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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-08
The Testimonials

Published in behalf of Hoods Sarsaparilla are not
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nor are they from our employees. They are facts
from truthful people. proving. surely as any
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Upright Pianos, 81 Month Up.
F. g. Smith, 1225 Pa. aye.-Advt.
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CUrpets WMU MHttInSs at Auct1On."
Immense sale Of carpets and mattings at
Sloan's, 1407 G street tomorrow, at 10 am.
Don't fail to attend this SALE as bargains
are to be expected.-Advt.
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Hoods Sarsaparilla Cures,

''Our little girl years DID, has been sickly
for two years. 1 have given her Hoods SarsaparIa
and now she is much better in health and has Q
good appetite. l suffered with pains in my stom-
ach aid headache, but I have also taken Hoods
Sarsaparilla and feel much better" A. MANGEIS,
81 Middleton st., Brooklyn. N. Y.
HOODS PILLS cure nausea, sick headache, in
digestion. biliousness. Sold by all druggists.
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Look at auction column. samstag. auct,

0assanetta Water, five gallons, 81.
Skaters 1OS Pennsylvania ave-
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some finds worth waiting for. Whenever
the bricks and old timbers cease falling the
crowd rush In among the debris with open
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-02
NOTIONS IN SKATES.
Queer Stilt-Like Devices for In.
creasing Speed
An Ice and SNOW Bicycle - Pneumatic
Tires for Roller Skates-They Run
on leo ~ Well n on the
Pavement.
[CoPYRIGHT, 1891

COPYRIGHT, 1881
To offer to teach the average Ameri-
can boy to skate is somewhat akin to
offering to teach your grandmother
the time-honored trick of sucking eggs,
for it seems to come to most of them
as instinctively as duck takes to
water, and America has shown beyond
all cavil or criticism that so far as
clever skaters are concerned she can
beat the whole world and give them
points at that. No wonder that every
American boy should feel that it is a
national sport, try all he can to excel
in it. and keep himself posted on all
the new developments. The fathers
are looking out for the same reasons
SO as to take the boy out and give him
a good time learning new stunts" to
set the other boys.
There are quite a number Of new
items this season, which, if the wealth
er sharps are not deceived in the fuzz
on the hogs back, the goose bone and
other time tried tests, is going to be
a long and severe winter, with plenty
Of good skating. One of the most re-
markable innovations to be tried this
year is an exaggerated development of
the High Dutch" skate, which, it will
be remembered, had for its claim to ex-
cellence the fact that the increased
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-02

A German newspaper man. evidenb
~ Jealous OF the Irishman's reputation
as maker of bulls, took the trouble
some years ago, says the Londoo
Figaro, TO look MP the German record
in this line. Among others he found
In the published works OF certain Teu-
tonic writers the following curious ex-
amples: Among the immigrants was
IN old blind woman. who came to
America once more before she died 70
see her only SON." After the door
was closed soft female foot slipped
into the room. and with her own hand
extinguished the taper" Both doc
tors were unable TO restore the de-
ceased once more to life and health"
''The Ladies' Benefit association has
distributed twenty pairs o: shoes
among the poor. which viii dry mp
many a tear" Il was at the table en-
joying cup of coffee when a gentle
voice tapped me on the shoulder /
looked around and saw my old friend
~nce more"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-02

