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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
How New York Boys "whfp behind"

Trust the small boy, whose playground
is the busy street, to get all the fun ont
of life that there is in it-for him. lie
never wants for game. When he tires
of one his ingenuity will quickly sug-
gest another. The boys over on the
west side of the city around the APP
P$aiser's stores are now enjoying a
sport that has just enough Of danger
and devilitry in it to make it craze
among them. The streets there are trav-
eled from day break TO shutdown by trucks
going to and from the stores and the
wharves. Stealing rides on these trucks
has long been the pastime OF the youth
of the locality, but il was accompanied
by so great a possibility of swish
across the legs from the whip of some
irate driver that the lads began to tire
Of it. The boys have now circumvented
that difficulty. Scores of them have
obtained old Jute bags and have stuffed
them with hay, straw or rags. They
have tied around the necks Of these long
pieces of strong rope.
Now they stand innocently on corner
and wait for truck that is moving rap
idly enough TO make it desirable vic
tim. As it passes them they pass the
end of the rope around one Of the guard
stakes on the truck. The stuffed jute
bag comes along, they jump down on il,
still holding the end Of the rope, and are
towed along until the driver forces them
to retreat. They are so far ont Of tbs
reach Of whips that he generally must
stop his truck and get of to do this By
that time the boys are half block of
Sometimes FIVE or six lads viii get tow
on the same truck. The result Of so
many drags on behind is often 70 bring
the poor beast on whom the burden Is
placed 70 a standstill.-New York
Times
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
They Eat as Dickens Told Them.


A good story is told at one OF the ho-
tells here about some of the English di-
vines who are in the city in attendance
upon the Methodist ecumenical council.
1t was noticed that at the hour set down
for dinner on the card posted in each
room giving the rules of the house these
English preachers would gather about
the doors of the dining room and when
they were opened would make a wild
rush inside, and to seat themselves hasti-
ly at the first table they reached and to
begin to eat as quickly as possible.
The landlord was puzzled to know the
cause of this strange conduct on the part
of his foreign guests. Inquiry developed
the fact that these reverend gentlemen
had before coming over posted them
selves on American customs by reading
Dickens American Notes" and "Mar-
tin Chuzzlewit." The scene in the latter
descriptive of the effect of the hotel din
ner gong causing everybody to quit
whatever he was doing and make rush
for the dining room lest he should fail
to get any dinner they took as gospel
truth and were governing their own con-
duct accordingly. - Washington Cor.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
A Doctor Who Refused a Fortune.

a Doctor Who Refused Fortune.
DIR. Cover, of Brighton, carried in his
pocket a competency for life when he
left the house on Walsingham terrace
with the knowledge of Parneils death;
fo- irnell died at midnight, and the
r could have realized fortune by
Ing the exclusive news Of the event TO
any of the richer papers in London or
New York.
1t was SO when Gambetta died at in
the morning. At midnight he was pro-
nounced oonvalescent. The death watch
of reporters was relaxed. Yet one Of
them, Frenchman, member of small
Partisan news agency, came out of wine
shop at early morning and saw a maid
servant running across the grass.
"The master is dead" she called to
him. He stood there in great perplexity.
To whom should he sell the news? He
hesitated between the Paris, London
and New York p apers. He finally cabled
thus, ''Gambetta died at 8 this morn
ing" The dispatch reached a New York
Office at ten minutes before 2, there
being five hours difference between Paris
and New York. Half page of accom-
paaying matter was given to the COM
positors, and at twenty minutes past 2
the whole story was on its way to the
stereotypers.
The reporter is still living on the pro-
ceeds of his ''beat;" and the sensation of
Gambetta's Death was nothing to that of
Parnell.-New York Truth.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
An Episode of Nebraska Life.

I met gentleman at the Union depot
the other night who had just returned
from Kearney county. He said, "Itook
up claim three weeks ago and built my
shanty with more care than is usually
taken with them. l built bedstead Of
boards in the corner and laid in a stock
of canned goods and dried meat. The
first night after it was completed |
crawled into bed and fell into deep
sleep. About midnight was awakened
by a half dozen rude jolts, some one
cracked whip, yelled Git upp and l
straightway felt the motion of heavy
wagon. l was but half awake, but re-
allied that my bed was tipped to an
angle of 45 degs. and that everything
was moving. Irealized that my shanty,
supposed to be unoccupied, was being
stolen with me in it. l grasped my re-
volver and emptied it at the walls and
in answer heard the sound of scattering
feet. crawled ont of the small win
dow and drove back about 100 yards to
the site of the house, where made the
horses fast and posted myself under the
wagon. The next day drove twomiles
to my nearest neighbor and soon had his
opinion and that of several other farm
ers. They all said the horses and wagon
were mine beyond doubt, as no one
would ever claim them."-Kansas City
Times,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
A Successor Of Newton.

