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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17
NOTES OF THE FASHIONS.
Novelties Newly Introduced IA tho Depart
neot af Drpz.

Novelties Newly introduced IN the Depart
meat of Dress.
1t safe during this transition period.
TO have new gowns made with all the
fare possible about the foot and much
elaboration about the neck and shout
ders.
| A favorite ornament of the moment
Is a buckle in silver, gold fiigree, jet
or jewels of some sort. Buckles of this
sort are used on any portion oil. the cos
tune which affords al excuse for them.
A Partisan fad is to use fur as il it
were cloth or velvet for shoulder puffs
cuffs. gathered frills and vatican plaits.
Some Eton and Russian jackets are
finished at the edge with frill or puff
of seal, otter or astrakhan.
Double-faced shot ribbons in velvet
and satin are new, and one of the
handsomest of Virot's recent hats has
the shape stretched tightly with satin
in pale tint and adorned with black
lace, fur and ribbon OF this sort.
Among the new black princess
dresses are those braided In black and
gold to represent yoke or girdle or Eton
jacket and revers, and are given extra
fullness in the back OF the skirt by vel
vet breadths that form slight demi-
train.
Under the wing-lik revers that are
now so stylish and which extend well
out beyond the shoulders are full Queen
Anne sleeves, with huge puffs caught
down with straps or bands upon sec
ond coat sleeve that is buttoned UP the
inside of the arm 20 the elbow.
Pretty and dressv house gowns arc
made of plain French camers hair with
simple round waists, which have i'm
mense corded silk bretelles tina. quite
cover the shoulders and are graduated
to sharp point at the belt Tho coat
sleeves, which are OF the fabric, have
at the top large empire puffs.
Soutache braiding, messy ruehes and
plating of ribbon. with tied bows OF
the same set here and there. viii in the
spring replace fur and feathers Many
simple wool dresses viii have the skirtA
fini shed with rows Of ribbon velvet.
soutache, braid or gimp, laid straight
around the bottom above the hem--N
I. Post
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STOLEN FOB FUN.

sociations, but Just for pure cussedness,
as boy viii leave his fathers ripe
apples alone so ne can go and hook"
the minister's green ones He was the
most peculiar thief, too, that ever
puzzled the police. II came natural TO
him. apparently. in spite Of the regpee-
liability of his family. for he could lift
things out from under & mans very
eyes without exciting suspicion
VIII didn't keep the articles he stole
nor try TO sell them. He would get in
store at night and take half TIE stock
how he ever used to carry It all was
q wonderland then arrange all the
merchandise and stuff on prominent
citizens front steps lie would DO il so
carefully that il must have taken hours.
one night ne captured fifty or sixty
revolvers and arranged them along the
balcony railing OF 3 clergyman who
was VIGOROUSLY opposed 20 var or the
use CT any kind Of phE force He'd
take cloeks-coo1. big clocks, too
wind them all up. alarms and eli. and
set one IN each window he could reach
ali along street That tric& eft
lasting impression on the Lansing peo-
NE Tor Ia many waxe2 ua-Ei-s ne
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FOR WEARING PEARLS.
Il Was Penal orense Ia ysEIce Once
Upon n Time.

