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The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

A DISPATCH from Johannesburg,
South Africa, stated that Kid Mccoy,
the American middleweight, defeated
Billy Doherty, of Australia, in nine
rounds for the middleweight cham
pionship of the world. The fight was
to have been for 90 rounds and SIS, 600
side and a division of the gate re-
ceipts.
GEORGE SPRINGER, married, and
Mack Mullen, bachelor, quarreled
over a young woman at a dance near
Morehead, KY, and slashed each other
to pieces with their knives until they
fell mortally injured.
The big Mckinley horn, which was
being carried from Tuscola, ILL.,, to
Washington by four republicans for
appearance at the Inauguration, was
left on the street at Trafalgar. Ind. =,
surrounded by crowd of curious peo-
pie, and they broke it to pieces while
the horn bearers were at dinner.
AN engine on the Wheeling & Lake
Erie railway jumped the track near
Warrenton, O., and the engineer was
killed and the fireman fatally injured.
1T took just 81 seconds for Peter Ma
AASAs VIC AAASh puSiA W huOCh Out
Steve O'Donnell, the Australian boxer,
at Coney Island, N. Y, on the 25th.
RAwLINe & HAYNES department store
and the Columbia club at Anderson,
Ind, were destroyed by fire on the
cath. Loss, 500, 900; one-third insured.
A MooNsHINE distillery was located
about 70 miles from Corsicana, Tex,
and United States Marshal Warden ar.
rested John Reese and his three sons,
and took them to Dallas. where they
will be tried by the federal court. The
officers captured 800 gallons of moon
shine whisky and the entire apparatus
THREE children of Mrs. McKim, at
franklin, Pa, were burned to death
on the 2ad. They had been left at
home while the mother went visiting
and had set the house on fire.
A FIRE at New York on the 25th
partially destroyed the Polytechnic hos
pital and compelled the removal of its
patients and drove . score of families
from their homes in adjoining build
ingA The damage done was $780,
OOQ
In shooting scrape at the Southern
Cross mine at Butte, Mont, d A Ri
ley. the well-known mining man. was
killed by John Mcintyre, who was
wounded in the right hand
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-01

ACCORDING to the fish commission,
the American sponge is threatened with
the fate which overhangs the seal and
the bison; but legislation could prohibit
the taking of sponges under certain
size and in this way the baby sponge
could be protected. 1t is probable that
congress will make an application for a
new experiment station on the Florida
coast to ascertain how sponges can be
planted and cultivated
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-01

The Salvation army proposes to in
troduce in Chicago what is called in
London the Salvage scheme" which
consists in the collection by poor peo-
pie of Junk" of all sorts-bottles, old
brass and iron, bones, rags and the
Gke-and the purchase of the same at
the Salvation junkshop for the direct
benefit of the poor, the Salvation army
disposing of the stock to the manu-.
factories or using it in its work.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-01

UPON a favorable opportunity it is
proposed to make run of 200 miles
over the Santa Fe road in an endeavor
to beat the worlds record of 72 miles
an hour, made in the 4OO-mile run over
the Lake Shore. While the run on the
Santa Fe will not be as long as the
Lake Shore run, the Santa Fe people
think they have stretch of 200 miles
of track over which they can make a
new record by averaging more than -
miles per hour.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-01

The Chicago health department has
decided to issue a formal notice to the
public prohibiting expectoration in
street cars, suburban trains, elevated
cars, public conveyances of all kinds,
as well as on the sidewalks and streets
of the city and in railroad depots, no.
tells and other places where people con,
Orepafe
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-01

ONLY 900 persons in 1000, 900, accord
ing to medical authority, die from old
age, while 1000 succumb to govt. 49,.
400 to measles, 2,7OO to apoplexy. 1900
to erysipelas, $500 to consumption, 4s,
900 to scarlet fever, 5000 to whooping
cough, $4,000 to typhoid and typhus,
and 1000 to rheumatism. The averages
vary according to locality, but these
are considered accurate as regards the
population of the globe as a whole.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-01

