Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-05-20
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The coal available for the future
market in the Pittsburgh field is placed
at five billion tons.
=. The mouth of the Mississippi river
Is again filling up with sand and debris
despite the Eads system of clearege.-
n. Y. Sun.
The sale of the Sanford collection
of postage stamps in New York melted
great prices, some of the rare stamps
being worth three hundred dollars.
Three boys received the remarkable
sentence of ten years each to the
States Prison Of New Jersey, for
breaking into deserted cottage at At
lantic City.
In London there are two hundred
and ninety-one shorthand writers and
newspaper reporters. One hundred
and thirty-four follow Pitman, eighty
nine Taylor, thirty-five Quincy.
One of the horses of j. L. Ken
needy. of GAINESVILLE, Ga. which had
been suffering for some time with what
was supposed to be a distemper. in a
violent fit of coughing the other day
coughed up silver quarter of dol
lar, and has been all right ever since.
ireland has Miss Anthony, who
differs from our Susan b. in being q
iandladies' rights advocate, which has
brought her IN conflict with sundry
tenants, who recently pelted her with
stones, and the Waterford grand Jury
has given her one thousand dollars re-
compense for injuries she received.
The newspapers of Northern Cali
fornia are anxious to inform Eastern
people that that section of the State is
a winterless land. At present they are
crowding the Southern part of the
State to its utmost capacity. 1t is as
serted that the same advantages of eli
mate run unbroken to the Oregon line.
New York wants to know who
r. is. ..R" has been telegraphing to |
Wall street recommending the pur-
case of certain stocks and the stocks |
have invariably gone up. RI, we beg |
TO inform New York, is the letter that /
permits them to eat oysters. ar
there, as Detroit FISHERMAN says.-l
Detroit Free Press
The growth of trade with Mexico |
is shown by the demand for steno-
grapherS who understand Spanish. A |
number of girls in New York possess
ing these qualifications are getting
good salaries. Merchants dictate let
tiers to them and they transcribe into
Spanish. and also translate into En-
glish the replies.-N 2. Mani.
Hereafter it will be harder for q
needle to get lost in haystack than
for man to get a drink in Rhode
Island.-PhaladeIpkio Times. It's odd
how these typographical blunders &C.
cur. What the Philadelphia Times ev-
identity intended to say was that it is
easier for needle TO get drink in a
haystack than for a man to get lost in
Rhode Island (Kan.)
Times.
"A noted New York philanthropist
says that S250,000 annually would
avert all physical suffering among the
poor of that city. This may be true,
the Philadelphia Times says. but in Or
der TO raise that amount it would be
necessary TO quit building monuments
and stop going TO prize-fghts, and
how could this be done? Philanthro-
Dists are so unreasonable.
"A Rondout man tells this timely
-arn: He says that he bought some
green dye, intending to color some
gigs for the children for Easter, and
aid the package on a bench in the
Jack yard, and forgot about it. When
he thought to get it he discovered that
lis hens had eaten most of the dye
tuff. The next day he found three
in Ia. 10 1
ay three more shade or two lighter:
be third day the eggs had just the
lightest tinge of green; the fourth !
ay they resumed their normal appear :
nce.-N. ]. Sun.
The names conjured up by Dickens {
re more than matched by recent sub
cribers to the New York HIorld. from
st of which the following are Sc c
,cted: Maria Pickles. Cynthia Neid- q
Observation-Disclosures. William F. U
eteriish, John Cowhog, Laura Loot
orrow. Maggie Mussmaker, j. Tyr I
my, Minnie Bigghost, Fannie Vine c
ar. Susie Souse, Nora b. Freelove, {
attic B. Toogood. Mollie Whiteneck. ,
henia Sufficool, Effie Bunk. Cora |
Don, Viola Eystone. Rayte Shivers, {
earl Shad, frankie Sample, John
Gorge Dingledog, O. ID. Pancake,
lick Turnipseed.
A Washington letter to the Au- ,
usta (Ga.) Chronicle says: Colonel /.
owles, n North Carolina Congress ,,
ian, who served under General Hamp-
IN during the late unpleasantness, .
as a bald head, revealing singular
ound. 1t is long seam, As if ripped :
p by pointed weapon. but was really !
Affected by a musket-bali which plowed ,,
lie Uranium. The Coloners brain was /.
artially exposed at first, but the bone :
linly healed over il. | am told that
lie least unusual excitement would be
Dt to kill him. and il is one of the =
allery jokes that he came to Congress :
avoid any dangerous commotion.