Tt Was q Penal orense Ia ysEIce Once
Upon Time.
In 154i the Venetion senate made il
penal offense to wear more than one
string of pearls, and that had to be of
not higher value than two hundred
ducatS.
Even this did not satisfy them In
1862 they gave the law corollary that
no women except the doge's wife and
daughters were to wear any pearls after
the tenth year of their Marriage: nor
were even young wives 10 wear more
than a single necklace of an outside
value of four hundred ducats. the same
to be duly stamped and appraised by
the authorities.
The Venetian women revolted against
certain other restrictions about dress
materials They were so angry that
they formed an alliance, and petitioned
the pope on the subject.
1t was the best thing they could do.
for his holiness, ever anxious to assert
himself in Venice, annulled the OBJ
noxious decree. which had emanated
from the Venetian patriarch.
Anon. however, they got to despise
the various sumptuary laws which came
upon them thick as autumnal leaves.
Nearly every one disregarded them
True, the executive employed spies
whose business it was to go out taking
stock" of the people, measuring with
their eyes the ladies' dresses, and guess
ing at their value. Now and again q
prosecution occurred
If the gown was at fault for its sump-
tuousness, both the owner and its
maker were fined, If a lady was found
with more pearls on her person than
was permissible, she was liable TO
penalty of no less than two hundred
ducats. of which half went to the in
former
But it was by no means light and
easy work-,his of professional spy.
The times had got SO much out of joint
that there was, on an average, a homi-
eide daily in the city-without mention
of the various disappearances which
often had a sanguinary significance.
A patrician might submit to pay the
fine for extravaganza, but il would
afterward be excusable in the young
blocds of the patrician's family If they
waylaid the informer and either perfor-
ated him with their raPiers or knocked
him in the head and tumbled him into
q canaL-Bosfon Globe.
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Oriental az Occ,3cntsl line OF SCAM
ships in a cler;ca! csreci,Y and dong
well. Re says Re likes IS, fc7s tine
people, and has Become accustomed to
the native foo&-not triflins matter
with Will by a great deal, as his his
tory shows.
Did you ever hear Of Hobbs? Well,
you did If you ever lived in Michigan,
and probably you have anyhow, only
it has slipped from your memory. VIII
was the confOundedest fellow anybody
ever saw. He came of good family,
had the best possible home training,
was sent to school, and learned a great
deal and all that. He wasn't a studious
fellow-was so quick to learn he
didn't have to study much-but he
always stood well in his classes and
was graduated with credit if not with
honor.
He was tall, thin, lanky boy, and
his physical pecularities increased
with his years. He was one of that
sort of fellows who could stand up and
put his foot over his head, or lie down
and touch his two heels together back
of his neck. He could take things out
of his lower left waistcoat pocket with
his right hand by throwing his right
arm around his neck and over his left
breast from belinda trick no one else
in school could do, no matter how thin
and overgrown he looked.
Well, Win grew up to be man and
always kept his overgrown appearance.
His trousers were just little short
you know the kind-and tapped
around his thin ankles as if he had
come to be two or three inches taller
since he bought them. His wrists
stuck down below his coat sleeves, too,
and his waistcoat always made close
connection.
As he aged Hobbs took TO stealing.
Not to make money, nor from bad as
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little court yard with high, solid oak
fence all around it. He took his GUS
todian to the window and pointed out
a barn just beyond it. He'd Just
squeezed through the bars around the
window, reached over and caught the
fence and cIambered along until he
came to the barn.
There he had been sleeping all the
time, getting out at night and going
over to his mothers house for food.
Well they put so many bars across
the windows that a man couldn't get
his hand through them and raised the
height Of the fence about ten feet
After all these precautions had been
taken they went to see Hobbs one
morning and he wasn't there. He
stayed away about three weeks that
time, and then he came back Just as be-
fore. The jailer almost had convul-
sions that time.
He explained that he had gone down
and come back by way of the drain
pipe. They fixed the pipe SO even a
rat couldn't pass, but they were all
timid about Hobbs for ali that AS a
result the officers took him TO the Ing
ham county Jail over at Mason. They
didn't give him a chance to escape,
either. One turnkey slept with him at
night and sat with him by day, keep
ing as close watch as if he were con-
demned TO death.
His case was hurried up, too, and in
side of fortnight he had been tried,
convicted of burglary, and sent to the
penitentiary at Jackson for two years.
lie was placed under the strictest
surveillance. just the same one bright
day he was gone and the warden found
a note IN his cell saying he was tired of
the board he was getting and had de-
cided TO find another boarding house.
A week or so afterward another let
ter came to the warden. dated and
postmarked at Bay City. It said in eff
feet that board was much better there
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GAINS AND LOSSES.
Come the hours when we cit in the shadow

