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Electric Treatment of Plants.

About thirty years ago an ingenious
physician of an inquiring turn of mind
was struck with the idea that if cleo
tricitv was good for feeble people.
might it not be equally good for feeble
plants. A row of evergreens had been
put out on his grounds some time be-
fore, and it occurred to him that, as
there was couple of his best trees in
an exceedingly-frail state of health.
here was a good chance to test his
theory. He accordingly connected a
wire from battery with the roots of
one of the trees, turned on very mild
current and watched the results. In a
short time the leaves. which had begun
to turn yellow, took on lively shade
OF green. new shoots started out, and
the tree that had been given up BY the
gardener aS past saving was soon the
most fourishing one 81 the row. and
before long outstripped its fellows IN
beauty and luxuriance Of growth.
These experiments in this direction
came TO an end by the death of the doc
TOT, and thus much that might have
been of great service TO the gardener
and florist remained undeveloped--N.
! Ledger
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-06-30
EYE STONES NOLONGER USED.
Advancing knowledge Has Relegated
Them Almost Entirely to the Past.

Advancing knowledge Has Relegated
Them Almost Entirely to the Past.
Riding up town on crowded elevated
! railroad train recently, was compelled
to stand out on the forward edd of one
of the cars, where l was subjected 20
an incessant shower of cinders. Al
though / shielded my eyes as best 1
could, one of these annoying little
particles finally lodged beneath one of
my eyelids, where it effectually resist
ed all the usual efforts to remove it.
There was little sleep that night, and
the next day it was necessary to go to
my physician. He looked at the
eve, said that the cinder had
been ground into the eyeball,
and directed me TO a specialist who
would remove it It proved but a
simple matter for him. and the skill
with which he accomplished it com
peeled me to speak of the difference be-
tween the methods and the clumsiness
of EYE doctors with whom l had had
some experience in the long time ago
1T is no cause for surprise" was his
comment, for in no branch of surgery
has more progress been made in recent
years than in the treatment OF the
eyes. There was a time when any
physician felt himself to be as compe-
tent to treat the eye as any other
organ. There was not one of them
who did not have an eyestone always
at hand. with which he felt fully
equipped to remove any foreign sub
stance. But advancing knowledge has
shown that these agents were but a
simple Gelusion. They were portions
of the covering of certain shellfsh,
about the size of split pea, worn
smooth by the action of the sea.
When one of these was placed under
the eyelid at the outer corner the wink
ing of the lid would push it gradually
to the inner side, and, coming in con-
tact with an irritating particle, it might
occasionally carry it along with itself
and finally remove it. But the action
was never certain. There was no founda-
tion, in fact, for the belief that these
stones had peculiar detective power,
and moved about in the eye until they
found and removed the irritating sub
stance for which they had been sent
They merely furnished a mechanical
means of doing in a clumsy manner
what little skill will accomplish with
greater certainty. They have deserved
ly gone out Of use. and now are seldom
used except among sailors and other
superstitious persons.-N. Y. Herald.
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slnall majority. He declined nomina-
tiOns in 1891 and 1892, but in 1898 ac-
cepted the nomination for state SEN
ator and was elected. Since then his
ability and worth have been recog-
nized and he has made splendid rec
ord. In no way has he made greater
reputation. however, than by securing
the appointment of the committee Of
which he is now chairman and by the
determination and absolute impartiali7
II with which he has conducted IT'S in
ivestigations. Never once has politics
been mentioned IN connection with it;
never once has it been moved from its
course, and, startling as its revelations
have been, even greater sensations are
promised for the future. Tammany
has suffered most because Tammany is
the ruling power in New York politics,
but the aim has been to uncover cor
ruption wherever it exists.
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Bacteria and Human Health.

No science. unless it be that Of the
electrician can boast such a wonderful
growth in the past quarter century as
that Of bacteriology, which has devel-
oped with remarkable rapidity since
Pasteur made his initial investigations
It is now known and conceded by all
branches and schools of the medical
profession that nine-tenths and proba-
bly, even larger per cent Of all the
diseases Of both man and animals are
due to the presence Of certain OF the
bacterial species, and, Insignificant as
they are in size, their presence may
rapidly bring about wonderful struc-
tural changes: this owing 20 the sInaz-
ing rapidity with which certain Of the
species propagate-twenty minutes in
some instances suf3cing for the com
plete lifetime OK generation Of mil
lCnsi
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ir WORKED ON HIM.
Slight Variation from the Usual Ser
pentine Narrative


