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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-03
THE WORLDS PROGRESS.

ONE Of the latest practical applica-
lions Of aluminium Is In making car
riage window frames A large estab-
hshment At Neuhaussen. Switzerland,
turns out large numbers Of these frames
daily.
A GLASS factory at Liverpool now has
glass journal boxes for all its machinery,
a glass floor. glass shingles on the
roof and smoke stack JOS feet high
built wholly out of glass bricks. each .
foot square
AAoSG the smallest products Of mans
constructive talent must now be num-
bered q tea-kettle which has been ham,
mered by an ingenious foreign metal
worker out OF small copper coin .
little larger than copper cent
A MICHIGAN woman has patented .
device for securing glass In the doors
of stoves and furnaces. In order that
the process Of baking ussy be watched
without opening the DOORS ara siso TO
save fuel By decreasing draughts-
ANoss the most remarkable inyen-
tons at the recent paper exhibit st
Berlin was a set OF paper teeth made b.
\ Lubbock dentist IN 1873. They have
been in constant use for more than
thirteen years. and show absolutely 10
wear whatever
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-03
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.

A ROCHESTER, physician, who has been
experimenting on the subject, AYERS
that the mesquite can readily be ex-
terminated by the use OF petroleum.
THoREAu observes that '.the more
slowly trees grow at first the sounder
they are at the CORE" and he thought
it was the same with human beings.
THE statement that the hardness Of
diamonds is not perceptibly reduced by
cutting and polishing is confirmed by
w. A. Rogers, of Colby university. who
has had much experience in working
with diamonds.
A GERMAN doctor Of reputation pre-
scribes aluminium as q cure for rheu-
matism. A finger ring made of this
metal. joined with another, generates
a gentle current of electricity which is
said to make permanent cure.
PRIM, chemical expert, has deter
mined by scientific investigation that
the air of London is purest at about
thirty or forty feet from the ground;
lower than that the dust is encountered,
and higher than that the smoke from
the chimneys reaches.
ASSUMING that iron Is q systematic
combination Of little magnets, and
making possible assumptions as to the
size and strength of these magnets, it
is found by Prof Fitzgerald that their
natural rate of vibration may be one
hundred millions per second
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-03
POINTS FOR SCIENTISTS.

An instrument will be used in the
new psychological laboratory at Yale,
capable of measuring time to 1.o1 Of a
second.
"MAsRrUM" is the name Of the new
chemical element which has been dis
covered in the bed Of an ancient Egyp
tan river.
THE Royal Geographical Society Of
England has only granted its medal TO
two women-Lady Franklyn and Mrs.
Mary Somerville. It should now pre-
pare another badge of honor for Mrs
Peary. She merits it.
CAPT. HEsnY recommends, for inn
parting greater intensity and brilliance
to blue prints, an immersion in solu-
ton of ferric salt-perchloride Of iron
for example-of strength of FIVE per
cent. the prints afterward being well
washed.
DR. DANIEL. DEyIsoN SLApE Is one Of
the few surviving eyewitness Of the
frst capital operation under the influ-
ence of ether at the Massachusetts,
General hospital November I, 1s4s.
when the discovery Of Dr.. Morton stood
the test which revolutionized surgery.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-03
GOOD THINGS TO EAT.

HOMEMADE SACsAeys-To ten pounds
of chopped meat add three ounces OF
salt. half an ounce of black pepper. half
an ounce Of saifpeter, half an ounce Of
sage and one ounce Of sugar. Nix well
~ Y. OtserTc-
CoEsxEAr GEryL~-Two tabiesporn-
fuls Of cornraeai 20 one quar-. Of boiling
water and che teaspconful % salt.
Cook FOR about two bozr-, and prepare
Ike the oatmeal graeL yeu can add
more salt Il yoE choose Demores;
Magazine
FgIgp GxxE-Dr.ss the game and
wash each piece clean in cod water.
drain and sprinkle wiki salt and let
stand awhile Eessi IN cora meal ia
which q sprinkle ~ pepper has be~n
stirred. and fry snsl tender and Of .
nice brown Ia half butter and hall lard
Fry under eoser an. rot too fast
uouseke~pe-.
CgIcaEx sAxU~scHEs- 80 Take saeo~
tender boiled chicken. faixn al the saslr.
and pick osIt the bones chop fn~- then
with spoon rzsts 70 . paste. 80 each esp-
full add little szit and two table
spoons Of sse..sd bstsss. NIX ieesthex.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-03
HORTICULTURAL SPROUTS,

