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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-30
Foreign Moneys.

France, Belgium, Greece, Italy and Swift
zerland constitute what is known as the
Latin" union, and their coins are alike in
weight and fineness, occasionally differing,
however, in name The same system has
been in part adopted by Spain, Servia, Bull
garia, Russia and Roumania, but they
have not joined the union. Francs and
confines of France, Belgium and Switzer-
land are respectively designated lire and
centissimi III Italy; drachmai and lepta in
Greece; dinars and paras in Servia; peseta
and centimos in Spain: leys and banis in
Roumania; leva and stotinkis in Bulgaria.
Similarly the Scandinavian countries,
Norway, Sweden and Denmark, employ
coins OF the same weight and fineness,
their names being also alike. Most of the
South American states possess standard
coin, equal in weight and fneness to the
silver five franc piece, generally termed a
t'neSOo
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-30
His Ultipatum.

Madeline, will you marry me?"
His voice had a husky, appealing
sound, his heart thumped audibly and
his knees had got beyond his control.
"No, Horace, will not"
"This-this is your final answer, is it,
Madeline?"
cit is, Horace. / am sorry I can
not
"This is the end of all my fond hopes,
the waking from the dream l have been
dreaming, and the winding up of the
FOOLS paradise in which have dwelt for
the last three months, eh?"
''I-I suppose it is, Horace, but do not
be utterly cast down." said the young
woman soothingly. thine softens all
our griefs and turns sorrow into joy. In
the future, Horace, when the pain of
this refusal shall have
miss Shuckers," he exclaimed, rising
with dignity, az became man who had
received temporary backset, but had
recovered himself, talk not to me of
the future 1t may have its consola-
lions, its joys and its repose, but it can
not reawaken old delusions. Henceforth,
Miss Shuckers, !" he added, reaching for
his hat and cane and moving with I'M
ruffied self possession toward the door,
Il can never be anything more to you
than brother Exchange.
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let on to be

I saw a man yesterday whom I
thought at the time would fall an easy
prey if you had been near by with q
good Limerick hook baited with red
flannel.
He was real bald man. You could
see at glance that it was not assumed.
He only had a slight dash of hair, q
shrimp pink lambrequin of self reliant
jute hanging reckleSSly on the suburbs
of his head and wandering along down
among the large cool patches of sage
green freckles on his hectic neck. 1
never speak lightly Of a baldhesded
man, Laura, for always say to myself,
NO man knows when he may be that
way himself" But this man whom
picked out fo- Won was a clear case.
There was no help for it. 1t was one Of
those confirmed cases OF premature
badness ct the age Of seventy-nine
years resulting from sitting too close 10
the footilgh5s in order 10 follow the
hbretto ard advertisement Of the opera.
Or possibly. perhaps, from wearing one's
halo zoo much Ii the house.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-30

Probably DO mineral has 20 many non
technical names As steatite. which Ia also
known By the applications of sospstone,
potstons and ia-dstone, and which Is itself
merely compact granular variety OF tale
-. soft mineral soapy 70 the touch. Of a
greenish, whitS-h or grSyIs5 color, usually
occurring IL f0liated masses and a sydroas
sIllcate Of Baasylesis- Steststs can be form
ed into almost anything. beautiful FIRE
places are made Of II. and stationary wasb-
tubs and slnks are important produc.s-
Not al ounce heed be wasted, says tks In
dustrial World. the dust u used 20 adul-
terate ruobey goods, giving 10 called gum
rUbbers their dull Ln4zh. and IN paper.
too. ii 3 USED 70 EfTe weight. while al
waste ea1 BE- ground Up into four. which
can be made INTO 2rpgroos pzaSf for coat
ing he interior 81 mills or tk8 roofs IL
EzsksssE.z.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-30
WHIP AND SPUR.