Come the hours when We sit IN the shadow
That falls ike the droap OF wing
Ger the nest that is naked and empty
When the lodgings have learned how 20 sing
Then wee is the heart for the cid time,
The tine that was busy and gay,
With the world and its claI2or sGcut Us,
And we in the midst OF the fray
In the shadow we count up our losses;
We creep where we marched with the best
Oh. the aclle when we try to walk softly,
The cry Of our soul against rest
And we grieve for the golden heads vanished;
Our children ars women and men
And wtstful ana deepis the ysaruing
To have them but children again
And we fret DER the frui:less endeavor,
The labor that satisfied rot,
TIL the shadow grows thicker ard longer,
And the blur IN our eyes is a blot
On the lingering srlendor OF sunshine,
That tops with its lzlces of light
AT the shut ard barred door of our memory,
An after glow radiars end bright
Do we see nothing else but our losses,
We mourning there, fools aad purblind.
With tie crown and the king tom before Us,
The conflict and turmoil hohind'
Shall the harvest lament for the sced time,
The bud DC less biithe than the lcafl
Is there JOY when the plow breaks the furrow,
And none when the hand binds the sheaf7
Oh; wings that ere folded and dropping,
Spring wide n the evenings uplift;
Reach out 70 the stars that are showing
The skies In silvery rift.
No day Of our day is SO halloged
AS that when we see, just before
The light IN the house Of our Father
Shine out through Els half-open door.
Margaret q. Sangstor, In Harper's Bazar.
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idea that the city was burning up or
couldn't forget it
Naturally in town as quiet as this
pranks of that kind created an endless
amount of talk Special policemen
| were sworn in and some Detroit de-
tectives cane over to look at the
ground. But the tricks and thievery
went on just the same until some re-
marks were dropped BY VIII Hobbs
himself and they caught him coming
ont of drug store with a bag full of
hair and tooth brushes and on his back
! one OF the big three-storied bottles
filed with colored water that druggists
have for sign.
He never told what he was going to
do with that bottle. Well, they put him
in the county jail-he didn't try to de-
fe nd himself and his people and friends
were SO disguised that they gave him
no help. But it didn't matter mSch;
the evidence was too strong. And it
seemed to make very little difference
to Hobbs. BE loafed around the Jail,
didn't get any thinner. because he
couldn't. and was we'll liked by every
body, officers and all, from the first.
One day the jailer came in with the
breakfast and found Hobbs in his GUS
tomary attitude, sitting in his cell, with
his chair tipped back and his feet rest
ing on the barred window high above
to the jailer: That's mighty poor
morning meal for hungry man.
Whats the matter?7 said the jailer.
well that's not the kind of coffee
you'd give your OVID family. is it?'"
Hobbs said Besides. the biscuits are
heavy. l believe don't like the board
here. anyway"
The taller laughed and good-natured-
" went back to get something better.
When he returned to the cell there
wasn't any Hobbs, no sign Of him
high or low. They searched the Jail
from top to bottom. The alarm was
sent all through the town, but no one
had seen him. Bolts and bars were IN
touched and the matter became a mys-
terry.
One morning about two weeks after
ward as the jailer was handing round
the breakfast the same old way he
jumped aside and dropped all the
victuals as he passed Hobbs old cell
There, seated just as he used to be.
sat the long, thin chap, with his feet
in the air.
SCOT that coffee for me yet?" said he,
grinning.
The jailer was so mad he couldn't
talk for a minute. Then he began to
blow around.
Here, don't talk so much, and I'll
tell you how did it, Hobbs said, and
the jailer was glad to get the informa-
ton. His window looked down int a
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diamonds. In point of fact, likeness

