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Change journal. VOL. II. IIERIUNGTON, DICKINSON COUNTY, KANSAS, JUNE 1,1891. NO.

13. THE KANSAS A JL-JJL PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. Epicurean. Waiter "Do you pre words left her lips, 'and more tlun once has explained to me all that an something that will aid you in your present 'I shall be, pleased to receive assists he replied. 'Two years ago the 15th of last ESQUIMAU EVENINGS.

Up whore the north polo towers high. Out or a snow-drift up to the sky, tip In the dreary Arctic regions, Whero the Esquimaux are the only lrplcvns, There where the climute is always frigid, And explorers are (fpn'rally frozen rigid, The niKhts last always a half a year. And the evening three months, or very near; SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. According to the St. Louis Cilohe-Democrat, Carthage, furnishes three-fourths of tho world's supply of zinc.

The amount got out averages worth every week. lb. Justin, of Syracuse, has organized a company to manufacture his dynamite shells, which will blow up invading warships as certainly as that dried apples will blow up" a boy who eats too many of them. A rope company in St. Louis recently made what is claimed to be the largest shipment of cable ever carried by one ear.

Two reels of wire, weighing 140,000 pounds, were shipped on a special four-truck platform car. It has been concluded that with a balloon 330 feet long, with a maximum diameter of 5.1 feet, a speed of 'J." to miles can be attained. At the same time it is thought that the problem of flight is more likely to be solved by means of an aeroplane than with the balloon. John n. Mason, a mill overseer at inexperienced cracksman need know in order to appropriate tho contents of.

the vault without leaving any clew ic his identity. '1 have a wonderful faculty of re membering the names and faces of those whom I have victimized, and wherever I go I am on the lookout for them. Learning that addressing me, 'were in Clifton, I felt certain that you, seeing it, would recognize tho ring which I eaiiuessly exposed to your view on the occasion when I relieved you of your valuables. I at once obtained it from her to whom I had lent it, but you had seen it, and I have no doubt that it was the imincdi- I SUM'EC'T JUST WHAT I UAVK TOLD YOU." ate cause of a revelation of my mis- "She was arrested, tried, found guilty on various counts, and sentenced to imprisonment for fifteen years persistently refusing to divulge her real name. "Her two 'servants' were found to be her accomplices, and er.ch was imprisoned for five years.

'The impressible teller' of the Clifton national bank was discharged from his position. "The ring in your hand 'Mrs. Ash-eigh' gave me 'as a partial compensation for the loss you sustained at my hands two years and more Fred F. Foster, in Chicago News. THE IDEAL TAILOR.

RMUlltrt of a 1'rr'ert Wlelilnr of tlm SeUitors and Tape l.lno. The ideal merchant tailor should bo a good-looking man, for the same reason that a meritorious book should be handsomely bound; ho should be well dressed, because a good-looking man who is not well dressed, unless ho cannot afford to dress well, seems ungrateful for the physical gifts with which nature has endowed him, and because a tailor who is not well dressed insults his trade and advertises himself as an alien to it except financially; and he should be obliging and of pleasing manners, because if he is not his nature and presence will be as completely out of harmony with the character and duties of his business as the tooting of a tin fish horn in a string band. lie should be well educated, brainy, and thoroughly faniiliur with business usages, for unless he is he can understand the requirements of his trade no more than a hodenrrier can the phlogiston of the chemist Stahl; and ho should be in every thought and instinct an artist, for only an artist can appreciate, much less worthily exemplify, the grace and beauty that are possible to clothes. Ho should bo familiar with his trade from waxing a length of sewing silk to properly trying on a coat, for this kind of familiarity is as sure to create confidence in and respect for his ability, as too much of another kind is certain to breed contempt. Ho should do business iuan elegantly finished and furnished store, containing comfortable dressing-rooms and every necessary convenience for his customers, nr.d should carry a choice if not a not a very large stock of goods; for his establishment as well as himself should suggest comfort, art and refinement, and bo in every way In perfect harmony with tho most cultivated tusto of tho time, lie should be, in short, a gentleman, a thorough master of his business ami an artist Tho ideal tailor, then, would seem to be an ideal man who is very comfortably fixed; for his trade is an ideal trude, able to exert innumerable refining inlluences that cannot fail to benefit mankind and give to civilization a polish and charm.

sartorial Art Journal. The Dllli-n-ni-e. "Who is that remarkably tall young miiiiV" asked lit hel's papa. ''That is lbiwnrd Claymore, popper. He says you used to know him when ho was a lad." "Well, now he's a ladder." Detroit Free Press fer a dry Country liride- groom no: wet!" Jury.

