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Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
BICYCLING IN COLD WEATHER.
Some Simple Precautions That Should
BE Strictly Observed.

From the New York Journal.
Heretofore the majority of cyclists have
laid their wheels ION the shelf as soon as
the autumn winds commenced to blow, bat
from present indications ii is evident that
it Will be a common sight TO see number
of cyclists of both sexes taking spin over
the packed snow or ice throughout the
winter. If one is properly fortified against
the winds he finds that IN no season is
cycling so cxhilaratilg as in the winter
Provided we adhere to the laws of ma
ture." said prominent physician the other
day, az see no reason why the riding sea-
son should end with the fall. The winters
of late lave been very open, with but little
snow, Cgd the reads have been such as
to allow of wheeling nearly the entire WIN
ter. But those who ride during the winter
months must exercise a bit of caution and
be particular to dress in wIndproof cos
tunes. which will be properly ventilated
and at the same time be of sufficient
warmth. The most important thing to
bear in mind Is to keep in motion while
out of doors, and in no case should n per-
son stand still in the open air after exer-
cising unless one is suicidally bent.
"A heavy chest protector. covering the
back well rs the chest is almost indis-
pensable particularly on windy days. A
newspaper buttoned under the vest will
y
and will keep the wind away from ones
person, at the same time retaining the
natural heat of the body.
There have recently been manufactured
several articles of apparel designed ex-
pressly for the cyclists comfort during the
winter months. A Western firm is adver-
tising garments OF n texture which is said
TO be windproof They make up skirts,
coats and chest protectors.
Innumerable complaints of cold hands
were made by last winters riders. and. in
deed. this has been one of the chief objec-
tions TO winter riding. The cold steel of
the handle bars and the lack of circula-
ton in the hands caused many Il cold fin
ger. a heavy. tight-!itting wristlet, worn
with glove that will reach Well over the
coat sleeve, will remedy the evil. A sort
of mtten of heavy felt covered with leath-
er has lately been devised. 1t is about fif-
teen inches in length and reaches over the
coat sleeve we'll IN TO the elbow; hole
is cut in the lower end. which allows the
nit TO fit over the cork grip, encasing the
hand very warmly.
Hoods. ear mufTiers or such a head COW
ering as that used by skaters. while per-
haps not particularly handsome. will be
quite comfortable. and if one wishes to be
fully equipped he can get a felt gaiter
which will pull up over the entire shoe
A loose fitting shoe is preferable as it gives
the freest ventilation.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
BugIe Calls for Firemen.

From the London Telegraph.
An ingenious series of bugle calls for the
use Of fremen has been prepared by I. q.
Dyson chief officer of the Windsor brigade,
who has long been convinced that some bet
ter plan of warning foot passengers, drivers
of vehicles and others that an engine IS on
it's way to a tire is desirable than the bar
baric shout or yell which is at present the
only means employed in London and various
towns throughout England. Each call is
really the music to n particular order; for
instance Clear the road" has three notes,
and Come out. clear out of the building"
is cutie little melody. Mr.. Dyson points
out that in America, Germany and few
other countries "A bell or gong of peculiar
note affixed 10 the engine. is sounded. In
France species of horn is used. In Aus
tria and Hungary the clarion is employed
the player sitting on the fire appliance next
to the Coachman and sounding certain
call. on hearing which carriages have to
draw in to either side of the road trans
must stop and foot passengers cross the
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
ALAsKA's JIM-JAM PLAINS.
Places Where Sober Men Are Said to
See Unearthly Things.

Frcm the St. Louis Republic.
The most wonderful mirages ever behed
by mortal eyes are those that are Geen
in the twilight winter days in Northern
Alaska. These remarkable Shastly pictures
of things, both imaginary and real, are
mirrored on the surface of the waste
plains instead of upon the clouds or in the
atmosphere. Mimic lakes and water courS-
es fringed with vegetation are to be seen
pictured as real as life on the surface of
trees. logs. etc. which have an actual
existence some place on the earthS sur
face are outlined against mountains of
snow in all kinds of fantastic shapes. Some
of these objects are distorted and magni-
fled into the shapes of huge, ungainly am
in,als and reptiles of enormous proper
The fogs and mists are driven across
these waters by the winds. and as the OBJ
jects referred to loom uD in the flying
vGpors they appear like living creatures.
and seem to be actually moving rapidly
across the plain. At other times they APP
pear high in the air, but this is char
actcristic OF the Northern mirages that
are seen near the seashore. When the
vaporS and miSts are driven out to the
to be lungeing through the waters at ter
rife rate of speed, dashlng the spray high
in the air while huge breakers roll over
them and onward toward the mountain
Gus islands beyond. and against which
they all appear TO be dashing.
MonStrouS serpents, apparently several
hundred feet long. sometimes with riders
on their backs men on horseback thirty
to fifty feet in height. animals and birds
of all kinds of horrible shapes and colors.
seem to be scurrying past. racing and
chasing each other, until they are lost in
the twilight fogs or dashed to pieces upon
the rocky islands mentioned above, and
which are twenty miles out at sea.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
EDUCATIONAL.

