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DOGS GET BORED.



How Mans Example Eas Demoralized tho
Faithful Animal.
Some domestic animals can be very
much bored indeed, says the London
Times. This capacity seems to vary
from the intelligence of the victim and
with the closeness of his relations to
mankind. We may well blush, for in
stance, when we think how man has
dcnoralized the dog. We have taught
the dog to be bored. We have cor
rupted him SO much by our society that
he can no longer depend upon himself,
or even on other dogs for entertain
ment. A cow, it may be boldly said,
never thinks of being bored. Give her
plenty of grass and the company of
another cow by way of gossip, give her
q stream to stand in. and that COW is
happy, as happy as the Buddha him
self. No murmur escapes her lips, no
glance of discomfort shows in her
placid eyes.
The dog, on the other hand, is always
craving for society. A dog has been
know to leave its masters house and
betake itself to that of richer neigh
Dor, who saw more company and enter
tanned the great. To please dog
something must always be going on.
To him the whirl of gayety means life.
He is notoriously incapable of even
taking walk by himself. He detests
solitude. He very seldom even takes
walk with 4ncther dog; never, per-
haps, except where there is aneighbor-
ing wood with rabbits in it. The dog
lives for society and sport, the sure
proof of an idle and ill-occupied mind.
Nature, landscape, in spite of the
Duke of Argyll, is nothing to the dog.
Within doors he is always asking to be
let into room and then asking to be
let out of it if he thinks there is better
that is, more dissipated and frivolous
company elsewhere. The dog who is
accidentally shut out of his masters
house at night bowls till he is let in
again, usually next morning with the
milk. He keeps all the parish awake,
but never manages to waken his owner.
The cause of all this disturbance is
simply ennui and a sense of social neg
lect. The dog could be quite comfort
able in the garden, but he feels that he
is "out Of it., and gives as much trouble
as person who is asking to be asked
to a party.
In state of nature it is most i'm
probable that the dog had these often
sive instincts. A fox, a wolf is never
bored when not in confinement; he
hunts, he sleeps, he plays with his
cubs. Probably savages are never
bored; at corroboree you do not note
men leaning against doors, or, rather,
tree trunks. with an air of unspeakable
tedium. They waltz in and enjoy
1t is clearly civilization
which produces ennui. not only in men,
and children, but even in dogs.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-26
Didn't Know WHY.

"Why don't you get married, dear
boy?"
Il must refer you to Miss Jones, who
persists in jilting me for reasons of her
own. "-Chicaqo Record
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-26
MAKING HISTORY.
Frances Queer Blunders About American
$3.50. Geography.

. Geography.
1t is always amusing to note the
blunders made by European writer's in
treating of American affairs and inter
esting to speculate as to how much of
the worlds history has been based upon
similar errors, says the Youths Com
panion. A French almanac, for in
stance has the following entry opposite
the date April IL: ''1S61. declaration of
war between North and South Amer
lea"
This recalls the fact that, during the
civil war, a Partisan journal contained
the astonishing news that "a decisive
engagement is momentarily expected
between the northern feet drawn up
on the Mississippi river and the
southern fleet, drawn up on the ANA
zon!''
How much a great American reputa-
ton amounts TO in France may be in
feraed from the announcement made
by the Paris Figaro in connection with
the recent marriage of Miss Mcclellan
at Paris that the bride was 1.-The
daughter of Gen. George Mcclellan,
who. for a certain time. commanded
the confederate army in the American
civil war"
1t is not alone in France. however,
that similar blunders are made. Not
long ago Life of Admiral Farragut"
having been published notice of the
book was published in the London
Athen@um. one of the leading literary
papers of England. in which it was
stated that 1.-The Life of Farragut' had
been compiled from documents belong
ing to the family of this celebrated ad-
miral OF the confederate states"
LONDON music halls are more pros
porous than ever Theaters droop, but
music halls flourish.
STREET bands arc not permitted in
Germany, unless they accompany pro-
cessions. In Vienna the organ grinders
are allowed to play only between noon
and sunset.
BJoRNsTJERNE BJoHNsoN uses music
for his amusement, but when he wants
real recreation he goes digging in his
garden and fields The Norwegian
novelistis no j.
THE pianoforte upon which Wagner
received his earliest teaching in
cornterpoint and composition from
Theodore Wenilig. of Leipzig. has been
added to the objects in the Wagner
museum in Vienna
VERDI is writing another opera. and
has invited the Italian singer. Emma
Bellincioni, to create the leading role
'Your youth and beauty" said Verdi.
Il ks first meeting with her. will
compensate for all the faults and fail
ings in the composition of my old age"
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When Baby ras t ii.ss, - g1~c hc- cssoF-%
Who she VS. Z 1.lls Size criei fo- Cs,:@35C.1..
When size oeslsc,-' Z.i.ss s.c ciun; 80 CS,s.,-:s.
Uben She had cs;;tses. SO gass sac:S G.s.o.s>:sr
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-26
Hens Egg Oil.

