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The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29
A PRINCES ROMANTIC CAREER.
Alexander of Battenberg Was q Popular
Ruler and a Great Stratcgist.

Alexander of Battenberg Was q Popular
Ruler and Great stratcsist.
Prince Alexander of Battenberg's
early death has closed one of the most
romantic careers of this or any other
century, says London Truth. He was
the successful and popular ruler of
Bulgaria for several years, and he
proved himself to be brave soldier
and brilliant strategist. The bitter
hostility of Russia made him abdicate
in the interest of Bulgaria, and then
new career opened before him in Ger
many. He became the prime favorite
of Emperor and Empress Frederick
and their family, was persona graf
issirna at the English court, and finally
was announced to be betrothed to
Princess Victoria of Prussia
Every one must remember the storm
which ragged at Berlin during the brief
reign of Emperor Frederick, in conse-
quence of Prince Bismarck's furious OPP
position to the proposed marriage; the
emperor, the empress and the queen
being very strongly in favor of the
match, which had also the acquies-
cence of the present emperor. 1t was
no secret that Prince Alexander wa.
destined after his marriage to fill
very high post indeed in the German
empire. The match was still on"
when Prince Alexander suddenly Tilted
the princess early in 1889, in order to
marry an opera singer, whom he had
met at Mentone.
The enthusiasm for Prince Alexan-
der which prevailed at our own court
caused infinite trouble to4Iord Sails
bury for some years, as oil kinds Of in
trigues were going on in his favor.
When Prince Alexander suddenly mar
ried the pendulum swung in the other
direction, and he became an object of
positive detestation at court, where his
name was not allowed to be men
toned, and his portraits were all taken
down The queen and Prince Alexan-
der met at Florence last April, when
amicable relations were restored. but
Empress Frederick never forgave him.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29
OF MANY NATioNAllTles.
The Peoples Who Inhabit the Storm-Ra,
aged Region of Louisiana.

The Peoples Who Inhabit the Storm-Rav-
aged Region of Louisiana.
OF the two thousand and eight count
ed victims of the recent Louisiana coast
floods only ffty-three We're negroes,
says letter to the Troy Times There
are few colored people in the section
visited by the storm. They are a
mixed-up people in that part of Lou
isiana- The predominating races are
Acadians, Austrians, creoles. Islingues,
Italians, Manillamen, Chinese and
Spaniards, the number of each ranging
in the order named.
The Acadians are descendants of the
people who have been immortalized in
Longfellow's poem '.Evangeline. :"
These people have large families. fire.
quently from twelve to fifteen children
each. The Manillamen are ull-blooded
Tagals from the Philippine islands:
these people had no women among
them; they had oely one stove in the
whole colony, and they eat their fish
raw. They fraternize we'll with the
Chinese, and are treated by the whites
on equal terms. The people called
Austrians are genuine Slavs, generally
Morlachs from Dalmatia. They speak
Italian, relic of the days when Ven
ice ruled Dalmatia. They are all fish
ermen, and are an industrious, bold
and hardy people. The Islingues are
the descendants of a colony of Canary
islanders, who came over to Louisiana
during the Spanish invasion. They
have a dash of the Berber blood of the
Canary aborigines and are darker than
the average Spaniard. Scattered
among these various people are few
Americans and Germans and many
creoles
In spite Of their propinquity these
races generally live separate, and one
can in travelling few miles find set
Elements of pure-blooded people of
each nationality. This is remarka-
BILE fact. as many families are natives
who can count their American descent
back for ten or a dozen generations.
They live in the swamps and lowlands,
and this accounts for the terrible de-
struction of life by the storm. They
control the entire fishing industry, but
the packing houses for oysters and
shrimps are owned by Americans.
There were eighteen hundred fisher
men lost in the floods; the others were
sailors, traders, storekeepers and farm
ers The absence of negroes is due to
the fact that they have been driven
out by the overwhelming numbers of
these queer people.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

Woman suffrage has little support
from any source in Kentucky, neverthe-
less the women of Congressman Billie
Breckenridge's district have determined
to take a hand in the next campaign in
that district if the ''silver tongued" cid
Lothario shows his head for reelection
The Blackburn family have made Miss
Pollard's cause their own, and the Black
burns are implacable when they enlist
in a cause. This is not the first time
Breckenridge has been under a cloud: he
remained in strict privacy for number
of years and up to seven or eight years
ago on account of an alleged personal
delinquency. But the avowal of the
women of the district TO compass his de-
feat is conspicuous innovation in Ken
tucky politics. II the issue should be
joined along that line, look out for flow
of rich, red Kentucky gore, and lots
IF it
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29
Velocity of Electricity.

