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The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-10-20

weak or 1nflamed eyes, cut slice d
stale bread as thin as possible; toast
both sides well, but do not burn or
scorch; when the toast cocls lay it in
cold spring or ice water. Put between
a piece of old linen, and apply, chang.
ing when it gets warm.
-Omelet-Six eggs, enc cup OF milk,
one tablespoon of butter, one table
spoon of -four; melt the butter in the
milk; beat the yolks with the -four
thoroughly; add the milk and butter,
then the whites beaten to . stiff froth,
and add little salt Cook in spider
on tep of the stove and turn very care
fully.-Boston Budget
When, as sometimes happens, one
is forced to wear an unccmfortably
tight shoe, it may Be Of value to know
that folded cloth wet IN hot water laid
over the pinching point will often speed
lily afford relief. Change the cloth sew
eral times to keep up the heat which
shortly stretches the shoe and shapes it
to the foot-N. 7. Times
Tomato Salad-Peel some good
sized tomatoes mot too ripc), cut them
in slices and remove the pips; season to
taste with salt and pepper, few leaves
Of basil finely minced. and a few onions
very finely sliced Make dressing of
two tablespoonfuls of oil to one of vine-
gar, and pour it over the tomatoes.
They should stand in this for couple
Of hours before OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Sailed Almonds. -Blanch almonds by
pouring boiling water over them; then
soak in enough sweet cream to cover
well for fifteen minutes; place on gran
ite ware baking tins in the oven until
dry; sprinkle with salt and turn fire.
quently until they are sufficiently
brown. If necessary, add more salt
after they come from the oven. Serve
in small silver or china bon-bon dishes.
N Y. Observer.
Iced Almond Cuts.-Two pounds of
-four, one pound of coarse powdered
sugar, one pound Of butter, twelve
ounces of ground almonds, twenty egg
yolks, almond havoring. Whisk the
eggyolks and sugar to light, frothy
batter, melt the butter and whisk it in;
add the ground almonds and havoring,
sift the -four and work it lightly in;
spread the mixture ON q baking tin
previously buttered and covered with
sheet Of paper; make it quite level and
an inch in thickness Bake ina moder-
ate oven; cover the top Of the sheet Of
cake with hot-water icing, and thickly
strew with cut blanched almonds. Cut
into pieces three inches long and one
inch wide.-Geod Housekeeping.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-10-20
GRAY EAGLES DEBUT.
The Turning Point in tho Life Of HOrS
That Became Famous on the Turf

The Turning Point in the Life Of = Horse
That Became Famous on the Turf
Of the many bits of unpublished ro-
nance, the natural hotsam and jetsam
of the receding tide of war about the
national capital during the close of the
long, dark days, there is the following,
lately come to light--almost esmpan-
ion piece. in an humble way, to the now
famous biography of Black Beauty:.
1t happened late in the summer Of '65
that played-out looking confederate
cavalryman no uncommon sight
ambled into the quiet precincts Of
Georgetown astride OF fiea- bitten,
switch-tailed skeleton Of horse, and,
stopping in front of Hazels livery,
called out the dealer in horsefesh and
opened negotiations for the sale Of his
mount. The American Tattersail ran
over the points of the wreck with a
careful eye, and at the end of the ex-
animation was less surprised than
would have been a less experienced
Judge when the soldier fixed his price
at one hundred and fifty dollars.
OF course the figures did not pass
without dispute. but after some chatting
the difference was split at one hum
dred and thirty-five dollars and
the trade closed, the dismount-
ed ranger pursuing his way on
foot toward Dixie considerab bly, better
fixed than before in the matter of Incl
dental expenses, and the horse dealer
leading his new purchase within, where
he was groomed, Fed and watered by
the old black stab boss as he had not
been before in many day.
This care and attention was kept up till
far into the autumn, when the crisp
north winds fred the leaves Of all the
forest outside and sent the blood cours-
ing faster in the veins of all creation,
while the frost worked down into the
ground and toughened up the roadbeds
well for speeding. Then the old gen.
tleman. who was then not so old as he
is now, one day called an acquaintance
and brought out the confederate gray
for inspection.
The inter-rib spaces of the skeleton
had filed out until they were no longer
to be seen, and the switch tail had
heightened to quite respectable pro-
portions, while about the whole frame
there was general springiness that
might be laid to good cUrrying and
United States oats.
Driving leisurely to the edge Of the
town. where there was good level
stretch of dirt road in view. the driver
laid the whip knowingly across the
lines which he had wound round his
hand and let the strange horse go. And
he went. Road and fences turned to a
blur, and the icy wind whistled through
the furs. After good mile the driver
pulled up gently, sprung out and ran
his hands over the silvery sides that
were scarcely heaving. and patted the
velvety nostrils, saying with chuckle:
Il thou gh. ] wasn't mistaken" And
then they went homo
Time passed. and the fame of the
gray trotter spread. till finally his
owner parted with him somewhat re-
gretfully for fifteen hundred dollars.
That was the flyer afteward known
upon the turf as Gray Eagie.-Washing-
ton Post
The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-10-20

