize, a few grains of which the animal accepted in exchange for truff1e.
 Once or twice the sybaritic instincts of the beast were to strong for hisjudgement, and he ate the fungus before the man had had time to snatch it, but blows upon the nose with stick counterbalanced the sat isfaction thus derived, and the pig, being reasonable animal, soon came to the con- clusion that it was better to accept the maize and the trufie.
 As the demand for truffies in Paris is always growing, and ss they are only to be found in single district of France ,snd this not very extensive one, the time may come when they may be worth their weight in gold. Last year the price went up to over twenty francs the pound, but then the winter was extraordinarily severe all over Francs and the truffles were frozen in the ground.
 Speaking from what I saw of the pigs performances the other day, should say that the season which has just opened promises to be a very abundant one. Some ingenious people have turned their atten- tion to the manufacture of truffies, but al though the artificial cryptogrsms are fairly successful as regards form and color they have not the flavor which is considered es- sential in combination with turkey and pate de foie gras.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-28
WOODEN.

A wooden dog kennel should be built with the bark on and be lighted by bay window.-Lowell Courier.
 "Has she true sense of humor?" ''No Why, she's the girl who was married for fun at Lenox. x."-Life.
 Mrs. Bloobumper-What long hair that college professor has. B1oobumper-Yes, those are the Yale locks you have heard Of New York Sun.
 Pretty fatiguing times," said the pedes- trian to the policeman. "Yes, a great many people need arrest nowadays. .''- Washington Star.
 "Pat, Pat, you should never hit man when he is down" "Begorra, what did I work so hard to get him down fora''- Brandon Bucksaw.
 First Yankee-If I had been Adam would have died 8 millionaire. Second Yankee-How SO! First Yankee-rd got out patent on woman.-Texas Siftings.
 Angel child-I know why you want to go to heaven when you die, Aunt Nelly.
 Aunt Nelly-Why, deara "Because mar riages are made in heaven. "-St. Joseph News.
 fYou should not speak of man serving term in prison under a nom de plume. Alias is the better word" "A nom de plume is pen name, isn't itt'-Indianap- olis Journal.
 Jack-Loves language is the language of the eyes.
 Tom (gloomily)-It may be, but I con- fess I have found it to be chiefly lan- guage of ''nos. ."-New York Herald.
 Teacher-What tense is feeda Boy Present tense. Teacher-What tense is feds Boy-Past tense. Teacher-Correct Give an example. Boy-After the man feed the waiter he got fed.-Good News.
 Freddie's sister has been studying tele- grapy, and the other evening the lad went to his mother and said: Mamma, there must be lots of bad things in that book Lizzie is reading" 'tWhy, child, what makes you say that?" ''It is pretty near all dashes. Washington Star.
 "My dear, will you please explain how your new cloak came to be set down among the household expenses?" "Why darling, you are certainly not going to deny that it is mantlepiece? And you know you told me to get one."-Baltimore American.
 My boy says you haven't taught him any spelling" said MT. Oatcake to the teacher. "No. We only teach the girls spelling. The boys don't need it, because when they grow up and go into business they employ the girls as typewriters.- Harper's Bazar.
 "Where did you get all these gold piecess" asked the judge. Judge, yer honor," replied the man who had been ar rested as 6 suspicious character, "did ye ever see gold minedp "Yes." "Ye've heard of gittin' it in pockets ain't yep ''Yes." "Well, that how got this."- Washington Star.
 The One Who Celebrates.-Mrs. B. How is the contested-will case coming on, MT. Simmer? MT. Shimmer-It's all set tied, and in my favor. Mrs. B.-I con gratulate you. I suppose you'll soon be taking your family to Europe, Mir. Shim- mer-No; but my lawyer is going to take his.-Brooklyn Life.
 This World is all @ f1eeting show; On getting in mankind is bent; Some get good seats, some standing room, While many crawl under the tent Brooklyn Life.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-28

Have they not done their best to please, to tempta Was not everything of the choicesta Was the table ever more attractive with glitter of silver and glass and porcelain, and the grace and perfume of fowersa Has not the cook called up all the delectable mysteries of her art; remembered every taste and preference, only to be thus slighteda The offended butler sets down an untouched dish and growls, ''It's all on account of Master Robert-the young villianl' Then the cook hides her face in her apron and sobs, and the old buffers eyes grow dim, for they too loved the winsome, wayward boy, the only son of the house, who has dis graced his honorable name, and brought shame and sorrow upon them all.
 The shadows are falling about them. The daughter rests her golden head upon her mothers shoulder and holds her fathers hand between her own soft little palms, SO binding them together and bring ing by that contact a touch of comfort to their sorely tried hearts. By and by she slips away, and soon through the darkness rise organ-chords, clear, firm, and beauti- ful; then sweet young voice begins the hymn:
 The darkness deepens--Lord, with me abide
 When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
 hoip ol tuo neipieSS, U aOluS WlIn lnel'
 She sings it to the end, sometimes falter- ingly, as if the tears must have their way, but closing with full, resonant, triumph ant tones. Then the strain changes and to a melody simple and flowing she sings again,-
 "Just as I am, without one plea,
 But that thy blood was shed for me.
 And that thou oidd'st me come to thee,
 O Lamb of God, come! comel"
 The father and mother have drawn closer together and have clasped each oth- CTS hands. Before the hymn is finished the mother whispers, "Father, can you not forgive our boya" 'T do forgive him, |" is the answer. It is more than she had dared to hope for, and with new-found courage she whispered again, "And may I write to him and tell him sol" 'I will write to him this night" he said, as he kissed her. HILARY.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-28
LOUISIANA WITCHCRAFT.


 Strange stories are told of "the doings" near Lockport, Louisiana, participated in by two voodoo magicians, and wondered at by all the superstitious. Pap Kilder and Ho French are the two wonder work CTS. They are rival magicians and the rivalry is apparently rather intense just now. Pap sent word to Ho the other day that at certain time he would be smitten with disease which would turn him white. Ho received the threat with scorn, but, sure enough, on the day named, he was seized with violent pains, and his skin turned 8 bluish white. In terror he sent for physician, who was unable to di- agnose the symptoms, and could only ar rive at the conclusion that Pap had con- trived to administer to his rival some nox- ious drug. Ho finally recovered, and re- taliated by vowing that he would visit Pap with fire for seven days and nights. The latter received the communication as @ threat of violence, and, arming himself with shotgun, declared that he would shoot anybody who approached his cabin. Dosplto LIB piConutloac, lo 9ooh Aio, aAu the old fellow barely escaped with his life. He fled to g neighbours, but the room oc- cupied by him was soon found to be in flames, which fall of rain, however, ex- tinguished. But the end was not yet. A curse of reptiles and vermin was laid upon Ho, and steady influx of negroes to the old gentleman's cabin found him enveloped in mosqaito-netting and surrounded by 8 circle of hot ashes which he kept replen- ishing. The cabin literally swarmed with snakes, insects, bats, and lizards.
 The only reasonable explanation offered of these performances is that the two are in collision, and arranged the msrvels for the purpose of inpressing their followers, who have of late shown signs of throwing off the religion of voodooism for that of the Christian through the efforts of a cir cuit-rider who has recently made an evan gelistic tour through that section.