/ saw young man light long Hun
yarian cigar the other evening and
throw himself back in a chair to enjoy
the smoke and conversation, says =
New York Herald writer. The Hunga-
rian cigar is something like Pitts
burgh toby, only it is twice as long as
the Pittsburgh article, and before you
get through with il is also twice as
strong. The young man was more in
terested in the conversation than in
the cigar, apparently, so he laid the
latter down on the edge Of the table n
moment, as he talked. The wagCish
gentleman next TO him slyly took the
cigar and cut off about three inches of
the fire end and began 10 smoke il, re-
placing the body of the weed. When
the young man got through with his
story, at which all the rest laughed
sxtravagantly, he picked up the cigar
again and pulled at IL His face wore
q puzzled look as he glanced at the end
and saw it had apparently never been
lighted. But he struck match and
lighted il again. After few pulls he
laid it down to answer the pleasantries,
whereupon the man on the other side
drew his knife and neatly cut the fire
end off and dropped II in the cuspidor.
The expression on the face of that
stOry-teller when he picked up that
cigar and again essayed 10 smoke was
something too funny 10 describe. He
gave two or three vigorous puffs At il,
then stopped and looked at the fresh
end. while the other fellows were in
terested in almost anything else at
the moment
As soon as the would-be smoker saw
that his cigar had not been lighted he
turned little pale, showed his IN
emptied glass aside, and, with hasty
apology and a story of an alleged for
gotten engagement, bolted for the
street. amid the demoniacal glee of the
cruel men left behind. Thus doth con-
science make towards Of Us all
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DID NOT WISH TO BE EMPEROR.
Old William l. Was Quite Content with
the Throne of Prussia


Rev. Or. Bernard Rogge preached
the sermon in the Versailles palace
January IS, 1871, when the German
empire was proclaimed, and ever since
he has been known throughout central
Europe as the consecretOr of Germany.
In lecture given by him IN Vienna
recently he told Of remarkable inter
view which he had with the king Of
Prussia three days before the great
ceremony. King William requested
him 70 make the sermon short and ex-
clude from it as far as possible all rof-
erences % the house of Hohenzollern
and it's head.
For / have not done it." aid old
william God IN His providence ac-
comPltshed II. / shall find il diHeult
TO accustom myself 20 my new title %
emperor BY own wish was that a.
my advanced age I might avoid the
honor, although nv son might BE-
called 20 accept it: but matters have
turned out IN such a way that can no
longer do anything but take l.
When received on the same day By
FA-H~Ef A@N7 In pSE-
or Frederick. Rogge got q few moro
Instructions ss % the nature of his
sermon The crown prince pointed 20
the great ball where the ceremony vas
10 Be held and remarked:
When I Arst saw the palace on The
18TH Of last September ! said 20 my
self; There il the place wbere the
founding a the Gery-An empire vii bo
procla med
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STATE SENATOR lEXOW.
The Nan Who Is Investigating New York


re 1IaU W no Es w" 49, -
City Government.
Never before in the history Of this
country has more thorough investi-
CATION of municipal evils been made
than is the one now being conducted
by State Senator Clarence LeXow in
New York city. it stands out preeml-
nentlv as a determined but non-par-
tisan attempt to get at the bottom OF
as disgracefu' a record of municipal
corruption a.; ever cursed a great city,
Moved neither by threats nor promises,
the committee, under the guidance of
Senator Lexow, has kept perseveringly
at the work it planned for itself, until
the leaders of Tammany have become
demoralized and frightened and are re-
sorting to every expedient to escape 1t.
The committee is composed of the fol-
lowing members: Clarence Lexow,
Charles Z. Saxton, Edmund OConnor,
George ". Robertson and c. W. Pound,
republicans; Jacob A. Cantor, Tam
many democrat. and Daniel j. Bradley,
independent democrat. Senator Lexow
is the central figure of it, however. He
Is nau SDilcMHGb DSlO" ulSOluHi
height and slight rather than feshy-
In manner he is calm and deliberate,
and his eyes give him dreamy look;
but he is alive to everything that hap
pens during the sessions of the com
mittee and has shown himself to be a
man of force and determination. He
was born in Brooklyn, \. Y, Septem-
Der 16, 1852, and was educated for a
journalist He studied at the German
American Collegiate institute in Brook
lyn, and later attended the University
of Bonn in Germany. After returning
TO this country he decided to take up
law instead Of journalism, and studied
at the Columbia law school. He prac-
ticed law IN New York city until 1881,
when he retired on account of his
health and Eent to Nyack TO live. In
1887 he received the republican nom
ination for county judge at Nyack and
was defeated. In 1850 he was nom
mated for congressman IN democratic
district, but was again defeated by a
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mutton takes leap. aT1eap after HIM
II is rare to find men doubling facts.
still rsrer TO find them doubling
whether the facts be correctly ooor-
dinated. Our books are crowded with
unaxsmined statements. which we
never tlank Of examining.
Do we not all believe that the mag
nitcent Cleopatra, regardless Of ex-
pense, dissolved in her wine cup q
pearl Of great price, as II IL had been a
lump of sugar. Is not the fact" ia
miliar TO every one? Yet IL you test
il. you will 6nd the fact 10 be that
pearls are not soluble in wine. The
most powerful vinegar attacks them
but very slowly, and never entirely dis
solves them, for the organic matter re-
mains behind. in the shape OF n spongy
mass larger than the original pearl
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-06-30

