The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-03
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81" All their SIS are silent. The
French missionaries and writers are
always strictly phonetic in their tran
scription of words Note the mistake
in the word missouri" the name of a
large state, great river and famous
Indian tribe. Always and invariably
Americans pronounce it as Mizzouri,
while the natives of the state do like
wise
Listener" of the Boston Tran
script wants someone to invent
and construct vehicle which
shall ''have wheels and also a
set of runners, and be furnished
with lever so placed and geared that
when the vehicle is moving over good
solid snow 1t will go on the runners,
but when thin or bare spot is reached
the lever may be operated and the run
ners drawn up. and then the vehicle
will go on the wheels"
The Commonwealth club of GlOu-
oester, Mass, has just dedicated It's
club house, which was built at the close
of the revolutionary war and was the
Arst three-story edifice erected in that
ancient town. 1t is rich in ghost stor-
les, tales of the sea and traditions Of
the colonial period. One of its early
owners was Capt Samuel Calder, who
was captured by the dey of AlGiers IN
1898 and held for four years, until
ransom was paid by the United States
government
-Tompkins with ''p" is not more
significant than Patterson with two
''ts.'' if tradition is to be trusted. Ac-
cording to the story that has come
down from the sixteenth century, the
Pattersons all spelt the name with one
ST. before Queen Elizabeth set about
marking those of her subjects who left
the ancient Catholic faith and cast their
lot with the Church of England She
insisted that all the Protestant Patter-
sons take to themselves a second IT,
and since that time many have followed
that mode of spelling the name.
Mem bers Of theatrical and musical
companies, when they are travel
ing through the country, have their
fares paid by the management, but not
their sleeping car and hotel accOmmo-
dations. There is one exception, the
famous Boston Symphony orchestra
Banker Higginson, the founder and
hacker of the organization, says that
the musicians play their best only
when they have been well taken care
of, and that if left to themselves they
will put up at second-class houses to
save money. So this orchestra is cod
-, Aha f~-
was.
In consequence of movement in
augurated by the editor of the Amateur
Photographer, It was officially an
nounced on the 25th of October, by the
official photographer of the worlds
Columbian exposition, Mr.. C. ID. Ar
mold, that on and after that date
''hand cameras using plates up to and
including &x5 inches, without tripods,
will be allowed within the grounds of
the Worlds Columbian exposition, on
pavment of fee Of two dollars in ad-
dition to the regular price of admission
for each day. Cameras using stereo-
scopic lenses will not be admitted, how
ever small the plate may be-"
People who cross the big bridge on
foot al about half-past seven in the
morning or about six in the evening are
apt to be startled by tall, strong
looking young man, bareheaded usual
Iy, who fairly flies along the promenade,
not at q run, but a regular heel-and-toe
walk He rushes ahead regardless of
observation and careless of about TWEEN
ty small boys that run in pursuit and
make shrill remarks He probably
strikes most people as an escaping
Iunatic. but he is merely an amateur pc
destrian who lives in Brooklyn and
takes that way of going to and from
his place of business in New York.
Sealing men IN Victoria, where
many of the sealing pirates fit out, say
that no attempt whatever will be made
by sealers this year to enter Behring
sea. Both the United States and Brit
ish governments appear to be deter
mined to allow no sealing there pend
ing the decision OF the arbitration con-
vention, and the sealing fleet viii be
much scattered. Some vessels will
hunt along the japanese coast and
some along the American northern Pa
cific coast Every owner is working
alone this year, the Seahngmen's asso-
citation having gone out OF existence.
SO far as is apparent there will be no
diminution in the number of sealing
vessels going out this year.
A common effect OF long attention
TO n new subject is that the mind is put
20 a strain and the subject presents it
self in dreams until il becomes an an
novance. The experience of a begin
ner in typewriting was, he says, that
when he had finished practice for the
night and gone to bed the keyboard got
IN front of him. and he was plagued OIL
most into . delirium by desire to
spell out certain words on IT. Often
his fingers would work unconsciously,
as If picking out letters on ii, just as
yiolinists and pianiSts are often seen TO
thrum on imaginary instruments As
ne gained facility the nightly appear
ance of the keyboard grew shorter, and
at length ceased altogether.
Extent of the Human Vision.
Emile Meter mentions that he once
saw Keizerspict, in Sumatra, when sep
arated from it by a distance of 11o En-
glish miles: he also says that on very
favorable occasions he has made ont 10
see Guy Merapy, n mountain in Java,
when $50 miles interviewed. l. Hill, the
well-known civil engineer, says that he
has seen Mt. Blanc from Piz Mauran. a
distance OF 80 miles. J.Starkie Gardner
states that Mt Blanc is visible from Piz
Landgard. though distant about three