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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-08-03

understand why you were 90 tired out at
night and went TO sleep on the way home,
your head resting on the shoulder OF per-
feet stranger. Any man who started NJ Madi-
son street and walked 10 Jackson Park would
think he was performing feat OF endurance
He comes 10 jackson Park aud covers the
same distance without knowing II. Why II
M Those who have studied the strange
ways OF humanity say II IL because he IL
buoyed up and exhilatated by novel sights
and kept on the prance by rousing music.
HIS mind is 30 busy that he forgets about his
legs.
How far must man walk TO see all the
FairP This IL a hard questionto answer, but
here are some fairly accurate figures on the
larger buildings. II you wish TO traverse the
main aisles In the Manufactures Building,
Just to get good general impression but
without edging around thousands OF show
cases, you will find nine main aisles east and
west. each $50 feet long. total length OF
$3.50 feet. The north and south aisles, eleven
In number, are each 1850 feet long. making
total length of 1920 feet. This makes
10000 feet, n trifie less than Ave miles. The
minimum estimate for the gallery on the
same basis H. ~ 800 ieet This does not
allow for passing through the narrow aisles
OF open exhibits. IL refers only TO what
might properly be called the streets and ave
nues. Furthermore, 10 does not allow for
doubling up on each thoroughfare. The
visitor must see both sides at the same
time.
Machinery Hall hns Ave east and west
aisles, each 1900 feet long. To pass through
these requires $500 feet OF travel. There are
eight fnatn 8isles north and south. each 500
feet long, making 1000 additional feet or 10. .
200 In all. To ''do" the building thoroughly
these transverse aisles should be covered
On this basis the necessary travelling distance
is called l0,5O0 feet. The same rule Is fol-
lowed In the case of each building.
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pavilion are mnch admired. and are vsIued
In the appraisement at $4,000. The pottery
and glassware, the figures in gilt. the stat
uary and carving IN wood. the beautiful
collection and display In marble and bronze,
make the Italian exhibit not only one OF the
most valuable, but among the most interest
ing.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-08-03

--THE State Of chihuahua, Mero,
Rio Grande border, has passed ar
provides that anyone caught in th,
stealing cattle shall be shot on the "a
that the death penalty shall be :.
upon all convicted cattle thieves
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tees of examining surgeons. sia,..
for salaries OF axcn . sT2.Wt f.,
pension agencies, $40 i,on; rents
agencies, s22.s5o; fuel and livh,
agencies, 1880; contingent e1eO,.'
sion agencies s35.Ooo.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-08-03

The grand total Is sOme,hing in excess OF
lis,OOO feet or nearly twenty-ihree miles. Al
the same time the estimate does not include
state, Government or private buildings the
Pialsance Is ignored ana no account il taken
OF the long jumps from one building 10 an-
other. Let the reader Agure for hitaself
whether by walking forty miles he could soc
every nook and corner OF the Exposition
from the washy head Of the pier to the ives, .
ward end OF Midway Paisance.
The moral OF this is Don't try to see
everything In one day"
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-08-03

Reports from all the western b,y
State Of Kansas are that the corn \.
20 badly damaged by hot winds NJ
amount Of rain can now do mach ]
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transportation, annex ............. 1000
Horticulture main floor ........... 5000
Horticulture. gallery y.................. 900
Government ... ..................... 1900
Nomhns Including gallery y......... e. 1000
Fisheries ......... ............... ...... 800
Art Palace, main section .............. 8. 500
Art Palace. two wings s................. 1000
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-08-03
Base Ball Record,

The following table shows the standing of
HE different base ball clubs up TO date
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-11

TIE finest ancient marble was that
from Paros called Parian; the next best
were from Mount Pentelicus and Hy-
mettus, near Athens.
THE Roman houses and palaces were
so imperfectly lighted that in many
living rooms the inmates were forced
to depend on lamps by day as well as
by night.
A LADY in Dalton, Ga, owns gold
breastpin of great antiquity, and with
in circle of diamonds of the bright
est luster is lock of George Washing
tons hair
THE largest cut stones in the world
nre in the temple of the Sun al Baal-
bee. Many are more than sixty feet
long, twenty feet broad, and of an un-
known depth.
MAGMA CHARTA, the great charter of
Englishmens liberties, is preserved in
the British museum. It is somewhat
stained by time, but King Johns seal
and name are still quite legible at the
bottom of it.
FRENCH archaologists are going to
England to study her antiquities. The
members of the French Archaeological
society intend TO visit Dover, Battle
Abbey and Hastings in order to discuss
the Norman conquest of England.
IN the Spanish province of Corona a
fairly pure type of the dwarf race OF
Morocco and the Atlas has been traced.
These people average about three and
one-half feet in height, and are other
wise characterized by yellow skin,
broad, square faces, Mongolian eyes
and red hair of a woolly texture.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-11
SEASONABUE YARNS,

