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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-04
Public Schools in western Cities.

In no city in the west is there sign that
public education will not remain the most
costly branch of government. There ara
two ways to look at such a condition, but
in my oplnion the TWO ways are not what
they are commonly supposed TO be- One
way should De 10 look with envy on the
rich, who thus may send their children 10
school for eight years, while the poor, who
must put their little oaes 20 work ar ten
der ages, foot the greater part Of the cost
The other way might well be TO commiser-
ate the poor who are deceived By septi-
mental claptrap into initiating the common
school system IN such a manner that al
last their snare in its benefits becomes
scopic.-Julian Ralph in Harper's.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-04

A useful ugtch charm for yachtsmen
and other mariners is a miniature ships
pinnacle inclosing small compass.
A scarfpin design is modelled after one
of the cherubs in the celebrated painting
By Raphael The elbows of the boy rest on
a gold bar.
Tiny bovknots of dead black enamel
trimmed with gold, with diamond in thu
connecting loop, are favorite designs N
mourning pins.
Knives and forks of silver in sets, of the
best designs, have the handles of large
graduated spirals or are perfectly plain,
with repouse edges.
Necklets ard bracelets of black velvet
powdered with small stones are worn in
England The name of the wearer In script
Is written with stones.
A superb piece of workmanship from
abroad is q lace ornament made of dia-
monds and silver 1t is caught on the
shoulders with diamond bows.
Children's silver mugs are perfectly
plain, with round, lustrous surfaces with
chased rounded edge. Anything more
elaborate has festooned garland.
Sleeve buttons intended for philopena
presents have one of the links shaped like
half almond, which finds its mate in the
links intended for the other sleeve.
1tyche, as they are called, are tiny vases
swung on slender chains to be worn at the
waist. They contain perfume in highly
concentrated state and are copied after
ancient Greek and Roman models.
Bonbon spoons copied after antique de-
signs have network bowls, in the center of
which is tiny figure. In the best silver
ware the surfaces are plain, highly pol
ished and With small round chased edge.
Jewellers Circular.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-04
Interesting Facts Relating to Sound.

The velocity of sound is accepted as LOO
feet in a second, which is far inferior to
the velocity of light. Fogs will retard
sound, while water will carry it. Those
who have ever rowed upon lake will re
member how easily the sound of their
voices reached from boat to boat, and DR..
Hutton says that at Chelsea. on the
Thames, he heard a person reading at
distance of 40 feet. Some extraordinary
instances could be deduced of the enormous
distances sound is said 10 have travelled.
Guns have been heard eighty miles dis
taut, and the noise of a battle between the
English and Dutch in 1872 was heard even
in Wales. a distance of 200 miles from the
scene of action
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-04

8unfswer Seeds Are Raised In Russia 70
Ofi-The Stalks Are Used for Fuel. ans
the Roots Make an Excellent Fertilizer
Could He Raised here.
The ground devoted 70 the cultivation o.
the suniower in Russia has reached 703,
40 acres. What do the Russians make o.
this supfower crop, Oil for one thing
Their mills produce 10000. $50 pounds OF
sunfower oil in year. and the product
sells for 81 ,6o00o0. Two kinds Of sun
flowers are cultivated in Russia. One with
small seeds is used for the production oil
oil, and the other with larger sseds is con
suTned by the common people in enormous
quantities as dainties, vsry much a. the
people eat peanuts in the United States.
The sunfowor seed Is used principally
for obtaining sunGower oil, which. owing
70 its nutritious qualities. purity and agree
able flavor, has superseded all vegetable
oils in many places Of this country.
In general the cultivation Of the sun
flower in Russia is considered to be very
profitable. At the average yield Of ] go
pounds per scre and AZ the average price
OF ~ cents per pound, the farmer receives
an income Of about twenty dollars per
acre. This income can be increased IN
those districts where the grower himself is
engaged ia producing the OIL from the
seed However. oil mills are very rare in
the villages, the farmers selling their seed
70 the oil producers.
In the seed growing district ~ saratov
there arc only thirty four village oil mills.
producing oil worth sc. go annually where
in he = a n Nss0 ...s.sL -
OIL Is Manufactured annually The sub
ssance remaining from the oil manufac-
ture, or the sunhower cakes. being used a.
cattle food, d also q valuable product
These cakes. however. have q compare
lively small demand in Russia. and are
largely exported 70 foreign ee1ntEis&. prin-
eipally 70 Germany ard England. The
government 81 Sarztov, for instance, ex-
parts about 2,0oe.0oo pounds u sgna0vsr
cakes 10 diTsrept countries. where some
more oil i pre~ssed out q them before be
ing used for cattle food
The s1nAover cakes form or - the
principal items il The export q RassdA
EIrT POE THIS coCXTEY
These facts hare prompted ConSul Cen
eral Crawford. at 81 Pe<s-sburz. 20 sersd
to the state department mas o< interest
ing information. fer be believes ''sbs sun
Tower Is capable of introducing a pew
element into the agriculture q n. United
States. and os1s tea; promises TO become al
important iD11zs;ry"
TIE stalk very often beng fhree inches
IN diauaster and about eight fers Ionz.
soEns.Inss barring nzzny hsAds. sone of
Which are Bsnre iAaa foot IA dizmsskz
o0nisin5EsS about 2 so SEEDS. &; i eTitIen;
tkat IN order . gFog his plant pEoaizhly
Z Is akrosarslT Fse1esarg 30 have vsry
fertile soil. rbieA - tie sapss tine mss
D. very corylp pat aod sussei-nt@y dseg 10
ss1ssa5n the s1aik ss.sh - rnoek IT, h>-st
soaI for tbs p1Tg<oas = ned q hlack iAsc
uixesl 18th .zad Or rsszsrr sol tb~
seesis grow Gss AZ sEssz1l. xl4ersass "a stssIs
~! r1Grc. hsaET Eo4 TseA sseds AZ %
i2--e4 Sc asEG-x ssg--sS-s As.- se-s azFs
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-04
WAISlOE GlEANlNGS.
Women load and unload vessels in Japan

