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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
SCIENCE WITH a RELISH.

ONE inch of rain means c.e hundred
tons Of water on every acre
Water in which salt is dissolved boila
1t slightly higher temperature than
pure water.
TEE largest barometer yet made has
been put in working order ct the St
Jacques tower IN Paris. 1t Is forsy-one
feet five inches high.
THERE are said TO be more than three
thousand prehistoric buildings in Sar-
DINA They are almost c IN the fer
tile districts and built in groups, which
are separated from one another by vide
and generally barren places.
TIE common daphne grow n in Aowez
gardens Is one of the most deadly pois-
ons known to the botaniss. Three CT
four Of the berries will Hill . man as
quickly As stFychnine and ene has been
known to hill child in half an hour.
A PERSON who has totally lost his
sense of hearing in one car, although
he may imagine that the defect is of lie
tie consequence, cannot locate the d.
rection of sound to save his life. evea
when the center of disturbance Is quite
near him
THE perpen6icularity Of monument
is visibly affected by the rays of the
sun. On every sunny day tai monu-
ment has regular swing leading away
from the sun. This phenomenon is due
TO the greater expansion Of the side on
which the rays of the sun fall
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
A RED BEADED ESTIMATE
From the Kansas City Gazette.

From the Kansas City Gazette.
Mrs. Lease expresses surprise that of
all the congratulations she has received
on her candidacy for the United States
senate not one has come from a woman.
The average woman shrink sfrom such
caterwauling as Mrs. Lease has been en-
gagged in for the past twoyears. Mrs.
Leases sympathies and associations we
think must be limited to the long haired
men. Since life began the church has
been the principal instrument in the
elevation of women, and Mrs. Lease has
sharp tongue for the church. Next 10
the church the Republican party
has exceeded other instruments In
extending property rights and
suffrage recognition to women, and Mrs.
L. ase boasts that she pulled that down.
The average woman cannot he reached
with such morals, philosophy and
craftsmanship, as that the meia had bet
ter raise less corn and more hell. The
leading sutfragists among women can
not Join with Mrs. Lease because her
mouth has been aimed at all the
agencies with which they have been at
work. When the best side of humanity
maintains a unanimous silence Mrs.
Lease should take tumble. The men
are for her, especially the Republicans,
because they want to see the Peoples
party fad extended to the utmost alb
surdity. But the women do not take to
such jokes.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
INSTANTANEOUS PHoToeRAPHs
Even the Quickest Plate Requires . Den
nitc Time for Exposure.

Even the Quickest Plate Requires . Den.
nite Time for Exposure.
So-called instantaneous photographs
are taken in a length of time varying
according to the nature Of the subject.
For portraiture the magnesium flash is
so sudden that the pupil OF the eye has
not time to contract, but the exposure
of such illumination is so slow that a
rotating clock face with circunfer-
entail motion of forty miles an hour
gave only an ;ndistinct blur in the pic
ture. By the ordinary electric spark.
the moving clock face was photo
graphed perfectly, as was also an ex-
press train passing the camera (which
was travelling on train in an opposite
direction), at the rate of 100 miles an
hour. But even the electric spark
takes q certain and not invariable time,
and this has been investigated by Prof
c. V. Boys by means of revolving mir
ror, Three sparks were photographed.
The first, seemingly instantaneous,
lasted as long as 100000 of second,
and was too slow to give a good pho
tograph of a rife bullet; whereas a
spark made by other apparatus was
practically extinct in lilo, 900, 600 of a
second, and totally so in 1-1,ooo, 900.
The third spark was even more rapid.
By sparks of the second type perfect
photographs were secured of rifle bull
lets moving from J, 205 to 5000 feet per
soonn1
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
A BAD BREAK
From the Kansas Chief.

From the Kansas Chief
A. w. Smith has made one. He says
thai the campaign was all right until
the last week before election, when the
Germans and the railroad men suddenly
deserted TO the Peoples ticket. This may
have been true of a certain class of rail-
road employees, who are organized by
designing men, for the purposeof selling
them out for Doodle: but the better class
OF railroad men stuck to the Republican
ticket. But he is badly OF as to the
Germans. They stood by the party.
Look at the vote in Leavenworth, Atchi-
son, Wyando,te, Wichita and other
cities containing heavy German popu-
lation. Suc1 places were where Smith
received his largest majorities. The fig
ures show that Smith was beaten by the
class whose votes he was nominated for.
the purpose of catching-the farmers
The heavy majorities against him were
away from the large towns. Further
more, he was beaten by the counties
that sent up solid delegations to nomi-
nate him. For instance. Washington,
Clay, Republic, Cloud, Phillips, Smith,
and almost the entire northwest.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
OFF TO ToPoLoBaMPo.