a FARMER near buchanan. Ga, has.
1t is reported, tame rattlesnake. that
has the freedom OF the premises, and
beats forty yard dogs keeping off in
truders
a RESIDENT of Piueville, Ore, has a
porcupine from which he has shorn
the quills, leaving it perfectly harm-
less The porcupine evidently realizes
that 1t IS deprived of its means of de-
fense, and instead OF being on the de-
fensive is quite docile.
A FISH was caught in the lake at
Heiibronn, Swabia, in the year 1897,
which had brass ring attached bear
ing record of the fact that the same
tiSh had been caught in the year 1880
and released after having the queer
label affixed to his body.
A TIIREE-YEAR-oLD boy in Arkansas
Is said to have recently killed a rattle
snake 'Just twice as old as himself. in
side OF w.ich were water mocassin
four feet long. blacksnake the same
length, two dead toads and one live
one and large bullfrog."
PARsoN d. s. GREESrrErp. Of tha
eastern shore of Maryland, affirrns that
he saw in Chester river. branch Of
the Chesapeake, the other dav. n
watersnake as long and as thick as a
large oar in the act Of swallowinr q
great catfish head FIRST. A great cat
tsh in the Chesapeake may easily
mean q ten Dounder.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-11
FRUITS AND FLOWERS.

Two THOUSAND varieties of apples
are raised in the United States.
The orange was first planted in
southern California by the Franciscan
fathers soon after they established their
first mission in the state at San Diego
IN 1863
THAT fragile and paradoxical won
der, the ''snow plant" which is found
in the Sierra Nevada mountains, IS
pronounced by western botanists as
probably our most remarkable plant
PLANTS breathe through the ''stom-
ata," or breathing pores in the leaves
In case the plant or tree is of the
leafess variety the stem, which is also
provided with stonata, performs the
Office Of breathing.
IT is said that the orange was origin
ally berry of the size of the ordinary
wild cherry. It's evolution in size and
sweetness IS the result of 1890 years OF
attention by horticul.urists
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-11
INFORMATION IN FIGURES.

MINNEAPOLIS new directory shows
its population to be 222,707.
SINCE 1s40 the worlds production of
meat has increased 81 per cent, that of
grain 420 per cent.
The publishers of the Chicago city
directory claim that the statistics gath
cred by them show that Chicago has
now a population of 100000, or 4O0,-
coo more than New York.
OUT of 374. 741 alien steerage passen-
gers landed at New York in 1892, only
4,116 gave their destination as the
southern states. So far this year the
proportion of southward-b bound immi-
grants is no greater.
THE annual consumption of meat in
Australia is 276 pounds per habitant;
IN Argentina, 100; in the United States,
150; in Great Britain, lis; in France,
q; in Germany, Oh; in Austria, 61; in
Russia, 81: in Italy, 26.
THE value of farming lands in this
country is greatest in New Jersey. In
1888 it averaged: New Jersey, S65, Mas
sachusetts, $50; Ohio, S46; New York,
ST.; Vermont, $50; Maryland, S32; Wis
consin, s23. and in some western states
less than S. per acre.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-11
HORSES WITH WHITE FEET.
Considered Unlucky In France, But High
ly Thought Of in the Orient.

considered tniucky In france, But High
ly Thought of in the Orient.
In France, and / believe in European
countries, says L'Artiste, it is most
ominous sign for rider, and especial
ly soldier, to want horse with four
white feet. The famous Gen. LSsa1le,
who was very superstitious upon this
point, never knowingly mounted such
horse. The day of his death, after
several ominous events which had
happened to him that day, such as
broken mirror broken pipe, the
picture of his wife broken at the mo-
ment when he went to look at il for the
last time. he mounted a horse not his
own and without glancing at its feet
The horse had the unlucky signs.
Mounted upon this horse he was struck
by shot fred at moment when
fighting had ceased by Croat among
the prisoners just taken at the battle
of Wagram.
On the other hand. these four white
feet are mark and token of consider
alton with orientals. who do not fail
70 mention the fact in the pedigree of
their horses. / notice proof in the
certified list, made By the elders of
the countries, wh.,h accompanies the
present which Abd'el Kader in July,
1854, made 10 the emperor OF a certain
number OF valuable horses. Thousands
cfsuch proofs may b. cited.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-11
PERSONAL PlCKlNGS.