sPALDING's COMMERCIAL. COLLEGE,
ing. Kansas CITY Mo will resume ira
Thirty-second Annual Day and Night
Schccls Monday January 4. Unsurpassed
advantages and most liberal rates for Book
keeping, Actual Business Practice, Bank
ing, Shorthand. Typewriting, Telegraphy,
English Branches, Modern Languages, etc.
Latest and best 1897 Methods of Instruction.
Elegant Accommodations for 500 students.
Eighteen accomplished Teachers and Lect-
urers. Penmanship awarded First Premium
twenty years. Thousands of Graduates and
former Students in good positions. Salts
faction guaranteed. Catalogue free. Be
sure to visit or address this College before
going elsewhere. Tel. 11T4.
]. F. sPALDING, A. NJ, President.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
a MICROBE-PRooF HOUSE.
A Noted Scientist Puts Up One of the
oldest Structures on Earth.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
One of the oldest domiciles on earth is
that recently erected at Yokohama by Dr.
w. Van der Heyden, the noted bacteriolo-
gist of Utrecht and Japan. The doctors
house is a dust-proof, air-proof. microbe-
proof building of glass. 1t stands on the
open, unshaded grounds of the Hospital of
Yokohama. The house is forty-four feet
long, twenty-three feet wide and seventeen
feet high. Large panes of glass, one-h half
inch thick and about four inches apart
are set in iron frames so as to form the
sides of a cellular building block. OF these
blocks the walls are constructed. There
are no window Sashes, the air escape being
through several small openings around the
upper part of the second story, but through
which no air from the outside is admitted.
The air supply is obtained from a consid-
cradle distance, forced through pipe and
carefully filtered through cotton wool to
cleanse it of bacteria. To insure further
sterilization, the air is driven against n
glycerine-coated plate of glass. which
captures all the microbes the wool spares.
The few microbes brought into the house
III the clothes of the visitors soon die in
the warm sunlight with which the house
is flooded. The space between the glasses
of the building blocks is filed with So
luton of salts. which absorbs the heat of
the sun. so that the rooms of this house
are much cooler than those protected by
the thickest shades. In the evening the
interior is heated by the salts radiating
the heat they have absorbed during the
day. So effective is the system of regulat-
ing the temperature. that q few hours of
sunlight, even in freezing weather, will
render the house habtable. 1t is only
when several cloudy days follow in sue
cession that artificial heat is needed. Then
it is supplied by pumping in hot air. DR.
Van der Heyden thinks he has solved the
problem of Il complete germicide on a big
scale.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
SPEED OF OCEAN STEAMERS.
Those Built in America Near the Head
of the List.

From the Boston Herald.
The list which Captain Brooks, superin-
tendent of the foreign mail service has
prepared, showing the average number OF
hours in the last fiscal year taken in con-
veying the United States mail from the
postoffice in New York to the postoffice in
London, is interesting as indicating in a
general way the speed OF the various COM
peting ships. The hours given are the av-
erage hours which during the year have
been occupied by each vessel in performing
the postal service on behalf of the United
States government. OF course, there are
mishaps now and then for which, possibly
the steamer is not liable. There may be a
breakdown in the railroad between South
ampton and London or Queenstown and
London, a blockade of teams in the
street may delay the mail wagon in pass
ing from the New York postoffice to a pier
on East river, or from the railway stations
in London TO the general postoffice. But
in the long run errors of this kind will
probably balance each other.
Then, too the routes over which the YES
sells sail are not in all instances the same.
The Cunard and White Star lines deliver
the mail that they take out from New
York at Queenstown, and thence it is car
ried by rail to Kingston, then across st.
Georges channel by steamer to Holyhead,
and thence by rail to London. The Amer
lean, Hamburg American and North Ger
man Lloyd steamers in the comparison
given below deliver their American mails
at Southampton, and thence they are car
ried by rail to the Waterloo station in Lon
don. The distance between New York and
Southampton is considerably greater than
between New York and Queenstown, but
on the other hand the distance between
Southampton and London is much shorter
than the distance between Queenstown and
London. while the mails going over the lat
ter route have to contend with the delay
of six landings as against three landings
when passing over the Southampton route.
The hours made by the various steamers
are as follows:
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
Hours

