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The record-union., 1893-02-27
MARTIN M. HOOkE,
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SPECIAL SALE 0F WALL PAPER

SPEClAL SALE VI WALL PAPER,
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ANDERSON ~ BLISS.
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NOTICE To CREDITORS.-ESTA ATE OF
~ LYMAN WILCOX, deceased. n office is
hereby given by the undersigned, executor OF
the estate OF LYMAN WILCOX. deceased TO
the creditors Of and all persons having claims
against the said deceased. TO exhibit them
with the necessary vouchers. within ten
months after the Drst pu blication of this no
tice, TO the said executor, at the law Offices of
William a. Gett, Jr., southwest corner of
Fifth and j streets (Sutter BuildIng), SacrG-
mento,a al, the same being the place for the
transaction of the business OF the said estate
in the County of Sacramento, State OF Cali
tornia. JAMES NJ. FRALEY,
Executor Of the estate of LYMAN WILCOX,
deceased.
Dated February Is, 1898.
w. a. GETT, JR., Attorney for Executor.
fe2U-5tM
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Here is another series of observations
of the same creature written by the a b.
hot. NJ. Henri Gras, in lie Cosmos:
sFor four years have had gray parrot
from Gabon, which is worthy the atten-
tion of learned men on account of its
memory, its perfect articulation, and the
antuess of its speech. L have never yet
met anyone who has seen parrot to be
compared with it in these three respects.
Il do not pretend to settle the great
question of the amount of intelligence
and feeling possessed by dumb creatures,
Int simply to furnish toward its solution
some new observations. Philosophers
who regard animals as simple machines
probably have never watched or lived
with them.
animals understand good or bad in
,entions, and they trust or distrust ac-
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-02

ency is Thomas ). Geary, Of Santa
Rosa, Cal, whose motto is THE
Chinese must go!' The most unpopu-
lar outside of his own district is
William S. Holman of Aurora, Ind,
who, should O'Neil die, would become
father of the house. He is serving
his fifteenth term. The thinnest is a
member from Medicine Lodge, Kan,
who wears no socks, if current report
be trustworthy. The most literary is
Thomas Dunn English, of Newark. n.
j., once the boon companion of Edgar
Allen Poe, and who has written verses
which the prince of Wales greatly adj
mires. The most interesting is Daniel
Edgar Sickles. of New York, who has
been on trial for his life charged with
murder, who lost leg at Gettysburg
and who once saved the lives of three
men at the risk of his own. The best
educated is William L. Wilson, of
Charlestown, w. Va, who knows
ease and conjugate a Greek verb as
readily as he hustles about the polls
on election day, not to mention essays
he has written on the integral calculus
and equations of the second degree.
The most unique is William McAleer,
of Philadelphia, Pa. who is the
first out and out democrat and sup
porter of Grover Cleveland and tariff
for revenue only to be elected on the
republican ticket after his own party
refused him a denomination. The one
who hobs up sserenely is Joseph A.
Scranton, of Scranton. Pa. who is
elected and defeated with much regu-
larity at every other congressional
election. The most puzzled is Charles
T. Crisp, of Americas, Ga, who has
never been able to decide whether he
is eligible to the presidency of the
United States or not, having been
born abroad Of American parents.
DAVID WECHsLER
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-02
MODES FOR NATIONS
The Kinda Of Flowers They Should Wear
in Their BOnnets.

