Wichita eagle., 1888-07-15

DIR. Neal Mitchell, Of jacksonville, Fla,
left his revolver under the pillow of his
room at Rome, and has jast bad 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 sinking mountain
near Talulah, Ga II sinks all the time, but
SO slowly as hardly TO be perceptible, but
upon the occurrence Of earthquakes any
where in the world goes down from one 20
six feet in very brief space
An authorized representative Of the duke
OF SAKE 3Feiningen expects TO he In New
York in the course OF q month for the pur-
pose Of making arrangements for an Ameri-
can season Of the dukes famous theatrical
company next autumn and winter.
The latest western wonder is q soap well
near Buffalo Gaps. D. T., whose product is
pronounced by Chicago soap man equal TO
the best made by men. and which sparse res
idents thereabcut declare to be, with the ad-
dition OF a triie Of natural Oil SIMPLY gor-
geous as an axle grease.
Moses Williams, Of Brooklyn. wrapped .
newspaper around 5000 in greenbacks, and
left the parcel on chair IN New York
!. hotel for three hours. Those who noticed it
:, ned TO think il was an old shirt, and sew
eral persons were quite put out when Moses
rushed IN and told what 1t contained
A brief description Of Kansas mans
chinch 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 he puts candle wicking and saturates
it with coal oil The chinch bug crawls OF
in disgust when he climbs On this side and
gets sniff 1T II.
The Philadelphia Press says that the big
gest check known 10 American banking was
that for s14, 296, l96, drawn by J. D. Taylor,
treasurer Of the Pennsylvania railroad, in
payment fer stock of the Philadelphia, VIII
mington and Baltimore held in Boston, and
further that payment was delayed three
weeks TO let currency so accumulate as not to
derange balances
Near Kalamazoo, Mich, the other day,
Albn Melimer, Esq, aged IS, was tY his
own direction buried TO the music of hrass
band and the vocal rendering Of choice opera
airs; and after the grave was filed the dead
mans son danced lively JIG, supposed To be
known only to his father, who had always
sworn he would dance at his own funeral
and is thought by the superstitious TO have
done it in the body OF his son
The Atlanta Constitution says the negro is
changing III appearance and losing some of
the birth marks peculiar 10 the African race.
The new generation is showing the effects Of
higher culture. Especially is this notice.
able in the towns where contact with the
whites shows its effect. The fiat nosed,
kinky headed negro is passing away and be-
coming 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 che statement of Q
London exchange 1t says that seven" be-
ing the average size of a mans head as meas
ured by his hat, lit appears that out OF four
teen distinguished personages, two lord
Chelmsford and Dean Stanley were below,
while two more lord Beaconsfield and tho
Prince of Wales were exactly up TO the av-
erage." OF the others, Dickens, Selbourne
and Bright required rs; Earl Russell, N;
Lord Macaulay, Gladstone and Thackeray,
rs; Louis Philippe, "a, and the archbishop
Of York, S full