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, who is TIL
he retires senior member for Cambridge
university, is one OF the most distin-
guished mathematicians Of the day. he
Is an old man in the seventies" below
the medium height, with snow white
hair and very high forehead. Sir
George is president OF the Royal society,
an Office which was held by the famous
Sir Isaac Newton, who was also member
for the University of Cambridge. These
two positions, which have never been
held by one individual since the time Of
Newton, are now, after the lapse OF up
ward OF two centuries, happily com bined
in Sir George.
To carry the analogy further, Newton
never once spoke in parliament, while
Sir George, although an assiduous sitter
cut Of debates. has during his five years
Of parliamentary life addressed the
house on two or three occasions only.
1t Is net generally known that SIR George
Stokes is an Irishrau- his father. 3
distinguished gralaate OF Trinity col
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
An Aeronaut's Experiences.

A story is told Of the thrilling OK
perience of a veteran aeronaut with g
bald eagle and Connecticut constable.
During a rece'4t ascension, when at n
height OF 1900 feet, the balloonist was
attacked by the eagle. A desperate fight
ensued, which resulted in the eagle being
killed. Half faintins, the aerouaut
descended 20 terra fTma When he had
recovered he hunted for and found tbs
dead bird. While be was examining his
prize the constable came along and ar
rested him for killing the bird, for which
offense, he claimed. fine OF so is inn
posed. The seronaut, it Is related, had
more difficulty Ia escaping pnnish-
ment than be had in killing the bird
Boston J0Yfr-lal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15

According to an Atlanta paper a
seedy looking man, not quite fifty and
wearing discouraged and colorless
SLOUGH hat, with suit to match, stood
before the bulletin boards in Atlanta the
other day to get glimpse of dispatches
about the death of Charles Stewart Par
nell. The man was John Parnell, a
brother of the Irish leader, who has
spent the latter years of his life tending
fruit trees on a little farm seventy-five
miles from Atlanta. 81 cannot believe
that he is dead" said he 1.-The only
thing that makes me believe the report
is the statement that he died suddenly.
There were twelve children in our fam
lily, six of whom are dead, and every one
of the six died suddenly. Our sister
Fanny, who died last, was found dead in
bed. Charles, and in fact all of us, are
subject to attacks of nervous prostra-
ton, and if he is dead this must have
caused his death. He loved us all, and
but short time ago he wrote me most
affectionate letter"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15

mers along with the bullets for double exc
cution. And they won. Hill lost the Bloody
Lane and Cornfield and Orchard, and gave
up the contest. Col. Cross and the Fifth
New Hampshire were praised on ali sides,
from McClellan's headquarters down, for
their gallantry at the Bloody Lane, and
after that day the command was known
throughout the army as the Fighting
Fifth" The casualties were 10 killed and
wounded Many of the wounds were from
canister and shell, and the mortality was
light (13 only in the regiment.
The Fifth marched forward again to
Virginia with about 800 men, its losses by
disease and battle having reduced it to that
figure from an original roll of 976. Its
next fight was in front Of the stone wall at
fredericksburg, where it went in under
the lead of Hancock, Gen. Richardson's
successor. The Fifth was in Hancock's
front line, side by side with the Irish bri-
gade in that terrible charge. Shells, case
shot, canister and bullets tore through the
ranks. Still the heroes swept on over
bitches and fences, over hillock and plain,
the gaps in the ranks growing wider and
wider and struggling swath Of PROSTATE
men marking their course On they went
HlUuOuJ d fOlCo 10 CuttT Uucul VI q Llldh "
support them until they stood up free of
every screen facing the wall that sheltered
Lees rihemen. Here they took their stand,
and, as Hancock said, refusing to yield
any ground, died where they stood"
Cross was wounded, the major was killed
and two captains who succeeded to the COM
mand were killed. Out of 10 officers 4 were
killed and II wounded, and the score all told
of dead and wounded was 1S5 out of 266 en-
gagged. The death list reached 81, and ao-
cording to these figures, given by Col
Cross, the percentage of killed and of gem
eral casualties exceeded that of any other
regiment in the division.
At Charlottesville the regiment, with
the rest of the Second corps, got off with
slight loss. 1t marched to Gettysburg with
1T officers and men. Col. Cross had been
promoted to command the brigade, al
though a brigadier's star was persstently
denied him, Notwithstanding that Hancock
had frequently urged it in reward of his
brilliant services Hancock commanded
the Second corps at Gettysburg, and on
July 2 sent his old division, including
Cross brigade and the Fifth, into the
whirlpool of battle at the wheatfeld. On
the march down the line Col. Cross saluted
his old chief and exclaimed gayly, but
prophetically, "Goodby, general, 1 am never
going to get that starr
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
Illustrated Reporting.