M. incline, the premier of France
recommends international bime tallism
as a probable benefit for the industrial
world, but says that bimetallism is an
international question, as far as French
effort in its behalf is concerned
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-01

THE Woman's Christian Temperance
union of St Louis has begun a crusade
against the cigarette evil by distribut-
ing to a large number of Sunday schools
copies of a letter on the cigarette
habit, with view of disseminating in
formation among children of the evils
of smoking ''coffin-tacks." The men,
bers claim that the practice is growing
and that it is disgrace to civilization.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-01

DETROIT Unionists, small colony
organized in the northwest. is about to
follow the teachings of Edward Bel
lamy, and will soon start in South
Carolina a cooperative community.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-01
KINSLEY GRAPHIC.
k1NsLEY. KAMsAs
CURRENT COMMENT.

The doctrines of the Koran will soon
be proclaimed from a mosque in the
heart of New York.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-01

OVER LOO applications for patents
on bicycles and their fixtures have
been received at the patent Office at
Washington in the past 90 days, and of
these $50 were for improvements in
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-01

THE Electrical Engineer states that
the capital invested in the various cleo
trical arts amounts to the enormous
sum of 81, SOC, 600, 900.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-01

Sawdust is turned into transportabls
fuel in some parts of Scotland by
very simple process. 1t is heated undcl
high steam pressure until the resinou,
ingredients become sticky, when it il
pressed into bricks. One man with a
two horse power machine can turn OUT
5000 bricks a day.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-01

A MOVEMENT has been started among
New York lawyers to secure a uniform
marriage and divorce law from COM
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-01

New YORK city next year will spend
81, 100000 on its police force and So
97O, 900 on public schools.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-01

Elf, 2:22A. trotting, will be cam.
paigned as a PAGER in 1897. She has
been q mile in 2:12.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-01

court to anoth
They are bound
save him, if he c
be saved. It is {
same way with
good doctor whe
his patient seel
condemned to dea
by disease.
But doctors ma
mistakes some
times; they lose !
heart too soon. !
After they have
tried everything v
they know and
the patient is
no better, they f
think there is
nothing more to
be done. They II
don't a lw avs Is
get at the root
of the disease.
They frequently
give a patient -
up to die of con-
sumption. and
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-01
CONDEMNED.

When an innocent man is condemned for
any crime he doesn't lose hope. His law
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05
Useful Tattooing,

Why should we not all of us be iden.
titled from youth upward by tattooed
mark? ask The Boston Home Journal,
Men who travel have often found diff
Guilty in getting checks cashed in
strange places and-.women who, enter
tain are frequently taken in by dis
tinguished guests" who prove to be
any persons except the distinguished
ones expected. A tattoo mark. regis
tered somewhere and placed on record
so as not to be initiated without pun
ishment from the law, would be every
bit as useful on human beings as the
brand is on cattle.
Human beings, when disassociated
from their usual attire and surround
ings are distinguished from each other
with even more difficulty than attends
the picking out of particular COW or
horse from a large number. 1t was
Thomas Hughes who declared that q
man would refuse to recognize his best
friend if the latter was set down in
ragged clothing at a street crossing
and he was right. Men escape Justice
easily by Just such simple devices as
shaving the mustache or growing a
beard, and the lady in stageland who
isn't recognized by her own family
merely because she puts on a different
colored dress is not unknown in real
life. a Philadelphia man has been
with his name and address
tattooed on his arm. and he takes great
pleasure in getting checks cashed at
banks where he is unknown by merely
his arm.
Properly arranged, the name and adj
iress Of fair debutante. with her fam. !
ly crest and a few incidentals added |
would not disguise her above-glove
Lrm, and similar markings would bs
cry useful for all the boys who wont
q for athletics and who desired to be
inown 70 the world better than was
'ossibls through letters pinned on tho
eek and bound 10 blow On durlpE he
res BIZ Of wlbd,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05
New Ribbon for Medal Of Honor