The curious spectacle of seventy peo-
pie, b.fndling all their worldly stores to-
gether and migrating like one large
family for other lands is presented in
Kansas. The chairman of the Peoples
party state central committee in thl1
state took official charge of the exodus
Sunday, while the seventy emigrants
loaded provisions and household goods
upon train on which they will be trav-
cling for one week. They are going to
join the cooperative colony at Topo-
lobampo bay, in Sinaloa, Mexico.
There they Will try to realize
the coy visions of Utopia as 9th
ers have tried before. Topolobampo, it
seen,s,is but another Utopia. The mirage
of communistic paradise is apparently
full as alluring as ever. and sincerely we
trust the serenity will not be disappoint-
ed. Happiness is a good thing, and all
of US are free to chase it where it lies
just little ahead, a. the foot of the
rainbow.
But the Topolobampoans should limit
their expectations. Some gentle Proven
Gals, SO the novelist Daudet alleges, once
loaded themselves aboard a steamer
named the Tootoopumpum. and swung
gaiiy out to a Topolobampo of their own,
Most of them returned alive. But it be-
hooves the man who hazards new way
of living to be prepared for tumbles as
well as for flights aloft.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
AMERICAS POPULATION.
It More Than Doubled Between the Years
1850 and 1880.

It More Than Doubted Between the Years
1850 and 1850.
Our population was, when Nautilus
wrote, doubling at the rate Of once in
twenty-five years We have never had
uniform registration of births and
deaths, and cur national census Is
taken once only in. ten years; SO that
we cannot tell for any period the exact
annual increment of population or say
how much is due to excess of births
over deaths, ana how much to immigra-
ton. The increase in the last decade
OF last century was 1910 per cent,
and for the first decade Of this SO
per cent, probably the most rapid
gains in population from natural
causes-for the immigration during
these twentyyears was but sligbt-of
which we have any record. In these
two decades there may easily have
been. right along, As births per 200 in
haAitants, and not over IS deaths, Civ
ing a natural increase of more than s
per cent As the struggle for existence
increases in severity families diminish
In size, marriages are less frequent or
entered into at a later age and popula-
tion does not grow SO rapidly. Our
progress as a nation is greatly due to
the natural wealth of our country. ac-
@ording to a writer in the North Ameri-
can Review. Even now we have Of
persons over seventy only IA in 1000,
where France has 81, while females
within the twenty-five years of possible
maternity number Is or 10 per cent,
instead OF IS, which is the average.
During the fifty years from 1890 to 1910
our population doubled twice. The av-
erage per cent. of our entire national
increase has been 32.7 per decade ever
since 1890. Excluding the war decade
it has been SO. IS per cent. Aside from
the people who have come to us with
territorial acquisition, we seem to have
gained about 2.6 per cent. yearly ever
since this century began. Between
1850 and 1880 we went from %, 1e1, S16
to 50,155. 7S3. That is, we more than
doubled during those thirty years in
spite of the war.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
A MUSICAL MELANo

BEoxfSLAw HUBEENAH il an eight
year-old violinist who is playing in
Carlsbad with marked success The
great Joachim has declared that he
never before met such precocity.
THE Egyptians had operas and en-
joyed them. The first use of the term
opera Ia nlusica," which subsequently
gave place to opera" was in 1855, the
first "opera" performed being the ''or-
pheus of Peri"
JEvNY LIND, according TO n Boston
woman who took singing lessons Of her,
was great scold. Her temper at this
time was such that she would often fly
into great rage, and her husband
would have to entice her out of the
room to soothe her"
G. VILLIERs STANFORD has completed
the incidental music which at the re-
quest of Mr.. Henry Irving he undertook
to compose for the production of the
late Lord Tennyson's play entitled
Beckett" which is to be produced at
the Lyceum theater.
Rev. SAMUEL F. SMITH. author OF
America" (''My Country. IT'S OF
Thee"), who lives in Newton, Mass,
and does not look over sixty, though
really eighty-five years old, has in his
possession the original draft of that
song. It is on Q piece Of waste paper.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
A QUEER BAROMETER.
It II Made of Gingerbread, and II .
french Product.


