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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17
SNAP SHOTS.

Mr.. John Carbutt has a new developer
which he calls "Eiko-cum-hydro."
One sheet of paper will take from tha
silver bath from thirty to forty-fve grains
of nitrate Of silver.
Six hundred negatives were recently
taken in tour through Mexico by w. H.
Jackson. Most of the pictures are of land
scapes.
DR.. Parmele, of Hartford, one of the vice
presidents of the American Photographic
conference, is making collection of views
of historic houses in the United States.
A fourishing amateur Photographic as
ISOLATION exists III Tien-Tsin, North China.
They began at the first meeting with a
demonstration of development with eiko-
nogen.
The Columbia College Amateur Photo
graphic society held a successful exhibit
ton May and s. 1t was the sixth annual
exhibition. Some very creditable work
was displayed.
AT recent meeting of the Photographic
section Of the American institute, lantern
slides made thirty years ago were exhibit
ed. They were more properly, however,
stereGScopic slides.
An inexpensive and very useful kind of
developing tray for photographers has re-
Gently been described by Professor Gle,
the well known waterproof material, Will
lesden paper, being made use of.
For the construction of detectives the
Jena glass is now preferred by all opticians,
and Americans have constructed lenses of
the highest quality, equaling if not excel
ing the productions Of other countries.
The latest Photographic fad" is catch
ing a picture Of couple as they stand at
the altar being married. Such pictures
are much appreciated by the bride and
bridegroom. A hand camera is kept con-
cealed by friend, and the button pressed
just as the contracting parties are pro-
nounced man and wife.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

Mr.. George w. Childs, of Philadelphia,
has consented to exhibit his fine art and
souvenir collection at the Chicago fair.
The Chicago society of the Sons of New
York are deeply chagrined at the failure of
the Empire state to make an appropriation
for a Worlds fair exhibit.
1t has been determined to send to the
Worlds fair as a feature of the govern
ment exhibit the largest specimen that can
be obtained of the famous big trees of Cal
ifornia.
Thomas NJ. Waller, of Connecticut, ex-
consul general to London, will be the per-
manent European representative of the
foreign exhibits committee of the Column
bian exposition in England.
Thomas A Edison's exhibition at the
Worlds fair will be the "Kinetograph," a
combination of photography and phonog-
raphy, by which an opera, prize fight CT
drama can be accurately reproduced.
The construction of the caravel, which is
to be built for the Worlds fair in exact
fac sinile of that in which Columbus sailed
for the New World 400 years ago, is under
the direction of Lieutenant Mccarthy Lit
tie, retired officer of the navy. 1t is to
be equipped exactly as was the 'caravel of
Columbus, and manned by sailors in the
costume of that age
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17
RAILWAY RUMBLES.

There is not mile of railway in Brown
county, Ind, nor within six miles of it.
Soho. W. Va, has curious railway sta
ton, which is built around a gigantic elm
tree, with a roof shaped like an umbrella.
The town of Stoneham, Mass, has voted
TO the Boston and Albany railroad $50, 600
for the purpose of aiding the construction
of a branch line.
The entire passenger equipment Of the
Lake Shore road is being equipped with
the Westinghouse air signals, dispensing
with the bell rope.
The one English railway in Mexico, after
a long and stubborn struggle. is abandon
ing its clumsy English engines and using
powerful American locomotives instead.
The experiments with steel ties in the
vicinity of Pittsburg have proved emf
nently satisfactory. A large number OF
trains have passed constantly over them
for several years, and they have stood the
test perfectly.
The decision of the United States su-
preme court, holding that Pennsylvania
can tax the Pullman Car company on ts
mileage in that state, will result, it is said,
in the collection of about S25, 900 of back
taxes by the county treasurers of Iowa.
A mortgage for s31, OOO, 900 has been filed
In Gage county, Neb., given by the Chi
cago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
company to the United States Trust OF
New York 1t runs for a term Of fifty
years, and is also filed at the county seat
of every county through which the road
runs.
An Italian engineer has originated sys,
tenn by which he proposes to utilize the
power of trains running down grade. He
has perfected machine for COMPRISING
air as the train goes down grade which
can be used to actuate a motor at the will
of the engineer, and be used to assist the
locomotive on up grades.
The New York, Lake Erie and Western
has abolished the old system of dispatch
ing passenger trains from the jersey City
station by means of bell signals. Instead
of the bell, semaphore signals have been
placed at the tops of the posts at the end OF
each track. At night, when the soma
phores are not visible, red light is used.
The system works admirably.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17
FEMININE FaNcMS