The idea that signal passes
through the cables between Europe
and America in an inapprcciable
space of time is erroneous; the time IL
is in transit probably exceeds one
tenth of a second. In 1888 Wheat
stone estimated the velocity at two
hundred and eighty-eight thousand
miles per second, but his number is
now known to be ten times too high
Prof. Gould has ascertained that
aerial telegraph wires on poles trans
NIT electricity at the rate Of from
fourteen thousand TO sixteen thousand
miles per second, and that the veloci-
ty of transmission increases with the
distance between the wires and the
earth, or, IN other words, with the
height OF suspension. Subterrancan
wires. like submarine cables, transmit
slowly. While wires suspended az a
feeble height transmit signals al a ve-
locity OF twelve thousand miles ger
second, those that are suspended
higher give a velocity Of from sixteen
thousand TO twenty-four thousand
,IcS
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29
Trse-Clirn hing Rabbits

A. the late xeeting of the zoolocic-
81 society ot London q most reraarks-
bic instance Of evolution n sle sdapta-
ton o! animal organisms ~ their era-
vironuents was demonstrated Mr..
Tegetmeier said that the English rah-
bits imported into Australia were
gradually changing their habits and
becoming tree-cliGz 5ers, tbs aTaalaols
food 20. them there being largely The
bark ard lea~es ot trees Ia evlGeace
OF his assertions Re showed tae feet o.
some Australian rabbits, sThieb showed
that they are sl.ghteT than tbo@e O.
their English r-oxe2itors- aad iaelI
claws a-a lor.-er ard Shs-Tsex.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29
SPECULATIVE CAPITALIZATION.

Sixty-three railway corporations, rep
resenting one thirteenth of all the rail-
way values in the United States, have
gone into the hands of receivers since
the first day of January last. Another
thirteen per cent, or twenty-five
per cent In all, may be ex-
pected to liquidate their enormous
speculative capitalization and indebted
ness in the same way. The total shrink
age of values for the past two years is
beyond any computation that would
prove even approximately correct. The
individual was the first victim, the firm
and company next, but the opulent and
arrogant capitalist, the bond and stock
owner and money loaner who foreclosed
on the individual victim In the first in
stance, his time is coming now.
'The mills of the gods grind slow,
But they grind exceedingly small"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29
Christmas Weather Proverbs.

A warm Christmas, cold Easter.
A light Christmas, a heavy sheaf.
A green Christmas, white Easter.
A green Christmas makes fat grave
yard.
A wind on Christmas day, trees will
bring much fruit.
If Christmas finds a bridge, he'll
break it; if he finds none, he'll make
one.
If ice will bear man before Christmas
1t will not bear man afterwards.
The shepherd would rather see his
wife enter the staLle on Christmas day
than the sun.
If the sun shines through the apple
trees on Christmas day there will be an
abundant crop the following year.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

Richard Croker, boss of Tammany, ten
years ago was poor mau. Today he is
worth over million. In those ten years
he has not done a lick of work. Ho took
his money from the thieves and the
thugs and the street walkers. When
this is taken into consideration there ap-
pears to be some excuse for the cranky
attacks of Parkhurst on the police force,
although 1t is useless to hope that one
man can wipe out Tammany.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

Major Rathuone's denial of any knowl-
edge of designs on the part of ex-Presi-
dent Harrison or o. his close personal
friends for him. upon the nomination
for president in 1894. calls TO mind ex-
Senator Edmunds' declaration recently
that .'Whitelaw Reid viii ye, be vice
president OF the United States if he lives
long enough" Few people viii care to
dispute with the ex-senator on that
proposition.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

The Minnesota legislature last winter
enacted law prohibiting corporations
and individuals in that state from re-
fusing TO employ members of labor or
ganizations. The validity of the act Is
TO be tested IN the state courts. action
having been brought against Il railroad
superintendent for violating tie law
Additional Interest attaches 20 the case
since the American Protective associas
ton. the new secret political organiza-
;ion, comes under the ban OF the law,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

Holman wants to pack the Indians off
by themselves. Why does he not pro-
pose to allot state for the negroes, the
Chiuese, the Teutons, tine Celts, and
every other division of nationality in
this country? This country is made up
of all nationalities and the Indian should
be made to scratch with the rest with
out any favors.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29
SENATORIAL COURTESY.
How tho italian Ambassador Got Even
with tho French AmbAssador.

