Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19
STRAY BITS.
There are 5,063 Indians in the state of New

There are D, Ooo INDIANS IN the STATE OF New
York
The secret orders throughout the United
States are said to number over zoo.
Four brothers were married to four sisters
by the same minister at Louisville, KY, dur
ing the last two years.
Morning first begins, terrestrial chronicle
gists reckon $50 miles west of the coast of
Chill, at Easter Island.
Cornell has 1,l74 students, 132 of whom are
ladies' The attendance is the largest in the
history of the institution.
The largest carpet in the world has been on
exhibition at the Cincinnati exposition. 1t
contains ZOO square yards
A Vienna man has left by will the sum Of
$4,000 forms to a young woman who habit
ually nodded to him whenever she met him.
Among the students at Princeton college is
one 72 years old. He is studying for the
ministry and expects to graduate this term.
1t is estimated that there are $500 women
in the United States who hold diplomas from
medical colleges, either American OF foreign
The Russian minister of railways has issued
an order that in the future all passengers
who play cards viii be ''judiciaIly pursued"
The salary of the English attorney general
is 81, 900, with $4,000 perquisites. The sollci-
tor generals stipend is $1,000 and $4,000
perquisites.
The season at the several French watering
places is beginning. Attractions OF all kinds
would appear to be much more numerous
than usual
A farmer in Monterey county, Cal, is pre-
pairing to SOW 10000 acres with grain this
winter. He is to use sixty-eight eight-horse
pIows, it is said.
1t is said that the prairie dogs come into
Usage City, Kan, and sit around in the back
door yards until the housewives shake out
the table cloths.
John Taylor, Of Oswego, spit on his hands
and went out to cut some wood Cor Sunday,
and ten minutes later his wife found him
dead. The moral is obvious.
One of the promised sensations Of the Paris
exhibition will De given by man who will
make daily balloon ascensions mounted on a
horse that is, daily until something happens.
a single pair Of herrings, If allowed TO re-
produce undisturbed for twenty years, would
not only supply the whole world with abund-
ance of food, but would become inconven-
iently numerous.
A Paris paper 'sees with alarm the spread
of the English language throughout the
world, and us forced 70 conclude" that it
won't be $50 years when Frenchmen will have
to talk like other folks.
A man in New Brunswick has displayed
strange taste about dying. He dug his grave,
lowered his coffin, got in and took dose Of
poison and then pulled the string to a land
slide, which descended upon him.
The banana peel has at length found rival
A Portland, Ore, man slipped on wet leaf
and broke his shin bone. A curious feature
of the accident Is that he walked around for
two days before he knew be was hurt
A cobbler at Petersburg. Va, whittIes out
his own shoe pegs, makes his own lasts, melts
his own wax, pulls his bristles out of his own
hogs and makes uniform charge OF twenty
five cents for job, no matter whether it is
new sole or only patch.
Winchester, Tenn, Graves distinction On
very unique grounds. The town possesses a
boy year 10 months old who smokes a pipe
or cigar with es much evident relish as any
full grown person. He acquired the habi.
when but year old, and it has been growing
on him ever since
There Is q bootblaok in toe New York city
hall who Is quite curiosity. He has one
aim n below the elbow and wears q wooden
limb strapped tightly TO the stump. To this
wooden arm Is fastened brush, and be uses
1t as aGeptly as the he.d In the hand ne
has remaining
An sudacious tramp sueakei into a resi- /
dence IN ssnlngten place. New York, and
tarTIed long enough on the premises 70 make
al entire change Of clothing. Re even ap-
propriated undergarDelts Il Is said tha1 on
emerging ae resembled swell, carrying q /
heavy cane and wearing high has
Samuel ". Dowd, who recently died in /
Madison, Conn, at the age Of 60, was che q |
& family ot five, whose combined ages were /
4sS years Some years ago tie family moved /
from tie cid Do~d homestead 20 ne- hone, /
end they took ~Ita them FIRE from tie Old FIRE /
place, Transferred I. 20 che new and u AIS |
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