THE will of Edwin Booth leaves thu
sum OF FIVE thousand dollars 10 the
Home OF Incurables at West Farms.
ELLA RoDpE, Turk who can speak
nine languages but cannot write hio
name, is to be appointed a quarantino
interpreter at a salary Of four doliAs.
q day at New York
VAN LEER Polk. OF Nashville, who =
consul general at Calcutta. says hs
will dress, eat and drink like the ua-
tives, with a view 20 escaping cholera
and other indigenous troubles
Hon. GEORGE S. BOUTWELL,. when
elected governor Of Massachusetts,,
was the youngest person ever elected
To that Office. Now he is the senior
ex-governor of the state "a well as the
oldest in years
BEFogE SIR. Drexel went abroad 10
had been arranged that his youngest
son. George ~. childs Drexel. should
be associated at an early day with Hr.
ChilGs in the management Of the Pub
lie Ledger. and this plan Is 80 be car
ried out
SENATOR HuL has sbandoned El-
mira as a place of resIdepce aud has
made Albany his home. Official and So
cisL On bis note paper tho name 81
his country place appears ss Wolf
erts Boost, instead of "Hu-ssk." "A
christened by its former owner, j. K.
E1urslet
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-11
SCIENCE CHIPS.

FINGER NAILS grow most rapidly upon
the healthy.
LONDON physicians assert that new
form of throat disease is caused by the
wooden pavements of that city.
Ina square inch of the human scalp
the hairs number about one thousand,
and the whole number on an adult
scalp is about one hundred and twenty
thousand.
TAXING the earth as the center of
the universe and the polar star as the
limit of our vision, the visible universe
embraces an aerial space with diam
eter of 420, 900, 900. 900 miles, and a Cir
conference of 1929, ,742, ,000, 900 miles.
The great fall Of "manna" in Mardin
and Diarbekir, Asiatic Turkey, has
been explained. Chemists who exam
ined the stuff report it to be species
of ichen Necanora esculanta), which
is not known to grow outside of Tunis,
Morocco and Algeria.
In view of Chandler's discovery
year or two ago of an invisible third
orb about which the star Algol and its
dark complexion revolve, it is interest
ing to know that the late William Fer
rel, the eminent meteorologist, sug-
gested in 1855 the existence of such q
BODY
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-11
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS,

a handsome illustrated Columbian year
souvenir has been issued by the Univer-
sity of Kansas. The souvenir contains
excellent half-tone engravings of build
ings, laboratories and museums, and will
= be sent on application to the registrar of
The university or to the chancellor +. II.
Snow
The twenty-eiGhth academic year of the
University o: Kansas begins on Wednes-
day, Sept. 6. Students are admitted on
certificates from over seventy-five Kansas
high schools, or on examination. The
university now occupies eight buildings,
Including library building ($75, COO and
u physics building 500, ,0Q0) now in course
of erection. Its faculty numbers forty
live It's student enrolment for last year
was 1o9, exclusive of mere than 400 uni
NerSlty extension students enrolled for
credit. The university comprises schools
ot arts, law, pharmacy, engineering (civii
ant electrically and music aud painting
Tuition is Tree 10 Kansas students, 4
lecture fee of SO Is charged students in
The school OF law.
For catalogues and Information applv
10 the registrar of the university, Law
renee, or To 4. II. Snow, chancellor.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-11
INTERESTING FACTS.

