Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-17
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The income Of Oxford university for 1857
was SS26, co.
The British Order Of Odd Fellows shows a
membership of 5000
Silver has turned up in South Africa to a
degree to produce rev mining fever.
There are fourteen recent graduates of
Yale college engaged in Journalism in New
York
Two-thirds of the tobacco plants in west
ern North Carolina have been killed by re-
cent frosts
''Lingua" is new language which threat
ems 70 drive out Volapuk It is based or
Latin roots.
London has eight homes for poor working
girls, where they can get three toierabIs
meals day fer 81 week.
If all the land was leveled into the sea the
water would fow over the entire globe with
an average depth OF one mile
a barber OF Newburg, " V, has invented
q chair which registers the number of per
sons who sit in il during the day.
At least + 600 lady teachers from the coun-
try east OF the Rocky mountains are ex-
pected at the convention 81 San Francisco in
July.
man with weakness for statistics has
made the calculation that a society girl in
dancing eighteen waltzes of ordinary dara-
ton goes distance OF about fourteen miles
At Fernandina, Fla, a band of negro bur
glars got themselves up in white ghostly gar
ments. and, passing as spooks, robbed the
town with IMMUNITY till one of their number
was caught.
The United States consul general to the
Sandwich Islands reports that large num-
Der Of lepers, or persons giving evidence Of
Ieprous tendencies, emigrate 10 the United
States yearly.
Cases of abduction Of handsome and at
tractive children occur so frequently in Chi
cago as to lead TO the belief that the city has
an organized band Of kidnapers always on
the lookout for prey.
Under the laws of Iowa railroad passen-
ger who sticks his head out of a car window
and has it knocked of by a switch bar is
guilty of misdemeanor, and can be sent TO
jail for three months.
Burglars who operated on the postoffice
and the station of the Monticello, Port Jer-
Wis and New York railroad, at Monticello,
n. Y, secured only S12 in money, and left
behind tools worth at least 500
Glasgow viii soon be the second city OF the
United Kingdom. Its boundaries are to be
extended so as TO include u number of popu-
lous towns, and it is estimated that IL will
then have population of nearly 100000
The highest recorded balloon ascent was by
Glaisher and Coxwel from Northampton.
England, on Sept. ), 1862 They rose to the
height Of seven miles. According to Glaisher,
in {, 500 balloon ascensions only fifteen deaths
have occurred
A tooth which measured ten inches in
length, fifteen inches in circumference and
weighed ten pounds was taken from the bed
Of the Withlacoochee river in Citrus county,
Fla, last week by William Berthe. He also
found some leg bones.
Surprising are the antics Of lightning at
times. In Murphysboro, Ills, it wrested a
knife from the hand of a cook working in "A
hotel, whose chimney the lightning wrecked,
and knocked down a newspaper reporter.
Neither of the persons was injured.
Mr. KEENAN, gives one good idea of the
+ SIZE Vi tDtDtIll pN III 4 ut
Century that its territory would contain the
United States, including Alaska, with all of
the states OF Europe, except Russia, and there
would still be 300,0O0 square miles to spare.
The most valuable manuscript In Amer.
lea, Judging from the price paid, is in the
possession of John JACOB Astor. 1t is the
Sforza MlsSal, for which SIS, 500 was paid 1;
is dated in the Fifteenth century and com.
prises 4S4 pages Of vellum bound in red me-
rocco.
John Elinnsman, of Jersey City, died about
two months ago and was buried by his en-
ployer 1t was believed that Elinnsman had
no money, but the other day $500 was found
in the pockets of an old pair of trousers
which one of his former fellow clerks was
about to sell to a junkman.
The official report on Russia for 1885 shows
that the population of toe empire is 100 000,
600 There were AZ, 264 deaths by violence.
50 600 fires 2,377 distilleries, l32, 900 wine and
beer shops, 245 sugar refneries, 8 universe
ties, 81 .j3l orthodox churches, ,2s7 Catholic.
70S Protestant, $40 synagogues, and 1851
mosques
Michael P. Barr was newsboy in Wash
ington not long ago, and three years ago be
enlisted in the naval service of the United
States at seamens wages-50 cents n day
Last week he was appointed master sail
maker at $50 a month, and his first act was
to make over TO bis mother one-half OF his
pay as fast as it accrues.
The skeleton Of an Indian who was killed
in what is known as the ''kilourn fight o.
1855 was recently plowed up in field near
Walpole. y. f., where the fight took place
1t was in this famous encounter that two
men, two women and two boys dafended
themselves for six hours against four hun
dred bloodthirsty savagcs.
A native of Finland named Runen wa
sent two years ago by the government to try
to discover the art Of Persian carpet weay
ing He finally obtained employment in Q
small factory in Smyrna, where he acquired
the desired information and made design
OF the loom. A Persian carpet factory hai
now been established in Finland, and grea'
results arc expected
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