drinking purposes. The extent and ex-
treme width of the excavations stag
gers belief; but it will be remembe
that Mars is much older than the earth,
and that with the Martians it is now
dig or die.
So they dig, and they dig double
lines. They parallel every waterway,
possibly to avert the calamity of want
of water over their vast continental
areas in case one of the canals should
get stopped up by landslide. 1t has
been doubted whether the canals OF
Mars are really double, but the astropo-
mers of the Lick observatory say they
observed them on the night of August
II with their Incompatible telescope,
and testify that they are distinctly
double" They add that they are ''per-
fectly straight lines passing through
the continents from sea TO sea" As a
canal in Mars would have TO be twenty
miles wide to be visible with our best
telescopes, it is evident that the Mar
tians must have given much attention
to engineering There is no evidence
that they have used steam or electricity
for transportation or for industrial pur-
poses Being under the necessity Of
having large water supply, It is pos
sible that they have not found il to pay
to use powers other than water power.
Besides, land much intersected by ca
nails of vast width and depth couid not
well develop an extensive railway sys
tenn Without coal-there is no evil
dence that Mars had carboniferous
period-the manufacture of steam en-
gines could make but little progress
As respects electricity, the thinness
of the atmosphere Of Mars would. it il
believed, interfere materially with the
efficiency Of dynanos. The electricity
would be dispersed somewhat, a. il is in
e vacuum tube, before it could do useful
work There could be little magnetism.
il is plain, becanse the planet, besides he
ing frozen at both ends and cold IN the
middle, gets few rays of the sun-the
source of ell energy in our system II
Is imp-oba bic. IN fact, that the Martians
have ever given much attention TO the
subtler sciences They have given their
minds wholly 20 canals. and canal dig
ging IS not an elevating employment -
Baltimore Sun
The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-10-20
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The e. so, e5, 80, so and e25 gold
pieces made from le49 to 1861 by private
firms and assay Offices in California,
Colorado and Oregon, because they do
not come up to the mint standard Of
purity. are mostly below par.
Why ia the word 'bald-headed-
made to do 20 much service, when the
shorter and simpler bald" expresses
the full idea and fils ths bill complete
1y? BY the way, . bald woman is a
rarity, circumstance which must be
attributed to the feminine habit Of
wearing hats that allow free access Of
air TO the hair. II the masculine part
of the race become ultimately bald, the
stiff and poorly ventilated hats which
they wear will be largely, il not prin-
cipaNy. responsible for it
Virgil and Horace are supposed 70
be represented by two medaliions late
ly found in small house in Pompeii
The ST James Gazette says that they
resemble in almost every particular the
miniatures Of the twelfth century which
are to be found At the head Of the. man
uscripts of the works OF the poets. and
adds: This goes 70 prove that the
miniatures were made from similar
originals It Is an interesting fact that
the two poets should thus early have
been placed on . similar pedestal of
honor"
A document found among the duke
os Rntisnd's papers at Belvoir castle
throws a curious light upon the nsode
of getting private bills through the
honse Of commons in the days o, King
Charles III. The case tr hand was the
divorce bin OF John, Lord De Roos. an
affair that caused a great deal Of gossip
in its oav. One of his lordShip's agents
wrote in Januar-. 1867. '1,n Wednesday
last go; six-and-forty Of the house Of
commons To the Dog tavern. in the
Palace gard a: Westminster. when were
present Mr. Attorney General and Mr..
George Montagu As soon "a they had
dined. we carried them al To the house
Of commons and they passed the bill.
as the committee, without any amend
ments and ordered il 70 De reported the
next day
Heron. Of Syracuse. as, p C.. Is
sued pieee Of money called Grarhn
with his pietare on one side and
chariot driven by a man with four
horses attached To IL on the other, says
the Bankers Monthly. Abou. this date
came into existence the srss bank of
which we have any record. tia. was .
tank established n Bsoyson, T. C..
SIS, which was In existence for
ever coe hgndrrf years - SHOWN
bY its records. and iss name WAS
Lgiss's lsank Thss tan. probably
s---5 coinage % this period whEeh was
In circulation. and we ihisass that IL had
considerable Macedonian. Hebrew and
coinage of 10 ozn sysunsry. i:zisFson- In
its vaults sprse Of The bills rrnsissbse
or noseA dae this t@aax are nosz in the
Is4zl<a nsas<nm ~ London TEr soses
vUs sE1tsss - Gssia roosd slay
The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-10-20
NEIGHsORs IN MARS.
Fat Men There Weigh Next to Nothlnl
and Are Wonderfully Agile.

