Wichita eagle., 1889-05-29
WHAT IS GOING ON.

IT costs twenty-five dollars fine or thirty
days in jail to sell boys cigarettes in Ohio.
4 PROJECT is on foot to build ship-canal
across the upper peninsula, connecting
Lakes Michigan and Superior.
IT is said that unless the present condi-
tons are changed the complete destructiou
of the Adirondack forests is inevitable.
UTAH is so anxious for Statehood that the
Mormons declare that they viii abolish
polygamy to bring about the desired result.
Nor to be outdone by women, Baltimore
men have instituted a custom Of giving
afternoon teas As members OF both sexes
are invited, the teas are very successful
PLANTERS in North Carolina are much
alarmed at the exodus OF negroes. Many
agricultural sections viii not be able 10 Sc
cure hands to cultivate the lands this year.
The Buffalo and Niagara Fails Drainage
Company has been INCORPORATED with as
oco,Oo capital The object is to construct a
oltch oy way OF Tonswanda to the bottom
OF the Niagara gorge. which will be used IS
q tail race for water motors.
STILL another use has been discovered for
the bustle Marie Casterou vas arrested
on the steamer North Pacific az Port Town
send, w T.. for smuggling opium, fourteen
pounds OF the drug being found on her psr~
son. She had sort of harness rig-ei IN
and the receptacle of the opium did serv.
ice as hustle.
NEARLY every west-bouni train on thx
Chicago. Milwaukee, & st. Paul railroad
carries from five 10 dozen emisrant cars
filed with eUigrants for Dakota a majority
of whom are Germans. The Dakota towns
are rapidly filing up with strangers, and
the liveliest kind Of boom Is looked for dur.
ing the coming summer.
THE electrical apparatus BY which doomed
criminals will be put TO death in New York
consists of chair, probably of iron. The
current VIII be sent from arm 10 arm of the
subject, or from the head 10 the spine The
exact location of the poles viii. no doubt
vary with the subject and the opinion of
physicians.
THE people Of ..Vacs Valley. California,
have found that peach pits make good fuel
that pound for pound they Will burn as long
as coal and give more heat, and they are
now saving them all. They sell al SIX dol
lars per ton, and find an active market.
Apricot pits also serve for fuel, though they
do not burn SD readily.
ONE Of the sleeping car companies pro-
poses to build and run second-class sleep
ers, plainly furnished, but provided with
good beds and good service They win be
run in addition TO the trst-class sieepers,
but with decided difference In fare. First
class fare from Chicago 10 San Francisco is
$3.50; second-class fare will be a.
THE photograph is serving "a number Of
uses. One instrument concealed under the
coat was discovered to be employed sur
reptitiously in stealing the score of q
new opera; 1t was elected. Many phono-
graphs, il Is said, are being employed by a
number of actors and actresses as auto
matte teachers OF eloouuon. Through the
instrument they obtain an exact idea OF
their vocal expression, and learn by means
of minicry the precise qualities Of their
tones.
THERE arc at present some two thousand
women employed In drug stores throughout
the country. When the Women's School of
Pharmacy was first organized in Louisville
there were but two women engaged in the
business, and both.of these were in the lab
oratory of one Of the professors. During tho
last term more applications for graduates
10 fill responsible positions In drug stores
or laboratories Of manufacturing chemists
have been received at the Louisville school
than the total number which the school has
graduated since los commencement