Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-15
STRAY BITS.

The queens yacht has cork door cloth =
insure quiet.
A paper is published in Colorado called The
Golden Perhaps.
Watermelon reeds have recently been found
in an Egyptian tomb 5000 years old
Diamond rings for dogs tails are the latest
whims of New York women dog worshipers.
While digging potatoes, S. a. Calfe, of
Erwinna, Pa, found a colonial copper dated
l72.
The SQUIRREL club, of Galway, Saratoga
county, N. Y, has killed 500 squirrels this
seas,n.
A Wilkesbarre pa lad of years enjoys
a smoke, and hes fondness for 4year-old
pipe of his fathers
A marble statue Of the Princess Of Wales,
oy French sculptor, is to be executed for
erection at Copenhagen.
A lady who fell asleep on an Allentown
Pa.) street car recently was carried around
:ae line three times before waking
An electric car company in Erie Pa.) de-
tails an extra man on each car on market days
to help ladies on and off with their baskets.
Female telegraph clerks in Russia are not
allowed to marry any but telegraph officials,
and there is, consequently, bitter dissatisfac-
ton.
Some electric railways win be laid along
the rivers of northern Russia, where tile ex-
treme cold endures during great part Of the
year.
The latest Partisan novelty in gloves has
a small purse inserted in the palm, wherein
women can carry their railway tickets and
small coins
j. G. Rich, Of Bethel, Me-, a veteran trap
per, is engaged in the novel business of catch
ing wild hares to ship to sportsmen who wish
to stock game preserves.
An Eiffel tower in diamonds, which has
been on exhibition in Paris, may be expected
In America soon. 1t has been purchased for
exhibition In the United States.
A woman living near the line of Jefferson
and Walker counties, Ga, is z feet 2 inches
high, 25 years old, weighs 1876 pounds and can
whip any man in the neighborhood
A young lady of Columbus, Ga. made a
crazy quilt out of Louisiana state lottery
tickets that failed to connect" with the prize
wheel. The numbers are worked in silk Of
beautiful colors.
A magnificent English tree known as the
"Winfarthing oak, which measured 80 feet
? inches in girth in 1744 hos just been rcmeas-
ured and found to have grown just seventeen
inches in the interval, 100 years.
The Spanish bull fighters, having con quered
high society in Paris, have been received lat
terly in the same circle in Madrid in evening
Aress. Formerly they were obliged to wear
their war paint. Next year they will be seen
in London.
A childless old lady Of Stoddardsville, Pa,
years ago set apart small room for spiders
10 make their webs in, and no broom has
ever disturbed it, The spiders dwell together
in harmony as rule, although the lady says
$hey sometimes have regular cat and dog
fights
The Russian clergy have set up massive
clock to commemorate the Borki railway &C.
cident, in which the car and his family mar
rowly escaped death. The clock faces tbs
scene of the accident, and once year, at the
exact hour, a heavy silver bell tolls for five
minutes.
Three years ago small fig tree was placed
in the open space which was made by taking
up brick In court in the rear of r. S. Jen-
kins' Office at Marysville, Cal From the day
the tree was planted until the present not a
bit of sunlight has reached it, and it now
stands at height of over twenty feet and
has a very heavy crop of figs upon it. A
number of people who have tested the fruit
pronounce it very 6ne.