The Daily Free Press and the Times from Independence, Kansas • 2

SCIENTIFIC COKNEft. man bun Invented A Fort Scott new turntable. Twenty-seven knots an hour Is the best speed of tho ordinary torpedo boat. In order to reach the thirty knot line fully fifty per cent more fm 1 required. nAlTKNIXGS IN KANSAS.

ITEMS OF INTEREST TO DWEL LERS IN THE SUNFLOWER. CURRENT DOINCS IN THE IN-DUSTRIAL WOl.D. The Week'a lU'ili iv nr IVrsoiml uuil ien i 01 Pivw lunili ii.i tl In I'uruuruf ua, Great Britain's Nutionul Lifeboat institution bad 303 boats in JS95. They were launched 437 times, saving lives. Tho average cost of a station is und tho Cost of muiutcmuico There am two iteuin lifeboat uiul a third being coiistitictcd.

A two-year old flit drawing ordi nury buggy with a man driving, trotted into tho towu of Aberdeen, year ugo, The elk wus harnessed In tho usual way, wus in every way at tnictablo us a horse, and ulood quietly when tied up to tho hitching post. Propping Torpetliiee the C'louil Would J'rove a ruwKrful In (itTttnalva Wnr'ara Xlijtr'a Jw llrlillfe Walking Telephone, KANSAS IIIMH or 1 11:1111 In Knusiiu tlio strnw hut allows Milch way the wind blows. Cutci-pillars tiro destroying fruit prospects in t'iihtoru Kuiinuk. A Vulloy Fulls boy has bruU'ii one Of Ills lcjfH nllH'tiH'l lillH'H. Mrs.

llussi'y Is member of tho city I'ao of limrry, For mnny years most of the emery has l.cvn brought from Turkey nml tho Grf ek Islanda. Ua vulun fcr cutting and polishing has been known Blnco tho t'oglrnliigof history. Very crude. meth oda are In use for obtaining this sub-ptnnco for market. H.tonnous tires ara hiii't on or against Iho rocks, which nro then broken or crocked by throwing Ji ts of cold water against them, Kmery has" mnny uses, among which are its employment in polisdilng and cutting.

Iielng so unntanngeahle, it for a lona tlmo defied tho efforts of man to put It into available shape, but at length it was cemented into usablo forms, and it wns molded into wheels. Kmery millstones are a later day improvement. They are th( most practical of all stones, boeauti they are not affected by beat, and tht face is always sharp. As cutting and polishing powder, emery is of greal value, and emery sandpaper is nn im rortant artldo of manufacture. IS IN A Hl'SY workshop of a Washington, suburb that a novel flying machluo is In course of construction.

The greitest secrecy prevails among the workmen, and the professor who is the bruins of tho That rstrcraetlrad fecllngiifflicttnearlyevery-body tt tUiticasou. The huntlunceaaeto push, the tlreleu grow weary, tha ener getlo become enervated. You know jiut what wo mean. Sonio men and women endaavor temporarily to overcoua that There aro now Just fifty prisoners in the state penitentiary under M'u-U'uco to hung. The liurliugton Library association got tint of Mary Lllubclh Leusi lecture a prollt tif ft.

Tho old soldiers are planning for reunion at Malvern, in Osugu county. The duio will bo ll.cd in a few days. There will bo no essays by the graduating of tho Kilo High school this year. Senator Charles 1'. Scott will deliver lecture instead.

In Dickinson eourty the wheut Is jointing, und tho Abilene KohVctor says it has no bulge on tho towns in that respect, for the towns are too. The lecturer who Is sweeping south crn Kansas with lecture may yet bo caught out hi a Kunsus thunder-storm und tlnd out mnrenhout his Mihjeet than he wants to know. The county attorney of Cloud county, after ennvussing the county at un expense of S4K wus compelled to dismiss hiskey case because ho was not able to prove anything by the prosecuting witness. An Abilene lawyer says it is the proudest boast of his married life that he hus never told his wife a lie yet that she did not believe him. He says supreme happiness reigns iu IiIh homo A man at Halston has issued a religious circular in which appears woodcut of a naked Kve with a serpent with baby legs on it tickling Kve under the council of tho town of Kills.

