Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-14
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Washington correspondent says. that
Committeeman Kerens and
two Of his friends were compelled
10 make good n deficit Of D000
IN lieu OF promises made by ths merchants
OF the Mound city. When the lists wsro
being circulated for siRnsrs TO the guar
antee fund the business men OF 81. Louis
We'd with each other in putting down their
names. promising to pay sums ranging
from 500 20 400. ~ the assurance could
DO given that the convention would meet
in their city. II turned out. however. thai
while 1t WAS a very easy matter 70 promise
money II was a very difficult JOB when the
performance OF the contract was called for.
In some cases merchants who had signed
for A thousand or fifteen hundred dollars
pleaded the baby act and tried 70 beg or
for one-quarter OF the amount they had
pledged. They ala not seem az all inclined
10 help Committeeman Ksrens when he
said his word was his bond 80 far as the
national Republican committee was con-
cerned. and the upshOt Of the matter was
that Mr.. KereBs and his friends had 20
go down IN their pockets and pay 5000
which was exacted from them by the ma
tional committee for the paymsnt Of ex-
penses incurred In campaigns preceding
thai which resulted in the election of Pres
ident Mckinley. It was the knowledge OF
the performance OF this contract that has
made Committeeman Kerens such an i'm
portant factor at Washington when ap-
pointments in Missouri are under consid-
Grafton.
The embarrassing experience Of the New
Jersey bride and bridegroom who went 20
Morristown several days ago not expecting
10 attract any attention. and found that
their baggage had been so labeled that
they could not avoid being conspicuous.
recalls, the Sun says, the experience that a
Pennsylvania railroad man had at a New
York hotel last fall. He was a popular
man. and every baggage handler along the
road was interested in his marriage. He
left town with his bride shortly after the
ceremony, and when he inspected his trunk
at the station there was no distinguishing
mark to indicate that II was the property
Of q newly married man. The trunk was
checked right through to New York. and
when its owner arrived IN Jersey City he
gave his baggage checks 20 a transfer agent
and asked that his baggage be sent at
once to a well known Broadway hotel.
There was no rice in his pockets. and when
he arrived at the hotel and registered Mr..
and Mrs. John Blank" he hattered him
self that no one would suspect i'm Of be-
ing a newly welded man. An hour later
he heard a great noise IN the trunk room
and he went in, to investigate 1t. In the
center Of a crowd of beIlboys. porters and
nOIel iOuHktES was MS NENlhs Aid "a
his native town in good condition. Some
one had vanished IT with glue and then
sprinkled rice all over it. Half q dozen
pairs Of old shoes were fastened to the top
with screws. and every baggageman along
the line had. tackled on a message convey
ing his congratulations and advice. The
trunk was a curiosity, and 1t took one OF
the porters half a day to scrape it clean.
A curious student has spent some years
in tsbulating the references TO colors in
literature. Yellow is rarely mentioned in
the Bible and blue not at all. Blue is not
mentioned in Homer, red rarely, but he
mentions yellow twenty-one times in a hun
dred. Since the Christian era red and yei-
low are mentioned most frequently, but
blue is referred to twice as often since the
sixteenth century as before. Poe mentions
yellow twice as often and blu about one
quarter as often as any Of his contempt
raries in the list. That the color sense is a
late development Is shown by the fact that
the natives of South Africa can distinguish
only white and black (which are not colors
at AIN and red. Blue they call black and
I yellow red. Green they cannot distinguish
at all-confusing 1t with both yellow and
red.
curious story comes from Wabash. Ind.
! Last winter a wagonload OF potatoes was
I put IN d CtlldE. lNO hGGhS A6of "AN 80
| potatoes on the top Of the pile were black
and shriveled up. they were removed, and
a few inches below the surface IL was dis
covered that the old potatoes were lost in
a profuse growth OF new ones, some of the
latter being as large as an unhulled walnut.
There were no sprouts and no leaves. but
the new potatoes had literally grown out OF
the old ones, and were as thrifty as though
cultivated in rich soil. Another curious
thing is that two varieties of potatoes were
frequently found attached to one old po-
tato, a blue Meshannick and an Early Rose
growing side by side.
A well known Philadelphian who is an
ardent devotee OF the weed has discovered
a new use for lemons. which may have its
effect upon the California lemon trade. He
claims that a whole uncut lemon Is lar su-
perior to a wet sponge as a tobacco moist
oner. that Il doesn't become foul. as a
sponge does, and that one lemon will do the
work for at least a month. OF course the
cigars or tobacco should be kept in a tin
box or a glass Jar. Snyder. the Philadel-
phIa Records calculating barber, is making
an estimate as TO how many smokers IN the
limited States love moist cigars, and how
many carloads of lemons 1t would take 10
supply the demand. on the basis that each
smoker would use but twelve lemons a year.
One of the very best institutions Of Gin
/ cinnati is the mouse OF refuge, WHICH was
Incorporated In 1850. Since It was opened
aM9 bows and 1850 girls ave been COM
mttted 10 the refuge. One of the objects or
the institution is not only 10 reform the
children morally. but to teach them all
forms of manual labor, so that when they
get out they will have a means Of hveli-
hood. They have as good schools as can
be found outside. and in their manual train
ing school teach the printers art, masonry,
carpentering engineering and the care Of
electric lights. Horticulture and gardening.
A long-continued diet of molasses has
been found injurious TO cattle. but Louis
lama sugar planters have discovered that
"black strap" mixed in proper proper
tions with corn, hay or oats forms a good
food for fattenIng cattle. There Is already
n large demand for II in Texas. and II Is
expected that the Western states Will soon
consume quantities of what has been con-
sidered the nearly useless portion OF the
sugar cane product.
For three years hundreds OF vorkmen
have been living in compressed air. during
the construction Of the Blackwell tunnel,
Zach CARRYING a hundred weight OF cir to
every SQUARE inch OF his body. while peo-
ple on the surface bear but fifteen pounds
~ the square inch. A feeling of exhilara-
tton amounting almost to intoxication. il
nroduced at times. A cigar in this atmos-
phere burns out with the rapldity OF q
cigarette.
Ex-Register Charles Henry James known