FRENCH florists are cultivating a
plant which bears flower that is white
i'm the morning, red at noon and blue at
might
IcB Is now used to preserve cut
nowerA Put your bunch of roses in
the refrigerator over night Salt and
ice are said to answer even better than
Ace alone.
NEARLY Loo punches of grapes
ripened this season on the great vine at
Hampton court They were sent to
Qneen Victoria. This vine is the largest
bn England, and is about lbs years old.
A FRENCH perfumer has discovered
That Californian roses possess twenty
per cent more Of volatile oil than the
roses of France. There are five thou
sand persons employed in the little
town of Grasse, France, in the manu-
facture of psrfumery.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-03
AROUND THE CHURCHES.

THE Methodist church needs one
thousand new preachers every year.to
keep its pulpits supplied.
ACCORDING to Canon Farrar there.are
now four thousand clergymen of the
Church Of England without employ
ment.
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS for foreign
missions was raised in an hour at the
Christian alliance camp meeting at Old
Orchard, Me.
GREENFIELD Methodist Episcopal
church, Cincinnati conference, has had
66Z conversions and SIT accessions,dur-
ing the past five years, in which Rev.
E. Burdsall has been pastor.
THE total church membership Of the
country, according to the census. is TO-
347 1864, and the value of church proper
ty aggregates s646, 125, 7o4. The num-
Der of separate and d;stinct&church or
carnations is nearly 150
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-03
FUN ON THE FLY.

IT isn't the 'highty" poet who Is r.
eponsible for all the fugitive verseA-
Boston Courier.
II any young man wants TO fnd out
what the wild waves are saying les him
60 TO sea--Picayrne-
A BIG man rroans most when be gets
sick because there is more OF him TO SUI
fer.-Atcnison Globe
WELL. I'll be kicked IS the football
said when he heard that the college
had opened--Bunalo Express
ANYTHING new on foot?- Yes
what Is it, Our babr He's JUS;
learned to walk. - Lawrence Ameri-
can.
TIE women are cow permitted 20
vote on the Isle Ok Man. and viii prob
ably change the name OF the place II
they can muster a ma
News
WILL ron have another cup Of eof-
fer the iandladv asked the bsarder
lie shook his head The spirit is viii
ing he said. but the coffee Is weak =
N. Y. Press
WILL said the good-nasured man.
- he sat u tbs restaurant THAT - .
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-03
HAPPENINGS ABROAD.

THEN arc $1,000 members Of the
English ''Primrose league" and there
Fan De no question about their fealty to
che memory of Lord Beaconsfeld.
FALLING stars are numerous In italy
about the time when the Catholic
church celebrates the martyrdom Of
Saint Lawrence. They are therefore
POLITICALLY called the 'ttears of Saint
Lawrence"
A UNIQUE method Of celebrating the
Columbus centenary IN Spain is pro-
posed by the artists of Barcelona, who
intend to project q colossal shadow Of
The navigator upon neighboring noun
tain peak.
TIE Japanese government Il said to
have provided for = visit of 1000 of its
middleclass citizen to the fair at Chica-
go next year, and then look about in
pther large cities in this country before
their return home
A NEW stamp is to be issued in Great
Britain Of the value Of fourpence half
penny-nine oents-to be available for
all postal, telegraphic and revenue pur-
poses. 1t will be the first stamp issued
of this value, and its issuance is called
for by the new features of telegraph
end parcel-post business.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-03

