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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
WITH MILITARY TITLES.

GEN. BANKS is the author Of the say
ing: Success is a duty"
GEN. r. L. LEES signature is worth
ten dollars in the autograph market,
Gen. McClellan's three dollars and Gen.
Shermans three dollars.
THE residence of the late Gen. w. T.
Sherman, at ST. Louis, viii most likely
be bought by the Sherman Memorial
society, to be used as its headquarters.
CAPT. BAssETT. who has just complet-
ed sixty-one years of service in the
United States senate, keeps his snuff
in box that was given him by Daniel
Webster.
GEORGE c. GoER, whose death oc-
Cured at Charleston, s. c.. few days
ago, was the engineer of the Monitor
when she had her famous fight with
the Merrimsc. and was one OF the six
teen survivors who were rescued by the
steamer Rhode Island when the Monitor
went down
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
KANSAS RAILROAD INTERESTS.

The annual report of the railroad COM
mission of Kansas, soon to be issued,
will snow that with the exception of two
small branches Of the Union Pacific rail-
road, every distinctively Kansas railroad
reports a deficit on the operations OF
the past year. 1t is notorious that in the
state of Texas there is no railroad earn
ing dividend on its stock, and in many
instances the roads are not earning in
terest on their bonds. The Albany Even
ing Journal says:
Capital was never more unjust and ty-
rannical toward labor than are the toiling
masses OF Texas aud Kansas toward eastern
investors
Speaking for Kansas the EAGLE as
serts that whatever of truth there may
be in the Journals statement, it is the
result Of the action Of the roads towards
the people, i. e., simply matter of self
defense. But the Journal, and many
others, are labcring under a misappre-
hension of the true situation. The pop
ular protest aud complaint in this state
is against determinations and not too
high rates The people expects the roads
to charge a sufficient rate 10 pay operat-
ing expenses and fair profit
on the capital actually in
vested, but this does not compre-
bend unlimited initiation of stocks and
unjust and unwarranted
IN the schedules Of
charges. These last are the bases of the
protest and the contest, and realizing
that they have the right on their side
the people will continue to prosecute
their cause to a fair and satisfactory adj
justment Nor will they be swerved
therefrom by the specious plea of failing
behind in operating expenses set up by
the railroads.
This isn't politics; it's business.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
PERSONAL MENTION.

ELI GRAY. who died short time ago,
in the aimshouse at Delhi, Y. Y, was
100 years old Els father lived to be 90.
and his mother was 40 when she died.
TIE oldest living ex-governor in the
United States Is said to be Nathaniel s.
Berry, of Bristol, \. H. He was born
IN 1876. and was elected governor of
New Hampshire in 1851
july has proven a fatal month TO
presidents John Adams. Thomas JEFF
ferson, James Monroe. zachary Tay~
Tor, NJ Van Buren,, Andrew johnson, L.
s. Grant all died in July James A.
Garfield received his death wound IN
July.
MOSES LoRIA. wealthy Hebrew who
died recently in Milan, left fortune
estimated to be worth 5000, 600 to the
city OF Milan to found an institution to
supply work to worthy persons unable
TO find employment elsewhere,
CARL WILHELM AMoNpERF ran away
from his Berlin home twelve years ago
and settled in Kansas City, where Re
peddled pencils and became known IS
Pencil" Charley. Now he has been
sent for to go home and assume the
million-dollar estate Of his deceased IA
ther.
EVERY president of the United States
so far has either been a lawyer, a SOL
der or both Washington, William e.
Harrison, Taylor and Grant were SOL
diers; Monroe. Jackson, Pierce, Hayes,
Garfield and Benjarnin Harrison were
soldiers and lawyers, while all the rest
were LAWYERS.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
GARDEN AND ORCHARD.

A FREyCHMA5 has discovered that
California roses possess twenty per cent
more volatile oil than those of France.
The discovery opens the prospect for q
new industry In that opulent state.
The Bartlett pear is European I'M
portation, it having originated in Eng
land The Seckel pear Is a native prod
net and it is said that the first tree that
bore it is still standing near PhiladeI-
phia on the Schuyllzin river.
THH common daphne grown in flower
gardens is one OF the most deadly pois-
ons known to the botanist. Three or
four Of the berries viii kill a man as
quickly as strychnine, and one has been
known to kill child in half an hour
THE kudzu vine is probably the most
rapid-growing plant in the world 1t
belongs to the bean family. and was
once called Dolichos japonicus: the
leaves somewhat resemble a lima bean.
It will easily grow sixty feet in three
months.
TIE compass plant Of the United
States is the common '>rosin weed" of
our western prairies, which has the
long leaves near the ground set in a
vertical position in such way as to al
ways present the edges to the north and
co1,fb
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
MIS- SING LINKS.

