Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-10
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also the possessor OF a safety machine anc
contemplates accompanying her husband OF
some Of his early morning spins.
RESIDENTS in West and Northwest Tex
as will call the attention of the Legs
lature to the determination of deer. They
are killed simply for their hides, skinned
where they fall, and their carcasses left for
the buzzards. The slaughter is said to be
unprecedented
GENERAL attention is at len 9Th called to
the fact that the growth of the New YORK
Grant monument fund is now so slow as
scarcely TO be a growth at all. FItful con-
trlbutions of fe " dollars are received now
and then, but practically the collection OF
funds for this purpose has ceased
LINEN garments which have become vel
low from time may be whitened by being
boiled in a lather made OF milk and pure
white soap pound of the latter TO a gal
Ion Of the former. After the boiling process
the linen should De twice rinsed, a little blue
bein g added to the water last used.
FIFTEEN daring young women of Phlla-
delphia have formed club of which the
sole condition of members hip is that the an
pllcant forswear corsets. Each one of the
ladies compris ng the club has con signed
her whaiebone cuirass TO the flames. and
now taxes her ingenuity to provide a sub
stitute.
School attendance is compulsory in
Japan, and there are 100000 children in
the public schools, of which 100000 are
girls. There are l,S00 students In the I'M
perlal University Japan has 142 high
schools, 65 normal, los technical, which are
public, and l.Sl3 schools which are main
tanned by private funds.
RIDER HAGGARD has become a vegetarian.
He found by experiment that he could work
longer and to better effect on a meatless
diet than when he INDUCED freely IN beef
and mutton. He has become a convert to
the theory that the Imagination becomes
more active when the body abstaius from
animal nourishment
TIE latest wrinkle among the young
newly-engaged ladies' and their friends in
Washington Is bit Of CHINA presented
with the note Of congratu lation. One belle
has in this way made fine beginning in
the bric-a- brac line and already has COM
plete dozen Of after dinner coffees and a
number Of other very beautiful pieces.
colonel NORTH, the wealthy American
whom the English call THE Nitrate King"
- aS SIlIS 70 the poor as ne IS
IN his entertainments. He not only sends
substantial checks 10 all the leading Lon
don hospitals, but ne has instructed his sec
rotary TO arrange for series Of free sup
pers.twice a week to 800 of the poor in the
British metropolis
PETROLEUM, as it comes from the earth, is
thick ana dirty, and has such a bad smell as
to render it unfit for use fer general pur-
poses 1t Is therefore sent to rehneries,
where II Is distilled and rendered available
for conversion into many varieties of use
ful articles. The price for the crude oil by
the barrel tuctUases daily
TIE novelty of a large hotel built on plies,
away from the shore, and with the tide
waters OF the Gulf Of Mexico rising and
falling under it, is materislizinC II Tampa
bay. The hotel is being butt by a syndi
cate headed by Mr.. Plant, the railroad king
If Florida Later on when the house is
opened the guests viii be able TO fish for
5arpon and poupano from their bedroom
windows.
In tenement locality in New York City
there is club of thirtF-ave bahy milan