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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23
sASEBALLS BY THE MILLION.

Made BY Girls Out of Rubber, Yarn and
Horsehide.
GLOW many baseballs are used up in
the United States in year?"
"How do you expect me to answer a
question like that?" said the baseball
manager to a Star reporter Some.
where up in the hundreds of ousands,
should Judge. Nearly all of them are
made in Philadelphia and Natick, Mass.
Two great concerns in those cities turn
them out and other firms buy from
them, printing their own trademarks
on the covers All the league clubs
get their balls for nothing. the advet-
tisement they give to a brand by using
it being considered an equivalent This
is an important item, inasmuch as half
a dozen baseballs are often lost or de-
stroyed in single game"
"How are baseballs made?"
They are made by girls. If you will
dissect baseball you will find that it's
internal structure is quite ella borate.
Around a spherical cone of the best
rubber is carefully wrapped certain
amount of yarn. When the ball has
thus grown to be about two thirds of
the size it is to be leather cover is
stitched on with needle and waxed
thread. Then more yarn is wound up.
on it until it is found to turn the scales
at precisely the right point. Finally
the outer cover of horsehide is sewn
on, and the ball, after being stamp ed
and again weighed to make sure that it
is just five ounces. is wrapped in tinfoil
and put it into a pasteboard box for
market"
There were no such baseballs in old
times?"
No, the baseball of to-day was not
invented until 1875. And, by the way,
the inventor never got cent for his
patent Twenty years ago base ball
was made with core Of Leaf her strips
one ounce in weight, wrapped with yarn
and covered. This was found too lively
and so little sphere of nodded rubber
of finest quality was substituted for
core. The trouble with a ball thus
made was that it could not be depended
upon for any given degree of elasticity.
No two balls would be just alike in this
respect, however carefully they were
constructed, and each particular ball
varied from day to day according as the
weather was dry or damp. The inner
cover now employed has the effect Of
regulating the elasticity of the ball, at
the same time keeping it compact and
in shape. Cheap baseballs are made OF
poor yarn and rubber scraps pressed
into pulp, the lowest grade being
composed of nothing more than melted
remnants of rubber shoes. "-Washing-
ton Star.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23

North Side Where are
you going. auntie?" Visiting Relative
TO tie dye-house Rollo eagerly
Can | GO along? Certainly" ION
the wayl-'Auntie, how many dead
folks will we see there?"-Chicago Tri.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23

Henry V. Shepard has removed bis office
from the fourth floor of the Sedgwick
building TO the rooms formerly occupied
by Blackwelder & Holbrook, Nos. 202 and
204 on second floor of the Sedgwick build
ing. He has houses and lots for sale in all
parts OF the city at low prices and on easy
terms. dl56tf
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23
Letter From an Artist.

Go to the School of Oratory tonight and
bear the lecture on Public Speaking. See
nd. in want column. DC BIZ
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23

Miss Myra, do you use cosmetics?"
''No, George" do You dote on phys
zeal culture?" mo, George" Are
YOU fond of ice cream and confection-
ery?' No, George" DO you belong
to cooking class?" NO, George"
Priceless maid. will You link your for
tunes with mine forever" mo,
George pharmaceutical Era.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23

Look for bill of fare of Metropole for
Thanksgiving dinner. do it,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29

