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The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20

A FEW matters of Importance are still
before the house committees. Fore
most among them is the Pacific rail
road problem, upon which the commit
tee is exclusively engaged. Next in
Importance comes the banking bill,
which has been given into the charge
of subcommittee. The report in the
investigation of the Homestead nrmor
plate frauds by the committee on naval
affairs is yet to be made md tha labor
committee is working on proposed ar
bitration laws. The immigration COM
mittee is expected to recommend some
minor Changes in those laws.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20
AN EIGHT-HOUR DAY.
Senator George Introduces Resolution
Prescribing q Legal Days Work.

Senator George Introduces q Resolution
Prescribing Legal Days Work.
WASHINGTON, July 1s. - Senator
Geor:S yesterday introduced a joint
resolution providing for an amendment
to the constitution providing eight
hours shall constitute a legal days
work for persons doing manual labor.
The proposed amendment specifies that
mo person or association engaged
in mining, manufacturing or in
any other mechanical pursuit or
public works, or in transporta-
ton other than water craft shall re-
quire or permit any employee doing
manual labor to work more than forty
eight hours in one week, except in
cases of emergency prescribed by law.
Persons voluntarily and lawfully en-
gagged in any of the above pursuits
shall not be unlawfully hindered or
obstructed.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20
ADDIrIoNAL DIspATCHEs.

PRESIDENT DEBs and Howard, Rog-
ers and Keihler, the officers of the A.
R. u, were committed to Jail at Chi
cago for contempt for the alleged vio-
lation Of an injunction, they being un-
able to give bail.
THERE was better outlook in Cali
fornia on the nth. Passenger trains
were running with more or less regu-
larity during daylight.
The conferrees gave up all hope on
the 18th of agreeing to any tariff bill,
and it was said formal notice to that
bodies. The split was over free raw
materials and the senate sugar sched-
u1e. One of the senators stated that it
would either be the senate bill or moth
ing.
The president on the 18th signed the
bill to permit Utah to hold a constitu-
tional convention to be admitted into
the union rs state.
The house has concurred in the sem
ate amendments to the bill extending
the time for making final proof on en-
tries under the presumption act.
In st. Petersburg 1876 fresh cases of
cholera were reported on the 18th, and
seventy-nine more deaths recorded.
A BILL to amend the constitution,
with a provision as to the hours of
labor. has been introduced in the SEN
ate by request by Mr.. George. 1t was
referred to the committee on immigra-
ton.
In the senate on the 18th after sew
eral minor bills had been passed the
agricultural appropriation bill was
taken up, rider for 81 900, 900 for the
destruction of the Russian thistle be-
ing put on the bill and adopted. The
house passed the Bailey voluntary
bankruptcy bill and the bills to create
an additional circuit judge for the
Eighth circuit and to make United
States railroad corporations citizens of
the-states through which they pass for
the purpose of jurisdiction.
The eighth race between the Vigilant
and the Britannia of so miles on Bel
fast Tough was won by the American
boat, the Britannia meeting with an
accident, although the American was
ahead before the accident. The Vigil
liant demonstrated she was the better
sailer in a stiff breeze.
Two hundred sticks of giant powder
exploded in the midst of party of
miners at the Stockton colliery at
Hazleton, Pa. On the 18th and not
enough Of the mems bodies we<s LETT
for Identification. Twelve men were
believed TO .isso ssa s.il.,s.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20

The New York World says that let
tiers have been received from all parts
of the United States for information
about the little gray toad that was
dug up under seventeen feet of hard
pan on the premises Of Henry Hender-
son, in the southern part of Tacoma.
Trees which were saplings about the
time Columbus landed were growing
in the four feet of soil on the top of the
hardpan until Henderson felled them
three years ago. This fact leads many
to the conviction that the toad must
have esconced himself in the hardpan
formation few dozen centuries before
that epoch.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20

REPORTS from United States consuls
in Mexico to the state department
warn Americans against immigration
to Mexico with a view to permanent
settlement with insufficient means or
without informing themselves in re-
liable way as to the prospects of earn
ing livings. Many Americans have
been induced by alluring statements
as to the cheapncss of coffee raising,
etc, to emigrate to Mexico within the
past year and some have lost their all
by doing so. There are good oppor-
tunities in Mexico for enterprise, fru-
gality and thrift if backed by the re-
sources necessary to success in new
country,
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20
Clippings.


