Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-29

Brooklyn man answered. He received this
terse reply by return Of mail: BURN kero-
sene."
Only Is per cent of the inhabitants of Par
aguay can read and write According to
Consul Hill, the women do the work and the
men do the SMOKING, gambling and cock
fighting.
One mode Of selling turquoises at Mini
Novgorod is peculiar. person, on payment
Of a certain sum, is allowed to plunge his
hand into bag full Of them and to retain all
he can seize.
A pair of horses attached to a carriage at
ST. Thomas ran away the other day, and to
make good job Of it they covered a distance
of sixteen miles and then jumped into pond
and were drowned.
The will Of an eccentric Frenchman has
Just been sustained by the Paris courts, in
which he leaves his entire fortune to the poor
Of London, because they are 1.-THE born enc
mics Of silly France"
Mrs. Todd Latte, Of Bronson, Mich, who
has been totally blind for fifteen years, sud-
denly regained her eyesight few days ago
The first person she saw was her daughter,
and she exclaimed: my, how you have
grown!"
A young married couple in Ashtabula
county, O., have been making garden for the
first time. When planting onions they were
ct loss to tell which end to put down, so
they compromised the matter, he putting
them in one way and she the other.
A Reading tobacconist has 10-weeks-old
bear, which he keeps in his store. 1t plays
with bis Newfoundland dog and seems to en-
10Y itself greatly. The other day it APP
preached q drummer from behind, and gave
him a hug that startled and surprised him
A Portland, Ore, man pulled out his
pocketbook, when the wind seized its con-
tents aud scattered them broadcast, and $3.50
III bills were blown about the streets. Fortu-
nately everybody in the vicinity proved TO
be honest, and the money was all recovered.
In the out house of n W. Sweetman, near
Cuthbert, Ga, a rattlesnake frightened cat.
that scared hen, that knocked o jar from
shelf, which hit the faucet of a barrel Of NO.
lasSes, which turned the faucet, causing tho
loss OF barrel Of strip. The snake was
killed.
According to the statistics Of Dr.. Fodd Of
the Georgia State Medical society, the life
expectancy of various countries is as follows:
United States, IS years; England, 50; Russia
and Chill, Is; Soudan, %; France, 4515; Eu-
rope in medieval times, 20, and Rome in the
time Of Caesar, Is
A Norrisrown, Pa, father, on making his
nightly census OF his nine sleeping children to
see that al was serene, found that one was
missing. After O rigorous and exciting hunt
Of the house and neighborhood the lost one
was discovered peacefully sleeping in the
family wash basket, into which IL had crept
to play.
One OF the worst cases Of revenge upon
mother-in-law isreported from Buenos Ayres.
The young man had quarreled with and left
her. BE then advertised IN the papers that
ct the house whers she was living "a do,nes-
icated crocodile ~as for sale, and for DAYS
the poor old lady was besieSed by hundreds
Of bidders tos. the curiosity
Juvenile suicide has unhappily become CON-
mon enough in several European countries
Austria b the 6rss, however, to report An at
tempt at self destruction by an Infant A
small boy Of 8 was fshed out Of tho Danube
at Vienna recently, And OH being reszrscita,ed
told the police thst be had meant % drown
himself in order to escape a dogging.
Preston county, ". Va, has young lady
who would make fortune for dime nu-
scum manager. She caa write Just Is well