Charles "Mabel do you oV3 me? Mabel "More than I love anybody else in the world, save one." Charles that?" Mabel "Myself." "What is repentance?" asks a contemporary. As a rule, repentance is being sorry when it is too late to do nny good. N. Recorder. "Van Rensallaer Onaslmekmar Ilaslirgbury, the poet, was forty years making a name for himself." "I should think he have been.

It's such a large name." Harper's Hazar. Ilalfscos "Yes, I never stay very late for I know there's a little wifo waiting at home for me." Henry Peck "And I never forget that there's a little wife who comes after me." America. lie (a new acquaintance) "I don't think anything of going two or three days without eating." She "Why, you must be a poet." Cleveland I'lain Dealer. A Confession. Mrs.

ITipflop "Flipllop. you are an old fool. Did you never arrive at the years of discretion?" Flipllop "No, my dear, I didn't. I married." Chicago Times. "Did you have a good time at Eva's party?" "No," replied little.

Maud, "I didn't expect to have." "Why did you go, then?" "So I could come home and laugh about it with papa, like mamma does." N. Y. Recorder. "It is absolute protection against fire," said the salesman. "When a fire starts this indicator tells anybody who happens to bo near it just whero the blaze is and "Yes," replied Skig-lets testily, "and then I lose the insurance." Washington l'ost.

She "It's disgusting to see people, so demonstrative in public places. Who's that man across tho who kisses his wifo and baby on the doorstep when he leaves every morning?" lie "That's Dobs in. who writes cynical paragraphs on matrimony." Epoch. Quite Different. 1 Police Officer "What is the matter with the lady?" "The pr ffonm fll down beeTi.Te there were no ashes on the sidewalk." "Sol 1 will take down the number of tho house." "It was in front of the station house." in front, of tho station house! Y'ou must try to make the best of it, my dear Flio-(rendu A western man was touring through tho east.

In passing a meadow he heard the. driver say: "Abandon the direct progression to tho straight thitherward, and deviate by incliuutory and aberrant dextrogyration into de.xt.ral incidence." It was an amateur I'ostou farmer Saying, to his yoke of oxen. True Happiness. Mrs. aggers "I Pie a prominent, iciety -lle is dead.

If thereover was a per blissful existence on eni'th, she enjoyed it she lived." Mr. Muggers "Itecuuse ehe was a society Mrs. Muggers "No. sho was engaged twenty-four tim and never married." Domorest's Monthly. A Brooklyn man swallowed a pin on Sunday und it was Monday night before ho was declared out of inger.

a Itrooklyn woman could probably have held half the pins in a paper in her mouth, discussed tho beauties of her spring bonnet, teased her husband out of "pin" money and slippered Johnny before she started him oit for school all in the same breath. Rochester Union. POPULAR JEWELRY. The Latent Finielrn In Hair Ormimentil and China painters have imbibed a new ambition. It is to have their work jeweled like much of the ornamentation on other articles.

The jewels are made for the purpose, are put on with a paste and afterward receive a light firing. This rago for jeweled effect is probably a fleeting one, but is popular now. Turquoises are particularly effective set In oxidized silver In buckles and clasps, almost ponderous in shape. They are much used in bright silver hair ornaments, which are often thickly studded with them. Chatelaines with pendant chains, to which all sorts of implements useful or wholly ornamental may be ate taehed, are made in many pretty shapes.

A filigree design is the prettiest, and if one has a sewing outfit of silver seis-iors, emery with silver top, handsome gold thimble (w hich is often set with turquoises ills)), she must add a silver needle ease, and then hang them all from a pretty silver chatelaine, which will at the same tiuio display thcin to the best advantage and keep them in the most convenient form for using. These chatelaine-, come usually with a hook in the back, which catches ill tho belt, if one is worn, but this ea.i be re. placed ith a pin which will render adjusting it ti any dress a sinipli Matter. Jewelers' Weekly. I began, 'Iivas on tny way from Klkhart to Chicago, when, at South Hend, a lady entered the closely-packed car in which I was seated and asked me: "Is this seat occupied?" "It is not," I answered, rising that she might pass to the place next the window.

i "If you please," she said, "I will take the outer scat, as I shall only go to the next station, if my brother meets me there." 'She was dressed in deep mourning and wore a heavy voil, which she kept drawn over her face, rendering it Impossible for me to get a glimpse at her face. 'I endeavored, without success, to engage her in conversation, Sho ap peared willing to talk, but hersentences were Interrupted quite frequently by sobs, tihd she would raise her handkerchief to her face, evidently to wipe the tears from her eyes. 'I was very tired, and foil asleep soon after the train pulled out of Car lisle. The stranger had not left the car. 'When I awoke, just before reach ing Otis, she was gone, as were my gold watch and chain and my pocket- book, containing several hundred dol lars and numerous papers.

