Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-09-14
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


1T Is said that horses appear on the
streets now locked, now with long
tailA The manufacture Of false tails
for horses has reached 50 high Q de-
gree of perfection that the counter
felt may DO buckled onto the stump of
. docked horse and he will travel along
beside mate with natural long tail,
defying detection.
George washington's private sec
rotary, Isaac Andrews, lies buried just
east Of the old baptist church In the
village of Dundee. Yates county. N. Y.
His death occurred In 1899. ct the adj
vanced age Of 30 years For . great
many years he was 4 prominent man
In that section, and was particular
factor In the organization Of Yates
county. Al the beginning Of this CEN
fury he surveyed the old and new pre-
cmptiou lines, upon which all subse-
quent surveys have been made.
"A man who lives to the limit OF
three score years and ten. II In fair
health and average appetite. will have
eaten in that time about $4,000 pounds
of meat, about 10000 pounds OF bread
and vegetables. about $4,000 eggs and
5000 pounds Of fish. chicken and game.
He will also have consumed about
$4,000 gallons OF various fluids, or
enough To make lake covering four
blocks in extent and two feet deep. In
other words, he will have eaten four
teen tons Of solid and drank three
hundred barrels of liquid refreshments.
Consul Pcnfeld's report that not
one merchant ship flying the fiag oil
the United States passed through the
Suez canal In 1894 does not greatly
differ from the reports ON the subject
In other wears For the decade in 1870
and 1880 only fifteen ships flying the
United States flag passed through the
canal, and OF these several were ships
Of the navy. Only one ship flying the
United States flag was reported rs
passing the canal in lss3, and there
have been years since when no Ameri-
can vessel OF any sort passed through
the canal.
Another one of those rare instances
In which the ''forked fury has drawn
photograph upon glass is reported
from the observatory situated on Mount
Arie, near the summer resort OF West
Baden. One of the astronomers OF that
institution on making an examination
of the object glass Of one of the tele-
scopes was surprised to find perfect
photograph of flower upon both
lenses of the instrument 1t is be-
lieved that the photograph was drawn
by lightning, the glass having been
left exposed during storm on one OF
the upper platforms OF the observatory.
The flower is one known only In the
Mount Arie country.
The Norddeutscher Lloyd Is the
largest steamship company in the
world. its vessels measuring $4,000 tons
more than the Peninsular & Oriental,
which comes next II began in 1885
by running small steamers be-
tween bremen and England. and three
years later opened line to New York.
II now has % lines, including 2 to
South America, to eastern Asia,
and l to Australia. 1t has 80 steam
ers. with a total of 2i2,3 tons. Of
the other great companies the PENN.
sular Il Oriental steamers measure
oa7. 900 tons; the Navigazione Generate
Italiana, i9i .O37; the Messageries Mari.
times, ia, 900; the Campagnie Generate
Transatlantique, l73, 800; the Hamburg
American. 1876. $50; the Austrian Lloyd.
37.sa2; the Anchor line. 1889; the
Allan line. 1851; the Cunard line'
llO.759, and the White Star line, 96,2a6
These figures are for 1899.
There was one smirch OF foreign
made article about the famous ship Old
Ironsides When she was Mt Boston,
shortly after the war Of 1872. being
fitted fora cruise in the Mediterranean,
she was visited by n distinguished
british naval officer. lie went all over
the ship. and after having made u
thorough inspection of her he returned
to the quarter deck and said: This Is
one of the finest frigates. II not the
very finest, ever put my foot aboard
of. but, as must find some fault, I'll
just say that your wheel is one OF the
clumsiest things | ever saw and 1t Is
unworthy of the vessel" The Ameri-
can commander. who had accompanied
the English officer on his tour OF in
spection. replied: That wheel, sir, Is
the only thing English in the ship.
When the Constitution captured your
British frigate Java in 1912. our wheel
was smashed into splinters by shot
from the Englishman. After the bat
tie was over the Java's wheel was
taken aboard the Constitution and
fitted in place Of her disabled wheel,
and, although we think 1t rs ugly rs
you do, yet we keep 1t rs trophy"