piped over FIVE miles and supplies fuel
for all the furnaces in the vicinity. Mr..
Mills soon dropped ont of the firm and
Guffey & Galley began to lease land
all 'of it they could-until now they
have some 400, coo acres leased.
The most prolific oil field the world
has known was at Bradford, Pa, where
12s. 900, 900 barrels OF oil were pumped
from 1900 wells. The field is now
practically abandoned by large opera
tors, for the capacity of the Ia. 900 wells
has dwindled to about 1000 barrels a
day, enabling only small operators to
make money by their operation. The
Neodesha wells are not so good as the
Bradford wells were, nor does the crude
eodesha product produce as much oil,
writes correspondent Of the Kansas
City Star, but the wells are better than
the Lima tO.) wells both in quantity
and quality
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II is hard 10 be called upon 10 see ths
point of a joke without being given
sufficient time 10 see 10 In. A gentle
man with a serious face said at re-
cent small gathering of people: what
are we coming TO? Statistics show
that in Massachusetts, there ara thirty
thousand persOns, all natives of the
United States, who cannot speak ths
English lhnguagel" ''Impos~iblei'
everyone exclaimed "Tt is crue, new
ertheiezs," persisted the grnve-fancd
man And native Amerieans, you
sayT' 'Certainly-and ali under two
years Of ager'
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HINTS ON REPAIRING.
Methods of a Certain Careful and Econom
ical HOusckeeper.

Methods OF a Certain Careful and Econom-
icaI HOusckeeper.
''The secret of seldom wanting new
things is to keep the old ones well
mended," said thrifty housekeeper. as
she showed me a shelf where she kept
what she called patches"
There were little pans of different
kinds of paint and enamel, different
sized paint brushes, box of liquid gilt,
some good glue and remnants of all the
different wall papers.
The kitchen hearth was never allowed
to gett shabby, but once a month was
treated to coat of dull Pompeiian red
paint.
When the gas fixtures grew dis
reputable from being tarnished with
age and mottled with flies they were
given coat of common white paint and
then regilded.
Picture frames whose enamel had
yellOwed received new coat. The
gliding was retouched, and the result
was new frame. Old wooden frames
We're enameled and picked out with gilt
or stained mahogany and vanished
The handsome Chinese um brella rack
was broken, but not on that account
discarded. 1t was mended with cement
with the greatest care, and the ugly
lines hidden with a brush dipped in
liquid gilt and passed along the zigzag
cracks, really enriching the quaint
oriental pattern.
Many a costly vase might be mended
by this process. and 50 long as it Was
only used as bric-a-brac no one
would be the wiser. 4 good
cement for broken china may be
made by beating the white of an
egg to paste with flour: or half an
ounce of gum arabic may be dissolved
in gill ot boiling water and thickened
with plaster of paris.
The piano movers had broken and
torn an ugly cash in the hall wall pa
per, but single breadth carefully put
on made it as good as new
Loosened chair rungs or arms were
always quickly glued in place. A tiny
hole in the wire of a screen door was
never allowed to grow larger, until
first the cat and afterwards the dog
had free pass into the hall or kitchen.
1t was promptly mended with fine wire
and the screen doors We're painted every
year before they were put up which
made both wire and frame last twice as
long.-N. y. Recorder
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30 sinrrure.

A man named W.nks recently de-
nounccd the bishop Of Manchester.
Eng, for accepting a princely income
while so many better men were starv-
ing. The bishop made the following
answer,to him; You taunt me with
the amount of my income. Perhaps IL
may astonish you 20 be made acquaint-
cd with the following facts: I live a.
plainly rs any workipgman. and be-
lieve / work harder and more hours
than nine out OF ten wordngmen,
and yet / am compelled, by the ex-
penses incident 20 my Office, 20 spend
one thousand pounds year more thAD
my Official income"
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The Russian Cars Crown.