The finest artist the negro race In
America has yet produced, according
to the Philadelphia Record, is Henry
c. Tanner, of that city, whose paint
ing, The Bagpipe Lesson" was shown
at the last academy exhibition there.
The board of ministers of the African
Methodist Episcopal church have en-
gagged to pay him 81 900 for the pict-
ure, and will sell reproductions of it
among their people.
An Indian girl, daughter of a Ne
brafka Winnebago, is one of the
brightest students in the graduating
class at Smith college this term.
Ex-United States Senator James w.
Bradbury, who is % years of age, de-
livered the Grafton at the laying of the
cornerstone of the Lithgow library
building in Augusta, Me-, recently.
Venezuela is said to have fifty-six
authorized national holidays each year.
Mexico has thirteen and Brazil twenty
one.
Rev. John Jasper, of Richmond, Va,
the most noted of all slave preachers,
is now over 80 years old and be-
ieyes now as firmly as he did in 1878,
that ''the sun do move.''
The area Of crops in the United States
this year i %, io7,sl7 acres. {
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20
ODD SIGNS.

A NEW YORK dealer in mems furnish
ing goods displays a sign reading:
''Shrt Constructor"
TIE following sign is posted ever a
Third avenue bar: "This Office refers
to the Charity Organization all appli-
cants for relief"
DID you win already?' inquiries a
manuscript notice in & shop window of
the German quarter. and then follows
the announcements: Every customer
II registered ia my indicate. and the
astieth purchaser gets his purchase for
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20

THE steamer Port Philip, Capt. Grey,
completed voyage of over &C, 900 miles
when she came into port at Brooklyn a
day or two ago. She started from
Glasgow on August last and went to
Freemantle, West Australia, and Sgd
ney, N. S. W., thence up to the Fiji
islands, thence to Japan and China
ports, loading with spices and tea for
this country. While at the wharf in
Singapore on May is sudden tornado
struck the town, and the curious part
of the circumstance to the nautical
mind was that the barometer did not
move the slightest trifle, either before
or after the squall.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20

ONE of the deepest wells in New
York city IS that just finished for the
Manhattan Life Insurance Co.'s build
ing, at No. "a Broadway. It Is an
eighteen-inch hole drilled to depth
of 1,O6O feet, of which 1,O3O feet is
through rock. 1t produced after three
days continuous pumping seventy
gallons of water per minute, sufficient
to supply the immense building with
all the water that was needed. 1t was
one of the most difficult wells to drill
that has ever been undertaken in New
York, on account of the character of
the rock,
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20

ABOUT O,O0O, 900 is what the Amer.
lean Railway union sympathetic strike
has cost the city of Chicago, the rail-
roads of Chicago, the state of Illinois,
and the government of the United
States In the first days of the strike
Vice President Harahan, of the Illinois
Central road, is said to have made the
statement that the strike was then
costing the railroads running out of
Chicago q cool quarter of a million
day. Afterwards the strike developed
such magnitude that conservative
authorities placed the daily cos. o9 Il,
trouble 10 the ruaas Of GnWbsA Mr. H.
r&hrs ,isf.S. fs,s ,ssay-. i,sv.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20

THE Matin, of Paris, declared that
the police of that city had been IN
formed that an anarchist with several
bombs recently left the United States
for England, boupr for France, to
carry out plot tiatched in the United
States to explode bombs simulta-
neously IN the Elysee palace, the SEN
ate Chamber, the chamber of deputies
and the palace of justice there.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20

FRANK A. LAPPEN, who a year ago
was known as the merchant prince of
Milwaukee, is now driving a cab in
London, and has been almost penniless
for several months. Lappen left Mil
svaukee to escape prosecution on nu-
merous charges of swindling. He con-
Quoted the largest house furnishing es-
tablisbynent in Wisconsin.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20
Judge EalIard for State senator.

