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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-12
THE PORPoISE.
Opinions Of Business Men in Regard to
His Commercial Value.


Reports have come from around Que
bee of business enterprise for the
catching of the porpoise. In section
of the gulf where they are very plenti-
full colossal nets are to be spread for
their capture.
The porpoise has often been caught
before. Capitalists have coraled him
in quantities while deporting himself
near Wilmington, Del, for instance
But to these same capitalists he has
ever proved much of white elephant
Commercially he has been unsuccess-
full, and it is pleasing to note that he is
SO far appreciated to-day that band
of moneyed men are again to push him
forward. 1t is difficult thing to find
a porpoise man in New York city. In
the business world the porpoise is out
But fish-oil man thus speaks of him.:
The catching of the porpoise is some
thing that has never paid. When dead
he is useful in certain ways, bu. never
sufficiently so. Under his skin is a
layer of fat-the blubber-which is
made into an ordinary fish oil, such as
menhaden, selling at twenty-five cents
a gallon. The only really valuable oil
about him is within the jawbone. That
oil is very fine. It sells at from three
to four dollars gallon and when care
fully refined very much higher But.
of course. per porpoise. there is very
small quantity of that. Of the ordinary
oil about ten porpoises are needed for
= S1v-
purposes that other fish oils are-lubri-
eating. the curing of leather and the
lighting of mines. But, he concluded,
the amount OF porpoise oil actually
used is so small that we oil men never
take it into consideration at all.
The porpoise's hide is regularly
tanned for boot and shoe use. 1t is too
wet and oily a leather to become
material for bags. pocketbooks and
the like Cut into strips for shoe
strings IL has met with some favor. But
otherwise II is not wanted Recently
a man in the swamp, who used TO be IN
the porpoise business. said
Don't talk porpoise to me- sir; there
is nothing in them nowadays Years
ago we thought there was going to be,
but no. In my stock now have sew
eral thousand porpoise hides that
would be glad to sell, but nobody
wants them II this new company is
going 10 capture them By net il viii
have job on its hands For the por-
poise is a wriggler and the porpoise is
very strong. and the net viii have 10
be. of the heaviest wire and tightly
woven together"
The po-poise here referred 20 is Jus.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-12
Eaby's Profession.

A Partisan stroller has picked up the
following particulars Of a conversation
which passed in an emigration office.
The father of family presents himself
and asks for tickets.
'sHow many are you?" asks the
agent
Three, my wife and my child.
''Good; your age, your profession?"
Thirty years, carpenter; my wife
"a. needlewoman.'
1.-THE boy?" asked the agent
"Seven months"
His profession?"
The fathers eyebrows formed gothic
arches on his forehead.
'His profession, l say!" repeated the
agent, angrily; ''we have no time to
lose"
The father reflects, and at last re-
plies:
"Bachelor!"-St Louis Star Sayings
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-12
FEEDING AND FASTING.
Moderation In Eating and Drinking Is
Conducive to Long Life.

Moderation In Eating and Drinking Il
Conducive to Long Life.
It may seem hard for the man who in
youth has known the pinch of poverty,
who remcm beers how the cut of mutton,
with supply of potatoes and green's,
scarcely sufficed for vigorous appetite,
should find that in the prosperity Of
later life an eight-course dinner of del
tcacies fails to tempt him, and that,
nevertheless, his physician warns him
that the attack of govt from which he
Is suffering means that he is eating too
much, and that his diet must be low
cred Is life, then, never to give salts
faction? Must youth know hunger
and old age safety? Must the
poor muscle-worlSer never have
enough food to give energy to his
frame, and must the rich idler have
SO much to eat that disease is the con-
sequence? To find the happy mean, to
live according to sweet reasonableness
and knowledge, is the aim of the teach
tngs of science. Christian communism,
the wealth of later life will not lead to
self-indulgence, but to the mitigation
of the sufferings of those who want the
means of life. One of many splendid
examples is that of gentleman, now
in possession of a very large income,
who, in his youth, lived on a salary of
ten shillings week. He early made
up his mind that to eat little and drink
less would be his rule in life. To this
resolution he has adhered. though for
tune has come to him. Nearly an oc-
togenarian, he is still a man of I'M
firing vigor of body and mind.
Simple in life, he dispenses
his great fortune as a custo-
dian for his Master, while living
amid the refinement and cultured sur
roundings of an English gentleman.
Sir George Humphrey has investigated
the life-histories of centenarians in
England with the view of ascertaining
the causes and circumstances of
longevity. AS one reads of the habits
and life of these men and women who
attained to the age of one hundred
years and more, one is struck by the
fact that they were almost invariably
lean people, of spare habit, and Of
great moderation in eating and drink
ing. Of thirty-seven, threee took no
Snimal food, four took very little,
twenty little, ten moderate amount,
and only one acknowledged taking
much meat. With regard to alcohol,
the returns are much the same, and
abstcmiousness is found to be the rule
of life of these centenarians.-L
Hospital.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-12
Vain Dreams.