In connection with the suicide of Gen.
eral Boulanger, feat has been accom-
plished by one of the Paris weekly pa
pers which shows to what perfection of
dispatch illustrated reporting has now
been brought. On Wednesday, on the
reception of the news of the generals
death, The Illustration sent to Brus-
sels two members of its staff, one
craftsman, the other photographer.
On Thursday morning these artists had
photographed the general lying in state,
as well as the hotel in the Rue Montoyer,
and had even improvised representa-
ton of the scene in the cemetery. They
then took the train, and arrived in Paris
on the same day with all that was need
ed for the illustration of that days issue
of the journal. An interesting detail is
that the proofs of the photographs were
taken and the artists drawing executed
during the railway journey back to
Paris.-London News.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15


field Of cora. and still farther back an
orchard stan1inef On rising ground. A
concealed batters FsssT she orchard played
upon the Union rcel-gs with shell and grape.
The Sunken Road was s9oH flied with Con-
federate infantry. Cross advanced his line
CALAMITY across the Sunken Road into the
corn. In short time he discovered Con-
federste force stealthily marching up on
the flank of Richardson's line, and chang
ing front under fire, he headed that off,
his men racing with the Confederates for
a knoll that commanded the field The
Yankees won he race. but the COnfederates
gathered new strength and tried it again.
The Confederates were led by Gen. d. II.
Hill. He thought that a bold stroke on
Richardson would hurl his line back to the
Antietsm. But Richardson's men partook
of the nature of their corps leader, "Old
BulF' Sumner, and had no thought of
yielding the Union center TO Hill. Col.
Cross at length planted his line IN the
Sunkeu Road, already packed with dead.
and with ardor bordering upon savage
fury melted his men in their desperate
work. His wounded head was bound with
a handkerchief and blood streaned down
his face. Up and down the ranks he moved
telling the men to put on war paint" and
sound the war whoop." With the pow
der end OF their torn cartridges the men
streaked their faces and joined in the saw
age cry until the whoop resouuded above
the din of battle.
A frenzy seized upon each man, and inn
patient with their slow, muzzle loading
guns, they tore loaded ones from the grasp
of the dead and wounded and fired them
with rapiditY. at times sending the RAM
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
Going Home to a Wife He Has Never Seen.

Wong Sic Kie came from Hong Kong
to America three years ago. He tarried
not at San Francisco or New York, but
selected Hartford as his abiding place.
Immediately he began washing clothes,
and his attention to business and his
good natured Hello" to all visitors
brought him many customers. He pros
cred so well that he thinks he has now
made enough to justify his return to
China.
Wong will leave Hartford for San
Francisco, from which port he viii take
immediate passage for his beloved Hong
Kong. He has sold out his business to
a cousin, who has taken charge. His
savings and the money he got for his
laundry amount to s. 900, representing
his net profit after his living expenses
have been deducted from three years of
laundrying. Wong says his father and
mother are living, and that he has
brothers and sisters. Besides, he has a
wife in China. to whom he has been
married since he came to America His
imperfect English prevented lucid ex-
PLANTATION Of how this marriage occurred.
Hartford C0urant.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
lege, was rector OF Screen, about seven
miles from the town of Sligo.-London
HOW Maine Firemen Manaced.

The firemen of Caribou, Me-, We're
called upon to perform feat rather out
of the usual line of duty. The bridge
across the Aroostook river connecting
the two sections of the village burned,
and although the adjacent buildings in
the main village were saved those on
the opposite side of the river, near the
end of the bridge, took fire and were
threatened with destruction. All of the
fire apparatus was in the main village,
the bridge was destroyed and there
were no boats at hand. Accordingly
the best swimmers in the fire company
were selected to swim the river with
a line of hose. They accomplished the
feat and got across just in time to pre-
vent the destruction of $4,000 worth of
Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
Abaut Ynrnarea-

In placing your furnace in your new
house, always rernsmbeE thai lateral
pipes never give cut much heat Tie
hot air must invariably Aacsud 20 PRO
ducs a current. ami therefore We So
very often register IN the third story
giving out ngleBdid heat. when IN the
extension library. where warTaih Is par
ncnlarly desired, the slv q the rom -
hardly Affected ~ a.. II large eogn-
try hcEsa & would really ~ better T.
have tTo snail fayn4ees rather ihza
enc large oas. Lesz so&l woald BE-
rsed 70 n0Es r-.ru<se. Aaa they sEsaid
80 5e much uore srOat.ssosns - seEd
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
Weighing Mosquitoes.

