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

CHICAGO, Jan. S.-Two boilers exploded
tonight in the Warren Springer manufac-
turing building killing four men and in
juring two others, one fatally. The dead
are Arthur Hall, A. D. Bush, John Lee
plosion is unknown.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-09
IHE GRAVES CASE.

DENVER, Jan. S.-A motion for a new
trial in the case OF DR.. Graves has been
made, and next Saturday has been set as
the day to hear the arguments.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-09

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

The Lawyers Wade Necum" can be used in any
State and in any court. The most complete and
convenient pocket docket ever published, with two
indexes-an alphabetical index and diary index;
shows at glance just what date lawyer has acase
in court; keeps a complete record Of of the case.
Handsomely bound in flexible back a convenient
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paid to any address upon receipt of S107.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-09

War! on scrofula and every form of i'm
pure blood is boldly declared by Hoods
Sarsaparlia. the great conqueror of all
blood disease. When given fair trial it
will prove its merit
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-09
Notary Seals.

Seals for Notaries Public, Corporations Stock Com.
panies Lodges Etc. Orders filled promptly. Also
Stock Certificates for Corporations and Stock Com
panies either printed or lithographed'
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-17
TREAcHERous COIL.
Hunting Under Difficulties in an Irish
 Bog.

 - Bog.
 Snipe shooting on an Irish bog is an excellent test of gunner's skill and enthusiasm. In ''Forty-five Years of Sport" Mir. Coballis says that he was out shooting with Lord Gornanstown, who weighed two hundred and thirty pounds, and his agent, weighing two hundred and ten, when they came to a bog swarming with snlpe. :
 The walking was dangerous, for at every step the surface of the moss for fifty yards around rose and fell like a wave of tho sea.
 Suddenly Lord Gormanstown put his feet on tuft Of grass, and down he went upto his armpits. The agent shook with laughter which so disturbed the bog he stood on that it gave way and let him in up to his armpits.
 A man was sent to the nearest house, a mile away, for Q rope and the two heavy men, after remaining in the bog for three-quarters of an hour, were hauled out. E
 An experienced bog-shooter, if he finds himself going down, throws him. self flat on his side or back, and at the same time throws his gun to his attend ant, generally an unshod ''gossoon," !" who rarely fails to catch it.
 The sensation of being begged is very unpleasant, but if man throws him self on his side or back, there is strength enough in the peat to support him.
 One Irish snipe shooter, Mr. Foster, Dublin, was so cool that he had been known, when begged and going down, to kill a bird with his right barrel, an- other with his left, and then throw his gun to friend to catch.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-17
Willow Legs.

The demand for willow wood for arti- ficial legs has grown immensely in re- cent years. The funny men on the stage talk glibly of cork legs, but light willow limbs are more popular, says the St. Louis Globe-Denocrat. English makers claim that the best willow in the world is to be found along the banks of small streams in the southern countries, and there seems some ground for their contention, although an i'm mense quantity of good willow wood is cut every year in this country. Statis- ticians say that over one million Eng lish-spealzing men wear or walk on wooden leg5Sand this accounts for the enormous trade in limbs of this kind. The old-fashioned stump with an iron tip on it is seldom seen now. It was great success in it's day, and with reasonable care and luck lasted close on a lifetime; but it was too awkward and conspicu- ous, not to say noisy, to be popular. The modern wooden leg is more costly, but it is much more comfortable, and many man who is compelled to walk with the aid of one can give pointers in department and grace to others more blessed by fortune.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-17
AN INGENIOUS CIPHER.
How the Friends of French Thief Go
 Themselves Into Jail.