Dingus-Thanks, Shadbolt. I'll make
it all right in a week or two. By the
way. l had the strangest dream last
night /
Shadbolt-So had l, Dingus So had
/. dreamed you paid me that other
ten-Chicaro Tribune
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-12
Lost to His Friends,

''Poppit was to propose last night
Wonder if he did?"
''Yes, poor fellow"
Rejected. chr
"0h. no. Accepted. brooklyn Life.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-12
THE SAiS OF CAIRO.
A Functionary Who Facilitates the Move
ment Of Road Traffic.

ment Of Road Traffic.
The sails is a runner who keeps in
front of carriage and warns common
people out of the way, and who beats
them with a stick if they do not hurry
up bout it. He is relic of the days
when the traffic in all of the streets
was so congested that he was an alb
solute necessity: now he makes it pos
sible for carriage to move forward at
a trot, which without his aid it could
not do. 1t is obvious that TO do this he
must run swiftly. Most men when
they run bend their bodies forward
and keep their mouths closed in order
to save their wind. The sails
runs with his shoulders thrown
back and trumpeting like an
enraged elephant. He holds his
long wand at his side like musket.
and not trailing IN his hand like a
walking-sti and he wears a soft shirt
of white stuff. and sleeveless coat
buried in gold lace. His breeches are
white, and as voluminous as woman's
skirts; they fall 30 few inches above
his knee; the rest of his leg is bare.
and rigid with muscle. On his head ne
has fez with q long black .assel. and
magnificent silk scarf OF many colors
is bound tightly around his waist he
is perfect ideal of color and move
ment, and as ne runs he bellows like a
bull, or roars as you have heard lion
roar at feeding-tfne in a menagerie-
It IS not a human CRY al all, and you
never hear IL even TO the last day you
stay in Cairo, without start. as though
il were cry of help" at night, or the
quick-clanging bell of a fre-engine-
There IS nothing else in Cairo
which IS SO satisfying. There
are sometimes two OF them run
ming "a breast, dressed exactly alike.
and with the upper part Of their bodies
IS rigid as the wand pressed zgainS.
their side. and with the ends Of their
scarf and the long taaSel streaming OF,
behind As they yell and below. don
keys and carriages and people scramble
ont of their way until the carriage they
precedc has rolled RAPIDLY nx- Only
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-12

