Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-04
ODDS AND ENDS.

This rnttles Of rattlesnakes fetch 81 .
string in the snake centcrs Of Pennsylvania
An old Byzantine Madonna bearing the
date Of 1884 has Just been unearthed In Bull
garia
Five electrical tramways, with q total
length of A7 kilometres, are being construct
ed In Naples.
Camels are TO be employed ON q line Of
coaches in New South Wales, the sultry cli-
mate being very severe on horses,
Taking one year with another, es3 900 10
collected in shiliings at the turnstiles OF the
London Academy summer exhibition
A statistician has figured out that man
who has reached the age of fifty has spent
three years Of his life In buttoning on bis
collar.
The machinery hall Of the Paris exposition
is sufficiently capaeious for a cavalry regi-
ment to DO handled by the most expert tao
tician.
Glass was in use among the Romans Ia tho
titno OF Tibcrius; and the ruins OF Pompe.i
show that IL was In use for windows during
A d. !.
1t is said that John Brights papers Will be
treated as Lord BeaconSdeld's hare been
withheld from publication during the lifetime
Of the queen
Enveloping the affected Limb In a coating
OF flowers OF sulphur for one night Ia said to
cure sciatica- The skin should be thoroughly
cleans-d first.
The receipts Of the Brooklyn bridge during
the first year after its opening In ISIS were
t4o3, COO During tho past year they amount
cd 10 s0s3, 800.
There are i've girls in ono Of tho HUMPHREYS
families Of Fleming county. Ky. and their
names are Arkansas, louisiana, Tennessee,
Florida and Virginia.
A stream near Tucson, a T., petrifies every
soft substance put into IT, A biscuit dropped
into the crystal water ia alleged % have been
turned 70 stone within few IaiDute2
To make a good mucilags without uSing
gum arabic, taks dertriEs two parts. water
five pasts. acetie acid one part, dissolve by
tie aid Of heat and add oas part Of alcohol
Some ingenious arithmstinian has calculat-
cd that the 20. o0o, 900 stamps Issued By the
English postofics from 1870 20 1854. II plaoet
end 70 end, would reach to the tz,oon and
back
Two steel blocks, enc weighing 10. 600 and
the other III. 600 pounds, % form a part of
the armament Of an Italian .ironcisd, we're
recently shipped from the Gruson foundry .,
Magde5ug.
"Linotypesr are photographs printz
mounted on linen WsAhss II color are sp-
Piled to the back Of the prints, 20 that They
can be used as ooiored transpsricncssz with
excellent effect
TIE Russian auttoriiIes have sutsnoet
forty-one students Of The Cracov university
10 three dsyS Imprisonment and 70 p4ys
fns II 800 forms for singing Polish airs vfiis
On az cIcursoD-
Tbs fennsTlvania Railroad company tes
jjsst instructed ts bzzrzzs agents On al ia
liaes 20 aooep: and carry free of charge bicy-
ciss. tandem bicycles, or tT1cyeiz when &c
cosap&nisd By their o~Bsrr
Leproxy is increaxans n RszzsA Dursnx
The last TED years fortyrtns patients ~srs
treated In TIE ST Petersburg bospstslz, hAls
Of whom were natives q The city Tb@ EaS.ac
provinces suffer most from tbs dissasa
A reoer. discussion sboz. The tsdxz. a
trees Ia The forests II Victoria br1rKs from
tbs govsrrzae=1, botzrsr. tAs s.a.azrent Tia:
bs has sss-n oas Is fee. high TIE eh1sf Ia
sysctor & forests measured falsea ors tai
WA as fscs lo1g
twenty-oos fazsos-s ezctcrss kaxs bsra tAkss
from tie caste snd plAosd .. fks LozYre.
Lksv1.e many hisenrsc@l tap~syses, farDs-
turr, &c. Complaints q to Eszns nxsr.
co:os fran vsrsA1Iiex