Fat Men There Weigh Next to Nothing
and Are Wonderfully Agile.
Mars weighs but one-ninth of what
the earth weighs, and, therefore, objects
of given mass weigh here nine times
as much as they would weigh if taken
to Mars For example, our standard
silver dollar Of 4121 grains would
weigh but 45.S grains in Mars, and
would doubtless be refused by the Mar
tians if rendered in the payment of
debts, public or private. 1t follows,
however. from the lesser power of the
force of gravitation in Mars that it is a
paradise for fat men. The reason that
the elderly person gets tired sooner
than the small boy is not that the
muscles of his legs are inferior, but that
they have more to carry. The fat per-
son here has as powerful muscles as he
had when lean. but they have greater
weight to bear and they tire under it.
Iu Mars it is different. There our stout
person of 800 pounds would weigh but
335S, legs and all, SO that he could trip
along with his present muscles as light
ly as kitten. Even the STAT lady" of
the museum could easily do her twenty
miles q day and not feel it Agility, we
may assume, with vivacity as its accom-
panying virtue, Is a characteristic of
the people of Mars Doubtless the Mar
tians, owing to the light burden on
their legs, grow taller than we do, and
are larger and more powerful every
way. Weight restricts development
The strength of muscle and bone may
be exceeded if an animal exceeds a GER
tain size.
In the sea the whale grows larger
than any terrestrial creature because
the water bears him up. Like the BIZ
cyciist. he has only TO propel himself
by moving his legs-that is to say, his
fms If man lived IN the sea he might
grow much larger than he does. In
Mars he could, with the same strength
of muscle and bone. grow nine times as
large as he does here. 4 man ftty-four
feet in height. with a corresponding
development in other directions, would
be powerful animal He would be
capable of doing an incredible amount
of work per day. Citizens OF such pro-
portions might very wei undertake tue
colossal canals with which the surface
of Mars is so strikingly marked
These canals signify the astonishing
strength and energy OF the Martians
They are supposed to pssnt also to
pathetic necessity. Their planet, weak
In gravity, is weakening now in all the
natural forces It's heat IS rapidly de-
parting. Its crust is cooling. and as it
eools its strata. like those OF our moon.
absorb the water of is oceans The
astronomers OF Mars foresee coming
time when all the water and atgno-
sphere of their planet will disappear,
beng absorbed. as in the case of our
moon. by the chiiie<! material Of It's in
terror They have dug their canals in
large part, it is believed, TO bring the
water of their shrinking oceans 10 their
famished lands Originally undertaken.
perhaps, rs waterways. these canals
are supposed 10 be now vastly deepened
channeis far the conveyance ofatoe
vAser required 1er iHis.s.oa -ead tor
The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-10-20
THE CIGARETTE EVIL
its Worse Phase 10 the Bssttusi Ishalisl
Of the smOks.


