The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-12-08
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

more recently exhibited before an as
sembly of dentists a complete set of
false teeth that had been worn by
George Washington. The base plates
were of lead and perfectly fiat. Some
of the teeth were of ivory and others
had been extracted from living per-
son.
The ways of auctioneers in differ
ent parts of the world vary greatly.
In England and America the seller
in France the purchaser pays the
cost, five per cent. being added to the
price he pays. In Holland it is still
worse, the buyer being required to pay
ten per cent. additional for the ex-
oenses of the sale.
The beautiful marble bust of Har-
riet Beecher Stowe was recently I'M
yelled in the library of the women's
building on the worlds fair grounds
by Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, who
placed on the white marble choice
cluster of pinks and ferns. Frederick
Douglas was present and read several
passages from "Uncle TOMS Cabin"
several copies of which, printed in many
All who were present were saddened by
the thought that the beloved authoress
no longer can enjoy the honors be-
slowed upon her.
The story goes that Gen. Butler
had a stormy wooing. The lady of his
love, Miss Sarah Hildreth, was a school
teacher in New England. Becoming
tired of her profession, she went on the
stage, and this greatly enraged her
lover. She paid no attention to his ex-
postulations, but one night, when she
was playing in 1.-THE Lady of Lyons"
he suddenly appeared behind the scenes,
and gave her until the end of the play
to decide whether she would continue
to be ''The Lady of Lyons" or become
plain Mrs. Butler, and she took the lat,
ter and less conspicuous role.
-EX-Secretary of the Navy Tracy is
quoted as saying, apropos of the dis
aster to the Victoria, that a line-of-
battle ship like her is always exposed
to the danger of capsizing, being top
heavy. ''The Victoria carried mon
strous gun, weighing 10 tons. The
largest gun we have weighs only sixty
five tons. This tremendous weight
placed the ship at the mercy of the
waves as soon as the water began to
pour in. This accident only re-enforces
what have repeatedly said in my an
nual reports, that, however, it may be
for England, it is folly for us to keep 4
large battleship cruising in time of
peace"
-Azaleas of every hue possible to
azaleas make the wooded island in the
worlds fair grounds a grand bouquet,
and those accustomed to see this deli
cate mountain flower in the pinl1-yellow
or white dress which it assumes in New
England, Virginia or California are
at the many shades of pink,
crimson and orange and the parti-col-
ored varieties produced by cultivation.
Rhododendrons of the tall and drawfed
varieties, brilliant japanese peonies
and masses of lowly growing pansies,
to bloom wherever they are
placed, give the island festive and
appearance, attractive to all
pedestrians.
old chests and trunks have high
value as curios, and are largely taken
by the dealers in the like. AS paper
was costly in the eighteenth century,
many such articles were lined with
newspapers then current, and if pleas |
antries of the period are to be trusted,
even with rejected manuscripts. A
curious old trunk with pentagonal ends
turned up in the shop of a
dealer in old furniture. 1t still bore
weather-stained card showing that its |
last delivery had been to somebody in
4 90, Dl..1
adelphia newspaper of 1773&and the
pages exposed bore the tax-list of that |
year in pounds, shillings and pence. !
1t is only within few years, one |
might almost say months, that the wide |
effect of the warm, moist Pacific winds, |
called chinool1s, has been known in |
British Columbia and Alaska. These |
winds, corresponding exactly to those /
that make England fertile country in /
the latitude of Labrador, keep the snow |
melted from the plains at the eastern |
base of the Rockies, and they encourage |
1 magnificent growth of root crops, |
"a bbage, oats and grass a thousand !
miles north of New York. Wheat does |
not do well and berries are small, |
though little attempt has been made to |
cultivate fruit. The winters are biting |
,old, but dry, and the summer, though
short, is so hot that vegetation comes |
out of the earth with a rush.
One class of people regard our fast
cruisers and our white-walled, thun-
lering ironclads with hearty disap.
the artists. A marine
painter, looking at the big feet that |
'ecently lay stretched along the Hud-
son, exclaimed: Eyes, quite interest
ng, and ugly! Those are mere ma
chimes, and machinery is always ugly.
All the time that ships have been gain
ng in strength and speed they have
been losing in picturesqueness and |
beauty. There is nothing in that lot |
If tea kettles, as Napier called them,
20 equal the old Constitution and the
Did Vermont, with their three rows Of
ports and their big towers of canvas.
To see one of the old frigates bowling
along with all sail set-why, sir, that
vas poem.
"A material lately introduced in tho
Of American warships, |
,hough not yet effectually tested in
var or serious casualty. is called cellu-
ose. A naval man in Washington.
speaking of the sinking of the Victoria,
iays: 81 hardly think that just such
IN accident could have happened to
,ne of our war vessels. Above the pro-
.ective deck in our boats we place a
material called cellulose. 1t is six feet
n thickness all along the inside of the
-eSSel.S side and is a hont seven feet in