Extraordinary stories are old Of the
healing properties of new oil which
is easily made from the yolk of hens
eggs. The eggs are first boiled hard,
and the yollSs are then removed,
crushed and placed over a fire, where
they are carefully stirred until the sub
stance is on the point of catching fire,
when the oil separates and the oil may
be poured off. One yoll< will yield
nearly two teaspoonfuls of oil. 1t is
in general use among the colonists Of
south Russia as a means of curing
cuts. bruises, etc.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-26

Algcrnon--i say. Cholly. did;yor evah
notice the-aw-.iEe provision of ma
chaw n cigarette?
Cholly-I never notice snythipgs
Algy. It's bad TOWN.
Algernon- Hang TOWN Hike phiIo-
sophy Now. have often obser.ed
that the lswSt hawif OF eirzsset.e -
not so good a. the first ha~h. Now.
Just think What fix ~. wo-nld be in X
Il was the o;hah way. and -e rad 20
smoke the lawst hzwlf arst.-a. Y.
Weekly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-26
MADAGASCAR SEDAN CHAIRS.

Their Playful Bezrers and Unfortunate
Passenger.
Four men q: time carry the passcn-
ger. always keeping step. The men on
the left side support the pc'e on the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-26
One Door Always Open.

Mother-Fer mercy's sake. child.
what do you expect to do in the world?
You can't cook nor sew nor teach
school, and you are not an heiress;
what can you do?
Daughter-Well. mother. can get
married, can't I?--Texas SiftingS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-26

A lady leading ST. Bernard dog
passed the window Of a club At which
some of the members were sitting.
when one of them exclaimed. loud
enough TO be overheard: WHAT .
beautiful creature"
Feignine recruitment she turned 20 .
policeman and said: Did yoa hear
that insolent man? He called nee .
beautiful creature"
II think you're mistaken. mum" re-
piled the policeman He referred 70
the dog. Judge.
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A TRUE PHILOSOPHER.
It Was q Case That Called for Couroa
of the Spartan Order.

It Was . Case That Called for Courage
of the Spartan Order.
Robert Grant, in Scribner's Magazine,
defines by an incident what hescalls
"a thorough-going, square-trotting
philosopher" This is his illustration,
necessarily shortened. Possibly lovers
of fishing will agree that not even the
most unmerciful curtailing could de-
prive it of force.
remember taking little Fred, my
eldest son, to skate with me one win
ter's afternoon on a suburban pond.
He did famously for a tyro, but we
both wearied at last of his everlasting
strife to maintain the perpendicular,
and was conscious of a rush of joy
when he became completely absorbed
in watching a man Who was fishing for
pickerel through hole in the ice.
Caught anythinS?" asked he
Nope
Had bite?"
Nope"
"How long you been fshing7"
Gan hour"
As / glided away light-heartedly on
the delicious curves of the outer edge,
| reflected that he was evidently per-
severing pot-hunter who would not be
easily discoura ged. and that l could
count upon his engrossing the atten-
ton of my offspring for considerable
period.
Accordingly. was surprised, some
FIVE minutes later. to observe the fish
erman stumbling across the pond to-
ward the shore A moment afterward
learned what had happened
The horny-handed pot-hunter. hav-
ing presently pulled solitary pickerel
out upon the ice and freed ii from his
hook, turned aside to cut another piece
OF bait; whereupon my hopeful picked
up the fish and popped it back into its
native element without so much as .
syllable of commentary: and thereupon
he of the horny hand. having realized
the situation in its terrible entirety.
pulled up his line, shovelled back the
particles of ice into the hole. and be-
took himself upon his stumbling way
without word.
No. q word. mark you, The only
alternative was chiid-murder or 81
lence. and my pot-hunter chose the
simplest form of the dilemma
Il thou ht the fish would like it,
said little Fred, when Intercepted
upon the subject
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-26

fractional silver coin act o: 1898
marked the second effort TO preserve
and rsnonetize silver. Once more the
effort proved vain. and the acts of 1873
1879 and 1890 followed
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He Suored.
Prom N, AtInn'd Contribution.