CLINTON, Mo-, July ls.-At meeting
of the democrats of the Sixteenth sem
atorial district, comprising the coun-
ties of Cedar, Bates, Henry and st.
Clair, held in this city yesterday,
Judge j. N. Ballard, of this county, re-
ceived the nomination for state SEN
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20

LOUIS SCneRF, signing himself 1.-THE
Son of the Father of Time" is the
latest aspirant for the mantle of Moth
er Shipton. Recently he handed to
Mayor Walbridgc, of st. Louis, scroll,
written in German, and filled with
fantastic drawings in which the end of
the world was prophesied July 4, 1895.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20
ELECTRIC FISH.
Living Galvanlc Batteries and Their
Anatomical Peculiarities.

Living Galvanlc Batteries and Their
Anatomical Peculiarities.
Electric fish have always been plenti-
full in the Nile. The ancient Egypt
ians were familiar with the capacity Of
these fish 81 communicate a shock to
their captors, although, Of course; the
nature of the shock was not under
stood. In a picture in bas-relief from
the Metropolis at Memphis, dating pre-
sumably three thousand years B. c.,
we see the Pharaoh of the day engaged
in watching the sport of spearing
appropriateness, while solitary fish
erman in small boat is represented
in the act of catching an electric shad.
Galen, too (200 A. d., mentions the
electric rayfish, the action of which he
compares to a magnet; and for CEN
turtles the Abyssinians have used the
electric eel as remedy for diseases OF
the nerves. There are three species Of
electric fish now known: The electric
shad; the electric eel and the torpedo
or electric rayfsh. The electric shad
is from twelve to twenty inches long,
and is found in the Nile and the Sene-
gal. According to Brehm, the electric
organ of the shad consists of tissue,
resembling the fatty tissue, between
the skin and the muscles, over the
whole body. This tissue consists Of
six or more membranes superimposed
one upon the other, with space between
them for gelatinous mass furnished
with a peculiar arterial and venous
system, and with a very much branched
nerve. On being touched with the
hand. the electric shad gives shocks of
varying strength. The utilization Of
its electric energy is absolutely under
its own control.
The electric eel, first described by
Humboldt. is capable of communicate
ing the most powerful shock. 1t some
times reaches a length of six or seven
feet and weight of thirty or forty
pounds. The skin, which is olive-green
above and orange-red below, is covered
with slime, which, as Volta showed,
conducts electricity twenty to thirty
times better than water.
The electric organ of the electric
ray occupies the same space between
the head, the gills and the pectoral
fins. 1t consists of small cells. close
together like the cells of honey
comb, separated by cross-lnem braneous
walls and permcated by nerves. Its
shock is materially weaker than that
of the electric eel, but nevertheless
quite painful.-Literarv Digest.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has decided
to appoint commission to arbitrate
the present strike at the request of q
delegation of labor leaders. headed by
John w. Hayes, general secretary of
the X. of L.
SPEAKER CRISP was renominated for
congress on the 10th in the Third dis
trict at Hawkinsville, Ga.
GEORGE GOULD, for the Vigilant, has
challenged for the Victoria cup. The
rules of the club require eight months
notice, but it is expected that the rules
will be waived in favor of the American
yacht, in view of the circumstances Of
the challenge.
The house managers OF the confer
ence on the tariff bill have made a do.
termined fight against the 4 of cent
differcntial on refined sugar, and me
senate conference has stood out very
stubbornly FER the schedule substan-
t,aiiy ~ 1T was agreed to by the sem
re. Representative McMillin is lead.
ing the fight on the extra duty on re-
fined sugar, and so far has shown no
disposition to yield. The advocates Of
duty on coal and iron ore were more
hopeful on the 13th that the senate
provisions will be allowed to stand un.
altered.
SENATOR MARTIN, from the committee
on public lands, has reported substi-
tate for the bill introduced by Senator
Carey validating outstanding soldiers
additional homestead certificates. The
bill provides that all certificates here
tofore issued under the rules and regu-
lations of the general land Office shall
be valid Notwithstanding any at
tempted transfer or sale. It also val
idates sales of these certificates and
provides for the approval of land pa
tented to assignees under such sales.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20