Haskell instituto wits tho scene of oratorical contest Ktittmltty eyin- Cowley county wheut is now dcvcl-oning nn cuso of tho hg head. A Leavenworth man Inn written a book which entirely bottles tho money question. Lawrence councilman eloso their meeting "in duo form" with a list light. Tho man who lives in Southern Kansas never prays "Thy kingdom He is satislicd where ho is. Urceley county has boon restrained; by an injunction from paying interest on a lot of bonds held by tho state fechool fund.

ireo liristovv has bought a homo lii Ottuwa. Another evidence that he has "como to it ay," Leonard Stout, tho pioneer of Nin-ncscah township, Cowley county, dropned dead tho other day. Tho commissioner of Shnwnco county tire roaring because tho coroner "wastes" tco much money on in quests. An ordinance has been passed in Lawrence, prohibiting the pasting of pictures of high kickers uu the bill boards. M.

J. Kirk has just published a geological suit survey of the central and western portions of Kunsus for the Mute university. Tho Atchison Globe says the ordin nry girl wears four pairs of stocking in order to UU out her bicycle leggings. A. A.

Ilrown, of Oluthe, bus a conch shell that litis been in the Hrown family for 300 years. It is "perpetual Ado Keynohls hus sent young Adu to Topeka to liuve his eye teeth cut. The lad will spend the summer then) in the ollice of George Cole. Chancellor Snow of the State lni-versity has bought a wheel and is learning to ride it. The snow full in Douglass county is expected to be quite heavy for the next few weeks.

It is said that the towns in Kansas which have the most theatrical per-formcnecs are lis a rule the most prosperous. Theaters bring in money from surrounding points. The fruit destroying bugs are very numerous in Kansas this year. Farmers are spendiiiir more time in their orchards than in their lields. Tho wheat grows without watching.

A citizen of Atchison who never before was known to think of anybody but himself is circulating a subscription paper in behalf of a policeman who fought two burglars one night last week. The Lawrence World bus discovered the' meanest man on record. llo charged a widow neighbor one peck of corn for the use of a rooster for onn week, which he loaned her in order Feeling by great force of will. But tbla la unsafe, a it pulls powerfully upon tha ncrvoua ryatem, which will not long ataud inch atrain. Too tunny people work oq their nerves," and the result ia seen In unfortunate wreck, nuirkcd "ncrvoua proa-tration," in every direction.

That tired Nlugxru't Npw llrMgc. Ground has been broken for a new steel arch bridge over the chasm at Nlagnra Falls, which will bo a wonder In that line. Tho new bridge will have a span of eight hundred and forty feet. In width it will bo forty-nlno feet. This Increased width made necessary from tho fact that about twenty-three feet of tha center will bo given up to a doublo track trolley line.

On each sido of theso tracks there will bo carriage-ways eight feet wide and beyonc' Asz concern Is a sphinx, It has boon learned, however, that the invention consists of two Immense bobbin-shaped receptacles made of thin sheet aluminum, to contain hydrogen gas. A car or cabin of the name metal is to be attached to tho receptacles, and will be of sufficient size to date a crew of the or six. An electric motor will opcrato the wings and steering mechanism. The car will bo in tho shnpo of a ship's hull, and in case of tho aerial contrivance collapsing, tho inventor the crew can drop to tho surface of tho Bea and become navigators of the water Instead of the air. Tightly closed trapdoor, which, when securely fastened, will not' admit water, are to ho opened when at the desired height for the purpose of releasing torpedoes, to bo lowered by a cablo reded from a windlass In the car.

T'e torpedocn, according to tho inventor's plan, aro to be lowered to the deck of an enemy's ship or mvnng agalnat tho side of her hull, when a current of electricity Is to bo Bent through tho cablo to explode tho cartridge. Tho airship is designed particularly for night service, ami to that end a powerful electric light la to.be provided in tho form of a large globe suspended from a reel of wire passed through the lloor of tho car. Ex. Tho burglar recently shot in Atehi- ton was trying to break into a joint, That explains the desperate work of ing is a positive proof o( thin, wenlc, im puro fcr, if tho blood is rich, red, vitalized and vigorous, it Imports llfc-aud energy to every nerve, orgun ond of tho body. Tho necessity of taking Hood's Barsaparilla for that tired feeling is, therefore, apparent to every one, and tho good it will do you ia equally beyond question, r.emeuibcr that hi these stlil there will he elevated walks each about three feet nine Inches wide for pedestrians.

