Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-22
STRAY BITS.

Miss Carrie L. Couch, Of Center Isle. shos
| woodcocx with rife at distance Of $50
feet
A Florida planter has contracted % furnish
a New York dealer with !, 600 ,000 cabbages
| during the season
| A scientific paper has been started in Paris
with the novel feature Of publishing nothing
not written by women
| A vegetarian hotel is an innovation in
| London There are already thirty vegetarian
| restaurants in that city.
A shoemaker at Atlanta, Ga, has lately
completed pair of shoes that are IA inches
/ long, 81 wide and ssI deep.
| The electric arc lights in the United States
! now number nearly 90, 600; and the incan-
/ descents number over l.0oo, 900.
The annual copper production Of the world
! is 2115 GOO tons. and the French syndicate is
! said to control 2l5, 900 tons Of it
/ SyIvania, &C., has stalk Of corn ten feet
+ high, and which contains seven well developed
shoots, six Of which have put out silks.
! A comparison Of the work Of English,
/ French and American detectives show the
latter to be Il per cent ahead all around
A Glasgow firm has just finished brass
/ wire for the Glasgow exhibition sixty five
/ miles Long and a copper wire Ill miles long.
/ The National Telephone company, of Scot
| land, has several submarine cables Of seven.
eight and nine miles ID length, which give
( perfect satisfaction.
| The Atlanta Constitution notes that "the
lumber used in John Browns gallows IS still
/ -aJ
+ wants 1850 for it
In China there are over 400 species Of
( plants used for food, and in the world prob
/ ably ten times that number Sawdust II
Sweden Is used il bread and found diges-
! tible
/ A farmer near Buffalo, Pa, while blowing
a few days ago, came upon a pot containing
nearly $500 IN gold coin 1t is supposed TO
have bee hidden by 4 nliser who lived near
the spot many years ago
/ On opening an ice laden car at Cincinnati
q tramp emerged and hiirriedly made of
AS the car had been locked three DAYS before,
/ it is supposed that be endured the wintry
temperature eli that time
( Mr.. Denise, OF Dayton. O., who died the
other day, is said to have been worried 10
death by the accidental discovery that his
+ wife, few months before, had been buried
while Ii a state OF trance, and whom too late
revived.
A fish dealer says il is easy enough to tell
whether fish is fresh or not If his eyes are
/ bright and ear and pelucld, he is fresh as
fish need be; bus if dark, cloudy and sickly
/ looking, he IS an antiquity, and by no means
} TO be desired
/ The California state board Of silk culture
is doing much 70 boom the business. 1t has
sent 5000 mulberry trees and cuttings tc
silk cultivators, and vii this year put out
/ 90 900 more; and worms and eggs are given
TO owners of mulberry trees
IN San Francisco suit has been brought
against the estate of one Eoeveuthal VINO
committed suicide last winter ON the day set
/ for his wedding, by the father of his faacee.
/ for the 81 coo claimed to have been spent in
preparation Tor the marriage.
! A Providence, z. l.. foundry is engaged in
casting the largest mining pump il the world
for the Calumet and Hecla, of Michigan. 4
+ single section has been completed and weighs
twenty tons, The unwatering Of the mine
will be done sooner than was expected
4 new fire escape in England is sort of a
chair that slides down rcpes and the host of
= holse possessing it often entertains his
guests by permitting them 20 take ride At
tue Italian exhibition IN London it Is expect
Cd to prove great rival to the switchbac4
railway.
The municipal authorities think the cross
iEgs are SO unsafe in Paris that an English
paper says they have employed surgeons. dis
gulsed as policemen, for TIE purpose of help-
ing the tirnid people toro.s the periious parts
Of the streets and b.uleraTds, and to be at
hand in case Of ACCIDENTS
Ventura county, Cal, boasts that il con
taias brown stone enough to rebuild tie
great wall Of China, oil enough to float tie
vessels needed for its transportation and
lime enough 10 make the mortar to build the
wall. Il says nothing about having gas
enough 10 blow UP the wEole concern
six hundred newsboys were washed, scrub
bed. secured. rinsed OF, rolled up IN flannel
and laid out il the SUI TO dry the other
morning at a pathbcuse on West Madison
street, Chicago. 1t required il 900 gallons Of
hos water, IS much more Of cold, 200 bottles
Of shampoo and 1880 towels TO do the
work.
Americans E3FS tle S3oOJ ndois OK gong TO
college 1t Is said. as 10 the learned nations,
that N this country one man IN every 200
takes u college education; In Germany one il
every 2lS, in England one in every $50. and
in Scotland one il every coo. The grade Of
general intelligence IS higher in the United
States than In any other country On the globe
A statement he's been prepared at Chicago
showing that II, 80, 239 words of press specials
and other messages were handled 81 the Chi
cago Office Of the Western Union Telegraph
company during the week from June 10 to %
inclusive, while the Republican national con
veution was in session This is al average OF
| 2.GT5, 03i words for each day, Sunday IL
cluded
This is put down as the latest svindle il
connection with a sharper: The farmer CO.
jecss 70 giving bis note and having it dis
counted for cash. The sharper says; 'Oh,
well keep the note" and writes across the
face Not transferable" In short time It
is found in the hands Of another party with
an -" added 10 the Not" which makes is
read Note transferable