It is reported that Allerton will in his
races next season pull thirty-nine pound
suIky.
Successful trainers of horses, professional
baseball players and United States sena-
tors now get about the same salary.
II. T. Willis says, Il would not have
Mystic park changed into kite shaped
track if it could be done for nothing"
1t is stated that an offer has been made
OF S175, 600 for Orme, by OrmOnde, the fa-
vOIite for the English Derby, and refused.
John Crooks, one of the oldest trotting
horse drivers of note in America, died in
San Francisco recently. He drove George
Wilkes in several races.
W. II. Keller, secretary of the Tristate
Fair association, Evansville, Ind, states
that Roy Wilkes has made third quarter
in 291l seconds. the full mile being paced
in 2:l0.
Lady Suffolk, the first mare to trot a
mile under 2:30, was on the turf sixteen
years She trotted in over 100 races and
won about IS OF them, her money winnings
amounting to $685. 600.
According to en- Australian exchange,
at the close of the year 1860, Australia had
only l6S horses; now there are 100000 on
the continent, and they are increasing at
the rate of $4,000 year
The reason why j. B. Haggin secured
the great New Zealand race horse Maxim
for 81, 600 was because OF his late owners
disgust at the excessive figure, $4,000, at
which a tax commissioner in New Zealand
had appraised the horse.
Hippophacyis making constant progress
in the capital of Germany. During the
first nine months of 1891 6,O99 horses were
Killed in the private abattoir at Berlin.
This number is 421 in excess of that for
the corresponding period OF 1850
The TREASURY department at Washington
has decided rhag after April no animal
shall he admirtci free whose owner cannot
produce a certified copy of register show
ing that the sire's blood for five genera
tions is absolutely pare and the mares for
four.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-30
Electricity.

There are, as most readers know, two
kinds Of electricity-the static and the dy-
namic-and when the latter state is instan-
taneous. it is referred to as the electric
discharge" which occurs when opposite
electricities seek each other and the bodies
return to a state of equilibrium or neu-
tralization. These bodies, if insulated,
obtain no more electricity after the spark
has passed, but if there be a constant
source Of negative electricity supply
ing one and a constant source of
negative electricity supplying the other,
there will be a succession Of sparks; and if
they communicate by a conductor there
will be, through this conductor, an I'M
interrupted naturalization of continual
reunion of the two electricities. and this
is what is termed the continuous dynamic
state or electric current
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-30
Coffee Tritters.

Cut some stale bread into neat and rather
thick slices, and soak these in very strong,
freshly made coffee. Beat up the yolks -
one or two eggs according to the amount
Of fritters You wish 10 makel, f3avoring
them with little powdered sugar and 4
few drops of strong coffee; brush the slices
of bread with this and fry at once in hos
oil or butter: when just crisp and light
golden brown tint, lift them out, drain
them well. and serve az once, sprinzled
With sugar. OF course, all crust should
be removed from the bread. and the colfes
should be both freshly roasted and freshly
ground, and OF very good quality If the
fritiers are 10 be 8 success. Tie outside
should be just crisp enough 70 eat short,
though the inside sno2ld b. soft and very
strong OF the coffee
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ANCIENT TELEGRAPHY.

How the Ancient Greeks and Romans
TeIegraphed to One Another.
The ancient Greeks and Romans prac-
ticed telegraphy with the help of pots
filled with straw and twigs saturated in
oil, which being placed in rows expressed
certain letters, according to the order in
which they were lighted; but the only one
OF their contrivances that merits detailed
description was that invented by Grecian
general named AIneas, who fourished in
the time of Aristotle, intended for commit
nication between the generals of an army.
It consisted, says The Industrial World, of
two exactly similar earthen vessels filled
with water, each provided witha cock that
would discharge an equal quantity OF
water in given time, so that the whole or
any part of the contents would escape in
precisely the same period from both YES
selS.
On the surface Of each floated a piece of
cork, supporting an upright, marked off
into divisions, each division having a GER
tain sentence inscribed upon it. One of the
vessels was placed at each station, and
when either party desired TO communicate
he lighted torch, which he held alCft IN
til the other did the same, as a sign that
he was all attention. On the sender of the
message lowering or extinguishing his
torch each party Immediately opened the
cock of his vessel, and so left it until the
sender relighted his torch, when it was at
once closed. The receiver then read the
sentence on the division of the upright
that was level with the mouth OF the YES
sci, and which, if everything had been ex
ecuted with exactness, correspondent with
that of the sender, and so conveyed the de-
sired information.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-30
No Pickles,

