Wichita eagle., 1889-06-04
For 6 IA Cents.
STRAY BITS.

Savannah is said to be flooded with counter
felt silver dollars
A man in Harvey Valley, New, has been
arrested for stealing frame house.
Coral is said to be coming rage. 1t is to
be worn in all forms, even for buttons
A copy of John Eliot's Bible has just been
purchased by the trustees Of the British mu-
scum
The famous botanical gardens at Edinburg,
Scotland, have just been opened to the pub
lie on Sundays
Up to the present time the Canadian gov
eminent has given 49, 600. 900 acres of land to
railroad companies
About 2.346,O people Travelled on the
Manhattan Elevated railway during the three
days of the centennial
/ 1t is estimated that Americans will spend
s40,O0O,000 in Europe this season, of which
probably $4,000, 900 win go for tips.
r. An authority on the subject says it is safe
to say requirements will call for $50, 000, 900
to 200, 000, 900 railroad ties this year.
More than 1000 empty patent medicine
bottles were found in the house Of rich
bachelor who died at Knoxville, Pa, lately.
OF the fifty OF more ambitious writer's who
have attempted to fill Josh Billings Shoes
not one has succeeded in attracting attention
About the only rail fence in Cleveland,
curious to say, is in the most aristocratic
portion Of the city, on Euclid avenue, near
Case
A Milwaukee man has designed an appara-
tus by which he claims that water may be
successfully burned in cook stove or ordi-
nary heater.
Brussels has distinguished herself by bon
net show. The first prize was given to a
''hat, oyster shell sort of contrivance, deco
rated with raspberries."
Dr. Richardson has invented lethal
muzzle by which dogs or horses injured in the
street may DO killed in few minutes as pain
lessly as in the lethal chamber.
The largest circulation on record is that at
tanned by the volume Hymns, Ancient and
Modern" Twenty million copies have been
sold in the eighteen years of its existence.
A reporter for Paris newspaper entered
den Of hyenas to prove that it did not require
any particular pluck. He was SO bitten and
torn that the surgeons doubt If he can re-
cover.
Several head of cattle were bitten by mad
dog which passed through Merritt township,
Mich, the other day. Some sheep which were
attacked by the animal butted themselves to
death.
One DR.. Thenius, of Vienna, has invented
process by which he declares that good
heavy sole leather can be made from the wood
of old red beech trees. He has applied for
patents.
An Atlanta, Ca, burglar has pistol on
whose handle are twelve notches, every one
of which he says represents the killing of a
man. Pity the burglar couldn't be hanged
twelve times
The greatest snuff taking country in the
world is France, though it shows decline in
the habit. In 1869 the consumption was
Il, 5000, 900 pounds, or seven ounces per head
Now it is five ounces.
The making Of veneered diamonds is a new
Partisan industry. The body of the gem is
cut from quartz and then by galvanic action
coated with solution made from diamond
chips and stones too small for cutting.
Mr. McWilliams, of Columbus, O., objected
to his hired girl being out every night until
midnight, and so she set his house on fire and
picked up her bundle and departed to find
some one with more humanity in bis nature.
Hereafter the boats to be carried by At
lantic steamers instead of being made of wood
viii be made of steel in one piece. Wooden
boats rot and are easily crushed. The new
boats viii be built by machinery especially
made for rolling them out in all sizes in q
single plate.
Daniel Davis, an old man living in Yields
port, N Y, wanted to be buried in a barrel
when he died, and although he had had the
barrel in his house for nineteen long years
his wife managed the funeral to suit herself,
and he went into fifteen dollar coffin in
stead of the barrel
The lucky ticket which drew horse at a
rattle in the First ward at Bay City, Mich,
the other day, was held by D. N. Truddeil,
who, when be saw the "sull blooded animal"
which had been advertised, Immediately ac-
cepted an offer of 81 for it. The ''trotter"
will pull garbage wagon against time
An esteemed contemporary prints the fol-
lowing advertisement, apropos of the sale of
the old Poe house: Wanted, by an author
free for life, in consideration of the large price
which may afterward be obtained for said
house from some admirer of the authors
The smallest oil painting in the world is en-
titled what an Awful Lie is one inch by
an inch and quarter in size. very handsome
ly framed, and was painted by Mueller,
celebrated artist. The picture represents two
monks in conversation, one Of them evidently
getting of whopper to the other. /. is ex-
hibited in New York
Two wheelmen. Aessrs Bourston and Stokes,
have reached Constantinople from Egypt,
after travelling 1000 miles on bicycles, on
thsir way to England They VIII proceed to
Italy, and thence continue their wheeling
tour 70 the channel After visiting England
they viii return homeward overland by q
new route. They hope to complete the trip
by the autumn Of the next year.
Various governments pay their chiefs as
follows: The United States, 81, goo a year;
Persia, So, ooo, 900; Russia, $40, 600 900; Siam,
$40 900 600: Spain, =, so, oo0 Italy. $500
600; Great Britain, IS. 600 zoe; Morocco, g.
5oo. 900; Japan, 8, SOC, 600; Egypt sI.5.5, 900;
Germany, g., 900, 900; Saxouy, 500 600; Per