Matrons should wear flowers symbol
lcal of their years. Leave the simple
fiowerets, the blue campanile. the prim
rose. snowdrop. hawthorn and briar-
rose to the young maidens and brides
under thirty. and choose from among
the stately blooms of maturer types
those which will be most becoming and
suitable. There are numbers of them,
these floral matrons of regal colorlngs
or subdued shades, from the costly
orchid in its myriad tones and forms,
to the tender heliotrope, with its sug-
gestive semblance to half-mourning.
The iris, for instance, and the ever
popular tulip are both flowers
which, if properly handled, should
look well in a black lace bon
net; pansies made in velvet are exqui-
site blooms for cap or matronly
chapeau, while the rich tints of the
waI-hower are never more appreciable
than when they nestle among folds of
lace or velvet and crowd the head of
some comely dowager.
Most decidedly let us wear flowers in
our new bonnets. and plenty of them,
too: and, for all their alliance with
youth and beauty and other heeting
things. they are ours By right of wom-
anly participation, and our milliner's
by right of clever imitation.
One word more before we leave the
subject of flowers. and that is, never
wear common artificial ones. If imita-
he. h4 - a.
then let the imitation be perfect one.
The poke-bonnet is particularly be-
coming to elderly women. and just now
there are to be seen some OF drawn fig
ured net, having quilted white tulle
or hsse bandcau inside: the strings are
of white ribbon, or sometimes of mixed
black and white velvet and ribbon.
The trimming consists of black and
white ostrich feathers and an osprey of
Jet This bonnet is an ideal one as re-
CARDS weight. and it IS. moreover, very
pretty. For younger ladies, the crown
is sometimes Of finely-cut jet or steel
and a spray OF flowers Is arranged a.
the hrim. are two rosettes of velvet
which match the tone of the flowers
As the brims of both hats and bonnets
are so wide, there IS a decided ten
dency TO fill mp the aperture with some
flowers or ribbon
Another very charming black bonnet
is OF lace. the shape, half determined
Marie Stuart, has high crown Of let.
and the back OF the bonnet has three
IInpeyan feathers and beetle of a
lovely metallic color. A popular style
of trimming l. tina roSAffA of s,ncs.-sa.3
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-02

ostrich. In coIors there are but two
prominent ones-at the moment the
one is emerald green, the other the
purple known as ''Eminence." Frilled
lace and straw ribbon are much used
in millinery, and the former has the
merit of being inexpensive and very
dura bic. All flowers and feathers are
fastened into chapeaux by means of
jeweled pins, and the heads of the pins
take the form of frogs, lizards, cats,
birds or beetles.
Many of the bonnets have strings of
Eminence colored velvet, and, where
the only other shade is black, it is a
pretty finish to a bonnet. A novel
shape, which seems to me to be very
suita BILE for our matrons, has a square
crown and brim which is wider than
hat generally seen. This bonnet NAV
be trimmed with flowers. and a small
wreath of small blossoms run around
the crown is an improvement It's not
often that we advocate hat as being
suita ble for the ladies whose age has
raised them to the dignity of the title
intimated at the head of this column:
but toque made of moss-green velve.
and shaded velvet wall flowers
appeared to DC so eminently adapta-
BILE to them that we fain would
suggest its imitation But il must be
large toQue, one that amply covers the
head, and neither too fat nor too high.
The former is characteristic in mil
linery which is only permissible to the
very young. tits, somehow, suggestive
of innocence and perfect freshness. and
in an older woman the impression given
is one of dowdiness- Too much height.
on the contrary, conveys an idea OF
vulgar smartness, and that is altogether
undesirabl
A contemporary, speaking of fashion
for matrons. says that nothing could
be more homogeneous than a chap>au
evincing the coquettish tendencies of
the present fashion, perched above a
face upon which time has already laid
his finger, and which is crowned with
hair IN which CLEAN many silver
threads"
Now few words on caps They are
always popular with elderly women. If
they are only an eDheneral fancy with
younger ones They arc rendered much
more becoming By few bows or twists
of dark colored velvet. or ribbon. and
all lace employed in their manufacture
should be Of the very finest descrip-
ton Grape o. lisse is very dainty
where lace IS not used. and in cases of
half mourning caps of white or pale
mauve lisse dotted with je, black ca
buchons on chenille spots, look ~ery
well-N. Y journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-02
DEEP IN THE CORAL SEA
Fairy Forest OF Wondrous Shapes and
Colors in n Sea of Emerald.