MULLEN. Ga. June 15.-The central portion
OF Dur town for the past few weeks has beer
greatly disturbed and alarmed at night by tho
hidrous sounds OF what was supposed TO be
some wild animal that was making nightly
visits to our town.
These unearthly sounds actually brought
considerations ana fear to the older and more
thoughtful people. while those OF nervous
temperament were thrown into spasmOdic fits.
Small children woke with frightful fits Of
scream I'M and refused to he Quoted. Our bray
est and most stout-heartod men dared not GO
out to investigate. These distressing sounds
were varied from the screaming Of a tomcat
to the braying Of n mule. aud concluded with u
growl very much resembling that OF an angry
tigress. while at other times 1t took the sound
OF hungry. roaring lion.
Tho whole thing remained n profound mys-
terry until u few nights ngo DR.. J. l.. Farmer.
while out on u professional call. passed
through the immediate vicinity OF this dis
turbance. and discovered that these unearthly
sounds proceeded from certain boarding
house and were caused by n new occupant Of
said house who IS now best known to our citi-
Zans as the champion snorer OF the world.
The Doctor states on oath that these sounds
could be head distinctly for 800 yards. and
had 1t not been for u freight train running in
just at that time he thinks they might have been
heard mile. The Doctor Is stalking his repu-
tuition as a physician against any man who
will compete with this notorious snorer.
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Above tho Harlem River.

