The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-14
Gossip of the World.


surprise, two other places in my COM
partment were let TO two ladies. who en-
| tered the car 1 made 4 protest 10 one
| OF the officials on the platform, but ne
| said a gentleman could not protest
against ladies in the compartment, al
| though ladies could protest against the
! presence of gentlemen OF course, as
| gentleman, 1 declined to travel 70 Paris
under the circumstances 1 have just
| named, and am put 20 the extra expense
| of staying az MarseiHes for the night.
We know the hospital ship in the
| Thames: at Trieste there has just been
| launched an ambulance ship. The Vienna
! correspondent of the London Morning
Post describes the ship as being lighted
throughout by electricity, and as having
| the latest improvements. 4 large cabin.
! capable Of holding some fourteen berths,
] is set apart for infectious diseases. Special
4 attention has been devoted 10 ventilation
Each berth is portable. and so fitted that
without any inconvenience 70 the patient
| IL can be unslipped al moments notice
/ and transformed into q hand-litter. The
cabins are spacious and brightly fitted
! out and so also are the officers quarters
/ Under the large cabin is a reserve hold
/ capable Of containing a coal supply for
twenty-five days. The very thought Of
such a floating temple of luxury ought 10
| be enough 10 cure most complaints.
/ The Spanish reporter of the Times Of
! Cuba gathered the following interesting
items at the Havana police court the
other day:
! Fine-The inspector of the Fifth pre-
! cinct of police, General Calixto Enam-
oTado. put fine on the lady. Sofia Ter
RADIO, living at Campanario No. T. for
| emptying her Stops into the street on q
! gentlemans head.
Detained-Finding the gentleman. Don
( Lorenzo CarboneH. inebriate and making
a noise he was arrested.
NUle-In Marina street there was
found mule running loose without know
I ing MS owner. He was sent (rhe mule)
70 the Fosos. subject TO the disposition Of
! the second lieutenant OF the Alcalde.
This is from the Coustantinople Tkdam:
! Mustapha, a poor Mussulman laborer.
had after two years work, managed 10
ecrape together five hras which he kept
| in purse in his belt. He was dining in
the open air at Makrikeui on Wednesday
afternoon, and had put mis- belt beside
him, when his attention was attracted
10 the Tapping of wings overhead. Look
! ing up he sa kite towering above him;
! but Mustapha went on with his meal.
till suddenly the bird swooped down upon
the belt and carried it off. The poor man
shouted the Turkish equivalent for stop
| theft" and soon gathered a crowd around
! him At first he was supposed 10 be in
sane when he showed them the bird in
| the far distance as the thief to be stop
| ped. On hearing, however, the whole
story, the kind-hearted people collected a
small sum and presented IL TO Mustapha,
to console him for the loss OF his saw
ings.
This comes by wire from New Orleans:
| The arrival is announced ( the Missls-
Eippi river quarantine station just below
! New Orleans, of the Portuguese bark At
/ lantico. from Para, Brazil with a cargo
of snakes. some of them boa constructors
of the largest size. collected from various
| places along the Amazon. This is the first
| cargo of snakes ever t. reach New Or
/ leans Coming from Brazil. the Atlantico
will have to remain in quarantine until
+ Saturday, when she will come to New Or
leans From here she VIII go TO New
| York and thence to Paris. where the
| snakes not sold in New Orleans or New
York viii be exhibited at the exposition
and afterward sold.
I
stars in the daytime is not al all an IN
usual one, says the Westminster Gazette.
| As a rule however, the circumstances
! under which these heavenly bodies be-
come visible by daylight are not of the
sort which make the sight of them de-
! sfrable But to see a. rainbow a { mid
night and under conditions which leave
/ nothing to be desired, is a much rarer oc-
currence. 1t was witnessed a few nights
eh-F.s
| ing in brilliantly clear sky, and round
1t spread a circle in which all the colors
of the rainbow cleaned. And any loyal
| and literary Switzer witnessing the phe-
| ncmenon might well be proud of seeing
| in real life the strange and wondrous
token which. so Schiller says. shone one
night when Tell and his friends swore
| the great oath on the RUtil a thousand
| years ago.
Helen Keuar. the wonderful deaf. dumb
and blind girl is learning to ride tan
| dem bicycle, says the Boston Transcript.
| Some two or three years ago she took
! one lesson on a single wheel. but yester-
/ day she took her first real ride on tan
! dem, under the guidance Of Fred 81.
/ Onge. The tandem was steered out
/ through the Fenway. starting from u
/ Newbury street, TO Jamaica pond. and
! back Miss KelIar is very enthusiastic
| over her new experience, and a. m every
thing she undertakes. has thrown her
whole heart and soul into the wheel Il
IS probable that she Will take many rides
during the summer.
! The minister Of education in saxouy
has Just issued an order that al girls and
young women attending the public schools
| and colleges shall discard Corsets and
| stays. The preponderance Of public opin-
/ ion in Saxony favOrs the decree. but the
] girls affected and their mothers are pro
I testing vigorously.
/ Recently the vigorous agitation II the
subject in the press and in the lectures
/ given BY professors in medical schools a
/ responsible for the minister's order. Tight
I lacing has been denounced uEani mously
/ By the physicians Of Dresden and other
/ large cities because Of its effect on the
/ health and Of its Increasing prevalence
| even little girls INDUCING II the practice.
! The Rev. II. r Gamble. vicar q 5
! Rotolph's. Al5ersgate. and hts church
/ wardens applied 70 tire CoEs.story Court
AZ St PauTs Cathedral L5ndan. a few
DAYS ago for faculty - place certain
/ pictures IN the aQse % the church. and 20
/ carry out alterations in the chuCc hTar6
! me pictures proposed IeF i-iF lilt@l-'E
/ are The Dead Chris and q PAR known
/ ~ Watch and Pray
/ The truth q the pictures was also dis
! c-lseed. One % them represents Christ r.
/ a state of nudity. when. according - IRE
/ Seripturss. ne was clothed II linen The
1 same picture represents an angel as q e.
male and Il ives objected that anze-s are
I Of 10 sex
/ After long discussion In Vai-a ne ~
/ tist himself ar. Szsu'Iud Groe,zs} took
! part, the case was adjourned
! ore Washington 6-y goods hrm has r.