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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01

a lady. stopping in a Nav York hotel
during recent hot spell" was much
troubled BY fear of burglars She had
just dropped asleep one night, when
she was aroused by a sharp repnrt- Ike
that Of pistol, aud felt a tlng3ng sen
sation in her shoulder. Putting up her
hand. she was Mortified 70 find her
night-gown saturated with some fluid.
which she was sure was blood Henry,
Henry she cried 70 her sleeping hus-
band. 4 am shot; I am bleeding 10
DEATH Nonsense, En-. her Gallons
husband replied. as he got up and lit
the gas; 'you have been dreaming
But I am wet with blood. persisted
the terrified woman. You are wet.
but not with blood. y sad the husband;
its" and ne b.1-st into roars OF
laughter lie had nnwiTesi = bottle ot
so-dawster during the evening, bat not
opened IL II lav OF table pointing
directly al the bad, and It was evident
that exploding under the heat II had
shot the cork and half tie sodavEster
across TIE room, and hit sae Lady -
she slept
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01
A Fat Mans Exercise.

Very stout persons may sometimes be
noticed glancing at other stout persons
with q pleased expression that seems to
say: "WeI, l am not as stout as that,
anyway" or, There is some one who is
quite as stout ss | am" Evidently it is
a consoling thought, says London lid
Bits. The French Marshal Nivonne
once indicated this feeling in witty re-
ply TO the king. Vivonne and the
Comte d'Auvergne were probably the
most corpulent gentlemen in the court
at the time. Marshal. You are really
getting too fat" said the king. You
ought to take more exercise" your
majesty does not know. then. that
take a great deal of exercise?" NO.
What do you do?" Il walk around the
Comte d'Auvergne three times every
day.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01

tlenanly secretary OF the Spaldine
club. $50 down into Pike or Lehigh
county. Pa. The season there is late.
1t doesn't begin for quail until Novem-
Der /. and ends December Is, but during
that time you will get your FL of the
brown beauties. The last winter was
a good one and Lehigh county.
and the Blue mountain region
will be as full this year as dur
ing 1891, when 1 bagged as high AZ
forty in day. Why, one day at a.
place called Macungie, I flushed four
pheasants each Of which weighed three
and three-quarter pounds. The quail
were in some cases so thick that they
almost burst"
Edward Lacy, of the Forest and
Stream, told me he was going TO Maine
for his hunting this year. I'm fact l
am going up into Washington county
after deer" said he. 81 understand
that some one has seen a jet black ami
NAL of that genus up there, and that's
the creature / am going after"
Mr. Lacy also told me of a very
fashionable fox-hunting club which had
been formed by a number of rich New
Workers whose winters are spent near
ASheville, n. C. It is to be called the
''Swannanoa Hunt" and the best fox
hounds in the country have been
secured. The hunts are to take place
twice week during the winter.
But it is the law the hunter wants to
know something about, and | have
taken the trouble to get the statutes OF
the various states corrected to August
l. Up in Ontario the deer, elk, moose,
reindeer and caribou season does not
open until November, and the game
bird season is not open until October
Is. so early-shooting New Workers will
probably give it wide berth. North
Carolina is as strict in its laws, and i'll
some of the counties quail cannot be
killed until December /. In the best
districts, however, the shooting begins
November l. IL Connecticut the open
season for game birds begins October l.
This date includes woodcock, quail,
rufie grouse, partridge and gray squir-
rel Reed bird and rail-shooting are
allowed in Delaware, beginning Sep
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01
Sealing Wax ss an Indicator.

'By theirsealing-wax You shall know
them"-this Is the latest edict of Par
isian society. For the future if the en-
velope be sealed with white wax the
recipient may know that within viii ba
a proposal for her hand in marriage,
while the more prosaic dinner invita-
ton will be henVlded by chocolate
seal. Black will still mean death and
violet conAolence, but ruby will show
tina: the letter is from an accepted lover
and green from hopeful one. Brown
will be the livery of melancholy. vel
low of jealousy. while pale green viii
administer m,Ite rsproof, and gray will
indicate that-a friend has remernb ered
us Verrnilion will still be the ''bus-
ness" color, soathat red seal may ACT
as danger signal and warn Lady
Froufrou frorn,opening millinery bill
at the breakfast ta-Sle upon any morn
ing when nv lords liver is ont Of order.
or stocks are Roing"wrong.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01

