Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-05
GENERAL INFORMATION.

MICHIGAN will hereafter pay her Governor
$4,000 instead Of g., 600 year.
J UNCLE SAM makes profit Of tour cents
On every nickel put in circulation.
TBIRFy-sIx young ladies' recently gradu-
ated as physicians in Philadelphia
BosTox is the greatest market in the
United States for the sale Of lottery tickets.
RUTLAND, Vt, has the largest population
under town government in the United
States.
In the way of geology and mineralogy,
Nicaragua is reported to be the richest spot
in America.
DANIEL HANDS noble gift Of 81, COO, 900 for
the education of colored people In the South
will educate 500 pupils year.
IT is claimed that the fig has more me-
dicinal properties and more nutriment than
any other fruit, with the exception of the
olive.
TIE first road to use a cable as a means of
moving passenger cars was the Clay street
road of San Francisco. The cable system Is
the invention of A. S. Hallidie.
THE larges: fiume in the world has just
been completed in Southern California. 1t
is fifty miles long, costing 81, 900, 900, and con-
sumed 100000 feet of lumber in its con-
struction.
TEE finest steamer on the great lakes is
the City Of Cleveland, which makes regular
trips during the season between Cleveland
and Detroit She is beautifully finished and
cost about $3.50 600
ssTHE WARDEN is the title of man in
Washington who makes his living by help
ing home Government officials who have
taken too much drink He is often pre-
scented with heavy tips by grateful in
ebriates.
THERE are in South Carolina Il, 900 whites
who can not read or write, an equal number
in Tennessee, 10000 in Georgia, 900 in
Alabama, Is, 600 in Mississippi, 10000 in
Louisiana, 10000 in North Carolina and 25,-
600 in Virginia.
THERE are now forty experimental agri-
cultural stations in operation in the United
States They employ $40 scientists and
agriculturists And General Rusk, Secre-
tary of Agriculture, has all of them under
his special supervision.
THE New Jersey law requiring all goods
made in the State prison to be stamped as
follows: sMade in the New Jersey State
Prison." will go into effect June l, and the
present contractors refuse to bid again IN
less the law is repealed.
The pay of a United States Senator is
5000 a year, with an allowance Of S125
yearly for stationery and newspapers and
mileage at the rate Of twenty cents mile
for travel to and from Washington for
every annual session. Deduction is made
from the salary for absence without leave.
Do YOU know what ''griffe'' isa 1t is
the Louisiana name for the offspring of a
negro father and a mulatto mother. The
child Of mulatto and a grille is called a
'smarabou." The Spaniards call the child
of a mulatto and negro, or of an Indian
and a negro, a "Zamboo," whence our word
'Sambo."
New YORK manufacturers are advertis-
ing in Switzerland newspapers for silk
weavers, and it has been ascertained that
money has been provided to pay transpor-
tation Tor large number. New York
weavers are naturally indignant, and Sec
rotary Window will be asked to prevent the
landing of the imported people.
II is reported that process has been in
vented for extracting silk fiber from the
mulberry leaf without the intervention of
the silk worm The quality of the silk OBJ
tanned is declared to be equal to the bestsi
worm product. 1t is an American inven-
will work revolution in the production Of
silk.
THE shaddoclz, or grape fruit, is native
of China, it is said, and the story goes that
a naval officer who ate and liked them there
brought home some of the seeds and planted
them in Florida. For a long while the
trees were valued only for their pict-
uresqueness. Finally, though, Southern
people got to like the fruit, and now the
taste is spreading all over the country.
THE first gun in the civil war was fired
on January 9, 1861, by the batteries in
Charleston harbor, which drove back the
steamer Star of the West bearing supplies
% Fort Sumter. The actual outbreak of
war is dated from April u when Fort
Sumter was bombarded, and the first
blood was shed in Baltimore on April 19
in street attack on the Sixth Massachu-
sets regiment, which was on its way to
Washington.
VARIOUS INDUSTRIES.