Nine. Modjeska smokes strip sweet
ened cigarettes.
Miss Marion Brookman is conceded to be
the belle of the City of Churches
Mrs. Laura B. White. of the Boston girls
high school, instructs her pupils in scien-
tific bread making.
Lucy Campbell, of Hartford, is said to be
the wickedest woman in Connecticut. She
has spent fifty of her seventy-fve years in
prison.
Mrs. Eve Cross, of Adams county, o.. is
one hundred and five years old. and able TO
walk once week to the country store. two
miles away.
Miss HALEY, who has been appointed as
one of the two women inspectors OF Massa-
chusetts factories, was tending loom in
the Washington mills at Lawrence when
her appointment was made.
Miss Alice Victoria Murphy, of Buffalo,
n. Y, the daughter of a former secretary
of the Prince of Wales, is said to have
fallen heir to $3.50, 600 Miss Murphy has
been earning her living as governess and
seamstress.
The Countess of Nuremberg, who was
recently married to a member of the i'm
perial house of Russia, has negro blood In
her veins. She is a daughter of the poet
Pushkin, who was descendant OF a negro
favorite of Peter the Great.
Miss Rebecca Warren Brown, a descen-
dant of General Joseph Warren, the hero
of Bunker Hill, has received the appoint
ment as regent for Boston and member of
the national board of managers of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
Mrs. General Custer has never taken off
her widows weeds. She dresses very
plainly in lusterless black, relieved by a
white collar and deep white cuffs. She has
a sweet, patient expression, and must have
been pretty before grief destroyed her
freshness and youthfulness.
Mrs. Emma F. Pettengill, official stem
ographer Of the Brooklyn Surgical soci-
ETY., is an expert in her business, and has
reported in every court in Brooklyn as
well as in cases tried out of court before a
referee. She is a Massachusetts, woman,
a normal school graduate and former
teacher
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17
PEN, PENCIL AND BRUSH.

Whistler, the artist, is said to have
planned every detail of Oscar Wilde's
memorable tour of the United States.
Mrs. Alexander, the novelist, is a tall
handsome and rather portly woman, with
q fresh complexion, fair hair and blue
eyes. She is in every way a striking figure.
Vladimir Korolenko, the talented Rus
sian writer, is now prisoner in the gloomy
fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul His ar
rest is due to series of articles entitled
"In Deserted Palaces"
Guy de Maupassant, the French author,
is a man of forty, a cynic and hypochon-
driac. In manner he is eccentric and
brusque even toward women. In his liter
airy work he is a prodigy of industry.
Maurice Thompson, in recent poem,
made the hollyhock, the dahlia and the tu-
lip bloom at the same time, and when a
botanist called his attention to the error
simply justified himself with his poetic
license.
The president Of the Chicago Palette
club is Mrs. Egerton Adams, whose work
has frequently been exhibited in New York
and Brooklyn. She is a New England
woman by birth, and studied with Carolus
Duran and Henner.
Miss Lizzie Chase, a young artist of
Louisville, has achieved an enviable tri-
umph in having two pictures admitted to
the Paris salon this year. The pictures are
the first she has painted since leaving the
studio of her teacher.
Francisque Sarcey, the eminent French
dramatic critic, is sixty-four years old, but
a fertile and interchangeable writer. For
years he has contributed fourteen or more
columns a week of dramatic criticism to
his paper, and his pen shows no signs of
tagging.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17
CURIOUS OLD TIME REMEDIES.

In cases Of gravel eat largely of spinach
To cure swelled glands in the neck drink
Of sea water.
Those troubled with heartburn should
eat four or five oysters.
To cure the green sickness take an ounce
of quicksilver every morning.
To cure dropsy drink copiously of cider,
small beer or even cold water.
To cure whitlow use poultice OF pow
dered pit coal and warm water.
To cure the toothache hold a slice of ap-
pie, lightly boiled, between the teeth.
To cure stone in the bladder eat calcined
white onions mixed with white wine
To prevent the bleeding Of the nose keep
little roll of white paper under the
tongue.
Leprosy can positively be cured by drink
ing half a pint Of celery whey night and
morning
In the case of fever. smear the wrists FIVE
or six inches long with warm treacle, and
cover it with brown paper
a person seemingly killed by lightning,
or apparently drowned, can he revived by
blowing down their throat with bellows
A remedy for the bite CT a mad dog Is
two or three spoonfais OF the juice OF rib
Wort morning and evening, aud repeated
for two OF three changes Of the Moon
Wesley's Primitive Physic-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17
EPICUREAN MORSElS.