Tor The frozen river or the snow
bound road. At the base of the or
dinary U shaped handle post that fits
over the front wheel of the bicycle
proper land which is elongated to
the ground) is a fairly large skate
blade, another larger skate blade is
fixed just in front of the rear driving
wheel with the double view of sus-
tanning the weight of the rider and
keeping it from sagging the hind
wheel, which would retard its velocity.
and also to support the rider inde-
pendently when using the steering ap-
paratus, which is, of course, the skate
attached to the handle post. 1t is said
that the machine is easily driven, per
fectly controlled, and that the rate of
speed is very high. It will probably
be seen in operation in the neighbor-
hood of Poughkeepsie this year, fit
ting about among the ice yachts, rid
den by well-known rider who has at
tracted considera BILE attention this year
by riding about the smooth water of
the mighty Hudson on a water bicycle
which next year will be one Of the fea-
lures of the season. This ice bicycle
was in use at Chicago on the Midway up
to the closing of the skating palace in
July (for want of patronage and was
very favorably received by those who
tried it on the ice surface
The small boy, also, has not been
neglected.! Three years ago when he
got off the self-propelling sled, he
thought Boys Heaven had opened to
him, until he grew weary of the labor
of propelling it, and went back 20 the
old coaster, for the American boy is a
true American, restless, energetic, try
ing everything in which he can SEQ
any good, and either keeping to the
novelty or going back to his old plan,
whichever there is tho most fun in.
Thexe Is no prejudice about him, and
SO he gets there every time! This year
the improvement In his favor is one so
great but SO simple that every one is
inclined to wonder "why did / not
think of that?" This is what is styled
a flexible sled, and consists of an ordi-
nary sled having runners of T-shaped
spring steel, which make it very strong
vertically, but very flexible otherwise.
The boy picks mp his sled. runs with it.
and in the most approved manner
filings himself down on the slope. He
does not lie down and drag his leg to
steer by. but swings his legs forward
and places them on the steering bar in
front: the hind boy is the passenger (if
there be one) and by pressing one foot
or the other the corners are turned.
snags avoided, and last but not least
the sled runs swifter and much further
each journey, because it is relieved of
the dragging behind it We all know
what difference a dragging rope
makes TO racing boat. and the same
applies with tenfold force to a coasting
sled. These donot cost any more than
the old ones, best quality, and the BOYS
may recognize them at sight By the
steering bar being in front, curved
like cupid's bow to afford support to
the feet A. T. VAxCz.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-02

When Baby was sick, We gave her casioria-
When she was Child she cried for Csstoria.
When she became Miss, she clung TO Casto-is.
When she had Children, she gave them Caste-ia
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-02
HOW TuRPENTINE IS MADE.
The Collecting Of Pine Sap by the ShiftIess
People of the South.

The Collecting Of Pine Sap by the ShiftIess
People Of the South.
Throughout the entire long-leaved
pine region Of the south the work of
gathering turpentine affords means
of livelihood for Q considerable portion
Of tho population. Beginning in the
spring tho trees are boxed" which
operation consists in making an incis-
ion in tho trunk, At about three feet
from the ground. Of sufficient capacity
to hold quart or moro OF the oil Just
above tho box . slight portion of the
bark is removed to expose tho surface
of the wood, this scoring being in v
shape with the point down toward the
box so that tho exudations will drip
into that As many trees are thus pre-
pared as the operator can attend to
through the season and are then left
for the oil to gather. At the end of
week. If the weather has been good
the exudations being much more rapid
in warm weather than when it is COOL
It viii be necessary to remove another
strip Of bark and SO expose fresh sur
face. The work of the season consists
in visiting the trees regularly to make
these incisions and to remove tho oil
from the boxes as they fill up That is
q slow process, month or more being re-
quired for the accumulation of quart.
As gathered, it is put into barrels and
taken to the still houses where the crude
product is manufactured into the COM
mercial products OF rosin and turpen-
tine. Besides the drip which is col
lected as above, and which is technic-
ally termed "virgin, a quantity Of gum
congeals upon the surface of the tree
where the bark has been removed.
This is also gathered by scraping the
trunk, and from the method of collect
ing is given tho technical name of
''scrape." 1t is much less valua BILE
than the virgin, as it contains less tur-
pentine. The "still" is usually an un-
pretentious affair, hardly more than
shanty of pine slabs, and is situated
either in the heart Of tho pine woods
or near convenient railway station.
It contains brick-incased kettle of
few barrels capacity, ara a worm for
By means of the worm
the turpentine is first volatilized and
then condensed and drawn of, leaving
the heavier product. the rosin. in the
kettle. This in turn is drawn into q
vat. which is covered by . coarse
screen, over which sheets of cotton are
placed, ax,d through this the rosin is
strained and all chips and other inn
purities are removed.
The occupation of gathering the tur-
pentine has been followed chiefly by
tho shiftless natives and the negroes
who have preferred few months OF
such employment to the more severe
and exacting demands of the farm or
The pine lands have, in
the past, been free to whoever would
work them, so that all that was OBJ
tanned as the product Of their labor re-
manned as clean profit-American Ag.
riculturist
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-02
THE TABLES TURNED.
A Would-Be vivisector Operated On by
His Savage Allies.