since women are about 10 drop night
robes and take to themselves pajamas
instead why, let us cling to the loose
morning robe so long as we can. Another
pretty one. slightly heavier, that | saw,
was made of white wooden goods
closely striped with raised line in
pale green. 1t had lace ruf1e at the
edge over plain silk one of green, and
lace sleeves and yoke over the same
green silk.
Still another was of pale mousse1ine
de laine delicately printed. The gown
was box plated back and front on a
ground loosely, only gathered by rib
bon at the belt. The box plaits were
run through with ribbon where they
Joined the yoke, and tied in bow at
the blk and front. The sleeves had
lace GUS and ribbon bows and bands.
Now that summer grows older our
hats are beginning to look very
harvesty. We must take of any flow
ers or indications of blooming fields
that may be there, and cover them with
ripe wheat or oats. On broad trimmed
hat you'll have room for plenty, and it
will look very pretty.
Now, too, that evenings grow longer
and cooler, we begin to take more kind
" to wraps. All summer we were gen
orally satisfied with light feather boas
and airy nothings to throw over our
shoulders, but now we take general
interest in the new pelerines and capes
coming out. One new cape l have just
seen is made of three full, short
founces, each edged with narrow vel
vet. The top slopes up into high
standing collar, with a long velvet
twist on top. The cape does not meet
in front, but admits of considerable
view of the bodice underneath, and is
only confined by little strap at the
neck.
An exceedingly pretty suit, with
pelerire combined, is all in white and
blue. The gown proper is a diagonal
combination of these colors, and is cut,
above the belt, with broad revers turn
ing out from an oddly gathered white
pongee front. The revers are edged
with pale blue, and three narrow bands
of it run down the front of the skirt.
The narrow bodice, point downward, is
also edged with blue. A very pretty
full ruche, a few inches above the edge,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01
One OF London's Old Ceremonies.

The annual ceremony of the trial
of the pyx has just been observed at the
British mint. The pyx is strictly box,
and the term is technically applied to
the chest at the mint in which speci-
mems of the coinage are preserved. The
trial by weight and assay of the gold
and silver coin of the United Kingdom
prior TO it's issue is made by a jury of
goldsmiths nominated for the purpose
by the lord chancellor. On the occa-
sion the test included 1897 sample SOW
ereigns and G420 in silver representing
a total coinage OF SIS, 200, 600.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01
The Birthday of Playing Cards.

The birthday of playing cards is to be
celebrated in Vienna this year. An ex-
hibition of the cards of various ages and
nations should be interesting to every
one, since the development of the
devils pictures" has occupied many
centuries. 1t is a fact that cards have
been known for 500 years, but their
origin is lost in mystery. The present
form and the number IN the pack are
both things of comparatively modern
date. A recent publication on the his
tory and lore of the subject states what
is not generally known-narnely: that
at the time of the French revolution
the court cards were banished. The
kings were replaced by presentments of
the genn of war, commerce, peace and
arts; the queens became the liberties Of
the press, professions. religion and mar
rage. Appropriately enough, the
knaves were represented by the equal
t+5ac -
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01
THE EARTH,S ATMOSPHERE,
It Extends Much Higher Than Is Com.
mo1ly Supposed.

n SohFo
One would hardly think of looking to
the moon for information about the
height of the earth's atmosphere. Yet
it is in just that way that evidence has
recently been obtained that the atmos-
phere extends much higher than has
commonly been assumed.
Observations OF lunar eclipses made at
the celebrated observatory of Lord
Rose, in Ireland, have shown that the
amount of heat received from the moon,
which heat Is, of course, merely reflect
ed sun heat, just;as moonlight is only
reflected sunlight, begins perceptibly to
diminish several minutes before the
shadow of the earth reaches the moon.
The inference is that the earth's at
mosphere partially c,Ss off the suns
heat as it comes between the moon and
earth and calculations based upon the
length of time during which the loss Of
heat from the moon is felt before the
eclipse begins indicate that our atmos-
phere reaches height of at least one
hundred and ninety miles.
How different this is from the height
usually stated may be seen by consult
ing popular schootbook on physical
geography, published within few
years, in which it is affirmed that be-
yond height of forty miles the amount
of air remaining would be too small to
affect the sums rays perceptibly in any
way.
So in the most'unexpected, and some
times wonderful, ways we are eontinu-
ally learning something new about this
tirne-worn globe on whose surface we
dwell.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01