Of the Smoke.
Considering what very poor thin9s
cigarettes are, IL is surprising that they
should have got such . hold or tho
community. But, bad a they are. they
are extremely fascinating. The use OF
them. when carried 20 excess. becomes
a habit that is most difficult 20 break,
while they arc 10 cheap and 10 conven~'
lent that IL taxes excepfiopsl discretion
to smeks them At ali without smoking
them to deleterlcus extent OF course
1t Is primarily because they are 90 cheap
that they appeal 50 generally TO boys.
bu. even with boys. w'ho ought not ~
be allowed - smoke at al, 1t is not "a
much the tobacco IN the cigarette that
docs the mischief as the pestiient and
insinuating prsctice Of inhaliag the
suske. An ordinary boy Of wbolesons
appetites won't .nol<e cigars or pipe to-
baceo enough To do him serious dam
age. even IL he can get them Eoe
would the cigarettes he might SMOKE
be so serious . menace 20 his welfare Is
he would oaiy suoke them as hs would
smoke cigars The trouble L. taas -
soon as he gets used 70 cigarctte-smek-
ing he begins 20 inhsle the smoke. asd
presently IL fixed 10 q habit ina, plsys
Tn. mischief with him
Whether anything besides fobacco
goes into ordinary cigarettes Il fnneh-
discussed question The effect they
sometimes prodace On tss- BRAN II 30
different from thai dne 70 tosAeeo IN
other forms a, 70 favor the theory ;sss.
rnan~ Of fhssss ccsatasn opi urn o- szserf.a:
b.st shis the manufacturers deny. sssi-
s!ly asserting that ssea drgzs ar to<s
expensive 70 pnt taso cAesp c1gzrsttes.
even i. i helped their mss<s.zslo
qualities ons thing trssdes she 90
bscco ob~.orsiT goes sa.o ihern. snd
that i the paper. the fzsnss Of which
are doubtless bad for the sfroa. sad
lungs as far - they zo--Harpes
Weekly
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sseep 70 nieely every nigh whea sag
10 her. fsu'i ,hs. 90 Mamie sfsszts
Yes. th..'s 80. m.-- he rSotssr
ieaves the room for . raor<st snd
Mamie says % sse visitor. Dsa't s~l
rss. bu. oaly Ez@ks cat thss I sa
asleep q, rst he~ 10 stop ssnging-xlsS
sin-s 80 srfa. tzA A--Tsxss si.tings
-Hrs- Qzs5sanc-' brssix~t. saers
hare goa f~<n all shs essasngT Ers1xes
An sha-~. rnans an xr. kefsnsy
sxed me 70 70 % the ssos. as 90 Z
~{at- Ma 0uEssnaoc '-s>ssoz7 ssowf
Do von nse~n ilass ysa veal 81 the rao-
desssas1ross assougs Efs8xst-'sAa' f<ix.
rsnns. tlsry s~s kyy,osasassses sa' 81
r2srr~ snd ixeryiksas s.s-, as
sissaseu,s wooSer ~ al " sh<y go
roEsxerdoas too. o."-Eoe.1s Courier
The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-10-20
MINING IN WASHINGTON.