LONDON had fire some days apc, in
Tabernacle street. Thirty Urge fac
tories and warehouses We're burned in
less than three ho,Irs, though forty
steam engines aid 300 men of the Lon
don fire brigade were at work upon it.
The 1000 work people employed on the
premises had gone home just before.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20

JOSEPH PULITZER, proprietor of the
New York World, has presented to the
city Of Paris, France, bronze group,
~ feet high, reproducing Bartholdi's
work portraying the founders of Amer,
lean independence washington and
Lafayette) which was exhibited in the
Salon of 1892. The authorities have
accepted the g!st and the group will be
placed upon stone pedestal to be
erected upon the Place dos Etats Unis
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20

THE Louisville & Nashville road has
determined to make war on the Amer
lean Railway union, considering it a
dangerous organization. An order has
accordingly been Issued requiring all
members in the employ of the road to
withdraw nom the order No man
known to he member will be permit
ted to 90 out with train without show
ing certificate of withdrawal.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20
Motion for a New Trial ove-ruIed.

CLAY CENTER, Kan, July 1s.-Upon
court convening yesterday morning
the motion for new trial IN the case
of Martin against the Union Pacific and
Rock Island companies was overruled
and defendants given time to take the
case to the supreme court.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20
Coal Strike Declared on.

BEvIER, Mo-, July 1s.-At a mass
meeting held by the miners here yes
terday morning they decided to declare
the present strike off, everyone to get
work wherever possible. Alarge num-
Der of the striking miners will be vic
timized and forced to leave for other
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20

NEARLY two thousand Iowa travel
ing men have joined in boycott
against Pullman cars to assist tho
Pullman strikers in compelling the
company to arbitrate.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20
CURRENT oMENr.

Or account Of the labor troubles
supplies OF fresh meat had been so cut
off in Connecticut that the people were
subsisting almost entirely on vegeta-
bles and fish.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
MezzOfanti OutdOne by Leitner.

DR.. G. w. Leitner of Working, editor of
The Oriental Review, is surely one of the
most "polyglot" of men. OF him it might
be said, as of Goldsmith's parson:
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew
That one small head could carry all he knew.
Here is list which we have compiled
from Languages of the languages or di-
alects in or concerning which the doctor
has written works.
Arabic, Arnyia, Basque, Breton, Burish-
ki or Khajuna, Dard languages, English,
French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hunga-
rian, Hebrew, Irish, lcelandic, Italian,
Katliri, Kashmiri, Latin, Magadhi, Pail
(Ariano), Portuguese, Persian, Romaic,
Spanish, Sindhi, Sharada, Turkish, Urdu,
WAIKIKI, Welsh, Zingari.
in addition to these DR.. Leitner has n
knowledge of Sanskrit, Dutch, Russian,
Hindi, Punjabi, Pushtu and various dia-
lects of Turk and 1ibetan. Is there Il Ian
guage or dialect ON the face of the earth
that the doctor doesn't know Westminster
Gazette,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
The Refrigerator

The jocund spring, when refrigerators
resume their importance i'll the house
hold, has come, and even the best house
keepers need to be reminded of the ne
cessity for keeping them cleaner than
any other thing in the house.
Warm food should never beplaced in
the ice chest, because it absorbs the
odors and fiavors of other foods. Butter
and onions should never be placed in
the same compartment. Neither should
milk be put side by side with strongly
favored dishes
Every day the ice box should be
washed out and thoroughly dried. Many
housel1epeers keep the ice from melting
too rapidly by wrapping it in a wooden
cloth. If this is done, the cloth must be
fresh, clean and dry each morning.
Once week everything should be re-
moved and the different parts washed
with hot water and soda The racks
should be removed, washed, dried and
put in the sun for some time. Sometimes
the entire refrigerator should be rolled
into the yard, tipped up, propped open
and thoroughly summed. The waste pipes
should be cleaned every day or so with a
flexible rod. -NeW York World.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
That Explained 1t.