'I learned that she got otf the train nt Laporte. and had ho doubt she was the one who had picked my pockets. 'I was unable to Recover my Iwatch and chain and nioncy, but the papers. of no value to anyone except myself, were several days later returned to me from -A aw York city by mail. 'Un her left hand 1 had noticed a curious ring, and the day on which I came to Clifton I saw Its exact counterpart on tho hand of a lady who is at this hotel.

'Confident that two such rings do not exist, I made inquiries of this lady rel ative to the one I had seen on her hand. I could only learn that it belonged to a friend, who did "not wish her name mentioned in connection with it. The-person with whom this lady is more intimate than with anyonfe. else in Clifton is Mrs. Alury Ashknghi whom I suspect to be the owner of the ring, which I have not seen since the time 'You do not suspect that Mrs.

Ash leigh was connected with the burglary, do tho detective asked, in a tone of surprise mingled with hornor. "And it is not strange that he was astonished and horrified at the idea of her guilt, as Mrs. Ashleigh seemed to be one of the wealthiest as sho was one of the handsomest and most attractive women in Clifton." 'I suspect only what I have Aold I replied; 'and if you base your future investigation upon what I have said, I da rt wish to publicly figure in the 'Y'ou shall not. And I will prose cute tny investigations in such a way that Mrs. Ashleigh, if innocent, shall not know that the faintest suspicion ever attached to her.

'To make vhe story as short as fiossi ble: In the Mccnpiod by Mm. Ashleigh worof found nearly all the "is Tins taken?" spoils of tho pocket-picking, the lar ceny and tho burglary, besides burglar's tools and innumerable articles for ell'ecting disguise. Confronted- with these evidences ofjtcr riultctiiQ calmly said: 'The daughter of poor but estimable parents, more than fifteen years ago I left my home in disgrace, to get luy living by my wits. 'Eventually, I attached myself to a gang of miscreants, unil nnt with wonderful success as a pickpocket and confidence woman, i i 'My filer and "lnnurars 'easily won me the attention of gentloinciiAvho Implicitly trusted ine, and whom in various ways I victimized without arousing their suspicions, 'l-'or instance, th lniprvsi.llij'i teller of the bank in tiiis plaoe bv. my smiling as the "ft 1 There, ev'ninps are lonjf as a spring or roil Oh, there is the place lor an ev ning call I The Esquimau lover may well rejoice When he rails on the maid of his fond heart's choice From her sweet smile noed not be ban ishrd After a brief two hours have vanished.

There they can sit for three months together, And talk of love, or about the weiither; They can pass their time amid chat or Bong And ev'ning a goodly three months long. No hurrying clock hints he must go I envy the gallant Esquimau. When the clock strikes ten there appears no sire To tell the maid Bhe hud best retire; Nor call is there from tu stairway's hca Telling the tiamuel to baste to bed; 1 No voice comes saying how lute 'tis growing, Asking: "Well, Isn't he ever goingJ" Nor need ho, fearful of walking far, Hasten, to cutch the latest car. Young lovers who know 'tis hard to go Will envy the happy Esquimau. a drama the Ksqnlman attracts, 4 (e can sit through a complfl of hundred acts; long the evenings are, you see, Ho wouldn't put up with a piny of three.

Then, after every uet i ended The neighboring "bar" is, of course, attended. Whrtu thy piay is over how futl of glee, How awfully jovial he must be! With their nights so long, why, it stands to reason That an Esquimau play -must last a season. Harry D. Smith, in America. THE STORY OF A -RING, How the Perpetrator of Bank Robhnry Was Detected.

LOOKING over a collection of finger-rings In the possession of a friend who has a great fondness or such ornaments I came across a most uuiqne character. It a a heavy band of gold, set with a cameo cut to represent a snake that lay coiled with head erect. Its eyes of emerald seemed to snap at a tiny bird, also cut in stone. "There is a (singular incident connected with that ring, which;" my friend remarked, as I picked it up and carefully examined it, "perhaps you would like to hear." "I should," was my reply; and he narrated a story which 1 will tell as nearly as I can in his owu 'words, "Three years ago I went to pass a few days in Clifton as you may know, a noted summer residence, hut a better resting place than most "I had been there only a few hours when I saw on the hand of a lady who lodged at the same hotel a ring which greatly excited my curiosity, for reasons that will appear later in my story. "I easily secured an introduction to her, and in the course of oui first conversation to this ring, no longer on her as having attracted lny especial attention.