Reed" said Captain Escourt; "she has
bound up the poor fellows leg, and it had
been too much for her"
"She has probably saved his life," NUT
tered the young doctor. "Come, Miss Clyde,
I see Captain Escourt has flask here; let
me pour you out sip, and that will proba-
bly, put you all right"
The doctor poured opt some of the brandy
and Miriam swallowed a little and then
again pointed to the wounded man.
"Give him some," she said, almost in q
whisper, and the doctor knelt down on the
sand to comply with her request
''You have saved his life by your prompt
itude and courage" he said, turning round
presently to speak to Miriam CLYDE, after
he had examined the wound; zone of the
main arteries Is shot through; the man
would have bled to death without immedi-
ate assistance"
Miriam made no answer; the brandy had
revived her little, but still she stood with
that strange look of fear on her face; still
her eyes were fixed on the wounded SOL
der
Presently an ambulance which the doctor
had ordered to be brought down from the
barracks arrived, and the wounded man was
lifted up and placed in it, and carried away
BY the soldiers; the doctor walking by its
side. Then Captain Escourt offered to
escort Miriam Clyde home.
''Let me see you safely to the village" he
said, and Miriam accepted his offer. He
gave the word of command to his company,
and then walked behind it with Miriam.
''How did it happen?" she asked, as they
went
1.-The poor fellow who is called Dare got
In the range of the fire somehow or other,
but can scarcely understand it, as be is
good soldier. though he has not Joined US
long; but some of my men are terribly bad
shots"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29
THE PILGRIMS AT HURDWAR,

banhinia It is readily recognized BY its
striking foliage and superb blossoms, the
scent of which fills the air with heavy but
pleasing perfume.
In the dense woods hide myriads of par.
tridges, peacocks, monkeys and all sorts of
wild life peculiar to the country. Even
the tiger is by no means uncommon. But
the famous man-eater is not likely to bother
the traveller, as the roads are crowded with
pilgrims on the way to and from Hurdwar.
A seemingly endless throng they appear.
Some on foot and others in all sorts Of
vehicles, or mounted on eamels, elephants,
horses or bullocks.
Virtue of the Water of the Ganges.
There are two halting places in ths
Keeree Pass, one, the Mohun Chokee, at
the entrance; the other, the Shoupore
Chokee, within the pass, from which the
road proceeds directly to Hurdwar, or more
correctly Hari-dwar, which translated into
English means "The Gate of Vishnu." The
town is situated at the base of a mountain,
on piece of land which was once covered
by forest. Nearby the great Ganges bursts
from the mountain side and flows IN broad
stream across the plain. Into it the faith
full Brahmin plunges, confident that the
pure waters will restore his failing health,
and give him blessed Immortality. Happy
he who commits suicide in these waters;
heavenly future is surely his. As result
the lovely stream is often filled with dead
bodies, fruitful cause of disease.
1t is to this point that the majority of
the pilgrims come that they may fill their
jars with the pure, sacred water and con-
vey it home. Often messengers in the pay
of rich persons come from remote parts for
the water. The pots are carried in a frame
work decorated with flowers and hanging
from bamboos which the natives carry on
their shoulders. These water-carriers en-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29
IN FAVOR OF THE BICYCLE

Force Expended in Driving a Bicycle Com
pared With That Exerted in Walking.
Pearson's Weckly.]
Comparisons based on the length of the
stride in walking and the portion of the cir
cumference of the wheel revolyed by one
stroke of the pedal are not very reliable, as
they vary with almost every make of ma
chine
The shortest way of arriving at the ap-
pro1imate truth is to compare the amount
of work actually accomplished in given
time by each method of progression. This
has been pretty accurately done, and it was
found that, while smart walker in good
training can walk five miles in an hour, up
and down hill, the same man on bicycle
can cover Is miles in the same time with
out incurring more fatigue. Of course the
same man doing his best at both exercises
can only exert given amount of force in
the given time. The only difference is in
the application of the force, and that is here
as about three to one in favor of the bicycle.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29

