Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-17
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NEWSPAPER NOTES.

TIE long distance telephone between Bos-
ton and Chicago has been nicknamed
'Pork and Beans"
A BRONZE statue Of heroic size is to be
| placed over the grave Of Stonewal Jackson
at Lexington, Va.
A FULL-BLooDED negro testified in rich
| Irish brogue before Brooklyn court the
| other day. He was born in Ireland.
a GANG of tramps captured at Ventura,
| Cal, had IN their possession over 200 keys
of different patterns and no end of clothing
A CHICAGO paper in trying TO refer to
"the late lamented," gets it: 1.-THE late
| Lieutenant" and what makes itworse is the
| fact that il was a woman.
A sHIPBUILDING feat never before sp-
preached was lately performed on the
| Clyde. A 5,000-ton steamer for the Ger
man line to New York was launched which
had been built in less than four months.
THE new cruiser Chicago is to have
costly service Of silver, to be used when
distinguished guests are entertained on
board 1t Is to be a gift from the people of
Chicago, who at first thought of giving
handsome library.
ONE Collins death, which occurred lately
in Vernon County, Mo-, is said to have been
the result of a voluntary fast of fortY-two
days. He was victim of Bright's disease,
and looked forward TO death as a relief
from great suffering"
A FREAK has been born in Mackinac Coun-
ty, Mich, in the shape of girl baby who
has two heads-one of the regulation kind
on It's shoulders, and the other without ears,
eyes, nose or mouth, on its back. The babe
Is apparently intelligent and healthy.
THERE is a decided movement in West
Virginia in favor Of changing the name of
that State. Its promoters say that every
State should have distinct name Of its
own, SO far removed from the name of any
other State that no confusion of names can
arise. West Virginia is so near like Virginia
that the people DO not enjoy it. Curiously
enough, they all agree that "Kanawha" is
the name for the State.
JAMES A. STEWART, the newly elected
mayor Of Griffin, Ga, is one of the young
est mayors on record, his twenty-second
birthday having been celebrated in August
last He is the son of Congressman ]. D.
Stewart, who was greatly surprised when
he heard of his boys election. Young
Stewart entered the campaign but one day
before the election, and received thirty
nine majority over one of the most solid
clJlZenS OF Grl1ln.
A PERSIAN cat was able to spread scarlet
fever amidst large community of children
in Chicago. This animal had been petted
by sick child, and in its visits to several
Eeighbors' houses it carried the disease
with it. Nothing is more natural than that
its fur should harDor particles from the
patient, and nothing more likely than that
these should be waited through the air
every time its fur was stroked.
AN old male ostrich escaped from the
farm at Red Bluff, Cal, and started at
lightning speed for the Sacramento river,
which he swan, and disappeared in the
brush on the opposite shore. After putting
in two or three hours roaming around IN
the underground, he swan the river again
and was finally captured seventy miles
from where he started, and evidently as
fresh as ever, Notwithstanding his two
baths and little jaunt.
INVITATIONS have been issued to the
maritime nations to send delegates to at
tend an International Maritime conference
TO meet in Washington on April II, 1889.
The objects of the conference will be to re
wise the regulations concerning VESSELS at
sea, to adopt uniform system of signals to
indicate the direction in which vessels are
moying in fog, snow, or thick weather, and
at night to convey warnings of approaching
storms and other important information,
and to formulate regulations for the pre-
vention of collisions. The Importance of |
the subject is SO great it is hoped there win |
be full attendance of delegates.