Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-03-10
sTRAYs FROM ABROAD

HOuOAO.
TIE average Mexican laborer supnorts
his family on ten cents per diem, invested
in corn and beans.
DURING the last year and a half the cct.
ton manufacturing power of Japan has in
creased more than $50 per cent.
WHEN London lady urges a friend /:
'"Do take OF your slln," she merely means
for her to lay aside her sealskin cloak
THE Sultan of Turkey has decreed pro-
hibition for Constantinople and ordered
the police to close all the liquor shops in
that city.
PROMINENT women of Paris are signing a
petition for the suppression or restriction
Of impure literature, and a League of Pub
lie Morals has been formed.
AN Esquimau woman tells us that the
people of her country never wash or battle,
have no rulersbr form Of government, and
every one does exactly as he pleases.
EVERY THING in the Cars kitchen is kept
strictly under lock and key, and no one
can serve him any thing except the maitre
d'hOtel, Frenchman named Brenger. who
alone attends the Gar at table.
THE Swedish Government has declared
against the importation of pork from the
United States, unless it is well sailed. The
order Is founded on a report that hog
pestilepce is raging in the United States.
NEAR the town of Soleure, in Switzerland,
birds nest was recently found which was
constructed entirely of the imperfect watch
springs thrown out from the workshops
Ii has been deposited in the local museum.
AMERICAN authors are more read than the
English in Japan Last year 5000 English
and $4,000 American books were imported
into that country, SO that the old question:
"Who reads an American book!" was fairly
answered.
FRANCES VICTORIA ALEXANDRA is the name
bestowed upon child recently born to 2
Sioux mother in Buffalo Bills camp. It is
the first Indian child born in England, and
is named for Mrs. Cleveland, the Queen
and the Princess of Wales
THERE was a queer exhibition in the high
est law court in England few days ago.
The tables in front of the bensh were COW
cred with Women's bustles. A patent was
involved, and the various styles of bustles
were examined with curious interest by the
learned judges.
THERE is great store of gold as well as
OF coal in Corea, but an entire lack of proper
mechanical devices for mining. The pro-
duction OF gold last year was $5,OOOOOO.
The main object of the Corean Embassy
to this Government is understood to be to
interest the citizens of this country In the
development of Corean resources.
A CURIOUS, lucrative trade in Paris is
that OF " knot-maker,' or tier of cravats."
The trade fourishes chiefly in the season
when there are dinners, balls, soirees and
receptions in every corner of the capital
The good " knot-maker" jumps into his cab
and is whirled around to his customers,
doing his business in an incredibly brief
space Of time.
THE Museum of Religions at Paris, which
is to contain collections of idols, paintings
and other objects having to do with the
various religions of the world, will cost
about 100000. 1t is rising near the
Trocadero, and will house the collections
made by n. Guimet and also afford rooms
and library for savants and those who
translate Oriental languages.
THERE has recently been discovered in
the high Alps, near the summit of the great
st. Bernard, five large granite affairs and
noAIoAoo0 o'noL 1oACo VI euo stoAe HSe,
used in pagan epochs for sacrifices. Swiss
scientists consider this discovery proof
that Mount st. Bernard was place OF sac
rifice in pagan times, and that the Canton
Of Valais must have been inhabited by
human beings as far back as the stone age.
The French peasants, rather than trust
to savings banks, generally carry their
money in their stocking legs, and misery
old woman who died lately left quite
fortune IN this way. She had lived in
veritable pig-stye, and her emaciated body
was found on heap of rags and rubbish.
In her cotton stockings and sabots were
found notes and gold amounting to nearly
10, 900, numerous trinkets of considerable
value and securities worth more than $685.
BOO.