The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-07

GENERAL.

attentive to his duties, but 1.-The stated
hours and seasons of work were irk-
come to him and averse from his natural
snclinations. I begin he says, in
setter in 1867, 4 begin my annual dis
satisfaction of lecturing next Wednes-
day. / can not get used to it. All my
Nightmares are of lecturins.'"
M. Paul Bielard. son of the late
minister plenipotentiary of France at
Morocco, recently committed suicide
under strange circumstances. After
fighting. on account of a lady to whom
ae was attached. duel in which nei-
cher com batant was seriously injured,
ne returned home, wrote letter to the
lady, and then deliberately shot him
self in the temple, death being instanta-
neous He was only twenty-nine years
old and very popular.
Colorado has been building a hand
some new state capitol. and the finish
ing touches are now being put upon it.
1t has an imposing dome, and a sug-
gestlOn recently started, and widely
and enthusiastically Endorsed, is to
cover this dome with a heavy plating
OF silver, the metal for which the state
lis so famous, which is the greatest
source of its wealth. ''In the blaze of
sunlight the dome would shed its white
light for many miles" says local pa
per, "typefying the states grandeur
with peculiar fitness" 1t is probable
that the suggestion will be carried ont
The fatal enemy of the hearth fire
is the neat-handed housewife. who will
nave all the ashes removed and the
hearth scrubbed before a new fire is
laid. This practice prevails IN some
New York clubs. It is a sacrilepe in
the eyes of all persons brought up to
real log fires. and Sarah Battle had no
such thing in mind when she said
apropos of whist: "A clear fire, clean
e hearth, and the rigors of the game"
No hearth fire will really shoulder and
TALL into mass of glowing embers
without bed OF ashes to lie upon. The
hearth fires in the Century club. when
the old house was still occupied by that
organiza ton. were perfect OF their kind.
Hello" Is almost a new word. as It
differs in form, sound and use from the
old halo" 1t is merely mentioned
by Webster, and the searcher for I'M
formation isreferred to 'halloo, (which
is defined as an interjection, loud call
Or the noise Of the hunt The forms
there 'Halloa' and '.halloo''-
are not we'll adapted to the American
tongue, neither are they susceptible to
the variety of expression that can be
given to hello" Probab the word
halloo grew out of the call ''hail. oh.'
which was almost universally used bv
wayfarers in old time when hating at
q house along the way. Hail, on! the
house. was another form quite common
in early times. This would quite
naturally take the form of ''hal-loo!
the house" However. this derivation
is not given by Webster, but merely
suggests itself.
{ darlington Booth has opened shell
ter called THE Lighthouse" at No.
243 Front street, New York, which is to
ACT as feeder for the farm to be estab-
lished near that city. a shelter is also
established in San Francisco. and ar
rangements have been made to estab- |
lish others at Buffalo. CHICAGO and |
Omaha. Commander Booth SAYS: 'sTne /
social problem presents itself to us
whenever dirty, hungry and ragged |
man stands at our door. asking if we
can give him a crust of bread or a lob. |
That is the social question in New York
as well as In London. What are you to |
do with that man? He has no money |
IN his pocket All that he can pawn he |
has pawned long ago. His stomach is
as empty as his pocket He asks for
work. which he viii do even on his
empty stomach and in his ragged uni
form. if so be that You will give him
something for it, but his hands are idle. |
for no one will employ him. What are
you to do with that man?',
jackson park, in which the exposi
ton is held, has frontage on Lake
Michigan of one and one-half miles
and contains 533 acres, seventv-seven of
which are water. The Midway plais.
ance is a mile long and 600 feet wide.
and contains eighty acres more. There
are thirty-nine exposition buildings
proper, and floor space of 159 acres.
Adding the galleries. there are 100 :
acres. Grouped around there are for
ty-four state and territorial buildings
eighteen buildings erected by forei~n
governments, and forty others for the
minor purposes of the MANAGEMENT
restaurants and advertising wares and
enterprises. In the Midway plaisance
are the foreign villages, shops. etc.
The visitor who would merely take n
passing look at each OF the vast array
of exhibits must prepare to walk alonp
l24 miles of aisles. Add to this the dis
tance from one building TO another,
which must of necesSitv be travelled
many times. and the distance TO be COW
cred will reach fully 100 miles.-Pitts-
hurgh News.
"A strangely impressive &pltre of
man recently made profound sensa-
ton in the rooms tof the lunacv COM
missloners in San Francisco. He was
about thirty-eight years old. had q
slender, graceful figure, long. flowing
locks, eyes of ineNpreSsihle brilliancy.
and in his long, black cassock. which
jcontrasted strongly with his pale face
the resen hlance TO the familiar pic
lures OF our Saviour was so STRIKING
that the medical examiners and Judges
were disrnayed at the task before them.
There WIS ample evidence. however.
that this man. Johannes Jacobus
Nouri. a priest of the Greek church and
a native of Syria, was suffering from
suicidal mania. A few months ago. he
caused . report to be circulated that he
had discovered the remains Of Noah's
ark on an ice-cap clinging to Mt.
Ararat. and later proclaimed himself