1t will be seen from the above list that
the Cunard steamers Lucania and Cam
pania stand in a class by themselves. 1t is
probable that if they made two trips over
the Southampton route, instead of the
Queenstown and Liverpool line they would
not materially vary the time of their re-
spective mail deliveries. We arrive at this
conclusion because the Etruria and Teu-
tonic have about the same speed when
sailing over a given course as the St.
Louis and the st. Paul, and the mail was
carried by the former over the Queenstown
route in about the same time taken by the
mail which went by the latter over the
Southampton route. 1t may, therefore, be
affirmed that in its two great ships the
Cunard company distances its rivals by
about half a days time an ocean pass
age.
The next class would extend, on the list
we give above, from the st. Louis to the
Paris-and in this case the Paris record
is for some unknown reason not what it
should be. In this class are included only
twin-screw boats. with the exception of
the Cunard steamers Etruria and Umbria,
two craft which are, we believe, the heav-
lest powered of any singIe-screw steamers
that have ever been built. The St. Louis
and st. Paul hold their rank wonderfully
well in competition with the great ships
of the White Star, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and
Cunard lines. They have less power, and
hence less speed, than. the Lucania and
Campania, but in the matter of power they
do not vary much from the Teutonic or
Fuerst Bismarck, vessels which have near
ly corresponding speed.
The ships of the North German Lloyd
form another class, about halliday slow
er in making their trips than the vessels
of the White Star and American lines, and
here, again, diminution in speed is due
to a decrease in power. 1t may be said
that it indicates bad business management
to save half a day in a transatlantic trip
by about doubling the daily consumption
of coal, but this is the price that has TO
be paid for increased speed.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
Ii Hung Chnng's Notebook.

Europe! Why. it's savage country
Think OF their killing 10000 people every
year so as to found colonies.
According to my calculations. when
took a cup of tea with Bismarck he alone
had helped 10 demolish. say 100000 men"
Paris, Yes. it's nice city. if only they
would not tear II to pieces every few years
so as to have an exposition"
The French seem to be an upright peo-
pie. but they are all doubled up from rid
ing wheels"
II am supposed not to have been well
disposed toward the Taipings. but my dis
like for them is nothing compared with
the hate which exists in France between
the radicals and the moderates. Il Illus
tration. Paris.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03

road at their own risk until the engines
have passed. The call. or signal. can be
heard for some considerable distance above
the din of the traffic, so that ample notice
Is given and a clear way is the result
Again. at a fire the present system of warn
ing those engaged that the building or
part of it is about to collapse is by send
ing messenger, n very tardy process and
one fraught with considerable danger to
the messenger, whereas a distinct signal
would be known and could be heard above
the noise and working of the engines.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03

TO THE HOMESEEK ER-<ireat oppor-
trnities along the line of the Kansas CITY.
Pittsburg & Gulf II. Il. fer small invest.
ments in Southwest, Missouri and North
west Arkansas. Buy a 40-acre fruit farm
for s. pe- atTe-easy terms. 81 per acre
down. slizrce In monthly payments Bet
ter than savings bank. Something that
these bargains UP. Why not you? Write
for full i1forma zion 10 T. A. fTornbeck,
land commissioner x. c.. p. &. G. railroad
7th and Wyandotte. Kansas City. Nc.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
G. ID. Parker,
Durfee & Co.
Massachusetts Bldg. sth and Wall SITS.
FREE HOMBl, GULF COAST

ONE MILLION ACRES now open for
l0.0G0 families and settlers. Why wait for
Nichlta reservation, risk your life in run,
risk losing land in contest risk hot winds,
drouth, and freezing to death in blizzardS?
Why risk three years for one crop when
you Stln get three crops In one year. in
MiSSlSSlPPt AND ALABAMA along Mo-
bile 4 Ohio railroad? Land 81 TO A
per acre Lands joining, within l
mile OF railroad station. 81 to So: land
from to miles OF railroad $50 to $3.50;
land ) to 8 miles. $l.50 to $50: land 6 to
II miles from railroad. 81 to Sl.50 per acre.
Go on our excursion January ;: round trip
Vase Usual time and privileges. Send
stamp for Homeseekers' Guide. Agents
wanted. s. T.. & c. Co, 305 Hall bldg,
Kansas City. Mo.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
FoR Observation-Disclosures.