The Russian crown and other state
Jewels are valued at the enormous sum
of 81, 900, 600, taking United States
money as basis of calculation; the
crown itself is reckoned as being worth
at least SO, 900, 900. 1t is adorned with
hundreds of diamonds, individual spec
linens of which are valued at all the
way from few dollars up to enormous
sparklers worth thousands upon thou
sands of dollars. Besides the diamonds,
which make this costly head dress look
as if it had been buried in shower
of falling stars, there are ffty-four
pearls, each without faw, set around
the rim, ruby of extraordinary size
and brilliancy being used as a center
piece. The crown was made BY Pan
zie, the old time Genoese court jeweler,
and was first used by Catherine the
Great.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-06-30
ELECTRIC DICE.

skies or both aces. the dupe can be
made TO throw a crab" whenever his
opponent plesses-
A dice top, or teetotum. can he made
TO fall on any particular side. after the
manner OF loaded die.
In false roulette wheels the copper
points forming the recesses into which
the ball falls are made TO move in two
sets BY moving one Of these slightly
the man who spins the wheel can close
all the high numbers or all the small
ones, according to the betting.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-06-30
A MAN OF IRON NERVE.
Cen. CasteI.ns and the Boistsrsus Tr.seh
barber.

barber.
The thistle does not sting II 20 bs
firmly grasped- The ghost runs away
when one walks straight up % H. when
Louis Napoleon was president OF the
French republic. the commander at
Lyons was cen Castellsne. an cid sob
sisr whose stern rule kept in chsek
the red republicans OF that disorderly
city. II was time when courags on
the part Of tho people mighs haya
spared the French nation from The
long humiliation of the second empire
Unfortunately for them. the nerve was
enlisted on The side Of the man who az
terward became emperor. aud the rs-
psblicSns cOEld boast much. but do
little
One % The most radical and boister-
ous of The repu bliczns Of Lyons vas
barber. who openly bo2Sted tha. hs
only waited for the opportunity of nd
ding The city of SIS stern commander
The general heard of The threat. and
one afternoon ordered hia cOaehmGn "a
drive 20 the hAEbers shop- Leaving
h.s carriage, the general. unattended.
entered the shop. took a sat in rs-
cant chair, ard desired The barber IN
shave him. The sstoalShed brasgart
performed The operation az wei "a bis
ne-vousne.s would p~rrai,- When 30
bad finished ths general. while payisz
him. quietly aid.
Monsieur, sincs you have nos
svziled yourself ot the opportunity 20
cut ny throat. vhich ihsse given Toz.
would = not b. well for yoa 70 refrain
from utt>rinx threats that you bzrs
not she eDar&Ee 20 cary cgtF'-EAa<
49, City TilazN
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TIE MAPLE OF RArIBoR.

and mans patience and ingenuity. It
rs said to be more than a century old,
and, as will be seen from the illustra-
ton. has been turned into q kind Of
temple or two stories, each of its COM
partments being lighted by eight win
dows, and capable Of containing twen-
'ty people with ease. The floors are
constructed Of boushs skillfully woven
together, Of which the leaves make a
sort OF natural carpet The walls are
formed Of thick leafage. in which in
uumera bile birds build their nests.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-06-30
KANSAS OIL FIELDS
Great Excitement Now Prevails
in the Sunhower State.
A Big Spouter Near Neodesha 1t II
Throwing Oct Fifty Barrels of
Liquid Every Hour-Story
of the Discovery.