TIE London museum contains the
first envelope ever made
WITHIN thirty years over twenty
thousand lives have been lost on the
coast Of England.
\ sAwwrL was stolen bodily in Han
cock county, Ky, few days ago. Not
a trace Of the machinery could be
found
4 VERMONT lumber dealer Sdvertises
that ne has For sale fifty thousand
shingles made o. the only Christian
shingle-naker in the state"
TwEST--oyE stays were shot IN .
single 6av by three sportsnea. il q
claimed. IN tie deer forests OF InchTse
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
Curious Facts.

They fumigate immigrants on the Maine
frontier with steam hot from the lOcomo-
tive.
If all the locomotives and passenger
and freight cars in the United States were
made up into one train it would have 4
length of over 1000 miles.
In a single mill at Gray's Harbor,
Wash, recently, the entire works were
kept running all day on a single cedar
stick, which made 1s8, 500 shingles.
Government experiments at the Water
town Mass Arsenal have demonstrated
that cut nails have greater holding power
than those made of wira
To have an invention protected all over
the world it is necessary to take out 81
patents in as many countries, the esti-
mated total cost Of which is 81, 600
The resisting power of brick appears to
vary greatly. In some recent tests the
weight required to crush a square inch
ranged from 200 to 4 500 pounds
4 machine company in Lewiston, Ne,
is making what was probably never
before manufactured in this country, u
loom capable of weaving cloth 100 inches
wide. 1t is TO be sent across the conti-
nent, and thence across the Pacific Ocean
&c Shanghai, China.
The following pretty experiment ia
suggested by Charles Wetterer in the
American Machinist: II iron or steel filings
be corroded in a damp atmosphere, and
this rust added a little at a time 70 jar
of diluted sulphuric acid, the crystalline
carbon particles that existed in the metal
unite to form large crystals: these same
viii be of the hard diamond form.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
POPULAR SCIENCE.

COMPRESSED air for cleaning cars is
used on the Union Pacific railroad at its
Portland shops The air, under pres
sure of fifty pounds per square inch, is
delivered from a flexible hose with a
small nozzle, and is used as water would
&c.
A GERMAN official report states that
no case has been recorded where ship
rugged with wire rigging has sustained
any damage from lightning. except in a
few instances where continuous con-
nection had not been made with the
hull
TX one of the Comstock mines new
water wheel is to be placed which is to
run l, $50 revolutions minute, and have
a speed at its periphery of 1o,so5 feet
per minute. A greater head of water
than has ever before been applied will
be used.
The time that Photographic dry
plates may be kept is question that
affects many. A correspondent of Ma
ture mentions opening box of plates
that had been kept, without special
care. and through three months tour
in the Mediterranean, for about six
years, and none of them had deterior-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
PEOPLE IN EUROPE.

Mr. GLADSTONE finds in Roger Bacon
perhaps the highest British intellect
of the middle ages"
THE queen of England has raised sew
ersl brewers to the peerage-Allsop as
Baron Hindlip, Bass as Baron Burton
and Guinness as Baron Ardilaun.
HERR KRUPP has, according to recent
statistics, the highest declared income
in Germany. 1t is six million seven
hundred and sixty Thousand marks per
annum.
NJ. DRIBLER, the retired executioner,
who could find no landlord willing TO
rent him house in Paris, has at last
settled abode, thanks 20 the authorities
of the city of Paris and the French gov
eminent.
r. HENRY ". Lucy attributes the origin
of the phrase 1.-The Grand Old Man" TO
Sir William Harcourt 1t will be
found in one of his early addresses to
his constituents in Derby, and had its
birth amid the exultation that followed
on Mr.. Gladstone's return to power in
1880, on the ruin of Lord Beaconsfeld's
government.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05