Fairy Forest OF Wondrous Shapes and
Colors in n Sea of Emerald.
In no part Of the world are the part
1y-buried ocean wonders more lavishlv
displayed in all their endless variety
than off this northeastern coast of
Terra Australis, within the Great Bar
rier reef in the Coral sea. As the boat
is launched to take us ashore, says
writer in Good Words, the wonders
commence at once. 1t is surely some
fairy forest where elfin kings court
princesses in flshly guise, or water
I babies sit and pout on some coral
bowlder. Or is it a Submarine flower
garden where the mer1iaids dwell?
Deep down in c!ea', bright water
wondrous shapes ana .cblors are seen,
ut first indistincsly, like tinted pho
tograph out of foc''s, then, as the
water gets shallo d shallower,
more and more dist y fash the jew
ell fires. and the picture is complete.
Large fat bowls of milk-white coral
first attract the eye. Then others with
branching antlers like fallen deer,
only the fairy herd there are lying
buried in huge, confused mass. Some
are covered with ten thousand sharp
pinnacles of light purply color, each
pinnacle having bright blue eye (or
what looks like an eye) at the extrem-
aty.
All in a sea of emerald, this dream OF
enchantment. We fear before we see
half the glory of it we might awake
and. alas! forget too soon. There light
and feathery branches of ferr-like
coral are blushing a soft pink or pale
hasturtium yellow. Here large solid
masses of brain coral, round and white.
the surface incrusted or engraved with
the most delicate lace tracings; and
Others green and shaped like coarse
moss.
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vania railroad has erected a Young
Mems Christian association building
for the railroad department. The cor
ner stone was recently laid with APP
propriate ceremonies by President
George Z. Roberts of the railroad.
There were also addresses By Rev DR.
McCaughey, K. C. Morse, secretary of
the international committee, and
others. There were present large
number of the officers of the road.
The number of theological candi-
dates who fail to pass in Prussia is quite
large. With good reasons the exami-
nation is called a ''rigorosum. The
latest annual report states that Of 553
candidates of the first examination S.
failed to pass OF the other 46s. not
one received the mark first Glass;
only 9s had moderate, +" and go mere
~ passed. Of the asa candidates for the
second examination, two years after
the first, 81 failed to pass. OF the 9TH
er Az, not one was first class" III
moderate" and go only passed.
An old programme of the Harvard
commencement exercises for 1901 re-
cords that on that occasion there were
oratioDs in Latin, Greek and Hebrew,
English poems, forensic disputation.
colloquial discussions, and dialogues on
questions of the day, besides a mum Der
OF English orations- An account of the
exercises says that the house was
crowded il every quarter. and the cir
cles of ladies were brilliant and ami
mating. The performances were re-
ceived as the evidence of solid learning
and useful application. and the APP
planse they met was juGicious and sin
cere
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-02

Suppose you try the experiment Of
writing few sentences without VOW
els, without word spaces. without cap
itais and without pnnctuatioDs-ia ss
placing the consDnants Of the words,
one after another. the sarae space be-
tween each txo letters. until you eli .
page That is all that Hebrew writing
for fifteen centuries afforded Taks
such sentence as God j. love" I,
would be written; ''gdsIg." II you
had simply these eoasonants yoa
would be AZ great loss what % make
Of them. You might put ia one set o:
voTvels ard il would read; God does
live" With other sosyeis IL Sili read
'>aged slave" and with Others good
salye." The Hebrews KEEP. 'hep-onuo
citation and the division into sentences
b. reading aloud and practically cors-
hitting. from generation 20 ge-ers~
ton
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-02

