Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-29
CURIOUS THINGS OF LIFE.

Pet dogs wearing sealskin blankets ara
among the sights on Broadway, New York.
A herd of swine got drunk eating grape
pomace on a ranch in Marin county, Cal.
A Mott street. New York, hand organ mar
is teaching his monkey the art Of boot black
ing.
An 1s-year-old negro boy of Marianne,
Ark, shot his mother because she was baking
sweet potato for his brother instead of for
him.
The latest addition to Withlacoochee, Fla,
fame IS a hen which Matched and raised to
the size of partridges sixteen chicks from
fifteen eggs.
A novel experiment is about to be made in
Paris in the establishment of a cab company,
with plant Of 300 hansoms fitted with rubber
tires, drawn by English horses.
The quantity of sugar used in Boston
house suddenly increased, to the astonish-
cation, which revealed that the servant used
sugar to kindle the fire.
Two Tennessee men went out to fight q
duel, one having an ak and the other a
scythe, but stranger came along and sug-
gested game of poker, and all shook hands
and became good friends.
During the delivery of course of lectures
in Paris the lecturer alluded to Damocles and
the sword incident held by thread. He
forgot the name of Damocles. mo matter,
ladies and gentlemen; the thread was good,
and will hold till the next lecture"
George Thornburg, of Winfield, Kan, and
Ary,, ir,t, Milac IF id hy
Judge Tansey. The young lady lacked one
day of being 10 years old, but as she was an
orphan and had no home the judge issued
the license without the usual consent being
filed.
Workmen, while engaged in demolishing
the Dinwlddie, Va, county court house,
found under the floor of the kitchen skele-
ton, together with canteen and musket. 1t
is supposed that the skeleton is that of SOL
der, who, while sick or wounded, crept under
the floor, and there died.
A veterinary surgeon of St Louis and for
merly dentist recently filed three decayed
teeth of a valuable horse. 1t is the third case
of equine teeth filling on record. The animal
had suffered terribly from toothache and was
unable at times to eat or drink. The horse
bore the pain without wincing, and did not
have TO be tied or be given gas.
In the little town of Arvesnes, in France,
it has been discovered that there are forty
two young marriageable girls, and only three
young men who are candidates for matri-
mony, and one of these has proved SO re-
creant to home influence that he is about
to marry girl belonging to a neighboring
village.
A curious museum has been opened in
Dresden. In it are collected boots, shoes and
slippers, which emperors, kings, queens,
princes and other famous persons have worn
Among them are pair of boots worn by Ma
poleon | at the battle of Dresden on April
q, 1913, and pair of white satin Shoes EN-
broidered in gold, which the same great en-
peror wore on the day of his coronation
David Jennings is the latest perpetual mo-
ton lunatic. He lives in Lyons, n Y, and
commenced with youth, health and fortune
twenty years ago TO develop his insane idea
He has spent his intellect, mis- youth and $50
coo, and is precisely as near making some
thing out of nothing he was when he
started He finds it easy to come very near
to it, as the boy did to finding his hat
Bernard Meyer, of Omaha, recently felt a
slight pain under his left shoulder The pain
soon became intense, and q doctor was
sought. An examination of the spot revealed
a hard substances, which, on being extracted,
proved to be needle in good condition.
Meyer had no recollection of needle having
entered his body, but his mother SAYS that it
occurred when he was an infant, ffty-four
years ago.
w. c. Vaughn, Dayton, O.. has photo
graph of an old oak tree, or what might
more properly be called miniature oak tree
growing from between the crevices of a
court house spire, built of solid masonry of
limestone, at a height of some eighty feet
from the ground. The strange production
draws its life principally from the air, as
there was but little cement used in the build
ing Of the spire. The dwarf is 20 years old.