How tho italian Ambassador Got Even
with tho French Ambassador.
Before the introduction of the Aele-
graph ambassadors at foreign courts
used to be far more important person
ages than they now are, and great
rival grandeur existed among them.
On one occasion, says Cassell's Satur-
day Journal, a new Italian minister
had arrived at the Spanish capital.
and went en- suite to pay his respects
to the reigning sovereign. Arriving
at one of the reception-rooms to the
palace, he found it occupied by an i'm
posing-looking man surrounded by a
glittering throng. These he not un-
naturally took to be the king and his
courtiers, and with profound obeisance
introduced himself.
The supposed king received him with
gracious condescension till the doors
opened and an even more magnificent
train ushered in the real king and
showed to the discounted Italian that
he had been kneeling before ms hated
rival, the French ambassador, who
took no pains to conceal his satisfac-
tion at the fattering mistake. But
his triumph was not to last, for in the
evening of the same day the king,
with the Italian as his partner, was
playing cards against the French min
lister and third ambassador, when in
thes course Of the game the Italian
threw down a card, exclaim;ng: THAT
is the king and 1t wins us the trickr'
His partner looked at it and said:
"No! You only played the knave."
20, beg your majesty's pardon. so
I havc!" and with quick glance at
his French opponent he continued:
land It is the second time to-day that
1 have mistaken knave for a king,"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

II was on quiet street in Washing
Ton. and the Only sound ths. broke the
Stiffness was the cry ot sn OH eolored
man who WAS peaallDs hiralEes from
= pash-Ga-. HIS noise evidently ds&-
ssrhed somebody. tor = wiB1sg7s
opened and woman .hr7as. or. hcr
head TO Sxy "DeAr Hse, What = y-eSt
clsUo-T The rn4n stopped hss cart.
took Of hss Ia, an6 sasd. wish = hcw.
.Ts.2nicy, LADY. ;hzaky. D~ts whs;
Il Is De rrea.est elsramer - d
VI ..e.s p.s.-.-x o. Columbia
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29
he prevalent business

The prevalent business depression
seems to be of the nature of a disease.
and in epidemic form. Il has spread ali
over the commercial world. Ii is some
qualification TO know that the United
States escaped until it is the last TO come
under the ban, bu, this moiety Of cou-
ISOLATION is minified when we reflect that
we should have escaped any serious
consequences if not altogether. but for
the change that took place at the capital
on the fourth of last March.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29
COMING SOON
TIT

street, or quarter Of . .o~n. Is t~a
feet or more in length. The iron psgs
a one end 81 the piece Of wood eorrs-
spood 70 ~ many boiss IL the wooden
bar or bolt Of ia. iock. which when
The doOy o. gate IL shat cannot -
opened ustl the key hs@ teen tn-
sert<d, and the trnp-alsnens so sha
drawing back of she bolt removed By
raising up ~ many ;rnn Pins sha. fasi
down Into holes IN TIE bar or bolt cor
respcsdsnz 20 ;hs peg tn the k~y."
This description. sna others % cor.
-osziFy ehsrscssr. prove ;ha. ths.
fsrsn % loeS aud key -as in zse u
Egypt sozE or ave tasozsasd years,
eaTisg which extended period Of ssrss
Il coss not appear 20 have uE-serRo,>
sny succ>ssfal changes
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

Mitchell says he Is determined to fight
Corbett. The fact that Corbett is saying
nothing would indicate that he is not
only determined TO fight Mitchell but
also to attend to another small detail
that is, lick him.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

/; beGins TO appear pretty certain,
barring ali accidents IN the present coc-
gress, Kansas will have to WORRY along for
a good portion os the mex three years
win les protection for her Iron and lum-
Der sndustries-Et- Trade Ex-
And witt, less demand and lower prices
for Ler wheat and corn aui hogs aad cat
tie. aud less money with which 20 buy the
neceSsaries she cannot or does not pro-
,iuce. q, yes: free trade Will be grea.
snap for Kansas farmers.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