"Listen to me, Miriam. Sir James is q
young man, in good position; young man
whom very many young women would be
only too glad to accept. You have been
fortunate in winning his affections, and I
advise you not to trife with them.
Mrs. Clyde had always brought up her
children to obey her, and her manner to
Miriam told you this. 1t was quiet, but
firm, as though she quite expected that her
quiet, but firm also, when General Conray
proposed to her eldest daughter, Joan, then
beautiful girl of 20; the General being
fully 80 years her senior, and friend Of
her fathers. But he was wealthy man,
high in the service, and Joan Clyde was
given very little choice in the matter. Her
mother told. her it was an excellent match
for her, and one that herself and her hus-
band heartily approved of, and that young
girls Of course must be guided by their
parents
So Joan married the General after she'd
ding many tears, some in secret, and some
in the presence of her firm mother, who,
however, gave her no encouragement to
indulge in any such weaknesses And Joan
went away with her General, who was firm
also, and rigid discplinarian at home and
abroad; and his young wife was afraid. of
him, and not over happy it was said, but
Mrs. Clyde never allowed this.
"Poor Joan Is not very ng-minded,
she used to say with a smile; ''and she
needs guiding hand, and am glad to see
that the General keeps her in order"
And one daughter, according to her'ideas,
being SO successfully disposed of, she was
by no means pleased to hear that Miriam
seemed inclined to trife with her good luck.
Mrs. Clyde had never sought to attract men
for her daughters, knowing well that her
girls were too handsome to need any efforts
of that sort. But when their wooers came
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArCH.I
Nearly every day the cables report fresh
outbreaks of the cholera. Some few cases
have occurred in France, but they are iso-
lated, while in India, that hotbed of this
terrible plague, We hear of entire districts
being depopulated by its ravages
This year the chief starting point Of the
cholera has been the town of Hurdwar, a
most interesting place in Hindoostan, though
little known in the Western world. Regu-
larly every year about this time it is the
Mecca of vast Brahmin pilgrimage. That
business may be combined with pleasure
many merchants visit the place with outfits
of ware of all kinds and an immense fair is
continued during the same period in which
hundreds of thousands visit the place.
Every twelfth year the pilgrimage az
sumes an extraordinary Importance on &C
count of the belief that the spiritual advan-
tages are much greater in those years
marked astronomically by the entrance of
Jupiter into Aquarius or the sun into Aries
On these occasions the attendance swells to
1000, 900 or 5000, 900 persons.
Easy Victims of Disease.
As the town Is really capable of provid-
ing for mere 5000 or 1000 guests, the
balance are compelled to encamp in the
open air, on the immense swampy flats sur
rounding the town. There, mixed in tre-
mendous confusion, are to be found thous-
ands of Sikh pilgrims, usually entire fam
lilies, Arab and Persian horse dealers and
merchants from all parts of the Indian En-
pire, some with bears, others With leopards,
tigers, deer of all kinds, monkeys, Persian
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29

ioy immunity from all attacks except from
the thugs, who consider it an act of duty to
Bhowanne, the goddess of destruction, to
murder anyone.
The Town Isn't Very Pretentious.
Hurdwar is a small place, but it contains
a number of imposing structures. There is
but one street of consequence, running
parallel to the stream and composed of fine
houses, belonging to rich merchants and
Brahmins from all parts of India The
town is so situated that the foundations of
some of the finest buildings are laid in the
bed of the river. A strange sight to the
tourist are the troops of monkeys which
cover the roofs OF the houses. During the
fair the half-submerged plains surrounding
Hurdwar are covered with large tents of
different kinds, but for the richer pilgrims,
who have no permanent stopping place, huts
of thatch and grass mats on bamboo frame
are made and then covered with flowers, the
whole forming unique and rather attrac-
tive structure. As may be sIrmised the
noise is something deafening. As each new
arrival or departing pilgrim passes by he
calls "Mahadeo Boil" which is in turn
caught up by the occupants of the huts and
repeated on all sides, until the air resounds
with continuous roar of ''Bol Boil" As
soon as the pilgrim reaches the town he is
bound to press onward to the river.
Crushed to Death in the Street.
In former years the throng rushing
through the principal street, especially at
the time when ablution at the CHAT or bath
was considered most efficacious was often
so great that many lives were lost. On one
occasion no less than 700 fell victims to the
crush in the main street of Hurdvar. The
road has been widened, however, and there
is not so much danger as formerly.
When night falls the scene is most beau
tiful. The town, pagodas, bowers and tents
are all ablaze with lights, varied by occa-
sonal bursts of fireworks. There is an
other town nearby, Kunkul, but it might as
well not be there so lar as accommodating
the Hudwar overflow is concerned.
Under the circumstances is it surprising
that this fair region should be poisoned by
disease? The filthy, halfstarved, sickly
pilgrim who is compelled to eat raw and
often rotten rice in lieu of better food and
encamp in the middle of a swamp is prime
subject for contagion of any kind. The
wonder is that Hudwar is not permanently
cholera stricken. w. G. KAUFMAN.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29
San Francisco to New York