A lady who has the good fortune to be
friend of DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes
relates little anecdote of the first time
she asked favor from him as an author.
She had just completed book for chill
dren. and DR.. Holmes kindly consented
to read the manuscript.
When it was returned to her after his
perusal she naturally looked it over with
eagerness and anxiety, in haste to see
what criticisms or corrections her dis
tinguished friend had made. She turned
page after page, but found no erasure,
mark nor marginal note, until atlength,
nearly at the end of the story, she came
to a single neatly penciled line in DR..
Holmes fine handwriting.
1t was placed against a passage upon
which she had rather prided herself, q
vivid description of the picnic feast of a
group of children in a grove.
First reading the paragraph to see if
she herself could find anything amiss,
she next read what he had written. 1t
was this:
Don't let those children eat pickles!"
Youths Companion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-30

A New York lawyer who was On
sleeping car the other night unwlttlngiy
caused something of a stir among his
fellow passengers. Every one had gone
to sleep and nothing arose to disturb
the slulnbers Of the travellers until about
a. m Then The bell in the porter's
room began 20 ring. 1t was one Of those
rings which settled down 10 hard work
at once and. as they say, just DO nothing
but saw wood. 1t was a steady. per-
fectly contented ring. Soon it became
apparent that it was no sprinter, but
long distance champion, for it rang and
rang, as only an electric bell can ring to
wreck mems nerves. Some one in the
end OF the car Weakened and groaned:
For heavens sake, stop that racket!
If You want the porter. so out and get
him. Don't wake the whole car up"
But the ringing continued.
For heaven sake. RED little man,
leaping into the aisle. his hair standing
on end, What's the matter; is the hotel
On fire?''
The bell sawed wood steadily.
Stop that ringing" bawled full
lunged man, sticking his head out be-
tween the curtains and glazing savagely
at the little man
= baby woke up and began to howl.
Its mother tried to CAIN it and its father
swore like L trooper. He threatened to
have the life Of the man who was max
ing that ''inferual noise" and the bell
blazed away as merrlly as if it We're a
twenty-foQr hour alarm clock.
Everybody in the car awakened ex-
cept two people-the porter and the
New York lawyer. Then delegation
started to the porter's room to assassi-
nate him. They found him doing
peacefully on a seat. while the bell was
now carrying On its work with the regu-
larity Of patent circular saw war
ranted never to stop. The wrathful
passengers decided that before they cut
the porters throat it would be wise to
have him stop that bell. They pulled
him to his feet, and shouted in his ear,
and when he opened his eyes they
yelled:
"Belll Stop the bell! Stop that bell!"
The porter went down to the lawyers
berth and stuck his head between the
curtains.
did you ring, sah?' he asked. There
was no answer from the lawyer, though
the bell kept up its ringing, while the
baby ran rival noisemaking factory
and its angry father invented magnii-
cent swear words.
"Did you ring. sah?" repeated the por-
ter, and the nervous mother began to
sob.
But the lawyer slept sweetly, one knee,
which had restlessly moved against the
panel in the night, pressing the button
of the electric bell, and it and the baby
Gid the rest.-New York Tribune.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-30

Hippophagy means the practice of feed
ing on horseaesh. The French equivalent
OF this word is very common in France.
where the practice of eating the flesh of
horses and mules Is increasing. In Paris
and its suburbs To- 40 of these animals were
consumed in 1857, and from 1856 to 1889 the
total was 275,Go0 In other departments Of
France the number of horses consumed for
every 1000 inhabitants was about twenty
five each year In Vienna about 1. 600 horses
are sold Is food each year. in Berlin about
COCO, and in Amsterdam. 2.551 Horsehe>b
Is also used for human food in Denmark.
Sweden, Switzerland and parts Of Italy. In
Paris the price is about half that of beef.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-30