reason for the special session was that
war with France was imminent. It
never came, no thanks to the Fifth
congress. The government at that
time paid no salary to the presidents
private secretary nor to the executive
clerks, pages, or other more or less
useful functionaries. When congress
opened President Adams appeared be-
fore the senate and house and made a
speech to the members. When he had
done everybody stood up respectfully
as he passed out. No such scene will
the witnessed on the eth of Au-
gust next. President Cleveland will
not enter the halls of congress. The
ca binet in 1897 contained five members,
Timothy Pickering, secretary of state,
Oliver Wolcott, secretary of the treas
ury, James McHenry, secretary of war,
Joseph Habersham, postmaster gen.
eral, and Charles Lee, attorney general.
There was no secretary of the interior,
no secretary of the navy, and no Sec
retary of agriculture. In fact the
postmaster general was not a member
of the cabinet in 1897 and the presi-
Dental advisers were therefore but
four in number when congress first
met in special session. The states
were sixteen all told-the thirteen orig
inal colonies and Vermont, Kentucky
and Tennessee. The senate numbered
thirty-two members instead of eighty
eight. There were no territories. The
city of Washington did not exist. The
white house of 1897 has disappeared
from the face of the earth. Its site in
Philadelphia is unmarked by anything
but n hideous brick structure that is
leased for shirt factory and a photo
graph gallery. The old Independence
hall still stands, but SO changed in
many respects that the memb ers of the
Fifth congress would not recognize it
could they see the structure.
The congress summoned by President
Cleveland contains four hundred and
forty-four members. not counting the
four territorial delegates OF the eigh- y
ty-eight senators forty-five are pretty
sure TO vote solidly democratic, thirty
eight republican. three peoples and
two doubtful. The youngest of them
Is Edward O. Wolcott, of Denver, Col.
He was born in 1S4s in Massachusetts,
and is lawyer by profession. The
oldest is Justin S. Morrill,. of STAFFORD.
Vt, who was born in 1910, and is a
merchant Moreover he is the Nestor
of congress, having served thirty-nine
years The rest of the senate is made
ap of sixty-one lawyers. four capital
lists, two journalists, two lumber
men, two manufacturers. one mer-
chant, one railroad official, one
miner. one stock raiser, one car
builder. one doctor, two bankers. one
planter and six quarrymen- The rest
put themselves dewn as retired
Twenty of the senators served in the
confederate army during the war and
sixteen in the union army. The man
with the longest time TO serve is Ed
ward c. Walthall. of Grenada. Miss,
who has been reelected by the legis-
lature of his state for the term end
ing in 1901. The most cultured
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-02
ODDITIES OF CONGRESS.
Out Of the Way Facts That Re-
call tho First Extra Session.
Quaint Traits of Present Membcrs-The
Daintiest Man In Congress, Also
the Haughtiest, the Merriest, tho
Quecrest and Richest.
COPYRIGHT, 1881

iCoPYRIGHT, 1888.
The persons entitled to serve as MEM
bers Of the Fifty-third congress, to
quote President Cleveland, and whom
he has required to take notice" that
they must assemble in special session
on August Z, form collectively body
of men that possesses some eminently
curious statistical features.
To begin with, each member of the
house of representatives is theoretic-
ally the mouthpiece of just 49, O1 per-
sons-a decided increase over the thirty
thousand that representative stood
for in the First congress. The smaller
number was provided for by the con-
stitution, the larger is based on the
last census. Every member of the
present congress may reasonably be
presumed to have read the proclama-
ton calling the extra session within
twenty-four hours after it was issued
When the first extra session Of con-
gress ever held was called by President
John Adams in March, 1897, many a
member did not even learn the fact
for six weeks. Small as the country
then was-some sixteen states mostly
along. the Atlantic seaboard-it would
have been impossible for congress to
assemble in the single month allowed
by President Cleveland for the 1egis-
lative branch of the government to
come together, although scattered over
q territory nearly as large as all Eu-
rope. Indeed, one gentleman who raced
across the country on horseback to at
tend the special session of 1897 did not
reach Philadelphia-th the nations
capital-until after congress had adj
journed. In that year the senate and
house assembled in little brick build
ing with a few rooms in it. The white
house was just block away and like
wise of brick and very modest Tie
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-02
FELT LIKE A BOY AGAIN.
"A Weary Bank President Who Found .
Friend in a Yale Graduate.

