Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-01
STRAY BITS.

Paris has adopted the American ambu-
lance system
A Georgia man has celebrated bis golden
wedding With his second wife.
A planter il Brooksvine, Fla, cleared s1O,-
CO Of cabbage patch OF 10O acres
"Wooleniten is a new word used to desig-
nate the man who wears garments entirely
OF wool
More than million men are employed by
the various railway lines in tas United
States
There are about 10000 children in the
United States, under II years old, whose live.
are insured
An ounce Of silver may now be purchased
Ia England for AZ pence. the lowest price Of
the present century.
A Judge at Harrisburg, Pa, has sent a
Young fellow to jail for kissing his afianced
wife on the street against the iady's will.
A student at civil service examination in
ENGLAND stated that ''Sir John Moore was
killed in battle just before he set sail for
England"
T. r. Bennett, of Wilkesbarre, Pa, has a
Bible that was published by John D. Hayes,
Cambridge, England, in l676, being now 212
years old
An Alaska Indian. sentenced to prison for
niuaty-nine years Tor murder, wants to know
if the government is going to keep him alive
long enough to serve the whole term
A well known London firm of refreshment
contractors recently advertised for 1900 ad-
ditional waters, and 10,0C applications were
received in response, the whole of the candi-
dates claiming &c have had experience
The gum chewing mania is still increasing
rapidly among the youthful bellies of the
aristocracy, the proper and correct gift for
young lady being NOW box of gum, deco
rated in dainty fashion and tied with pretty
ribbon.
triumph In electric lighting was achieved
recently il Vienna, when, during perform
ance NJ the opera, more than Goo seventeen
candle power lamps were burning for more
than four hours without a flicker from first
10 last
Boston had nc Indian Rights association In
lC31- But it is recorded that on the 9th of
September Ir. Josias, convicted Of stealing
from the Indians, was sentenced to the pun
ishnent OF being deprived of his title, and
to be thereafter known simply as Josias
Alfred II Horton, Of Middletown, N. Y,
although totally blind, is expert III The use Of
caTDenter's tools, and does repairs about bis
house and stables. He Is fond of horses, and
buys and sells them with good Judgment,
Judging them Entirely by his sense OF touch.
Frank A Hardy claims to be the Oldest
fireman il the United States, He joined
fire company il Hollis, n H, on March IL,
1897, and has been member of some depart
meRt continuously during the succeeding
fifty-one years he is nov secretary of the
FIRE department or Piqua, O.
Some fashionable New York women have
solved the difficulties Of .sle oft recurring
dressmakeI's bill by paying their dress makers
fixed sums by the month or year, hiring them
IL fact, as the Chinese dc their physicians.
One woman pays her dresslnaker $50 a
month and Tor this sum she obtains all the
gowns she wants.
The female employees of the government
printing Office and Of the bureau of engrav-
ing at Washington dc all kinds of work,
dirty as well as clean. They help manage the
presses, their sleeves are rolled up high above
their elbows, and their plump, round arms
receive many al ink spot during the day.
About 800 women ara employed in the two
Offices. and colored women work side by side
with white women without clasning.