The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 109, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 8, 1897 Page: 2 of 10
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TlieOklahoman
R Q BLAKENEY Publisher
OKLAHOMA CITY OKIA TKR
Convicts In San Quentin prison cart-
ed each other with knives One is
dead the other dyl -t
Frank Moss counsel of the Park-
hurst society lias been appointed New
York polios commissioner to succeed
Roosevelt
Parson Davies In behalf of Choynski
has challenged Fitzsimmons to a match
for I'OOO a side
Fierce rain about Manhattan Kan
disabled two railroads and done other
damage
Kid Evantdied of concussion of the
brain resultant from a knock-out blow
administered by Matt Bemlchy in a
California fight
Chill and Pern are to arbitrate
Maaked men have warned all negroes
to leave Davis L T
Democrats have decided not to delay
action on the tariff bill
Kx-Ooveraor Borlcl-h of Maine will
succeed Congressman JHUk a
K of L sereder st Pittsburg Pa
have returned to the old order
Six railroad hands were killed by a
landslide near Sheep ereek It C
Fred Heilman murderer of six wo-
men is to hang at Paxton 111 May 14
The inheritanoe tax bill passed both
branches of the New York legislature
Governor Itenfrow of Ok will re-
new the commission of his oppointiva
officers
Dr llnDtcr has given up the fight
for the Kentucky souatorsliip and
withdrawn
John McClenst and John Coyne were
killed in a fire at 42-‘0 Ashlund avenue
Chicugo
Chief Joseph the captive Xe To rocs
warrior is to travel with Cody's Wild
West show
Twelve hundred bridge and struetn
al iron workers union men in Chicago
will strike May 1 for 43 cents per hour
E I Carpenter a Salt Lake pay-
master was robbed of 17800 by two
men at Castle Gate Utah
Four hundred Chicago Greeks have
gone back borne to fight Turkey Six
thousand dollars was quickly raised to
pay their passage
Three thousand refugees are receiv-
ing rations at Natchez A sixth break
in the levee system has occurred at
Tcnoco
Montana Stockmen's association in
session ot Miles City petitioned Con-
gress to pass a protective tariff on
cattle hides
Friedrich Evrlnghaus a builder from
barmen Prussia was arrested for for-
gery of 19'0000 marks on hia arrival
at New York
Dwight W Andrews Altgeld's state
grain inspector of Illinois is short
13000 and fraudulent management
of the office is also alleged
Kaiser Wilhelm Is the guestof Fran-
cis Joseph of Austria The emperors
hugged each ot her on meeting at the
depot in Vienna
Senator Mason of Illinois devoted his
maiden Bpeech to a criticism of the
Senate's rules which permit a minority
to retard legislation
Broker Chapman the recalcitrant
Senate sugar trust witness experts to
secure a preside ntial pardon
A court martial for the trial of an
army officer whose accounts are in bad
shape hu been ordered His name Is
withheld
No funds are available fur Failed
States court expenses and Congress is
being urged by Mr McKenna to pass
an appropriation at once
Cold weather in Illinois Indiana
Wisconsin and Maryland eudungers
fruit and in Virginia and the I'aro-
olinoa has done 81000000 damage
Yolly V Smith ex-lieutenant gov-
ernor of Arkansas who went crazy on
the money question last fall hus just
died at the Littlo Rock asylum
Colonel John Hay the American
ambassador to the court cf St James
was cordially welcomed at Southamp-
ton Julian Zarraga the insurgent leader
who aurrendered to the Spanish says
that lie did so because the Cuban euuse
is lost
Billy Birch the old-time minstrel is
dead
Ward Burlingame a prominent Kan-
san has Ven promoted to the chief
clerkship of the Deal Letter Office
fciecretary of Agriculture Wilson is
preparing to give wide publicity to all
farming experiments
The state department will not sup-
port lid ward J Ivory's rlaim for in-
demnity against the British govern-
ment A correspondent just returned from
Cuba appeared before the Senate com-
mittee on foreign relations He rep-
resented the rondition of the island to
be intolerably bad
James B Gentry the murderer of
Madge Yorke the actresa will not
hang Ills sentence has been com-
muted to life imprisonment
The Lower Mississippi flood is men-
acing New Orleans perilously close
and tlio work of strengthening the
levees goes on night and day
At the funeral of Miss Lizzie Wag-
oner a wealthy young society woman
of Cynthiaoa Ky six of her fen-ialo
schoolmates acted as pall-bearers
Governor Adams of Colorado 'vetoed
the oleomargarine bill and published
a sensational charge of bribe-taking
against both houses of the Legislature
Father Hoecken 8 J a former mis-
sionary who worked among the In-
dians with Father De Smet is dead
By the breaking of a mill dam at
Pinckuey Mich iOOO'J damage was
done
OCR BUDGET OF FUN
SOME GOOD JOKES ORIGINAL
AND SELECTED
TtHlIa'i Lament— The Qnlntenr of
Maaanms — Tbn Fable of the Two Dost
— Tb Nw Coachman— A Moral Crisis
—Dobs I’p
Willy’s Lament
1I12N sister Kell
an’ her best
beau
Is In tbo parlor
talkin’
They like to have
me with ’em
so
In there I goes
a walkin’
An’ tTcn they’ll sit
so far apart —
Though I seen ’em together —
An’ both get red an’ fln’lly start
To epcakin’ of the weather
An’ ma and pa is Jus’ the same
If I should hear' em eerappin’
An go to see they aot so tame
You might think they’d been nappln
An then they'll ask me what I want
An both start in together—
Slf I had never heard a taunt—
To talk about the weather
An Sunday school Is 'bout as bad
For if I ask the teacher
Why does she always look so sad
An mournful at the preacher?