nothing to case that happened right
under my own eyes this summer.
There was a couple staying at my place
couldn't be satisfied anywhere else,
they were SO particular about every
thing-and they went into the water a
good deal during the season, which was
the most successful on record down
there. The woman was an AL swim
mer, but the man could only paddle
about near the shore. He was reck-
less. though, and didn't seem to care
whether he was drowned or not 1
noticed this even before his wife came
down from the city to look out for him.
He was always wanting to swim out to
the float which was anchored off shore
q couple of hundred yards, but she said
that if he tried it he'd 60 to the bottom
sure. OF course you'll do it, just the
same said she; you never'pay any at
tention to what say, though 1t always
turns out that way, as you remember,
ETC., etc Then she cited a large num-
Der of instances, as many as he could
stand at one dose.
well, one day, just as she had said,
he started out from the shore as if he
expected to swim across the ocean. She
was on the float and saw him coming.
He got on pretty well till he was within
fifty feet OF her. and then he threw up
his hands and went down. She was
after him in an instant, and just as he
was going down for the third time she
seized him by the hair. She appeared
to know from experience just where to
grab him in order to get the best hold.
Then she started with him for the shore
Solomon said she, what did tell you
about this?' I tell you, that was hard
question for a man with stomach full
of sea water to digest. My dear he
gasped, are you going to keep asking
me that question all the rest of our
lives? Because, if you are. please let
me drop Well, gentlemen, / admired
that woman for her conduct. She asked
her own soul whether she could keep
from holding that thing over him for
the rest of his days and she was forced
to answer in the negative. 1t was moro
than any woman could do. She saw
what life would be to him: she remem-
bered her duty as a wife; and, gentle
men, though she would have enjoyed
holding that thing over him more than
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-03

FOREIGN ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THBRs are fewer suicides In Ireland
than in any other country.
In equatorial Africa tho price of .
wife is ten packages Of hair-pins.
SWEDISH girls, at an early age, begin
TO make and accumulate linen gar
menss. By the time they are of mar
riagaable age they have an extensive
outfit of such articles.
MANY all japanese houses are so
constructed that the front can be folded
back or taken down. The first thing
that Japanese does in the morning is
10 "open house"-remove the front so
that the interior will be exposed to
view.
TIE Esquimaux are gamblers by ma
Hure. but they never impoverish them
selves by their games. Cards they do
not care for, but dominoes and even
chess are played with skill that at
least equals the best of the white men
who visit them.
In Para people of Indian blood pre-
Nominate and are found in all classes of
society from street peddlers and serv-
ants to wealthy capitalists and high
government officials. There are very
few Portuguese or Africans, and the de-
scendants of both these races show a
large admixture of Indian blood.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-03

principle that nothing Is to be believed
until it is seen and understood. can
never believe, for spiritual and celestial
things are neither seen with the eyes
nor grasped by the Imagination
Balzac.
THE human mind IS confined andtre.
stricted by skepticism; but when opened
by spiritual illumination, it is capsule
of rising to great attitudes, and OF APP
pretending many things in their true
and ultimate significance. - 0eorge
Frederic Parsons.
IT would seem. according to Nine
Sand, that the sole business of life is
love; that life itself, that is to seq, nc
ton in it's most varied forms, has no
other end or occupation. Befort,hav-
ing loved one does not live; when, one
no longer loves or is loved, ono has
scarcely the right to live on. This
alone--to love, to be loved-gives value
to existence.-E. Caro-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-03
LITTLE WONDERS

IF you had as many lenses in each eye
rs tho common dragon fly has each of
Eour organs of sight would be as big as
! box car.
A PRISONER IN . Bohemian reforma-
tory has finished perfect running
straw watch which is said to be mo
Larger than a shirt button
IT would talxe three and ono-fourth
thousands q, cso) of the little vegetable
parasites which grow ON tho human
hair to cover the white center of q
nonpare1 60"
A rMcK of frogs skin no larger In
diameter than the rubber tip of
your lead pencil has more pores in it
Ehan there Are mezhes in the mosquito
netting on your screen door.
A MxxzDE1 Comm cutlery factory
has just finished wonderful toy-a
perfect pockstknife with thirty blades,
Pdnchers, shears, avis, etc, which
weighs but one-eighth Of an ounce.
A LONDON England woman has pat
entcd machine for making watch
edpsws that is provided with thread
cutter 30 delicate as to be almost invisi-
bic. 1t will cut perfect threads on the
finest human hair
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-03
STRANGE THINGS ABROAD.