themselves Into JatI
 Some years ago the friends of Par isian thief adopted decidedly unique method of carrying on clandestine correspondence with while he was awaiting trial. One day the jailer was visited by the prisoners betrothed, who asked him to ogive her lover an en- velope. This upon being opened was found to contain simply small lock of her hair, around which was folded leaf of book. The jailer did not con- sider it worth his while to deliver this souvenir to the culprit, and therefore threw it aside.
 A day or two later similar inclosure was handed in at the prison gate and shared the fate of the predecessor. In the course of week another was left by the same person. This aroused the suspicion of the governor of the prison, to whom had been detailed the circum- stances. He determined to investigate the meaning, and accordingly first ex- amined the printed leaf. This he found was torn from a novel and con- tained twenty-six lines on each side. He then turned his attention to the haip and discovered that there were twenty-six pieces of unequal length. This puzzled him for awhile, and then, suddenly jumping to the conclusion that there must be some connection be- tween the numbers of the printed lines and the number of hairs, he laid each of the latter along the line of the page they respectively reached, beginning with the shortest hair at the top of the leaf.
 After changing them about several times he discovered that each halr pointed to a different letter, and the com bination thus produced formed slang sentence, by means of which the pris- oner was given to understand that hls friends had ascertained the day on which he was to be taken to court and were determined to make a bold att tempt to rescue him as soon as he made his appearance
 Taking the cue the governor adopted every precaution to frustrate the we'll laid plans of the outsiders; the attempt was made, and as natural consequence the conspirators soon found themselves in the same condition as the one for whom they had planned the rescue.- Chicago News
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-17
A Matter of Latitude.

E'The whole thing is matter of lati- tude," confdes an old gentleman tC Kate Fields Washington, and referring to street-car etiquette: In Boston never gave up my seat on any account. There is nothing about Boston wom- an-I say it in no spirit of disparage- ment to suggest such course. She lacks that sort of aggressive femininity which makes man uncomfortable when he ventures, further south, to sit still while a woman is standing. In New York give up my seat to elderly women CT women with children to care for, or with their arms full of packages. In Philadelphia vacate in favor of any woman old enough to wear bonnet. In Washington my place is at the dis posal of the vericst bud, and further south than that I never ride on a street car at all, as I feel that I must get up for every school girl, whether she has entered upon her teens or not.''
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-17
THE SUICIDE QUESTION.
4 Physicians Explanation Of the Peculiar
 tiles of Self-3Iurder.

4 Physicians Explanation Of the Peculiar
 ities of Self-3Iurder.
 ''Did you ever notice that as rule the persons who seek death and are res cued from the grave never court the so- ciety of the dark angel again?" ss
 The propounder of the question was a hospital physician, and he proceeded to explain, without waiting fer an answer, says an exchange.
 What 1 mean is that of all the per sons who attempt suicide and are foiled, but few try self-murder a second time. Probably one-half, if not more, of all those who try to kill themselves are frustrated. The percentage of those who leap into the dark river the second time is exceedingly small. 1 have tried to discover the reason for this from the lips of those who have gone through the terrible experience, but have not met success.
 Ut is queer that persons, after de voting weeks and months to 8 consider. ation of so momentous question, and deciding to end their existence, should, when fciled, declare that they were fools and swear never to do the like again. Yet this is what is done in a large majority of instances. Those who have stared at death seem to live life anew. The past is effaced-a new light seems to have dawned. The sum- shine is dearcr; the air is purer. It is the convalescent taking great draughts of the outdoor air with a keenness of relish that was unknown before.
 Did you ever witness hanging? The execution is impressive. It is ter rible to see a human life deliberately and coolly taken. But this is not the most terrible thing about a hanging. It is the recollection of it-the mental picture of the death scene-that is awful. So it is with the suicide. It is not so fearful to take a poisoned draught-to pull a trigger or take a plunge But to those who have rushed to death and have failed to overtal1e it the recollection of that race must be awful-and this is what deters rash mortals from second attempt. This is the only explanation can gather.
 'What do I think of suicide? It is moral cowardice and physical courage. It takes nerve to throw ones self in front of moving locomotive, but a human being that cannot bear diversity lacks the higher courage. It is rot so that all persons who seek their own lives are insane. E
 ''There is possibly one case in which moral cowardice is not apparent. It is in the case of the person who is suffer ing torture from fatal illness"
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-17
POOR eR.ER FEAR.
Ludicrous Results of His First Meeting
 witc aIac;<erel CaSlE.