TENDER and closing April Is, On other
game biras the season opens Novem-
Der Is.
PIover shooting in Maine began Au-
gust /, and prairie chickens will begin
to fall into the hunters hands on Sep
TENDER /. The partridge and grouse
season does not begin until October L,
and many a New Yorker will don his
buclzs41in and prepare for the finest
sport in the land in what is really the
most magnificent game bird territory
in the country. Pheasant shooting in
Maryland is allowed August 10. Part
ridges viii FL game bags after Novem-
Der l, in that state
In New York state. woodcock and
grouse shooting begins August 10, and
quails viii be served on toast after No
vember l. The Pennsylvania open dates
begin: For plover, July Is; for wood
cock, July 4; for quail and partridge,
November /: for grouse, pheasant and
prairie chicken. November /.
ALBERT EDWARD TYRRELL.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01

bodice is double also, first plain tuIle
then another of the rosebud batiste,
cut IN narrow stripes few inches
apart. so that the tulle IS not wholly
hidden. The sleeves are N ore reasons
BILE; there's nothing double about them
only big puff on top, and tulle cuff
beneath.
White Russian blouses are worn in
this same double fashion, with serge
suits; serge jacket completely covers
the blouse except where the fronts turn
back over the blouse.
A pretty gown. and one that is, [
think, actually and truly new, is a
black blouse made over yoke Of big
black and white check. The blouse
hangs loose over the wide fancy belt,
and is oddly laced with very heavy
cord ct both sides of the front. The
lacing runs down far below the belt
and then suddenly terminates. The
sleeves are two big pufs of the plaid
over plain black cuff.
1t is quite the rage to feather-stitch
dresses wherever there's an opportunity.
At the edges Of skirts and bodices, on
belts. or wherever there's a tuck or d
rufie, it can generally be followed by
row of Misunderstanding. It's thing,
too, thai most people take great de-
light in doing, and every woman takes
more interest in gown that bears some
Of her own handiwork.
Sleeves don't get much palmer. Some
months ago we heard that shoulder
putfs would soon be thing of the past,
and yet the latest garments from Paris
show no lessening in the size of the
puff. True, they have fallen slightly,
but the width increases corresponding
". A very graceful one has long over
puff of delicate lace hanging without
confinement and adorned with a velvet
knot at the shoulder; two diagonal
bands of insertion below the puff and a
loose tulle raffie at the wrist, with an
other velvet bow. Another pretty one
for evening dress is first puRed, and
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01
THE WOMAN OF FASHION.
How Comfortable and Yet How
Becoming Is the Morning Robe.
Some Dainty oGes-New Things In Wraps
How to Trim the FAN Hat
New Gown Eaced-A Combi-
nation Suit.
fCoPYRIGHF, 1882.

Morning wrappers are such pretty,
comfortable things, are they not? When
once you are clad in a dainty one, COM
fortably ensconoed in a great easy
chair, slipping your morning chocolate
and reading all your delightful summer
correspondence, you feel as if you
never wanted to rise again and don a
tight fitting conventional gown. Those
silky things are so cool, and you scarce
ly feel them. they are So loose; and still
they're becoming. even though they
haven't any shape. l think the prettiest
ones are made of white China silk, with
fine tucked yokes and feather stitching
and plenty Of lace. They're not so
very different from a night robe, but
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01
WISDOM OF TIE COW.
There Are Occasions When Bier Int
Egence Is Really Remarkable.

There Are Occasions When Bier Intel.
ligence Is Really Remarkable.
'It is popular belief that the dog is
the most Intelligent of all four-footed
animals, and that next in the mental
scale is the horse;p said st. Louisan to
Globe-Democrat man. THAT is a
mistake. The COW knows more than
horse and dog com bined are capable of
learning. An ordinary town cow who
has been accorded reasonable facilities
for acquiring general information Is
much wiser than some men who have
been honored with proud positions and
expensive funerals The average town
cow can open gate that fastens with
time lock, get into the garden and do
fifty dollars worth of damage before
the, exasperated owrser can ram charge
of slugs into muzzle-loadmg gun.
II once lived in village where one
half the inhabitants kept COWS and ex-
pected them to forage their living off
the other half. Finding the usual gate
fas4enings of no avail / added q belt
and slept chat night seeure. The next
morning every COW in the village was
III Ia oSAi, anu ~ AI14 vi SsAODGSCS
that cost me two dollars head to raise
that they could not go through the
gate, and had to knock down a panel
off the fence to let them out. That
night 1 added a log chsin and a patent
paddock and sat up in company with 4
double gun TO watch proceed
ings. An old brindled- she-private came
up and surveyed the house to make
sure we were abed. Then she shook
the gate and again surveyed the house.
Next7she went to work on the bolt with
her tongue. In five INMATES she had it
drawn and started to come in. She
looked surprised to find herself still on
the outside. Half dozen of her COM
panions,came up and surveyed the new
jewelry. The brindle broke a horn in
trying toilift the gate of its hinges
They appeared to hold council of
war; then an old spotted gourmand in
serted horn under the chain, lifted it
over the post and the whole drove
marched inside. gave it up and took
the gate off its hinges. l now raise all
my vegetables at the market"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01
SPNaralv IpinrNh.