If there is one vegetable more than
another that should be daintily eaten it is
asparagus.
1t is pleasant to read that there is mo
such thing as artificial blood oranges in
this country.
When we learn to cook rice in true Chi
nese style the consumption of it will be
greater than now.
One of the few gastronomic things from
England some hold to be good all the year
round are English mullins.
Trout, to be at their best and most palat-
able. should be eaten as soon after they
are caught "as is both convenient and pos
sible."
An epicure can detect the American sar-
dine at sight, although it may be served on
as handsome decorated fish plate as was
ever seen.
Cream one gets in the country and cream
that is served in the city are about as diff
ferent as the ant is from the elephant, with
all in favor of the country.
No more appetizing breakfast or luncheon
salad is seasonable than that made of
bananas and oranges. 1t will almost COM
pensate for a bad cup of coffee.
Amy one who makes lobster salad out of
the canned article when the fresh lobster
can be had ought to be blown from the
mouth of gun loaded with hot oatmeal.
Some new and dainty desserts came with
the last of the season from the fashionable
caterers. One called the "Yale pudding"
is having quite run all through the land.
1t is an afectation of some people who,
when dining in public places, want to be
considered bon vivants and epicures to
squeeze lemon juice in great profusion over
hot asparagus! If it were cold, one might
be partially reconciled but hot-who ever
heard of such a thing?-New York Mail
and EXnresS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17
National Educational Association.

The national meeting of this association
takes place at Toronto Ont, on July 18th
to 18th, on account of which an excursion
rate of one lowest first class fare for the
round trip, plus 81 1.-TWO dollars, will be
made to Toronto, and the return limits of
the tickets can he extended to Sept. 30th,
1891 Parties who contemplate taking ad-
vantage of these rates will find it to their
interest to call at the Missouri Pacific
railway ticket office and receive informa-
fion relative to routes, etc The Missouri
Pacific railway offers superior advantages
in various ways: you can make the trip TO
Toronto by this line in less time than any
other Only one change of cars, which
is made III Union depot. and thus avoiding
the risk of tedious delays and transfers be-
tween depots. +. L. BLECKLEY. p. & L. A
ola If l20 Y, Main street.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17
CORPULENT BUT CLEVER.

Napoleon was decidedly embonpoint.
DR.. johnson was feshy even to fiabbi-
ness. So was his biographical shadow,
Boswell.
Rossini, the composer, was a regular
Jumbo, since for six years ne never saw
his knees.
Jules Janin, the prince of critics, was 50
big that be broke every sofa that he ever
sat down upon.
Eugene Sue had such an aversion to his
growing corpulency that he drank vinegar
10 keep it down
Dumas pere was stout, and Saint Beuve
was cursed with the stomach of a Falstaff,
as Renan is now.
Lablache, the Italian singer, was so
enormous in size that he was charged three
fares when lie Travelled.
Balzac, the great French novelist, was so
stout that it was days exercise TO walk
around him, and he was encircled WIFE
bandages as II he were hogshead.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17
CURIOUS CULLlNGS.

A farmer near Mooresville, Ind, has q
six legged CALI 1t uses all its legs in walk
ing.
A Milan Tenn.) woman has given birth
to child which has a horn, tail and
claws.
One of the peculiar customs of the East
Indian coolies. called Lascars, is the putting
of ring on the great toe when they marry.
An indianapolis man swore in court re-
Gently that he did not know his wife's first
name, though they had lived happily to-
gether for thirteen years.
Attention has recently been called TO the
singular fact that until half century ago
the inhabitants of the Philippine island
were q day behind those of neighboring
countries in their reckoning.
A full grown wild boy, aged about six
teen years, has been captured at Enoch's
Point, Australia. His body is said to be
covered with hair four inches long, the
hair of his head being four feet long and
his nails five inches long.
In Mecklenburg strange custom exists,
that when anybody dies the mirrors Of the
whole house are Immediately covered with
dark cloth. The feet of the corpse must be
directed to the door, otherwise the belief is
that soon somebody else must die in the
same house.
The coroner of Buffalo, n. Y, was in
vestigating the sudden death of an old
man when a clock that had been owned by
the deceased suddenly struck the hour of
TO- As the clock had stopped voluntarily
when the old man died the happening is
thought to be rather strange.
Lightning recently performed two IN
usual feats at house on Bean Hill, Nor
witch, Conn. 1t cut half an inch off the
rim of an inverted goblet on a table and
left the goblet sitting as it found it. The
work Is said to have been done as neatly as
if it had been done with diamond. The
electricity also set the hands on dial of
the clock four hours in advance of the true
time without stopping the clock.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17