DO YOU want any of the following
works? They will be sold at very low
prices. Come and see them. They can be
seen at the Journal office. They are taken
on u debt.
CROSS on the Urinary organs.
THE Dispensatory of the U. S. of A. By
Geo. B. Wood and Franklin Bache.
THE Anatomy and Surgical Treatment of
Hernia. Marcy.
BRYANTs Practice of Surgery. By
Roberts.
THE Archives of Pediatries. C. E. Err
win.
ANNUAL of the Universal Medical Sci
erces tissue 1890. vols. to 5, inclusive.
Sajous
ANNUAL of the Universal Medical Sci
ence Issue 1850, vols. to 8, inclusive.
Saious.
ORGANIC-Materia Medica and Thera-
peutics. Simpson.
NELIGAN on Diseases of the Skin.
ATLAS of Diseases of the Skin.
SIMS Uterine Surgery.
WYETHS Textbook on Surgery.
VELPEAU'S Operative Surgery. Mott
Blockman.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

DOUBTFUL claims collected anywhere
In this country or Europe without charge
unless successful. international Law and
Collection Association" 2O2 Nelson bldg
In the market. When you want some see
the Pittsburg Coal and Coke Company,
lOiS New York Life bldg. Tel. 26e5.
FAILING memory anu thinking power,
nervousness, sleeplessness and lost vitality
cured by Van Weeks remedies from
sleeps brain: 2OG Nelson bldg.
J. \. MeMAtLAN. private detective. room
92G, New York Life building.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
BUSINESS CHANCES.


MONEY-If you want to learn how you
can make money in Wall street on $40 and
upwards. send for my plan of speculation
Cfrec) F.. Mortimer Pine. banker and
broker A Broadway. New York.
INDIG GESTION, poor blood. weak circu-
lation. varicose veins, ulcers and tumors
cured by Van Weeks vital substance from
sheep glands: 2O6 Nelson bldg.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
TO THE MERCHANTS.

S~~~N~O~O~N~~~~~N~~~~~~
WHO handles your drayage? Do you get
quick reliable service? Does your transfer
company look out for your interests? II
YOU have good reasons for a change. We
would be pleased to hear from you. Fur
niture packed and shipped. General trans
fer business.
MIDLAND TRANSFER COMPANY.
Phone 1911 405 and 400 Wyandotte ST.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
FOR SALE-FARMS.


FOR SALE-"Virginia and the Carolinas
illustrated" - gives general information
about the three states, and detailed de-
sCriptions of fine farms for sale. Photo
gr;lVures of buildings and scenery; sent
postpaid 25c. The Southern Farm Agency,
Irnchburg Va.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
REWARD.

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NOTICE-S25 reward for the arrest of
Fred Gepner, who stole mare and buggy.
He is of fair complexion. dark blue eyes.
dark hair. . feet inches in height, weight
165 pounds and 10 years old, and had
blotches on his face and sore on right hand.
WILLIAM GEPNER, MoEganville, I[as.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
CI.AIRVOYANTS.

MRS. j.. JAMES. the we'll known clair
voyant and trance medium. may be con-
suited at 1209 Grand ave. parlors 80 to 90
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES.

CANADIAN EMPLOYMENT OFFICE,
cor. Walnut. Tel. nT9 The best place in
II. c., Mo-. to find help or situations male
or female; Ii years experience. Ref. Omaha
Nat. bank. Omaha: Citizens' bank. x. G.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

exchange for larger properties or vacant
lots for improved or city property for
farm land. to send description to or call on
Stills Northup &. Co Keith <. Perry bldg
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
wbv Not n Hirhwaymnn.

From the Boston Advertiser.
Porter-"Matthew is learning to be doc
tor"
Bchr-"What kind of Il doctor? Not one
of those homeopathic ones, hope?'
Porter-"No; he's what is known as
skin doctor"
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
Personal.

>~o~~-~~-~~~~~~~~
RHEUMATISM. sciatica. pleurisy. neu-
ralgia, backache and stiff joints cured by
Van Weeks life-giving remedies from
sheep; 206 Nelson bldg
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
WANTED-AGENTs.

WANTED-Agents for our new magic
gaslight burner; makes kerosene lamps give
brilliant gaslight at Il the cost; no CHM
ney: no wick; no smoke; fits any lamp;
lightning seller; outfit soc. or send self-ad-
dressed stamped envelope for. particulars.
Busbwick Mfg. Co., 1905 Broadway. Brook
lyn, n. Y.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
SITUATION wANrEp-FEMALE.

