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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-14
POSSIBLY IN PoTTER's FIELD.
A Starting Sta-y of tie Wreck In Whtcl
Margaret Es.I.r Wzs Lost.

A stsrt.ia. sta-y of tie Wreck in Which
! Margaret Ee,I-r WAs Lost
| The nsaae of Margaret Fuller-Ossoi
is sill n..ae to couture with among
the litszazy psorlc of the older gene
ratio, in N,cw York. She is, according
to the New York Herald. supposed to
! have foand her tcn.b in the ocean, but
there Is some reason to suspect that
| her 6;saoncrsfi remains rest in the old
potts-'s fed O; New York. Thereby
hangs curious tale l met weather
| beaten old boatrlan at Fire island last
su,o1ncr, who captains fishing craft
with coasrm-ra:e Skill. and there Is
sharp t:aglc OF Attic SILT il his stories
and "Reminiscences Among other
things he told ne he was on the beach
| that June night il 1850 when cisss-
1 trous storm wrecked the bark EliZ-
abeth, which was bringing ho-ae FROM
| Italy Margaret Fuller, beloved AMI ae.-
.nired on two continents, her husband
and child The ship foundered cE Fire
| island beach in plain sight Of land,
and only few of the crew succeeded
in passing the breakers. Some bodies.
not many, were washed ashore few
days afterward.
Among these was woman's corpse,
hideously disigured, wave-beuten. fish
eaten, grisly horror to the eye. But
it had two very curiously shaped teeth
stopped with gold in peculiar fash
ion. which were known to have char
acterized Margaret Fuller. And be-
-. A. II, 1,oI 1ha iy on
the bark. When her friends came
down to look, as soon as the report of
bodies washed ashore reached New
York, and they saw the awful thing
vomited up from the jaws of the ocean,
they recoiled shuddering, and utterly
refused to admit that it could be
Margaret Fuller. No! their Margaret
was softly Graded somewhere in the
cool green sea depths. and they could
only think of her in the words of Ariels
song:
OF her bones are'coral made,
Those are pearls that were her eyes
Nothing of her but doth suffer sea change
Into something rich and strange
So, dishonored and rejected of all,
the sea-battered remains of what had
proba bly, been Margaret Fuller were
sent to New York and buried IL the pot
ter's field among paupers, tramps and
OutcaSuS.
What He Forgot.
Little Johnny-Can have some more
pie?
Mamma-Do not say "can;" say,
May have
Little JOHNNY forgot.
Mamma-Forgot what?
Little Johnny-That 1 have to be
particular about grammar wen l ask
for pie.-Good News.
One of the Lucky Smiths.
Jones-Allow me to congratulate
you. / hear you have married an act
reSS.
Smith-You are mistaken. 1t is an
other Smith.
Jones-It is, eh? Then, sir, allow
me to congratulate you all the more
at your lucky 'escape.-Texas Siftings.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15
The Ostrich Waltz,

a traveller who is too modest to allow his
name to be made public declares that he
has discovered the origin of the waltz.
Neither America nor Europe possesses the
honor of being the birthplace of this dance,
which, like many other wonderful things,
comes from Africa-at least so says our
traveller. He assures us in solemn earnest
that every morning at sunrise the ostriches
collect in groups and go through regular
and graceful movements, which is nothing
other than the waltz. Unfortunately he
does not complete his information by tell
ing us whether the birds dance the Ameri-
can, English or German style, SO we are
left in ignorance as to which form is the
most primitive. He also loses sight of the
fact that instead of the colonists having
learned the waltz from the ostriches they
may have relieved the mQnotony of their
existence by teaching the birds to dance
Detroit Free Press.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15
AMERlCANISMS.
They Often Possess Genuine Humor and
Sometimes Poetic Force.

