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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30
SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.
TOPICS OF GENERAL INTEREST AND
FREQUENT INQUIRY CONSIDERED.

Entertaining Facts About the Pendulum,
Which is Conceded to Be the Nearest
Known Approach to Perpetual Motion.
Oscillations of the Seconds Pendulum.
The pendulum is considered the nearest
approach to perpetual motion This is so
well known that no description is needed,
but we may say few words concerning 1t.
BY the diagram we see that if we lift the
ball to b and let it fall it will descend to
!, and pass it to a opposite, nearly as far
from as b is from it. So the oscillations
will continue, each beat being less and less,
till rest is reached by the action of gravity.
Were it not for friction and the pressure
of air the oscillations would continue for
ever. As it is, the pendulum declines by
shorter swings until it remains in equi-
Hbrium.
The seconds pendulum oscillates sixty
times an hour, and must be OF certain
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30

Electric engines for dock use have been
introduced.
Passenger elevators having electric mo-
tors are much il use IN England
A new application Of the telephone FOR
military purposes consists Of 50 called
telephone bonnet 70 be worn BIZ each on
Ger when IN charge Of gun, which VIII
enable him 10 receive the instructions OF
the oommander-in-chief or other n the
quickest possible time.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30
A IOudOu NOuaIisf

Mrs. z. Lynn Linton, the novelist, lives
in the Queen Anne mansions, overlooking
St. James park, London. Here she has
charming rooms that are always bright
with flowers, and mere she receives de-
lightful circle of friends. Far from dis
claiming her age, Mrs. Linton makes her
boast of having lived in three reigns.-
Writer
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30
Universal Suffrage in the French RenubIic


The election of deputies is by popular uni
versal suffrage. Every citizen q years of
age who has not been deprived of his civil
rights deposits his vote in the ballot box.
This is simply justice. The deputy who
Is commissioned TO vote tax should be
chosen by all the taxable; the maker of the
law should be elected by all who come I'M
der its jurisdiction. This system, besides,
is equalizing and democratic. The prop
erty test regime which it has succeeded
makes political rights depend On wealth
1t Is therefore contrary at once 80 the prin-
eiple of equality and 10 the dogma Of the
sovereignty of the people. No government,
even reactionary one, would dare TO re-es-
tabliSh the property test. The present mo-
ment. besides, when capital IS attacked
from every side, would be badly chosen for
comforting upon it the monopoly OF polite
al pOwer.-Jules Simon in Forum.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30
THE PENDULUM.

length in certain places. In London it is
49, 1893 inches, and furnishes a certain
standard of length, and by an act Of par
lament the yard is divided into SO parts,
and 49, 1898 such parts make the seconds
pendulum in the latitude of London in a
temperature of 90 dogs. But the same PEN
dulum will not perform the same number
of oscillations in one minute in all parts of
the globe. AT the equator they will be
less, and at the pole more. Thus it was
discovered that as the movements of the
pendulum are dependent upon the force of
gravity, and as this force decreases the
farther we get from the center of the
earth, the equator must be farther from
the earth's center than the poles, and
therefore the poles must be depressed.
The decline of the pendulum at the equa-
tor is also in measure due to centrifugal
force.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30

ency 70 down1ness ana nalr1ness, as Win
thick, well nourished compilations, too
great care cannot be used what shall be
put on the face or the hands. The skin
draws nutrition from the oils, and this
thin layer of fat under the skin nourishes
the lanugo dread of women. Oily skins
should select the waxen dressings, or flax
seed meal, or cooked oatmeal applications
which have something of varnish in their
nature, under which the skin remains soft
by its own secretions.-Shirley Dare's Let
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30
ALWAYS Thankful.