There are l30,o00 more soldiers in the
standing armies OF Europe than there
was last Christmas. This does not mean
the imminence of war so much as the
incidental circumstance that Germany
has frothy youth for an emperor. anu
every country on the continent is afraid
of him.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

Bill Hackney's attack on England, fol-
lowed Immediately by report that he
is to be assassinated, would seem to
warrant the war department in station
ing a man-of- war off Winfield.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29
Likewise Always Behind.

From the Republic city News
The Cleveland administration is like a
two-edged sword-it cuts two Ways. Or
1T may be likened to a cows tail in fly
!lme-you cannot tell where it is going
to strike next. The west and south
''got 1t IN the neck in the recent silver
legislation and now it threatens to swipe
the manufacturing industry of the east
OH the face of the earth with the en-
actment of the Wilson tariff bill.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

Another Christmas has passed and we
are more strongly impressed than ever
that the world would be happier if there
could be an indisputable mediumistic
demonstration that the devil is not let
ting the fire so out under the man who
invented tin-horns.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

If the English estimate of trade con-
ditions in this country-which they rep
resent as advancing-is simply in con-
,rast with the situation over there.
Britain must be in pitiable condition,
indeed
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29
Disappearance Of a Desert.
From the Hutchinson Newa

From the Hutchinson Newa
The "Great American Desert" which
occupied vast area on the maps of the
time when school children were taught
that perhaps sooner or later lines of stage
coaches would convey travellers from
the Atlantic 10 the Pacific, has gradually
dwlndled. 1t was still formidab BILE on
the maps of thirty years ago. but now it
Is confined to an area of few hundred
square miles in Utah, west and south
west of Great Salt Lake.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

In Barcelona all men who are dis
covered with bottles on their person are
4rrested as Anarchists, on the suppesi-
tion that the bottle may contain ex-
plosive chemicals. Tourists from Kan
sas will do well to avoid Spain at
nrpsppt
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

Mr.. Stead has taken occasion to jump
rough shod on the rich women OF Chi
cago. 1t is terrible thing to realize
that any man would speak harsEly of
Mrs. Potter Palmer, whom the papers
and even the Palmer family themselves,
regard as divinity.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

Il * clear that the Wicaits EAGLE deesn't
aleSa To forgive Secretary Mobser for talk
ing rs;ionslIy OF tbe relations OK Kansas
and Kansas Cits.-kansAs Guy Journal
No paper outside Of Missouri coald
probably be foaud accusing that old
s.napssnl sad sinacurist of being guilty
Of ras.oualitT.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

Prendergast's grandfather. it has been
proved. was insane. This may save the
assasSln's neck. That grandfather never
saw this country, Yet the taint in his
mind has IN another being shocked the
whole nation and put his family name
on every tongue. This is queer world
ana the United States is the oueerest
spot on II.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

With Pennoyer in the far west, Lew
Alling in the center of the country,
Waite should be situated in Maine. This
would distribute the crank governors
and relieve the situation of an element
of sectional abuse.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29
IMPROVING THE EYES.
Country Life Il the Best Antidote for
NearsIg htedAess-

Country Life Is the Best Antidote for
Nearsig tedAess-
It is satisfactory to be told by Mr..
Ellis that blindness in England is
SLOWLY decreasing" says the Specta-
tor, though Great Britain still stands
in this respect behind two other Euro
pean countries, and three more come
before Ireland. Shortsightedness,
however, appears to be increasing
everywhere, Germany having signal
and sinister prominence in this re-
spect-
A French doctor has noted the re-
markable fact that wild beasts caught
quite young or born in captivity become
shortsighted, the conclusion being that
the eye adapts itself 20 its habitual
sphere OF vision, and unless ''educat-
ed" to use Mr.. Ellis term, 20 see OBJ
jects at distance, loses the capacity
Of so doing. Even in after life the eye
may be. 20 some extent. so educated.
though probably only when the rnyopia
is not considerable
II IS thus within the experience Of
the present writer that his sigh; great
lv improved in days gone By, when he
became volunteer, By practice at the
butts. so that while a. first he could
not see the target 10 shoot al without
spectacles az the ti7ree-hundred-y yard
range, after a tyvelvemouth or 50 he
only needed 10 put on spectaeles at
four hundred yards. But bevond that
range he was never able 70 dispense
with them
Country excursions are therefore ex-
treraeiy valuable a. means OF strength
ening the sight of coxD-bred children:
and the conductors Of sEich excursions
should take pains 10 direct the eves c'
the children TO distant ob5ecfs-.o the
turshest hiIl. church tower Or other
landmark, noting. II possible, any in
capacity 20 tsscer,, the selected object.
snd then selecting @nEss Hes eer c7e fer
iaa HeAkexHighaeda,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

