Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-21
STRAY BITS.
There has not been an execution of q white
may, in South Garnlira far f,s,r, t,=fr,a years


man in South Carolina for twenty five years.
Aprisoner in Kentucky Jail attempted
| suicide by eating two dozen pieces of blotting
paper.
Public opinion in New York is beginning
to lean toward asphalt for the repaving of
| the streets.
A Kansas editor says that 10000 railroad
| cars viii be required to haul the wheat crop
of his state.
1t is estimated that the progeny of single
pair of English spaETows for ten years viii be
275 Sig 9S3, 695 birds.
The Gillian government has ordered two
swift cruisers to be built in France, having a
displacement Of 2, $50 tons
Superintendent Mills Of the Delaware rail-
road company, says the peach crop VIII num-
Der exactly 2,78S, $50 baskets
A large cave has been discovered near Las
Cruces, Y. NJ, the interior Of which Is lined
with veins Of almost pure silver.
The giant diamond, lately discovered in
Cape Colony, and now at the Paris eXposi-
ton. weighs $50 carats, and is valued at
$1,000, 600
Cricket is played in English blind asylunls.
The ball is OF wicker work, with pieces of tin
within, which enables the players TO judge OF
its whereabouts.
A cioudburst in Nevada the other day
dropped enough water on a region two miles
square 80 form lake of ten acres in extent
and ten feet deep.
The escape Of a swindler by means of a
balloon and his discovery through the pigeon
post is the latest sensation in criminal inteli-
gence that comes from Vienna.
The name "IIood" has been given to the
most powerful of England's new battle ships.
She is to have engines of $1,000 horse power
and displacement Of Il, coo tons.
A wildcat fell intoa cistern the other day
at Myers. Fla The water not being deep
enough to drown it, IL was beaten until in
sensible and then taken out with rake ard
put to death.
Ten years ago a man near Lexington, KY,
had twenty-four sheep bitten by dogs. Since
that time be has poisoned and shot over three
hundred CANNES, and is still engaged in his
glorious work.
1t is said that the belief that the EifTel
tower causes thunder storms IS becoming an
article OF faith in Paris. Never have thun-
der storms been SO frequent there as in tina
last fortnight.
4 well OF SO called electrical water has BEEN
tapped at Fort Scott, Kan. To place both 1
hands in the water al the same time Is utter
ly impossible. the shock is so forcible that it
throws one aside with vigor.
Numerous fssures have suddenly appeared
in the earth near Matanzas Cuba, and have
created great alarm among the inhabitants /
of that vicinity. Some OF the assures ara
600 feet long, "a feet wide and 20 feet deep.
London Justice says that all the people now
living in the world, or about ! 400 goo ,00G,
could find standing room within the limits Of
a field ten miles square, and, by aid of TEL
epnope, could be addressed by q single speaker
The great bridge which Is to cross the ST. |
Lawrence at Quebec will, with its approaches,
be 81 GOO feet long. The top of the bridge
viii be 409 feet above high water level. One
span of the bridge will have length Of ], Az
feet.
A report from tie British consul at Tent !
sin says that the North China railroad, which |
was completed last summer, is now open for |
traffic. He says il is eighty-five miles long, !
and cost on an average about So, 900 pei
mile.
Few people are aware what opportunities |
there are at Harvard for summer study. /
There are summer schools of-languages, chem |
istry physical training, geology, botany, |
topography and physics, and all under COM
petent teachers.
Some experiments lately made at the Royal !
Polvtechnic school at Munich show that the |
y,f I,.,., hofff e
pounds per square inch, while that of ordi-
nary b.sfting ranges between 2,225D and 1850
pounds per square inch.
A representative of a French syndicate has
benn hooking at an island near San Francisco
with a view to establishing there frog farm.
According to his estimates an enormous fort
uns awaits the mao who takes hold of the
venture in the right way.
Before the ISthn,us of Suez was pierced by
tho canal there were almost ne sharks in the
Mediterranean, the passage through the
Straits OF Gibraltar not being to their liking.
Now, however they come in by way Of the
canal, ard in such Plumbers that in more than
one watering place, and especially on the
the sign has gone up Beware of
Sharks"
TO procure and stow away gor summer use
sufficient water for mining ana irrigation
purposes, and the national government has
to solve 1t. 4 corps OF engineers
have been sept to survey and examine the
facilities for building reservoirs and estimate
the water supply. The rainfall this season
has been vsry small and placer mining has
been almoSt abandoned.
A century ago only 500 species of orchids
were knoSyn, and those very imperfectly
Now the latest authority gives the extreme
number of known species as l0, 0Elo. This may
be an excessive estimate, but Shows the i'm
nense advances which have bGen made in
our knowledge OF these interesting plants for
which collectors now ransack the most re-
note quarters of the globe.
Some new light is thrown on the question
N college expenses by the statistics OF the
class at Yale this year. Accord
ng TO TIE 1gures furnished by the young
nen, tho average expenses for each freshman
we're Sst3; sophomore year, 1851; junior
rear, SSS}; senior year, SOFA This is about
he same average as Professor Palmer found
among the students at Harvard when he
ooked into the subject some time ago.