Closing exercises of st. Aloysiuss school
oorner Fourth avenue and Second street,
under the direction of the sisters OF the d,
V M will take place, Tuesday night,J u Inc
% commencing at 7:3O: Admission 20.
Tickets can be procured from po pI Vi az AZ
n,st~ of education, as well as parents
ppad friends of pupils are expected to at
Tend ani and will be very agreeably, enter,
t tame by the members Of bright and
attractive program. This institution,
though Catholic, has been attended, since 9s
its establishment, by children OF all de
nominations, who thoroughly aPpreclaIe
18th fbe hearts and minds of these en-
trusted to their care. "a
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17
Ho! for the Mountains of Colorado.

Round trip tickets TO Denver, Pueblo,
Colorado Springs aud Trinidad. cheap.
Only SO. 80 for the round trip, good to re
turn until Oct 81, 1891. Remember the
Missouri Pacific railway is the short line
to all Colorado points. Train leaves daily
at $50 p. m. arriving at Pueblo next morn
ing for breakfast and Denver for dinner
For all points in Colorado, Utah, Mon
tana and Washington, take the Missouri
Pacific railway. Chair cars and Pull
man sleepers on all train. Call at city
ticket Office for further information, maps,
pamphlet, etc, etc. Telephone gil
E. E. BLECKLEY,
i4tf P. and 7. A, 10 y. Main St
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17
Hotter Bye and Bye.

This is not a sermon. 1t is only a rail
road missionary tract.
If you take vacation this summer,
why not go to Colorado? Nestled around
Pixies peak there are plenty of places
where one can cool off for very little
money Manitou, Cascade, Green Noun
tain Falls and Woodland Park, in the ia
vorite Ute pass, will be lovelier this year
than ever.
They are most directly reached via the
Santa Fe route. You change cars in
union depot at Colorado Springs, and take
broad guage trains on our Colorado Mid
land division for destination. No tedious
transfer across the city.
Cheap tourist tickets now on sale, good
until Oct 81, returning Inquire of local
agent Santa Fe route, Union ticket office,
corner First and Main streets, or passenger
station, Douglas and Fifth aves 10 If
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17
Are You Going TO washlnrton Terrlto,.r.

Parties emigraUng to the northwes
VII ma i TO their interest 10y calling a
she Rock Island ticket Office for informa
non regarding rates, routes and accommo
eeived by agents OF other lines as 70 This
route. You are invited 70 call ar the Office
ana be convinced As 10 the superiority of
me Great Rock Island route over all
others. By patronizing this line you can
nave the choice Of four different routes
west OF Denver. For speed, safety ami
sion. W. II. WISHApT TYcl,st -.
Office loo East Douglas avenue, Fceorne
>H s1Lett CUg-tf
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17
Published June Eth. 1917
Ordinance No, 1855,