A COUNTRY Jail in Mexico is said to
consist of live-oak tree. with a chain
and staple attached.
AT the death of Queen Elizabeth 5000
dresses were in her wardrobe, of which
two only were of silk.
A NEW iron bridge over the Farrar.
In Strathglass. Inverness. lately col
sapsed through a cart of about one ton
going over it. The rivets were cut as
clean as razor would slice potato!
THERE are ex-military officers. ex-doc-
tors, ex-lawyers, one lord by courtesy,
one baronet, several honorables. one
ex-member of parliament. and dozen
bankrupt landed proprietors among the
London cab6riverS.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-03
POPULATION NOTES.

THERE are :, 500. 900 young men in the
United States.
THERE are 1000 men to every 7os
women in Greece.
THE limit Of the capacity of the earth
is 5,eai, ooo, 900 souls, says a scientist,
and this number viii be reached in less
than lS7 years
FRANCE has population of 3s..1s. 9o3,
comprising about 100000 families,
snd of these 10000 couples have no
children. while 1000, coo have only one
child each
TIE Chinese empire and dependencies,
Mongolia. Manchooria. Chinese Turk
estan. kokanor and Thibet. occupy an
area of at least 5.ooo.ooo square miles,
or about one-third of Asia The popu-
lation is esti mated at from 500, 600, 900
10 $50, 900 200.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-03
A SPEECHLESs WIDOW.
Howard Fielding Tells Story OF
Woman's Fidelity.
II Was Told to Him BY Another Lisr and
He Has Added Everything Which
the First One Omitted
swim for Widowh00d.
rcoprRIcHr. 1892. !

COPYRIGHT. 1892
It was nice little dinner in the quiet
back room at Malvolio's, and had for
company three entertaining liars, max
ing four of us in all, for had just sent
a telegram to my wife, explaining that
business detained me down town.
How does your wife like being writ
ten of in your stories?" asked the MEM
Der of the bar.
''She doesn't object" replied ION
the contrary. she reads them with deep
interest. and her unstinted praise is my
best reward except the weekly check. :"
Praises them, does she?' said the
commercial traveller. "WeIl, speaking
Of the extravagant and preposterous
way in which a woman's idea of wifely
duty will warp her Judgment, 1 remem-
Der the case of ~
81 was not aware that we were upon
that subject" said /, coldly.
''At any rate" said the man who
keeps hotel in New Jersey, that's
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-03
EUROPEAN PERSONALS.

LORD SALISBURY wants to sell his
villa at Puys. near Dieppe, FOR $4,000.
The Chalet Cecil is most picturesqueiy
situated on the cliff. with q fine view OF
sea and land
THE crown princess OF Norway and
Sweden. one of the most enthusiastic OF
amateur photographers. took about
three thousand pictures while on r.
cent journey. Otherwise sne Is very
taking young lady
Mr. GLADSTONE makes no claim to Be
a mountaineer. bat he has been at the
top of Snowden. the Hottest peak in
North Wales. and frcm the top OF which
the mos. picturesque part of the prince
pality can be seen
Mrs ExnY CRAWFORD. who took mp
the work of her husband, g. II. Crax-
ford, as Paris correspondent o; the Lon
don News when ne died about eight
years ago. Is still maintaining IL Mrs
Crawford gained great popularity in
Paris during the siege and commune
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AMERICAS FAIR WOMEN.