comfy. and Richard A. King of Rich.
| field, Morton county, are the two dole
gates to the house of representatives
| from counties that are not districted
The first is a Democrat and the second
a Republican.
Topeka's population increased over 100
per cent between 1880 and 1890.
Illinois and Pennsylvania are the only
states IN the Union that have more miles
of railway than Kansas.
TIE 81 ,225 railway employees of Kan
sas receive total annual compensation
Of $14, 468. ASP.
The Santa Fe road has 2,4S3 miles Of
road in Kansas; the Rock Island, 1859:
the Missouri Pacific: 1913; Union Pa
cific 1165.
The Santa Fe's earnings in Kansas last
year amounted to SO, 80, 757. which is
1877 per cent of its total traffic earn
ings.
The number of passengers carried last
year earning revenue was, on the Santa
Fe, 2. 6S4. 2j4; the Rock Island, 1864. 602;
Missouri Pacific, 8, ABS, 451; Union Pacific,
1,195, 218.
Certificates of registration have been
granted to fifty-four graduates of dental
colleges during the last two years.
In 1885. when the state dental law
was enacted. there were over 800 den
fists in Kansas and there were only
twenty-seven graduates Of dental col
leges. There are now 146 graduates,
many of whom have attended college
aud graduated since the law went into
effect.
There were thirty-six school districts
established in the state last year.
There are in Kansas 9,123 organized
school districts, with school population
OF 49S, SOL
The 3, 722 male teachers of Kansas re-
ceive an average monthly salary of
$52 10 and the GIG female teachers All
average of $50. AZ.
There We're 179 school houses erected
in the state last year, at cost of $751;,
geo
The estimated value of the school
property of Kansas is $40, 703, 70S.
The chancellor of the State university
recommends that the appropriation for
that institution be made 100000 this
year instead of S75. 900.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

VINEGAR will remove the disagree
able odor of kerosene from tinwsre.
NEVER wash raisius that are 10 be
used in sweet dishes. 1t win make the
pudding or cake heavy.
SIX parts Of sal volatile and three
parts of laudsnum mixed viii cure the
toothache. Apply TO the tooth with
lint.
SPIRITS of ammonia, IL diluted. ap-
piled with sponge TO faded or discol-
cred spots in a carpet viii often restore
the color
To REMOVE rust from steel. cover the
steel with sweet oil well rubbed on. In
forty-eight hours rub with fnely-pow-
dered unslaked lime until the rust dis
appears.
THERE is a crude greenness in onions
and potatoes that make them very hard
20 digest For health's sake put them
into warm water for an hour before
cooking them.-Detroit Free Press
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
PRINCESS MARIE.

The Roumanian wedding. - Royal
guests arriving.
The marriage of Princess Marie of
Edinburgh, to Prince Ferdinand of Rou-
mania, will take place Jan. 10. The
principal parties to the contract are
already in Coburg, and many of the
royal relatives are assembled at Berlin,
where the marriage is to take place. 1t
is said that the duke of Edinburgh, before
consenting to the marriage, forced King
Charles, uncle of the groom, to sign a
document, in which he agreed not to re-
marry in the case of the death of Car
men Sylvia" so that his daughters as
censon to the throne should not be OBJ
structed by any possible later issue of the
king. King Charles signed this strange
document, as he considered the wedding
political necessity.
As JAN 10 is the anniversary of the
death of the Duke of Clarence, the
queen will not be present, but will be
represented by Sir Edward Malet, the
British ambassador at Berlin. The mar
riage IS to be performed by Prince
Ghika, the Russian ambassador at Ber-
lin. Kaiser William and King Charles
will probably be the only crowned heads
present, as the car will be represented
by the Grand Dukes Vladimir and
Alexis, Emperor Franz Joseph by an
arch-duke and King Humbert by the
Duke of Genoa.
Queen Elizabeth Carmen Sylvia, it is
believed, has vowed never to return to
Bucharest, and has refused to attend the
marriage. She wrote to the prince that
she never wanted 10 hear from him
again, and has since buried herself in the
lonely castle of Neuwied.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
THINGS ELECTRICAL.