In all about four million pounds of steel will bo Sarsaparilla the One True lltootl piu illcr. Alhtrtiwtv tl. l'rcpaivil only by ('. I. Hood Lowell.

Mum. ii r--n are to lukc. easy riOOd PlllS to opcrato. Stints. One of the health-giving: elements of HIRES Rootbeci is sarsaparilla.

It contains more sarsaparilla than many of the preparations called by that name. HIRES-the best by any test. kfnU on It tv Th Oiarl" Itlie Phllidr-lphlaV A 'M Kiftkrt ft iftlluu. dul4 tverjrwtwt, that she might raise chickens nml eggs to keep her childven from starving. A Wellington jointist wus arrested recently on a state warrant and the "goods" seized.

A constable was left in charge while the jointist, went to fix his bond. Some acquaintance! came along and 'entertained" the constable in brilliant conversation, wliilu the entire "plant'' was stolen. Txltnni'cl Murk of AITcrtlon. From the London Pally Graphic: Tho enamored swain who protests that he will wear the image of tho adored lady next to liis heart is usually considered to i peal; a language of poetry translated directly from tho boards of the transpontine theater. We learn, however, from an interviewer with nn "up-to-date tattcocr," publhhod In the Echo, that this is not always ho, and that a considerable business is f'ono in ImprintingIn two colors tho "counterfeit presentment" of tho chosen fair one as near to the heart" of her lover as hi consistent with his personal safety.

The practice Is a romantic one, but it has its disadvantages. The face of the lady may fade from inconstant suitor's mind, but it can never fade from the skin. Nevertheless, the portrait of his discarded fair, indelible though it be, is surely not incapable of alteration. The features, might, perhaps, with a little ingenuity bo "adapted" und the face of the old love be brought by Fome artist of tho needles to "something distinctly resembling" that of the new one who has come to reign in her stead. the policeman.

There uro drinking places in Abilene. At least the papers there show that drunkeness is of almost daily occurence. Since the big rain the Uclloctor announces that all that is necessary to make Abilene look like the worlds fair is a gondola or two. Whitoomb lliley's poem, "When the (ireon licts back in the Trees," is now making its annual tour through tho Kansas newspapers. A Ln Crosse girl who had landed the only single man iu town, hurried the wedding because a new girl was booked to yisit there the following week.

Clay Valentine who is slow of speech is blessing the man who invented tht new lapel button bearing the inscription "If you love me, grin." Dell says young man who can't propose now is iit subject only for red-headed old maids and grass widows. When Lilly Edwards gets through being Secretary of state lie should be made advertiser plenipotentia.y nml boomer extraordinary for the Mate of Kansas, lie is justly entitled to this decoration from the fact that more than any other man in the state he has been keeping lie name of Kansas investments permanently before the public. A Lawrence man who has five good looking daughters of marriageable age lias nailed up in liis parlor, where they can be seen and read, tho following UC of rules for the consideration and government of young gentleman callers'. "1. Young men.

callers are ex peeted to break away not later than 10 o'clock. 2. Don't get gay, for some one is liable to come into tho room ut any moment, 3. Do not make a blu ff at marriage unless you intend to make the bluff good. 4.

Young men who keep company with my daughters will confer a favor by giving them to understand at the start whether they mean business.or are merely calling to pass away tho time. In the latter event the girls can keep a lookout for some one who means business. fl. chin, Why, oh why do people do such things? Colonel Harry Smith, who has been drawn from the regular army to make real soldiers of the Kansas militia, as in Atchison visiting his wife When the governor called the troops to arms Monday night und so missed tho opportunity of his life. A Leavenworth man who has disagreeable wife experimented with her until he found that she could not live in high altitudes, ami then discovered that his best, chance to make a living for her is above timber line.

V. L. Kellogg, who went from Kansas to I.eland St an ford university, has just been made a full professor. He now draws a higher salary than does any professor in tiie Kansas State university, and has all the time ho wants for pursuing his studies. Loekwooil recently appeared before a committee in Washington as an attorney for John Friend of Ilutler county, whose wife was scalped by the Indians and his boy taken into captivity twenty-seven years ago.