One Of the peculiar freaks Of soma q
the bows az the EomA for rhe Feeble
Minded 81 Lincoln y the annual heglra
after the bag OF geld burned - the base
OF rainbow arch. according 10 the fairy
tales. How these boys become possessed
ot the Idea CANNOT say. hut regularly
each Summer they Kun away after o.g
rainbow storms. when the conditions arr
such Is 10 produce SIZE natural l,aesE5EE-
exon. 10 capture the gold Eaca t1ias
they return tired. hungry and l=drag-
glesi, glad 10 resume their old Places
Interview IN Chicago Sswa
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washinCton's sobriquet..

First OF all, Washington was called
Father of his Country" Sigourney calls
him "Pater Pstrise" Chief Justice Mar
shall. the American Fabius" Lord Byron.
in has ode 10 Napoleon, calls ann The
Cincinnatus Of the Vest For having a
new world on his shoulders he was called
the Atlas OF America The English sol
oiery called him by the sarcastic name a.
Lovely Georgius.' bed jacket. the Seneca
Indian chief, called aim the Flower q
the Forest The Italian poet. NI,tor.c
Alfieri. called him "Dciivercr OF America. -
In the Gazette OF the United States he was
called the '~rri,r ~ ''i~ Country"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-30
NYE ON DIVORCES.
THEY ARE NOT WHAT THEY ARE
CRACKED UP TO BE.

Soulful Letter from One Who Is Tired
of Single Blessedness and Would Fain
wed-A Possible Suitor In the Shape
Of a BaldIIeaded Stranger.
copyright. 1892. by Edgar W. Nye.l
IN THE DIVORCE COUNTRY,
March.
Sioux Falls is too good and too great
to be known abroad as the headquarters
for quick divorce We were shown at
the Cataract House the various plaintiffs
and Defendants
The trial of these cases affords in
teresting entertainment for man and
beast. The Baroness de Steurs was
waiting around the court house watch
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-30

TIE Ess4l-hsy sshO tssak ts4s oEyss-fzafls.y
- e-1%u E=x finger EAAzls @sLile keefzrg 3
paE3l @tcsE @ct.oSl - t~r2xs beF for siEss~-
r. eousD fhrougn il.r ssarzs Gursar
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BETWEEN THE PLAINTIFF AND DEFENDANT
ing the divorce works and ever and
anon sticking a fork in her decree to see
if it was done. Her husband said that
she was crazy, and tried to put her in a
retreat. She has him on the run, how
ever, as this goes to press.
According to the baroness, who is a
tall. handsome woman, the baron used
to open the exercises of the day by re-
versing his cuffs and calculating to his
wife, Il wish 1 had never married your
met man who was here as a wit
ness He said he resided here.
And how does witnessing pay here?'
inquired.
Very WE'LL" he said; every well in
most cases. have comfortable home
here now, all made as a witness in di-
vorce cases. Sometimes l act as q wit
ness and again as juror. Formerly was
an actor. played the doom in an emo
tional play one year and returned to
Chicago very much broken in health.
applied to a physician, giving him my
card and telling him my symptoms. He
looked at me keenly, then he read my
card and said:
You have made a mistake. The
place where they cure hams is farther
down the street.
Il have since that abandoned the stage
to its fate
have decided that lack Of suitable
employment has much to do with these
divorces in high life. If the husband
had to saw wood or jerk an engine over
500 miles of mortgaged roadbed every
day, and could come home tired and
hungry six days in the week instead of
loading himself up with spirits and club
scandal, he would probably be able to
put more money into stock and less into
alimony.
1t is the same on the other side of the
house. 1t is no fresh discovery that
Satan's intelligence Office supplies more
work for the unemployed than any other
place.
The life of the party to an action for
divorce here is indeed bleak one.
Plaintiff and defendant at Sioux Falls
AN0 DIT ItlO SStLiO hOuSl utSduSo III ID LILO
best one. There they NOPE around,
waiting for their turn at court, and
glare at each other across their fruit
meringue. Different cases do not get
acquainted much with each other, each
regarding his or her case as exception
ally aggravated, while the others of
course are mere diSgraceful cat and dog
fights.
did not see the Baron de Steurs, but
l saw his successor. Being baron, as
a Dakota man said yesterday, is not al
ways the snap that it is regarded by the
masses. The heart of baron may be
at times cast down even as others are
A cold hearthstone around which are
clustered the slippers of another person
no doubt chills the heart of baron just
as it would the heart of one who is In
trade.
sometimes think that possibly have
hurt the baron business in this country
by light and hippant manner in re-
ferring to some of our struggling barons,
but am sorry for it now. Barons who
mean to do right will always find in me
hereafter a warm friend, patron and
chaperon.
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Miss McSwellan Woertz writes a let