The famous cathedral OF Vienna Is
now lighted with electric arc lights.
THE process Of engraving on glass By
electricity is exhibited at the American
institute fair.
IT is estimated that about one hun
dred and fifty thousand incsndescent
lamps are burned in New York every
night.
Az Euzlishman has invented a new
system Of electric mains whereby one
wire Of the present thrce-wire system
can be saved
IN view Of the fact that electric ornui-
buses operated By storage batteries
hare been introduced IN London. the
Electrical Review advocates a similar
motive power being employed OF the
Fifth avenue stage line in New York
cjtv
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
FAIR WOMEN.

MRS. CLEVELAND has accepted mem
bership in the National Press league.
THE Lucy Webb w. C. T. Z. of Min
neapolis contemplates building a home
for newsboys of that city
IT is possible that Mrs, Peary will not
accompany her husband on his second
Arctic exploring expedition.
Mrs. STEVENSON. mother Of the vice
president-elect, is eighty-three years of
age and one of the best authorities on
the early history of Kentucky.
The wife of Gen. Custer, who gave
readings in various cities last winter,
used the larger portion of the funds
realized for the education of young
girl whose father had been killed in the
same battle with Gen. Custer.
Mrs. J. W. DELANo. of San Francisco,
still preserves a piece of the blood
stained white silk dress worn by Laura
Keene on the night of President Lin
coins assassination. The actress as
sisted in caring for the wounded man
until help could be summoned.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
a LITTLE NONSENSE.

THIS is great country. A smoker
can make a nuisance of himself on a
street car platform for nickel.-Ram's
Horn.
''SCRIBBLEsBY is getting absent
minded" How do you l1now?" He
borrowed my lead pencil and handed it
back to me before he thought. Wash
ington Star.
OPIrICIAN-"Don't you think you
need stronger glasses?" Uncle Amos
Land sakes. no. These get away so
that l spend halfmy time huntin' them. :"
Inter Ocean.
do YOU believe in the saying that
whenever there is trouble you must
seek the woman" 81 should say so.
We have had nine new servant girls in
the last two months. w Washington
Star.
SCRAMBLE-"You can't tell anything
about the real pleasure of football I'M
less you've played it." Scratch-"Oh,
yes, can. ] was in an elevator once
when it fell four stories. Inter
Ocean
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05

A machine for making berry baskets a.
fast as ron can EinG-
4 school-desk thar can be raised or low
cred 70 suit the size Of the student
4 finger exercising device by which the
joints may be mechanically moved and
rendered supple
A portable railroad frog 70 saddle TIE
track rail, provided with means O.:
firmly olsrnping il in place.
An ink holding attachment for pen.,
consisting Of an elastic band 70 be placed
on the pen at opposite ends Of is eye
4 sash holder, which consists Of z long
plate resting On springs. and adapted 10
be placed between the sash AID rae frame
A machine for weighing letters and
parcels that indicates on a cyliader not
only the weight bu1 the postage 10 DC
paid
A case for holding 4 watch. ard dry
batTery aud lamp by which the dial q:
the timepiecs may be illuminated VIXEN
essEel
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
a Modern Enoch arden.

Several years ago Sergeant Hicks of
the regular army married the woman
he loved. During one of the Indian bor
der troubles Hicks disappeared and his
wife incurred aim as dead. A few days
since Hicks appeared at the Soldiers
Home at Fort Dodge, Kansas, and APP
piled for work as stone mason. While
there he met his former wife, now a
Mrs Morrow, who is connected with the
home The interview was an affecting
one, but Hicks very properly rehnquish-
ed all claims, Enoch Arden like, and his
wife remains Mrs. Morrow.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05

The aid contributed to settlers in
western Kansas during the winter of
1901 amounted to nearly $95, coo. This
timely assistance enabled many settlers
TO remain who would otherwise have
been compelled to abandon their locali-
ties at least for time. Being thus as
sisted they were in position to continue
their effort for self sustenance with the
result Of the most abundant harvest last
year of small grain and provender for
stock, which result has placed that sec
tion well up with tie balance of the state
IN many respects.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

THEE are fourteen eannsriss on ths
Columbia river aEd tweaty-three IN The
state Of Oregon
OHIO brick makers are using a clay
digging machine that does the work II
from seventeen 20 twenty men
Az acre grows go mulberry trees;
each tree has twenty pcurds - ls&7ss,
from twenty pounds Il leaves oIe pound
Of cocoons IL pvoducsd-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05

Judge d. NJ Valentine announced yes
terday that Immediately on retiring from
the supreme court next Monday he would
begin the work Of preparing full and
complete digest and index of all the
Kansas decisions published in the first
fifty volumes of the Kansas supreme
court reports. At this time there are
three Kansas digests-Cheney'S, Tay!or's
and Disasters. There is a demand for
"A new digest, embracing The laws that
have been enacted since the last codif-
cation was published, and Judge Valen-
tine is especially well qualified for the
work,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
THE LATE JAY GOULD.
How He Came to Leave Home whsz {
Bsy-A Storg of Russell sage.

