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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-27
WAYSlDE GLEANINGS.

The total production of manufactured
silk in the world per annum is estimated
at a value of e64, OO0,0 900, and of this at least
Ga, 000, 600 is produced in France.
The street car conductors of Berlin re-
ceive only 6215 cents for a days wages Of
eighteen hours, with half days holiday
once in every two weeks. Nothing but the
most absolute economy enables them to
live.
For several hundred years. and down to
a comparatively recent date, money was
coined at from twenty-five to thirty differ
ent cities in France that had inherited the
privilege. Now all French money is coined
at the Paris mint.
AS far as is known at the present time
there are but nine words which end in
"dous." Thay are: Tremendous, amphib-
odous, hazardous, ap0dous, pteropodous,
cephalodous, gasteropodous, stupendous
and gastropodous
The ninth of the ninth month in Corea is
celebrated as the autumnal equinox, when
the swallows fly homeward to the king in
the south country. The chrysanthemum
flower opens this day, and is put in the wine
cup to flavor the drink.
There are 100000 Mohammedans In
Austria, and their women will receive
only women physicians. This has led the
Austrian minister of finance to recommend
to the government that women be allowed
to practice medicine generally.
There are 536 authorized guides in the
Alps. One hundred and ninety-four Of
them have taken regular course of in
struction in their profession and have re-
ceived diplomas. Thirty-five of them are
between sixty and seventy years of age and
six are over seventy.
The varieties of money in existence in
the United States are gold coin, silver coin,
gold certificates silver coin certificates,
Greenbacks, national bank notes and the
new treasury notes or silver bullion GER
tifcates of 1890. These are the sorts of
money of denominations of one dollar or
over and do not include fractional silver.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-27
Items About shoes.

Evening shoes are more often than net
made of the same material as the dress
they are destined TO be worn with. The
trimming runs TO embroidery rather than
10 bows and buckles. \ pretty shoe, called
the Hussar, is black patent leather slashed
with gold, blue or bright red. Velvet shoes
may be commended to those who prefer to
study comfort before appearance. Morocco
shoes with Jet butterflies on the toes may
be had in bright red, light blue old gold
and in gray. A sstin shoe. which is just as
piQuaat a Il l. preJtl. nGs rather high
front, embroidered or both sides, and long
silk laces that are twisted several times
around the ankle and tied ina bow. Another
example in satin is covered with a fine net
work Of gold. 1t Is Just the sort of shoe TO
wear with a dance dress.
The shape OF the hand Is taken as a guide
TO character; 50 the shape of the foot should
be. Quick wiJJed, spriga,ly women ara
never fiat footed; dun ones generally are.
Flat feet are not pretty. bur they may ne
improved By instep pads. These can be had
at any bootmaker's. The smaItest boots
are patent leather and glove kid. with
pointed toes, and are much archvd beneath
the insJep. SpaUS and g2iter> are to bs much
worn with shoes. They are made IN several
shades OF tan, IN black and in dark blue
dare say they are comfortable, but they
make the ankles look big aud clumsy.
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A curious story is told in New Albany.
On the night of Dec. ? Mrs. Sophia
Scharf, wife of Anton Scharf. died al
her home in East Fifth and Spring
streets, and the funeral took place sev.
eral days after. The next Saturday, it
is alleged, Mrs. Frank Zoeller, a daugh
ter-in-law of the dead woman, residing
on East Eighth and Sycamore streets
was surprised TO observe a perfect rep
resentation of the head of her mother
in-law at the window of her house. The
apparition was afterward seen by Mrs.
Peter Weinman, Fritz Weinman, tive
daughters of Officer Dennis Gleason anc
several others.
After the second visit a perfect picture
of the deceased was left on the window
pane. Several persons, 1t is claimed, at
tempted to rub it off, but the picture re-
manned until Saturday evening, when
Joseph Scharf, a son of the dead woman,
who had just arrived from the far west
having been called to his mothers
funeral, passed his handkerchief over it
when it disappeared The case is ex-
citing considerable comment in that
part of the city in which it occurred
Louisville Courier-JournaL
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sided within the same walls. There could
not have been less than hundred rooms
in the building, and all were apparently
finished in careful style. Some of them
must have been completely dark, for there
was no evidence of their having either
doors or windows leading outside through
which daylight could come, the only
means of communicating with them being
through the adjoining rooms.
1--WE will stop here tonight" / said to
the guide as babe him lariat the horses
near the ruins. When the animals were
cared for we shouldered picks and shovels
and together started to explore this city Of
the dead
All over the ground, around and through
the ruins, were scattered numberless frag-
ments of pottery of highly artistic char
acter of design and decoration, but i ex-
perienced little satisfaction in gathering
these odd scraps and pieces l hungered
for something more substantial
In the inner court of the large building
which have described, this court being a
rectangular area of 100 by $50 feet. | ex-
pected TO find some more perfect specimens
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-27
Roll n Pumpkin.