LuiicroCs Results of His First Meeting
 witt, aIac<e-el CaSlz.
 A party of hunters on the Florida coast came suddenly upon bear prowl- ing about beach and gravely inspect ing such articles as were brought up by the waves, which were richer than usual in plunder from tho fact that there had recently been a severe storm. The au- thor of ''Wild Sports in the South" thus describes bruins treatment of such wreckage:
 He would first look at an article, then smell it, touch it with his paw, and finally, after deliberately seating him. self with his hind legs projecting in front, turn his head on one side and try to crack his new acquisition with his teeth. The burlesque gravity of his manner was indescribable.
 He threw away coeoanut as being too hard to chew, ate an orange with great satisfaction, and presently dis covered a small caslz, which he en- deavored to open. By dint of much biting he enlarged the bunghole so that he could insert paw. then he held the cask on one arm and kept the other paw busy in rapid journeys thence to his mouth.
 But this method of getting at the con- tents did not satisfy him, and presently standing erect on his hind feet, he in- serted his nose in the barrel and then his head Now, bears nose is so sharp that it goes through small place very easily, but owing to the heavy folds of skin about the neck, and the fact that the hair and ears are set backward, it does not possess the same facility for coming out.
 Bruin was fast. He began to pull back, but as he pulled the barrel came with him, and as he rolled on his back, paving Intellectually at it's convex sides, it merely revolved about his head as ii it were on a pivot. Then, alarmed by the sound of our laughter, he took fright and ran, wearing the cask on his head like helmet.
 Up the hill he rushed, lost all sense of direction and rolled head over heels among us. Picking himself up, he reared and began growing and waving his paws, but was speedily released by one of the negroes, who broke the barrel by a blow from his club and scattered the mackerel with which it had been filed
 The bear rewarded him for this serv' ice with a blow of the paw which laid him on the sands, and in another sec ond was himself stretched there by the discharge of two rifles.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-17
BRITISH COLONIES.
Space in Demand by the Colonial Cove
 ments.

Space in Demand by the Colonial Govern A. ments.
 The British colonies promise to be largely represented at Chicago. The amounts voted by the various colonial governments already nearly reach e75,- 900, three times the appropriation made by the home government-e25,00 ,000-and large additions will be made to this total when the other colonies who have applied for space announce the amounts they intend to spend. Canada, for instance, has not yet decided on her ex- penditure, though she will make an ex- tensive exhibit. The total area awarded to Great Britain and the colonies will probably be about 300,0OO square feet, the largest space ever filled by them at any foreign exhibition except Paris, in 1878 (S63, 600 square feet), and this will have to be increased by the erection o1 annexes or otherwise if the demands o1 the colonies are to be even approXi. mately satisfied. New South Wales has already asked for SOO,O00, the whole amount available, other known de. mands come up to another 0O,0O0, and as much may reasonably be demanded for Canada, so that total area of 500,. 900 has practically been applied for by the colonies alone, leaving out of the question the requirements of the mother country
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-17
The Boss Cum Chewers.

Boston can easily claim the honor of having the star, gunl-chewer of this country. They were discovered on an electric car the other evening, and the free exhibition of their powers in the masticating line was truly wonderful. They were two girls old enough to be young ladies. They chatted and chewed, totally oblivious of their surroundings, and cared little for the fact that they were the center of attraction for a car load of passengers. A watch was pulled on them, and it was found that they were playing havoc with the gum at the rate of seventy strokes per minute. They kept on at this rate for fully half an hour. Finally, when they left the car at Allston, the other passengers gave sigh Of relief and speculated on the length Of time it would take for the girls, jaws to become imperative from excessive use.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-17
Hygiene in EgHpt.

