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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-10
ARMY AND NAVY NOTES.

The majority of army recruits obtained
In Savannah are negroes.
One-fifth Of the whole navy. or between
l,5oe aud 100 officers and men, Is now a.
the Marc Island navy yard.
Count Rotheaburg. 20 years old. u tho
Youngest lieutenant in the PrusSian army.
he Is assigned 10 the First regiment of
drag ions.
Uncle Sam has a regular clearing ont
sale at mis- Brooklyn navy yard every year.
All useless or supereuous material Is thus
disposed Of.
In the north OF France all the old FORTH
cations arc being removed. The Arraz
Tower. SO interesting 70 the antiquarian
faction, will be taken away.
A decree ha. Deer issued sasS-nding shs
regulation plrolLs SrenSss@1AyL engineers
on an equal footing viii naval officer.
The Spanish government fcIrn-s 10 face the
discomfort OF the officers caused by the
adoption Of she regulation.
An alarm for telling when a ship reaches
apredetsrrnined depth sfwates 10 now being
tried aboard her majesty's ship Rambler IN
the Red sea. 1t consists Of a wire sound
ing apparatus. having sinkes which. on
coming in contact with the bottom. re-
lieves the drum on board ship and sounds
q bG-l
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men shouId pe-ip the swim. He has been

men should pe-fn the swim. He has been
reelected, has made a good impression
during his first term, and has future.
Four years ago a guard on the Sixth
avenue elevated trains often excited COM
rnent among his fair passengers by his
handsome face, dark hair, bright eyes,
blonde complexion, perfect figure and
graceful manners. Later the young pos
SCISSOR of these attractions drove an ice
wagon through the streets of fashionable
I'D town New York, and no doubt was fur
tively peeped at from behind lace curtains
by my lady up stairs as well as boldly
stared at by the servants who super
intended the storing away of the ice.
Now this handsome young fellow, known
to fame as Turner, the icemau," IS dig
nified. useful and promising member OF
congress. He is as handsome as ever.
popular in society, and has made two or
three very good speeches-a pretty good
record, the reader will agree, for young
man who has not yet turned thirty.
Mr. Fithian, of Illinois, is a handsome
Young giant, swarthy, black haired, with
eyes which a woman might envy him the
possession OF. He is Sc years old, unmar-
ried, unacquainted with society, hard
working, serious minded man. he has
been reelected and will make his mark
Clements, of Georgia, is type OF the
dark. handsome, graceful men who come
out of the south and charm US all, men
and women alike, with their gracious man.
ner and cheerful friendliness. Mr.. Glenn
ents is IS years old, athletic, married, and
has been ten years in congress.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-10
THE SOLAR SPECTRUM.

This streak will exhibit the prisraatic
colors, or the "colors of the rainbow" viz,
red tat the top), orange. yellow. green, blue.
indigo (blue), and violet last These are
thecolors of the solar spectrum The white
light is thus decomposed, and 1t Is called
mixed light, because OF the seven rays OF
which it is composed. These rays can be
again collected and returned 10 the white
light by means Of q convex lens. White
light" said Sir Isaac Newton, lis COM
posed of rays differently refrangibie," and
as we can obtain the colors OF the rainbow
from white light we can. by painting them
ON q circular plate and turning it rapidly
round. make the plate appear white Thus
we can prove that the seven colors make
white" when intermingled. But Newton
did not arrive at the great Importance OF
his experiment. He made q round hole in
the shutter, and found that the various
colors overlapped each other.
In lSOG Dr.. Wollaston improved on this
experiment., and by admitting the light
through a tiny slit in the wood procured
an almost perfect spectrum OF simple" col
ors, each one perfectly distinct and divided
by black lines. Twelve years later Pro-
lessor Frauenhofer made chart of these
lines which are still known by his name.
Only, instead of $40 be discovered, there
are now thousands known TO usl To
Frauenhofer's telescope Mr.. Simms added a
collimating lens, and SO the spectroscope
was begun, and now we use a number of
prisms and almost perfect instruments,
dispensing the light through each.
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Mr. l0DGE