]. Edwin Stone, the pedestrian now en-
route from San Francisco to New York,
wrote from Logan, Ia, on his arrival there:
"Since have been on my walk across the
continent 1 have suffered greatly from diar-
rh9a through change of water. 1 was in
duced to try Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy, and say with pleas
ure that it is an article of merit and has
done all for me that it was represented to
do. Every traveller and every family
should be provided with bottle of this
remedy. 25 and 30 cent bottles for sale by
druggists. wsu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29

clothe. The Empress Frederick and her
lamented husband, whose premature death
was loss of incalculable measure to Ger
many, ever strove to live up to this high
ideal.
The Empress Frederick is the only royal
lady who really initiates works of benevo-
lence and labors like any common mortal
to put them into good working order and to
further their prosperity. Most royal peo-
pie are content to dispense smiles, subscrip-
tlons of more or less value, to lend the
prestige of their name and to preside at oc-
casional meetings, or to visit the various
institutions founded under their patronage
at stated times carefully fixed beforehand,
SO that naturally everything is in apple-pie
order whenever they come, whatever may
be the case at other times. Not so the En-
press Frederick. Whatever she undertakes
to do she does with all her strength and all
her might, and, active and energetic like
her imperial son, she too comes swooping
down on the institutions under her charge
at unsupported hours and times, and keeps
vigilant surveillance over their doings.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29
EMPRESS FREDERIcK's CHAR1T1Es

The Only Woman of Rank Who Is Thor
oughly Practical in Her Work.
1t has been affirmed, and certainly with
little of that adulation common in speak
ing of royal personages, that the Empress
Frederick of Germany is one of the most
distinguished women of Europe on account
of her true humanity, her iberal-minded-
ness and large-heartedness Ruskin has
said that the words rex and regina properly
understood, as applying to the kingly
function, mean right-doers, those who
direct and teach, as we'll as feed and
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29

'Do you think he will get better7" asked
Miriam, with quivering lips
''Oh, 1 dare say he will, though he lost a
tremendous lot of blood in minute or two.
1t was awfully plucky of you to manage as
you did, awfully! don't understand about
these things"
sI took some lessons at an ambulance
class" answered Miriam, in low tone.
"Well, YOU have profted by them. You
did it splendidly. You heard the doctor
saw you had saved the mans life, for I
expect he'll pull through. He's we'll
built Young fellow, and handsome, and
ought to be eternally grateful to you for
your goodness
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29
PUZZLING JOHN BULL

A Little Contrivancs That Threatens to
Rival Pigs in Clover.
John Bulls proverbial phlegma and all
the-year-around lassitude has been aroused
to almost fever heat by puzzle compared
to which our discarded "Pig in the Poke"
affair was tame indeed. The new puzzle
consists of glass-covered box, on the bot
tom of which is painted the red-nosed physi-
ognomy of sot. A hole in the bottom of
the box forms the mouth of this grim-look-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29
THE DEED WAS NOT MADE
A Prophet, who Had Arranged for the End
of the W orId, Cornered.

