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The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-21

Santa Fe preferred made a jump
Of over a cent yesterday, probably on
the strenth of the immense corn crop
in sight.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-21

Chorus from newspapers all over the
country: s.Send Gen. Miles,
The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-21

Probably there will be no generals
making a tour of the United States IN
the interest of any political party next
year The scheme leads to too much
subsequent trouble.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-21

Alger will leave slim picking for his
successor in the way Of patronage
The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-21

Isn't it about time to enjoin the erec-
ton of the new school buildings pro-
jected by the board OF education!
The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-21
Save Your Neck

We mend and sew on buttons free
American Steam Laundry. Tele. BAL
The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-21

And wear collars that have no rough
edges We do them. American Steam
Laundry. Tel 341.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-21

We mend and sew on buttons free.
American Steam Laundry. Tele. BAL
The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-21

Too many people resemble a ball of
twine-they are completely wrapped up
in themselves.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-21
PARAaRAPHs.

IFrom the Chicago News.l
Bygones are always bygones. The
world is interested only in the man
that is ahead:
The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-21

Talk must be the equivalent Of money
otherwise gossip wouldn't gain cur
rency so easily.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-21

The woman who hesitates may be lost
for a time, but you cans lose her per
manently.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-21
GLOBE SIGHTS

TFrom the Atchison GIobe1
When man becomes a wall flower in
society, he is glad of it.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-21

It is beginning to dawn upon Atchison
people that the only result of having
summer girl visitors is that the Atch-
ison young men get their wives from out
of town.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-21

History continues to repeat itself in
spite of the fact that twO-thirds of his
tory isn't worth repeating.
Whenever you hear a man boast of
having a boss wife the chances are
he is getting dangerously near the
truth.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-21

The only point in going to a picnic is
to have a tough time, 50 that you will
quit dreaming about the good times
you might have at picnic.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1899-01-17
CURIOUS FACTS.

Only one man in 2O3 is over six feet
IN height.
The inhabitants of Cochin China
much prefer rotten eggs to fresh ones.
Four Chinese laundrymen in Phila-
delphia are frequently seen riding
4uadruplet.
The most extensive cemetery in
Europe is that at Rome, in which six
million human beings have been in
TERED.
In proportion to their weight, dogs
can absorb without danger sixteen
times as much arsenic as would kill
human being.
The smallest man who ever lived
was probably the dwarf Bebe, born in
France in 1740. He was just twenty
inches tall and eight pounds in weight
when full grown.
The British Museum contains the
oldest specimen of pure glass which
bears any date. This is little lions
head, having on it the name OF an
Egyptian king of the eleventh dynasty.
Copper was used formerly in
Sweden as the chief medium of ex-
change, and at times merchants had to
take wheelbarrows with them when
they went to receive payment in large
sums.
Lightning recently brought about
the discovery of an Etruscan tomb
near Yolterra, Italy. II struck an old
pine tree on hillock, and in cutting
down the remnants of the tree the
workmen found the top Of the sepulchre
under the roots.
Some cast-iron cannon balls wero
recently recovered from the sea near
Brest. They bad been under water
for over hundred years. They could
be cut with q knife, a great part Of tho
iron having disappeared. Exposed to
the air, the interior became quite hot,
Of course losing the heat 10 n short
time, after the oxygen Of the air had
ceased 10 act upon II.
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tween which the clothes are allowed
to pass. The rollers are kept at An
even SAoisture, though the supply oil
water may be regulated.
Shirt ironing by machine. as by
hand, requires more time than other
work. Shirts are passed from one oper-
ator and one machine to another. sue
cessively to the bosom ironers, waist
band ironers, yoke ironers, body iron
ers, sleeve ironers, neckband ironers
machines having capacity of 1900
shirts a day. The rough bosom il
stretched over q bosom plate in the
first machine and hot furnishing
roller, the width of the bosom, rolls
back and forth with pressure two OIL
three times over the bosom at the will
of the operator. All the other shirt
ironing machines consists of metal
heated rollers revolved against padded
rollers, being free at one end SO that
part of the work need not go between
the rollers. The only difference in
these is that the rollers differ in length
for body ironing, sleeve ironing, etc
The shirts are afterward folded for de-
livery. Rough dry" laundries wash,
dry and starch shirts for the agencies
at three and even two cents each and
collars ten cents a dozen. Collar
ironers of endless variety are seen in
store windows and need no explana.
tion. AS high gloss is no longer
popular the collars are not passed
through more than three times, and G
capacity of 5000 an hour is claimed fol
some of the machines.
There are hundreds of small devices
for finishing up collars after being
ironed. To prevent cracking in bend.
ing down wings and turn downs, u
there are novel dampeners which
moisten the collar just where it is tc
be bent. Then the collar passes be
tween disc wheel and groove in 6
heated roll to give the proper shape tc
the collar and to dry out the damp
ness. Other devices are for taking
the "saw" off the edges of the old col
lars. In one of these the collar is held
around what looks to be n milk-car
cover. A groove in heated burnishel
is brought down and rubs over the toy
OF the collar as it is turned with the
holder from right to left. smoothing
the edge for comfortable wearing.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1899-01-17
A Coming Industry in South Africa