~1loo n1CCNcl4du w OSIlH WHITES d leI-
ter from postotfice in New Hampshire
which cannot make out. She says:
DEAR SIR-Pardon a stranger from thus adj
dressing you. no doubt. as your time is all
taking up and you hate. dare say, TO be bur-
dened with the cares of others people. but
am so situated that / must write or talk TO
some one.
Ny life thus far has been Perfck he'll You
cannot understand il with the sun Of prosper
lty shining on you pro ana con, but with me
II Is no shlmera. IL i real. Oh, l have prayed
TO die and be >het Of the whole business, but
Providence seemed to have IL in for me.
My father married injudiciously and has al
ways hated me because am so little Ike him.
How can resemble papa by request? l can
not resemble people on such short notice.
cannot resemble people while they wait.
Even II could resemble ps I would hesitate
He Is plain and Chews hard tobacco. His soul
Is just as scgajd O. il can be. Once a man
called pa PeSsy1-ist and pa Dir his ear off.
be was sorry Tor II afterward, because whilst
in jail kind hearted lady showed pa the die
tionAry and he SAW that lie was too hasty.
lost my mother Last week Grief and b.
chloride OF gold Killed her. Ano 80 al the are
o. twenty-niue years ! am rnolherlesS aud
never ala look well in mourning. I hate IL
soo& l!Se = c8mpbCTa,ed widow Father
threatens 10 marry again. This time lie VIII
marry INTO tEe army -fEe salvation Army.
She is PERI from away back. She sincs
Come toJesus." aad the teams then run away
ana break ,A.ars.
Bat father loves her. / can see that Ee
can I keep his eyes OF from her. You ought 20
see her on the street singing a. eventide
marching thro1Sh The mud II would make
you laugh 10 see the way she malireats tam
BOURNE. She came and kissed rae onct but /
took II of with some wart medicine / had on
hand al tbe time.
What would YOU Do, Mr.. Nye. II yoa was ms
l have 10 home ~ al. This Is Just a. / szv. =
Nt2i-y may -ccil-iL OF earth. After what /
Rave saw o. marriage yog can see that llla
upon II AsAaGoe. ana yet ! 5e.isye / could n-s.<e
some good man happy. 10 yo4 lot tli1k 80
10 VOC Know s-ct s NAM T.. Z -. = res
good gaaU. one Last Z oelll ulp.Ss
Aoa Uig>t faec- =. sooi may dlasEss., people
Ole i'i-.e ABB .loier. especially yeuss l..efs g.
your oa age Hos vouid i do for ys.u =
throw them " nay vays I sand csrte DC v;s5te.
also csr1e O!sac~a also ptcr11e Of HyseI;
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Frank-D'you know. heard me other
day that the blocks from which they
print those 800 bills y America take
nearly a year 70 engrave-
Elia-0h. really! suppose that's
vhy they're so exu-easive.-Judy.
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WANTfb-R NJ YOUNG Man OF ExPEkIFNCE
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