By the provisions Of law passed during
the concluding days OF the Legislature
Commissioner HAFFEN. in charge OF street
Improvements in the Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth wards, Is empowered.
whenever the Board OF Street Openinps
shall agree. to proceed with the sew
ering and drainage Of these wards with
out waiting until title to the land has
been acquired by the city. provided the
streets, roads. and avenues In view have
been used for public traffic since Jan. 1.
1874. the date when the annexed district
was severed from W estchester county and
Joined to New York.
The streets must be OF width sufficient
for the construction OF sewers. but before
any contract can be entered into by tho
Commissioner OF Street Improvements, the
Board Of Street Openings must give ten
days notice OF It's intention to consider
whether any street comes within the provi-
sions OF the new law. It's determination. ia
vorable or adverse. is made final: and after
1t has been declared that such an improve
ment can be made. all that remains for the
owners OF property affected is to pay the
assessments levied. In default of which the
city has the right. after notice. to dispose
OF the property at public sale.
Already number OF contracts for sewers
have been entered into by tho Commissioner.
and a. soon - the maps OF the district are
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Without raising club. Superintendent
BYRNEs can make the "pullers-in" of Bnxter
street and other streets behave themselves
and let decent people alone. All he has to 10
is to give orders to the police on the pulling in
beats to keep one eye on every puller-in and
let him know that there Is an eye on him. The
pullers-in are poltroons. though they often fall
upon the defenceless wayfarers who decline to
buy the garments hung in front OF the stores
in which they are interested After taking n
look at the pullers- in. We are sure that they
can be scared very easily. They think they
are toughs. but they are poor specimens OF
the tough. District Attorney NIcoLL declares
that he does not know what can he done with
them. or how action can be taken against
them II complaints are not entered. Superin-
tendent BYRNEs knows. He knows tho power
OF cops eye. Wo hear that he is preparing
to use that eye upon tho pullers-in.
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completed, others will be made. No differ
enoe Of opinion exists regarding the
necessity OF q better system OF drain
age for the annexed district, which.
since the introduction OF the trolley sys-
tenn there. has grown rapidly. the value OF
property being enhanced as the means OF
transportation are multiplied and the con-
veniences OF home life are increased.
But a radical difference OF opinion exists
as to inaugurating these improvements
on 30 large a scale, at present: and
Mayor GiLRoY. who lie one Of the six
members OF tho Board OF Street Open
ings. has been quoted as declaring
very freely that such improvements
should not be carried forward at such n
rate as to burden property unduly with
onerous assessments. At the last meeting
OF the Board the matter was laid over for
few days: but meanwhile some ardent advo-
Gates OF rapid development allege that there
Is no time like the present. More conserva-
tive individuals, upon whose property ono
half OF the direct expense OF these works
will fall, declare that the Commissioners
should go slowly.
The term OF Commissioner HAFFEN ex-
plres at the close OF tho present year.
and 1t Is generally expected that he
will be a candidate at the Novem-
Der election. An opportunity will then
be afforded to the voters OF the
two Assembly districts. which constitute
the annexed territory. to pass upon the
question OF wholesale improvements, favor
ably or adversely rs the case may be. for
long before that time Mr.. HAFFEN.
by the contracts he enters into, will
make known how far he proposes
to utilize the powers granted him by
the Legislature. Meanwhile. the an
nexed district Is growing amazingly. the
value OF real estate property there hay
ing increased from $51. 900, 900 to $4,000. 900
in year; and the population has increased
with corresponding rapidity.
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That urchin OF Ocean Crest who escaped q
spanking through tho intervention OF third
party VIII certainly join Tammany when he
grows up. The grufr Postmaster OF Far Rocka-
way was out driving there: his horse SHE'D and
bolted upon catching sight Of n gang Of young
eters In the street. The angry Postmaster
yelled at them. jumped out Of his buggy. nab
enough. and turned him over across his knee to
give him spanking. At that moment an able
bodied citizen hove In sight told the exasper-
ated Postmaster that he couldn't spank that
boy. and gave him to understand in business
like way and in scientific language that there
would be more than ono thrashing IL he didn't
keep quiet Tho urchin wasn't spanked.
The name OF the nble-bodied citizen who
played the heroic part In this tragi-comedy Is
THOMAS F. GILRoY. Mayor OF New York: the
name OF the subdued but not appeased Post
master is Tom HENDERSON OF Far Rockawny;
the name OF the unspanked though fright
oned urchin is JIMMIE wEIsTEAn.
This Is not campaign story. invented by
tho Democratic party to promote the political
interests Of Mayor GILRoY, or TO boost up Tam
many Hall. tits Republican narrative. ultra
Republican. stifr- a. n poker Republican. 1t
was printed In Yesterdays Tribune.
Hurrah for young JIMMIE WELsTEAD and his
able bodied defender! Laughter for the glum
sulky. weoping-willo Postmaster. who. we
suppose. must be Republican. though tho
Tribune doesn't say so. Where are all the
poets7
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Do babies Eyes Grows


How big are "a Young baby's eyes?" We
have heard 1t stated within the last day or two
persons eye: that the eye does not grow MS tho
body grows: that it is the same size when the
taby Is Torn rs 1t is after the baby has grown
IN to he nun or woman: that 1t Is born full
size. is thon big Ms 1t ever gets to le This
statement has been submitted to number Of
young baby's eye" grows as the body grows.
though not in the same ratio. But is it true!
Authorities are sometimes in error. Expert
witnesses frequently tanSle themselves UP in
all kinds of contradictory statements Of facts:
expert physicians do not reach the same con-
soning; expert cotton buyers oftcntimcs buy
when the slumps in the market prove that they
should have sold. 1t may be that the baby ex-
ports whom we have questioned upon the sub
Ject Of baby eyes have spoken without due con-
sderation. We should like to have the puzzle
settled; DO babies eyes grow. How big is
young baby's cyel
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The Kansas Prophecies.

