Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-16
BORNE ON TIE TIDE.

OsTR1CHEs sell for LOCO per pair in Cali
fornia.
THERE are nearly 100000 Cinnamon in the
United States.
The German population of New York is
given as 350,00o
The weight of the world-6 600, COG, oO0,-
0OO,000, 100000 tons.
GEORGE GoULD's yacht Hilgarde, once be-
longed to the Prince of Wales.
A MONUMENT to Horace Greedy will be
raised at New York by the printers OF
America.
Mrs. CLEVELAND always calls her husband
"Mr. President" Mr.. Cleveland addresses
his wife as - Frank
THE sculptor ST. Gaudens is TO get SOS, coo
for his statute of Peter Cooper and has
three years in which to execute the work
AN American who has Travelled for two
years in Germany says he never heard one
German ask another to solve a conundrum.
JOHN GENNADIUs, Greek Minister to this
: country, asserts that the Greeks of to-day
are as strong physically as their famous
ancestors of classic times.
NEW YORK has number of grown women,
between thirty and fifty years of age, on
the streets selling papers. New York is
following the example of Paris.
AT the New York water-color exhibition
the picture Of a red-headed girl, by Miss
Newell, hangs on the wall and near it one of
Zogbaum's cavalrymen on white horse.
Tue heaviest man of whom there is any
" record was Miles Darden, of Tennessee,
who died IN 1857 at the age of fifty-nine.
Height, seven feet six inches; weight, 1000
pounds.
A HANDSOME marble tablet has been
placed on the front of the house at No. 2Q3
Main street, Charlestown, Mass, bearing this
inscription: Here was born Samuel Finley
Breese Morse, % April, 1871; Inventor OF
the Electric Telegraph"
A BUSINESS man of South Florida adopts
this novel plan to keep drummers out OF
his place, and he says it works admirably.
Every morning he places plug hat and
satchel on his counter. As soon as drum
mer comes TO the door and looks in he sees
the plug hat and satchel, and he goes off,
believing that another one of the craft has
that ground already covered.
J.F. LoUBAr, wellk known and wealthy
New Yorker, has just been made Count
by the Pope of Rome. Count Loubat is Of
French descent and a member of st. Leo S
Roman Catholic Church. He is q bachelor,
and spends as much time in his house in
Paris as he does in his apartment in New
York This is the second time the Pope has
ennobled an American citizen within year,
the other being John Good, gentleman OF
Irish descent.
ONE of the most successful features OF q
recent LITERARY entertainment" IN town
the other evening was :" bung-whltthng
contest by ladies" Each of the contestants
received square bit of wood from which TO
white bung to lit large stone Jug. They
could all see the hole to be filed, but none
could measure Ii. Prizes were given for
the best and for the poorest bung, and then
they were all sold at auction. One Of them
nearly fitted the bunghole.
THERE are now about 1900, coo colored peo-
pie In the United States, and they propose
holding National exposition of the results
OF their inventions, labor and productions
in this the twenty fifth year of tho enanci-
patton OF their race from slavery in this
country. Congress has granted them a
loan of sioo,Ooo for this purpose. The city
of Atlanta, Ga, has rendered 200 acres of
land and suitable buildings free of charge.
The exposition is designed 10 be Kept open
from November Il. 1855, to February Il,
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