A Prophet, Who had Arranged Tor the End
of the W orId, Cornered.
A prophet, who has arranged for the dis
appearance of the earth from the solar sys-
TEN on April II, 1901, says Parsons Weekly,
was lecturing on the arrangements which
have been made to insure the success of the
catastrophe. A listener suddenly asked
whether the soothsayer was prepared to
hand over all his property to a charity on
the date mentioned.
"But," said the prophet, nobody would
be living to benefit by any money"
Never mind that, replied the skeptic;
may be useful, and and another gentleman
would be glad to act as trustees. So make
out the deed"
The deed was not made ont.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29

ing parsonage. The box contains also a
tiny bottle, and the trick is to bring the
mouth of the bottle into the facial cavity of
the man, as shown by the second cut. 1t Is
by no means easy to do this. A pretty sure
way to accomplish it is to throw the bottle
against the glass top at the side of the box,
and then incline the box quickly the other
way. 1t has created quite stir. and is GER
tainly proving q success.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29

SULrANA AWNINGS, new and very brilliant
at Mamaux & Sons, $50 Penn avenue. Thsu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29
AN INTERESTING SUBMARINE BOAT.

Bakers boat The three
cells
wide with machinery and bal
Ito of
shell
channel The
Of the boat service
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1892-05-20
paffl5a Wonderful CastIA.


The house in which Patti lives is one
Of the most interesting of homes. Craig
y-Nos castle, as the songstress has chris
tened it, is hidden away in the wild hills
Of the Swansea valley of Wales. 1t
would be one of the most inaccessible
spots imaginable were it not for little
railway which runs within four miles OF
it. In pleasant weather it would be diff
fcult to find prettier bit of landscape,
but in wet and wintry weather, when
storms sweep through the valley and
transform the tumbling little Tawy
river into foaming torrent. it is a good
place to keep away from. PATHS rea-
son for choosing home there was q
good one. The peculiarly moist atmos-
phere Of the place suited her voice better
than any other locality she could find on
the English side of Dover straits. Hav.
ing once determined where she would
live, Patti began to build home con.
sistent with her ample ideas of comfort
and luxury.
The most remarkable thing about
Craig-y-Nos is that such an establish.
ment is to be found in such remote
part of the country. 1t is very much as
though Jay Gould had built his Irving
ton palace in the heart of the Adiron.
dacks instead of on the slope of the
Hudson river. In point Of architectural
beauty or extent of acreage it would be
absurd to compare Craig yNos with any
of the great ancestral estates of the Eng
lish aristocracy. The castle takes its
name from a huge, i'll shaped hill called
Craig of the Night. To get around this
hill and make her house moderately ac
cessible from the railway station Patti
spent $20, 600 in building roadway
Florence Wilson in Ladies' Home Jour
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1892-05-20
Preaching and Practtc<.

They were two bright women-one
caller and the other hostess and they
had been discussing the value of tenn
perance in eating as means to prevent
illness. - go.
II do net see said the hostess, that
our boosted advance in civilization has
been anything but failure in regard to
the preservation of health. With ply
sicians better able than at any time in
the worlds history to cope with disease,
this sudden swapping of vitality goes on
all about us. consider it entirely the
fault of persons who do not take the care
Of themselves which their intelligence
points out as imperative. am always
we'll, but it is at the price of constant
denials Of appetite"
eyes," echoed the caller, lit must be
80. have to be firm in the matter of
ice cream, which, wholesome for most
people, is not so for me-"
The hostess did not wait for this
speech to be done. "Why, that makes
me think" she said cordially. II gave a
luncheon today and there is some de.
icious banana cream going to waste
down stairs. Can't you eat just lit
tle?"
The caller hesitated. Banana cream
is my weakness" she confessed, "and'
but tho reader can guess the rest
The health discourse ended in an enjoy
able round of banana ice cream, and the
caller went on her way boldly to meet
digestive consequences, while the hostess
took her valuable food theories back tc
her embrace prepared to air them on the
next occasion which presented ITSELF
New York Times.