She’s almost sure to turn an say
That me an’ Jones together
Is little— What a nasty day
She hates this stormy weather
An’ so I ’spore that If I die
An’ go where pa seems thlnkln
I’m sure to go— I dunno why —
Where there’s no water drink In'
Ol’ Satan an’ his Imps ’ill come
An' yell at me together
"I wonder why he looks bo glum?
Why this Is glor’ous weather"
The Fable of Two Dog
A well fed dog wearing a collar and
blanket once fell in with a tramp
canine In the park "Dear me' said
the fat dog “but you are a sight You
need upholstering badly Y’our bones
project through your skin and out Into
the ambient atmosphere Why is this
thus?"
T am often hungry and am seldom
bountifully fed" said the tramp dog
"and that is the reason my joints pro-
ject Into the future like a reporter's
pay-day”
"Why do you not attach yourself to
some prosperous family?” said the fat
dog "and thus become sleek and fat
Uke mer
While they were speaking a dog-
catcher came into view The fat dog
soon had a wire noose around bis neck
and he was unceremoniously thrown
into a wagon where there were other
unfortunate curs The tramp dog be-
ing unburdened with flesh dodged be-
tween the passing bicycles and escaped
Moral The fat dog’s mistress re-
deemed him from the pound and that
fact destroys the moral— Truth
A Moral CrUlo
"Honesty” said Senator Sorghum
"is tbs best policy very frequently”
“You have— er — you have tested that
maxim have you?”
"Yes sir I may say that it laid
the foundation for my subsequent ca-
reer The first time I ran for office
I was approached by an active worker
In practical politics He naked me
whether I would refuse to run if a
certain course of procedure were
adopted and whether I would go back
on them in case things should turn
eut wrong”
"And then you remembered that
honesty Is the best policy?’’
Tea I searched my Inner conscious-
ness and then looking him full in tbo
eye told him the truth I said that
I would not refuse’’— Washington
Star
Tkt QniutMenr of
Bell—' “I wonder why old P Nurlous
didn't come to the wedding?”
j Kell — ”1 understand that he stayed
away on account ot a raise In the coet
mt rice"
A Dullest fflaU
Mr Tlmlde— “And what party were
on Inclined to favor during the cam-
paign Mlsa Wan towed?”
Mias Wan to wed (biuahlng) — "Well
i think I preferred the 'pope"—
roe Liya Life
Thn Cmrkma
This Is the sort of an interview
which may be expected when motor
carriages come into general use:
"You advertised for a coach man sir?"
said the applicant
“I did” replied the merchant "Do
you want the place?”
"Yes sir”
"Have you had any experience?”
"I have been in the business all my
life”
"You are used to handling gasoline
then?”
“Yes sir”
"And you arp well up in electricity?”
"Thoroughly"
"Good! Of course you are a ma-
chinist also?”
“Certainly”
"Then I presume you have an engin-
eer’s certificate?”
“Of course”
"Very well You may go around to
the out-house and get the motorcycle
ready My wife tells me she wishes
to do a little shopping"— Toledo Blade
A Suspicions Subject
A gentleman was riding on the out-
side of a coach in the west when the
driver said to him:
"I've bad a coin guv’ to me to-day
COO years old Did you ever see a coin
200 years old?”
"Oh yes I have one myself 2000
years old”
“Ah!” said the driver "have ye?”
and spoke no more during the rest of
the Journey
When tho roach arrived at its des-
tination the driver turned to the other
with an intensely self-satisfied air and
said:
"I told you as we druv’ along I had
a coin 200 years old”
"Yes”
"And you said to me S9 you had ons
2000 years old”
"Yes so I have”
"That’s not true”
"What do you mean by that?”
