Wichita eagle., 1889-09-08
CANCER OF THE TONGUE.
STRAY BITS.

The g,lava crop in Florida this year win
be immense.
a tree was cut down at Crting, ". T., tina.
measured 80 feet long.
L-evs- 70 years Of age and scarcely three feet
high.
A justice Of the peace in Doddridge county,
". Va, has been fined for selling whisky IN
lawfully.
The lima bean crop of Ventura county,
Cal, this year viii amount 70 5000 tons,
worth $780,
a Philadelphia fed peanuts to the polar
bear at the Zoo" aud the ungrateful ami
NAL bit one Of his fingers of.
The heavy rains OF the past month have
seriously damaged the cotton, corn and to-
bacco crops of North Carolina.
George Freeman and wife, Of Lothrop, No,
have been married thirty years and are the
parents of twenty-fve children.
A charter has been granted for railroad
in Liberia. 1t Will be the first in that coun-
try. Its length viii be 656 miles.
A strange and fatal disease has appeared in
Guayaquil, Ecuador. Victims fall in the
street, vomit foam aud blood, and die.
More buildings have been struck by light
ming in northern New York during the first
half of 1889 than in. sny previous year.
Electric welding has proved so. wonder
fully successful in the United States that for
eign companies are actively organizing.
The collection of Snakesperean rarities col
lected by Mr.. Halliweu Philips are TO be
sold to the Birmingham library for e. 900.
After a courtship that lasted an hour
young couple in Akron concluded 10 get
married, and were welded the following day.
The agent Of the .Broome County, N. Y,
Bible society has discovered that there are ia
families in that county who do not possess
Bible
The California state board of trade reports
that there are IL, 000, 900 acres of arabic land
in that state capable Of being rendered pro-
ductive by irrigation.
The Newport cottagers, In their fight
against the street railway there, set up the
claim in their bill in equity that they own TO
the middle of the street.
The keeper of the great scalp of the Unit
ed States is George Bartie. He has been in
the government service for forty-three years,
having originally been appointed a clerk in
the state department by Daniel Webster.
The city of Toledo, O., is in luck. In order
to checkmate the Standard OH company ths
city government bought land at Van Buren,
and drilled well. A few days after gusher
was struck that will yield 20,000,0 900 feet Of
gas per day.
The i'll luck attached to the number thir-
teen struck little Katie Fehling, of New
York, with full force. She is Is years old
and is one of thirteen children in the family.
At 5:13 she was arrested for shoplifting and
pleaded guilty.
The cutlery dealers of New York complain
that the prevailing humidity has rendered it
necessary to put their stocks of penknives,
scissors, chisels, ETC., on the wheels TO be re-
polished This has involved an expense OF
thousands of dollars.
A railroad regiment" has now been added
TO the French army, and the minister of war
is about to set it at work constructing an ex-
perimental line within a given time. The
regiment is expected TO do everything con-
nected with the laying of the line.
~ IHIldAlelpLA1 tcehLSl LlJt Et!DS dDle W
sell even a single pair OF shoes of certain
grade at 81, thought to mark them down TO
cost Instead Of doing 50, however, he took
the advice of his errand boy and added
twenty-five cents 10 the price, and they went
off ike hot cakes.
At FarnersburR, Ind, local judge, dur
ing the progress Of sensational trial recent
~, hired a hall and charged an admission
fee Of ten cents from each spectator TO the
trial Even the attorney for the defense in
the case was refused admission TO the court
until he had paid his fee.
Philadelphia named Humphrey, who
has been enjoying the delights at Bar Har-
Dor, has a high appreciation Of the honesty
Of the cclored servants on board the boat
running down 10 Boston. Mr. Humphrey
left his purse, containing 1866, under his pill
low, and it was found by servant and for
warded 10 him.
Joseph a. Donohue, OF Menlo Park. has
offered 20 the Astronomical Society Of the
Pacific 70 establish a medal to be given to
the first discoverer OF every unexpected
comet, and TO the first person making pre-
else observation OK a telescope periodic
comet ar any OF its expected returns