81 understand .Jigson is financially
interested in the firm he is with" Eyes,
they owe him six months salary
Westfeld Union.
The great danger of looking too
much upon the wine when it's red is
that one may begin using it for paint
Philadelphia Times
"A rose tree that does not blossom is
of no use in the garden. A vine that
bears no grapes is of no use in the vine
yard.-R. w. Dale. d. D.
"A Boston card-player asserts that
no woman, though she were a deaf
mute from her birth up, could keep
still in game of whist.-N. Y. Times.
-''Chappie was completely disguised
at the ball" Went as prince, sup
pose?" NO. wore dress suit and a
mask and everyone took him for a
man. Inter Ocean.
-She-What makes Charley Bicycles
wear that string to his new straw hat?
He-To keep it from blowing away
when he talks through it.-Washing-
ton Star.
If every man were as good as the
woman who loves him fondly believes
undoubtedly be very much improved
Somerville Journal
His Worst Suspicious Verified
"Just as l expected" muttered Mr..
Billus, examining his shaving imple
ments. my wife has quit complaining
about her corns and my razor is ruined"
Chicago Tribune.
eyes, madam, we have all kinds.
What sort shall I show you?" You
can show me some ancestral lace" re-
piled Mrs. Crewe Doyle. 81 hear that
is very stylish now."-vogue.
"A good many folks in dis world git
credit for bein' clever, deah breddern,
wen de fact OBJ de matter is dat dere
cleverness consists in dere ability to
keep de world from fndin' out how
ignorant dey really are.-Rev. Pink
PUNK.
"A Gentle Hint.-She-My papa
doesn't want you to come to see me.
He Grreverently)-Your papa must be
a kicker She-That's what several
young men have found out who have
come here against his wishes.
Free Press.
Her beauty is all composed of theft;
her hair stole from Apollo's goldy
locks; her white and red lilies and roses
stolen out of paradise; her eyes two
stars plucked from the sky; her nose
the gnomon of loves dial, that tells
you how the clock of her heart goes
Ben Jonson.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-12
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Slavery In Siam.

Slavery has been abolished in Hame.
but it can never be abolished in fact,
for the slaves have no means OF sup
porting themselves outside their mas
ters' houses Every member of the ST.
amese upper classes can fetter his ser ~
ants or throw them into prison with
out any kind of trial or permission be-
ing necessary. One morning went tn
call upon one of the ablest and most
enlightened of the ministers, a man
who has been TO Europe, and who once
actually got into serious iron bic for
trying 10 iDaugurate a sort Of roman's
rights movement in Siam | made my
way by mistake into part Of his
grounds where visitors were not ex-
pec.ed and / found slave fastened
down TO the ground in an ingenious
kind Of pillory in which he could not
move hand or foot, while another slave
tortured him with severe strokes ~ a
BAN boo rod at the word OF a nler1b Der
of vle family in order 10 force him "a
confess 20 some misdsed--Coptems
porary Review.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-12

There has been consld cradle discus
sion as 10 who invented spcctacles and
who had the pleasure OF wearing tho
first pair. The honor is generally
awarded to an Italian named Salvipo
Armati. who died in 1917.
The largest library in the world il
the Bibliotheoue Rationale, Paris
founded by Louis XIV. II contains
1, 500, 600 volumes, 500, 900 pamphlets.
l75. 900 manuscripts, 800, 600 maps and
charts and $50, 900 coins and medals
There lives man in Webster County.
". Va, by the name OF Whorton, aged
So years, whose hair and beard are
turning from white 70 black He il
said also TO be cutting q new set OF
teeth His appearance is said 70 indi-
cate a man of about 20 years instead Of
one nearly 90.
II is said that a new industry has
sprung up in France-the selling of
milk frozen solid in cans II Is frozen
By means of an ordinary ice-making
machine, and despatched By road rail-
or steamer 20 It's destination The Gus
toner who purchases the frozen milk
has simply 20 th2w u when il Is re-
quired for use.
For the feeding OF London, a little
more than s23, oss tons Of meat poul-
try and general provisions were delir-
cred during the year from the pu bio
market alone. This total was some
/. 500 tons more than any previous year.
II
cent in the supplies Of American
meats: Pa 442 animals passed through
one cattle naarke. of the metropolis
and Isl. 40 through another. all going
70 supply ,hs city wiki food These
figures, o. course. only indicate part
of TIE supplies
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-12
The Species Ascertained.

Henry.
'Yes, your excellency."
speaking on this financial question,
now. l saw statement the other day
which interested me greatly"
What YVES it. Mr. President?"
''That millions of bacteria could be
found on paper money after it had been
In circulation a little while
Eyes, your excellency."
The scientist who made the state
ment did not specify the species of mi
rrobe which thus infests our circulating
medium, but after little thought !
decided which it was"
'And to what species do these bacilli
belong, your excellency?"
Observation-Disclosures Pittsburgh Tel
sgraph.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-12
RECEIVING EXERCISE.
Turkish Bath, Floor Rest and Other Meth
DDS Described in Detail.

