Wichita eagle., 1889-09-21
STRAY BITS.

faceure Of French clay pipes.
A buried city, containing relics in profu-
sion, has been unearthed in Honduras
Sydney, n. S. W., has the biggest organ
It cost s75, 600 and has 126 sounding stops.
The oldest wheelman in America is John
". Arnold. OF Providence, R. L He is IS
A Londoner advertises that he is Porous
Plaster Manufacturer 10 Her Majesty the
Queen"
a colored man at Albany, Ga, has served
no less than twenty-one terms in jail for
fighting.
A Dahlonega, Ga, boy, in addition to at
tending school, carries the mail twenty miles
| each day.
It is reported that floating island 500
yards in diameter has been found in Honey
lake, Idaho.
It is computed that on an average mans
hand has to travel 4,7s6 miles before killing 8
one little fly.
A well in the south, from " ch a strong
breeze rushed for years, has -lenly taken
to spouting water.
Ansonia, Conn, has wo-year-old boy who
cries for cigars and smokes them when they
ara given TO him.
The 'fattest boy" in West Virginia lives
| in Wetzel county. His age is 9 years and his
weight 215 pounds.
1t is a curious fact that there are 200, 900
people in the United States who have arti-
fetal legs or hands.
Nearly every vessel clearing from San
Diego. Cal, nowadays carries from fen to
fifteen tons OF honey.
The Transyaal volksraad has appropriated
s10O,O for the endowment of the first col
lege of the republic.
Tithe bailiffs at1Pembroke, Eng, were ret
upon and roughly handled sy infuriated
people and dogs recently.
British soldiers not in possession of swini-
ming certificates are forbidden to enter boats
for purposes of recreation.
Near Hogan, NJ T., is large deposit of
petrified clans. There are also other beds
in that section of the territory.
A large cave has been discovered near Las
Cruces, n. 81, the interior OF which is lined
with veins OF almost pure silver.
There is living IL Chicago man who
claims to be brother of PranZini the re-
L
A Lebanon, Pa, photographer arranged
a camera in the gallery and had his picture
taken during his wedding ceremony.
kalamazoo, Mich, expects to realize
81 ,000,0 900 for celery this year The busi
ness is chiefly in the hands of Holanders.
A San Francisco jewelar has just received
500 for diamonds which he sold twenty-five
har .t,aS ht,t ka
had bad luck
There are still over 1Q, ,0G0, 900 square miles
of unoccupied districts in various heather
lands, where missionaries thus far have
never entered.
Since july I, when the law Offering
bounty for dead sparrows went into effect
there, Jackson county, Mich, has paid for
8,S27 dead birds.
A consignment of 100000 kilogrammes Of
terra alha which arrived on British steamer
viii be converted into candy for the delecta-
tion of the American people.
The modern seashore mansion has no light
from the ceiling. The gas or chandelabra
makes the side light on the wall, and the
central light is shaded lamp on the steadiest
table.
A very old pear tree is now standing on
| the grounds of ". II. Smith in Richmond,
Me. Its exact age is not known, but its
. identity can be traced back for $50 years. 1t
still produces fruit.
a short time ago a lady, the first of her sex,
graduated in medicine in Mexico. AS an ap-
propriate compliment her fellow students, of
the other sex, got up an amateur bull fight
in honor OF the occasion.
A richly decorated sign on Howard street,
leaning against the chair of one of the many
street professors" of the city, informs pass
ers by that there is ''the Qnly artistic ebon-
izer of foot gear in Boston"
/ Two Arabs were recently found at Castle
Garden, New York, one OF them named Ben
Josef and the o6her Mohammed Ben Abdel
Hirmir, vino had come to America TO seek
emplOymen, as camel drivers.
( 1t is claimed for the new electric fire engine
that it can De started at full speed; that 1t is
much lighter than a steam Dire engine OF
+ equal power; costs only oneathird as much,
a4id that it is noiseless in its operation.
TIE dispute as to whether the Calhoun
/ Williamson duel took place in Georgia or
/ Alabama has been settled in favor of Ala
bama The ground where it was fought be-
/ longs to an Atlanta policeman. Crowds of
visitors are rapidly stripping it Of its wood
! for menentoes.
/ The California papers say tnat the brig
! Natalie, which foundered in the harbor of
Monterey m 1884, is 10 he raised, or at least
{ what is left of her copper sheathing is to be
brought TO the surface 1t is said that this is
the same vessel that brought Napoleon back
3 l,a Trrx Of in
Couldn't Deceive Him.