Rev. Mr.. Haynes, one of the pioneer min
listers of Rutland, VT, was famous for his
pithy sayings. At one time, according to
Royal Tyler, ne overheard his daughter
and some young friends criticising certain
neighbors more severely than was pleasing
to him, whereupon he proceeded to read
them n lecture on the sinfulness of scandal.
'But, father" demonstrated his daughter,
1--WE must say something"
IF you can do nothing better" retorted
Mr.. Haynes dryly, get a pumpkin and
roll it about That will be at least limo
cent diversion"
Not long afterward conference Of min
listers met at his house. During the even
ing an earnest discussion of certain points
of doctrine arose, aud from the lofty pitch
of some Of the voices it seemed as if a part
of the disputants, at least, were in danger
of losing their temper.
At that juncrure Mr. Haynes daughter
quietly entered the room, barring huge
yellow pumpkin. She put it down in front
of her father and said:
There, father, roll it about; roll It
about"
Mr.. Haynes was called upon for an ex-
PLANTATION and good humor was restored.
At another time g revival was in prog
ress in the parish. and some of the young
zealots were ridicuIed They went to Mr..
Haynes and complained Of certain scanda-
lous reports which had been circulated
II knew all this before" said Nh
Haynes.
why did you not tell us''' cried one Of
the young persons IN an injured tone.
Why? Ny dear friends, said the cid
minister, MS eyes :wiDkling, because il is
best 70 let satan carry bis own mail nd
pay his own postage. Youths Compzn-
ion
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FEMININE FANclES.

DR.. Helen Druskoviteh, the first woman
IN Austria to follow course Of philosoph-
icai studies, hzs lost her reason from over
work.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is ever On tire cut
look for a new and subtle odor. Her favor
tie IS Chypre She is also fond OF Wild
olive. sweet orchid and earnation-
Mrs Margaret r. Elliott holds the dis
tinctjcn OF being the only woman in the
ministry Of the Congregational body II
Wisconsin She is pastor OF a church in
Birnamwood
The Baroness de Stuers - a tai and
beautifully formed woman, With a piezs-
ing but not handsome face. With blue eyes
and possessed Of luxUriant chestnut brown
hair She : about forty years cid
Nine. Nou;t. wife Of TIE Gillian minister
in W1sainy coa, : SID 90 - charming
woman, AID when she has obtained a bes-
ter command q the English language - =
expected that she viii prove an ATTRACTIVE
figure n society ae tie eSpGiaL
LzGy Russell i oEl3 ? twenty -tso, bat si.e
has rad considerable society exVc r8eaes.
She has had an artiye training and IS fond
o1 S2ozsz u-LE2n : Lad Gar rslsicx . hc-ss
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FIN, FEATHER AND FUR.
The skate is adapted to warm waters.

The skate is adapted to warm waters.
Canary birds have been known to live
twenty-one years.
All the varieties of the tame duck are de-
scended from the wild mall, and which,
though timid, is easily domesticated.
The creature having the greatest num-
Der of distinct eyes is the chiffon, species
of mollusk, in the shell of which has been
found as many as 11,0O0 separate and dis
tinct eyes.
A cribo snake Is one of the interesting
pets at the Central park (New York; me-
nagerie 1t has taste for devouring othe.
snakes and it is feared by them ali. even
the poisonous.
The descendants of a single wasp num-
Der as many as $4,000 in one season. No
vember is the fatal month which kills
them all off, except two or three females,
on whom depends the perpetuation Of the
race.
The latest and rarest arrival at the 70
illogical gardens in Regents park, London,
is what Is considered tae only living speci-
men of the hairy cared rhinoceros. There
are six species of this animal now extant,
and Mr.. Bartlett, the son Of the well
known superintendent Of the gardens, be-
lieves that be has discovered seventh in
the island Of Borneo, in a region compare
lively unknown TO biologists.
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SPECIMENS OF RARTuEywARR


