Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-22
CURIOUS THINGS OF LIFE.

Miss Frankie Raymond, an year old Chi
cago girl, has three lion cubs to play with.
The Rev. P. s. Twitty, Of Cuthbert, Ga,
Is organizing an antd-kissing society in that
town.
A jackson county, Ga, horse can take of
his own saddle and bride, open his stable
door and feed himself.
A l5-year-old boy of Ntchville, Conn.,, has
trained SIX sheep to harness and drives them
daily about the village.
After Southern Califoruians have scooped
ont the insides Of some OF their Chill squashes
they successfully USE the rind as rowboats.
n. c. Dodge, OF Bar Harbor, Me-, called to
see President Harrison the other day, and
when the president refused to see him, he
tainted.
The multiplication Of ee7, 654 1871 by IS
gives A, ~, ~, 44a Reversing the order and
multiplying 1913, 456, $50 by IS, a result equally
odd Is obtained, b,555, 55s.5Oa.
There Is an old negro in Quitman county,
Ga, who has never owned lock. He has
been for years mailing bar Of wood across
the door Of his CRIB every night.
In Charity fair recently held at Vienna,
In the Princess dArcmbergs palace. an Eng
lish millionaire paid 10000 forms for the
pleasure Of kissing one cheek Of the princess
Only Is per cent Of the inhabitants Of Par
aguay can read and write According to
Consul Hill the women do the work, and the
men do the smoking, gambling and cock
fighting.
The largest family in Arkansas is that Of
W. D. Green and wife, Of Murfreesboro, Pike
county. They were married In 1885 and have
had twenty-three children, eighteen Of whom
are living.
Sakurai Tezo, clerk of the Kawasah
bank, Chiba, Japan, is charged with secreting
the funds Of the bank and been held for trial
He started for Canada, but was caught be-
fore be got out Of Japan.
According to the Oxford county. Me-, Ad-
versiser, two little girls, one and the other
Il, belonging to Edwin Boynton, Of Brown
feld, plowed and narrowed an acre of Land in
one day with q yoke Of oxen.
Demas Barnes, who is said to have left at
least 5000, 900, began his business life in
Brooklyn on a salary Of $50 year and his
board At the age Of twenty be had saved
enough to go into business for himself
John D. Davis, farmer, residing at New
Diggins, Ills, put his milk cans on ths wood
pile TO dry and the rejection Of the suns
rays from them set the wood on Gre, doing
considerable damage to bis house and barn.
a French fisherman who was reported lost,
and whose property IVES divided up, returned
all right after an absence of two years, but
the French courts held that be Is dead, and
be has got to take a new name and be some
body else.
Eliza Jane Starr, an Oakland, Cal, widow,
has peutioned the supreme court 70 increase
her allowance OF pin money Her husband
used to give her 81. 500 per month, and she Is
now only receiving si,ooo, which she clein1s
Is not sufficient for her incidental expenses
A Montgomery farmer has colt tha. has
learned TO ring the farm bel By catching the
rope In his teeth and pranctng back and forth
He knows too, when to ring ib-at daybreak.
TO awake the farm hsnds, and at noon, TO call
them to dinner, and is never FIVE minutes late
or early.
The story is told Of q South Carolina col |
ored couple who were married under dill
cultieA They walled twenty miles TO get
license and walked ten rors to a minister |
One was Il and tia other ID They are |
happily married now. and, despite their |
tender years are getting slonz niceiE. l