A clever Frenchman, who has original
ideas on most subjects, employs kind
of barometer which may safely be called
unique. 1t is nothing more nor less
than the figure of a general made OF
gingerbread. He buys it every year in
the Place du Throne, takes it home and
hangs it by string on nail.
Gingerbread, as every one knows, is
easily affected by changes in the at
mosphere. The slightest moisture rem
ders it soft; in dry weather, on the con-
trary, it grows hard and tough.
Every morning on going out the
FrenchInan asks his servant: What
does the general say?" and the man sp-
plies his thumb to the gingerbread
figure.
Sometimes he replies: 1.-THE general
feels soft; he would advise your taking
an umbrella" On the other hand.
when the generals symptoms are hard
and unyielding the FrenchInan saliics
forth arrayed in his best. with no fears
fer his spotlcss suit or his new hat He
says the general has 30 far never proved
unworthy of the confidence placed in
his representation.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
STAND Up FOR ANSAS
SEvERY, Kan, Nov. 81, 1892.

SESERI, han., NOV. "a, 1919.
To the Editor OF the Eagle:
Dear Strive got left, but it will be
only for short time. Stand right up for
Kansas. All of Cleveland's gain is In
the mining districts and in large cities
and of foreign element. A low class
and free trade may be- good for eastern
cities, but are hard on western farmers.
Look at the produce market: Canada,
200 or 800 miles away from Chicago and
New York. and look at them here, l 500
or 1905 miles away. The Democrats
dare not repeal the Mckinley bill or the
Morrill, pension bill. but they may
mankev with both. Stand right up on
our record and the Republican party
viii be all right in two or four years.
Tie Democrats in Kansas VIII now drop
the Calamity party to help US to redeem
Kansas. The last election ended the
third party fellows.
/ agree with you. 1t is time TO do away
with so many unnecessary state officers.
and | voted for the constitutional con-
vention. Il. HANSON.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
LADIES OF ROYAL BIRTH.

ENTITIES FREDERICK owns . chain Of
thirty-two pearls valued at SITS. 600.
THE birthdays OF the king and queen
of Portugal fall On the same date tScp-
tember 2s). a coincidence that does not
attach to any other of the European
sovereigns.
THE empress Of Austria is reputed TO
be the best royal housekecper in Europe
Everything in the Austrian palace is
under her own personal care. She or
ders cooks, buffers and laundryrnaids,
and is constantly inventing something
new IN cookery.
THE full name conferred upon the
small daughter of Archduke Stephen is
Maria immaculate Caroline hargarc.he
Blanca Leopoldine Beatrix Anna Jo-
seine Rafaeia Michsela Stanisiaus Ig-
mar Hieronynus Camiro Catherine
Petra Cecilia
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
PERSONAL POINTS.

PATRICK GIBBONS, contractor on the
great Northwestern railway. is IN great
luck. He has discovered a fine grade of
dark blue marble in Snohomish county,
Wash.
GoNe HoAH, grand master of tho
Chinese masonic order, which has just
dedicated it's only temple in this, coun-
try in Boston. is six feet tall. dresses in
American clothes, and wears eyeglasses.
AUNT" MILE BOWIE, who died at
Washington, Ga, recently, was for
many years the cook in the family OF
Gen. Robert Toombs, and was with him
continuously during his residence at the
national capital
PRESIDENT CARNor has bestowed upon
Henry Harris, an American now resi-
dent in Paris, the Cross Of the Legion
of Honor in recognition of Mr.. Harris
numerous works on the life, discoveries
and times of Columbus
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHS
\ stampede ca.ssa by the Visit of . Fer
tune Teller.

