Wichita eagle., 1889-04-26
FOR THE CURIOUS.

FOR TIE CURIOUS.
A STOCKTON (CaL) bootblack carries .
box that is covered with silver plate
A CHINESE Lady with a two and one-hah
inch foot is to be seen at dime sho~ IN
New York.
FOURTEEN clocks keep the time at tho
State house in Augusta, Me-, ali eight-day.
Two of the clocks are over forty years OF
age.
A RESIDENT of Strahave, Pa, possesses
q setOf double teeth with which he can
bite nail in two, crack walnut and lift
keg of beer.
THE Bachelors Club Of Philadelphia asks
all men to resign when they marry, except
those who take widows for life compan-
ions. These are expelled
GEORGE JEFFERs, Merced County (Cal)
farmer, became despondent over the pros
pect Of dry season and hanged himself.
The next day the rains began.
MANUEL BARRIANr and his wife Mara
have celebrated the eightieth anniversary
of their marriage at Matamoras, Mexico.
The husband is 1O2 and the wife 96
THE cave animals of North America. 40
cerding 10 Prof A. S. Packard, comprise a
total of 172 species of blind creatures, nearly
all Of which are mostly white in color.
A VIRGINIA justice OF the peace has fined
a fisherman seven dollars for contending
in open court that the moon had any thing
to do with the ebb and flow OF the tides.
JOSEPH 81. CHoArE he's ascertained that
there were no lawyers in New England for
the first half century of its existence.
These were indeed good old times" says
q facetious exchange
A NUMBER of geological specimens have
been discovered in excavations at coal
mine near Santa Rosa Cal, among them
beds of clam shells, looking fresh and
bright, as just taken from their native
bed
WHEN q horse strays away during .
storm or high wind, be sure he went in
the direction of the wind A horse breads
wind In his face. With sheep the con-
trary is the case. The sheep faces the
storm.-Troy Times
A FAMOUS dog trainer educates hrs dogs
by simply talking to them. He uses neither
sugar nor whip, but tries to make the dog
understand what he is TO do He then per-
forms the trick himself, and the dogs fol-
low and initiate him. m.-Boston Bulletin
A GIRL working in one Of the Biddeford,
(Me.) mills is the thirty-second child of
the same father and mother, and twenty
three of her brothers and sisters still live
and write to her every week. She receives
more letters than any woman in Biddeford.
A YOUNG man of Brunswick, (Ga.) went
duck hunting, and while at least mile
away from the city fred at a duck with a
breech-loading rifle. The ball came to the
city and went through the door of a resi-
ncfr m q
childs head.-N. Y Sun.
THERE is family In Polk County, Ga,
whose children possess names that are, to
say the least rather original. They answer
to the following cognomens: Molhe Neck
lane, Quincy Ann, Sis Tommie, Happy Josie,
Nestor Chester and l Wonder 1t is said
that the happy mother takes pride in cali
ing each child by its full name
ONE day last year a New York youth
wandered into cigar store, and buying a
cigar lighted it with an alcohol lighter.
On returning the light to the tube an ex-
plosion took place and the young man was
severely burned about the face. Recently
ne recovered one hundred dollars damages
from the proprietor of the store.
A GENTLEMAN Of our acquaintance, q
former resident of this town, has re.
Gently celebrated his eighty third birth
day, and in token of the fact that his eye
sight has not yet failed him, and that his
nerves remain steady, he sent US slip Of
paper, the exact dimensions of a postal
card, on which he has written with perfect
distinctness words containing in all 6, 6,54J
letters MorriStocn Jerseynaan.
THERE was belief among the people OF
the olden time that if you built new house
and finished it the owner would not live
long; but If you left any part thereof un-
completed you would live until it was done.
Governor Wilson Lumkin is said to have
had this superstition, and when he con-
structed the rock house on the hill. over
looking the cemetery he left one window
unfinished, and it so remains until to-day
We learn that this is not the only old
house in Athens whose owner had this be
hef.-Atteas (Ga.) Banner.
A CITIZEN of King ton. n Y, who is un
fortunate enough to be the husband of &
woman who owns all the money in the
possession of the pair, adopted move
scheme the other day to make a raise of &
small sum, He went TO a hat store, Sc
cured two-d9llar hat and arranged with
the merchant to bring in his wife to pay
for it, when the merchant was to charge
four dollars and pay nim the difference
The man brought his wife, who, after ad
| miring him in his new hat reluctantly paic
| the four dollars and the couple left
Shortly afterward the man returned, go'