Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-05-01

shock occurred at 2 40 p. M, and very
similar IN force to the one of March Is,
1872, which was disastrous to life and
property in Inyo county. The vibrations
were from west to east. Effects: Every
chimney in town was thrown down, the
only damage to property, except to our
merchants, whose shelves were denuded
of crockery and glassware, which was all
strewed in promiscuous mass on the
floor, where the contents of bottles of as
sorted fluids mingled freely together"
''Some time ago." says the Tacoma
Leader, ''when the boom was on the town
and there was no safe place in which to
put money, great deal of it was buried
in the ground, and one of Tacoma's old
citizens had a bag of gold 'twenties' hid
den near stump and safely covered over
with earth. One night he was seated in
the hotel, talking with crowd of men,
when quite Unexpectedly his black dog
came in with the bag of coin in his mouth
and laid it down at his masters feet.
Enough to say that he banked no more
money that way, as mother earth was not
a safe place when the old dog was acting
as clerk"
The native Bermudians are an easy
going, good-natured people, very fond
of amusement, in illustration of which a
the Troy Times records this in
cident: "a lady from New York was
in one of the largest stores here one
morning looking at goods, when the
clerks began to put,up the shutters. She
asked what was the matter, supposing
the proprietor had died or failed, but was
informed that the yachts were just going
out, and that all business places always
closed when ever there was a yacht-race
or anything special going on"
Had the late William H. Vanderbilt
left his $200,O00,OOO in trust to.be dis
tributed equally among his heirs of the
fifth generation, the income to be used
by intervening heirs, all of whom should
prove as prolific as the donator, each heir
would received $6,O6O.16. Those of the
tenth generation, under the same condi-
ton, would get between II and 10 cents
each.
Mr.. E. B. Baldwin, of Marshall, Ga,
owns calf. It is domestic animal and
the pet of the little Baldwins. If door
is left open the calf walks in and feels
at home, but never stops it's rambling
through the house until it gets before a
large mirror or dressing case, when it
will stand for an hour admiring its form
and tanning itself with it's tail.
Annie Lee Wilson, of Memphis, strap
ped her baby to her breast and jumped
into the river. In pathetic letter found
on the dead body of the young mother
was these words: "God, deal as gently
with an erring and broken-hearted girl
and her innocent little baby as you can"
Frank West, of Arlington, Dakota,
says that he was the single man at AL
toona pass who received Sherman's
famous message, "Hold the fort, for
am coming" and to prove it has just
permitted his Grand Army post to name
boy of his Altoona Pass West.
The Tombstone Epitaph says that
several Wallapai Indians died recently of
lung fever. The bodies were cremated.
The remnant of this miserable tribe is
scattered along the line of the Atlantic
and Pacific railroad in northern Arizona,
IA starving condition.
Yale professors say. that about May
l5 Fabry's comet will be only 100000
miles from the earth, and on June LIST
Barnard's will be distant 100000
niles. Both comets will appear in their
greatest brilliancy about May LIST, and
De plainly visible to the naked eye.
The rent paid for hotel property in
New York is enormous. The Fifth
Avenue.hotel brings Mr.. Emo $1S5,OOO a
year. The lesses, Hitchcock, Darling &
Co., get back some $4,000 or 100000 of
his in leases made by them to store
keepers on the premises.
A clergyman in Exeter, N. H., pro-
poses novel plan for raising funds to
,uild much needed library building.
he would have every person in the town
contribute cents a week for year,
making total of $4,000, which would
suffice.
In California it is customary with
ome orange growers to wrap the tree
exposed to a "scalding' sun with old
newspapers, SO that the bark will not
,eel off. 1t is found that the trees make
ess growth when exposed to the hottest
un.
A craving for foreign travel is said to
lave come over the high-caste Hindoos,
They especially wish to visit the United
states. Their ideas would be greatly
'roadened by such an experience.
A wrecking company has had its boats
nd apparatus near the wreck of the
teamer Oregon for twenty days, during
Irish time there has been just ten hours
7hen submarine work was possible.
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