Friend in a Yale Graduate.
stout gentleman, well on to sixty
years, was in the throng of visitors at
the produce exchange baths in New
York on a recent afternoon. He told
I everybody that he'd had hard week.
He said he was bank president. All
the attendants seemed to know him. He
knew all the attendants, too. They were
Tom and Tim and Petit to him. He
wanted everybody to understand that
he'd had a hard week. Every new
conner was corraled and impressed with
the fact. Then he said that he wanted
someone to take his hand and wade
through the pool with him. The pool
is thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide,
with five feet of salt water He want
ed to wade in, new summer suit and
all. It would rest him and make him
forget his hard week, he said. if some
body would take his hand and wade in
with him
It'll make me feel like a boy
again" said the alleged bank president.
''We used to wade in clothes and all
when was boy" he added when his
appeal was not needed.
While he was looking for some one
to take his hand and wade, in walked
young man also in a new summer
suit. The young man wore silver
bowed spectacles He is graduate of
Yale. He peered over his spectacles at
the old fellow, who returned the peer,
and then made his appeal to the young
man.
( well, old man." said he of the sill
YER bowed spectacles, 81 was out pretty
late myself last night. I'll go you"
Soiemnly the old man and the younger
man clasped hands and walked to the
edge of the pool. They zigzagged
little, but they stood upon the brink of
the pool steady enough. and banging
their hats down upon their heads, they
stepped off. The water was nearly up
TO their shoulders. But hand in hand
they waded the length of the pool, the
bank president smiling and contented
and the younger man peering over his
silver-bowed spectacles as if in con-
templative mood. Not word did they
say to each other. The old mans face
wore the expansive smile of childish
delight. The younger man was sol
EMMY content. They clambered out of
the pool hand in hand, soaked from
shoulders to heels. The old man shook
the hand of his younger comrade and
said
! 81 thank you, sir. You have afforded
me much pleasure.
"All right, old man." said the Yale
graduate; ANY time you want to wade
send for me-,
He gave the old man his card, and as
the old man jabbed the limp paste
board into the puddle in his waistcoat
pocket he remembered his watch. He
pulled out massive gold timepiece
The salt water had stopped it and prob
q bly, ruined it. AS he came to this con-
dition the old man said ,
''Well, never mind, we had fun didn't |
we?'
Then the two men were tackled off, to |
the steam-room and stripped, and for |
two hours they nodded sleepily at each |
other while their clothes and shoes |
were drying.-N. Y. Sun.
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Ehe aeha naIy eagle aaeduesasp ornug august 2 1888.

senator is Henry Cabot Lodge,
of Massachusetts. who is an au-
thor, artist. linguist, scholar and
society man. The handsomest is
Charles II. Gibson. of Maryland. The
most senatorial is Alfred FL. Colquitt,
Of Georgia, whose father and grand
father sat in the senate before him.
The haughtiest is ]. Donald Cameron,
of Pennsylvania, whose unique distinc-
ton it is never to say word in the
senate unless he moves to adjOurn.
The richest, now that Stanford is dead,
would seem to be John P. Jones, OF
Nevada, who bestows gold dollars on
the beggars Of Washington. The one
most celebrated outside of his own
country is John Sherman. The most
abused is Matthew Stanley Quay, Of
Pennsylvania. The most punctilious
is Calvin S. Brice, of Ohio, who changes
his shirt three times every day. The
most temperate is David B. Hill, Of
New York, who neither drinks, smokes,
swears, CANDLES nor eats dainties.
In the house are two hundred and
four members who served in the
last congress besides sixteen 9TH
ers not in the last congress but
members of congress previous to it.
The father Of the house is Charles
O'Neill, of Philadelphia, Pa, who if he
outlives his present term will have
broken the record by having served
thirty consecutive years in the lower
branch Of congress. The house will
contain two hundred and six lawyers,
forty-seven farmers and agriculturists,
fourteen journalists. fourteen manu-
facturers, thirteen merchants, five
bankers, three teachers. one publisher,
two doctors, two clergymen, two col
lege professors, two printers, six gentle
men Of leisure, two society men and
thirty odd whose pursuits are too in
definitely reported for classification. OF
the lot two hundred and twenty-one
are certain to go into the democratic
caucus, one hundred and twenty-six
will be solidly republican and call
themselves populists. That leaves two
und etermined. The most eloquent of
all is w. Bourke Cochran, of New York.
The one with the most solid constitu-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-02
THE RIDING HABIT.
Some Points About the Wardrobe of sh
Equextrf<nne.

Some Points Aboat the Wardrobe of the
Equessrfenne.
Few departments Of q lsdy's outfit
offer so much difficulty 10 fashion re-
por'ers as the riding habit. This may
be on account o: the general plain make
requiring but little description. One
thing mus. be borne IN mind. and that
is the devoted horse woman is always
IN earnest and Of her osn viii zvoids
all nonsense in the gay OF so-czlisd
sporting en- blefns or ornaments Her
hat and other requirements are made
30 suit a practical purpose and may re-
main the same for years without nader-
going apy roticea be chance s.ven
though some slight alterations sfasy
hare been INDUCED m /. IL jus: this
conservative element. this RETAINING
from ornament, which makes riding
habit 50 distinguished hooking Every
thing conspicuous, saeh az aying vsil@.
ieweiry with sporting era hlesns, bright
colored handkerchief borders AID
20 On cugh- 70 &c sSSssaliy avoided,