Il Is told OF great Suthor that he was
won't 70 amuse himssif by jumping over
a chair. But / have . correspondent
who, a. the following SHOWS. sn0sss
himself BY weighing mosquitoes:
Il have recently weighed some mos
quitoes Of this locality or a sensitive
balance. The average weight Of one
mosquito was 12T miliigrzms-tt1zi
is, il would take so, 90 10 weigh 3
pound
Mosquitoes which lad filed their
selves with human blood were fonnd 10
weigh about three times as much a.
others, showing that they had swallowed
twice their weight in blood
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
Came Back After Forty-one Years.

A Missouri man left his wife and went
to Australia forty-one years ago, where
it was reported he died. A few days
ago, however, he unexpectedly returned
home with a large fortune. There was
joyous meeting between husband and
wife so long separated, but once more
happily reunited. Strange to say, his
wife had lived single all these many
years with the dim hope of once more
seeing her husband. They are both quite
aged now, being upward OF seventy
years.-Exchange.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
Did Two Foolish Things.

An erring brother in Vermont got up
in open meeting and made the following
confessions: Brethren, my conscience
compels me to confess that when boil
ing down my sap in the spring l put
into the kettle two buckets of water and
sold the sugar at the same price as that
made from pure ssp."-Congregation-
alist
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15

than is one. But If you have two, do
not make the mistake Of putting them
side by side, as was done in a very large
house near New York. This simply In
tensifed the heat in the same part ~ the
house without carrying itinto the wings.
where it was chiefly needed.-New York
Tribune
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15

Coffee was introduced into Constanti-
nople in the early part of the Seventeenth
century, and writers of that time inform
us that the inhabitants of that city drank
it as hot as could be endured, the decoc-
ZION being as black as SCOT, as Purohos
puts it, mot much unlike it."
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
Cod-liver oil suggests con-

cod-lRer oil suggests con-
sumption; which is almost I'M
fortunate. Its best use is be-
fore you fear consumption
when you begin to get thin.
Consumption is only one of
the dangers of thinness.
SCOTS Emulsion of cod
liver oil makes the thin
plump, and the plump are
almost safe.
Let US send you a book on
CAREFUL LIvING-free.
scoTT BowNE, Chemists, I,s South sth Avenue.
New York.
Your druggist keeps Scotts Emulsion Of eod-liver
s1-all druggists everywhere DO. 81.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15

A railway is now being built from La
Paz, in Bolivia, to the headquarters Of
the river deira. in Brazil, which is
the main ,tary of the Amazon, thus
giving wafer outlet for the Bolivian
products.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
A Solid Train of Beans.

A solid train load Of beans, twelve
carloads in all, left Sallcoy, Cal, re-
Gently, consigned to Chicago by the Far
mers' Alliance OF Ventura county. The
train ran through TO its destination as
special train.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15

The government proposes 10 build an
other timber dock in the navy yard at
Brooklyn, the accommodations of the
other two docks being insufficient. 1t is
10 be about 600 feet in length.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15

Arnold I. jain, who recently died in
Chicago, was the son Of Frederick Lud-
Wig jain, ths founder of the now
famous Turn Vereins and in his day
one Of the greatest Of German patriots.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15

Money to the amount Of SIS, G42 and
checks and notes TO the value Of $l.47l,-
sal were found in the 1900. 900 letters
that reached the dead letter Office last
year.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15

SOME YANKEE HEROES.
THE FAMOUS FIGHTING FIFTH NEW
HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT.
Led by a Gallant Colonel Under Gems.
Sumner, Hancock and Miles, 1t Earned
the Distinction of Carrying the Heavi-
est Death Roll in the Union Army.
Copyright, 1891, by American Press Associar
ton. Book rights reserved

ERE is another
regiment heading
a list of crack or
& a II i z a t ! o n 8
a m ong gallant
fighters and heavy
losers in battle.
The claim of the
Fifth New Hamp-
shire for a first
place is that
a m ng all the
Union regiments
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15

Husband fkibsiy )-Hy dear. you hsvs
nothing dsesst - wear. have yogs
Wife with s..er.fy} indeed. I have
not; not a thing Ia D. sshaEssi % -
sesn anywhere ~ fgsHiug dress Las
been WORE thrss times ALREADY
HusDauG-fes. that's Jgst what ! tod
Bfkina wssS hs oGe7rs Re two tickets for
the tnsatsr for toaigst I knew II tosk
them they'd on.y - wasted, 20 i1st ga
ons. foa won mitd u hHTrY Il
Frstess.
Bunting morning, d.. Pzrssls.
Parezss-Goo9 Hsorn.Eg. Mr. Bunting.
How Il your hezlsbf
Mr. Bunting doctor. 6on't iAIk
shop.-&sF York TFath
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