He asks 500 of the government. The Santa l'e hospital ut Topeka, said to be the finest railroad hospital in tho world, was formally accepted Tuesday by General Manager l'rey us chairman of the board of trustees, und the building is now the property of the. Hospital association. When Harry Tebbs, an Atchison street ear conductor, was a boy in Kentucky, bis great chum wus negro boy named Kli Green, whose father was owned by Tebb's father. Last week Tebbs discovered that Green lives in Atchison, employed as a porter.

They had not seen each other in over thirty years. W. P. Tomlinson, a Kansas man, was sent to Europe by the New York Evening Post in 18.V.). He landed at Gibraltar, traveled through Spain on foot and spent several months in France, England and Scotland.

Mr. Tomlinson was a poet in his earlier days. In 1S02 he published a volume of his verses entitled "Home and Abroad." Some Labette county farmers arc being worked by the representatives of how Mew different advortlsamanU of ('lll'lolt t'irr-4. An eminent authority on mental conditions calls attention to tho peculiar fads and fancies that seem to take hold upon the minds of many persons and to entirely dominate them, much to their disadvantage and often to the deterioration of their mental powers. One man who conceived a fancy for counting tho numbers on freight cars, carried this notion to such an extent that ho oftentimes forgot errands and neglected his business, lie began by having his attention called to the figures on a car that surprised him as Indicating a very large number of cars owned by a certain railroad.

Then it entered his mind to look for the next lowest number. Thi3 he did, and found It, after several weeks' watching. Then he was filled with the idea of securing the numbers in succession, and gave his attention to picking thm out whenever he went near railroads. He had a book for this purpose, and so completely did this take possession of him that he became exceedingly annoyed and Irritated when it grew so dark that he could not see the figures on the cars as he passed them. The case became rather serious, and the attention of a physician was called to it.

Ho recommended a long sea voyage, which was taken, much against the patient's will, as he was reluctant to give up his hunt for numbers. After he had become entirely accustomed to the absence of his favorite amusement, ho was reasoned with and shown the folly of it. Being a man of strong will, he took himself in hand, and, after a hard struggle, was able to go about, oblivious to the fact that freight cars had figures on them. HAVE YOU SEEM? The variety of Columbia bicycle advertising is (Treat. All the cood points of all the delight of riding them, cannot be fully described in any one advertisement, nor in a hundred.

We wish to know how many announcements To K.ive tin) IW.fTnlo. Secretary Langley of the Smithsonian Institution reports that hunters are continually killing the few remaining Buffalo which the government is trying to preserve and protect in the Yellowstono National Park. A few years ago it was believed that there were two hundred of the animals In the park; now only about fifty remain. The head or skin of a buffalo sells for. several hundred dollars, and while the poachers cannot resist the consequent temptation, tho park is so extensive that no effectual protection can be afforded by the few troopers in charge.

Professor Langley suggests the removal of the buffalo to the National Zoological Park In Washington, from which, as their numbers increased, they could be distributed throughout tho United States. An Atchison mother has ordered that her third and fourth daughters shall wear their hair banging down their bucks until the first and second daughters are married. These girls are now 22 and 20, and the neighbors are beginning to protest nguinst dressing grown women like babies. An Ottawa woman his discovered that beer and a bit of cheese off in side room always bring the men to her parties. She first introduces -i p'ul high five, and the men phyn; U'- knowing what their rew.int will be.

At 10:30 she springs the refreshments. The men nibble at the angel food and ice cream a moment, and then sneak off to the "smoking room," Herman Mitsch of Woodbine is testing the cfliciency of sub-irrigation by tiling. Finding his young orchard about to perish he purchased $50 worth of three inch tile, planted them two feet under ground in rows twenty feet apart, between rows of trees. The pipes are filled with water lifted 100 feet and from the saino well that waters his stock. The effect upon the trees was visible in less titan ten days.