An Ordinance Amending Section ! Of Ordinances
No, 769 Entitled An Ordinance Relating To Side
walks. their Construction, Maintenance. Repair
and Condem nation"
Be it:ordained BY the Mayor and Councilmen Of
theCity OF Wichita
approved December II, 1889 be and the same Is here
by amended so as 70 read as follows
Section L The Mayor and Council may upon the
petition of ten more resident tax payers order
any sidewalks constructed as provided BY this ord;
nance II by them deemed Necessary. A detailed
estimate OF the cost thereof shall be made under
oath by the City Engineer and submitted TO the
Council. Sealed proposals for the construction Of
the walks shall be invited by advertisement pub
lshed by the City Clerk IN the official paper Of the
city at least three consecutive days. and the Mayor
and Council shall let the work by contract to the
lowest responsible bi der, # said bid does not eI-
coed the estimate. Upon the completion OF any
sidewalk under the provisions Of this ordinance snd
before the payment OF the same i5 is hereby made
the duty Of the City Engineer 70 inspect the same
and file with the City CLERK accurate plat verified
BIZ cath showing the amount OF sidewalk construct
ed upon each abutrtng lot piece of ground liable
special assessment for the cost OF said sidewalk
Section This ordinance shall take effect and be
in force from and after its publication in the
Wichita Daily EAGLE
Approved June 10 1881 JOHN b. CAREY.
Attest Mayor.
FRED SCHATTNER,
City Clerk.
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Govern Yourselves Accordingly.

The Rock Island route having been Sc
lected by the Young Peoples Society OF
Christian Endeavor as the official route
over which they propose to travel, from the
Missouri river en- route to Minneapolis, to
attend the tenth annual international con-
vention Young Peoples Society of Chris
tian Endeavor. You are respectfully re-
quested TO see that your tickets read over
that line from the Missouri river to Min
neapolis and return The Rock Island
route will place on sale round trip excur-
sion ticket at lowest frst-class fare one
way. Tickets on sale July and s, '91,
good for return passage. until August 81,
81. For further information call at city
ticket Office Rock Island route, 100 East
Douglas ave, corner Main street, Wichita,
Kan. w. II. WISHART.
daft
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17

Look for later announcements from the
Santa Fe route and Frisco line, concerning
the Toronto. Ont, excursion July - 10
bio Mineral Palace excursion July IL;
SIMMER tourist rates to the various re-
sorts. east and west; Winfield, Kan,
Chautauqua dates, etc. If any of our
friends are now contemplating trip. they
NAV learn something to their advantage
bv first calling at the Santa Fe and Frisco
Offices before making purchase OF tickets.
Union depot, corner Douglas ana f1Itn
avenues. Union ticket office, corner Nam
and First streets. w. ID. Murdoch, dis
trict passenger agent. @5-oI
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17
CROWN AND SCEPTER.

The Duke of Edinburgh, at 8 recent
smoking concert in London, was present
wearing a gold bracelet
1t is claimed that the Prince Of Wales
has aged a good deal lately and wears an
anxious and worried look.
The Emperor William viii bring a reti-
nue. Of seventy people along with him when
he visits Grandma Victoria at Windsor
castle
The funeral ceremonies over the remains
OF the late Prince Chun, father OF the en-
peror of China, began on Jan. 10, and are
still going on.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17
Rock 1slsnd Route to tho Pacific Coast

II you are going to any Pacific coast
points, now that the Union Pacific have
changed the time of departure of their
trains from Denver west. Won can save
twelve hours in time bv leaving Wichita
via the Rock Island train, which runs
daily, leaving Wichita S:55 a. m, arriving
ut Denver o'clock next morning, making
direct connections with the Pacific coast
trains with tourist cars drought to Port
land, Ore, and San Francisco. Office 100
East Douglas avenue, corner of Main
street. W. II. NIsHART, {. L. and 2. A.
l34 If
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-17
Remember Well and Bear in Mind

That if you are going to Washington
Oregon or Idaho, or any Pacific coast
points, it will be to your advantage to &c
via the Missouri Pacific railway The rea
son is that you will save time and lay
overs at junction points. The fast Pacific
express leaves Wichita every day at 5:35 p.
m. via the Missouri Pacific railway, depot
corner Second and Wichita streets. City
ticket office, 100 North Main street.
L. E. BLECKLEY, 2. & T. Agt., Wichits.
H. c. TOWNSEND, q. P. & I. A, st. Louis.
1Ol If
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Tourist Rates via the Rock Island Route.

The Rock Island have placed on sale
tourist tickets to Colorado points at special
low rates for the round trip. final limit for
return passage October 81, '91; also excur-
sion rates to Salt Lake, Ogden, Helena
and California points, at a great reduc-
ton. Please call at the Rock Island office
before purchasing tickets, and obtain
reliable information as to routes, rates and
time. City Office, 100 East Douglas
avenue, corner of Main street; depot, cor
ner Mead and Douglas avenues.
w. II. WIsHART,
City ticket and passenger agent, Wich-
tia, Kan. 14-tf