"What do I mean? Why it's only
1897 now’’-Tit-Bits
lon I'p
Mr O’Toole (ruefully) — "Thot’s the
last shirt 01 aver takes to Missus Flan-
nlgan! Sure thot sign av bers don’t
tell no He at all”
A Delicate Distinction
"Now’ said the experienced states-
man to the newly elected senator whom
be was instructing "there is Just ons
more point concerning senatorial
courtesy to which I feel It my duty
to direct your attention It seems a
little bard but all dignities have their
drawbacks”
“What is it?”
"It is considered very bad form
when a colleague Is delivering a speech
to go to sleep without leaving the
room” — Exchange-
Antlirptlfi
"Why” he demanded desperately
"are you so cniiiy?'
"I must needs” rejoined the prin-
cess somewhat argumentatively "pre-
serve my composure”
The knight laughed a harsh crepi-
tant laugh
"The cold storage process” he mur-
mured "will preserve anything"
Summoning her slaves she bade them
put him out— Detroit Tribune
Jnt l)otircn Friend
Miss Older— "Men must be growing
more polite I get seats in street cars
much oftener than I did a few years
ago”
Miss Cutting— “Well It’s a mighty
mean man that will let an old lady
stand”— New York Journal
How Bhn Reasoned It
"My dear” satd Mrs Fosdlck to hei
lC-yenr-old daughter "you should not
say ‘teethbrush’ Y’ou should say
‘tf othbrush' ”
"But mamma” said the little girl
"I brush all my teeth with 1L”— Nee
York Tribune
Inl Happy
Uncle— “Bobby I suppose you’ri
been a good little boy”
Bobby — "No I haven’t”
Uncle— "Why I hope you havenl
been very had”
Bobby — “Oh no Just comfortable"—
Truth
Her Bop
"I fear your wedded happiness will
be ot short duration”
T hops so” candidly confessed tht
young lady who was to ved tho tnultl-
aged mulU-mtlllonairs— Indianapolis
Journal
SCIENTIFIC POINTERS
CURRENT NOTES OF SCIENCE
AND INDUSTRY
A Telephone for Dlvr — Limitation of
tho Rubber Supply — A dork on tho
Kltrhon Teakettle — Strongest Building
la tho World
Tolrphono for Itivcrs
-jj EW Industries owe
more to the intro-
duction of the tele-
phone than that of
the diver When
communication de-
pended entirely on
the old signal rope
the diver had often
many anxious mo-
ments of uncer-
tainty and sus-
pense but the telephone puts him in
instant touch with the man -on deck
overhead To increase the effective-
ness of this method of communication
h helmet has been designed which en-
ables the diver to hear everything that
Is said by the attendant without any
special demands on hls attention The
receiver is so fitted Inside the helmet
that it comes over hls left ear and the
transmitter Is just over his head His
bands are thus entirely unhampered
and he can carry on & conversation
whlld in the midst of bis work The
circuit ia formed by two wires the
lines running through the centre of a
manllla rope attached to the helmet
Things are made just as easy for the
man on deck The whole of this little
kit ia contained in a box which is
strapped to hls body so that hls hands
are tree The-contents of this box are
an Induction coll and all the accessor-
lea for telephoning including four
cells of battery A small switch on
the deck set cuts In the batteries for
both When the diver is cot talking
to the man on deck and wants to at-
tract hls attention all he has to do is
to Jerk hls life line In this way the
diver is relieved of all the concern
about the appartus the man on deck
“runa the exchange” The gain in
speed which the telephone gives in the
apparatus Is Insignificant the deck set
being only four pounds and the diver’s
set adding only eight ounces to the
weight of the helmet
Fighting Power ot tbo kngroo
The hind legs of the kangaroo r
powerful weapons One long claw hard
as bone or steel and sharp as a knife
at the point gives the kangaroo an im-
plement that can kill a-man or beast
with one blow The front paws are
not so strong but an old fellow has
strength enough In them to seize a dog
and hold him in a helpless position
When chased Into the water they will
sometimes seize a dog and bold him
until the hind claws can cut him nearly
in two They are also good boxers
and when the natives attempt to kill
them with clubs they dodge the Imple-
ment with all the skill of a profession-
al pugilist and unless the man is an
expert he may get the worst of the en-
counter Quite a number of hunters
have been severely Injured and some
killed by attempting to corner a
wounded kangaroo when enraged by a
bullet wound It is much better to bring
the animal down with the rifle bullet
and be sure tha he Is dead before ap-
proaching too close The fleetest horse
cannot keep pace with the larger spe-
cies of kangaroos but with a little
tact the hunters are enabled to capture
them whenever they are sighted
When the creatures are once started on
a run they will not swerve from their
course but continue straight on leap-
ing over bushes rocks and all ordinary
obstacles The hunters generally sta-
tion themselves in the line that the an-