They Often Possess Genuine Humor and
Sometimes Poetic Force.
1t is in phrasemaking and in descriptive
epithet that the American really shines,
and here he is unequaled. His turn for
quaint metaphor, his singularly quick eye
for resem blances between homogeneous OBJ
Jects and his gift of picturesque resentment
combine to impart genuine humor and
sometimes almost poetic force to the best
examples of his slang. "Tanglefoot," for
instance, as An epithet of ardent spirits, has
well nigh the force of poetry. 1t would al
most seem to have been invented, accord
ing to the best rules of that art, by man
with his eye upon the object"
Take. again, the admirably graphic ex-
preston to pan out" with its realistic
suggestions of the patient labor Of the gold
washer and the absolute finality OF its re-
suits. What more expressive and satisfy
ing description of directness of route could
be given than bee liner" Who would pre-
fer the pale negation conveyed in our key
less watch" to the concrete image which is
at once flashed upon the mind by the term
''stemwinder9" Or our pedantic and mean
ingless ''perambulator" to-another ennis
sion, by the way, from Mr.. Russell's CLOS
sary-the graphic push buggy" of the
Americans2
In the way of humorous analogy few
droller metaphors can ever have occurred
to the human mind than that which de-
scribes the point of a nail or tin tack as its
business end" To keep a stiff upper
lip" as a synonym for the display of firm
ness; to keep the eyes skinned" as an
equivalent for the maintenance of vigi-
liant attitude; to have a hard row to hoe"
for difficult task to perform; to take a
back seat" for to retire under circum-
stances of humiliation from position of
undue prominence; to have brick in the
hat, for to be top heavy with intoxication;
to "waken snakes" as the 'last word" of
dangerous and deliberately created disturb
ance-all these are phrases which "palpi-
tate with actualty." They are the obvious
coinage of an intensely realistic and prac-
teal race, of a people whose minds almost
instinctively frame n visual representation
of incidents and objects which it is the
habit of NEST other nations tocontemplate
in the form of mental distractions
1t can hardly be maintained that from
the point of view q. the external graces
these locutions can =. regarded in all in
stances rs ornaments to the literature of
our common language. 1t is, however, only
fair to admit that many, or most of them,
if outwardly inelegant, possess that in
trinsically and essentially literary quality
of "expressivepess'' in so high a degree as
to deserve pardon for their defects of form.
And it is the satisfaction yielded by them
to the universal human desire for the di
rect, forcible and stimulating expression of
thought-a desire far older and stronger
than the literary instinct-whch has given
some of them so tenacious hold upon Eng
fish speech on both sides of the Atlantic
London Spectator.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15
A Philrs nhar's nnini IL

Voltaire ia 10 beautiful young lad with
whom h was dung. Your riva's are the per-
lection OF art; you the perfect on OF nature
This could OF have been saii if the young lady
was suffering ON sisease and pain had left its
signs onthe fe lures Women who want 20 I eep
beautiful, and he the ''perfcct'on of nature. -
sholld Usa "Fayortc cscrip ion TO assist
nature when needed, to corroc IRE -ulaTities aid
circulation an' digestion, mi thereto dear up
the skin. Tcpd,ri II fl and beautiful. DIR.
Pierce, Favoritc Pre- or p i'm is the onlE mcdi-
cine for woman'@ p :cula- ills, sold through drug
gists, and aranteel to give SAT- faction in every
case, or money refunded.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15
The Ingenious NIaypie.

The magpie is nothing if not ingenious.
He always barricades his bulky nest with
thorn branches, so that to plumber it is by
no means an easy matter; but when cir
cumstances oblige the pie" to build in a
low bush or hedge-an absence of lofty
trees being u marked feature of some
northern localities-he not only interlaces
his home, but also the entire bush in
most formidable manner. Nor does he stop
here. To make assurance doubly sure"
he fashions means of exit as well as en-
trance to the castle, so that If disturbed he
can slip out by his back door, as it were.-
Exchange.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15
Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa Grafton.

1t was my good fortune to hear in 1887
the address which DR.. Holmes calls the
declaration of independence of American
acknowledgements Phi Beta Kappa ora
ton of July at Cambridge So can re-
member the surprise-shall say the Indig-
nation-which the simple, solid, discon-
nected phases of that address awakened
among those who heard remember the
covert criticism of the gay dinner party
which followed. | remember how afterward
men and women freely said he was crazy.
Alas, have on paper my own schoolboy
doubts whether he appreciated the coca
sion! 1t happened to me 30 years after in
one of the most exquisite homes in Ameri-
ca some two miles ;.boyv the l-vel of the
sea, on that easy slope of the Rocky noun
tains, among all the fresh comforts which
make palace as desirable u home as n log
cabin, to find on the table of my hostess,
who is herself one of the leaders of today.
q new edition of this Grafton of 40 wears be-
fore
l read it then with absolute amazement.
If you will look ut it when you 20 home.
you will share that amazement For |
could not find one extravaganza could
not find one word which should shock the
most timid. 1t was impossible to under
stand where the craZiness came in So had
he led the age in those 40 years, or so had
the God who sent him into the world led
it, that the prophecy was fulfilled over and
over again. The extravaganza of one day
had become the commonplace of another
Edward Z. Hale's Address
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15

Mr.. c. D. Barm,z of this city has sug-
gested means of preventing cholera and
other diseases by cheapand effective meth
cd. The remedy is common soot.-such as
can be obtained from any chimney SCOT
Is composed of pure carbon and is formed
by the hot vapor Of the hydrocarbons com
ing from burning fuel striking the cold
walls of the chimney or stovepipe and CON
densing thereon. 1t is very light, porous
and impalpable powder, and like its twin
brother, charcoal, which is the same Gle
ment in a different form, possesses the prop
erty of absorbing and retaining wonder
fully large amount of gas. The great danger
of disease about sewers, dr.ins and similar
places is almost entirely due 10 gas given
off by decomposing matter If SCOT be
sprinkled about these places, it will absorb
the foul gas -Baltimore American.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15
An Evening Discussion.