Mr. George Hes tells a story of the three
graces that Canadian parson pronounced
ut his table. Some one had given him a
turkey with all the ''fixings," and over the
first dinner the grace began with the
words, Most bountiful jehovah" The
next day there was very little turkey left,
and the parson said, For what we are
about to enjoy, we thank thee, 3" etc. On
the third day the turkeys remains looked
like the keel and ribs of a ship just begun.
Over that the parson said, "Oh, Lord, we
endeavor always TO he grateful; Johnny,
pass the potatoes. San Francisco Argo-
uAut.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30

The origin of painting the face dates so
far back as to be involved in obscurity.
In all proba bility Eve did it. The Roman
ladies used cosmetics of various kinds.
Ovid gives several recipes. Pliny speaks
of vine used for the face, and Martial
says that Fabula feared the rain because of
the chalk on her face
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30

Sometimes the sense of overmuch con-
troll is terribly vexing to a child. L would
never refuse it anything without good
reason, and when refusal was necessary
would explain why. You cannot always
tell how intense the desire is that prompts
the request. You will find that to adopt
this system is to have reasonable child
who accepts your necessary refusal without
complaint
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30

An English suggestion to serve pineap-
pies at dinner is to take one out in a solid
cone from the rind, which must be left in
tact. The fruit is then sliced and piled up
in it's natural shape, with rind and crown
fitted on again. This method considerably
simplifies the serving of the fruit.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30
Dressinrr for OILY SLins

Dry, fine skins, which never raise hairs.
or even lanugo-that is. downy-surfsce.
can use cold cream safely, and it will keep
the skin fresh and smooth, in place Of be-
INK withered. Where there is any tend
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30
The Bessemer PROCESS of Making steeI.

The Bessemer Process of Making Steel.
Steel is really a carbide of iron, and Mr..
Bessemer founded his process of making
steel by blowing out the excess of carbon
from the iron, so that the proper amount
Is per cent.-should remain. A brief sum-
mary of the Bessemer process may be in
tsresting If bar of steel as soft as iron
be made red not and plunged into cold wa
ter it will become very hard. If it be then
gently heated it will become less hard, and
is then fitted for surgical instruments.
The various shades of steel are carefully
watched, the change of color being due to
the varying thickness of the oxide, for we
know that when light falls upon very thin
films of substance-soap bubbles, for in
stance-the light reflected from the under
and upper surfaces interfere and cause
color, which varies with the thickness of
the film. These colors in steel correspond
to different temperatures, and the ITEM
per" of the steel depends upon the temper
allure it has reached. The color and uses
of various kinds of steel range all the way
from faint yellow for lancets, ETC., to dark
blue for handsaws.
The Bessemer process transfers the metal
into a vessel in which there are tubes,
through which air is forced, which pro-
duces a much greater heat than bellows
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30

Dr. F. w. Gunsaulus, who is now one OF
the most popular Of Chicago's preachers. il
an Ohio man, about 80 years old His name
is corruption of the Spanish Gonzalez.
He WAS graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan
university in 1875, and has been preaching
ever since
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30

Oklahoma consists Of tract of land OF
nearly 100000 acres in the heart OF the H.
dian territory It was not opened until
April p, 1899, which will account for its
not being on the mAnS-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30

The Empress Eugen:e's wedding present
to Miss Beckwith was handsomely en-
bossed silver bowl. The fair American
bride was a great favorite with the French
empress during the closing days of the En-
pire, when she was one of the bellies of
Paris.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30

Miss Braddon, the English novelist, who
in private life is Mrs. Maxwell, is described
as a tall, dark, earnest looking woman,
with peaked features and complexion in
dicating long hours of work. She talks
we'll. dresses extensively and wears costly
Jewels.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30

Lady Wilde, mother of Oscar Wilde. is
remarkable for her beauty, brilliancy of
conversation and accomplishments She
speaks half a dozen languages, has cordial
manners, excellent sense and great social
following
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30

The high rate OF mortality among the
shop girls in the monster shops of Paris g
per cent? is largely due TO premature vital
exhaustion from being unable to sit down
throughout the day.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30

In bowling avoid above all things twist
ing the body into letter S. This is Sc
rious fault with women who wish to be
affable. Do not run the head forward.
Chins in and chests out.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30

The exports Of Indian tea to the United
States h-ve steadily increased. and we now
take over 81, 90 pounds Of Indian tsz e..
xrY Ees-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30

Men do not like women who reason with
them, because, as general thing. women
reason so remarb ably we'll
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30

When washing ine white flannels add q
tablespoonful of pulverized borax to a pail
full of water. This will keep them soft and
white
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30

Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster, the editor
of Harper's Bazaar, is a tall, well formed
woman, with pink cheeks and snow white
hair She is hard worker, but there is
no trace in her pleasant countenance of the
worry that sometimes comes from literary
/ work
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30

Two men % whom james whi;ooulb
E-!sJ's ae-SEt.4 Adjective ''rA-xs6y
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30


ANpJo
PANTS Duck
andC Overshirts
Factory Topeka Wichita Correspondence Solicited
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-30
NIll!IfG Esale
WOMAN AND HOME.
SIGNIFICANT TRIPLES WHICH ARE
OFTEN IMPORTANT.

FOR Whom Do Women Dress?-The Baby's
Tongue-Between SchOolroOm and AL
tara Sermon for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
and MatrimOny.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-14
Commended 20 Anglomaniacs.

Commended Co Anglomaniacs.
Nothing illustrates the COM
parative estimation in which
women are held in Great
Britain and America better than
an incident that happened late
ly at a working girls fair in
England. The occasion was the
festival of the Girls Friendly
society. OF course various per-
sonages from the superior
ranks" stopped from their
heights to patronize these
humble creatures in their own
proper sphere. There were
prizes offered for the various
accomplishments supposed to
befit females in the humber
walks of life. Among the prizes
so offered his high mightiness
the bishop of Beford gave three
first, second and third best-for
what? Was it making preserves
or bread or ironing or perhaps
the artistic arrangement of the
dinner tables? Well, no it
wasn't. 1t was for boot clean
ing and blacking.
The British hired girl must
clean the mud off her masters
boots and black them. If there
are several grown sons in the
family, their foot coverings go
along too, and the creature who
does the household labor has a
whole assortment to go over
every morning. Here is an idea
for our Anglomaniacs. Let
them set the hired girl TO black.
ing boots as a part Of her work,
and at the next festival Of the
Working Girls club, in the
midst of the musical perfor-
mances and the papers on lit
erature, let us have a boot black
ing contest among the girls,
with a bishop to boss it.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-14
First Love.

Ask any young lady what she
thinks Of first love-" and she
viii tell you that it is the quin-
tessence Of all that is ecstatic,
compared with which any So
called love that may come after
it must be as sky-blue skim
med milk to clotted cream. Put
The same question to an enamor-
ed young gentleman of eigh-
teen, and he will vow that it is
the champagne of human exis-
tence, to which all subsequent
emotions dignified with the
name of love are mere Jersey
cider. But the matureof both
sexes, in nine cases out Of ten,
can tell a different story. Boy
and-girl love is but a faint
shadow of the intense passion
which often overcomes and en-
thralls the middle-aged.
The capacity for loving is not
fully developed in the young
miss who has just cast aside her
dolls, nor in the youth whose
chin is but newly acquainted
with the razor. The enthusi-
asm Of these novices in the ten
der passion is generally eyanes-
cent. Of conrse, there are ex-
ceptional cases, hut as a gensr-
al rule, love does not take firm
root in the heart before the age
af twenty-five. Professions Of
undying devotion from young
men of nineteen or twenty are
rarely to be trusted. The ques-
tion which a lady who receives
an offer or marriage should con-
slider is not merely whether she
won the affections of her adj
mirer, but, also, whether, if won
she can keep them. To have
and to hold are two things
New York Ledger.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-14
Not Accented,

