Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-01
STRAY BITS.

There are 1O,000, 600 books published in
Germany every year.
The flower trade Of London is estimated to
amount to $4,000 day.
The Indians of Oldtown Island, Me-, have
organized printing firm.
The population Of Germany, according to
the last census, is 46, 855, 704.
There are 493 mountain peaks in the United
States more than 10, 600 feet in height.
As early as a25 the council of Nice ordered
the foundation of hospitals In the principal
| towns
All the scientists still assert that it would
take cannon ball only eight days to reach
| the moon.
ufactured in Germany throws a projectile
twenty miles.
| Spaniards, in the Sixteenth century, be-
heved that spiders indicated gold when they
were found in abundance.
| A geologist has come across evidences in
Scotland to prove that the earth lay in a
| liquid state for $50, 900 years.
The Turks regularly cut open the outer
corner Of the eyelids, if the eyes Of girl are
not large enough for their ideas of beauty.
The largest and finest specimens of mala-
chite come from Russia In Versailles there
is q room entirely furnished with articles Of
malachite.
Jerusalem, it is said, is fast becoming the
city of the Jews. In 1880 there were not
more than 5000 Jews there; now there ara
more than 10000.
In Lapland the test of oratory is seeing
who rattles off the most words without stop
ping to draw breath, and the women gener-
ally come out ahead
A London author has written thirty novels
in three years. This beats the record Of any
living man, but the writer's enormous labor
has brought him only $1,000.
A North Carolina justice of the peace fined
citizen SIS for contempt of court in not
bringing out pail Of water for the Justices
horses while he was travelling.
An electric hand saw is the latest invention
for carpenters. 1t works like any ordinary
saw, the electricity being applied only in the
process of setting and sharpening.
During the recent blizzard which descended
upon New York the Oceanic hotel at Far
Rockaway, valued at $4,000, floated out to
seq and disappeared in the waves.
The first locomotive imported into this
country was bought in Manchester, England,
for the Boston and Lowell railroad corpora
ton. 1t arrived in this country in 1884.
The largest electric plant In the world will
he
Illuminated by electricity, and contract for
The immense undertaking has already been
made.
The following are the figures showing the
size of the European armies: Russia, AGO.
600; Germany, 2, 500, coo; France, 2,43O, 900,
with, perhaps, 100000 more if needed;
Austria, LOTT 900; Italy. 2,4OO, 900: Turkey,
100000
young man who was married at Burhng-
ton, Ia, the other night, gave the officiating
clergyman $40 gold piece by mistake for
S25G coin, and went to the preachers resi-
dence in the middle of the night and de-
manded restitution.
The salaries of colonial governors are very
high. New Zealand pays 81 800 year; Ber-
muda, $4,000; Jamaica, $4,000; Feejee,
$1,000, and British Guiana, 5000. The en-
tire Feejee revenue is only R75,000. There
are only a handful of whites there
The most monotonous city in its buildings
is Paris the houses there being almost ali
alike. An attempt is now being made to vary
this by building houses of the style of the
Renaissance and Louis XI, and hope is ex-
pressed that the example will be followed
generally.
A newly invented bolt for fastening to-
gether heavy timbers does away with the
need of a nut. The head of the bolt Is pro-
vided with q spring. Upon striking this
spring with hammer two arms fly out from
the shank Of the bolt, pressing against the
timber and performing the Office of nut
London spends between 100000 and S.
0OO,0 a year on potted plants and cut
flowers. Many Of these flowers como from
Holland, France and even Italy A singla
culturist in southern France claims to senc
every year 10000 worth of white lilacs,
snowdrops, lilies Of the valley and roses to
London.
California supplies more than half of the
quicksilver consumed in the world The con-
sumption Of quicksilver in the world has
averaged LIS, 900 TASKS year. The principal
uses to which it is applied are: o. Meteoro-
logical and other scientific instruments; O.
chemical preparations; 81 looking glasses and
mirrors
A hunting party returned to Fresno, Cal,
from the mountains report finding the re-
mains of a man who evidently had been torn
to pieces by grizzly bear The remains |
were horribly mutilatsd. They were buried
where found. 1t is believed they were those
Of former citizen of Fresno who was inter-
ested in mining.
Nothing remains of the famous English set |
Element OF jamestown, Va, begun in 1907, |
save the ruins of O church tower, and this is
crumbling year by year. Tree roots have !
cracked the monumental slabs in the church. |
yard, and thus one of the few localities re- |
calling the first years of American history is |
slowly losing its distinctive features
There were 1872 suicides in France last |
year, of which 2, los are attributed to mental
Affections OF different kinds, LES to physi- |
cal suffering, 975 20 domestic troubles, 500 to /
drunkenness, 4S3 to poverty, 3o5 to pecuniary |
difficulties, 202 to the desire to avoid impris- |
onment, 100 to the loss of employment, 50 to |
the fear of exposure So to the loss of relatives,
25 to the dread of military service and 237 to |
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