The age-herald., 1897-09-18
GOSSIP OF THE STREET
 AND HOTEL HOBBIES

Two men boarded an Avondale caf bleycllsts and had been caught dn the rain.
 They put their wheels on the inside in place of on the back platform. It was summer car. The SC ats were all wet and the passengers were forced to stand up. When the car had pro- ceeded several blocks the conductor noti- fled them Q put their wheels on the rear platform
 We didn't want our pheels to get wet. We want protection. van we pays for our pheeis.''
 "weli you got to put 'em where I say" yellsd the conductor, defantly.
 No one made a move, and when an- c her block or two had been traversed the conductor gave second warming.
 ''We ara going to get off at ze next block" said the spokesman.
 The next block came. and with ie an- other warning frc.n the conductor.
 "At ze rext block. At ze next block"
 T!he conductor began to get wrathy. and when the next corner was reached he stopped and of course the bicyclists had to get off.
 rIt is a d-n shame to pay for pheels ourselves, and Ghen can't sit down. said one, as the car moved off.
 '@There is a peculiar disease prevail ing among the cattle of the vest said B. c. Frierson. representative of big packing company
 1.-The disease is known as tuberculosis, and it also prevails among sheep and hogs as well as cattle In Kansas the disease was discovered on the state agricultural college and government ex- perts are now Investigating it. The whole state of Kansas, as well as many other people of the west, are greatly ex- cited and are afraid to use milk.
 ''On the Kansas farm several of the men in charge of the cattle were stricken with the malady and one of them died. A wife of one Of the professors in the college has been suffering with the dis ease, and it is said she contracted 1t by using the milk. I am anxious to see tle report of the government experts,
 
 Do you know always feel very fun- ny when tell one my name," said l.. B. Smith, who was in the city yesterday. "Yet the name is an old one and some very honorable people have worn it. I claim that the Smith family anItecedss the building of Solomon's temple by for ty years. Again, claim that the family antecedes the Christian era 1855 years, and the declaration of independence by 9,631 years. The name is known among nearly ala nations and many men who are forced to wear the old worn-out cognomen are filling high positions.
 'To give you some idea of how widely known are the Smiths, I would refer you to the annual reunion of the Smith Family association of one county few days ago. Invitations ware sent al ov:r the civilized world. The epistles were sent and letters of regret are coming in from the Italian Smithis, the Span- ish Smithos, the German Schmidts, the French Sheets, the Russian Smitto ,ysiSs, the Greek Smilkors and the Turk Smeefs Show me a family that can beat that in ancient lineage and I win petition the legislature to change mine"
 A few months ago thsre used to be cOilSnSSdllOn Ol JOlly cOIHpdHy WHO we're associated in tine friendliest and closest intimacy in social pastimes. The crowd has been broken up through the intro duction of the bicycle. There are only three left of the old crowd who do not ride the wheel.
 i''There go the three inseperables," said some one yesterday, alluding to Gus Schillinger, Harry Rensford and Pete Houpert."
 "Yes" interposed a companion, "but where are the rest of the old push, of which they were so prominently ideni- fied?"
 "Oh,' the first speaker replied, 'they are still about town, but the bike broke up the jolly company. Those thrse are the only ones of the old crowd who don't ride a wheel"
 There are some ignorant people in the world" said Dr. J. M Naff, of Brock side. 'T remember when I was practice ing at Philadelphia I prescribed for a nrap and gave him quinine in capsules. He took them home and having never seen any capsules before, did not un- derstand their use. He enptied them and took their contents. A few days afterwards he brought the empty cap- sules and said, Doc, here are your little