Great Mineral Interests In the Evergreen
state.
Mining in Washington, though its
promises are vast, is in its veriest In
fancy. The production of metals is in
significant The first discovety of the
precious metals was made by placer
mipers along the Columbia river, and
this ground is still worked. by China
men now, with trifiing results. Recent
discoveries have been, first, in the Col
vile district, Stevens county. 1t is a
mountainous region, an extension OF
the rich Kootenay country of British
Columbia Silver and lead are found
there, but not yet in such large or prom
ising leads as those north of the bound
ary. Development-work is being done
there. the ores are being sent out, and
concentrators are building. In the
Okanagon country, east of the Cascades
and west Of Stevens county, silver and
gold without lead are found. 1t is
smelling ore, and cheap transportation
facilities are needed for the develop
ment of the mines. One railroad oper.
ator is ready to build from Marcus On
the Columbia, north OF Colville, along
the Kettle river, to the Boundary creek
mines of silver and gold, which show
splendid prospects. The Colville Indian
reservation hinders him from tapping
the 0kanagon country, and, as we have
seen wherever there are similar eondi-
tions in other states, there is strong
movement to have the reservation re-
duced, and the upper part thrown open
The railroad could be built across it as it
is, but there is no money in a railroad on
reservation land where settlers may net
come nor towns spring up. 1t is appar-
ent that the reservations must be reduced
in response to this pressure, because it
is vast tract, bigger than some large
counties in the state, and yet it con-
tains but thousand red men, remnants
of several tribes. The notorious Chief
Joseph, who harried several of our gen.
erals, is there, and so is Chief Moses.
whose people once inha bited the Okan-
agon country before it was bought"
and President Grant set aside the Col
vile reservation for them. An argu-
ment used to help to open this land is
that the reservation leaves sixty miles
of our frontier unprotected. Tho
Spokane chamber of commerce is bend
ing all its energy to the redemption of
this border land, and what that body
sets out for it generally obtains.
The Lake Chelan prospects, so-called,
are Of argentiferous galena. At least
seven hundred claims have been taken,
and this summers work will prove the
value of the district, though all miners
qualified to judge of it express conf
dence in its great richness. The
Stehegan belt of hills, where the ore is
found, runs northeast beyond the Brit
ish border. In addition to the galena,
other ores are found, though not yet in
sufficient quantities to excite the cupid
ity of the prospectors But the belt
contains more limestone and white
marble than the world can use. 1t is
proposed to build a railroad to Lake
Chelan, whereon the ore can be boated
seventy miles, and then carried by
short rail to the Columbia. and thus to
the Great Northern railroad at Wenat-
Ralph, in Harper's Mag
aZine.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-10-20
OUTDOOR LIFE.
What 1t Has Done and is Doing For thu