RATS avoid house wherein guinea
pig is permitted to roam at will
In 1888 Noah Webster printed the
first spelling book ever manufactured
in this country.
MORE sweets are sold in New York,
Philadelphia and Chicago than in the
whole of France.
OVER twenty-six per cent. of the
reading men in every country are
short sighted or otherwise of defective
vision.
LARGE, long pearly teeth belong to
sentimental, imaginative people; small,
short yellow teeth to those of an un-
poetical turn of mind
MEN of marked ability in any line
have usually one deep, perpendicular
wrinkle in the middle of the forehead,
with one or two parallel to it on each
side.
THE relative ratios of the smaller
letters in ordinary printing is: q, 1; k,
J, q, x, 3; b, v, Z; g, p, w, y, 10; C, f, u,
m, 12; d, l, 20; h, r, 80; a, i, n, o, S, 40;
t, 45; e, 60-total, 532.
ONE-FoURTH of the land surface of
the globe is occupied by English-speak-
ing people, distributed as follows:
United States, 3,50O,0OO square miles;
Canada, 5000, 900: Australia, 5000, 900:
South Africa, 1900, 900.
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STOPPING FoR ONE MORE.

undisputed. Now we are at sea, ana
red tape drives US distracted. Give uss
a dictator, on whose word we can rely.
Nothing siclSens the soul like uncer-
tainty. We have come 10 Chicago TO
do our part toward making success
ell along the line" A head, dear peo-
pie, is all the Columbian exposition,
needs for the fulfillment Of its noble
destiny. but, as yov ere not exhibitors
your withers will remain unwrung,
whether the directory are seized with
an interval of common sense or whether
they continue to disappoint the best
friends Of the fair by bidding the world
contemplate colossal exhibit Of red
tape KATE FrKLn
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-11
VALUABLE STONES.

THE wine cups of the Assyrians
were shaped like our saucers and were
of agate, other semi-precious stones,
gold and silver.
NERo's eyeglass, through which the
near-sighted tyrant watched the gladi-
atorial games, was an emerald cut into
the form of lens.
WHEN the French crown Jewels were
inventoried in 1871 there were 9,547
diamonds, 500 pearls, $50 rubies, 134
sapphires, $50 emeralds, II topazes, 3
amethysts and number Of unclassifed
stones.
TAvERNIER saw in India diamond
of 104 carats, whose center was SO fonl
as to make the stone worthless. When
it was cut open it yielded eight csrats
of filth, like that from the bottom of a
dirty pond.
TIGER-EYE is a peculiar crystalliza-
ton of quartz. Formerly very rare and
costly. large deposits have been found
in the western states and in Sonth
Africa, SO that many common articles
are now made of it.
A DIAMOND weighing 97o carats in the
rough has been found at the Jagers-
fontein mine in South Africa. 1t is a
blue-white stone, and is the largest
ever found in Africa, its size being
set off by comparison with the historic
Kohinoor, which weighs about 16255
caratS.
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cess. There's no doubt about every
other kind of success. No amount of
mismanagementc can kill the fair now
What Niagara and Yosemite are to
he handiworil OF God, the Colum bian
exposition is TO the handiwork of man.
Come and judge for yourselves, dear
people. Ask for excursion trains from
the leading towns of your state. OF
course there should have been a pre-
concerted plan long ago; but it is never
too late to mend, and great railroads
are quick to respond to an unmistak-
able popular demand.
The life of the fair is one-half spent.
Three months remain in which yon
can obtain liberal education by a
Journey round the world in Jackson
park and the Midway Plaisance that
would astonish even Jules Verne.
The strongest reason for believing
that God is on the side of the fair is
that congress, two kinds of commission
and several kinds of policy have failed
to kill it,
Like the Phoenix, il rises again and
again from its own ashes and looks ON
serencly at the fight for its possession.
Congress did have sense enough to
appoint a director general, who. how
ever, has been as much out of job as
the brilliant Kansan whose pyrotech-
nics no longer illumine the senate of
the United States. There is no doubt
that the local directory has done
a great work in raising the money
and employing the best brains in
the nation in building n dream
city, which TO me is symphony in
white. Such architecture, such land
scape designs never were seen since the
world began When Director James
w. Ellsworth assumed the responsible
ity of engaging that great artist,
Frederick Law Olmstead, to design the
plan of the fair, he was inspired. When
Daniel II. Burnham was appointed
constructor of works second inspira-
tion overlook the directory When
Burnham called on Richard ". Hunt,
Mckim, Mead & White, Peabody &
Sterns, Van Brunt. Atwood, Post and
other eminent architects to plan the
buildings of the fair, he again was in
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-11
FAST STEAMERS DEFENDED.
The Shorter in Passage the less the Pas
scn2ers Eat.