If johannesburg, South Africa, ever
goes out of the diamond and mining
business it may become an important
centre for the manufacture OF rubber
out OF meat. No one who has staid
away from johannesburg these many
years knows what trouble is taken to
cook meat until it loses all semblance
of its original condition and becomes
nothing more than hard, dark colored
rubber. To the American who likes
his daily steak rare, the city is not
worthy of its place in the geography.
1t is absolutely impossible to get beef
cooked so that it can be eaten. Once
commercial traveller went into the
best hotel there and said to the girl
who attended his table: ST would like
to have beefsteak, please, but tell the
cook that 1 want it underdone, cooked
blood red, very rare, and not to for
get The girl went away with the
order, but came back in great haste
and told the travelling man that "the
cook said it wasn't healthy for him to
eat meat cooked that way" The
visitor offered TO advance positive
proof that he had been eating under
done meat for forty eight years and
had never suffered with anything be-
yond longing to get back to the
United States, but il would not Ego. &"
Persistent appeals finally brought
forth the cook in person, who said
that underdone steaks were against
the rules Of the hotel.-New York
Times.
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Speaking ne a Brother.

4 certain curate was Of a painfully
nervous temperament, aud in conse.
quenco was constantly making awk-
ward remarks-intended as cOmpli-
ments-to tho Bishop and others.
Having distinguished himself in an
unusual degree during a gathering OF
clergy 20 an afternoon tea at tho
Bishops palace, he was taken to task
for his failings by a senior curate.
who was one Of his companions on the
way home.
Look here, Bruce" said the
senior decidedly, you are n Donkey
Why cannot You keep quiet, instead
of making your asinine remarks7 /
am speaking to you now as a
brother"
Loud laughter interrupted him at
this point. and for the moment be
wondered why.--BaltRess News.
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MASTlcATloN A LOST ART.
Common Disease of tho Gums Du
to 1t.