was sitting on the. .,veranda
Of a South Carolina hotel with
Colonel Golden when an old
colored man came limping up
! the street, andithe colonel call
ed 10 him to come up where we
were When he arrived the
colonel said.
"Uncle Jerry, Isdon't see you
very often of Late"
mo, sab. I'ze dun gittin
slightly1feebleous..., bout rmovin
around. 4
1--WE gotsabout twenty Of the
incest little pigs.,!!you ever saw
in a pen."
"Has yo'?"
"And:a. .new.lot of chickens. .
"H'mln
"Lots Of sweet potatoes a..
round now, Uncle Jerry"
Eyes, sah..
Sand the boys..;.just got the
smokehouse filed up the other
day.
"Dey did, eh?'
"You are a "widower yet,
arent't you, uncle?"
eyes, sah-oh, yes."
"Well, I've got a mighty fine
looking colored cook now, and
you must come. down and see
her. just DROP ins ON us any
evening"
"Kurnel, !" saidssthe oldIman as
he vigorously, scratched his
head, 81 would dun like to OBJ
leege you all, l but / reckon /
won't come"
"You won'tl Why, what's
the matter?"
81 was down dar one night
las spring to AK yo'r man Bill
to lend me two bits. / stepped
right into a big bar trap, an it
hung to me till / had to holler.
Den yo' come out wild a lantern
an horsswip, an de way yo' did
tuck iton to me, beatall honey.
| believe sunthin was said bout
a piece of meant lyin dar, an
'bouttwo chickens in a bag, as
if | dun member right l didn't
git outer my cabin fur bout fo'
weeks arter dat episodious. No,
kurnel, i reckon / won't come
down dar. Ize mighty fond of
you, and / kin Jest taste dem
roast pigs and sweet 'taters, but
de nigger who puts his foot into
a bar trap twice in one var or
ter be dun dubbed to death fur
a fulel"-M. Quad in New York
World.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-14
Compressed Air lnIntors.

The attention of mechanics
and inventors is becoming
awakened to, the great motive
possibilities that lie in COM
pressed air. At the Franklin
institute in Philadelphia Dir.
Coleman Sellers said that 50,-
600 horse power could be con-
veyed in the shape of compress
ed air for a distance of twenty
miles through two pipes, by
simply utilizing some of the
tremendous COMPRISING force
of the descending stream of wa
ter at Niagara Falls.
Various methods nov being
tried to get the pressure on the
air show that it can be obtained
more economically than has
heretofore been supposed. As
the air leaves the tubes 10 enter
the engine it has been found
that a great gain5is instantly
made by a device for r,heating
it. Only an insignificantamo
of fuel is required for this. At
present compressed air is used
as a motor on some Of the Eng
lIsh street railroads.
In Paris the compressed air
motor is becoming exceedingly
popular. It is even employed
with success to drive electric
dynamos. In Berlin a central
compressed air plant supplies
power to a number of manufac.
turing establishments. On the
English street railways itshas
been found that fifty cubic feet
Of compressed air are all that
is necessary for a car to carry.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-14
No.Ho
The I asst of the season.

The Greensboro Patriot 7 saws:
Capt. White, superintendent Of
the Fisher Hill Gold Mining Co., !,
who lives six miles south Of
Greensboro is our authority for
the following snake story.
A few weeks ago he had a
child watching an old guinea
hen which was laying-desiring
to find the nest and not let the
hen set SO late in the season. The
child soon found the guinea at
a large stump, but it seemed un-
willing to go into the stump
which was hollow. Upon go.
ing up to the stump the child
was badly frightened upon see-
ing a large.snake stick its head
out of the hollow. The child
was not long in getting back to
the house with the information.
ssCapt. White took his gun, an
axe and a hoe, and several chill.
dren large enough to help him.
He fired upon the snake which
he saw, and killed it. He then
proceeded to split :1,the stump
open, and found sit full of good
sized highland moccasins,
which he killed to the number
Of twenty one. The next day
he went brck to the stump and
found another snake, and killed
it.
The snakes had, no doubt,
been attracted to the stump by
the guinea 'eggs-of which most
snakes are very fond. This.
however, is merely conjecture,
as Capt. White failed to see il
they had been eating the eggs.
A Durham manssaid the 9th.
er day thata snake was caught
east of here recently that had
swallowed two dozen duck
eggs. The eggs were taken out
of the snake and placed under a
auckland the duck Matched
Them out and raised them. Will
the Patriot please inform us
which is the mother of the chick
Ems, the snake that laid the eggs,
Dr. the duck that Matched them?
-RECoRDER.l
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-14
scissors Hash.