Women load and unload vessels IN Japan
csc ports.
By the Law Of Belgium it is made a pun
ishable ofense to hypnotic person.
The largest umbrella in the world was
recently made for a west African king. 1t
is twenty-one feet in diameter and is af
fixed to e staff Of the same length.
The people of Rome get their supply of
water, which rs said 10 be remarkably
pure, from the Apennines through an
ancient squeduct that was constructed By
their forefatheTs.
Last year Persia was the only country
which appeared in the shipping lists of the
world as owning bat one vessel, and this
year it still occupies its solitary place, the
vessel-a steamer OF SIS tons-having
weathered sa the accidents of the year.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-04
FOOTlGHT FLASHES.

Boston is TO have two mere theaterS
Philadelphia is to have a ''permanens
circus"
Henry Irving has passed the hfty-fourth
mile post
Modjeska will continue &c play her rep
ertory next season.
Edwin s. Willard expects to be seen in
two or three Shakespearean plays next
season.
Alexander Salvini is one OF the best
whist players in the United States, and
also one Of the best swordsrnen-
There is Chinese thester in Victoria
B. c., where company of thirteen play
ers has a repertory Of 500 plays, and the
bill is changed nightly.
Miss Marguerite Fish. who was formerly
known in every quarter of the globe as
Baby Benson" has been playing with
much successor the English provinces
Macbeth has been a magnificent failure
in Paris The French tailors who COS
TUNED the piece clad the Scotch soldier in
kilt that reached to his heels
Charles FrohmAn Is row conducting
more successful theatrical attractions than
were ever handled before by any one nl2n-
sgcr, and his income is said 20 run up Into
the thousands every week
Hans von Bulow has resigned his posi-
ton n Berlin and will 20 20 live in Ham
burg. Tie precarious health of the Ia
nous pianist Is the cause o. his separation
from the philharmonic concerts Of Berlin
Sir Arthur SuIiivan is busy writing the
music for the new opera 70 follow the
Vicar OF Bray" a. the Savoy Grandy
has written the HERETO. Tire opera deals
with English country life in the Seven-
tenth century
Clement Scott. the celebrated dramatic
critic OF tEe London Telegraph, has bee5
presented By the pope with a special
blessing, signed and sealed az the Nagl
Can and inclo>ed IN a c2sket q lacquer
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-04
NI1filZ:sglr
LEAP YEAR.
Traditions and Customs of That Undated
HeirIoom-The Ladies' Year.