Mr.. GAMBLER MIR. BUTTERwoRTH.
straight, broad shouldered. He is little
awkward in his movements, but wherever
he goes or sits in the house the gaze of
numberless pains of feminine eyes is sure
to follow him.
Mr.. Shively is blissfully unconscious of
the attention which he attracts. He Is one
handsome man out of thousand who
gives little thought to his appearance
There is no more modest man in the house
than he, none who works harder or is more
serious or earnest in his efforts TO deserve
the confidence placed in him by his constit
uents He is not yet quite thirty-folr,
and has been five years in congress On
his first appearance here he was the young
est man in the house. He has been a
school teacher, lawyer, and is by profess
sion journalist He is married
Mr. Gibson, of Maryland, is still a re-
markably handsome man, despite his years.
He does not give his age in The COMPRESSION
al Directory, as most congressman do, but
he must be approaching fifty, as he was adj
mitted to the bar twenty-seven years ago.
He is tall, and has the finest figure to be
seen on the floor of the hCuse-a military
figure, well attired, handsomely borne
His hair mustachioS and whlskerS are iron
gray, and he is little bald. He is gal
liant man among the ladies, a fine dancer,
exceedingly popular. He has reputation
as a bon vivant, and has done more to pop
ular;ze the expensive terrapin, the liking
for which is an acquired taste better not
acquired by men of moderate means,
than any other man in public life. Mr..
Gibson has been six years in congress, is
attentive 70 his duties, and has made a
good record He will not be a member Of
the next house.
A very handsome man is Henry Cabot
Lodge, of Massachusetts,. He has slen-
der but sinewy figure, an intellectual, lit
erary face, abundant brown hair and a
perfect Van Dyke beard. His bearing is
one of great dignity, though in hot weather
he does not disdain russell shoes, flannel
shirts, duck trousers and other rational
comforts of the season which only brave
men indulge. Some of the southern and
western members unthiukingly call Mr.
Lodge 80 New England dude" but he is
nothing of the sort On the contrary, be
Is an athletic, manly man, aggressive in
everything he undertakes, fine horseman
and rising man. Mr.. Lodge has been six
years in the house, where he is one of the
acknowledged leaders. He has his eye on
a seat in the senate, and his friends say he
will win it He is 40 years old. very rich
and has a charming daughter, who made
her debut in Washington society this win
ter.
Lodges colleague, Mr.. Gambler, is with
out doubt the handsoInest of the elderly
men in the house. Mr.. Gambler celebrated
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Mis-. Braddon as my Lady"

Among the new knights are the broth
ers Of two rovelists, Miss Brsddon and
Niss Olive Schreiuer. L. has often oc-
curred TO me that II would bs wei 20
found an order for women which would
give those possessing it the right to pre-
fix Lady to their names. Let me
make the peoples songs and / VIII gov
ern them with ease said somebody.
And If any minister had the power 70
create Ladies" my impression Is that he
would remain minister for very con-
siderable time. What peace would
Homes. u. P. have If Airs Jones knew
that il only depended On his Submissive
ness for her to blossom forth into Lady
jones'
Putting, however, aside this polirica;
advantage, why should distinguished
men be made knizhfs aud DISTINGUISHED
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A Dead Cat Mine.

II was the man on whose land natural
gas was first struck in the Findlay, O.,
district. and he was telling some of us
about it as we waited in the depot at
Columbus.
"Wall, you know" he began, my
con Bill was great hand to read. One
day he laid away book he had been
reading and says to me:
".Dad, I've been reading up on miner
ais and I'm goin' to find suthin' right
here on cEr ffsa-zEi'
"sShoo. Bill saws J.. but YOU won't
strike nothing outside Of cobbIe stones
and WORMS
But he went at it and begun to dig
and bore and fool around and leave me
to hoe the corn, and one day he struck
sunthin'. There cum sch an Internal
smell that both of Us was drove to the
house, and then the smell got SO bad
that we was drove TO neighbor's, and
we had to let the hogs ont of the pen, or
they would have keeled over.
bill / says, when | got where
could breathe again, you said you'd
strike sunthin', and you have. You've
wasted three months time gettin down
to whar Christopher Columbus buried
about a thousand tom cats. and we've
all been driv off the farm In conscience.
It's nv turn now to strike sunthin', and
YOU kin git ready for the all-fredest hex.
in a boy ever got.
81 give it to him, gentlemen, and then
/ went spookin' around to find somebody
who'd buy the farm at about the cost OF
the barn. A Teller who seemed TO hey
catarrh and didn't mind the smell closed
I'D a deal with me, and had to grin a;
| walked off with his money under my
arm. | kept on GRIMM fur about q
week. but then heard some news thai
stopped me, and 1 guess it's three year;
since I've opened my mouth sideways
Them dead cats WAS worth hundred
thousand dollars to me, and sold EN-
for SEQ and walked around patting my
self on the back fur bein' so al-6ret
cute.n-New York Sun.
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Electrical Go Induction.