would-Be vivisector Operated On by
His Savage Allies.
One of the most curious expeditions
ever planned by man was that once
undertaken by DR.. j. G. Bunting of
Portland, says the Lewiston (Ne.)
Journal. During all his life ne had
been close student of the philosophy
Of digestion, and for the purpose Of
bis Investigations he had THAI remark
able Canadian, Alexis ST. Martin, in
his care for twenty years In order to
Cinch matters and provide facts for
some Of the doubti1g Thomases, DR..
Bunting cast about SDr some one else
upon whom he might continue to ex-
pertinent.
He could thins Of but one plan, and
that was to go 20 Africa, buy two
slaves and operate upon their stom-
nchs. BY opening the body near the
fifth rib and perforatin the stomach
D condition could 10 produced similar
to that existing IL the person of ST.
Martin. Therefore the doctor pur-
chased his supplies and sailed across to
Tunis, in the north of Africa There
he hired a native chief with forty Of
bis followers, paying them liberal
retaining fee an6 promising alluring
largess when tho trip was ended. They
set forth. The doctor carried ore
thousand pounds in his inside pocket
and the chief probably lay awake four
nights thinking about the matter At
any rate, on the fifth night he sneated
into the doctors tent and delivered
little address over the muzzles of two
pistols. When he had concluded the
doctor passed over his ducats and the
chief passed over the border along
with his renegade band. They helped
themselves to such supplies as suited
their artless and unenlightened tastes
The doctor came back without re-
tinue and with deal of experience
that will never appear in a medical
work.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-02
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

A THREE-EVED girl of rare beauty is
said TO be a coming sensation in Eu-
rope.
A WONDERFUL pig is owned by j. w
Garrison, of Flat Creek. y. c. II has
two heads, two tails, three eyes and
six legs
AT Buchanan, Ga, w A Keith found
a stone of the blue flint variety in the
heart of a solid pine tree
A SHARK in Florida waters recently
undertook TO swallow q four-hundred-
pound turtle. tail first. but after get
ting his prey down as far as the for
ward hippers was obliged to disgorge.
A FREAK IN the main water pipe in
a street in Tom bstone. A. T., was found
to have been caused by the roots of a
tree, which had grown around the pipe
and c-ushed II SO that il burst
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-02
FOREST AND GARDEN.

VENEZUELA has milk trees.
THERE are thirty species of tobacco.
PLANTS placed under blue glass will
starve, because they cannot absorb car
bonic acid from the atmosphere.
PROF. DoILEY, of the University of
Pennsylvania, has discovered that the
thyrsus carried by Bscchus was the
flower cluster Of tho date palm, not q
fir or pine cone as usually translated
WILLIAM R. SMITH. for many years
superintendent of the botanical gar
dens in Washington, has, it is said, per
sonally directed the planting of more
than six million trees in different parts
of the United States.
AT Cologne there is q rose tree which
Il believed to be three hundred years
old and has trunk of four feet in cir
cumference. California has one at
Ventura which is now three feet in
circumference at the ground. It was
only planted in 1875 and now covers
two thousand feet
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-02
ffaua -cd 1t Betvcen Them.