traditions and Customs of That Undated
HeirIoom-The Ladies' Year.
By an undated charter-an heirloom
handed down from generation to genera
tion-leap year has the unique and special
privilege of being the Ladies' Year" One
man among a thousand may be ignoran:
of this fact, but certainly not one woman
among so many. In the ordinary sort of
years men may propose and women dispose,
but whenever leap year comes around.
women have the right of both proposing
and disposing. Hence, in accordance with
an old rhyme. it should be remembered
that during this year
No man dares to say her nay,
Let woman ask him what she may.
For one whole twelvemonth such is the
license given to the fair sex in our own and
other countries, and, although it has been
more honoreG in the breach than in the OBJ
servance, yet ladies may very Justly pride
themselves Oh the possession of a privilege
which for many centuries has been gener-
ally accepted as an article of our social
creed A curious aliusion to this custom
occurs in an old work entitled "Courtship.
Love and Matrimony," printed as far back
as the year 1906; Albeit it is now become
part of the common law in regard to
social relations of life, that as often as
every bissextile year doth return, the ladies
have the sole privilege Of making love unto
the men, during the time it continueth,
which they do either by words or looks, as
to them it seemeth proper. And, moreover,
no man will be entitled to the benefit of
clergy who doth refuse to accept the offers
OF lady, or who doth in anywise treat her
proposal with slight or contumely."
1t would appear that in years gone by
certain precautions were made fer defend
ing woman's leap year privilege Thus,
should a young lady propose to a gentle
man and meet with negative answer
from him, the former, on exhibiting a
scarlet petticoat, could demand from the
latter present equivalent in value to the
dress she had on, however expensive the
material might happen to be. Country
tradition afirms that in some mysterious
way the vegetable world is affected bv
leap year influences, and among some of
the numerous items of agricultural folk
lore current in England. we are told how
all the peas and beans grow the wrong way
in their pods-that is, the seeds are set in
quite the contrary way to what they are in
other years.
In Belgium the peasantry maintain that
this year is not only too frequently unpro-
pitious for farming operations, but that
it the young of no domestic
animal will thrive as at other times. A
similar fatality, they argue, extends to
every kind of young grass and shoots,
which it is affirmed invariably become
either stunted In their growth or blighted |
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-04

and Damascene steel This was because
Scott protested against the atheisfical tend
ency Of the school OF dramatic literature.
Rosa Czillag, a famous prima donna at
whose feet all Europe worshiped a score
Of years ago. died recently az Vienna She
lost her voice and was reduced to such
poverty that she could not leave her room
wife of the original Prestidigita:or Her
mann and viii be buried in pauper's
grave
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-04

Ward Leader Billy, there's a new fam
;ly moved iae0 yoU- precinct. Better see
the man. We need every vote. and maybe
he's one u our sort
Heeler-Naw. He'll never vote for no
body.
Why noss"
Cause he's perfessor Of political science
in a college Them ducks never knows
.zAAa IL election Day. "-CA1caso lines
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-04
Great Battles of the Civil War.

The great battles Of the civil. war were
Gettysburg. Spottsylvania. Wilderness.
Antietam. Charlottesville. Chickamauga,
Cold Harbor. fredericksburg. Manassas.
Shiloh, Stone River and Petersburg Get
tysburg was the greatest battle OF the war,
Antietanl the bloodiest. Tine largest army
was assembled by the Confederates at the
seven days fight; by the Unionists at the
Wilderness
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-04
Especial Correspondence

belted in. Some of the blouse skirts
reach quite to the knees and others not
so far. The blouse is always open on
the left side from top to bottom, and is
fastened by buttons and buttonholes
and by a straight, round belt with one
large or two small buckles.
The buttons and buckles are quite
large and of rather rough, barbaric
make. The handsomest and most ap-
propriate trimming is very narrow
band of astrakhan around the bottom
of both skirt and blouse; but as this
would look out Of season very soon
would suggest the employment of two
or three rows of rope cord around the
skirt and one row edging the blouse.
The hat is usually capote or toque
made of the dress material when FEAST
Bile. The blouse is the newest garment
of this season
The blouse has this double value, as it
is just the thing for slender young fig
ure and looks equally well on plump
one. There is snug lining fitted like
corset cover, which is necessary. Other
wise the blouse would "hitch." The
sleeves are rather full and wrinkled at
the top and plain toward the bottom.
Dresses are seen now in which there
seems determined attempt to revive
the old double skirt, and these blouses
come somewhat under the same head.
Double skirts are not graceful, Lire the
plain skirts, with their unbroken lines.
The bell skirt is still made, but the
plaits are no longer laid under and fas-
tened. The back breadth is put on in
one double box plat, fastened only at
the top. which allows it to fall in a
graceful sweep, carrying out the idea of
the Vatican plat to certain extent.
/ give here such gown. 1t is made
of dark blue surah with white lozenges
as large as q Fifty cent piece. Around
the bottom there is superb rose plait-
ing of dark blue satin; the skirt is
not draped in the front and has deep
Vatican plat at the back of the skirt,
which falls with easy grace. The sleeves
are high and wriDkled, and the waist is
made by laying plaits up to point in
front and back to the neck. over
gimp Of white Grape. A belt of white
ribbon is twisted around the waist and
a Wstteau bow with long ends decorate
the back, falling nearly to the foot of
the dress.
/ saw young lady in the street yes
terday with dark green dress, and on
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-04
The JEWEL CASKEr.