The idea that electricity flows through a
wire somewhat as water flows through u
pipe is likely TO pass away, as reasons APP
pear for believing that the energy is not
transmitted by the wire at all. but by the
surrounding ether. In some experiments
by Professor J. j. Thompson and reported
in Popular Science News, the velocity of
electric disturbances along the wire sur
rounded by air was nearly double the We
locity along the same wire surrounded by
sulphur, and the velocity Of the discharge
through vacuum tube fifty feet long was
comparable with that of light. The con
clusion Ia that the conductor merely guides
the discharge impelled through the ether.
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PHYSIOLOGY ANo HYGIENE.
Theories About Pneumorss
A.d Iss PrOper Treatment.

DR.. Andrew h Smith has recently pub
hshed some interesting statements IN re-
gard to pneumonia. in which. according TO
The Medical Record, he shows among
other things that in An obstructive lung
disease like pneumonia il is the right
heart that bears the chief bardcn- Tho
physician ought therefore TO watch is
with even more care than the rsdial pulses
The pulmonary aortic pulse cannot be felt,
but It's strength and tha: Of the right heart
can be sauged by the intensity OF the pull
monary aorsic valvalar sound
In an obstructive pneumonia the blood IS
damned back into the veins. and there is
venous congestion. while the arteries are
not full enough. The thcrapeutist should
moro evenly THIS may be done by taking
away blood from the veins by venesection.
But q safer method IS 10 use such drugs as
nitro-elycerine and the other nitrites.
Alcohol Is also Thoughts 10 be of great
value, not only ss general stimuiant and
food. bet a. An arsarial acpressev. Dr..
Smith asserts that too much food, cspc-
ciaily liquid food, should not he given 10
pneumonia patients, As this embarrasses
digestion and fills up the circulatcry sys-
tenn with fluid. Oxygen gas AID ARTIFICIAL
respiration are also recommended. 10 ba
used even before the pstiant's condition Is
critical ngNalis should not be used In
most cases Of pneumonia. This is dictnm
supported by good authority aud large ex-
perienee. Yet disitalis continues TO ba
given.
Relief Is TO be sought; /. by regulating
the diet in conformity with the diminished
power Of digestion and sanguihcaiion; .
by the use of medicines which diiate thu
arteries and promote fransfersence of blood
TO them from the veins, 3. by the Inhalation
OF oxygen gas; 4. by artificial respiration
3. by placing iigatures about the extreuni
ties in order To retain the blood in them
and prevent its return TO the heart.
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Professor Tessier, OF the medical faculty
of Lyons, has returned from Russia.
whittier be was sent last March To take
evidence upon the course of influenza
there and the various conditions OF its
evolution. says Popular Science News.
He found thst influenza il growth Of
Russian soil. and when not raging
malady is sInoldering one. The way the
people live IN winter, locked up in heated
houses; the flatness of the soil, its conse-
quent baddrainage, and universally sodden
condition when the April thaw begins; the
fiithiness OF the farm yards, the villaes
streets and the rivers, which become sud
denly sweden, and on falling leave pnirid
mud behind-ail condnce TO make .ahneaza
endemic Its micro5e is. in fact, To DO
found in this mud.
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Platinum has advanced to about so per
ounce
4 luminous crayOn has been invented
for the purpose of enabling lecturers TO
draw On the black board whso the room Is
darkened for the use OF the lantern
Professor T. Russell defines q cold wave
as a 20 deg fall IL temperature IA twenty
four hours over an area Of 5o.ne square
miles, tbs Temperature in some part OF this
area descending 10 - d.gs- During the
pas, tee years there have been 10 lsss than
esi cold waves In tne United Sssses-
Observations seem 20 show ssxs de-
crease in The earth's iasisuee - In progress,
implying an alteration Ia the sircctson OF
the earth p aka The fucSuAfioa 10 tno0Hn1
TO &c due 70 . minute oscillssson, caused
BY some changes in TIE Internal wars o.
the eArin-
& C. Murphy. Of tbs Kansas university.
concludes from obeervstsoEs taken tazt
the Law o: seven year wss sad dry PERIOD.
holds in Kausss. and also seax the rz-rfail
n steadily Increasing IN that state
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house of commons as a whole, ana lt is re-
markable for the plainness, even the ugll-
ness, of the persons composing it. some