n common D1scase tho Gums Due
to 1t.
Mastication is rapidly becoming a
lost art, and although we have become
hardened to the fact that three -fourths
of the dyspepsia is due to this cause,
it might surprise some of us to know
that the early decay of the teeth and
diseases of the gums are fastened by
this same lax of maxillary exercise. A
disease of the gums, called Riggs dis
ease, which is every day becoming
more common, is caused almost en-
tirely by the want of proper mastica-
ton. Twenty-Five years ago this
trouble was not considered of impor-
lance by the dentist on account of its
occurrence. To-day it is given more
care than the decay of the teeth, as he
is frequently consulted by patients
who have full set of natural teeth
which are quite loose in the jaw. Aside
from this, they are sound and healthy.
After a certain development in the dis
ease, nothing can be done to help
them. By lack of exercise, the blood
which should nourish both the bones
and the gums, is not carried to the
part; nor does the blood carry suffici-
ent material to the teeth, hence the
enamel formed is defective, and early
decay results. Frequently, too, the
mechanical development of the jaw is
arrested by this same want of motion
Among the earlier races defects of
the jaw and teeth were almost I'M
known. In examining the skulls of
thousands of Indians, early Britons
and Chinese, not single irregularity
of the jaw is found, and the teeth that
are present are sound and well-formed.
The food which they lived on, such as
roots, herbs, corn anduncooked meats,
required good deal of chewing in
order to prepare it for the changes to
follow, and as a result the muscles of
the jaw were dense and hard, the bones
we'll developed and compact, the teeth
large, regular and firm. Most of the
food among the better class of people
to-day is cooked so as to require very
little mastication, and the consequence
is that the muscles have become fab
by, the jaws slender and the processes
for the attachment of the muscles al
most obliterated.
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The following is a list of names said
to have been given to the months by
the Saxons:
January: Wolf-month, because Of
the danger of being devoured by
wolves
February: Lent-mouth. 'Lenetez
or "Lenx, an old German word for
spring.
April: Easter Of Oster-mouth
May Tri-milki. In this month
MIXED COWS three times q day.
June: Weld mouth or pasture
month.
July: Hay-month.
August: Barn month Filled the
barns with corn
September! Barley month; either
barley-harvest or Drawing month.
October: Wine-month. Making Of
wine.
November: Windy-month.
December. Winter month; or Holy
month; in honor Of Christmas
Dodge's Outlines and Topics in Eng
lish History"
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EVANSVILLE, w. VA, TUESDAY, JANUARY Il. 1899.

been . model heroine she would have
thrown both her arms around his neck
and vowed that she loved him better
than ever. But she was only very
human little girl, so she stood up
with dignity and said:
81 wonder at your assurance in
coming here after all that has tran
spired. Mr.. Franklyn.
But, Josie"
There is the door, siri" said
Josie. ''Please to walk out"
Aud there was nothing left for him
but to 'walk out"
Old Miner Molineux sleeps quietly
in the village graveyard and public
rumor has added another ghost to the
spectral population of the Haunted
House-a yellow-vissgcd old DOGGY
Who'll wears a wig and carries in his
hand a padlocked iron box.
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PITH AND POINT.

She-"You used to say was pret.
ty. Have l changed?" He-"Ob
no; but have. Truth.
II had narrow escape in INV house
the other night" "How SOP" INV
wife shot at burglars. Life.
Teacher-"Why did the Normans
and Saxons fight at Hastings7" Pupil
THAT'S where they happened to
meet, ma'am. Puck.
"You claim that art doesn't pav
How do you know that?" Didn't 7
keep restaurant near studio build
Ing"-New York Journal.
"What are the most striking thing,
you saw while you were in EuropeP"
The people who were always strik.
ing me for tips. Chicago News.
To grow long hair I'm tryIn'.
And the person must be plain;
TO become a social lion
Ohe OF course must have n name"
Washington Star,
81 like to meet those long haired
literary men" "WhyP" "They al
ways have more sense than you expect
10 find after looking at them. Chi
,ago News.
She-"Wby did you request Miss
Skails to play that piece AGAIN." He
II noticed that each of her selec
ions was worse than the one that pre-.
'eded itp'-Puck.
Mrs. Slimdiet-"The CITY water
company has raised my rates" Old
3oarder-"They must have found out
that we have salt mackerel for break
last. New York World.
A tutor who footed the flute,
Tried to teach two young tooters to foot;
Said the two to the tutor,
"Is It harder to foot or
To tutor two tutors to toot7
Soldier Boy-'Do you believe that
the upsetting of salt causes a quarrel?"
Jack Tar-"Well, that's Just about
what was the trouble with Spain. She
upset too many of u.s." = Yonkers
Statesman.
The Countess They say that the
heiress whom Lord d'Liverus married
has very kind heart" The DuciieS.
Yes, indeed. l am told that she
occasionally condescends to visit her
American parents. Life.
Old Friend-"Your plan is most
excellent one; but do you think your
wife will agree to it?" Married Man :
"Oh, yes! I'll tell her someone else
suggested it, and I'll call it an idiotie
idea. New York Weekly.
Watts-.'Had fifteen women at my
house this afternoon. Some sort OF
stub my wife belongs to-" Potts
''Must have been an awful racket I"
Watts-"Not so much as you would
think. Fifteen women make no more
noise than two. You see, there has
got to be limit somewhere. Indian
apolis Journal
The seedy stranger at the hotel had
deliberately tried to suffocate himself
by closing has room as tightly as he
could and turning on the gas. "You
miserable vagabond!" exclaimed the
doctor, after he had succeeded in re-
viving him, "what did you want to do
that for? You have given this hotel
bad namo and wasted about five hum
dred feet of gasl" mo, it isn't
wasted" groaned the landlord. "The
meter will register every foot of it,. ~
Chicago Tribune. N..-s
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WHOLE NO. sol.
FRISCO SINKING.
City May Disappear Under Water Z,
Few Decades