of the workmanship of the people, and in
this was not disappointed. In about the
center of the court there was circular de-
preston of twenty feet in diameter. prob
ably the site of former fountain basin or
reservoir This basin was filed nearly to
the top with dust and debris, and started
carefully to explore the depths. Each
shovelful of earth was lifted as cautiously
as though it had been eggs. for fear of
striking and breaking some precious speci-
men. For depth of four feet l dug, pa
tiently and with expectations at the high
est pitch, and then reached the layer Of
fine earth and debris which had accumu-
lated while the reservoir sill contained
water, and few inches beneath this was
the well cemented rock lining of the basin.
My spade had hardly grated upon these
stones when it turned up few fragments
of pottery, and mixed with these was one
of the rareSt of relics--a chisel of copper,
highly tempered, so as to be quite as serv-
iceable as our steel implements of today.
The very next spadeful of earth yielded
another somewhat similar in design, and
these were the only implements Of copper
found. But pottery of all sizes, shapes
and conditions came to the surface. Pots,
vases, cups, plates, jugs pipes and articles
of doubtful use were uncovered with al
most every thrust of the spade, and with
these were mixed arrows, spears, scrapers,
hammers and drills and other implements
of peace and war. When my back grew
tired with the STOPPING and digging l
Strengthened up and cast a glance around
the canyon. 1t sent thrill OF Joy through
me as my eyes rested here on the crum-
bling walls Of the great building which we
were exploring, while beyond, higher on
the hillside, rose unsteady columns of
stone marking the site of other buildings;
doorway of large proportions an arch,
perfect in outline and construction, and
many additional relics of the work of that
forgotten people, showing their perfect &C
quaintance with many of the higher prin-
ciples OF architecture.
was about to pinch myself, after the
orthodox fashion, to see If all this was real,
when its entire reality was demonstrated
by vigorous volley of oaths from the
guide, standing in the doorway of one of
the small rooms opening into the court
where was digging. Dig for nothing"
he said with disgust; might have save
work. Come here" ! went hastily to the
room he indicated, and found the Aoor al
most hidden by the finest specimens of pot
terry have ever seen There we've exqui-
sitely decorated jars, three feet tall and
beautifully proportional, as perfectly pre-
served as the china just turned from tho
hands of modern potters. One of the lost
arts rests snugly in the interior lining OF
these mammoth jars, for they have been
glazed and decorated in a manner and by
a method which makes the modern pot
tiers own themselves worsted. The glazing
of these pieces was hard, faultless and
beautifully tinted, and as perfect in it's
preservation as the day it was put on by
the hand of the patient workman.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-27
A SAFE NOVEL
with Interpoiated Notes by Our Own Legal
Adviser.
CHAPTER l.
TIE LOVERS PARTING.