of the homeliest men that walk the face OF
earth are members of the house, and not
few of these ugly ones are among the brlght
and useful and influential men OF the body.
Luckily there is no occult nor obvious re-
lationship between beauty of face and
statesmanship Yet if man be able and
eloquent and influential and handsome TO
boot, so much the better for him. A hand
some, we'll dressed statesman IS certainly
preferable to an ugly, slovenly one, otner
things being equal; and the curiosity or
the Young woman hereinbefore mentioned
is indicative of good taste, and her queS-
ton one altogether worthy our attention.
The ten handsomest men in the house,
then, are Shively of Indiana, Gibson and
Rusk of Maryland, Clements OF Georgia,
Lodge and Gambler of Massachusetts,, Fifth
ian of Illinois, Butterworth of Ohio, Tur-
ner of New York, and Dolliver of Iowa.
A year or Two ago Mr. Gibson was gener-
ally accorded first prize in the show OF
beauty, but alasl the whilom beau of the
house is growing old, and Shively, of In
diana, has succeeded to the throne. This
gentleman, like all great beauties, male
and female, is a subject of contention.
There are critics who see nothing beyond
the commonplace in Mr.. Shively's face,
while others, women especially, rave"
over him. Mr.. Shively is indeed remark
ably handsome man. His head is that of
poet Its poise and shape instantly attract
the eye. His hair, abundant and wavy, Is
Jet black. His clear cut features are
adorned by comely, cavalierish mustachios.
His eyes, large and dark, sharp and bright,
yet full of depth, are as fine pair of eyes
as ever man carried in his head. Mr..
Shively stands six feet and two inches,
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his sixty-third birthday week ago, but ne
does not look day more than fifty. He
has a good figure, fresh complexion,
bright eyes, courtly manners, and is always
attired with scrupulous peatness. His re-
semblance to Roscoe Conkling has been
often remarked Mr.. Gambler was not long
since married to a beautiful woman much
Younger than himself He is rich, has
been reelected, is making a fine reputation
as chairman of the special committee on
the Worlds fair, and should be, as he Is,
one of the happiest of men.
Another handsome man, now well along
in wears, is Ben Butterworth, of Cincin-
natl His is not face which the women
in the gallery place in their lists OF male
beauties, but men generally say: How
handsome Ben is! What fine facet" The
word fine" has peculiar fitness here, for 1t
is a face which shines with intellectual
culture, wit, humor. Butterworth is with
out doubt the first orator of the house, and
Democrats and Republicans alike regret
that he is going out of public life. He Is
not only one of the handsomest but one OF
the most popular congressman. HIS age IS
So. and he has a number of grown sons and
daughters. After serving ten years IN
congress he voluntarily retlres to devote
himself to the World S fair and TO his pro-
feSsion of patent law.
Jonathan Dolliver, of Iowa, is one OF the
Youngest men in the house, being only 80,
and one whom the ladies who have been
consulted in the preparation of this letter
insist upon including in our list OF ten i'm
mortals Mr.. Dolliver is not very hand
some except when he talks, aud then his
face CLOVIS with animation and expression,
his eyes twinkle, smiles play hide and seek
under his dropping mustachios, and these
attractions, combined with his wit and elo-
Quence, have made him exceedingly pepu-
lar When Mr.. Dolliver came from the
back counties of Iowa two years ago he
was an awkward youth, full of party zeal
and personal ambition, and carping critic
of fashionable society. In two months Mr..
Dulliver relented sufficiently TO hire 4
dress coat for one occasion only, vowing ii
would be his last appearance on the social
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women not be made ladies: IL we 80

women not be made ladies. IL we 80
to have knights with ribbons round
their necks and across their breasts, 1t
would be only fair If these ornaments
were also conferred on their wives. /
am entirely against woman suffrage, but
l see no objection to women sharing In
all this sort of decorative adornment;
and assuredly, if they merit title, it is
absurd that the only way for them to
obtain it is to give one to their hus-
bands Mr.. Braddon, L make no doubt,
is deserving of the prefix of Sir" But
his sister, Miss Braddon, has at least an
equal right to the prefix Of Lady
Exchange
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The Commercial Instinct Developed.

