Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-29
STRAY BITS.

| The Chinese word for ''hash" is the longest
and most difficult word to pronounce in the
language
On wager, E. s. Hall, of Lowell, Mass,
held his arm out straight for one hour and
fifty minutes.
In Berlin heavy wagons are not allowed on
| certain streets, In Paris any carload of rat
! Ting material must be fastened till it can't
! rattle
| A man in Newark, n. j., is playing a
! game Of chess with his cousin in Australia
/ by mail. They have been at it for five years.
! The Newark man now sees defeat staring him
| in the face
The White House at Washington derives
| its name from the fact that the Virginia
| freestone, of which it is built, was painted
white to conceal the discoloration caused by
smoke and water.
| High up in the topmost branches of large
tree that was feled near Winchester. O.,
recently, petrihed fish was found. 1t is
supposed to have been dropped by an eagle
or some bird of prey
Twenty young men in Pennsylvania
town formed football club In three months
fourteen of them had broken bones, three
were crippled for life and one druggist sold
them SIS worth of ointment.
A thief at st. Louis attends funerals, and
| while the ceremony is in progress secretes
himself and awaits the departure of the
procession. Then he energies, bundles UP
the valuables and steals away.
More than a sixth part of the land of the
globe and nearly a sixth part Of the popula-
ton of the world are under the control OF
Great Britain; Russia ranks second in terri
torial extent and the United States third.
Amos Marsh. colored man of Orange, n
j., drew $4,000 ia a lottery, and his first
step was to abandon his old wife and give a
white woman s., 600 to marry him. He said
1t was no use to have money unless he could
get into society.
Chester policeman who undertook to
confiscate flock of geese which he found
running at large was fiercely attacked by one
OF the nurnber-a gander-and finally fed,
leaving the pugnacious bird and its compan-
ions to roam at will.
At Central City, Colo, a retort containing
$40, COO in gold was placed in bank for safe
keeping. The gold was all produced in a
single day by one mine. The amount Is the
greatest ever taken from any mine in the
same length of time
Twenty-one apples picked by New Hol-
land, Pa, farmer completely filed a half
bushel measure The smallest weighed e1-
sctly one pound. and the largest one pound
five ounces. The entire lot tipped the scales
at twenty-four pounds.
In Cuba q woman never loses her maiden
name When married her husband 5 name is
added to her own, but she is always called by
her Christian and maiden names Children
take the name of both parents. but place the
mothers name after the fathers
shell which was thrown on the field Of
Gettysburg more than twenty-five years ago
waited a long time for its victim, but found
him at last the other day An old soldier,
who ought to have had a better knowledge Of
shells. forced a red hot iron into it, with the
natural result
According to the census Of lssosI the last
one taken, there were 81 that time p. $50 626
widows in 1EGis, of whom Cos, 900 were under
II years OF age, and 2sS, so under IL years
According to the native custom none OF these
widows are at liberty to marry again The
same census gave the total female population
at ~, 900, sad OF these only 90, 90 were
able TO read