Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28
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IeCeLIIy a 1dle Oe8t was sent to 1afl.
after swindling his classmates in whole
sale fashion. He took the whole country
for his field Of work. and visited a pros
porous classmate in San Francisco, from
whom he extracted so. Although well-to-
do. the Californian did rot like to waste
go. and resolved to be stern the next time
q Yale man called. His next visitor was
a classmate III was known as the dig
in college. eighteen years before. He seemed
just as seedy as he used to appear In the
classroom. and the Californian scented
another appeal for money. So he forth
fed himself, n when asked how the
world had used him, related a woful
story Of hard luck, debt and poverty. He
must a drawn the picture pretty
strong, for his classmate turned and said:
Nov, don't feel hurt at my offer, but I
wish you would take $4,000 from me to
use until: you strike better luck. / really
don't know what to do with the money, or
how to invest all I have. and shall be de-
lighted to let you have It," There was an
awkward pause. an outburst and brief ex-
plantations. Then both adjourned to the
club to talk it over.
An old fintlock musket and a chain
cannon ball of ancient type have been
found imbedded in the walls Of the east
wing of Independence hall. the Philadel-
phia Record says, by the workmen en-
gagged in the work of restoration. A toma-
hawk was previously found there. and
speculation was rife as to the reasons for
hiding these articles. Charles s. Keyser,
the historian. has discovered in ancient
local histories that the mystery Is ex-
planned by the pranks of workmen's boys.
1t seems these implements of war we're
found in 1918 in the cellar of independence
hall, and the boys thought they had made
a great joke by concealing them in the
walls in the process of erection. The boy
ish prank has added considerable interest
to the relics. and the city will not part
with the old flintlock. tomahawk or can
non balls for any price. They will be added
to the museum.
Three hundred bales of horses names
and tails to be used for upholstering furni-
ture have been landed at Philadelphia by
steamships from London. They come from
far away Siberia and are taken from
horses used by the Cossacks after the
animals have outlived their usefulness,
Horses are cheap in Russia and after hay-
ing seen better days their names and tails
are the only things left of a commercial
value. Very often these hirsute append
ages are taken from sound animals and the
beasts left to their fate. In this country
the upholsterers use the hair for stufHng
chair backs and other articles of furniture.
and the material from Russia brings the
best price because the hair Is the longest
and consequently the best.
The American Society Of Civil Engineers
the Oldest technical engineering association
in America, formally opened its new build.
ing in New York last week, with appropri.
ate exercises. The house fills a plot 5Oxl1o
feet nearly opposite the building of the
American Fine Arts Society. Its style Is q
French renaissance. On the first floor are
reception rooms and executive offices. ON
the second reading rooms and an auditor
ium, on the third a museum and a room
for models, on the fourth a library strictly
technical. containing 2.06O volumes, though
its capacity is 100000 volumes. An electric
elevator will deliver books to the reading
room floor. The membership numbers over
1000.
To preserve wooden posts set them in tho
ground reversed from the position which
they had when growing. The capilfaries Of
a tree are so arranged as to promote the as
rent of fluids from the root upward. A log
set in the ground in the same relation as
the runk Of a growing tree will draw
moisture from the ground. causing the
wood to decay. If 1t be set with the other
end up the action of the capiliaries tends to
oppose the ascent of moisture and the post
lasts much longer.
The royal baron of beef. which always
appears cold on Queen yictoria's sideboard
Christmas day at Osborne. is invariably
cut from one of the bullocks bought at
the queens annual sale of fat stock at the
Flemish farm. Windsor great farm, early
in December. This year there will be 40
sheep. 100 swine and thirty bullocks to b
sold