Wichita eagle., 1888-07-15
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The EAGLE
STRAY BITS.

ESW2rrnS OF tE1lESSS are ldIlIlIlg III aOCIllSl
columbia and stealing across the border into
the United States.
81 The pin factories of England, France, Fol-
+ land and Germany are said to turn cut
1900, 600 pins daily.
Leprosy is said 10 bespreading at an alarm
Ing rate in Russia Thirty cases have bean
officially reported in Dalvat alone.
The one story frame cabin in which An
drew johnson served his apprenticeship as a
tailor is still standing in Columbia, Tenn.
- Miss Leoline Daniels, of Athens La, while
teparing for her wedding, became suddenly
i and died about the hour she was to have
been married
The average expense of the Cornell gradu-
ating class OF 127 members through the
course was S575 a year; highest, $500, and
lowest, $3.50.
Florida promises to become large pro-
dncer of opium Sixteen plants viii produce
an ounce, and AN aero Of peoples will yield
81 900 worth Of opium.
Scientists say there is no plant that does
not serve as food for some animal, but the
only exticle used as food from the mineral
kingdom is common salt.
An elm tree growing in the grounds Of the
snnsylvania hospital, in Philadelphia, IS
Scion of the famous tree under which William
Penn held the first treaty with the Indians.
The trustees of Cornell university have de
cided to build one Of the largest and finest
library buildings in the country. 1t will cost
nearly $3.50, 900 and is to accommodate AGO.
600 volumes.
Three thousand Of Jerseys small sand
crabs have been packed in jars and sent to
= German university, Ia the hope that some
may live to get there and adorn its museum
Of natural history.
| Anslomania in Paris has had one good re-
suit. 1t has developed fashion for walking
ta1nong women. a constitutional is all the
fashion, and the morning walk to the Bois Is
~ brilliant sight To see.
i Some hens eggs that were accidentally
}covered up by some men blowing at Peta-
. luna Ca, last summer, were Matched by the
heat of the sun upon the earth, and the noise
made by - chicks led to their discovery and
release.
Dr. Neal Mitchell, of Jacksonville, Fla,
left his revolver under the pillow OF his
room at Rome, and has just had it returned
to him by fellow Traveller, who, however,
kept it a year and carried it All around the
world with him
A worlds wonder is a sinking mountain
near Talllah, Ga 1t sinks all the time, but
SO slowly as hardly to be perceptlble, but
upon the occurrence Of earthquakes any
where in the world goes down from one to
SIX feet in a very brief space.
: ( An authorized representative Of the duke
of SAKE Meinngen expects to be in New
York in the course OF q month for the pur-
etose Of making arrangements for an Ameri-
cen season of the dukes famous theatrical
company next autumn and winter.
The latest western wonder is soap well
near Buffalo Gaps, D. T., whose product is
pronounced by a Chicago soap man equal to
the best made by men, and which sparse res
idents tbereabout declare TO be. with the adj
I djtion of a triae of natural oil, simply gor-
Eeous IS axle grease
! Moses Williams, Of Brooklyn, wrapped a
newspaper around $4,000 in greenbacks, and
left the parcel on a chair in New York
heel for three hours Those who noticed it
emed to think it was an Old shirt, and sew
sral persons were quite put out when Moses
rushed in and told what 1t contained.
A brief description Of a Kansas mans
rhinch bug fence may prove of interest TO
Wisconsin farmers who fear damage by the
pest. He takes strip OF flooring and sets it
in the ground with the groove up. In the
groove be puts candle wicking and saturates
1T with coal oil. The chinch bug crawls off
Id disgust when he climbs on this SIDE and
gets a sniff at it
The Philadelphia Press SAYS that the big
ysst check known to American banking was
EtSAt for Sl4, 29S, 1876, drawn by J. D. Taylor,
+. tIaasurer of the Pennsylvania railroad, in
80 Ill. u.
Arlington and Baltimore held in Boston, and
irther that payment was delayed TIRES
~ eeks to LET currency so accumulate as not to
..%erange balances.
Near Kalamazoo, Mich, the other day,
hen Meli.aer, Esq, aged IS, was by his
Hn direction buried TO the music Of brass
nd and the vocal rendering OF choice opera
IS; and after the grave was filled the dead
ans son danced lively jig, supposed TO be
own only TO his father, who had always
sorn he would dance at his own funeral
I'd is thought by the superstitious to have
zone it in the body Of his son.
The Atlanta Constitution says the negro is
changing in appearance and losing some Of
the birth marks peculiar 10 the African race
The new generation is showing the effects Of
s<aigher culture. Especially is this notice
Hl6 In CDe tOWuS WHcTO CunIStCL VIII VIC
whites shows its effect. The fiat nosed,
k3nky beaded negro is passing away and be-
Ginning an unknown race. All the colOred
children no matter how dusky in hue, show
the change Longer hair. aquiline noses
+ and smaller mouths, with thinner lips, are
the rule.
Those who have unusually small heads
may take comfort from she statement of 8
London exchange. Il says that ''sevenn be-
ing the average size of mans head as meas
nred By his hat, lit appears that out Of four
teen distinguished personaSeS, two lord
tCbeln>sford and Dean Stanley were below,
while two more lord Beaconsiield and the
FRINGE of Wales were exactly up to the av-
3ragen OF the others, Dickens, SelbouTne
I'D bright required rs; Earl Russell, ~;
Eoord Macaulay, Gladstone and Thackeray,
- rs; Louis Philippe, ~, and the archbishop
Of York, Sfull!
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