It is taken for granted that the idea of boiling water before using it as beverage is of relatively recent date. A manuscript, however, has just been dis covered in the khedive's library at Cairo which corrects the false impression. This manuscript treats of hygiene in Egypt and is the work of celebrated Arabian physician, Ebn-Radouan-el- Maszy. It bears the date of the year 46O of the hegira (1O6s.) In this manu- script it is said ''that the best method of setting water free from principles in- furious to health, consists in first submit ting it to the action of heat, by boiling it, then exposing it to the coolness of night air, decantingit, boiling it second time, clarifying it by mingling chalk with it, and finally Altering it through a porous jar exposed to the night air" :" Water which has been thus treated, says the Egyptian physician, is ready for drinking.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-17
Badly Mixed.

A resident of Titusville, Pa., com mitted suicide few days ago from a melancholy conviction that he was his own grandfather. Here is the singular letter that he left: T married a widow who had a grown-up daughter. My father visited our house very often, fell in love with my stepdaughter and mar ried her. So my father became my son. in-law and my stepdaughter my mother, because she was my fathers wife. Some time afterward my wife had a son; he was my fathers brother in-law and my uncle, for he was the brother of my stepmother. My fathers wife-that is, my stepdaughter-had also a son; he was, of course, my brother and in the meantime my grand child, for he was the son of my daugh- ter. My wife was my grandmother, because she was my mothers mother. I was my wife's husband and grand child at the same time. And as the hus- band of a persons grandmother is his grandfather, I was my own grand father
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-17
A Unioue Cane,

A Detroit man has a novel walking cane that represents the work of odd hours every day for six weeks. It is made of old postage stamps of various denominations and six nationalities- United States, Canada, English, French. German and Italian. It took five thou sand and fourteen stamps to make the cane. The face value of the stamps was one hundred dollars. The surface of the cane, when the stamps were all on, was filed smooth and finished until it glazed. A heavy gold knob completes one of the handsomest and most unique canes ever made in Detroit.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-17
A Novel Railroad Car.

From the timber region in Clatsop county, Ore, comes a novel notion of cutting off a section of a tree the length of an ordinary railroad cor, and then, with an adze and other proper tools, cut the door, in the ends, the windows at the sides, and make a regular sure enough car for folks to ride in out of one solid section from Q tree. That would be 9 great object lesson, and would give the eastern people a correct and vivid idea of the kind of trees on the coast
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-17
Japanese Schools.

Japan has now a school system some what similar to our own. Controlled by local authorities are more than 3S,- 900 schools, of which 26,C0O arc clemen- tary. The teachers number nearly 72,- 900, and the scholars 3, ,410, ,O00, or nearly half the total population of school age. The total annual expense of the system is about S7, ,O0O.0G0.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-17
A suhstftute for eorincs.

There is now imported into this coun- try a peculiar vegetable material from Gran, an Algerian seaport oh the Med iterranean sea. The fiber of this sub stance possesses the quality of being so elastic that it can be used as a substi- ute for springs and the like in the manufacture of furniture backs and seats.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-17

623 klaIto Building, Chicago, III. This railway passes through twelve states and territories, and having no lands of it's own sell has no oh; ;eet i'll advancing the interes's of any special locality, or in giving any other than ab s0lutely reliable information. IL realizes that th> prosperity of the farmers of the great south west means prosperity to itself also, and is thus naturally willing to aid the immigrant as much as possible.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-17
Apply for Information About THE GREAT
 SOUTHWEST

Where s ale geer df Fn nSfa G and f can be duplicated today for 50 per acre. lAEi,orc five tons of alfalfa hay worth SIP per Es tiCi ton, was grown on land the like of which can be bought for $I5 per acre. Where manE ethe5 Pg9ages nd sng9 .y swest bles netted large and larger profits than fruit. tkEi,a, o the summers arc cool. the winters es EiCi warm, cycloues unknown and mala- ria unhCa=d of.
 lAfaos.n there is the best opening in the world SsIOi for honest industry
 To W. F. WHITE, Passenger Traffic Manager, A. T. Sc s. r. R, R.
 Or. HENRY F. GARRISON,
The morning call., 1892-09-16
Berk eley.