He is delighted with the result of his experiment, has saved his young orchard and, if the work had been done a few months earlies, would have been double the value. Carl Hoffman's Chickering hall end his wholesale and retail music house, of Leavenworth, the largest in Kansas, was damaged by lire early Friday morning. The building was valued at about $23,000 and the slock and fixtures at 820,000. The loss on the stock and fixtures is 512,000 and on tho building 53.000. The building is insured for $13,000 and the stock and fix can reach any one person, and so offer a Columbia pmjE.

BICYCLE aa a a BUBffialaa to whoever shall send us the greatest number of different Columbia Bicycle advertisements clipped from newspapers or magazines issued since Jan. 1896. Many advertlnemtnt differ only in a worif or Hvoi others In the style of typeg distinct vuriathms only, however, wilt be counted. Kach advertisement must hnve plainly attachrri to it the name and (hue of the newspaper or magazine from which tt I clipped. heparnte entries cannot be combined.

Kntrles must be received hy lis at Hartford on or before Tuesday, June R0, 1896. In case of a lie, the award will he made according" to priority of receipt and entry. jSduress Department of Statiatioa, POPE MFC. Hartford, Conn. Walking Telephone.

Th8 French military authorities have adopted a field telephone service as a means of communicating between different wings of the army on the field of battle. A single wire Is used, the earth being used for the return current, and the connection being established 'lilirni Hen'. The hens of China lead busy lives. When not engaged in hatching out a brood of their own kind they are put to the additional and novel task of hatching fish eggs. Chinese cheap labor collects the spawn of fish from the a Nebraska firm who agree to pay a certain price for their produce the year around, and agree to exchange therefor groceries of the best grades at prices which local merchants cannot buy the same commodities for.

Farmers who patronize this concern will eventually learn that it pays to patronize home merchants. May Evans, Ifl years old, of Topeka, can whistle the notes of songbirds so accurately that the birds themselves lire deceived. From her early years slio has been a "whistling girl," and for two summers she has been imitating birds. Of a visit to the country last year she tells tlris pretty story: "I spent a few weeks at Grantville last spring and a red bird woke mo up every morning with his noisy call. When it got to be a regular thing I decided to answer back.

The bird did Tiie Best Waterproof Coat In tha WORLD water's edge, places it In an empty WW Lip ire Ml Young men will please not consider these rules offensive, nstliey are mennt kindly, and arc given as a mutter of justice to myself and family. A young tramp went to Hurry Patti-son's home in Ilutler county Saturday and was given his breakfast by Mrs. I'attison. lie emptied a pail of slop, after tlnisning the meal, and did not, return, which arrousod Mrs. Pattison's suspicions, and she then noticed that her diamond ring which she had hung upon a nail while doing her work, was gone.

Her husband was absent so slio informed her brother-in-law, Will I'attison, at once and he came down town and told Constables Charles Schnim und George Young, who shortly nftcr-wai'ds arrested several suspicious characters at the Santa I'o freight depot, one of whom was identified by Mrs. Pattison as the person who wns at her house. A star on bis left hand with indclablo ink was the means of Mrs. Tttttison's identifying him beyond doubt. T'pon being thoroughly searched the ring was found sowed up in the waistband of his trousers.

He is now reposing in tho county jail. His name ho gives us William Anderson, and age 23 years. A Leavenworth court is trying1 to convict one Charles McCarthy of stealing a diamond, when it lias been proven that he only swallowed it. That court eggshell, which is then hermetically Denied with wax, and places it tin ier the unsuspecting sitting hen. After some days the eggshell is removed and carefully broken and the spawn, which has been warmed Into life, is emptied into a shallow pool well warmed by tho sun.

Here tho minnows that soon develop aro nursed until strong enough to bs tinned into a lake or stream. i.oriQir mtAvn ciTfrlfP. WRter- roof. and vf Hi keep yon dry In Ihu hardest trm. Thi fccw fl.lt porlot riJln cout, ndi cotoratheeiillreauiWIej.

rwareof lh'n'll buy a cout If tho "i'hli Brand" not cn it. bwi CatiU.irw .1. VOWUt, H'i'n, Mats. WE HAVE NS Mitnerat wliok'-ulo pike, hip aiivwht'io Uu eairi i lint iou before in.l. Kvifir- thiirr vanftiitrd, of art! Ann, 90 Mylen llrtifi, 41 Htvk'H Bud iHe-n, Write for i'iialoirm through the sword of the soldier carrying the apparatus.