THE LOVERS PARTING.
The sun was setting behind the towersof
the church of Observation-Disclosures Driblet.
ct must be clearly and distinctly under
stood that this village is not intended to re-
fer TO any parish with the word green"
introduced in the title, all incumbents of
such ivings being the most honorable and
distinguished of men,
Two persons were bidding each other
adieu. The first was q man in the prime
of life wearing suit of tweeds.
please note that the name of the tailor
Is not given, and it is not to be assumed for
a single moment that this refers To any in
dividual in particularly
The girl, for she was only girl, wore a
costume of almost puritanical simplicity.
again no dressmaker is singled out for
discussion. 1t is purely fancy portrait)
They were both in tears. For the hour
had come for their parting.
ct is necessary to state that by part
ing" no reference is made TO any existing
firm of hair dressers.)
For a moment they were silent, watching
PhUbus as be descended in his glory of
purple and gold.
Crhis refers to the mythical god Of day.
and is not to be confounded with member
Of a well known firm of manufacturers of
blacking)
Then they spoke to each other.
'Zozimus," she murmured softly, land
IS this our last meeting?"
(The name of Zozimus was selected for
the hero because it is an uncommon one
and consequently unlikely to be confound-
ed with any more frequently used designa-
ton. If by an unlucAy chance there is
Zozimus he is assured that the coincidence
is purely accidentally
81 am afraid it must be so, my Zulu
wolfa," was the heartbroken response.
again the name has been chosen on the
same lines as in the selection of Zozimus,
and the explanation above given may be
taken as having reference to both.)
And so you are going across the sea in
boat?" she queried, trying to smile in
spite Of her binding tears.
(No boat in particular is intended, and
we have the authors authority for saying
that he has the greatest respect for every
official connected with the shipping inter
est
eyes" he returned sadly, SIT is my IA
theirs wish, and trust that in new world
l shall find greater prosperity than have
OCSn otl'l0 W aCntSFc III ucdE
(No reference is made in the above to any
weekly publications, although, perhaps,
The World and England may have been
taken as titles for Saturday journals. Be
fore passing this passage we received the
assurance of the author that he felt the
deepest esteem for the editors of the PERI
odicals thus inadvertently mentioned)
well, my beloved, you will soon see me;
and, dead or alive, | shall be by your side
in the spirit"
(This passage is not intended to single
out any particular firm of distillers)
1--WE shall meet again." he cried, press
ing her frail form to his breast. Indeed
we shall meet again"
ct must not be assumed that there has
been misprint in the above passage, and
that reference is made to any particular
firm of butchers)
And so they partedi
(To be continued in our next. after con-
sultation with our solicitor. Punch.
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PHILOSOPHICAL QUOTATIONS.

1t is sometimes hard to distinguish limo
cence from bluff.
No man Is as tragic in his troubles as be
thought ne would be.
Every man in trouble feels that his
friends are not as Indignant as they should
be
Men are ike little boys: they all Ike 70
have great big rag tied around little
sore.
When man has good chance TO make
money ne neglects it in the hope OF making
more
The man who can win the reputation Of
being able 20 lick everybody saves himself
lots OF fights.
There is one thing in which a poor man
has the advantage Of rich man; he knows
who are his friends
There is a lesson 70 man IN every trou BE
that happens 10 his neighbor. bat be Is
usually too secure in his owa conceit 70
see IL
Il makes no difference how worthless .
nan "a. his mother thinks i no sacrileRe 20
oelude the best girl IN the world into usAr-
ryiag hin--AfchEsCB G5iote-
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to perfection aud being able to drive tan
dem or rattle her dogcart over a country
road TO the delight of all who see her.
Miss Florence Kallocz, the pioneer wom-
an preacher of Chicago and the west, has q
study in the rear of her church that is
more like boudoir than the typical min
isterial sanctum. In it there are soft re-
clining chairs, a div2n covered with cush-
ions, tables laden with photographs and
bric-a-brac and book shelves filed with
the works OF noted women writers.
Dom Pedro's daughter, the Countess
d'Eu, who lays claim TO her fathers hered-
itary right" of railing Brazil, is most
unpopular with the Braziians She is
said TO be bigot, and has very eccentric
notions Of economy. According to the
stories told of her she used to scrub the
steps of the royal palace with her own
hands as an example for the encourage
ment Of thrift among the people.
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FLOWER AND TREE.

Yellow pond lilies make delightful pre-
serves
The flowers of the abutilon esculentum
are commonly used as a vegetable in Bra
I'll.
The experiment Of grating pumpkins
and waternelons upon peanut vines and
growing their crops st viii has been sue
cessfully tried in California
The famous Winchester elm, in Boston,
recently cut down. was standing full grown
in 1850. The last treaty with the Indians
was signed under it, and it was the last of
New Engiand's historic elmz
II takes long time for the cocoanut tree
10 attain its full condition of bearing
seven ye3rs-but when this time has passed
ii Is a mine OF wealth, aad happy Is he who
can call plantation Of 100 acres his own
The three eolors. red, blue and yellow,
never appear in the same species Of flower;
any two may exist, but never the third
Thus we have the red and yellow roses
but no blue, red and blue verbenss, but 10
yellow; yellow and blue in the various
members Of the viola fanlily-as P2asies,
for instance-but 40 red: red and yellow
giSdioll. bat no biCe, and SO ca
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POWDER AND BALL.

