Wichita eagle., 1888-05-27
HERE AND THERE.

One Of the newly elected pages Of the
Iowa house OF representatives is I0-year-old
girl.
A violin made of clay is now on exhibition
in Berlin 1t is said to have strong and full
tore.
The human heart has to do as MUCK work
intwenty-four hotlrs as a machine would 10
lift 10 tops Of .roa-
In the grand court of the krenilin at Mos
COW there Is about = De erected monument
in memory Of tie late car which will cost
s650,000
a barber at Suez, A T.. while shaving q
man was seized with an attach, Of honlicidal
mania, and cut his customers throat from
ear to ear.
The largest tree in the country east of
California is a gnarled old sycamore that
stands in Upper Sandusky. o. 1t is forty
feet IN circumference.
The word Birmingham, so common in
naming town and cities, is compounded of
three words, which together mean ..the hill
which is the home of the BROOM an English
shrub
A scientific journal says that there is no
properly recorded instance of railroad loco
motive ever attaining a speed greater than
eighty miles an hour, and that higher speeds
are mythical
Chrome yellow is getting itself into disre-
pute in Baltimore, too 1t has been discovered
that the poisonous compound is used there in
coloring candies, though it appears not TO q
great extent.
A well read man of fair ability is said to
use from 5000 TO 1000 words, and to be able
10 define and understand from q, coo to So
900. Shakespeare'S vocabulary contained
about Il, ZOO words.
Chicago has had seven of the national con-
ventions of the two great political parties,
Cincinnati four, Philadelphia two, and ST..
Louis two. New York, Baltimore and
Charleston have had one each.
A Methodist church at Augusta held
"hard boiled egg festival" for the purpose of
raising money. Each lady attending was ex-
pected to bring hard boiled egg, the pro-
ceeds to go to the purchase of an organ.
Two milkmen in Upper Saltwater, Me-,
have quarreled, and their customers are
highly pleased, for cut rates have followed,
and now customers get milk for two cents a
quart, and those who agree TO buy for six
months can get it for that period for four
cents.
Constant use having worn away the front
leaves of the Bible employed in Brunswick
GA for swearing witnesses, another copy of
the Scriptures has been purchased, as the local
lawyers were in doubt whether an oath
made on Bible minus its first four chapters
is binding"
In the heart of large white oak tree re-
Gently felled near Coeymans dozen large
bullets were found They look like the bull
lets used in the old style fintlock muskets
and are supposed to have been shot into the
tree during some skirmish of the Revolution
or the war of 1912.
A California tramp has novel method of
getting money. He fixes up his arm with
CASTLE soap and caustic to represent a scald
and begs for aid on the ground that he Just
met with an accident. He is said to have
worked this game successfully for four years
in various parts OF the state.
Several enthusiastic Boston gentlemen have
invented new method for using the surplus
in the United States treasury. They propose
to abolish usury or interest by having the
government establish depositaries of money
at all necessary points, to loan money with
out interest to all who can give security
Absinthe was introduced into western civil
Iization by French soldiers after their return
home from the Algerian war of 1874 1t is a
product of North Africa, and the soldiers
mixed it with their wine as a febrifuge Its
manufacture is now one of the largest liquor
trades in Europe 1t is chiefly made at Neuf-
chatel, in Switzerland, where 1000, 900 gal
Ions are produced annually.
An inventor has completed experiments
which, he says; show the practicability of
making stone type. They are, of course, Of
large size, to substitute wood letters. The
material is an artificial stone, pressed into
molds, and then hardened, afterwards being
polished on the surface There will be no
Wrapping and no expansion or contraction,
and each font Will be exactly the same as
that preceding.
Sho Nemoto japanese student in the
University of Vermont, gives some interest
ing facts about his country. The japanese,
he says, read more American than English
books. Last year s., 900 English and 119, 900
American books were imported. Until re-
Gently all the editors of all the newspapers
were men, but in March last temperance
paper was established in Toxic by Miss Asai
and Mrs. Sasali, the secretary of the Toxic
Woman's Christian Temperance union.