4 stampede Cssssa by the Visit of . Fer
tune Teller.
Next" called the. chairman Of the
Free-and-Easy club that was holding
an impromptu session on the sidewalk
at the Southern. says the 81. LOFTS
Globe Democrat, and s"Andsome AIRY"
as II. Fl. Blair is called By his cronies.
came to the scratch Last month a
female fortune teller struck our town,
and concluded TO have littte fun
with the creduious. I subsidized her
and she promised that the Delpbic
oracle should answer &C nv dictation.
stood in with the photographer. and
from hts show csses and negatives We
faxed up spirit photographs Of abeus all
the manageable people in the place.
Then my priestess advertised portrait
of your future wife or husband, twenty
five cents But she didnt procure
them while you wsit.' She wgald gee
the name Of the applicant. report 10
me, and -ould supply her with tho
picture. The thing quickly became
fad with the young fooss, md shry all
bit. ! took pains 70 mix all the en-
gagged couples and TO give the youngest
dudes the ancient paintings that had
been on the matrimonial mariset with.
out takers for a third Of n century. OF
course. they kicked worse than all tho
bulls of Bazfsau. nut fats was iaexora-
bic. and the high prisstess protested
that there worid be No missalxe- The
old maid swooped down upon her pre-
destined lord and carried him 70 the
altar vviily-ni.Iy. and two Of the leading
society swciis swapped swccthearts
within q week Of the wedding day.
That settled all doubts Of the eracle's
forckuowle<ige and there was tho very
mischief 10 pay. Th. dudes rtaInpedesi.
young ladies cut their best friends cold
and soon-to-be b4nedicts sent chai-
lcngcs 20 their supposed successful
rivals. But just n tae fun wa. becors-
ing fast and furious snart chap.
whose sweetheart had been elected TO
become another mans bride. bought up
my Sibyl and che gave the whole snap
awsy. Dc3r@t a WOMAN. any howl They
won't stay bought"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
gh aalhia Daily Eagle: saturday oruro, gopebs

would be no sense in electing fusionist,
who fused for that very purpose. I'm
less the emergency IS very great. our
opinion is that the Republicans should
vote soiidly for a straight Republican,;
and II fusionist of any degree is to be
chosen, let the fusionists be responsible
for him. As a rule, it is poor policy for
party to assist in electing = man of an
opposing party 10 an important Office, in
order to spite or break the slate of some
other opposing combination. II fire.
quently proves a boomerang. Let the
Republican party maintain its integrity,
and If 1t cannot elect Republican. let
the enemy fight it out among themselves.
The Republicans will be the gamers in
the end.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
Foa DOCTOR AND DENTIST.

To TEE exclusive use Of white bread
Sir James Crickton- Browne attributes.
in the London Lancet. tho prevailing
decay in tects-
A PHYSICIAN in Switzerland declares
thas he cures certain forms Of throat
disease Simply br making his patients
PAWN Eeyernl times . cay-
TEE Harvard faculty has announced
tina. during the fsil and winter pTnc-
teal courses viii be given - medical
practitioners in meteorological ding
nosis of Asistie cholera Imported
germs viii be used
DIS. RUB,yEs and Fcrnieise. ~ Ham
burg, who have been experimenting 70
see II cholera germs can be transmitted
to tobacco. claim TO have demonstrated
that tobsecoo smoke il surr death % tic
bae:lli.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
As TO UNITED STATES SENATOR.
from he Kansas Chief


We do not know whether those Re-
publican. papers are in earnest OF not
who are talking abou. electing Demo
Cratic United States senator. IN order to
prevent the election of Peoples party
man. Indeed. we have not vet seen it
figured cut how the Republicans and
Democrats combined are gaing 10 cleo. a
senator. The Democrats. II TIER gener-
osity. gave ali tire members of the legis-
lature to the Peoples party. so that they
have not one for thoir own use. Two or
three straight Democrats have been
elected, with the help OF Republican
votes, but even now. according TO re-
ports. one of these il demanding that the
Republicans eject him speaker, in order
to secure ms cooperation. THIS IS lot a
very cheerful omen. as starter. II L
combination could elect ssach senator.
and 1t was thought 70 be the wisest
choice between evils. is might be good
politics 20 esect SOME suc.a man as M.
E sssington, Joe Lowe or Judge Emery,
who opealY iouxs.t fusion: sUs there
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
Take Their Kesssers 70 Church.

"Goins to church is q great picnic
down my way" says Nicaragua bs-
mana planter. II have on my planta-
ton about fifty Jamaica negroes who
are very pious and insist upon going TO
church regularly, no matter what may
become of the crops. Still, cannot
blame them, for every worshiper takes
along rooster under his arm. nurses
it through services at the Moravixn
mission, and after he has cleared his
conscience goes outside, where hundreds
CT cock pits are improvised and where,
Sunday after Sunday, rival cocks con-
tand in the bloody arena The custom
x universal. and every man has . roos-
ter, from the humbiest lasorer - the
grandest alcalde, and the whole Gay
after service Is spent n this blsody
sport
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
BUT shE TELks FoR PAY