This la thrust into the ground at his side. Ik 11 A Hi CAIUUAUK II NKS3 ItU. il.KIUP.l. 1M. W.

U. PruTT, Sciy. A t'uro for 1'rxeina. Mrs. M.

F. M. read in tho papers a cure for eczema, but as she has mislaid her paper she cannot remember it, therefore, wishes it reprinted. Answer: She probably refers to dioxide of hydrogen, which Is to be diluted with pure water in tho proportion of three parts of water to one of dioxide. This for Bovere cases.

In milder form, one part of dioxide to six of water. Apply several times daily, after washing the Btirface thoroughly with Castile soap and rinsing until all traces of soap are removed. fVnr all Sewlm VachlnH tures for $10,000. Many pianos and other musical instruments were either consumed or ruined by heat, smoke und water. The fire started in the shipping room in the basement, and was not controlled for three hours.

Prof. Liiciou I. lllnke of the Kanstu State, university lectured in Chickering hall last nijflit on ltncnlgcn rays und made number of experiments in photographing surgical cases. All tlm apparatus used, the property of th state, was damaged. Little Miss Thirsk of Cowley county, tickled the hind leg of an old family horse tho other day.

He kicked and broke her skull. Judge Hazen knocks out "professional jurors" by holding that a man who has been "picked up" to serve on a jury may not serve again for a year. The coroner of Jewell county will investigate the cause of the death of Jako Dodd, whose body was receiyed in a bruised and battered condition from tho Topeka asylum by hisfriesdi at Salem recently. not know what to make of it, and one morning ventured to lly in at the' window in search of his mate. I tried to catch him, but ho was gone before I could think'." The young lady has had tempting offers to go on the stage.

They called on Sol Smith llussell when he was in Topeka and complemented Miss Russell very highly and told her there was a fortune for her in New York. Miss Evans has a wide ra litre, going from below middle to high with the greatest ease. The Linn creamery pays out, each month, to the farmers in that vicinity, 5000 for milk. Attorney General Dawes says a local board of health has no authority in law to prohibit children who have not been ynecinated from attending the public schools. John Wullcr wrote the same letter to 3,457 newspapers ki tho United States, thanking each paper particularly for its words in his behalf.

That is a Kansas wnv of doinjr RTANPAHD (IOOUU OtJly. The Trade Kniittl lv. NEEDLES, SHUTTLES, REPAIRS. Keml fur WhnleKAi P'4 list. ui.Ktoox a Dili Lwii.t st St.Loull.

1 has bad a whole jury hung over that Olrl tone already. Wn.liiiiL'loii. 1M1 Ed 'Successfully Prosecutes Claims. I Ale Kilamlner US Pension nuroou. ajrslalasl wur, limUudlcallui; claims, ttj aiuce.

Gront Power for Hiffli Spnpd. The large amount of fuel required for very high speed racing boats has been the subject or thorough investigation experts, in order, If possible, to reduce the quantity of coal necessary for this purpose. Some of the British torpedo boat chasers are thought to be the most perfect vessels of their class in existence, but in order to attain a thirty-knot speed, they must carry sixty tons of coal. This is fully one quarter of tholr entire sea-going displacement. Uctfer high speed they consume between three and a half and four tons of coal an hour.

To propel a vessel with a speed own of twenty kr.ots n.n hour, the consumption of fuel is tremendous. Wri for what yon want to 'IHH MKCHKM IN. VK8IMKNT Mining EK hxcnaiige, Denver, C'oiu. Six young gray wolves were enptur-td in a cave located in Crittenden's tasturc in Hamilton county one day ast week. Whenever an Atchison man wants to llir John James Ingalls from center to tirenmferenee, he suys that Samuel C.

fomoroy was the greatest man Kttnsae ins given to pub' It' V.f ffS New Method of Tacking Fruit. At Stettin, in Prussia, near which there is a peat moor, apples and pears have been preserved successfully by being packed in "mull," the dust from the dry litter of the peat. It is very light, has no smell, and cnu bo used many times over. TP cukes wKtHrMirarftor U.unh Sjrup. Taste Good.

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