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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-04
FEE DING THE JACKALS.
4 Strange Ceremony Pcrformed.sy Him
aIayau Priests.

4 Strange Ceremony Performed,by Him.
aIayau Priests.
A stran &c, ceremony iscarried on at
certain temple lying in a belt of
swamp and jungle at the foot of the
Himalayas. The author of Indian
Memories" who visited the place at
shutdown, says f2lat she found the
priests in perfect silence, engaged in
cooking large cakes before the temple.
Then they sats dow7a, still silent and
stoIid, as If ignorant. of any unaccus-
toned presence
As the last rays'of sunlight died of
the temple, a man of extreme age,
clad in white robessand closely shaver,
issued from the shrine. It was the
chief priest. Moving slowly forward,
he took up ai'bronze hammer, and be-
gan to strike the bell. Very sweet
and deep was the note; the whole
gladearang eud vibrated with it.
At the .sohInd, all the .priests rose
and moved-soaemniy and in dead silence
round the quadrangle, Bearing with
them their huge cakes, which they
broke up as they walked, and de-
posted them ,on the stones and tree
trunks, and. tile steps of the temple. A
rustiing sound made ne turn. A jack
al, big and plump. brushed past me,
with an upward curl of his lips, and a
look of surprise and resentment in his
red-bronze, g,seaning eyes.
simultaneously. from every lane and
passage in the Ndarkening thicket, came
other jackals, fangly and in pairs, and
filed the spate before the temple.
Soon the feast v tas spread. The high
priest ceased to toll the bell, and at
shout and wave Of the hand, every
iackal trotted, without rivalry and
without snarling orconfusioh, to what
was evidently his accustomed place in
the feast, seized the cake in his jaws,
turned and disappeared through the
thicket.
In vain did Il fee the priests to learn
the meaning of this strange bounty.
''It had always been so,'' was their
answer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-04
STOOD THE TEST.
chs Startling Experience OF . Psrisis
Arm0rer.

chs Startling Experiencs Of . Partisan
Arm0rer.
Ap amusing story has been going the
rounds of the French papers respect
ing general whose recent dueling ex-
PLOTS have excited some amazement
both in England and on the CONT
pent.
The worthy brave Is said to be pos
sessed OF an extraordinary coat Of
mail. Ono day, as the story goes. the
general sent for clever artisan in
Paris aud demanded of him whether
be could engage TO make a coat
Of mali, to be worn under the ordinary
dress. which should be absolutely
sword and bullet proof.
The man promised to do as request
ed. naming nineteen thousand francs
rs the price for it. The bargain was
speedily concluded, and in due time
the article was brought round to the
generals house. The general took il
up, carefully examined it. and, turn
ing to the man, told him to put it on.
The man did rs he was bid. ''As you
guarantee the efficacy of your coat,
you will have, I presume, no objection
to my testing it," dryly remarked the
general; and before the astonished
artisan could protest he took brace
of pistols and discharged them.
Half dead with fear, the man stood
the fire, and, to tho great credit of his
Workmanship, with complete impuni-
ty. But the general was not content
with one trial. He fred another pistol
at the back Of the man, and afterwards
discharged fowling piece at him with
similar effect, or rather, non-effect.
He also tried to pierce the coat with a
sword. The gallant general was SO
delighted with his new garment that
he handed the artisan two checks for
nineteen thousand francs, the first be-
ing the sum agreed on, and the second
check in compensation for the fright
he had given him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-04
CANCELLED POSTAGE STAMPS.
Many Are Sent 20 Germany and Are used
In Decoration ana In PspsrtaE Rosma