How He Came TO Leave Home whsz q
Bsy-A story of Russell sage.
One of tie late Jay Gculd's stories,
which he used 10 tell with keen display
of appreciation OF the humorous, Wa ons
explaining Aow he came TO leave home
when a boy. he said: MY father had =
little dairy farm in Delaware county. and
we made, on small scale, butter aud
cheese for the market. We had churn
which was operated by treadnlill. We
had big dog and sheep trained TO work
the mill. FINALLY they got SO that when
they saw the churn and mill being rugged
up for business they wculd disappear.
Then my father would put me on the
treadnailL | soon got SO that could SEQ
them setting up the ehurn and its attach
ment, and so 1 would initiate the dog and
sheep and skip also. One day my father,
dissatisfied with my conduct, gave me q
pretty severe whipping. was dissatisfied
with farm life, anyhow. Early nexs
morning packed mp a few things in a
handkerchief and left home. That was
the last Of my farming"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05

After all the meetings that have been
held In the interest Of opening the Cher
okee s,ripto settlement; all the resolu-
lions that have been adopted setting
forth the reasons why the strip should
be opened, and the numerous petitions
that have been signed by the thousands
In immediate interest praying for such
such act IF long deferred though simple
justice, 1t would seem 10 lie useless to
make further effort in these directions.
But it may not be. The meetings already
arranged To be held in that interest
should be wei attended; strong resolu-
tions should be adopted. and these to-
gether with petitions signed by every
body who can be reached should be for
warded 10 congress with the greatest
possible dispatch, Meantime food the
congressman with personal letters
urging the early opening Of the strip. No
time should be LOST.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
Russell sage. Prnurr.

Although the late Jay Gould was BY no
means prodigal he lsved to joke about
the stinginess OF Russell Sage. Being
asked a couple Of years ago II the stery
were true about Sage visiting in the old
days of commission trains" on the Ele-
waited Roads for the fve-cent fare, rs
smiled and admitted the truth Of tins
same. II have frequently passed Sage
myself, " he said, waiting in the crowd
at the Rector street station, with his
nickel in his hand, for the card to be dis
played in front of the ticket sellers ofics
announcing that ive-cent tickets were fof
sale" Later NJ. Sage was given free
pass, and this saved him much time be.
fore the uniform rate OF tickets was liked
at five cents
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
The Mortuary Record of 1892.

!
Deaths ''sickIe keen" reaped goodly
harvest in 1892. Men have passed away
whom the world has had reason to name
among its great men of the century.
Such names as Tennyson, Whitman,
Field, Whittier, Gould, Curtis, Gilmore,
Manning. Renan, Porter and Sturgeon
are on the death roll of 1892. Some on
the long list are already forgotten; others
soon will be, but the memory of those
named above will linger through long
years 10 come.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05

cal Institution, Edinburgh, was delivered
the other day by SIR Andrew Lang. Who
took for his subject The Art OF Letters -
He declared that ont Of every hundred
who wrote novels only one was fortunats
enough 10 get his work printed, and "a
about 800 secured a publisher. the novel;
lists Of Great Britain, be calculated, num-
bered about 100 900
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
EXCHANGE sHors.


The year 1898 came in on Sunday;
Lent begins Feb. - and ends with
Easter Sunday, April ?: Washington
birthday, Feb. -, is on Wednesday; St
Pa,rick's day March i on Friday;
Fourth OF July on Tuesday; Labor Day
on Monday, Sept. 1: Christmas, Dec.
- on Monday. There are ba. two
eelipses OF the sun-0ne April Is aud the
other Oct. 9-neither visible 10 this por-
lion Of the earth.