Flexible purses have tiny watches set In
the clasps.
A sixpenny nail is the model for tooth
pick or pencil
A loving CUP with curved sides and plain
surfaces has Four handles
Antique bats and gindles of silver have
lost nothing in popularity. and bid fair to
keep all they have.
The lenses in a silver lorynette recently
shown are circular. The frame IS I'M
usually thick AID Is richly chased.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-04
One Book That Cost 81 200.

Among three or four wealthy New Yorb
men who write books for pleasure the phi
losopher is the queerest duck OF all. He
wrote volume Of 4o0 pages a few years
ago. He ordered siXty-fvc copies and then
didn't like IL. lie had sixty-four destroye6
and kept tie other one. It cost him y so
Cor. s.. louis Globe Do;nocrS.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-04
Minciuc Lane.

The name "alincing" lane, given TO one
OF the London streets, is a corruption OF
Mynchen lane, so called from the tene-
ments held by the mynchens or Nuns Of
st. Helen's. in Bishopsgate street Mini
can is the Saxon for nun; mincheny, a
nunnery
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-04

the back of the
neck was fas-
tened a Vatican
bow of dark red
ribbon, which
futtered wildly
in the wind and
in one instance
tapped around
another woRsn's
neck. And she
wasn't very po-
lite In taking it
off. | think it
startled her, and
then she became
angry that she
had allowed it to
startle her, much
as men do when
they slip down
on tho si6ax-a1E
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-04
ABOUT SUNFIOWERS.
POINTERS FROM RUSSIA CONCERN.
ING A POSSIBLE INDUSTRY.

Sunfswer Seeds Are Raised In Russia for
ofi-The Stalks Are Used for Fuel, and
the Roots Make an ExeeIIsn. Fertilizer.
Could He Raised here.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-03-24

WAsmNGToN, March 1.-THE following
Nermonters have been granted pensions [:
Original, AFRO b. Bowen, George X. Dins-
moor, Albert Burbank; renewal and in
crense, Warren Hulett; REISSUE Hllas ID.
Davis, Daniel CouShlin; original, widows,
etc., minor of William Ii. Ornsbes.
WAsHINGToN, March 10 9--Pensions have
been granted TO the following Nermonters:
Original, Edwin A. Howe, Levi Green; ad-
ditionol, Daniel Clark; increase, Horace
Trask.
WASHINGTON, March 20. The following
Vermonters have bsen granted pensions:
Original Andrew J. Dunton, Henry A.
Welmau, Patrick II. Mumford, James II.
McGuire, Ira IT, Hooper; additional,
Augustus j. Craue; increase, Eugene o.
Chilson; reissue, Elkanah 4 Lille; origin
al widows, etc, Rosotts T. Williamson,
Hannah NJ. Smith, Elvira Lawson.
Original Henry II. Could, l.ysander
Davis, S;olon Savary; restoration, LOWS ST.
George; supplemental, John Murphy; re-is-
sue, jackson Sargent, Patrick McGovern,
John a. Guilty, original, widows, etc,
Mary S. Blake, Saliua LsClair.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-03-24
SEALS IN THE CABINET.
SALlSBURY'S REPLY READ AND DIS
CUSsED AT YESTERDAYS MEETING.
Government still Very Reticent. But the
General Belief is That IL is Unsatisfac-
tory-The United States VIII stand
Firmly by its First Position,