-" - So
WANTED-Situation TO do general house.
work or cook by colored girl; references.
Harriet Thomas, care NJ. b. Franklin, n.
James St, X. c., *.
WANTED-By expert stenographer and
typewriter, copying to do in her leisure
moments. Apply at journal office.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

NORMAN & ROBERTSON. propriet
OF abstracts and examiners OF land TIT
No. l6 East Sixth street furnish daily
transfers OF zeal estate filed In the reco
er,s office ~ Kansas City. Mo.
Ncuce-An transfers appearing in
daily reports contain covenants OF gene
warranty unless otherwise stated.
january 2.
Globe Investment Company to Will
lam Simpson: cast half OF lot Is.
Sh1adwIck subdivision ..:::.-;-.r.--.S
Walter w Whitehill to Globe In
Yestment Company; east half OF
lot l6. ChadwiCk's subdivision.
w. ID. Oldham and wife to John
Long: east CD feet of lots 2, T. s
and :. Ransom tz Hopkins addi-
Margaretta \. Alexander and hus-
bond to Frank Askew: undivided
one-qunrter of lots II and IS. block
:. James VI. McGee,s addition.
John \. Barnes to Henry Waldncr;
lot s, Ellerslie place.
l.. L. Harrison and wife to Francis
II. Dennis: lot 20 and part OF lot
Is; block 1. Vanderbilt place..
Arthur II. Kendall to RI. Thomp-
son: lot 2. block :. Whitehead
Julia A. Trowbridge to Thomas P.
Arg9; part OF lots 90 and 81. l..
Henry THOMPSON and wife to Will
lam F. Tuttle: lot 7. block +.
Pratts addition .....-............-..
QUITCLAIM DEEDS.
Julia G. Holroyd and husband TO
John A. Barnes: lot s. Ellerslie 1
Edwin y. Burgess and wife to Will
lam A. and Frederick A. Harris:
lots II. 10. 16 and II, block 2. Reids
st'lulllOu
Viola NJ. Chase and husband TO
George L. Koyle: part of lots 40
and 20. Cowherd's Vine Street ad-
dition =. ..........................
c. A. Randall and wife to George
Tuggle; lots 9. 10. II and Il, Ma
mie Goodin place,
TRUSTEES DEEDS
James A. Funk and wife to West
ern Investment Company: lots T.
Z, and Except 144 feet Off of lot
%, block /. MCGEE summlt.......
Robert G. Estill and wife TO Isaac
n. Grier: lot 26. Estin Bros first
addition =. ..........................
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
Favorable Conditions.

-
But, Of course. it is the first requirement
OF a singer, under any and all circum-
stances, to appear joyous. To singers,
when they are distressed, stage-frighten-
ed, hopelessIy discouraged woe-begone,
Nature says with the witty Talleyrand,
Come, friends. this is no laughing mat
ter. | insist that you amuse yourselves
by singing.
Recitations in monotones to descriptive
accC mpaniments are more effective and
artistic than nine-tenths of the singing
that one hears in salons and amateur
stages. 4 handsome French girl in green
used to give them at Madame de Ia
Oranges soirees They were brief recitals
in noble, pathetic, piquant monotones
around which she executed on the piano
appropriate designs of musical reverie.
Then Yancev. the diction teacher. would
recite some French poem in tuneful mon
otcnes. while Thome would set them off
with his delicious improviZations. All this
used to take US off our feet with delight.
ShTiglia charges about s. for hal4-hOur
lessons when he gives them himself. and
from 81 TO g fer lessons by one of his
under-teachers. and about the same for his
professor of diction. Madame de Ia Grange
asks somewhat less figures. Marchesis $
prices are higher than anybody's. y young
woman who goes to Paris to study can live
on from 81 to 81 a day-food, lodging and
serviCe-but she must expect to live very
plainly, and with all the Partisan house
hold inconvenience. STUART HENRI.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
'WANTED-FEMALE HELP.

~o[H|~CSc.c-cN>C~~~~~~
NANTED-LadieS and gentlemen of good
address as organizers for fraternal order
Apply after . a. m, Tuesday. room 49,
New Ridge bldg.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
wANTED-TO RENT.


WANTED-Room convenient to good
bonrd by quiet party employed during the
day. Address u 210 Journal office.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
MONEY TO LOAN.

TO LOAN-si0O. $500 $50. 81 OO0. $3.50,
81 800 to loan on city property; no delay.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03

FOR SALE-One improved Multipolar
motor. % horse power. 100 volts, including
sliding base and a l6-in. diameter pulley.
This motor is brand new. and built by one
of the most reliable engine companies in
the states. We will sell at an attractive
price. Inquire at business office of the
Journal Company