Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-05
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the natives in Africa and Australia riding
ostriches," said a California man the other
day. Americans are the best riders on
earth, but they cannot ride ostriches. I
saw this pretty thoroughly tried on one
occasion. A cowboy who had vanquished
every pony he ever undertook TO break IN
was induced TO try an ostrich. After an
hours hard work he succeeded in mount
ing the bird, which at first tried 10 shake
him Of. hen to get away by running. but
these tactics, of course. had no effect upon
the cowboy. Then. in spite of all the man
could do, the ostrich succeeded in getting
its head around and seizing the man by
one leg. He doubled his feet under him..
ami the ostrich reached over his wings and
got a good hold OF his back. throwing him
heavily to the ground and trampling on
him."
IT tell you what" said the man. the
fellow with the tandem occupies a very diff
ferent position at a summer resort from
the fellow with a single wheel. He's much
more popular. Really. it's quite a respon-
sibility. II l were to a out all the girls
who want TO go with me on my tandem. I
wouldn't have time for anything else" In
deed" said the girl. and do you mean to
say it's tandem etiquette for a girl to ask
a man to take her riding?" oh. not ex-
- NA1Ns SoAN NAO ma SNO 1o1
come right out with IL. She just asks If II
is tandem etiquette for a girl to ask a mai
to take her riding, or something Of that
sort, you know"
Congressman DolIiver, Of Iowa, the silver
tongued. is discouraged by a somewhat
unique patronage experience with a candi-
date for office who began by seeking the
consulate general at Montreal. ana finally
landed on the island of Trinidad. OF the
Orinoco. The constituent wrote IN this
wise: IF the government had any diplo-
matte relations with he'll. / think I would
have been selected for the consulship there.
Trinidad seems to have nothing but blaz-
ing skies above and boiling pitch beneath.
1t is the ante room Of hell"
No more will women need to get down on
their knees TO scrub the floor. An English
man has invented a machine which does in
two hours the work of ten women working
on their knees for two days. II resembles
a lawn mower and is propelled in the same
way. Hot water is placed in a receptacle.
and when the machine is moved. flows
forth gently and is automatically gathered
up by a wiping cloth and brushes TO be
found in the rear. The rapidity with which
the machine scrubs the floors and dries
them Is remarkable.
Jezreel's temple, on Chatham hill. in En-
gland. on which $4,000 was spent, has been
sold for $500. and, and the sale probably
marks the end Of the Jezreelites. The sect
was founded by a man named White. who
called himself Jezreel and proposed TO
gather in the temple IA families of the
lost tribes OF Israel. He had wealthy back
ers, and began the building. which is I2i
feet square and has never been completed.
as Jezreel died before he had gathered in
the lost tribes.
Another proposed wonder for the pros.
pective Paris exhibition OF 1890 is an i'm
mense Dussand microphonograph. II is said
10 be now in course Of construction. and
is expected to make the voice heard by To-
90 persons. This form OF apparatus is
claimed to be especially favorable for the
deaf. and for the study OF the feeble sounds
given out by the organs Of the body in
health and disease. magnifying the voice
much as a lens magnifes objects to the
eye.
A Georgia poet. who believes In home in
dustry. has the following lines on the gold
question:
oh. the COLDS in the Lam
II the grit is in the man,
matter what they tell you day by day;
But you'll never see It gleamin'
While you're loafn' 'rOun' an dreamin-
You must dig-you must dig awayF'
Commenting on the eclipse Of Thursday.
one of Frank Stanton's Georgia negroes
said: DE sun been a-hearin' all dis cussin'
bout hot weather. en- he bout make up his
dat he'd tu'n loose en- give de vorf
somepin' ter talk bout: en- Lawd only
knows what he would a-done eff de moon
took en- come between emf
Some doubt having arisen as to Martin
LUther's burial place. Professor KOstlin. Of
Halle. his biographer. asserts that the body
never been removed from the Palace
church. in Wittenberg. and that IL was
seen there in 1899. lying in a coffin, the
wood of which had mouldered away, by
the side OF MelanchthOn's.
British loyalty stops at the British pock-
ct. A set OF original drawings by the roy
al family. including seven by Queen Vic
toria, six by the Empress Frederick and
others by the Princess Beatrice and
other children of the queen. brought only
sc at auction in London.
When Abraham Lincoln carried the stats
Of New York in 1860. William Cullen Bry-
mt, the poet, was at the head of the Lin
,oln electoral ticket. In 1854. when Mr.. Lin
,oln was reelected, Horace Greeley was
At the head of the ticket
Fairview. Senator Germans farm. near
Md. has produced this year 4 crop
u 5000 bushels OF wheat from 100 acres