A Methodist congregation, who regretted
the departure Of minister whose time had
expired, piled the pastor with questions
about the man appointed to succeed him.
The pastor gravely answered them;
"He is a good man and an able preacher,
but-there, | don't suppose | ought to say
anything, and think on reflection that l
won't"
OF course, this in1amed everybody's GU
riosity, and they insisted on his explain
Ing.
After discaiming any intention to pref
udice the new man he informed them
that the coming minister parted his hair
in the middle. The congregation were in
dignant, but decided to suspend final judg-
ment until they had seen the new man.
The next Sunday, when he walked com
posedly up the aisle every eye was upon
him, and as he faced the people there was
broad smile ON every face in the chapel.
He was bald.-London lid Bits.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
Women DOmeStics.

Statistics show that of the /, S36, 2SS
women engaged in paid occupations in
1870 nearly one-half We're domestic serv-
ants. By the census of $780, when the
number of working women in the United
States had increased to 2, CAT, 157, only
one-third We're found in domestic serv-
ice. 1t is not yet known what proportion
of the present number of working wom-
en- are employed as household servants,
as the figures Of the last census are not
yet to be had. The reasons for this de-
crease in the number of household serv-
ants is supposed to be due to the shorter
working hours, the companionship, the
Sunday holiday and the greater freedom
outside of working hours that are to be
had in other employments.
The greater remuneration given to
the average girl in factory or retail
store cannot be an element in her pref
erence, as statistics show the average
wages per week for this class Of labor
to be So, 68, with an average outlay of
S.. so. Though the income Of the house
hold servant is smaller, her outlay is
also very small. Her station in life will
probably leave her with more money at
the end Of the year than can be accumu-
lated by the average schoolteacher.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
Russia in the Last Century.

Peter the Great said of his country and
said truly, Russia is rotten before she is
ripe" To realize the true meaning of
these words and the fullness of their inn
plication, one must study in detail the
reigns of Elizabeth and Catherine IL. In
Russia, during the eighteenth century,
Were to be found side by side the vices
alike of savagery and civilization. Add to
the lack Of social instinct of humanity in
the wider sense, and of moral responsible
ity that is to be found in n Zulu kraal the
worst corruptions that are bred in courts
like that of Louis XIV, and one can form
some faint notion of the Russian capital
under Elizabeth and Catherine.
The country, as whole, was oriental
in its want of civil organization, but with
out the idealism Of the east The capital
was welter of blood and lust barbarism
and sophistry, atheism and superstition,
drunkenness and savage violence, indo-
lence and semi insane activity. The moral
condition was reflected in the physical.
Never was there such mixture of squalor
and magniticence as in the palaces of the
Empress Elizabeth. The rudest and tho
most costly furniture were jumbled togeth-
err Filth and splendor were always alter
mating, and tho vilest food was eaten of
plates OF gold.-London Spectator.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
Shoemaker, by the Grace of God.

A young STRIPPING of a minister, who
had just come to be pastor in the town,
went down to talk to Hiram, because
he had heard that he was spiritual
man, and he said, Mr.. Golf" and
Mr.. Golf said, "Don't call me Mr.. Golf,
call me Hiram" Well, Hiram,"
said the minister, 81 have come to
talk with you about the things of God,
and l am very glad man can be in a
humble occupation and yet be godly
man, The shoemaker stopped and
looked up at him and said, "Don't call
this occupation humble!" The minis
ter thought he had made a mistake,
and he said, 6 Excuse me, didn't
mean to reflect on what you do for a
living" The man replied, " You
didn't hurt me, but l was afraid you
might have hurt the Lord Jesus Christ.
l believe the making of that shoe is
just as holy thing as your making a
sermon. l believe that when l come
to stand before the throne of God, he
is going to say, what kind of shoes
did you make down on earth?' and he
might pick out this very pair, in order
to let me look at them in the blazing
light of the great white throne; and be
is going to say to you, what kind of
sermons did you make?' and you will
have to show him one of your sermons,
Now, if l make better shoes than you
make sermons, l will have better
place in the kingdom of God."-Ram's
Horn.