1t used to be the custom in England
for pheasants to feed from boxes which
opened when the bird stood on rail
In front, the box shutting to again as
soon as the bird left the rail. By this
device the food was protected from all
manner OF thieves. Ii SO happened,
according to Bishop Stanley. of Nor
wich. that coot or water-hen had
studied the movements o. the pleas
ants, aud Selng anxious to get its meals
as easily as they got theirs it tried the
box one day. As it was not heavy
enough to raise the lid. it kept Jump
ng on tl<e rail to give extra force to
its weight: still the result was not sat
isfactory. Accordingly, it went away.
but returned soon with another coot.
The weight OF the two birds was now
sufficient TO cause the box 20 open
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-02
FLEXIBLE SLED.

the ice. Many, and many good runs
have been had over the frozen rivers by
our bicyclists who never miss chance
of such splendid track, and as they
claim that the greatest speed can be
obtained on the ice it is fair to suppose
that tho claim will extend to the
pneumatic skate, as it is called. There
is, however, the same disadvantage to
the skate as to the bicycle, and that is
neither can be turned in q sharp man
ner. at . high rate Of speed. The turn
ing circle always has to be large one,
and the turn made comparatively
slow, as the rubber tired wheels have
little or no grip on the smooth surface
of the ice, and are liable to slip from
under the rider, and give him severe
fall; on , road the rubber gets quite a
grip from tho loose dust, etc, and this
is point it is well to bear in mind.
The skates run on tiny ball bearings"
just the same principle rs bicycle.
The bicycle has also received the at
tention of our inventors, and the Oft
tried, but hitherto unsatisfactory ice
bicycle appears likely to be made
success at last. The machine resem-
bles safety bicycle in height, and
frame, and lightness, and is propelled
in almost the same way, the rider sit
ting on an ordinary saddle in the usual
position; but the pedals, instead of
turning tho front wheel and making it
the driving wheel. operate the rear
wheel, which is driven by sprocket
chain from tho crank shaft, and, in-
stead of rubber tire, is fitted with
thin rim of very highly tempered steel,
provided with projecting teeth just
long enough to get good grip of the
snow or ice, for it is intended either
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-02
SMILES.

GENTLEMAN Well, how did you
succeed in your new role?" Actress
81 don't know. / haven't read the
newspapers yet t"-Schalk.
DAY-''What did Hicks say when his
wife called him a crank" Weeks
Told her she was something of o
windlass herself"-N. Y Herald.
BoB-"After all. it is the apparel
that makes the man. / often think as
pass some poorly dressed fellow how
much am indebted to my clothes" :"
Harry "And for them?" - Boston
Transcript
GAUNT STRAyGER-''Can you help-a
poor-fellow to stem the tide of starva-
tion?' Literary Man Cbustling around)
Certainly, my poor man! Here's .
copy of Atkinson on Cheap Cookery
Take it, and may the Lord bless you"
Cleveland Plaindealer.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-02
ICE BICYCLE

to 1ooae into it this season. Il must
not ne forgotten that he has always
favored the long-reach racer, which
has the blade very much longer than
the foot of the wearer. It is we'll
.ouown that man on stills will out
pace a man walking, and so there is
every reason to suppose that the skater
on stills will do the same. Anyone
who feels like trying the newidea can
do SO at very modest cost, for any iron
worker will soon fit an old pair of
skates with the silt device. The man
or boy who successfully makes an ap-
pearance on this device at one of our
public skating resorts will make the
hit of the season.
Ladies have not been neglected this
year, and it will gladden. many hearts
to learn that there is q new idea to
relieve their ankles of the strain, and
so keep them from becoming tired SO
early in the day, and at the beginning
of the season. In this skate the old
time wooden clog is used, with its toe
strap and heel strap, these being be-
ieved to.rive the most satisfactory sup
port without cramping the wearer. The
anklc-strengthener is neat extension
of the metal of the steel blade, this
being tapered from the heel, upwards.
to the top of the boot, and is held in
place by two light but broad straps
which clasp the slender ankle and give
it a wonderful amount Of support.
There are many men who will be glad
to adopt this, and the skate is prac-
t;cally the same price as those withou.
the support. Weak ankied skaters
should always avoid the clamp skates.
and should use the old style broad slog
ana two straps. It may not be quite
as stylish. but there will be much more
comfort
Another novel idea halls from our
English friends. and relates to the
roller skate. and this is the more re-
lnarkable when il IS remembered that
:hc English people never received the
roller skate with anv amount of favor
and that the craze for it died out almost
as soon as it began. The new idea
consists of two wheels instead OF the
old four wheels. These two wheels are
much larger. being fully FIVE inches
in diameter, and are fitted with pneu-
matte tires miniatures of those used
on bicycles, and blown up and de-
Hated in the same way. This improve
ment. it is claimed, enables the skater
to travel along an ordinary road with
as much ease as the old four-wheeiers
CARRIED him alona :he prepared sur
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-02

