Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-03
DISTANT DOINGS.

In France experiments are being made
with cork Car springs.
THE Royal Academy in London has deh-
nitely decided not TO open its doors on Sum-
days.
A FRENCH soldier at Oran, Algeria, ha.
just been condemned to death for striking
superior officer with a quid Of tobacco
A RUSSIAN joint stock company is build
ing an immense Loaf rheater to float up and
down the Volga river. Performances are
to be given at every large town.
A CURIOUS old custom is still in vogue in
the old Yorkshire town of Ripon. At that
place the curfew horn is blown every night
at nine o'clock by man in uniform.
SHEEP for one penny each seems ridicu-
lous. Yet, owing to the drought of the last
six months in Australia, $1,000 sheep were
recently sold in Melbourne at that price.
THE King of Sweden, on his sixtieth birth
day, offered prize to be contested for by
all the geometricians of the world. Poin-
carre, g member of the French Academy
of Sciences, won it.
A NEW religious sect has been formed in
the town of Zwickan, Germany, the members
of which call themselves Free Brethren in
Christ" They reject infant baptism, and
believe in an early temperance of Christ on
the earth.
TIE electricians of the Paris exposition
have, it is said, devised a method by which
the waters from the hidden fountains will
be Illuminated by electric light, with the re-
suit of producing very elaborate and ar
tistic effects in color.
CRYLoy people are interested In rivalry
as to who shall find the highest palm tree.
An English railroad builder named Cantrell
made the first record al 10 feet, but Mr..
Patron Cray has just shown palm III feet
high, and takes the medal
A BISMARCK museum is TO be established
on Inter den Linden, not far from the Ho-
henzollern museum The Iron Chancellor
will himself contribute some historical
treasures, and an appeal viii be made to the
public for gifts Of keepsakes and rnementoes
Of him
The lance. which once played an important
part in warfare, Is likely to find general re-
adoption in several European armies II Is
picturesque, and could doubtless be made
effective in the hands of cavalry, but it is
scarcely probable tbs. it VIII supersede tbs
weapons which have been so .cng in use for
hand TO hand conflicts
ACCORDING 70 financial cou.emporarTth
Russian Government has accepted the prop
ositson made by accompany recently formed n
St Petersburg for the construction OF canal
to connect the Black Sea with the Sea of
A,of The canal VIII be cue hundred and
eleven versts long aid viii afford passage
To steamers drawing not more than nineteen
feet
TEE Chinese frequently piace little metal
idols within the shells Of Do.loscs, reroov-
ing them several years afterwards covered
with substance resembling pearl; they
also lay srings Of sEsau pearls, separated
By knots, inside the shells, and. CT taking
them CIT, after lapse OF some years, Cd
tain large and costly pearls
An American girl who xAs presented al
the Queens crswing-rooS1 recently was 80
embarrassed that she made quite tax pas
STE wholly iEnorec the Queen until after she
bad saluted the Princess Of WsIes. when
she suddenly turned arc1nd and Asto1.shec
her Majesty by SAYING; oh i beg yoar
rArsos, madam grabbed tex roysl hand.