Turkish Bath, Floor Rest and Other Meth
DDS Described in Detail.
We American women have at last be-
come fully aroused as to the importance
of exercise, says a writer, and with
characteristic energy we all-men,
women and children-have gone at it,
and are exercising indoors and out OF
doors as hard and fast as ever we can.
This would be fine thing if our lives
were not quite SO full and hurried and
if we were as a people triae more
stolid.
Unfortunately we have yet to learn
the meaning of the word rest-until we
do, exercise may prove to the majority
of us, dubious blessing.
Now, why not be exercised? The
Turkish bath is one step in that direc-
ton, and the "foor rest" is another.
Any woman who is fortunate enough
to command the services of a lady's
maid, or who can call in an attendant
at stated times or can secure the co.
operation of her own family, can re-.
ceive exercise instead of exercising.
When a long and hard day or social or
serious duties is before or behind her
this royal way of resting the musclea
and stimulating the respiration is good
and most efficacious.
Have a warm blanket or drugget,
kept especially for this purpose, spread
smoothly on the floor. Then get into
loose garments and place yourself at
full length on this hard bed for half an
hours manipulation.
When you lie as limp and Indifferent
as rag baby, your attendant, whom
you have previously instructed, gently
rolls and kneads your body, lifts and
drops and twists and swings your arms
and legs.
The head-the body's fifth 1imb-re-
ceives much the same treatment that is
given the legs and arms, but should be
handled with special gentleness.
Your own duties consist in, first, as
surfing yourself that your breathing is
full, free, and controlled by the dia-
phragm, and then in surrendering your
self to a nirvana-like Indifference to
all things.
l happen to know a very pretty wom-
an who for some years past has in
dulged herself three or four times
weekly, at bedtime, in this sort of de-
licious first rest" / recall her when
she was a trifie awkward and con-
strained in her bearing, but now she is
as joyously free and buoyant in all her
movements as forest dryad.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-12
the plain ordinary porpoise such as one

The plain ordinary porpoise such as one
may see not far from New York and
even at times in New York bay itself.
There is another kind of porpoiss
known as the white whale" from
twelve to fourteen feet long, Of a caci-
mine whiteness from tip Of tail to
head. But he is, strictly speaking, an
arctic porpoise and seldom if ever gets
so far south as the gulf of st. Law
renee. The ordinary species is but
half the length. and even less, Of the
white whale. Magazine.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-12
What Ia WORSE

He was not. very hot, s75 he ras
hard al work az his desk when friend
who had an afternoon Oft came in.
Well. esclaim ed the visitor. IL
there is anything despite It's a son q
toll
By thunder" responded the worker.
I'm not enamored Of him myself but
be Is not half as bad as the sgn Ok
July r-Detrott Free Pres.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-12
princesses Of the royal harem. and con

princesses Of the royal harem. and con-
suls-general, and the heads Of the army
of occupation and the Egyptian army
are permitted two sails; other people
may have one. They appealed to me
as much more autocratic appendages
than troop of lifeguards. The raste-
quaire who first introduces them in
Paris will make his name known in q
day, and lord mayors show or a box
seat on q four-in-band will be modest
and nidale-class distinction in compar-
ison.-Harper's Weekly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-12

When Baby vas sick, re gave her Castofia
Who she wcs n Child, she cried for Castoria-
When she became Miss, she chung TO Castoria
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-04-14
oRIoIN OF PAPER MONEY.
First Issued by Italian BANKERS Five
Centuries Ago.