ny my Dhsapptar 0nuer Water fN I
Few Decades.
San Francisco is sinkingt This is
the startling statement of the civil en-.
glneer who conducts the work of the
city and county surveyors Office at the
city hall. Sinking, slowly but steadily
each recurring year bringing additional
evidence that a large portion of the
city would in few decades be below
the water of the bay. This is no wild
or irresponsible statement, but a cold
fact demonstrated and proved by the
careful scientific observations of engi-
neers IN the service Of the munici.
pallty, men who have been establish.
ing levels throughout San Francisco
Tor years, and have the data and rec.
ords of the city surveyors office as the
basis of their discovery. These engi.
neers find in surveying, or levelinr.
In the unstable districts that the official
monuments indicating the levels. or
heights above the city base, have sunk
with the land, and so it is necessary
to begin on the firm ground and carry
lines over those sunken marks. and
always with the same result-streets.
sidewalks, curbs, street railroads,
buildings, all have gone downward
together.
The peculiar feature Of the sinking
phenomenon is that the whole surface
settles equally, fact which has not
only averted attention from the con-
slant settlement, but also been the
source of endless disputes between
owners of land in the district, W no i'm
agine the grade is raised upon them
by city surveyors every few years.
An interesting field for mathemati-
cal effort is opened through the CITY
surveyors figures upon this subject.
The average sinking of those districts
which insist on moving into neither
regions is two inches year. There
is tendency to settle less as the years
pass, though the settling does not stop
and the ratio of the decrease is so in
significant in comparison with the
time as to be barely worth consider
ing. Two inches may, therefore, be
taken as the basis of calculation. in
one hundred years the water of the
bay would be ebbing through the first
stories of buildings, and the second
floors would be what seamen call awash.
But as the inhabitants of San Fran
cisco will keep on filling the land,
there will be no likelihood of such
strange happenings.
The cause of this peculiar condition
in large area of the city is ascribed
to the nature of the soil, which engi-
neers describe as mixture of alluvium
washed down from the hillside, ooze
from the bay and decayed vegetable
matter, the formation of ages upon the
original bedrock. Engineers say that
in places no bottom has been reached
with piles sixty to eighty feet long,
and the heavy structures erected
thereon sustain the tremendous weight
by force of friction, or resistance,
against the sides of the piles. How
deep is the ooze has not been ascer-
!ained in most places in the sinking
area. Nor is it positively known
whether the soft substratum moves
ont into the bay under the pressure or
merely packs hrmer and 50 becomes
more stable.
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POEM WITHOUT THE LETTER :

'onn hnow was man OF wondrous MIGHT
=, ana MS words ran high and shrilI:
70. poiu ana stout vas his spirit bright.
Ana strong was his stalwart will
Kings sought In vain his mind 20 chat
tlAnd that giant brain to control:
Dus n4nGht on plain or stormy main
Gould daunt that mighty soul.
John would sit and sight til morn,,r,,
Its shining lamps put out; So'u
For thoughts untold on his mind laid hold.
And brought out pain and doubt.
But light, at last, on his soul was cast.
Away sank pain and SORROW
His soul is gay in a fair TODAY
And looks for bright Tomorrow
The Equitable Record
Note-The letter IS oftener used thu,
any other in ordinary Composition. bsnca
the cleverness OF this unknown authors
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Imparted the Neee ssnry InfyrmatIon.


