Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-06-02
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Kerosene has been found on the
coast of the Red Sea, near Suez.
"A Montana jury recently brought
in verdict of guilty against cowboy
and his friends rode into town and
gave them whipping.
The value of the hardware pro-
duced in the United States each year
is now about sixty million dollars, and
nearly half of it is made in COnnecti-
cut.-Hartford Post.
The only part of the civilized
world in which people can conceal their
age is said to be in America. The thor
ough system of registration in vogue
in other countries renders such statis-
tics public property.
The half-clad citizens of the Ber-
mudas have an idea of the eternal fit
ness of things, for they, it is said, i'm
port for their use largely potatoes from
the States at two dollars barrel and
send US potatoes of their own growth
at from fifteen to twenty dollars bar
rel.
"A woman in Lincoln, Neb., lost q
black-and-tan terrier that was dear to
her. She had reason to think that a
man about to 60 to Fonda, n. T., had
stolen it, and she wrote to the Fonda
chief of police, who soon found the dog
and sent it back to its mistress by ex-
press.-Troy Times.
Several years ago an Illinois man
quit chewing tobacco, but recently he
began again. The first day he en-
loved it SO much that he used up
thirty-five cents worth of navy plug,
and then was taken sick and for two or
three days acted very like man with
delirium tremens. Chicago Mail.
"A number of young ladies of Oma-
ha have organized secret society
known as the "Order of the Chicken
Heart" Each member must swallow
roasted chicken heart once week for
two months, at the end of which time,
in dream, she will be brought face to
face with the man whom she is to
marry.
In 1873 Rev. David Walk, q minis
ter in the Christian Church, bought
five acres of land in Kansas City for
1,50O. He was poor man, and he
had hard work to keep the taxes paid
on his land. but he did, and the other
day was rewarded by selling it for $780,
500 Naturally, Kansas City is brag-
ging about this.-N Y. Sun.
There is a little poet in New
Orleans. She is ten years old, and
when, recently, a pigeons egg was
shown to her, in which was little
SQUAD that had Just failed of being
Matched, she composed these lines:
Here lies birdie, for whom we mourn:
Birdie that died before she was born;
Oh, what q horrible thing is death,
When 1t comes before you ge; your breath.
"A young wife in Portland, Me-,
was told BY her brother that her hus-
band gambled. She could not believe
it, and to convince her the brother took
her, dressed in a suit of his clothing. to
a gambling house, where she saw her
husband lose four hundred dollars.
Then she made herself known, and
marched her astonished husband home
by the arm.-BostOn Journal.
-Cocoanut growing is attracting
much attention in sections of the
South, and especially on the coast of
Cape Florida. where a consignment of
over one hundred thousand of the nuts
arrived lately for planting. The in
dustry bids fair to become very pros
porous in the Orange State. Cocoa
nuts sometimes commence bearing in
four years, are always in full bearing
in seven years
Charles Patterson. notorious
chicken thief of Richmond. Va. was
i'm the habit of killing and dressing the
chickens he stole before quitting the
premises. Unfortunately for him, he
fell asleep while picking chickens on
Monday night. and in the morning the
owner found him calmly snoring by
the side of eight well-dressed fowls
and pile of feathers. Richmond
roosts will not be disturbed by Charles
for many moons.
Two horses hitched to a hack, in
which were two women. run away in
Westficld, Mass. Jack Mahoney. 4
well-known local ball player. ran after
them, caught on behind. yelled TO the
frightened women not to jump out, and
jolted, climbed over the slippery roof.
reached the drivers seat, leaned over
the dashboard, grabbed the reins and
brought the runaways to standstill.
No one was hurt.-BostOn Transcript.
j. T. Everett, of Princeton, Mass.
has bed of asparagus that was
planted about one hundred and twenty
years ago by Captain John Bowen,
then retired officer of the Eng fish
army under half pay from his home
government. He was a very enthuSi-
astic and intelligent farmer. When
the war broke out he was called into
the service of his native country, his
farm was contiscated and he never
came back TO it. The asparagus bed
he planted is some fifteen feet square.
Not n root has ever been disturbed or
removed from the bed for one hundred
and twenty years. 1t produces abun-
dantly.-Boston Bulletin.
Various trials of the new French
horseshoe. which is made entirely of
sleeps horn, are said to show its par
ticular adaptedness for horses en-
ployed in towns, and known not to
have a steady foot on the pavement.
The results of the experiments are
therefore regarded as very satisfac-
tory, horses thus shod having been
driven at rapid pace on such pave
ment without slipping. Besides this
advantage, the new shoe is spoken of
as more durable, and, though a little
more expensive than the ordinary
kind, seems destined, sooner or later,
to replace the iron shoe.
AN ICE BRIDGE.