'It is very she said. 'Docs it belong to I inquired. 'It does not, but wu lent mo by a I Inquire the name of the 'She requested me not' to mention her in connection with the ring; so you will please excuse ine from telling you her 'I should like to purchase it, if she, would dispose of for. I remarked, interrogatively. 'I will learn whether she is willing to sell it, and let you know "liefore my arrival in Clifton there had been many eases of pocket-picking mid petty the in the place, and on the fifth night after 1 came the willage bunk waH burglarised.

"Though the minor offenses had caused no particular excitement, the burglary did, for the temporary as well as the permanent residents, of Clifton would lose considerable sums if the stolen finals were not recovered. "Kvery possible, effort wan made to ferret the crime to its source, but so shrewdly had it been planned and executed that no view to its perpetrator or perpetrators seemed likely to be discovered. "The detective of wide renown cm-ployed upon the ease after a thorough investigation said: 'It bailies my skill as nothing in my previous "He had labored indcfal-igably but in vniii for several days, when 1 requested him one morning to accompany me to my room. After I had locked the door hip! v-e were I observed: "Mraws show, which way the wind hlo.v. and I be able to toll vuu Fall River, says the majority of women and girls in the factories there "dip" snuff.

They moisten a wad of it und tuck it down between the under lip and tho gum, where its presence is always revealed by a little lump the size of a bean. Here is another field for the reformer. An ingenious Frenchman has discovered a process of recovering the tin contained in the Wash waters of silk which have been' weighted, and he has accordingly recived from the French society for the, encouragement of national industry the, prize allotted for the utilization of residual substances. It is estimated that Lyons alone will effect an annual economy of SWI.000. It is a mistake to suppose that tho weather is colder the further north one goes.

Tho northern pole of greatest cold is only about three hundred miles northeast of Yakutsk, Silicria, where the mean annual temperature is a little lower than in the highest latitudes reached by Nares and (Jreoley 1,000 miles further north. Tho average number of American pnU'tita. yearly about 20.000. Compared with tho number issued In any country this is very large. En gland, which comes nearest to us, issues only about 4,000 or 5.000 a year, and its system is very much more lax than ours, l'atfnts nre issued without any conditions ns to the novelty or merits, and not two applications in a hundred nre rejected.

In 1'russia tho number granted annually is less than a hundred; in llelgium l.r.oo to 2,000. Tho American Inventive genius has become, it would set almost a monopoly. N. Y. Independent.

The new natural history at South Kensington has lately had an addition to its treasures in the form of a whale's skeleton which was brought, from tho liering sea. A specimen of this particu lar kind of animal, known to scientists ns llhachianeetes glaueus. has never be fore been brought to this country, its present habitat is found in the northern parts of the l'aciflc, and in the sea of Kamchatka; but it is believed to have had a much wider range in past times for fossil remains of the species, or, of one very nearly akin to it, have beoii found both In Norway and Sweden. It is said that between 00,000,000.000 and 100,000.000,000 codfishes are taken from the sea around the shores of New foundland every year. even hat- quantity seems small when we consider that a single cod yields something like eggs each year, and that over s.000,000 eggs have been found in the roe of a single cod.

A herring of six or seven ounces in weight is provided with ova. After making all reasonable allowances for the destruction of eggs and of the young, it has been calculated that in three years a single pair of herrings would produce lo4. 000,000. ITon once said that if a pair of herrings were left to breed nnd multiply undisturbed for period of twenty years, they would yield a fish-bulk equal to tho hi.e of our globe. St.

Louis llepublic. Dr. A. do Hausset is the projector of an air-ship, which, he says, he believes will successfully travel in the air at the height of four and one-half miles, or just above the region where rain becomes snow. The i.hip is to be feet in length to bo made of steel ith an alloy of aluminium, and is pointed both at the front and rear.

It is to be propelled by dyniunous and explosive engines, located upon the hurricane deck and on the bctwccu-dccks of the ear underncnt the ship. The car is t- he fully equipped ii.li all. the appliances of latter day si.i-ihiy ocean steamships. Accommodations are to he made first-class passengers, with their and from lity to fifty-five tuns mail matter. The only danger I i b-feared at the height in which the shin will travel.

Dr. de sav-i. ili -tornadoes. The lookout, he a Ids, oi 1. 1 be sure to see I licse.

and lv the -i. vision of d.viiiuuite will be ulilj to dl- thuiu. N. Y. World..