The Indians in the United States service
are said to make very satisfactory cavalry
men. They obey orders well, and their
general behavior is good.
In the Austrian army suicides average
10000 year. This does not include fooled
attempts and it represents 20 per cent. of
the general mortality among Austrian sol
diers.
Five great English warships are now de-
clared to have guns which are unfit for
service. These range from 10 tons to 81
tons. The French T5-ton guns, however,
are said to be satisfactory.
Professor Munroe's smokeless powder
has given results that considerably excel
what was anticipated. With charges one
half the weight of those used with ordi-
nary powder the velocities have been in
creased nearly 200 feet, with no increase of
chamber pressure.
The belted ar1nored cruiser Rurik is be-
ing constructed for the Russian navy at
the Baltic works. She will be the largest
cruiser afloat when finished. The arma-
ment will consist of four S-inch guns, six
teen 6-inch guns, fourteen 47-inch guns,
eighteen small rapid firing guns and five
torpedo tubes.
A type of naval vessel suitable for river
service has been proposed She is TO have
1900 tons displacement and a speed of not
less than seventeen knots, with length Of
230 feet and forty feet beam. Her maxi
mum draft is not TO exceed nine feet.
The battery Is to be finch and one FOUNDER
rapid fire guns
The new Italian rifle is just short Of four
feet in length and fires smokeless powder
cartridge which, owing to its light weight
and small size, permits the number of car
tridges carried to be augmented to 100 The
majority of experts are convinced that the
weapon is TIE best and most destructive at
present existing.
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builded them and made them home! A
few weeks aEo | set. my feet upon the
grave of one of them. IL lies more than
q hundred miles west of the odd lit
tie Spanish American town Of Socorro,
n. NJ, and over seventy five miles from
the nearest railroad, up in the heart
of one Of the numerous short ranges Of
bleak pinon and cedar covered mountains
which run parallel to each other through
the southwest had heard in Socorro of
an opal and garnet field over on the west
ern slope of this range, which had yielded
some beautiful specimens of these gems,
and with my soul fired with the hope Of
finding some OF them for myself | engaged
a little Mexican for guide and we started
across the plains and over the mountains
to find the beds where lay the precious
stones.
We had saddle horses, with an extra ami
NAL to carry the necessary tools for digging
and a limited supply of provisions The
road for sixty miles after leaving Socorro
was straight and smooth enough, and we
made that distance before sunset of the
first day. But the next morning when we
got well into the mountains the trail grew
winding and devious, and the miles in
any apparent progress westward. Then |
halted my guide. Look here" | said.
Our animals are good; why can't we ride
straight over the range? What's the use
Of our following the wagon road?"
He was Mortified. The Mexican is nat
uraIly rs conservative as a Chinaman,
and he told over lot Of Spanish oaths at
the utter foolhardiness Of leaving the trail
which he and every other man who had
crossed the range had used since the coun-
try was inhabited. ''Pshawl Nonsense"
l answered in plain English; come on"
and striking my pony's flank l started off
OIL a sharp trot in direction at right an
giles 10 the trail. 1t was with a very bad
grace that the guide obeyed, remOnstrat-
ing at almost every jump Of his horse over
the rough ground; hut my pony kept well
in the lead and he had to follow.
By noon we had covered about twenty
miles of the sixty which interviewed be-
tween the camp where we had eaten break
fast and the opal fields, and | determined
to halt at the first convenient grazing place
for the animals. We were soon involved
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A soft Answer.

A pleasant faced ycung woman and hsr
husband took tbe.r seats At the hote! tahis
opposite 3 dsPrser littls dude fresh from ths
csnteT Of tie highest sivalizataon- Duviug
tie meal the husband requested the lftiis
man 70 hand hi1l something. and al Be r.
oeIge3 was q celd. rude stare ne wEs rad
II minnie AID $es sGoui u make few
reusarss vixen ais Nr,fs aid her hand .eZi-
j. or hrs arro-
Beat fienrT" shs ssid -p--'ovi -sgsir
Don Z TsT ass. s'teui5os 10 IL foz klaeT
yos sosisla'J exIscs 70 Gad svsrsilsas, a
sUea q sza4i T@sek42se-
Thco sler 5raepse ~ ire table sDo-te9 AID
the Little c1e kit tie Foo1zr