Mrs. MARY ELIZABETH LEASE. the proph-
etess Of the Populists. and the feriest
voice OF Bleeding Kansas. made a powerful
speech on financial and economic subjects
the other afternoon. She was the guest of
the Peoples Party Club OF Chicago. and her
touching characterization OF the persons
who have the misfortune not to agree with
the Peoples party, must have given great
satisfaction to her audience. She touched
nothing which she did not adorn. and she
touched Old World land vampires. brigands.
robbers. plutocrats. scoundrels. and money
kings. She said that the United States is
controlled by English syndicates and land
holders. and is the land Of the rich and
the home Of the slave. The two great
political parties are silent"
We suggest without frivolity that there
can be no silence so enormous as to be safe
from the Populists. There is no danger OF
their holding their peace. Religion is
dumb" an assertion which seems contra
dicted by Mrs. LEASES remark that 1.-The
newspaper men and the preachers. thank
GOD, are ON the way" Land. money, and
transportation are the three great ques-
tions now bowling to the great American
people to come up and settle them. The
ordinary Sunfower Populist view OF the
settlement desirable is. we believe. that
land. money. and transportation shall be
free to all persons who feel themselves to
be sufficiently downtrodden and averse to
plutocrats.
Neither land nor transportation seems to
be so important in Mrs. LEASES view as
money, large. white money. The demone-
tization of silver assumes. in her eyes, the
dignity of the crime of the century:
1.-THE demonstration of SILVER was that crims 1, was
blow struck At the freedom OF tho race 1t has been
called the great commercial crime Of the age and the
time is not far distant when the world will modify
appsation and It will DO known the unspea able
crime OF the century,"
Far be 1t from us to palliate or defend
crime. but we must express little surprise
that tho decentralization OF silver holds the
first place on the bead roll Of nineteenth
century crime. Does this crime deserve to
stand SO high? Where do trusts and COM
binations come in :? What place belongs to
interest. to bondholding. to foreclosure
sales. to Sheriff's fees. to the crime OF cor
porations? Still. It's enough to know. with
Mrs. LEASE. that "the teaching OF the peo-
plo's sorrow has overlapped the learning of
the schools" Enough to hear, II you can
hear. 1.-The mighty sound Of preparation In
the land Even II your ears are stuffed
with plutocratic prejudices. you can still
hear the mighty sound Of the Populist
thinkers. thinking very loud. Enough to
know that no crime of land vampires,
money kings. or Wall street usurers will go
undiscovered and undenounced by Mrs.
LEASE; and there will be no postponement
on account of the weather.
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prohibition at all times for twenty miles
In all directions from the Pribylov Isl
ands; would forbid the use either OF rifles
or nets by pelaRio hunters; finally. would
require pelagic sealers to take out licenses
| carry distinguishing flag, and note In
| their logs the number and sex Of all seals
caught. and the place Of capture. all under
| the penalty OF forfeiting their licenses.
| Some OF these proposals probably go as
| far as our Government could desire. In
| others It would ask more liberal award
| from the arbitrators. For example. It holds
that the seals swim out much moro than
twenty miles from the Prlbylov Islands. so
that the radius OF protection should be much
greater. Practically. when obliged to mako
Its own rules In the absence OF any conces-
sions from Great Britain. 1t put the bounda-
ry ut the entrance Of Behrfng Sea, whore the
passes between the Aleutian Islands could be
easily watched. and where the herd could
be guarded from the moment it entered
those passes until 1t reached its home. In
the absence OF cooperation by Great Britain.
this imposed an easier task than to put
Gordon OF cruisers along circle OF per-
haps fifty miles radius around the islands.
Even now our Government would insist
that the time OF the year when the herd en-
ters Behring Sea is such as should insure 1t
from attack thereafter until 1t reaches and
leaves the islands. But the British have
already guarded this point by their con-
cession rs to the close season. for 1t Is gen.
orally understood that the annual return to
Behring Sea is somewhere about July1.
We are not to suppose that the arbitrators
will limit themselves to the concessions OF
one side only in this case. They will note
also the requests Of the American counsel.
But what we may now fairly expect is
that, with the value Of restrictions
upon pelagio sealing formally admitted
on both sides. they will make these re-
strictions broad and far-reaching enough to
prove effectual. and. furthermore OF such
kind that the task OF guarding American
property at the Pribylov Islands may not
be needlessly expensive and onerous upon
our Government. which must perform the
police duty.
1t is worth noting that all the rules pro-
posed by Sir RICHARD WEBSTER concern
the pelagic sealers. and not the alleged
undue driving and slaughter on the ISL
ands. 1t is also worth noting that the ma
rine league is not to be the limit for Prib-
ylov Islands protection. but that this will
extend twenty miles at least. and perhaps
much further because the ordinary rule
requires an exception.
Even were the tribunal to grant no more
than the British counsel now concede or re-
quest. the fur seals would secure notable
degree OF protection. and this may be in
creased and made effectual by the decree of
the arbitrators.