Il don't take any greet account o. the
proverbs an aXioms an so on that's printed
in the magazines nowadays" remarked
Mrs. Philander Peasley to her husband as
she laid down the last number of a monthly
publication. ''Pve been a-studyin over a
volume of 'em that some man has writ
here, an wonder that folks'll publish sech
stuff You can make 'em mean one thing
or mother, jest accordin as you see fit. Now
here's one on 'em, 1T is as unfortnit to
seize the wrong chance to do or say thing
as It's to let the right one pass by
Now I'd like to be told how folks would
come out ef they was TO be scat at both
sides like thatl What I'd like is the old
fashioned proverbs There amt any two
ways @ taking them, an gettin misled
Make hay while the sun shinesr Now,
amt that clear? Haste makes waste
What's truer'n that, I'd like to know?
There amt one of them old sayin's but
what's true as preachin, Eowsumever you
take EN-. They cant lie turned an twisted
round to mean any thin 4 body pleasas!'
DO you recall one about a thing amt
lost when you know where 'tis?'" inquired
Captain peasley in his usual shrill quaver
Il should say | did" replied his wife
promptly. FAN mGny's the time I've heard
it,"
We'll" sad TAG captain, with a sugges
ton of laugh i'll his trembling old voice,
Il had cooE once tibet quoted tibet to me
when the ieakiJt.e was washed overheard.
an all the cups nu saucers, bat we didn't
seem to be able to find en-, Sary"
Il reckon you've set up about long
enough this cvenin," said Mrs Peasley
dryly, and Sire bundled the captain Off to
bed with considerable haste.-Youth's
Companion
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15
re Eoree orns orcano.

Few people il this country imagine what
terrible work volcano of the regulation
size can TO when it once gets fully aroused.
In les CotopaXi threw its fiery rockets
more than 3,GG0 feet above the crater, and
In lc5', when the El;lZing mass confined in
the same mountain vas struggling for an
outlet it roGred SO 'NItl that the awful
noise was heard for distance of GOO miles
In 1897 the crater of runguragua, one of
the great peaks of the Andes, flung out tor
rents of mud and lava which damned up
great river. opened new lakes, besides
making a deposit of seething mud, ashes
and lava COO feet deep over the whole area
of valley which was 20 miles long and
averaged 1000 feet in width
The stream of lava which flowed from
Vesuvius in 1897 and passed through the
valley of Terra del Greco is estimated to
have contained 333, 900 cubic feet of
solid matter. In 1760 Etna poured out a
Hood of melted stones and ashes which COW
cred 81 square miles of fertile country to a
depth of from 10 to 20 feet. On this occa-
sion the sand. scoria, lava, ETC., from the
burning mountain formed Mount Rosini,
a peak miles in circumference and over
1900 feet high
In the eruption Of Vesuvius in the year
10 A. d., the time of the destruction of
Pompeii, the scoria, ashes, sand and lava
vomited forth exceeded the entire mass of
the volcano itself, while in 1850 Etna dis
gorged over 20 times it's own mass. Vesu-
vius has sent it's ashes into Syria, Egypt
and Turkey. 1t hurled stones of 800 pounds
weight to Pompeii, a distance of six Eng
lish miles, during the eruption of 20 A d.
Cotapaxi once projected block of stone
containing over 100 cubic yards a distance
of 91s miles.-Philadelp Press
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15

FITs-All fits stopped free by DR.
kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Nc
fits after the first days use. Marvel
Gus cures. Treatise and 81 trial bot
tie free to fit cases. Send to DR.
Kline, 931 Arch street, Philadelphia
Pa For sale by al druggists; call
on YOURS
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15
Unleavened Ercad.

The unleavened cakes of bread used dur
ing the whole of the eight days of passover
are called matsoth, and are made of wheat
en- flour, of round form about q foot in
diameter. perforated all over, and so very
thin that pounds weight contains about
nine cakes. Many families distribute a
few of these fragile cakes among their kind
and affectionate, but somewhat simple,
Christian neighbors, who treasure them as
curiosities. Bar
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15
To Ward OF Conspm n.ion.

A celebrated specialist in lung diseases
recommends to q very delicate patient
struggling with an incip;ent cough and
general debility this startling remedy-l6
raw eggs day as nourisEment. The poor
little woman has brought herself up by
painful degrees to 10. She refuses to 60 any
further. Philadelphia Press.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15
An EXPLANATION.

Angeline--It was awful. A great big bee
buzzed up and stung me right in the
cheek.
Pudolph-very likely he thought he had
found honey mine.-Harper's Bazaar.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15
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hereafter. This Remedy has never been known
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15
Castoria.

