Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-23
STRAY BITS.
There are ITO, 900 Mormons in Utah.


Missouri has set apart 81, 900 for wolf scalps
for 1889 and 1890.
The Bible society has issued, up to date, q
total Of nearly &c, 000, 900 Bibles.
The Boston directory for 1889 contains 1922
S53 names, as against 191, 753 names last year,
showing an increase of only 100 names
About five thousand people have received
railroad passes to leave Johnstown. Some OF
them have been sent as far as New Mexico.
Nearly every country is to hold national
exhibition 10 celebrate the semt-centennIal OF
the discovery of photography. Italy Is the
latest to be heard from.
A century ago only 800 species of orchids
were known, and those very imperfectly.
Now the latest authority gives the extreme
number of known species as IL, OOO.
The Association of Centenary Firms of
Philadelphia has been organized. The asso-
citation consists of firms that have carried on
business in that city for 100 years or more.
The Arab believes in fate, and fate is what
ever happens. II he finds a traveller whom
he can rob, that is fate; if the traveller puts
bullet into him that's more fate, and he must
be satisfied with it.
A boy In Merideu. Conn, broke the handle
off teacup belonging to a neighbor, and the
trife has not only made enemies of a dozen
people, but led to several assault and battery
cases and three lawsuits.
The duck is to China what the Goldfish is to
the rest of the world. They eat duck raw,
cooked boiled, fried, baked and every other
way, and they worry over the duck crop the
same as we do over wheat
New York's new street toy is a miniature
skeleton, the skull of plaster, the rest of white
covered wire 1t does not sell quickly, al
though the seller cheerfully sings out, Here's
what you've got to come to!"
Col Hahn, manager Of the elevated rail-
roads Of New York, says that 5000 New
Workers. are out of town from June until the
middle of September. He bases his opinion
from the daily traffic on the elevated roads
Machinery has been patented for the pur-
pose of making ship boats from single sheet
of steel They viii be Of various dimensions.
1t is obvious that there must be great econ
omy in this mode of making boats in assorted
sizes.
A Philadelphia restaurant man says: GAS
long as we keep frogs in a dark place their
color is dark brown. But when we bring
them into the sunlight the color soon begins
to change until it finally becomes a light
green.n
The congress of Chill offers prize of S..
600 for the best milling apparatus. for which
a competitive exhibition will be held in No
vember next. Those who desire particulars
had better address the Gillian legation, at
Washington.
Hitherto Alaska mines produced gold only
to considerable extent. Quite recently sill
yer has been discovered at Holzham bay, the
rock producing 600 ounces to the ton, with II.
to Is per cent. copper. There is quite rush
to this spot.
A man in Australia has discovered pro-
cess by which he can season freshly cut Aus
tralian lumber in less than seven days This
seems hardly credible, as heretofore it has
required several years. Steam is one of the
agencies employed
We read about million bushels of wheat,
but few people realize what vast amount it
is. But If a million bushels of wheat were
loaded on freight cars, 800 bushels TO the car,
it would I'LL train fifteen miles long II
transported by wagons, the line of teams
would be 142 miles long.
An opinion is growing that bovine tuber-
culosis Is frequently transmitted to the hui
man subject by eating the flesh and drinking
the milk of tuberculous COWS. 1t is to be
hoped that thorough boiling Of the meat de-
stroys the vitality OF the bacilli, which are
assumed to produce this disease
1t is stated that Mr.. Doremburg, German
in Puebla, Mex, has acquired Zapoted
cote1, very ancient. The hieroglyphs are
painted on the skin of wild animal, and be-
meath each hieroglyph is written in Roman
characters its meaning in the Zapotec lam |
guage. The writing must have been the |
work Of some priest about the year 1850.
Put penny in and you will have a sur
prise says the legend on the latest form of
automatic machine. When one has been I'M
wise enough to comply with this invitation
one receives a card on which is printed: |
you give me penny and 1 give you moth
ing in return. You are surprised Voilal"
Before the war the high water mark In cot |
ton was 100000 bales. The crop of last year
is not yet entirely out Of the hands Of the
planters, but those whose business attention
is absorbed by the staple place it at {, 400 600
bales, an increase of 10000 over the year
preceding. This season, with average weather, !
it viii be S,000, 900 bales, worth nearly $780, |
00O, 600, five times the value of all the gold
and silver produced in the United States in |
one year.