Among the last official acts of Pres
ident leveland was to prescribe a de-
sign for the knot to be worn in lieu
of the United States medal of honor
and the ribbon to be worn with the
medal, which was issued for signal
acts of personal bravery by soldiers Of
the Union army during the Civil War.
The medal is in the form af a five.
pointed star, with two of the points
at the top, to which are attached two
tiny cannon crossing each other, lon
which rests the American eagle with
wings spread. To the tips of these
wings the ribbon is fastened and on
the top edge of the ribbon is the fancy
shaped piece with a shield in the cen
! ter, and pin on the back, for attach.
| ing the medal to the coat,
Secretary of War Daniel S. Lamont
issued a general order stating the de-
signs prescribed by the president, and
now the new ribbons and the bowknot
are being distributed. The order from
the former secretary Of war says: "A
ribbon to be worn with the medal Of
honor, and knot to be worn in lieu
of the medal, are prescribed and es-
tablished by the President of the Unit
ed States, to be each of a pattern as
follows: The ribbon to be of silk
one inch wide and one inch in length
the center stripe of white one-six-
teenth of an inch wide, flanked on
either side by stripe of blue seven
thirty-seconds of an inch wide, bor-
dered by two stripes of red, each one
quarter of an inch wide. The knot
to be bow knot of the same combina-
tion of colors as the ribbon above de-
seribed."
The entire list the country over in
cludes about 600 men, some of whom
are officers and others only common
soldiers.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05

There is not in all the world any
thing in the way of harbor improve
ments at all to be compared with To-.
great work of jetty construction thal
the United States engineers have luS'
completed at Galveston" said Con-
gresham Hawley, who halls from tha'
city, and is also the only Republican III
the Texas delegation Mr. Hawley, wnV
is one of the leading business men I"
the Island City, was telling soms
friends about the results OF UneN
Sans munificent expenditure for deeI
water at his home.
There are two jetties," said nei
"one miles in length and the QUIZ
er 5, and the distance between thel
clear out to the open sea is about I'Vu
feet, They are built of sandstone au'
granite in the most thorough and SUI
stantial way, and they will stard as q
everlasting monument to the skill anU
wisdom of the engineers. They are az
unqualified success. We have now y
feet of water on the bar, and in year
time can count on 80 feet, for the Wcr'
of securing goes on constantly.
THE practical benefits of deep Wale'
are shown by the fact that in 1896 ln'
value of exports from Galveston mar
Dor was 60 per cent greater than iO'
any year in its history, despite the ioS
prices of all kinds of produce. ! q
not believe, in view Of the great tFiV
utary country behind it. that it IS tn'
view of an enthusiast or visiona'
when the prediction is made that CIV
many years Galveston will be one
the greatest marts Of commerce in tn'
United States, From this time iol
ward there is no limit to the expaa
sion OF hE shipping Interests, ~
With emple SEQ room and deph
NstfF .Bhe,eka aneanlnaA6to ythe h.N'
'haal sfasi Of 81 counties Wa
hktss peIl,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05

7 Joseph Pulslver, TO whom Il vas SEM
hv bls brother. who Is superintendent,
of an ostrich farm IN South Africa
Accompanying the egg was the FOL.
lowing letter from the senderi !
send the ostrich esq, and know your
longing for peculiar eurlosities WIZ
receive boom when You learn W. MS
tory. We had a man ON the farm
named Carr who was noted for his
akin I'm breeding and raising ostriehes
He had raised the mother OF the egs
[ send, and she had been one OF his
greatest nets. This was thought
strange. az she was known to be u
savage bird, and would allow no one
but Carr to go near her, Breeding
time came, and the ostrich was soon
watching over a setting OF eggs our
farm matches artiAcially, the eggs be-
ing removed from the mother ana
placed in an incubator. Carr was the
one selected to secure the eggs on
account OF his great command over
the bird. lie entered the pen and
began picking up the eggs. In an IN
slant the treacherous pet became FUR
ious and started to strike him WIN
her powerful feet We had to shoot
the mother before we could get her
away, and then found we were toe
late Carr's skull having been battered
in. In the struggle all the eggs were
broken, with the one exception, which
send to you. Philadelphia Record.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05
CARES SLAVE.