diamonds. In point of fact, likeness
of Lady Catherine said the young
lord, with a blush, SO that I understood
what be thought of Lady Catherine,
""The miniature will probably be the
clew,' said Mr. A
81 remarked: Naturally, and noticed
that my taking down a description Of
the miniature was approved of
1--WE had glorious lunch after that,
and rs not used TO champagne then;
cider ..ad been quite good enough for
me went to my room IN a very queer
condition. and saw four pens and as
many inkstands.
This was not condition in which
30 do any copying. bethought me
that shower bath might sober me;
and, being guided to a bathroom by d
waiter, came out refreshed from the
soaking, reentered my room, as l sup
posed, and laid down ON a lounge in .
dark alcove to take short nap.
II came to myself at some very late
hour. The gas was lit in the room
and two ladies sat at q table at some
distance from the nook in which lay.
snowy women, who did not look,
thought, too respectable.
mo wonder they are at o loss
said the yohugcr. I went across the
balcony and slipped in at the window
while the boy was asleep 1 took the
things from under his very nose.
suppose you tclegraphed me. What
did you telegraph
"'Child dying, Uttered the old wom-
an. Come 1T once
1" Very we'll That makes the best
excuse said the younger one. Well
order n carriage to go TO the park,
keep it waiting till the telegram comes,
then off. Here, give me your petit
coat
''Peeping from behind the curtain
that droped the alcove, / saw the old
woman hand black siIk-ouilted skirt
to the young one, who began to patch
it on the wrong side, laying notes and
papers in the black silk squares.
"After awhile she said:
"'That girls miniature set in dia-
monds must go in too Give me that
and the emeraIds- They say they have
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Largo Api,nal P.lt,.

The length OF the largest tiger skin
after drying is said to be Is feet
inches, but it must be noted that skins
expand considerably In the curing. The
greatest length of a skin uudressed Is
given at 10 feet az inches That goes
far toward confirming what we have
said to the finest Of these ilatter-dav
tigers falling far short of their prede-
cessors Mr.. Ingils t''Maoni''). trust
worthy authority. discusses the matter
at length in his book on the Indian
wild sports, And he quotes examples.
within the experience of hunting com
panion of his own. of various animals
killed in upper Bengal which measured
from l2 feet to u feet inches
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a Troublesome Monarch.

The car of Russia causes lot OF
bother when he travels There is a
military camp at Izora, on the Neva,
ten miles from St Petersburg, and
when the car visited the camp recent
" soldiers guarded the railway Not
far from the city are a number of mills,
the worlSmen at which live on the op-
posite side of the line going home daily
for their meals These workmen got
TO their work on Saturday morning. but
were not allowed to cross the line again
the whole day, being obliged to go with
out their food or buy it in "a public house.
No traffic was allowed Even people
who had their own, farm lands on the
sides of the railway were forbidden to
walk across. The trains from Moscow
were stopped and sent off all within a
quarter of an hour of each other in the
evening. The river traffic was also en-
tirely suspended. On the way back the
ear wanted cup of tea, but owing to
a sudden jerk of the railway carriage
the tea was upset The next morning
the whole line between St Petersburg
and Izora was carefully searched by
numbers of men, ordered to find out
what had jerlIed the cars teacup,
Every time the car goes up and down
TO Peterhof the steamers have to be
decorated, traffic is suspended on the
river. and occasionally even the loading
of steamers is seopped--Goldep Days
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than In Jackson and he was better
satisfied. Similar letters came from De-
troit and other Michigan points Then
they stopped and nothing more was
ever heard until just the other day
when word came from Jspan.-Chica9o
Mail
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sent for Smith TO work up the case
knows E1e. Well, I'm generally lucky >
81 hose words ware vSe cpoa SESAME
that revealed She truth, l underwood
it now
"There was another John P. Smith,
ard he was q detective. l had bccn
mistaken for him. Under the infu-
ence of champagne ! had entered the
wrong room, by chance that of the
woman who had robbed the young
nohlecen.
Il had one chance Of concealing my
self-to roll off behind the lounge,
which had no back
being slim as an eel at the time I
contrived to do this silently. and waited
the result.
"'Take advantage of your opportun-
ity,' says to myself. Don't give your
self away
81 saw how everything was packed.
saw the old woman take the skirt and
put it on and come and lie down on the
lounge above me with a cloak over
her. l saw the lights lowered and
heard the other woman lie down on
the bedstead.
The thief above me groaned first
and snored afterward. Then the young
woman was as quiet as if she were
dead.
II crept out, crawled on my hands
and elbows to the door, found the KEY
in the lock, opened the door and was
safe.
Il found the nightwatchman walk
ing the house in list slippers, and, sig
mailing him to silence, said:
Call the proprietors, Tell them
Mr.. John P. Smith wants them instant
". and bring them here
. Gentlemen ! said, with an air
they had not yet seen, my mission is ac-
complished. The thieves occupy that
room They are lady and a woman
who passes for her elderly servant
They are professional thieves. The
young woman crossed the balcony and
committed the robbery while Lord
Lumplins slept. The booty Is stitched
in a quilted petticoat on the old woua-
ans person.
Lumpilins got his property back-Lady
Catherine and all-and was Very gen
erous. The hotel men paid me splen-
didly, and. after another dinner, went
away with little fortune in my
pocket.
II read Of the bright work Of John
P. Smith in all the papers and the 9th
er fellow was welcome to the reputa-
ton.
Il took my little pile 10 Montana.
bought 4 ranch and made my fortune.
Well; good-by, sir. Haven't a minute"
The little jeweler stuck his head out
of the window to look after him, but
he was gone, with fash from his col
lar button and fash from his finger
He looked lucky and perhaps his
story was true" thought the jeweler.
who can tell?"-Chicago Post
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A CASE OF SMITHS.
The Neat Work Accomplished by
an Amateur Detective.