I've come 70 see about getting ms
pension" said the distinguished appli-
cant.
Yes" returned the examiner; "were
you wounded during the WARP"
Most vitality. sir; most vitality"
How, may inquirer"
My honor and dignity were both
wounded. sir. ] failed TO receive a com.
mission as general, which expected
Very well. sir, said the examiner,
make out your blank for totally dis
abled Baltimore News
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01

famous New York hnnters who make
annual pilgrimages 10 Florida In fact,
the recent changes in the game laws of
that state make IL possible to Kill deer
in August. at Toast in Lake, Orange,
Sumter and Suwanee counties. In the
other counties the commissioners have
fixed October and November as the
limit.
was chatting with 4. s. Paxton. an
enthusiast on grouse hunting, and he
depIores the pitiful spectacle of central
New York's game supply. THE waste
full discrimination, said he, ''of the for
ests in the central counties has brought
about the extinction OF game. The
swlft-pinioned grouse wants a thick
wood for cover and breeding. There
are few sections where | had some
really good ruffed grouse shooting last
year. Ii was on waste land heavily
clothed with second growth timber.
But the best quail shooting l have en-
ioyed in years was mp IN the north
western part of Maryland. With two
splendid dogs we managed to bag forty
five IN one day"
J. W. Brayles, another enthusiastic
hunter, is called 1.-THE philosopher by
his friends. liz fact when it comes to
quail shooting he is looked upon as the
best authority in the country. ''Many
a novice" said he to me, doesn't know
when he has hit bird, unless the game
falls Eat down A good quail hunter
ought to knew before the bird has fallen
two feet whether or not to administer
another charge. To shoot humanely
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01

I retrieved one of those birds myself and
found it sitting up on the ground in
perfectly natural position A small
drop of blood on the head convinced me
that it had been shot In the brain and
mad lost all consciousness even before it
took its towering fight. The worst
shot of alIis the bi.d that goes oil with
its legs hanging down. Give it the
other barrel quick as flash, and then
you will probably have killed thequsn."
eff you want some real good quail
hunting said Henry Wel1es, the gen
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01

A Great Shoe Exhibit.

Conspicuous in the shoe and leather
exhibit at the worlds fair will be the
display made by Lynn, Mass. Lynn is
the largest shoe producing center in the
United states, and fully seventy-fve
and perhaps one hundred of the shoe
manufacturers of that city viii furnish
exhibits. They are acting in harmony
in the matter.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01
NEW CUTS IN SLEEVES.

then short box-plaited founce added,
edged deeply with lace. Another dainty
one for gauzy materials is caught up
into the seam all the way down, and
over the seam narrow lace insertion
is laid, finished top and bottom by a
small rosette- A lace rufie edges this
also, caught up at one side.
EVA A. SCHUBERT
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01

Look al Officer Finest. He's getting
ready 10 make an arrest.
y mats he trying to arrest?"
he attention OF those young ladies
coming down the street. s. - Chicago
News
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01
Tho First Pensions.

The first pensions ever granted by
the United States were provided for in
bills introduced in congress IN tT7s.
On May Is, IT'S, congress passed ball
granting that all officers who shall
servo to the close OF the war shall re-
ceive half pay for seven years there
after, and all private soldiers shall So
cure a remand of eighty dollars"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01
Idiomatic End Truthful.

Ethel thought at one time he was
going 10 kiss me. but fortunately some
one came in and he didn't.
EsteH You had a narrow escape.
Ethel-,I 1t was tight squeeze:-Life.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01
The Banns Were Published Later.

IS Fun many gem Of purest ray serene
The dark untsthoned caves Of ocean bear"
quoted Fledgelev as he and Gwendoliu
McNab strolled along the beach.
Il wish you were diver" coyly re-
sponded the charming young maid
"Why?'''
"You could get me one of them
Jewellers Circular.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01

one should instantly put all wounded
birds out of their misery When bird
S killed. the instant the shot strikes il
1t 1aus IN shapeiess mass TO the ground.
But If there is only a second Of life
left the head is thrown back in hope
less manner and the bird is likely
total tail first, wings slightly extended.
II one wing IS extended or Topped in
the air and the other is not used. the
bird circling in its descent. You can
count 1T only as wing-tipped. I have
few tunes seen a bird when flying in
horizontal line with the ground. sud
denly change its course at the crack of
the gun and fly straight slzywaryi. and
after moving 8 distance Of a hundred
yards descend gradually 60 the ground.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01

''Oh, mamma. shall get divorce,
30 shall"
MY dear child, what has happened7"
''He Is letting his whiskeTs grow and
they don't match Fldo's bit.@-Juoge-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-01

e7hen Baby vas sick, we gave her Casto-s.
a-he- she was Child. she cried for Cast.,r!s-
tlsn she became Miss, she chung to Castoria