II Was the budding May-time.
The white boughs overhead;
"oh, give 10 me some play time,
Good Master Care" / said
! saw his head begin TO shake:
mot now; Just wait and see,
IN give you holiday
When paintings DONE" said he
II was the glowing summer;
How cool the woodlands shade!
Again an eager conner
"oh, give to-day" l prayed.
Old Master Care his forehead knit;
THE grass is ripe TO NOW;
Work on till haying time is past
And then I'll let you go"
Il was the glad September;
The maple leaves were red;
"Oh, Master Care Remember,
You promised me" l said,
And you Will find he answered m.
IN keep my promise true,
And you may sport when harvest
done,
With nothing else to do"
Now winters winds are blowing
How weak | feel and oldD
And by the hearth bright glowing,
SILVER with the cold.
And Care sits down beside me,
And counts up one by one,
he tasks that l have done amlss,
Or l have left undone;
while /, low muttering to myself.
Wished had laughed and sung,
md had my share Of honest joy
"hen was strong and young.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05

John Duffield OF Ccdarville, Cumber
land county, New Jersey. Is the Owner
Of unique farm. He runs niuskrai
farm" and, in a way, too, that Is
profitable to himself DufIleld, about
two years ago, found that an extensive
piece of marsh he owned along the
shores Of Delaware Bay, near his home
was Of no use, unless he turned 1t into
muskrat farm" This he did, and
he bids fair to become quite well-to-do
in a few years from the proceeds of the
rodents, which are rapidly increasing
in numbers. DufIield secured a num-
Der of muskrats and placed them on
his farm" which was well adapted
for the purpose. He kept a watchful
eye on his charges, and really took as
much interest in the outcome of his
new venture as ne did in his crop of
potatoes and melons.
Muskrats once settled on piece of
marsh land suited to their taste will
not leave it. The soft-coated rodents
need little or no care, and increase at
a marvellous rate. The harvest time
for muskrat crops comes in the winter
season, at a time when the South Jer-
sey farmer puzzles his brain to pass
away the dull hours. Duffield gath
cred muskrats from his farm" all OF
last winter, and he has learned that
no farming he ever before engaged in
is as profitable. There is a ready mar
ket for the sale of the "rat furs' in
and New York, and the
prices the skins command are from $40
to $25 per hundred. Duffield has left
several hundred pairs of the animals
IN his farm" and if nothing unfore-
seen occurs he expects to gather sever
II thousand pelts next season. The
ur is not the only valuable part of
he animal. The musk sac has value
o perfumers and wholesale druggists, |
while the carcass has become quite a |
elicacy as a substitute for the flesh |
# rabbits. Much of the so-called rab-
lit stew served up in the city restaur-
nts is plain, every day muskrat meat.
n flavor it is similar to that of the
abbit, and an expert epicure could
ot distinguish one from the other.
Me only difference is in the cost of
he meats, that of the muskrat being
bout one-half the cost of rabbit meat.
t would be hard to find cleaner ami
lal than the muskrat. Every article
( food is thoroughly washed before
is eaten, and its principal diet is the
,nder roots Of sedge grass.-Philadel-
hia Times.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05
Total exports


Athens, seventy-fve years ago
'qualid Turkish village of huts and
ruins, has become city of 164, 900
inhabitants, a centre of intellectual
life, the seat of a great university, an
influence to be reckoned with IN the
councils of the nations. Factories
hum and smoke in the haunts of idvl-
lie tradition. Busy seaports have
sprung to Importance, and mercan.
tile marine, ranking eighth among
those of the world, carries on the
memories of the ship Argo. The
masses of the Greeks are industrious.
temperate, shrewd, brave and remark
able for the chastity of their domestic
life. They are all patriots.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05
Slaughter of the Seals,

President David S. Jordan, of lie.
land Stanford Junior University, com.
missioner to investigate the condi.
ton of the fur seals estimates the
number of seals killed last summer
as 100000. About $1,000 pups died of
starvation, and pelagic sealing caused
the death of about 10000 Since pela-
gic sealing began more than 500 900
fur seals have been taken in the North
Pacific and in Boring Sea, taking into
account only those whose skins were
brought to market. Many more were
shot or speared and lost.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05