Paper money developed from the
aills ofexchangc or certificates Of tho
banks was probably first issued by tho
italian bankers OF the fourteenth CEN
iury, says the San Francisco Examin-
lr. Governments found It an easy
way Of obtaining money in times OF
necessity, being. in effect, forced
,oan from the people, Paper bills are
promises to pay, and when the gov
,rnment issues them in exchange for
supplies or services it has actually
borrowed just so much from the man
20 whom 1t pays them. 1t. however,
Allows him to pass this note in pay
ncnt OF his debts, so instead OF being
loan from him singly it is a loan
from the whole people The ease
with which the notes may be issued
has lead many governments Into dis
isterous experiments in time OF war
Or stress, the promises being issued
IN such profusion that they become OF
40 value The continental currency
issued during the revolution by the
American congress, and the assignats
of the French revolution may be in
stanced. Paper money depends for
It's value on the ability of the author
ity that issues it to give valge for it
when payment Is demanded When
the issue of the civil war was in
doubt the value of the greenbacks
issued by the United States sunk to
0ne-third their face value, due partly
to a lack of confidence in the govern
ment and due still more to the GER
lainty that payment OF these notes
must be indefinitely postponed Ewes
when the war closed and there was
40 longer doubt of the government
the currency was deprecated for
thirteen years. The government was
in the position of the man known TO
his neightors as good, but slow
pay" His notes pass at discount
The government was known 10 be
good for the amount. and it was GER
tain that it would be ready to redeem
its notes some day, but that was not
enough for the man who wanted to
use the money right away. He thus
passed the notes at discount. The
value Of paper money thus depends
at any given moment on the promises
Of the government to redeem it. II
the promise viii be met when the
notes are presented they pass at their
face value. If there is doubt on this
point the notes must pass at discount,
greater or less according to circum
stances II there is no chance that
they will ever be paid they are worth
nothing at all As the United States
government has stood ready since
1879 to redeem in gold any notes IS
soon as presented its currency passes
without question at its face value.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-04-14

Like many other insects, the ant is
very fond of sugar, to obtain which it
employs a skill that is almost incredi-
bic. An observer thought he had pro-
tected his sugar basin from the atten-
tons of number of ants by placing it
in the center OF the vessel full of
water To his amazcment, however,
he found that they got at the sugar by
climbing up the wall of the room to
the part of the ceiling that was just
over the basin. From this spo. they
allowed themselves to fall among the
sugar Several that were carried by
the draught past the bowl fell into the
surrounding water, and would all
have been drowned but for their
mates, who succeeded in rescuing
them. The truth of this singular
occurrence is vouched for by the wit
ness of it
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-04-14


A woman's chance to marry at from
Is to 20 years of age is said TO be
fourteen and one-half per cent. From
20 to 25 they are increased to fifty
two per cent; from % to 80 it dimin-
ishes to eighteen; from so TO s.. If
teen and one-half per cent. From 80
to 40 the chances of an unmarried
woman sink to three and three
quarters per cent; from 10 10 As
still further diminution is seen. her
chance being but two and one half
From Is to 30 the old maids chance
of getting husband is but three
eighths of one per cent, while from
80 to 55 she is supposed to have bnt
one-quarter OF one per cent OF a
chance. 1t should. however, be added
that the table of average does not
apply to widows. Accurate stats
ticians. who would not be caught in
a mistake for the world, affirm that
widow at any age has at least seven
ty-six spinster drawing power, and
some place her figure up to eighty
two. The widows chances at any
age are therefore seventy-six to
eighty-two times better than that OF
a sDinster.
San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-04-14
INNOCENT HENRY.
His nTusqas way Of ststlaE . Eaet
startled the Family.

startled the Family.
A very good and pious man recently
bought rough piece Of ground and
proposed to do some farming There
was a skinny little stream on the
place that no thought might be mndo
into a reservoir. 30 he sent his hired
man TO investigate. Several hours
later the hired man appeared In the
family circle.
"Woll. Henry" inquired the good
man, what Is the result?"
"'Tain't worth a dam. sir, !" replied
Henry earnestly.
The good man gasped and the fam.
lily fell over each other trying to get
as far away as possible.
Henry was amazed, and looked IL
whats tbat?' asked the good man,
evidently not realizing that he was
asking TO hear again what had 40
shocked him At FIRST
"Tain't worth dam, sir. repeated
Henry.
What do you mean2' and this time
the good man was mad.
Just what | said, sir, responded
Henry. who had not caught on. you
couldn't plug that creek up tight
enough to catch wash tub full OF
water in six months, and all at once
Hcnrys rather startling report was
entirely denuded Of its possibilities Of
profaue language.