Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-04
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When the Philadelphia club won its first
game from Chicago last Friday, after meet
ing with ten straight defeats, a well known
member Of the Stock exchange. who is a
decided crank on the subject of baseball.
won the neat little sun of s2.56O on the
game, the Record says, and pulled himself
out of a hole. 1t has been his custom
during the season to make a bet of S with
a fellow broker on nearly every game.
When the Phillies struck that disastrous
losing streak he succeeded in doubling his
bet every day. He was enabled to do this
owing to the fact that the exchange boasts
any number of baseball enthusiasts. On
the tenth straight defeat he was out just
$3.50, the amount to which that original
little s. bet had grown. 1t took some tall
hustling that day to secure takers for this
amount, but he stuck to 1t. and finally got
his money up on a quantity Of individual
bets. 1t took nerve. but he won out. and
now he says he is through with the Phillies
forever.
DR.. Meguin, IN a lecture delivered before
the Paris Academic de Medicine, stated his
opinion that dogs, from their close associa-
ton with human beings, are subject to
many of their nervous ailments. TIL brain
OF a dog is much more highly developed
thar that of any other animal. In many re-
spects it resembles the human brain. With
I LIdSNEEs ne uOk EABEIltAANEo Nh0 NlIAooA-
tides of life. Ceaseless experiments toward
race perfection leading to many kinds OF
blood mixtures are responsible. too. for In
tensifying the natural nervousness. The
doctor thinks that IS per cent of the ami
mails killed who, on account Of queer ac-
lions, are suspected OF ~hydrophobia, dis
inrccently. Like nervous men and women,
they sometimes become excited, are cpl
Ieptic, morose. lazy. lose appetite, and
sometimes even turn against their best
friends. II treated nationally they might
soon recover their usual health and
equanimity.
Napoleon is reported TO have said that
only a fool required more than four hours
sleep. The rule of the middle ages was five
hours for a man. six for a woman and sew
en- for a child. Richard III. never enjoyed
the golden dew of sleep more than an hour
at a time. Guilty conscience. Longfellow
speaks of being too full Of sleep to under
stand. 1t is a tradition among the darkies
Of the extreme South that those who lie
abed too long sleep away their brains. Ma
poleon and probably half a dozen other
landmarks. It is suggested, had the Cod
given faculty of sleeping at any time in any
position under any circumstance. Tip"
of the Press, knows a man in New York.
one of the brainiest OF the great merchants
and manufacturers, WHO never sleeps more
than four hours in the twenty-four. and he
is the picture Of health and happiness.
A one Of our children's classes in
church a few days ago" says a correspond
emit Of the Baltimore Sun, opportunity was
given to any who wished to recite or read
brief selections of poetry. One little girl
said she had a verse learned from her
School Companion She then recited these
lines:
"a man of words and not Of deeds
Is like a garden full of weeds;
Made in Germany.
The class enjoyed the recitation. but I
told the speaker that the last three words
did not belong to the rest. She insisted.
however. that they were so printed in her
School Companion and the class quickly
caught the lines up with the added words.
In spite of my correction
An Englishman has invented a nickel-in-
the-slot tire Inhater. A stand holds the
cycle, a tube connects with each tire, and
when the latter is of sufficient hardness
mechanical levers, actuated by the coin,
shut of the air, rendering It impossible to
burst the tires. When a coin is dropped
into the slot a handle is thrown into gear.
which the contributor can pump easily. In
case of a puncture, the machine Is so ar
ranged that it may be worked at half
pressure until the puncture is located. 1t
is proposed to utilize side pillars for the
delivery of oil. lamp wick. matches. and
other supplies. The inventor expects to
organize a company. and place his ma
chimes at all cycle resorts.
Electric railway companies are adopting
the wise course of offering prizes as an
incentive to their employees to take an In
terest In the property of the corporation.
A San Francisco road gives the motorman
with the best record $40 and a silver badge,
with Nc. 1 engraved thereon. The motor
man with the next best record receives
SIS and badge No. 2; the third, SIS and
badge No. 3. The conductor with the best
record has SIS and a badge; the next, $3.50
and badge, and the next. $3.50 and badge.
the badges being numbered from 1 to 3
respectively.
It is known to a number Of people that
the popular verses, Little Drops OF
Water" which are known from one end of
the land to the other. are from the pen OF
Miss Julia A. Fletcher. now Mrs. Carney.
of Galesburg. III. In Bartlett's Familiar
Quotations and in other books Of reference
it is credited to Mrs. Frances s. Osgood,
whom Poe admired; but the Book Buyer has
been Investigating the matter and gives
the credit Of the verses to Mrs. Carney.
She wrote them as an exercise in Short
mana Wneu she was slu09AuB AaFhy
in Boston.
Promotion is so rapid in the navy that
the officers on board the New York have IL
Illustrated it on canvas for the delectation
Of particular friends. In the picture are a
man of 80 in the uniform OF a lieutenant, a
man of 50 in the uniform of a lieutenant
and a man OF 20 in the uniform Of a lieuten-
ant-three Heutenants, father, son and
grandson. Ladies have come aboard to see
the vessel and the grizzled veteran Of four
score is saying that he would be pleased to
present his great-srandson, Lieutenant B.,
officer of the deck, etc.
According to a report by a senate COM
mittee at the close of 1896 the number OF
volrmes In the congressional library was
74s, lis and 245.C0o pamphlets. A substantial
increase in the copyright business during
the year was attributed to the extension Ct
the international feature. especially IN mu-
steal productions. Eleven foreign govern
ments are now embraced within the privt-
leges Of the international copyright.
z. Livingston Prescotts novel, scarlet
and Steel" in which he exposes the fog
cling and other brutalities practiced In
British military prisons the prevalence OF
which had hardly been noticed before, has
brought about a strong agitation Of the