Wichita eagle., 1888-10-13
STRAY BITS

lands both ihow decline
Artfacfa flowers were first invented by the
| nuns b IA Italian convent
Six hundred thousand Freedmen own
shares In the Panama canal
| OF the total Indian tea crop Of 90, 600, 0oo
pounds Assam produces II ,000, 900.
A Kansas lad Of 10 years is in jail for
stealing fifty horses during the past year.
Laundrymen in France clean linen with
out soap by rubbing it with boiled potatoes.
A Clydesdale colt has been sold for $4,000.
the highest price ever paid for a draught
horse.
New York city consumes $1,000 melons a
day from the beginning of the season until
October.
There IS a rumor that King Solomon's
| mines have been found in the Fembobo
mountains
One watermelon doctored with half an
ounce Of strychnine killed 900 rabbits on q
ranch at Traver, Cal
The daily consumption Of needles in this
country is said to be 4, DOC, 900, most Of which
come from Reddtch, Eng.
A reward of $1,000 is offered for the dis
covery Of process whereby canned corn can
be prevented from swelling.
Returns for 1883 show that British live
stock has decreased 4S per cent. compared to
1887 and 7.S compared with 1886.
William Carter, aged 81 years, has been a
coroner for fifty -one years, and is the Oldest
coroner in England He succeeded his father.
The coolest town in the world is Wercho-
jansk, in Siberia, where the mercury has
sometimes recorded a temperature of 50 degs.
below zero.
Wrapping fruit trees with cloth to keep
them from being injured by sunburn and in
sects has proved disastrous to the trees in
Shasta county, Cal
The editor Of Die Bevolkerung Germany
estimates tho population Of the world to be
1,434, 100000. NJ Levasseur French) puts it
at ], 4S3, 000, 900, difference of 49, 900, 000
A Philadelphia barber makes the statement
that there are fewer bald heads among the
! people Of wealth and fashion in Philadelphia
than among the same class of any other
American city.
One of tho citizens Of Salem, Mass, is
| Frank E. Vistorato, who, when he was Lad,
was one of the ! 200 Greeks that, under Marco
/ Bozzaris, made the famous charge at Car
penisi in August, 1923.
English physicians condemn cigarette
smoking because it produces throat diseases.
Even the best cigarettes are dangerous. They
cause moro consumption Of nicotine than
either the cigar or the pipe.
A postal card sent from London around
the world via Hong Kong and San Francisco
returned to its destination after tour Of
seventy days. This is forty days less than
the time taken ten years ago.
At an international horse show to be held
at Paris next year S4S 600 will be distributed
| in premiums. Thorcughbreds, Arabs, Anglo
| Arabs, half breeds, cart horses, mules and
! donkeys are the classes agreed upon.
English farmers have turned against the
sparrows as pest to agriculture and are
Offering rewards for their destruction. 1t is
asserted that these birds cause loss to agri-
cultural England Of s40,O00,000 to 50,000,-
900 per year
Dakota is $50 miles one way and $50 miles
the other But this is nothing to Texas,
which is s25 miles one way by 740 the other,
while New York is 412 miles long and 313
miles wide, and Georgia is $50 miles long and
245 miles wide.
| A Philadelphia peach merchant says that
as far west as st. Louis there is hardly a
town of considerable size that does not con-
sumo car load of peaches, containing GOO
baskets, every day. There is no difficulty in
disposing of the greatest crop.
A Georgia man is ready to swear that COM
mon soda is the sovereignest thing on earth
for the bite Of either mad dog or snake-not-
withstanding there is not the remotest pos
sibility that fishing parties and SO on will
substitute it for the usual antidote.
The edvisability Of badges for physicians
is being discussed in medical circles, prefer
ence being shown for an olive colored button.
The fundamental idea is that distinguish
ing badge would be Of great value in case of
hasty demand for doctors services.
The age at which most suicides take place
in the United States Is So. 1t would seem
that in cary middle life the disappointed
hopes are most keen and the effects of an i'll
spent youth most disastrous. At IS many
Americans feel the wearisomenes1 Of old aga
Dr. Zambaco, Of Constantinople, who has
lived for several years among the lepers Of
the far east, says that he has never met a
single instance of contagion, although the
malady is certainly hereditary, the children
of lepers becoming leprous at tho age Of 10,
Is and 20 years generally.
The old Puritan Governor Endicott,
planted pear tree which is still standing,
very much alive, in the village of Danvers,
though the governor himself be dust 1t is
the Oldest cultivated fruit bearing tree in
New England, is of the variety Bon Cbre-
ten, and was brought from old England
Tho colossal statue Of William Penn, which
is to surInount the tall tower of the new city
hall at Philadelphia, viii 30 the largest
bronze figure ever cast, standing thirty-seven
feet in height The model is completed, but
there is no foundry in the United States
where the casting can be done.
Indians in the United States last year cul-
tivated 227 ,265 acres of land and raised 1874
a5s bushels of wheat, 9s4, 97a bushels Of corn.
Flo, 1877 bushels Of oats and barley, 524,O1o
bushels of vegetables and 1ol, s2S tons Of hay.
They also owned 35S 1874 horses and mules,
III ,4O7 head of cattle, 40, All swine and IT.
@3, sheep.
Gas for tho Cash.
"They have q strange new hind Of gas
meter In Paris" remarked Gen. Hicken-
looper.
What Is it like7'
SIT Is somewhat OF the principle Of these
chewing gum boxes at tho centennial, where
you drop nickel in the slit and o stick of
gum is measured out to you. In this meter
you drop certain number Of pennies in o
box and then that amour. Of gas is at your
service. If you want moro gas another sou
must go into the box
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