What 1t Has Done and is Doing For the
City-Bred Children.
At first it was the boys who exhibited
the good effects of the social revolution.
Time was, and not very long ago, when
the sturdy boys Of the metropolis were
found in the greatest numbers in the
public schools and the districts inhabit-
ed by persons in middling circumstances.
The boys in the well-to-do families were
apt to be spare, narrow-chested, and of
such appearance that the more rugged
city children called them by contemptu-
Gus nicknames, all implying that they
were girlish. Such puny lads are not
now anything like being numerous
enough to represent class. The once
derided mothers apron-strings" have
been woven int tennis nets, and tho
hands Of tho ''girl-boys" now grip base
ball and cricket bats Three months
of country life with ''city improve.
ments," and nine months of 'cycling.
boxing, sprinting and gymnastics, have
given them muscle aud lungs, until tho
Juvenile crowd in town accept it as an
axiom that well-dressed lad is werth
is intended
The girls, too, are obviously better
sort; not better than their mothers
were, necessarily, for New York is for
ever freshened and strengthened by
country-bred men, who draw in coun-
try bred women for their wives But
the born city girls are distinctly finer
women than born city girls used to be.
The very boyish boys, of the ages when
boys are apt to be an all-sufficient sex
unto themselves, no longer avoid the
girls, who now have their parts and
places in the sports and games of the
courts ard fields. Baseball anI cricket
are of the masculine gender still, but
golf and tennis, boating, riding and
driving, are all the enjoyment of both
sexes. The girls have borrowed part
of the boyish equipment in these days.
They have muscles. They wear loose
and easy clothing, and they swing along
with an athletic animal movement that
would have been called very ungenteel
in their mothers if their mothers could
have initiated it Men Of country birth
see that their town bred wives arc re-
produced in their town-bred daughters,
and city men by the seaside note that
their little girls are as ruddy and brown
and vigorous and physically capable as
the country children of tho neigh bor-
hood. Thus much of the children: they
have had the longest holidaying.-Harp-
er's Weekly.
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GERMANY is par excellence the toy
producing country. There is toy fac
tory in Silesia which has been going on
for fifty years
THE condor scars higher than any
other bird, spending nine-tenths of its
time floating in the rarifed atmosphere
at distance OF three miles above sea
level
IL London . rat cleverly opened .
blackbird's cage, presumably TO feast
on the birdseed- The bird flew away
and the door closed This time the rat
was unable to open It
AN immense glacial field is said TO
have been found in central Idaho which
will probably cover an area nearly as
large, though not as thick. as the great
glacial field of the Alps
A FEATURE of picnic at Fsrmin gton,
Ne. was the reading of one of Edw in
Arnold's poems. whereat local news
paper is much elated and declares that
Pennington is ''one OF the few spots on
Gods earth where picnjc is nosinva-
riAbiy axsociesed with heex."
The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-10-20
HOUSEHOLD BREvtTiES.

Cayenne pepper is highly recon-
meuded for driving away ants 1t
should be sprinkled around their
hRunts.
Rolled Sandwiches Easy made and
very dainty. Cut with q sharp knife
very thin slices of bread, spread lightly
with butter. roll up, tie with narrow
ribbons in pink. blue and yellow. and
cut the desired length.-N Y. Observer
To make . toast poultice' for
The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-10-20
Tho Improvement. OF Temper

II happily we are born of good ma
ture; if liberal education has formed
in us agenerous temper and disposition,
wel-regulated appetites, and worthy
inclinations, 'tis well for us, and SO
indeed we esteem it But who is there
endeavoring to give these to himself, or
to advance his portion of happiness in
this kind? who thinks of improving. or
so much as of preserving his share in
the world where 1t must of necessity
run so great hazard and where we
know an honest nature is so easily cor
rupted? All other things relating to
US are preserved with care. and have
some art or economy belonging to them:
this. which is nearest related to US. and
on which our happiness depends. is
alone committed to chance. And tenn
per is the only thing ungoverned.
whilst it governs ali the rest-Detroit
Free Press
The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-10-20
He Had Claims-"Hold on!-

He Had Claims. Hold on!- ex-
claimed the policeman at the gate
GU can't come in here unless you're a
reporter. I'm next door TO being a
reporter hotly answered the man who
was struggling to get in Reporter
lives in fat adjoining mine" But he
was carried out, still kicking Chicago
Tribune.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-10-20

cylinders. which were put In stone lara
These records were lately unearthed ~
Rabvlon
The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-10-20
w. WILLIAMS,

119 East Douglas Ave, Wichita Kaps.
wholesale and Retail Gun Desier.
Sporting Powder in lots OF four Kegs
81 25 per ksg. +. q. d, Wichita
The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-10-20

England purchased It In Prussis, allow
ing the original ewner s5. 900 for his
treasure. Think of II, SIS. 800 for Q
cherry seed.-Chicags Herald.