This country contributes some thou.
sand dollars worth of material yearly
to the promotion of fad long prevail.
ing in Germany. The rage for collect.
ing postage stamps, common enough
here, is much more widespread in Ger
many, and for some time past col.
lectors have been using cancelled
lions upon millions of stamps are used
annually in Germany to paper walls
A room of moderate size may be pa
pered completely with one hundred
Thousand stamps of the ordinary size.
Persons who indulge in this fancy ex-
ercise great ingenuity in the arrange
ment of the stamps, and remarkable
color effects may be produced oy taste
full combinations When the stamps
have been affixed to the walls of a
room, tedious piece of work, the
whole.is vanished, in order to protect
the papering from damage
Stamps and parts of stamps are used
In decorating tables and cabinets
Those who do this sort of decorating
laboriously cut out the head of Wash
ington from the current two-cent
stamp and paste the little vignettes by
the hundred upon the table or cabinet
to be decorated. Then thousa nds of
the tiny figure ''2" are cut from the
lower corner of the stamp and dis
posed so as to form a border about the
repeated head of Washington Scores
of other designs are treated in a like
fashion, and stamps of various colors
are arranged in accordance with the
taste of the decorator.
One man in New York. not himself a
professional dealer in stamps. sends
nearly 25. 0o0. 900 stamps per year to
dealer in Germany. The same dealer
has an agent in Baltimore who sends
him vastly larger quantities
They are sent to the agents from all
parts Of the east Children in search
of pocket money, women in need of pin
money, Sunday-schOols, and charities
of one sort or another collect and send
these stamps to the agents in patches
of 10, 900 to 30, 600. 10000, or 100, 900.
The usual price is 10 cents per 1000,
because they are easily obtainable.
and also because their dye is not well
fixed The Columbian stamps Of small
denominations fetch 30 cents per thou
sand. Rare stamps fetch more, of
course, but the German dealer makes
no special effort to obtain such stamps
here. Many other dealers in Germany
have long been buying large quantities
of stamps in the United States, but as
some failed to pay for their purchases
1t is now little difficult TO obtain
large quantities save through resident
agents The craze for stamp decora-
tons has as yet made small head way in
this country. though 1T least one col
lcctor in New York is making ready to
paper his room with stampk-S. I.
Sun -..rt-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-04
AN ENGLISH PARTY WHIP.
One of the Queer salaried Positions In
tho House OF Commons

Ono OF the queer saIaried f0eit1Oos II
the House OF Commons
Reverting to the duties of whip
and patronage secretary, it is an aston
ishing fact that gentlemen of birth
and social position can be found TO fill
the post. The junior whips duties are
not only onerous. but irksome, accord
ing to the, Cardiff Mail. They sit or
stand in the outer lobby of the house
from half-past three to half past twelve
o'clock at night and they ask every
member who passes where he is going
whether he is paired, and when he
will be back. If he is not paired they
have either to find pair for him or to
prevent him from passing out by coax
ing or threats, the former for prefer
ence. When their party is in these
gentlemen have to attend to their
Office from twelve to three o'clock.
Their hours of duty are therefore from
eleven a. m. to twelve p. m, or thir-
teen hours, with intervals for lunch
and dinner, and this they do for one
thousand pounds year. When their
party is out they do it, minus their
Office work, for nothing.
In addition to keeping an eye on his
Juniors, the chief whip, who has two
thousand pounds a year. deals with
the members on their more touchy
side. 1t is he who practically dis
tributes ribbons and titles and sees
that cards of invitation are sent 20 this
man and that-that no one is given un-
due preterence-a delicate duty which
requires much tact and skill
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-04
MEXICAN BRICK LAYERS.
A United States Soldier Givss Thsn .
Few Instructions.


Capt. J. r. Kenly. in his Memoirs
of Maryland Volunteer" describes
with evident satisfaction little scene
in the city OF Jalapa during the Mexican
war. The United States troops were
in garrison in the town. Everything
was quiet. and the inhabitants and
the soldiers were on very good terms.
1t was not uncommon says Capt.
Kenly, to see an American soldier
msnding his boots alongside of .
Mexican shoemaker, or . carpenter in
uniform working at the same bench
with Mexican mechanic.
One day the captain noticed a soldier
looking with great interest at some
native masons laying brick. They
were at work upon platform elevated
perhaps a dozen feet from the ground,
up to which a man was carrying
mortar upon his head on a square
board instead of hod.
The masons stood Immediately In
front of the wall they were construct
ing. placed each brick separately on
it's bed, used a plumb-line, square, etc.
to see that each brick was correctly
aligned, and occupied as much time in
laying half dozen bricks as An Amer
lean mechanic would use in laying a
hundred.
Captain" said the soldier. may I
90 up and show those men how to
work?'
Certainly, if you are bricklayer."
He mounted the platform, one of the
Mexicans gaze him his trowel, and he
went to work, the Mexicans looking on
with the greatest interest and admira-
ton. No doubt they profited by the
1aScnu
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-04
THEY PlTiEO HIM.
The Reverence Of Sioux Indians for
Supposed Lunatic.