There are $4,000 white people and
only $4,000 colored in the City of Au.
gusta, Ca, but while only thirty.two
whites died of consumption there last
year, sixty-four colored people sue.
cumed to that disease. DR.. Eugene
Foster, President of the Board of
Health, in giving these figures, saws
that before emancipation the colored
race was almost wholly immune OF
consumption, a colorel person with
consumption, prior to the close of the
war being a clinical curiosity. "rhi.
new Susceptibility of the African rlce
to consumption" he slys, SIS one o
the numerous penalties following
upon the changed relations Of tLi.
people consequent to tao boon Q.
freedom.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05

1t is estimated that fully $50, 900
Americans leave this country every
year for Europe. A conservative esti.
mate places the money spent by these
people at the rate of $4,000 a year in
'orelgn markets, making a total outgo
'f American money in this particular
inc of diversion of fully $500, 900, 900.
The Americans are the most extraya.
CANT travellers in the world.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05

Florida now has a State Good Roads
Association, composed of progressive
citizens of the various counties and
oilicered by men who will do all in
their power to advance the object of
the association, viz: The building Of
good roads in every county OF the
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05

A remarkable temperance sermon
was that delivered by priest in Ire.
land, relates the New York Post, which
concluded with this convincing state
ment to his flock: "What makes We
shoot at yer landlords? The drink
Aye, and what makes ye miss them?
The drink I"
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05

America will have beet sugar to
burn IN few years from now if pres.
ent efforts to promote the growth of
that staple accomplish their purpose,
predicts the New York Mail and Ex-
press With few acres planted in
beet root, every farmer can have a
sugar plantation of his own.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05

The British Board of Trade estimates
the gain to the United Kingdom from
Continental bounties on sugar and
other raw food and raw materials ut
S25, 000, 900 annually, and this is
thought to be n sufficient offset to the
destruction of the British sugar rein
ing interests.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05

According to the Atlanta Cons.itu-
ton, Lord Salisbury recently declared
IN an address before the Associated
Boards of Trade of London that the
English government cared less for
Christianity, humanity or patriotism,
than for the financial interests of
English citizens.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05

A prematurely charitable English
lady who gave away nearly 1000, 900
by deed recently tried to have the
deeds set aside, on the ground that
she did not know what she was doing,
but chancery has decided that the
deeds are valid and that she cannot
get her money back.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05

Miss Mary French Field says that
her father, the late Eugene Field,
iidn't make cent ont of his popular
poem, "a Little Peach in an Orchard
Crew." Hubbard I. Smith, the man
who set it to music, realized $50, while
The publishers Of the song cleared
S5O OnO
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05

Metal men will long remember 1885,
for in that year tho prices of lead and
spelter reached tho lowest point of
which there is q record.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05

President Diaz, of Mexico, has up.
pointed a commission TO consider ways
and means of protecting the forests OF
hat country. (
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05

A report issued by the Swiss Com
mercial and Industrial Union states
that weaving by hand in Switzerland
has increased.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05
A Queer Ostrich Egg Story.

40 ostrich egg With q romantic bis.
tory ls the curiosity owned By Mas
Marie Lopez o. South lolh street, I'he
tEs Sas vFtsenssa 10 Misc Lspas 81
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05

The following statement shows the
'alue and percentage of manufactured
merchandise exported from the United
states during each of the last five
Years:
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05

In 1896 Great Britain purchased'in
his country 1890 horses, almost
iouble the number a year earlier.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05
The Indianapolis News Calls a.,

The Indianapolis News calls atten.
ton to the fact that Harry Owens Of
Clayton, IND. picked 25s hens the
other day In four hours. He also
picked a goose in forty seconds" In
Cleveland the other night a tramp
picked we Foosters in one minute
hne iof Dong 70 received forty hacs:
,ao., 3 eslumA ei advertising Aad !
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-05

Seven eightha Of our own export
md import trade is carried under
oreign flags.