o YOU object to
having the win
dow up, sir?"
IN O, sir I
ike fresh air.
Can't live with
out breathing
myself. S hall
Ihelpyou? This
is the way the
c a &c h go e S.
Now we're COM
Portable. T"
The two I'M
u6uallv COM
PLEASANT travel
ara ,rhn fhnc
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WILL HOBBS.
The Queer Antics Of a Lean Mich
igan Man.
Stole Just for the Fun of the Thing-After
His Arrest He " emit In asd Out
of tho jail Whenever He
Pleased.

ILL HOBBS has
been heard from
again. 1t has
been years since
this extraordi-
nary character
inform e d t he
people of his
birthplace re-
G ardin e hi 5
where a b on t 5.
So when it be-
came oil s Q d
around that one
of the boys had
q letter from
Will Hobbs the
whole town was
set TO talking
a n d bringing
back to mind
some of his I'M
usual perform
Rnces.
Will W RI to s
that he is In
Japan now, in
Yokohama, con-
rected with the
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burglars broke into a New York
penitentiary the other night and car
ried off clock. Earlier in the week a
couple of burglars broke into an Iowa
Jail and left behind them the time they
should have served. 1t Is a queer fra
ternity. -Philadelphia Ledger
An obliging Offer -Beggar (stand-
ing in front of an exhibition of paint
ings, to stranger about TO enter with a
lighted cigarl-"I say, mister. there's
no smoking allowed inside yonder. but
if you'll give me twopence. don't mind
keeping your cigar a-burning till re
come out again,'-Dortbarbie
She ltriumphantly}-' Some OF the
greatest women of the world-Harriet
Martineau, Sarah Martin. Florence
Nightingale, QSsn Elizabeth and 9TH
srs-nsver married What do vou think
OF that?' He think It Is not IN
likely that woman who wishes 20 Be.
come famous will succeed better with
ont husband than with one If you
have that ambition | wIl,-er-re-
lease She lhastiiyf-'-uh. no. 10.
indeed IL hate fame. Boston
d-leoa
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-Joy.-old Soak-"When get load
ed / (hic) see lots of things l like to
shoot" Rounder-"What?" Old Soak
"Ewe-uecled hippopotami, buffalo
headed sea-serpentS bandy-lesged gi-
RATES., wow-ow! settemupagain. -
Truth.
Mrs. Sill1russel (vho has literary
experimentation, how / should love to
see myself in print" Mr. Silkrussel
(gloomily)-"You probably will before
the next four years are over. And YOU
will proba bly, see me in blue overalls."
IN. Y World
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why you only furnished your din
ing room two months ago. and now you
are changing it all" II know. bat
you see il doesnt harmonic with ouI
new cooks dresSe& Inter Ocean