MISS MARY ANDERSON is said to be an
enthusiastic fisherwoman.
Miss MATTE T.. NELSON. Of Little
Rock. Ark. has been appointed general
agent in her city for the Pacific Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company, of Cali
fornia-
Mrs ELIZABETH PRESTON BRowS
DAVIS is young southern woman who
has won distinction as an accomplished
mathematician. She is reckoned among
the first IN this country.
MIS-. GALLAUDET, wife of Prof. Gal
iaudet. of the Washington College for
Deaf Mutes, believes in keeping pace
with her children. She studies Greek
and Latin with the boys and French
and German with the girls
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to Bloomingdale without thinking
mournfully that my turn would come
next.
''And believe that IL would have
come soon if Providence had not inter
vened to save me. John died suddenly
Of heart disease while listening to a
lecture by Josiah P. Cook. He died with
his hands folded upon his breast, and
the undertaken had little or no trouble
with him. / was present when they
brought him home.
"'He was the best Of husbands,
sobbed Mrs. Butler. He was rs nearly
without a fault as any man could be.
He was the wisest man that ever
Her gaze rest suddenly upon the
folded hands, and she stopped as if the
breath had left her body. Johns sign
had checked at the only moment, so far
as can remember. when such thing
was called for by the nature of her re-
marks
well gentlemen" tho commercial
traveller concluded, you see the situa-
ton She was bound by her solemn
promise not to speak again till those
hands should be unclasped. That was
nineteen years ago. and she hasn't said
a word since"
'In my opinion" said the member Of
the bar (who is deaf IN one ear, and
since his marriage has been hoping that
the trouble would spread to the other
one), "that story = lie"
~ 70
have met Mrs Butler. / was riding
down town one day on an Il train, and
opposite me noticed two ladies. one of
whom surprised me by her absolute
silence. l thought she must be dumb,
for though the other woman poured a
she made no attempt to speak. no.
ticed, also, that her eyes, which had
rested often upon my countenance, had
deeply sad expression. But just as
We were turning the corner of Murray
sire and College place, she leaned
over to her companion and said: Mar
garct, have not spoken in eighteen
years, but must ask you II you have
ever seen a more distinguished looking
gentleman than the one sitting opposite
us?'"
Each Of my friends here put his hand
into his breast pocket, and drawing
forth cigar passed it over to me. 1t
is our custom, when we dine together.
to render that tribute to the man who
tells the most improbable story.
HOWARD FIELDING.
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John called his wife's alleged mind
She would begin one of her old-time,
rambling, meaningless and delightful
outbursts Of nonsense, and would check
herself suddenly in the midst of it, and
become as dumb as an oyster for ten
consecutive minutes, perhaps. l was a
long time in arriving at the true cause
of this phenomenon. but at last it came
to me. Johns patience had been tried
treaty with his wife, She loved him;
she believed in his wisdom with a firm
ness of confidence which nobody out
side the family approached, and only
John himself surpassed. She was will
ing to do anything in the bounds OF hu-
man possibility to please him. and so
she had acceded to most remarkable
request She had agreed to stop talk
ing on the instant whenever he should
indicate by preconcerted sign that she
was making a fool of herself; and she
solemnly promised not to begin again
till the danger signal should be taken
in. detected him in the act Of MAX
ing this sign, which YVES done by SIM
ply crossing his hands upon his breast.
She recognized it instantly, and lost
the latter half of very good story
which she was telling.
And will you believe that John But
Ter was thorn in my flesh after that?
/ suffered more than his wife did. You
see, he got so accustomed to making
hAt hot h. 40
sciously whenever he listened to driveL
We had to be together great deal and
l tell you that many and many time
he broke me up with that fatal sign.
Often when I would be talking in q
manner which seemed to me more than
ordinarily eloquent and convincing I
would see those hands Of Johns como
up instinctively and cross upon his
chest. was never able to proceed in
the face OF that dumb protest against
my imbecility. fell to watching him
to see If he made the sign when other
people were talking. Sometimes he
did, but nothing like 80 often as with
me. grew to wonder If was really a
fool, and 50 big q fool that / hadn't
hitherto noticed it. 1 experimental
with John selected various subjects
and talked to him ia the most rational
style could command, but rarely did
fail to bring his hands into the damn
ing position. It must be true said,
at last; 4 am fool I watched my
self anxiously for signs of paresis. 1
drew circles on paper and practiced
sticking my tongue out straight before
a mirror, because I heard that people
upon whom paresis had fastened it's
grip could not do these things. never
read of a celebrated actor being taken
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DO THESE INTEREST You9

CRAwFoRDsvILE, Ga, has "shalr-
ing rock similar to that in Kentucky.
ONLY one ten thousand dollar legal
now extant.
A METFoRrTE foot in diameter fell
at Livingston Manor. n. Y, and shat
tered rock dozen times its size
THE new Mormon temple at Salt
Lake City wiz be opened April 9, 1898.
1t has been in course Of erection for
forty years. and has cost 81. 500. 600
A WOMAN is on exhibition IN New
York who is eight feet six inches high.
and New York paper. in speaking of
her, says '.sh- is tail and well formed :"