At the meeting Of the Academic Council
on Wednesday evening tbirty-eight new
applicants were admitted. OF these about
thirty are teachers and others from San
Francisco, taking Professor Howson's
teachers course in phiosopy of educa-
ton. This brings the list of undergraduates
up to 5S7, and besides these there are some
forty graduate students This means that
the ATTENDS this year Is about 100 heavier
than last year. The eonncil granted the
petition of the San Francisco teachers, and
in accordance Herewith Professor Elmer K.
Brown of the chair of pedagoglcs will give
@ teachers extension course IN San Fran
cisco. to be supplemented by courses given
by the heads of other departments. A
regulation was passed prohibiting smoking
In the building or on the steps.
Mr.. Milo S. Baker, '95, president OF the
Y. NJ. C. A, has returned to college.
A new hardware-stOre will be opened here
October l by j. Schmidt Jr.. OF Dwight way.
Tonight the joint Y. p. S. G. Il. OF
Berkeley will give reception to the fresh
man class. A musical programme and re-
freshments will break the evening. Miss
Clark will render recitation and solos Will
be given by Miss Nellie Morse and Mr.. c. K.
Morse.
Yesterday morning the electric car
rounded curve at full speed, and by so do
ing. threw Mrs. T. III. Woodward, wife of
the departing Nj. T.. pastor, from the car.
Her injuries are not serious.
The University Alumni will give ban
ouet at the California Hotel. San Francisco.
op Saturday. September a. in honor of
Professor joseph lie Conte.
Mrs. Belle Spiro has been committed to
Agnews for bomicdal insanity.
Captain w. r. Thomas has gone to the
national mpment of old soldiers at
Washington, taking with him the accouter-
mepta n q carried in the war
Mrs. S. A. de Lorme was taken to San
Francisco Monday. She has been i'll from
nervous prostration ever since the powder
explosion.
The morning call., 1892-09-16
H00PLAl HO0PLAl H00PLAI
With john Robinson Under the Circus
Canvas.


Canvas.
John Robinson and his ten big shows
were strictly ''in it" last night. Everybody
and everything were in apple-pie order. and
the list of events was run off without
a break. From the second grooms In the
stables to Solomon. lusty and luminous,
everybody was happy.
The animals in the front tent preserved
the strietest decorum. The wary-necked
giraffe beamed down on the prairie wolf
the tigress coQuetted with his majesty, the
lion: the boa constructor winked know
inglY at ''Brer Rabbit"
In the big tent Solomon and company
were settling the fa;e OF the two-mothered
freak
Theirs Is a task as endless as that of
Sisyphus. Four times this week has that
case been decided, without appeal, and here
II was uD again.
The splendOr Of the big tent to the small
boys present was past all conceiving.
Three rings in full operation at one and
the same time! There were trapeze artists.
1ugglers, sportlve eQuestriennes. painted
clowns and lady snake-charmers, with
natural b0as
How could fellow see them all Mt once
1t was wonder that these beholders did
not grow cross-eyed.
Then there was that exciting race when
the zebra and reindeer thought they had
cold cinch on the prize, but the dromedary
bumped himself and won il In spite of them
No one bad expected that
And over 1t all was the glare of the cleo
tric-llght and the crash of music and the
dust of the arena.
1t must have made the older spectators
Retrospective, and mindful of those far-off
days when they stole from home in the
early evening and crawled under the flaps
OF the circus-tent-and were sent to bed
supperless for their pains.
The children of the Hebrew, Protestant
and Catholic orphan asylums and the Maria
Kip Orphanage will attend the circus this
afternoon.
Last evening a large number of people
were turned away before o'clock.