imals are most likely to pursue and
then wait until the dogs or the rest of
the party atari them up Several fly-
log shots ran thus lie obtained and if
one Is accustomed to the work he will
bring down one or more of the fine
creatures
Clock on thn Kitchen Trikettlo
The busy housewife rarely has an
opportunity to watch the pot boil and
has very often to be about her other
duties leaving tha cooking to go on
without watching and depending on
her memory to return to It after a
definite time That this may not es-
cape her mind an inventor baa con-
ceived the idea of applying the alarm
clock principle An escapement actu-
ated by a spring ia inclosed in a metal
case with a dial and mechanism for
pounding an alarm at a predetermined
tone The apparatus forms a part of
the utensil end when act for a given )
time by means of a pointer hand on
the elapse ot that i ?rval a gong is I
sounded
Limitation of tho Robber Supply I
Feople familiar with the conditions )
under which the world is supplied
with rubber say there Is reason to foar
that the destruction of the trees pro-
ducing this precious substance Is pro-
ceeding at a rate which may have dls-
astcrous consequences in the near fu-
ture That the price of the raw gum
has not advanced more rapidly than
It has in the last few years is due they
say not to an intelligent cultivation
and multiplication of the rubber trees
but to tho complete lack of foresight
that characterizes the inhabitants of
the South American forests The sud-
den vogue of bicycles and the universal
use of electricity have vastly increased
the demand for rubber and so far th
demand has been met without trouble
but the present chief source of supply
la limited and unless new ones are
found or new methods adopted sev-
eral great industries may soon be ser-
iously embarrassed Rubber is a sub-
stance as nearly unique and as diffi-
cult to replace as Is known to men
Fortunately however it ia prod need
by more than one plant and the utili-
zation of new species has already be-
gun None of them compares with two
found in the valley of the Amazon
but commercially Important quantities
of the gum come from each of a dozen
plants growing in almost as many
tropical lands The Landophilla a
climbing vine of Central Africa seems
to be most likely of them all to take
the place of the Brazilian trees If the
latter are doomed to extinction
Thn Strongest Ilullillng In thn World
Here we see a monastery built in
the face of on awful precipice at Ink-
erman This extraordinary building
was established In memory of a troop
of cavalry who during the Crimean
War rode right over the precipice in
a thick mi8L
A Rallwty Run
The run of 1026 miles at the rate
of 0874 miles au hour mentioned in
these columns a week or two ago bv
a special train over what Is known as
the Burlington route from Chicago to
Denver was in some respects the moat
remarkable of the many similar per-
formances of recent years There have
been faster long distance runs for a
shorter total distance ami other ruus
of this class have been made with
heavier loads but taken as a feat of fast
passenger travel for the given dis-
tance it statids today ns an altogether
unrivaled performance There la a
special merit attaching to this perform-
ance from the fact that it was called
for at the shortest notice and the rail-
road used tha engines which were read-
iest at hand Moreover the object of
the effort was not to gain the notoriety
which attaches to a run of this kind
but it was the thoroughly legitimate
one of placing a father as quick-
ly as possible at tha bedside ot hls
dying son Tbe journey was made in
a special car which was hauled by nine
different engines The greater part of
the work was accomplished with stan-
dard American six-wheeled loromotlve
with 17 by 24 Inch or 18 by 24 Inch
cylinders and weighing about 80000
pounds One stretch of 67 miles were
covered with a tnogul locomotive with
19 by 24 inch cylinders and 183 pound
of steam whose weight was 110000
pounds and for 143 miles of the trip
a ten wheeled locomotive weighing
120000 pounds with 19 by 24 Inch cyl-
inders and 185 pounds of steam was
employed It Is noticeable that none
of tbe driving wheel centers are above
C2 inches— a remarkably small dimen-
sion considering the high speed that
was maintained The Denver station
was 4683 feet shove the level of tbe
Chicago station and the total time oc-
cupied in covering the 1028 miles be-
tween tbe two points was 18 hours 63
minutes This gives an average speed
of 6427 miles per hour inclusive of
stops The average speed exclusive of
stops was 6763 miles per hour
A recent patent In lamp brackets for
bicycles baa a double clamp to attack
it to tho frame the clamping part
being pivoted ao as to turn either tbo
V-shaped or oval-shaped clamp out-
ward to fit either the fork or bead of
the machine tbe other end carrying
tbe lemp
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