Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-08

most OF the morning. The proceedings be-
came dull and all three men read newspa-
pers. This is d heinous ofrense, violation
of one of the most sacred rules of the SEN
ate an objectionable affrcnt to the dig
nifty of that ancient and reverend body. \
doerkeeper nearly had a fit when he saw
1t. He gasped instructions to d page to
give instant warning to the Offenders. The
page approached Mr.. Crocker and told him
he must put away his newspaper. A Curl
Gus look came over the Tammany boss
face but he thrust the paper in his pocket
and told Straus to do the same. Straus
did The page did not interrupt Murphy.
who Kept on reading, thereby insulting
himself as d senator
A man went into a Pennsylvania court
recently with a suit against railroad
company for putting him off a train He
claimed that he took a seat upon the plat
form because he had only a short dis
tance TO go and it was not worth his while
to ride inside. The conductor told him it
was against the rules to ride outside upon
platform and he must either ride inside
or be put off. He refused and was elected
from the train. Then he brought suit
The company contended it was its duty
TO prevent accidents and 1t was therefore
its duty to forbid passengers from riding
on the platforms. The court held the rule
TO be a reasonable one and sustained the
company.
The Pail Mall Gazette gave lately illus
trations of what novels should be- This is
the approved style of the romance of So
cial conditions: Yes said the duchess,
leaning back in her chair and observing
with a quick flicker of her eyelids the lin
pid magnolia in Lord Eustace's buttonhole.
NFrn
the mother of atheism" Possibly" replied
the young peer, with a slight curl of his
nostril, but moss cumulates round the
rolling stone" What rot.' interrupted
Daisy, as she crossed her feet on the man.
telpiece. "A black sheep always makes the
samiest mutton, and you don't want jelly"
A dish of ice cream made in four min
utes was part of test examination of a
class in sick room cookery recently. Two
tablespoonfuls of cream were put in
bowl, sweetened with powdered sugar fla
vored with a teaspoonful of clear. strong
coffee and beaten light in a minute with
cream whisk. The cream was then put in
little half-pint oyster pail. the cover
carefully fitted on. This was set in a quart
pail. the space between filled with shred
ded ice and fine salt. Three minutes turn
ing in this freezing mixture secured u
saucerful of smooth coffee ice cream for
the imaginary waiting invalid.
A modestly dressed and unobtrusive gen.
tleman is Mr.. William Bayly. OF Colorado.
who would hardly be taken for million
aire owner of one of the greatest gold pro-
ducing mines in the world. Mr.. BayIy
was up to the last few days. president
of the famous Tom Boy mine, at Tel
luride, Col. Within the week he has dis
posed of 81 per cent of its stock to an En-
glish syndicate for the snug sum of 81 225.-
900, he and his partners retaining 40 per
cent of the property. Mr.. Bayly went to
Colorado twenty-five years ago from Mis-
souri,.
DIR. Gale, medical superintendent Of the
Kentucky lunatic asylum. on one occasion
dismissed an attendant. and said In speak
ing of the matter to Luke Blackburn. who
was then governor: HE struck one of the
patients and 1 discharged him." Dis
charged him." thundered Blackburn. in an
instant wrath. why did you do that? By
-, sir, you should have killed him. II
man were to strike one of those poor un-
fortnnates in my presence I'd strike him
down upon the spot
PETER will be decided loss to the senate
He is man of great negative popularity.
He is escaped and harmless. II senator's
do not like him intensely, there Is not one
on the floor who dislikes him. He is the
busiest man in the upper house. He is al
ways writing. He is never in anybody's
way. His sweet and .childlike disposition
commends him to men of all parties. He is
earnest. He is thoughtful. He Is the only
man in the world who takes PETER seri-
ously, declares Tip in the New York
Press.
One DIR. Huldah Gum, who Is distin-
guished in New York as the first woman
graduate in medicine in that city, goes even
further than Robert G. Ingersoll in justify
ing suicide. A few days ago she shocked
the Society for Political Study by saying:
THE idea of saying that suicide is sip Is
all wrong. We have believed it so through
our theological teachings but it is no crime
against nature. 1t should be the right of the
physician, If the patient wishes 1t, to help
the patient to die"
Something more than thirty statues are
scattered through the streets. squares and
parks of Boston, but curiously enough.
considering that Boston was once a lit
erary city, and still pretends to more or
less culture, not one of these statues pre-
serves in bronze or marble the lineaments
u
effigies are all those of reformers, discov-
erers, statesmen. soldiers and patriots.
Professor E. E. Barnard, of the Yerkes
observatory at Chicago. has sailed for
England, in order to be present at the
meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society
at London the 18th, and there receive the
gold medal awarded him for his services
to the cause of science. His principal
achievements have beeu in the field of
astronomical photography.
The people of Norwich and Montville,
Conn.,, are anxious to have their state pur-
chase big detached boulder, locally
known as Cheegan rock, in MillvilIe. 1t
is said to be one of the largest in the coun-
try, and of great interest to biologists, it
being about eighty feet long. seventy-eight
feet high and weighing, 1t is estimated,
!, 900 tons.
Rev" George Brooke, the begging let
ter fraud of London, recently exposed by
Mr.. Labouchere in Truth, has just lost a
libel suit brought by him against the st.
James Gazette. He is said to have raised
in the last five years by his begging letters
$4,000 and lived in great style.
Now that the pensioners of the war of
1872 have become reduced to twelve IN
number and those twelve are nearly ready
to die, having all reached the age of ~,
and one or two the age of 1O4. the govern
ment is to advance their pensions from Sl2
TO $50 a month.
congressman get queer letters. and prob
ably the most curious of recent date is
that lust received by Mr.. Mccall, OF Mas
sachusetts from one of his constituents.
asking him to send at once one good