A tourist who visited Alaska recently de-
clares that bis reception at The coast towns
Of that territory brought 10 mind resol-
lsctions OF previous sojcurns a; more civil
lied watering PLACES He mentions among
Others the Thlinkes Indians Of Wrangell,
who spend much time watching for the
steamer. When they see its smoke IN the
distance they at once convert their houses
into shops. where they offer for sale ali
sorts of curiOsitiss manufactured for the
purpose Of coaxing coin from the pockets
OF travellers
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Place a jackknife partly open on the
table. as indicated in the illustration Hook
the Iadle to the knife at the angle formed
by the blade and the handle, the interior OF
the bowl facing the table, and then let 1t
90. The knife will sway and the ladle will
balance itself until it has found a steady
equilibrium.
If you load the ladle with sand, the knife,
far from falling, will assume an upright
position that will last as long as the center
of gravity, which is the bowl of the iadie,
shall remain under the table
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EorI

A firm in this city imports large guam
titses Of bort. Il did not know until q
few weeks ago. szad an oncil Of TIE
ens.oua house, sswhas bort is- bSg. Is
the small fragIaents removed from dia-
rnonds in cutting. When TOO small for
tsxeiry II u n-ed for powc1r. Tbs
sr.arkIing powder j. often sprlnkl=d On
.h4 heads OF society i-eiles, sI.si tis-is hair
sends forth sparks a. from y tbosrsznd
miniature diamonds. E1i-on ue-z q
great deal II bort 10 TIE manufacture Of
aoro~rsuns. New York World
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SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.
NEWS AND NOTES RELATING TO
THE ARTS AND SCIENCES.

Tho Solar Spectrum. or That Coiered
Band Formed by the Decomposition Of
Beam OF Light Int It's Elensatary
Colors.
The solar spectrum, as most of our read
ers know, Is the name given to the colored
band formed by the decomposition OF a
beam Of light into les elementary oolors. Of
which there arc seven For instance. . ray
OF light can be admitted into darkened
room through hole in the shutter, and
thus admitted will produce white spot on
the screen opposite, As 1t 6 in the diagram
If we interpose prism-a triangular piece
of glass-the drop Of . chandelier viii
dove cause it to diverge from its direct
line, and it will produce longer streak Of
light lower down
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Partial Deafuess-

u has been affirmed that at least one
person in three between the ages Of 10 aud
40 years is subject to partial dsafness. Tho
great majority of cases OF deafness. arc be-
reditary, and due TO the too close consan-
guinity of the parents. Deafness IL more
prevalent among men than amuslg women.
because the former are mere exposed To
the vicissitudes OF climate IL ia thought
that telephones tend 20 bring on deafness
when one ear IA used Ia the exsiaslep Of
L. la
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xo,.,tv in A.,rouonie Phenomena

One of the latest novelties in astronon1i-
cal phenomena, as brought TO light by
studying the spectra of certain stars, is the
showing that two Of these, heretofore
classed as single, are in fact double, and
belong to that class known as binary stars.
or pairs which revoive about common
center. TIE bsnaries thus discovered are
the stars known as Zeta. Ursa Mztoris and
Beta Aurigse, the former being that star
which, in popular phrase, would be de
scribed as the middle star in the handle OF
the Clipper"
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Can 5 man change his skins To this
question the doctors Of R7a6ing. Pa, hope
TO give answer a. an early data Ons of
their number has grated the skin u i
negro On tie body Of white Invalid The
local faculty Is divided as 70 ~ksther the
man VIII become black o. the patch grow
white The probability i that the graft
will retain lis original aue and exercise DO
influence on tie surrounding ep8deYnzs-
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Boil the celery till tender and cut II II
pieces. Stir little cream over the hre
with the yoiks OF two eggs, and when well
mixed lay in the celery with salt, white
pepper, very little mace and grated lemon
peel. and shake it sill over the fire TIL hoss
L must not boil.
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Mr.. CLEMENTS. NE. BEsh.
MR. TCRNER

Harry welles Rusk, of Baltimore, Is
among the young men OF the house OF
whom inquiries are always made by lady
visitors. He has not only a handsome, but
an intellectual face, and is popular IN the
society of the Monumental City. he Is IS
years old, and has been in congress SIX
wears. ROBERT GRAVES
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rxnavsu,~ns. I'm Eouilibrium.

The ladle which is found in almost every
kitchen will assist one to carry out mum
Der of experiments in equilibrium, If We
want not only, to lower the center of
gravity, bYt also 10 transfer it TO the point
Of suspension,