Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-02-04
CURIOUS FACTS.

An ivy vine has grown through the
wall OF the house of Arthur Westcoat,
Of Atlantic City, and ornamented his
atting-room.
A GIANTEss, who, though only IL
years and months old, stands eight
feet high and weighs 27O pounds, is on
exhibition in Japan.
AN advertisement in Florida paper
asks for 1000 young alligators, 500
pounds OF large alligator teeth, 500 rose
ate spoonbill wings and all the alligator
skins IN the county. The advertiser is
o naturalist
NOT one OF the Governors of the orig
NAL thirteen States in 1887 had middle
names. This year the Governors Of the
same States have middle names, with
the exception of Oliver Ames, of Mas
achusetts, Henry Lloyd, of Maryland,
and Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia.
IT has been proven through series Of
experiments that large ocean steamer
going nineteen knots an hour will move
over two miles after its engines are
stopped and reversed, and no authority
gives less than mile or mile and a
half as the required space to stop it's
progress.
A NEW process has been discovered
by which the most delicate patterns,
even Of lace work, can be produced in
iron by casting the metal on the fabric
after the fabric has been carbonized.
Molten iron can be run on the most
delicate fiber in the carbonized state
without injuring or affecting it.
The staff sites of the ascents of Mount
Blanc show that sixty-one women in all
have made the ascent: English women,
thirty-two; French women, fifteen ;
Prussian women, -four; American
women, three; Swiss women, two, and
Russian, Danish, Hungarian, Italian and
Austrian, one each.
The carriage which was made BY the
United States Government especially
for the use of Lafayette during his visit
to this country in 1924 is owned in
Chicago. It is quaint old ark, hung
on big springs and wide straps, and
from his lofty seat the old Frenchman
used to descend to the ground by steps
WlGn many 1OlOlnSS.
A BACHELOR in Frankfort, Germany,
advertised for "helpmate of agreeable
exterior and good education; money a
secondary consideration. He received
3,643 offers. OF these 2, 1877 came from
Germany, and 237 from Frankfort.
There were l, 827who said nothing about
their fortune, and l, 1916 who gave their
wealth ct various figures from $3.50 to
$4,000. Photographs accompanied g.
112 of the offers, and it cost the adver-
tiser nearly $3.50 for return postage on
them. He picked out poor Hanoverian
maiden and married her.
The aroma of red cedar is fatal to
house moths; the aroma of black wal.
nut leaves is fatal to feas 1t is mat
ter of common observation that persons
engaged in the business of making
shingles from odoriferous cypress are
rarely, if ever, affected by malarial
diseases, and that persons engaged in
distilling turpentine do not suffer from
either malarial diseases or consump-
ton. It is said thai when cholera was
epidemic in Memphis, Tenn, persons
working in livery stables were entirely
exempt from it. It is affirmed that
since the destruction of the Glove trees
on the Island of Ternate, the colony
has suffered from an epidemic unknown
before; and in times when cholera has
prevailed in London and Paris, those
in the perfumery factories
have escaped it's ravages.