The Farmers Wife. edited by men,
Der of the Peoples party. comes out
this week strongly in favor of Mrs.
Lease for senator. 1t says: 1.-The Only
objection that can be made against her
Is that she Is a woman. Ii that is going
to be the fight let 1t come, for there l.
10 person, male or female, who has
Teen engaged in this battle for human
liberty that is more entitled To and any
better qualified 10 fill the office as d
United States senator than Mary E.
Lease Of Wichita. She has stood where
the shot were the thickest, and with her
true woman's heart beating and aching
for the oppressed and homeless people,
she has plead for them as only mother
car S!ead.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26

If the blind voter in San Francisco
should succeed in multiplying the vote of
California by establishing his charge
that the Australian ballot is unconstitu-
tional. he will upset matters in that
state and cause deal of trouble. Every
body heartily sympathizes with the
blind. but their misfortune is not the
states fault. The Australian ballot sys-
tenn provides that voters may call upon
the election officers 10 assist them in
preparing their ballots if for any reason
it may be necessary, and with these it
may be done as inteiligently anu hon
estly as by the members of the voters
family, and WITH just as much secrecy as
for that. The complainant's point seems
to be not well taken and will no doubt
be overruled.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

AnEEscA produced ten million barrels
G. salt Last year.
THE fur seal and fr,r otter trade Of
Alasxa is worth sSos. 900 COO a yea-.
TIE people OF The United States con-
sumo, it /. sasd, 20. oea, 900 bottles Of
pickles annually.
SEv and vss1Aile hAlibus banks
have been found 10 the west Of Cape
Pla;tery, Washington
A nL<,cx Of marble Is feet lsus. feet
4 inches wieie aud fret thick has las.
Decsa ozzxrici in California
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26


Ii is announced from Topeka that the
young Democrats of Kansas are prepar-
ing what they term a Symposium OF
Democracy, - to be given at the Grand
opera house in that place on tie night
of Thursday, Dec l. The suggestion is
natural enough, though there is nothing
new or original in it. 1t simply means
q jamboree, with which the Democracy.
when successful, is intimately associat-
ed. They attempted the same sort of a
blowout in Leavenworth two or three
years ago, but the NETS broke it up and
spilled the inspiration, and Topeka is
said TO be a muca closer town than
Leavenworth. We only mention this 10
warn our friends, the enemy, of the pos
eibiiity Of the coming event.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
Sos oz.:. In. same.

Yes, he's fine enough iookfng
horsc." szid the prospective purchaser.
critically examining ,ic spirited tier
eugh5rsd again. He's notAsrx extra,
Of eorrse. bet hs'il srEyer III parpose.
thicx. And kis Tail IL zifzzfy doexed-
won't have - sc. thea ish snr1--
''czFisus shs-S about sAat .aiir' said
tss o1ner Of sle keyne p=.s.ns ne AMI
Essis gsosey hilsI IT'S cIwsys been
tEzss t5at length Hs never Bad ssy
Eaere tail lie vss born So
'-Bor1 sew e~hosd ths stAc- Then
] doa's want hs-a - Ery prsse. IN nos
buyi1y freazGz"-Chicas, Tr.txnA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26

Western Resources, published at Lin
coin, Neb., gives Ashland Wilkes, the
noted Sedgwick county trotter, great
senc-oif. 1t says: cat the age of 10
years he stands prominently the best
son of his sire, (Red Wilkes of Lexlng-
ton, KY who at the same age only had
one in the list. He is game, consistent
race horse, never knows
premacy until the last step is taken. :"
AT st. Joe this season Ashland brought
his record TO 2:174. With careful prepa-
ration the Resources thinks there is no
doubt that he can trot several seconds
faster
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-26
The Rorse Is 1e-Fses High.

Some months ago the Leavenworth
Times manifested some very strong Popu-
lis.ic symptoms; il went 80 far as 10 Coz
s;ruct platform that was practically the
same, IL many OF lis pronouncemeots, as
the fsmous 81 Lcnis platform, which it
kent standing in us columns for some
time, until near ths beginning Of the late
campaign. The Times now fe:cnss the
same platform forth again with all tie
e.ahonpoius Ct prevaiier. iehi'a
EA6Lg
Thas platform embodies about what
the Republicans villa have TO adop. be-
fore ther win IL NAV not be perfect.
but Ii has never vet been successfully
assailed. -Leavenxo TiE1ss.