The Reverence Of Sioux Indians for .
Supposed Lunatic.
One Of the peculiar characteristics
Of the Indian is his reverence, amount
ing to absolute fear, of an insane per.
son, and he never harms one whom he
believes to be mentally affected. When
the expedition headed by Gen. Custer
was exploring the Black Hills, it was
accompanied by half-dozen college
professors from the east. and these
scientific gentlemen worried the sol
aiers beyond description. The coun-
try was swarming with hostile Sioux,
and every professor had guard Of
five men. They would go around pick
ing up bugs, chasing butterflies and
breaking up rocks. until the soldiers
voted every one of them lunatics. One
day, the most clearned old professor
of the lot managed in some way to get
dered two or three miles away, right
into a party of Sioux. He walked up
to them calmly and offered to shake
hands. They promptly grabbed him,
and then dived down into the green
bsize bag he carried. 1t was half full
of lizards. and pieces Of clay, and bits
Of rocks and bugs, and the Indians
gszed at the assortment in amaze
ment. Just then the professor caught
sight of peculiar bug, which he cap
tured, and began to study with mag
nifying glass. That settled it. The
chief took him by the hand, led him to
hill close by, and, pointing to the
troops in the valley, said kindly:
"Go!' The professor came into camp,
and said to Gen. Custer: "Your soldiers
totally misunderstood the Indians. l
found them the most polite and courte-
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-04
GLANDS UP, sTRANGERr

HANDS OF, siEANGEh.
in the bushes at the sides of the coach, and
miner would step out, stop the stage and
ask the driver to post letter for him or
give him dollar to buy tobacco or some
other little commission. So when two fell
lows came suddenly plunging out of the
thicket and yelled, Haiti! and thrust their
guns right up in our faces, j give my word
of honor laughed, thinking it was only a
joke played by a couple of miners. But
didn't laugh long.
"'Road agents, by heavensl' said the driv-
er under his breath as he pulled up his
team.
when it really dawned on my besotted
intellect that it was no joke, had the fool
nerve to half rise and reach back under the
tails of my Prince Albert coat TO get my
gun out of my hip pocket. But my gun
had in some way got twisted, and couldn't
get hold of it. It's great wonder my man
didn't shoot when he saw me make the at
tempt. But he only said: Here now,
stranger, none of that. Come down here,
or I'll blow your head Off
II accepted his invitation, and he backed
me up against the stage. and putting the
noses of two A caliber revolvers just under
my eyes said, Hands up, stranger
began 10 Chill uill- dshlIlS him IL Ne
thought that was pretty way to treat a
stranger and so en-, but he growled: 'Shet
up. You talk too much. Put your hands
higherup-higher!'
Il was mad then clear through. Well, l
wouldn't have put my hands an inch higher
if he had shot me through the heart. And
/ told him so. He stared at me for mo-
ment, and honestly thought my hour had
come. But he didn't shoot.
Now, maybe you think it's a pleasant
sensation TO look right down the barrel of
gun. but it isn't, and as stood there look
ing down what seemed like q "a foot water
main very curious idea came into my
mind. think must have been crazy for
an instant, for quite seriously thought OF
suddenly seizing both those guns and turn
ing them on him. If could have depend
ed on the driver following my example
with the man who was guarding him.
think | should have done it. As it was,
was just on the point of trying it when it
seemed as if a voice in my ear said:
Don't do it. Don't do it
"And that moment the man said: 'Stran-
ger, you're too fresh. If you move an eye
lash, I'll kill you
We'll, he took my watch. chain and 500
in money from me, and after they had cut
open the mailbags they backed into the
thicket. keeping their guns leveled at US as
they disappeared
ut was not until got home and thought
it over coolly and calmly that / realized
what an awful fool | was to think for one
moment of throwing myself on the man.
And do you know to this day, when cover
man with my gun and order him TO sur
render, once again I look down thst cold.
glittering water main and wonder IL my
gun barrel looks a. big TO my prisoner as
that road agents looked to me When you
get over in that country, you'll very likely
have an opportunity 70 know exactly how
i felt.
But there's one thing You can depend
upon-you won't be killed fou may be
robbed, but nothing more. It's only down
east they kill women
EDITH SESSIONS TTPPER
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-04
LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.
The Narrow-Headed MAJ Tells of an II
diana Editors Peculiarities.