Kansas has struck ''ile,, and, in the
language of the rural correspondent,
great excitement prevails. The sensa-
ton seems to be central about Neo-
desha, where one of the wells recently
shot" is spouting out some ffty-odd
barrels of the famous lubricating and
illuminating liquid every day. There
are some forty other rude holes in the
neighborhood of Neodosha which are
to be shot in the same way.
This is not. strictly speaking, the be-
ginning of the oil business in Kansas
1t has been developing for two years
past, but has only recently attained such
proportions as to compel general atten-
tion. In November. 1899. ". N. Mills,
a prospector who had been for many
years proddiRg the face OF the earth to
make 1t give up something, went from
Osawatomie to Neodesha, leased three
acres of land almost within the city
limits and began to drill for gas At a
depth OF $40 feet he struck oil. He
plugged up the well and leased 5000
acres of land, moved his machinery a
half-nile and started again. Then he
drilled the De Moss well, which runs
oil so freely now that it has to be
pumped night and day to keep it from
wasting. Mr.. Mills plugged the wells,
and taking barrel of oil went to
Pittsburgh, Pa, where the firm of
Guffey, Galley & Mills was organized
soon afterward to develop the new
Kansas oil fields
Mr.. Guffey and Mr.. Galley were ex-
perienced oil men. They went to Neo-
leshs in April, 1898, and started the.
Iaag well, and about June 1, 1893, they
truck gas in such quantities that it al
most blew their derrick away. The
,ressue was 40 pounds to the SQUARE
hch and now the gas from this well is
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-06-30
CHEAT WITH , DICE
How Professional Sharpers Rob
and Deceive Victims.
The Mysteries Of Electric and Loaded Dice,
Dispatchers and Securing Explained
by a &eight-of-Hand
Performer.

The New York World recently gave
In account of some devices for cheat
ing at cards described by John Nevil
Maslzelyne, a well-known English
sleight-d-hand performer, in his book,
'1Sharps and Flats" In the same book
he tells how dice are Boaded and other
wise falsified, by which means inno-.
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HIS COAT OF NAIL
Herr Heinrich Dove and His Bull
let-PrOOf Armor.
Rs Plays the Role of William Tells Sor
to show His Confidence in His In
ven2io1-A Genuine Surprise
to Military Men.

Grimm's story of the tailor in Heaven
must occur to many Germans now that
Herr Heinrich DOVE, the little tailor of
Mannheim, has reached the celestial
paths of Berlin that lead to the impe-
rial palace. The emperor of Germany
has taken the greatest interest in his
Invention of an armor-partly felt or
cloth, partly iron-on which the best
steel-pointed bullets cr-umbie to pieces
when they are fired at it from the best
Of army rifles.
Let US hope that Herr DOVE will not
throw any golden footstools out of the
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sa,lsae. Her oen.elene.. Anyw.y.

Mrs Ighlife-And how do you man
age to escape having that odious Mrs
Cheapstone at your lovely little din
ners? One feels that ones obliged &c
invite her, you know.
Mrs Smartleigh-Yes; but give al
my invitations TO her TO my husband tS
uaaiL-ChicaCo. Record
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Capt Burt Jsy-EAvs yon ttougk.,
Nauds, .hAt after -~ a.. married. roe
Essy po@sibiT lsara % lors Ess7
Nsucs-I have
Capt Bura Jsy-Msz1s. Ard 20 yo-
Etill thiEk 80
Mauee-Oh. 10 There's 60 z.s so--
rowing trozsss--Fusz-
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CLEOPATRE'S PEARL
Some Doubt. Abou, Its Bes,g pisol-.a
In WfD~-

Readers VII easily call % aiad tho
story which is told Of CIeop~trA 20 T.
sust-st. her luIur!ous h4bits of living,
tha, she dissolved IN her wine pre-
caous pearL No one sesrns yet - have
questioned -hat nus. have k>es tie
effect upon The drink. ssys Youths
Companion but Hr. Leuss q1es;loas
quite poin;edly the FEASIBILITY Of such
solution
We are very sheep IA cur sr.zzrioss-
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VIII live on Air

1t is possible that some Of US mav
eventually live on air, practically as
well as theoretically. 4 French chem
ist predicts that the food of the coming
man viii be prepared from the gases of
the atmosphere prepared in labora-
tories
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4 Cent? EiL-

Ref could say as mean, sarcastic
things as you can, do you know what
would do?
She expecting complinent)-No
what?
i q ask the Lord 10 give me strength
Non l-a---lincinn>ti Ennui.>-
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-He-.'It must he very hard for these
poor esnigrants coming a. strangers &c
live in a foreign land" She tcompla-
centlvl-' But remember. dear. they
have always lived in foUelgn lsudS"-
NoJua
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WQgns.

In the species with which we are
Best acquainted. namely. our own. l am
far. even as an observer OF human life.
from thinking that youth Is its hap
piest season. much less the only happy
one.-Paley-
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MAPLE OF RATIBOR.

Interesting Combination OF Nature and
Human Ingenuity.
In the town of Ratibor, province OF
,Silesia, Prussia, on the left bank OF the
Oder river, stands a maple tree which
is a wonderful combination of nature
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-06-30
Eerord Of SnaokrrH

A record kept az Yale for eight years
shows that nonsnokers are 20 per cent
taller, % per cent heavier. and have 80
per cent more lung power than
smokers.