"Castoria is an excellent medicine for chill
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me Of its
good effect upon their children"
DR.. G. c. OsGooD,
lowell Mass
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15
What is

Gastora is Dr. Samuel Pitchers prescription
and Children contains neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance 1t is harmless substitute
for Paregoric, Drops Soothing Syrups, and Castor
1t Pleasant. Its is thirty years. by
Millions Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays
fevershness. Castoria prevents vomiting Curd,
Darrhoea and Wind Collie. Castora relieves
teething troubles, constipation and fatulency.
assimilates food, regulates stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas-.
toria is Children's Panacea-the Friend.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15
WHEN YOU V SIT
The VORLJ'S FAIR

Do not forget to zee the eX
hibit Of the General Elec-
trio Company in the Fec
tIicitv Bulldog, " Ultra
mural Railway equipped
with General Electric Gem
pany's appa atu,, tue EIec
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with Gen. FL, f. r.1ic ON
pany's mt ~ and Ia. ,.-u
eraj E.rCt ic G., II. amy A C
lighting ri 1T and Po".r
Generators III NJ chio,il
Hall.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15

"Castoria is the best remedy for children of
which en- acquainted. 1 hope the day is not
far distant when mothers will consider the real
interest Of their children, and use Castoria in
stead OF the various quack nostrums which are
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their throats, thereby sending
them to premature graves"
DR.. J. F. KINCBELoE,
Conway, Ark.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15
Castoria.

"Cestoria is SO well adapted to children thar
recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me-
n. A. ARCHER, n. D.,
III So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, n. Y.
"Our physicians in the children's depart
nent have spoken highly of their expert
ence in their outside practice with Castoria,
and although we only have among our
medical supplies what is known as regular
products, yet we are free to confess that the
merits Of Castoria has won us to look with
favor upon it,
UNITED HOSPITAL AND DIsPENsARY,
Boston, Mas
ALLEN c. SMITH, Pres,
urray Street, New York City.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-15

The Centaur Company, n Murray Street, New y
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-01
SHE is AN OCEAN TERROR.
Our Most Powerful Marine Engine o
Destruction So Far.

Our Most Powerful Marine Engine of
Destruction So Far.
The Indiana is the first of the first-class
battleships to be launched. She is 34S feet
long on the water-line, and is 50 feet 3
inches beam. Her displacement is 10, 400
tons, but with full supply of coal and
stores on board she will draw "a feet and
displace II. 800 tons of water. She will be
propelled by twin screws, and her engines
will be three in number, having 10000
horse power. The engines will be of the
triple expansion type, and will be built
abreast in water-tight compartments, and
will give a speed of from 1511I to Is knots,
the guaranteed speed being Is knots.
Has Mighty Tough Hide.
The armoT will be made as nearly imper-
vious to shot as it can be made. The
water line armor belt will be of eighteen
inch nickel Steel and will extend 1856 feet
along each side amidships. At the end of
the armor belt is an armored bulkhead
athwartships which is to be fourteen inch
es thick and above that and the water line
is to be a casemate belt five inches thick.
Above the athwartship belt win be two
redoubts, one at each end, forming the
basis of the revolving turrets These re-
doubts will be thirtyfour feet and six
inches outside diameter and twelve feet
high. Over the armor belt and over the
bow and stern will be fiat protected deck
plated with two-inch steel.
Description of Her Batteries
At each of the four corners of the five
inch classmates rises up a redoubt eight
feet high and plated with eight-inch steel
The redoubts will be surmounted by tur-
rets eight inches thick and besides the
armored turrets there is to be an armured
pilothouse or coming tower The total
weight of the armor is to be 1855 tons
The armament Of the Indiana will be as
follows: Four 13-inch guns, forty feet
long, mounted in pairs i'll the two main
turrets; eight S-inch guns, mounted in
pairs in the four turrets at the corners of
the classmates; four 6-inch guns, mounted
in broaClside with splinter bulkheads back
of them; twenty 6-pounders and rapid fir
ing guns; eight I-roundrrs aud Calling
guns and six torpedo tubes
Has Some Very Strong Points.
The armament hes some strong points
possessed by none of the battle ships or
cruisers now float Ole is the height of
the guns finn tlr wattr line which will
enable them TO successfully attack the I'M
armored encs O. Iofri.-n Wi.r ships The 49,
inch gClio are eighteen Ircl above water line
and the S-lnch q .fI> ;tit ~ tLtS -Figlt feet
above lhc water hEe. An, th,r feature IL
that the armament ct tLe iiu.ii.Ii;t will
throw j greater weight OF IN, IT, ti:,L anv
vessel afloat-6 ,40U pounds at one discharge
of her main battery alone, which is loo
pounds more than any WasAip foreign or
native, is capable of discharging. She will
cost, without her armament s., 100000.