Inc NarroW-Hea0ed M4n Tells OF an In
diana Editors Peculiarities.
Talk about the liberty of the press"
exclaimed a narrowheaded man with
q faded carpet-bag in bis hand as he
stood on the platform waiting for an
accommodation train, talk about the
liberty of the press, why there's An ed
itor in Indiana that / know that takes
the cake, and no mistake" says the
Detroit Free Press.
what does he do with ito" queried
. nice little man; give it to his sub
scrioers as premium"
The narrow-headed man didn't notice
him any more than if he had been a
dab of mud on his horseskin boots.
''As was saying" he went on. that
editor out there amt wider than
postage stamp edgeways. Why, would
you believe it, he won't speak of the
sunshine in his paper, because his
father-in-law is the president of the
electric light factory and he thinks
the sun cuts the old man out of half
the business every day. Now, what do
you think of that?"
What was it Apollo struck" in
quired the nice little man. and the mar
row-headed man didn't know what the
nice little man was talking about.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-04
THANKS TO NANruckEr.


4 Funny stosemsDe Due - . HrintsE'D
Tims-SavinK Dsv1cs.
Itwas an old custom in many news
paper Offices, says tho Worcester Ga
Eette, for the printers to make use Of
saving galleyx." or little racks with
compartments, which they used Is Ia
bor-saving device. When after the pa
per had been printed they distributed
The type. putting the several letters
back in their respective boxes, they
would save some Of the most frequent
" recurring words, such as and, I"
the" ''wher," etc. putting them in
. compartment of the rack, to be drawn
out when needed in setting up the
next days paper. If it were In sea-
port where some shipnews was printed
the words ''ship." "brie }" "bark." ETC..
would be added, and also the name Of
certain ports. as Boston" ''Previ-
dence," Nantucket" If the printer
by mistake drew the wrong word from
the galley. taking ship" instead Of
Ozark" or Salem" instead Of Ports
mouth" the error would probably be
discovered by the proof-reader. but in
the hurry Of going to press it some
times escaped detection.
An amusing instance Of the mistakes
incident to the system occurred in .
certain Office. The printer was setting
up An account of the experience Of .
vessel which was driven before the
wind upon a lee shore. Death in its
most dreadful form stared the crew
and passengers in the face, but ut the
last critical moment, when the ship
was just on the point Of being dashed
upon the rocks, It ghded between two
dreadful lodges Into a little bay,
where the anchor was thrown, and
safely held the gallant craft. saved
from destruction by the mercifal inter
position of divine Nantucket" The
readers of that paper were thunder
struck, but printers saw that the con-
positor had pulled the wrong word from
his Gal1av
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-04
ANCIENT GuE-WORkERS.
now the knowledge of Mixing Metal
Was First 'OS,taised.

Row the knowledge of Mixing Metals
Was First 'OS,taised.
There is a papyrus' which gives rec
ipes for various alloys used in tho
manufacture OF cups and vases, and
making gold and silver ink, FOR gliding
and silvering, and for testing the pur-
itv of precious metals. Other recipes,
says the Edinburgh Eeview, teach the
method of falsifying them by adding
baser metals-an operation called
diplosis, or doubling, for the mass Of
the gold and silver was doubled, while
their color remained unchanged, and,
as the compiler of the manual re-
marks, a skilled workman would find
it difficult, or even impossible, to de-
tect the fraud. The recipes which re-
cur most frequently describe various
modes of preparing asem, word
which originally meanta natural al
10y of gold and silver known to the
Greeks as electrum. It was at first
looked upon as distinct metal, was
considered sacred to Jupiter, and was
designated by the sign of that planet,
but at a later pesiod the name was ap-
piled to all alloys, and NJ. Berthelot
remarks that in this fact seems to lie
the explanation of the origin of
alchemy. Both gold and silver could
be extracted from genuine Assem-, and
it seemed rs though it could be
changed At the will of the operator
into either one or the other; it could
also be made srtihcially by mingling
gold and silver, or closely initiated by
some Of the numerous alloys, eleven or
twelve varieties of which are described
In the papyrus of Leyden-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-04
soap Paper.