II is a poor mule that won't
work both ways.
Light a cigarette and see the
undertaken smile.
The Board of Health-three
square meals a day.
In Florida they are making
orange pie. 1t is a new "de-
sert.
Every man knows a good use
to which some other man might
put his money.
Good laws are Of little avail
when bad men are depended
upon TO enforce them.
II is hard TO reconcile the two
facts that the Lord made man
and that the Lord never made q
mistake.
Wild fax is indigenous to
Montana, and grows luxuriant-
" everywhere. Farmers are
finding II q new source Of prof
it.
This will be a boom year for
the railroads. They are work.
ing up 10 their full capacity.
The traffic is, indeed, immense.
The man who can do an hon
est days work when the circus
is in town never has to wear
his shoes out in looking for en-
ployment.
A new acid for commercial
use, called hydozic acid, has
been discovered IL dissolves
all metals and makes a very
bad smell.
Trade is crowding into Fifth
avenue, New York, so fast that
fashionable people are taking
To the side streets, where rents
have in consequence doubled.
Women who know how to
cnt dresses earn from S25 TO $50
a week. They are not numer-
Gus. The men master the trade
and their salaries vary from ST.
500 to $4,000 q year.
Al little girl in Pennsylvania,
who had an attack Of dyspepsia
In Winnipeg they ask $50 a
foot less for a corner lot than
for an inside one, because II
costs so much TO clear off the
snow ia the winter around cor
ner lots that people don't pre-.
fer them.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-14
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY OCTOBER a, 1891
a Great Church Congress

An important convention Of
representative Christians are
holding their first session in this
country at Washington. 1t
opened Tuesday. Five hundred
delegates are present. 1t is the
second ecumenical Methodist
conference. The first was held
in London last year. This gath
ering will represent Pan-Me
thodism. 1t will comprehend
delegates from every civilized
nation insthe world. .sThe tdel-
egates from the American con-
tinents are expected to outnum-
ber those from foreign lands.
Many vital and interesting
questions of religious doctrine
and church government will be
debated by the most eminent
living Methodist. In intellec-
tual ability and moral dignity
the conference adequately re-
presents one Of the most aggres-
sive and widely extended of
Protestant Christian churches.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-14
The War Problem.

We read about the war prob
lem in Europe. Tho whUle af-
fair is clear as mud. Russia's
demonstrations are ominous.
France believes thai Germany
only seeks an excuse for hostil-
ities, and she herself is thor
oughly satisfied with her army
and ready for the encounter.
Is all this significant of a
great struggle or is it the usual
continental game Of bluff and
brag!
That is rather hard 10 ans
wer; but if war comes 1t will be-
cause there is no way to get out
of il. The people in Russia
have no voice and the whole
matter depends upon the action
of one man, who like the Indian
chief designated by the name of
Young-man-afraid of-his-horse,
there is no telling what he may
do as is the case Of all men i'm.
PEELED by fear and not by reason.
So what will be the outcome
OF all the talk about war in the
East is little known and can be
predicted with as little certainty
as the decision Of the tickle
maiden who would be surprised
to realize that she had any opin-
ion on any subject and who as
a rule had ever been governed
by impulse and sentiment.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-14

Rev. DIR. Lafferty Of the Rich
mond Christian Advocate draws
this vivid and pointed contrast
between orators and editors,
Being an editor himself the Doc
tor naturally thinks the writer's
"the better part" and makes
out q strong case in support Of
his view. He says:
Orators as editors are fall
ures. Charles James Fox de-
fined oratory as high common
place. Fustian in musical voice
and with graceful action tickles
the crowd. In cold type it is as
tasteless as the beer Of yester.
days broaching and tuneless as
a last years bird.nest. The
orator is the gold beater. The
writer is the coiner. Conduc-
ting q journal with a Demosth-
snes as its chief scribe is like
following land with d balloon in
the traces. The mould. board
splits burrows in the air, and the
plowhandles drag along on the
ground. The eloquences Of the
tongue is Of necessity exagger-
alton. a battle fought with a
kaleidoscope for a field glass,
will end in o rout. Excessive
rhetoric dilates, like belladonna,
the iris Of the mind. Presently
II produces a delirium tremens
Of hyperbole. II the victim but
taste an adjective, he will swal-
low a dictionary. An editor al
ways superlatitive would upset
with surplusage Of sail the saf-
est ship ON the sea. Aaron was
the orator, and his climax, q
calf, clad in a glitter of gold. |"