The Shorter in Passage the Less the Pas
sen2ers Eat.
When man talks of ''fast boat"
a twenty-two-knot boat. which means
a twenty-five mile boat, from Queens
town to Sandy Hook, the pessimist ut
ters the word ''coall" and feels that no
more terr ible condemnation could be
uttered. The coal consumption, says
the Saturday Review, is no doubt
great. but the shorter trip means less
human fuel in the shape of fewer meals
for the passengers. The quick pas
sage is all in favor of the ship owner
in the commissariat of the ship.
Many of the passengers become hun
cry only on the fourth day, and the
reduction of the journey from ten to
five days means something considera-
BILE in the consumption of beef, seeing
that the reduction is always in the hun
cry days.
The ship owner calculates, with ap-
palling Indifference to suffering hui
manity. that if the passage could be
shortened day or two more some OF
his passengers could be landed just at
the time they were beginning to think
about the cook as person of conse-
quence. There is another practical
view of this case. A ship that can
make a voyage to New York and back
in a fortnight will earn ffty-two
freights in the year, instead of twen-
ty-six of the boats of twenty years ago.
The crew costs no more, if the coal
does, and the earnings are double.
Those who know most about boats
know also that the safe boat is the fast
boat. because the fast boat must of ne
cessitY be strong.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-11
ASlAIIC CHOLERA.

NEW YORK, Aug. 10-What are found
to be rev cases of Asiatic cholera have
been discovered on the quarantined vessels
in the lower bay. Vincenzo Caglostro
died last night at Swinburne island. 1t
was well defined case Of cholera.
VIENNA, Aug. 10.-An official statement
ISSUED by the sanitary council of Austria
declares that the condition of Austria with
regard to cholera is very precarious, much
more so than in 1882. Cholera has broken
out among the natives building the rail
way on the Galician frontier TAirty-f1ve
are dead and hundreds have fled. Seven
new cases and two deaths have occurred at
CZernawood.
BUCHAREST, Aug. 10-ln the twenty
four hours ending at noon thlrty-six new
cases of cholera and four deaths were re-
ported in Brahilov. There have been
sixty-oue new cases and ten deaths III
Soolein.
NAPLES, Aug. 10.-Three deaths from
cholera have been reported in the last
Jwenty-four hours, Cases OF cholera are
constantly occurring in the districts
around Naples.
BERLIN, Aug. 10.-The imperial board
OF health denies the report that case of
cholera occurred few days ago III this
City.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-11
EG0-STEALINQ HENS.
Fowls That PurIoin the Contents Of tn,
Neighbor's NeStS.

fowls Thae PurlOin the Contents OF Their
Neighbor's Nests.
In Capt. Bendire's Life Histories Of
North American Birds the hen of the
Canada grouse is reported as con-
firmed egg-thief A number of these
birds were observed in captivity to
rob one another's nests frequently.
Two hens had their nests near to-
gether, about two feet apart, and as
each laid every other day, one nest
would be vacant while the other was
occupied. The hen that laid last
would not go away until she had
stolen the nest-egg from the other
nest and placed it in her own.
A hen was once seen to attempt to
steal an egg from another nest twenty
feet distant. She worked for half an
hour or SO, but did not succeed in NOV
ing the coveted egg more than eight
feet-the way being uphill. The egg
escaped her and rolled back foot or
two SO often that she gave up the task
in disgust.
One evening the observer found one
hen on the nest, and knew that she
was beginning to set, as all the other
hens had gone to roost. Slipping his
hand under her he found three eggs,
the nest-egg, an egg she had just
laid, and one stolen from neighbor-
ing nest
He took two out and held them be-
fore her, when she placed her bill over
one and tried to pull it out of his
hand. AS he refused TO let her have it,
she placed her bill over the remaining
egg and pushed it back out of sight, as
much as to say: you have two, and
that is all you can have" She pleaded
so hard for the other eggs that he
took them away with much reluctance.
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spired, and further proved his great
ness bv summoning as chief Of decora-
ton 4. y. Millet, the distinguished
artist Millet, in his turn. invoked the
aid Of c. c. Coleman. Carroll BecLSwith,
c. Y. Turner. George ". Maynard.
Dodge and other painters OF equal
prominence. As for sculpture, Il reieyns
supreme in the work OF IacAonnies.
French, ST. Gaudens. Proctor, Potter,
Martigny, etc, etc.
The worlds fair directory have real
izcd every expectation except the
necessity Of decorating their divided
authority 70 one man.
If ever an sutoerzt With brains was
needed il IS al Jackson park. What
would you think, dear people, o, az
army without a general. q ship withou;
captain, a party without leader
Hamlet" without the melancholy
Dane is no more sorry spectacle than