height of the foot rest, or clog,
heightened the leg so much, and so,
of course, increased the length of the
stroke, and increased it just at the
point where it was most effective,
namely, at the end. This stands to
reason, for, as stone is easier to roll
down hill, SO it is easier to push
moving body to greater mo-
mentum than to move a station
ary one. This is the idea of the
new skate, which consists of the skate
blade with support of steel rising
from the toe and the heel, until they
are joined together, and from that
point extending upwards in . single
rod. having foot-rest. like pair Of
to the knee Of the skater, and is Sc
cured to the leg by light straps, the
foot being strapped on to the rest just
the same as foot would be to skate
clog. The skate blades are nearly
double the length of an ordinary blade,
and it is estimated that the length of
each stroke will be increased nearly
thfee ulmeS, ana unat tne speed OF Cno
skater will be increased until the pres
ent records are cut down nearly one
half 1t is claimed that, after the first
effect of the unusual strain on the
ankle is worn off, the new device
is not moro firing than the old one,
and that beginner with the new-idea
skate can, if he be a fair skater, pick it
up almost Immediately. Joe Donohue,
the champion, says there is good deal
to recommend the idea, and he is going
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-02
''MERVE SEED9.~
scHLlEMANN's DISCOVERIES. 8
Dead World Brought to Light by the
DEigent Use Of Spade.

Dead World Brought to Light Dy the
Dnigent Use Of . spade
There is something of the air OF the
fairy tale about the cablegram telling
Of the discoveries at Laurium ''rivstng
those Of Pompeii. but it will not dc to
discreGit it too readily.
The world has lost good deal by be-
ing too incredulous in such matters
and the surprising discoveries OF the
last fifteen years would not have been
made at all except for such men as
Schliemann, who were enthusiastic
enough to brave ridicule.
The entire learned world scoffed when
Schliemann calmly announced that he
proposed to dig up the bones of Aga
memnon and Clytemnestra at Mycene-
the widewayed city, rich in gold. as
Homer calls it. But the learned world
held its breath in envious astonishment
when the indefatigabie amateur dug
into the royal tornbs and found tho
kingly dead of those old times lying in
state, crowned with splendid diadems,
with golden masks over their faces;
with golden belts studded with jewels;
with thin plates Of gold covering their
dress; with richly inlaid weapons in
gold studded sheaths: the women with
the most splendid necklaces, brooches.
and bracelets, and both kings and
queens surrounded by the gold and sill
yer vessels they had used during life.
There is nothing in the fairy stories
more astonishing than what Schlie-
mann found at Mycen@ when he under
took to dig up Agamemnon. And even
if it was not Agamemnon he did dig up
the learned scoffers were too much
mbfounded at his success to wish to
argue the case against him.
In these two or three tombs the gold
found had an intrinsic value of over
$40. 900, its value to art being simply
inestimable. But even greater discov-
cries were made in the excavations at
Olympia, Dodona, Delos, Tanagra, Epi-
daurus, Eleusis. and other Greek cities.
At Olympia, for instance, was found
the statue of Mercury described by
Pausanias as one of the treasures OF
tho temple. 1t is certainly the work OF
Praxiteles, and though the right arm
is broken above the elbow and both
legs are gone below the knees it Is in
valuable as an illustration of Greek art
The total result Of all these explors-
tions in localities from which was sup
posed that all articles of value had long
ago been removed was a splendid addi-
ton to tho treasures Of antiquity in our
museums and schools of design.
1t is impossible to guess what may
be found at Laurium, but it has been
demonstrated that by diligent use of
the spade we are likely to learn more
of the dead and buried world than we
have ever believed possible.-St Louis
Republic.