They were standing up in street
car, swaying to and fro by the aerial
straps, and Cabling as fast as their
tongues could go.
BY the way" exclaimed the one
in the military cape, "did you know
that Charlie Hawkins was engagedP"
The woman in the gray hat gave On
exclamation of surprise.
why, no" she cried "Who top
ooh, nobody that you know; OF
that anybody else knows, for that
matter. She works in a store, OF
something of that sort. I do think
Charles mother is roal good about
1t, for she declares she likes the girl 90
says she is sweet and pretty, and all
that, but I believe she does it just to
hide her real feelings"
The woman in the gray hat nodded
sagely. II shouldn't wonder at all %
she announced. 81 heard h @ was going
with that girl Mabel Thompson,
isn't il? But, Of course, never
thought that there was anything in it.
] suppose they'll live on our street,
because Charlie owns house there.
but I'll tell all the neighbors who she
is-look out, Louisa. the girl beside
you's going to get up. Hurry, and
take her seat, then in a lower whis.
per, rather stylish-looking girl,
isn't she? I'd like 10 know who she
is.
The stranger stopped on her out.
ward way and turned with flashing
would" she said icily, "but I've n,
objection to telling you. Ny name T.
Mabel Thompson, and she swep.
from the car, leaving two crushed ani
crimson ladies behind her. They
have since decided that IL is danger.
Gus to discuss unknown persons II
public places - Cleveland Plait
Dealer.
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10 Am.ricsn cIn.., n.bl..

Among the cities in the United States
San Francisco has the least and Phila-
delphia has She greatest debt The
debt Of San Francisco iJ 1888, 91TO1,
aud Of Philadelphia CSC, 81, 100. %.
In the bonded debt per capita. Boston
is the highest with S01 33, while San
Francisco is the lowest, being thirty
eight cents.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1899-01-17
rho Freedoln OF N, oIl, OF london.

What the cables properly call
quaint ceremony has been repeated
in London, when the freedom OF the
city was given to General Lord
Kitchener, the hero of the Soudpn and
the popular British fancy Of the day.
In all ceremonials connected with the
ancient city of London the guilds or
trade organizations play the most
conspicuous part. II is then that
peers and peeresses have TO take a
back seat and Mr.. and Mrs. Butcher.
Baker and Candlestick-maker are very
much In evidence. Tn the instance Of
honoring Lord Kitchener it devolved
upon the representatives Of the
butcher, the barber and stationers TO
inspect the Sirdar and pronounce him
to be fit and proper person to re.
ceived the freedom OF the city. The
sword Of honor which in the oase Of a
soldiers being honored always goes
with tho freedom is one Of the most
highly priced possessions in the gift
Of the British people, and only goes
TO him who has pro.emiuentiy won
the right TO bear it.-New York Tole-
gram
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Tho Question OF Diet Tor Strangers.


What is safe diet for a stranger7
What kinds should he avoid2 What
beverages will prove hurtful or need
less2 What changes OF clothing are
necessary in different seasons? What
exertions or exhaustion may he ven.
ture upon, aud at what periods with.
out serious risk? Temperance in
labor and exposure may be as i'm
portant az temperance in diet Can
working man find healthy lodgings,
and at what distance from his work
Can be find ventilated dwelling rooms
in promises drained and tolerably free
from mIasmic dirt, oyercrowding aud
air poisoning? Risks from such
dangers are not unknown to workmou
wherever they may be. But the ques.
tion is, Will matters be worse in tha
country to which the emigrant goesi
Maladies may carry Of half his family,
and tho doctor all his savings. Nine
taanth Century.
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