Travellers on the European continent
know by experience that unless they
take soap in travelling bags they will
in all probability have TO make their
toile. without any. A form OF soap
which will be appreciated By them is
the new soap paper brought out in
France. The paper is cut into pieces
slightly larger than visiting cards and
Is covered on each side with a thin
layer of ordinary soap or Of soap va
riously colored and perfurned- These
soap tickets are put into memorandum
books. card cases or pocketbooks, Just
as II they were business or visiting
cards Each piece serves for one time
only. and is used like an ordinary cake
of soap. In the manufacture OF this
new product sheets OF unsized paper
are immersed in . bath OF cocosnu oil
soap, prepared in the same way a. for
the manufacture Of toilet soaps. The
strips Of paper are dried passed be
tween two rollers il order 10 render
them smooth and slightly and then
cut TO the proper dimensions and
stamped with any desired marx
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-04
AmputRtinS a Lions Tail.

At.Madras, some time ago, value BILE
lion having incautiously allowed its
tail TO stray into an adjoining cage, the
tail was seized by an evil-disposed
leopard, close to the body. When the
lion attempted to escape almost the
whole of the skin of his tail was
stripped of. This was followed by
such an amount of Inflammation that
the lions life was in danger. Surgeon
Maj. Miller, brother of the late Prof
Miller, of Edinburgh, the surgeon to
the governor of Madras, volunteered to
perform amputation. The lion was
seized in his cage and his head covered
with a cap containing a quantity of
chloroform. He was then dragged to
the edge Of the cage and the tail passed
through the bars. where DR.. Miller
cleverly performed his operation. The
suimal made a good recovery.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-04
A FREQUENT MISTAKE.


Whore the Hostess Succeeds In 8eisg Hees
pttsbis.
Some hosts entertain their quests
with so much energy and are 40 sx.
tremely conscientious about providing
smuscments Of various kind. that they
are completely worn cot by the tine
their friends leave They dread having
company. because 10 implie, 20 their
minds a vast amount Of fatigue and
eIertion. Such people have bat one
idea in regard to hospitality. namely,
tina. Il consists In killing the fssssA
calf, which thsy proceed 10 de In every
sense. and with great thorough pesA
Indeed, they offer up a. . sort Of hole.
csust 20 the visiter the time, csnfors
and convenience Of the snsiss house.
hold. so far a. tss individual mem bare
of 10 Will permit themselves " b
sacrificed. All tkis 10 . nistalssn mo-
ton of hospitality aid sftsa psevss a.
burdsnsoms 70 the guest 40 70 ~ hosA.
Unless = person 10 extremely usobssrv-
ant or EXTERNALLY SslGsA- IL VIII make
him feel very uneoafortssls 70 And
that every one else 10 pa, about simply
for his coEvsnienesL and the fssAiaS of
unres, which pssvSaes the ho~ssaoiA
viii communicate itsen 10 hin siso
A guest cannes feel at hoDs whore
every one Is uneonforta Die asA al the
orSsnAry arrzegsnsnts sse tzrnsd
topsy .arvey- II az ssnosphsrs es
s~is sacrifice fila the sty tbs stvanseS
within the rates viii iassls n. anA h
TOO. will be in the prevailing aosd.-
Phi saeiphia Tissa
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ception rooms on either side of the
vestibule. The auditorium will Be
1880 feet and viii have q seating
capacity Of 400. A gallery will run
across the front Of the building TO the
back of tho auditorium The pulpit.
peyvs and entire interior Of the audi
torium will be finished In highly pol.
ished redwood in natural cosors-
The building will be unique in It's
way and unlike any other structure in
the city. In general effect il viii
strongly suggest the japanese. but in
outline IL will belong 10 the Christian
Gothic school.
The Japanese Methods, church WAS
organized in 1856 by Rev. o. Gibson.
The church now numbers $50 members.