Governor Lewelling no doubt is great
big man in the Populist party, but in
kicking out Mary Lease he kicked out a
bigger man than himself, as he willlearn
later ON.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

II war breaks out in Europe. authori.
ties declare that the first ruciion Will oc.
cur IN Turkey. Russia is attempting to
unite It's Mediterranean feet and its
Black sea fleet. Ii il seconded by
France. Great Britain must fight for
supremacy. BY fighting she alone can
maintain it. For this reason the war
clouds in Europe just at present appear
TO something more than mere smoke.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

We are now at that witching season
when the local poets become fractions
and get up at midnight TO write the
burning words which tell an unsuspect-
ing world that the old year is dying.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29
EXCHANGE EPIToMES.
Tossing Her Head. She Sad.

TOSSING Her Head. Sh0 S6'o.
You say you love me; nay, can swear Ii, too;
But stay. sir, twill not do
know you keep your Oaths
just as SOu wear your clothes.
While new and fresh il fashion;
But once grown old,
4ou lay them by.
Forgot like words you speak in passion.
I'll not believe you, l.
DIR. John Wilson Cl66ol.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

Ring out the old year. ring in the new.
By the way, this is much easier to do
than to ring penny cane at the New
Years church fair.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

In Washington it is told of Peffer that
q doctor told him that he needed
change in his diet-and PETER began to
swallow pennies.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

Ingalls, seems to be edging back into
politics with much the same timorouS
apprehension that man climbing a
lightning rod during thunder storm
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

When the legislature Of Colorado
meets in special session it should strike
out the enacting clause of Governor
Waite
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29
Plenty Of Company in X aiting.

From the Fort Worth Gazette
When the facts in relation to the late
rush to the Cherokee strip are all known
there will be many more found to
keep company with Mr.. Malone, the IN
dc ed land register at Perry. There
was more fraud in the opening of that
part OF the territory than the grand
Juries viii uncover in five years.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

There is suspicion that Harrison is
pinching his presidential boom to make
it cry and so apprise the country that 1t
is still alive
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29
Dependents But No. Beggars.

Lawrence Journal:
The Indians of this country draw
seven millions a year from the govern
ment. This Is one reason why Indians
are seldom found wandering around the
country begging for bread. Another
reason is that Indians seldom eat bread.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

1t may be unfair to say that Leweliing
has wheel. Indeed there is no proof
that he has wheel in his head. Still
there is rotary motion there that looks
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

John J. ingalls, never celebrated
Christmas, he says, when he was boy.
The only holiday known to his youth
was Thanksgiving day.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

There wont be so much as a grease
spot or smell left of Lorenzo ID. Lewell-
ing when Mollie from County Clare has
cot through with his carcass.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

LYMAN Z. Humphrey has stopped
eropinc about in oblivion long enough
to remark that he will not be a candidate
this year
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

The emismanagement of the Democratic
party will yet give rise to a ciamor 'i'a'
a receiver be appointed.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

1t is with feeling akin to JOY that we
re,,ark that Liliuokalani is still In statu
quo and just a mite moreso than ever.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

II is waste of time for the ways ana
means committee to consider an ihcoine
tax. Incomes are things OF the past.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

We are gradually saving off the
anti-pyrine and may be rid of our
Christmas headache by New Years day.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

Train robbing for December shows an
increase over November.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

The nrice of wheat is still visible to
the naked eye.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

Mollie will now proceed to chew Lo-
renzo up and spew him out.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29

Under the laws of Kansas shootln
craps and song birds is forbidden.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-29
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