WASHINGTON, March 22.-The entire ses-
sion Of the cabinet to-day was consumed in
considering the Bering sea question. Lord
Salisbury's reply to Mr.. Wharton's note of
the Sth inst, insisting upon a renewal Of tho
modus vivendi for the present season, was
read and formed the basis of the discussion.
The utmost reticence is retained by the
members Of the cabinet as to the contents
of Lord Salsbury's note, yet there is rea-
son to believe that 1t is unsatisfactory to
this government. The position announced
i'll Mr. Wharton's note of the 9Th inst. is
not, in the opinion OF the president and his
cabinet, successfully controverted. Lord
SalisDury's reply as to the main point is
said to be indecsive, and although he con-
tends against tho renewal he does not COM
nit himself SO far as to decline his assent
to it.
There is reason to believe that Lord Sails
bury suggests as a conditional precedent to
any modus vivendi that might be estsb
lished between the two governments that
the United States should obliga.e itself to
indemnify Canadian vessel owners for any
losses sustained by them in case it is decid
ed by the arbitrators that the United States
has no right to prevent pelasic sealing. 1t
is said that "A reply is now being prepared
in which this government will stand firmly
by its former position.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-03-24
HE USED A HATCHET.
A BOSTON MAN MURDEROUslY AS
SAUlTS A RELATIVE.
Five Acres burned Ovcr-Cambridge Car.
riage Factory, Dwellings and Stores
Burned whalcn Murder Trial Begun
at Pittshold.

Boston, March 22-Mrs. Annie Powell.
agrd 81. living at IS Rockingham place,
Roxbnry, is at the city hospital suffering
from numerous wounds on the face and
head alleged to have been Inflicted by her
brother-iu-lGv-. John j. Brennan. She
may not live. Her face was almost
chopped to pieces. "a hecn-edged hatchet
being tho weapon used
According to Mrs PoWcll's version
given TO the police. Brennan, considerably
the worse for liquor. entered the house
shortly before o'clock, Went into the
cellar and there met her aS she was about
to 20 up stairs with bod of coal
A hatchct used by ono Of the tenants
lay OH the floor, and Brennan, she says,
picked it up and approached her. demand.
ing retract'on of some statement she
made. She was not cowed by his possess
sion of the implement and the discussion
waxcd warmer.
Brennan. she says. struol, her over the
head. fclling her to the floor and he is al
legged TO have followed up the attack by
striking ncr twice more across the face
while she was PROSTATE, each blow laying
her cheek open TO the bone.
Mrs. Powell was not found until after :
O'clock and in the meantime she had lost
n large amount Of blood She was taken
to the hospital, and is in a precarious con-
dItion.
Brennan was found concealed in n house
in Nawn court. II" was taken into GUS
tody and locked up charged with ASSAULT
and battery with deadly weapon,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-03-24
THE CITY OFFICIALS.


Ihers CONSIDERATION.
With the approach of April 4, the tins
when tine recently elected aldermen will as
sumo the responsibilities aud duties of their
position, numerous names are hoing put
forward for the city Offices. Among those
most frequently mentioned are City treas
urer, e. d. Weller, The present incumbent,
L. Johonuott c. L. Miner and l.. :. Wa
ger; health officer, DR.. Crand..lI, who has
held tho Office one year, DR., j. II. Linsley,
DR.. 7. +. McSweeney aud Dr.. II. c. Tink-
hum; overseer OF the-+"or. u. A. Nu,nsey,
James truman, l.. y. Drew and Cats On
Stock well; city engineer, y. r. Dow, H VI.
Mcintosh and Prof. J. W. Votey. The term
of +. Ii. Parker as water commiss oaer OK
pires this spring and 1t Is probable that he
will os his own successor, though tho name
of d. ". G. Clapp is mentioned. Street
Commissioner j. q. Bacons term also ex-
pires and there seems to be no active candi-
date for the office. Charles 4. Allen, city
clerk has no composition anl his re election
is foregone conclusion.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-03-24
RECENT DEATHS.

Miss Sara NJ. Schoonmaker, who died re-
Gently at the residence Of William a. Ste
venson in Tyre, Seneca county, y. y, was
at one time u teacher in tho burlington
Hugh school. She was born Nov. l6, 1928,
in Rochester, y. y. She began her life
work as a school teacher when about 1G
years of age. She filed positions success
fully AS teacher aud preceptress in the
BrocKport Normal school, Leicester Mass.
kaukaSee, Ill.,, Ashtabula, Ohio, and other
places. \ few years ago ON account Of
failing health she was obliged to give up
her work. Miss Schoonmaker was mem
Der of the Reformed church OF Tyre.