Wichita eagle., 1889-04-21
STRAY BITS.

A Suffer County, California, farmer has q
traction engine that viii pillow seventy-fve
acres Of land in twenty-four hours
| Glass windows commenced to make their
| appearance in English private houses in 11eo
Glass was first brought to England in 663.
As there was never a season more favora-
| BILE for the flow Of maple sap, there may be
more hopes of obtaining pure maple sugar.
| During heavy thunderstorm at Gonzales,
Tex, flock of wild geese were struck by
lightning and seventy-eight of them were
killed.
paradise" by Tintoretto, is the largest
painting in the world. 1t is eighty-four feet
wide, thirty-three and half feet high, and
is now In the Doge's palace, Venice.
Vienna is to have a beauty show for men.
and prizes viii be awarded in four classes
the handsomest man, the finest mustache,
the biggest nose and the baldest head
The fees for ascending the Eiffel tower are
five francs to the top, three francs to the
second platform and two francs to the first.
The three platforms will hold 10000 people
The Mexican consul at Los Angeles turned
a nice little penny by charging from % to s.
for passports to cross the line, and scooped
in many tenderfeet. No passport is needed.
The Paris exposition will open on May g.
A series of grand fetes has been arranged to
last all through the summer. The exposition
viii end in September with the award Of
prizes.
A new powder adopted in the British army
is the invention Of Mr.. Hengst. 1t is said
to be snokeless, favorless and non-heating
with less recoil and report than the powder
of the old sort.
One-thirtieth of the whole population of
Iceland emigrated last year, moved, it is
said, by the unpopularity of the Danish
government and the Establishments of Cana
dian emigration agents.
While % per cent. of the total population
of England is engaged in manufactures, the
proportion SO employed in the United States
is only ~ per cent, in Prussia ID, in France
IL, and in India l4111 per cent.
The children of the public schools at
Athens, Ga, took flowers to school with
them in such abundance that they became a
burden to the janitors, and an order had to
be issued forbidding the practice.
A Toledo man bought shotgun, so cents
spent three days time trying to rid his
premises of English sparrows. He killed
two and twenty others came to take their
place.
A Cincinnati father bought his boy drum.
The boy paraded and drummed on his drum.
Five of the neighbors went to law about it
and the drum was hung up and the boy sent
to the country. The court held that it was a
public nuisance.
scheme to establish line of omnibuSes
in which smoking should be allowed has
fallen through in London, because it turns
out that an act of parliament would be
necessary to enable the issuance OF a license
for such a vehicle.
A large party of well dressed Italians drove
up to the city hall, New York, in carriages,
the other day, and asked an alderman to per-
form marriage ceremony. As the bride,
however, was not apparently over thirteen
years old he refused.
A whale and her calf were washed ashore
at Santa Barbara, Cal, during recent
storm. The discoveries rugged up windlass
and hauled the carcasses on the beach and
will fry out the oil. They expect to get sew
eral hundred barrels.