Wichita eagle., 1889-05-01
ITEMS OF ALL KINDS:

TIE rarest and choicest of precious metals
Is gallium. 1t is valued at $3.50 an ounce.
AN Albany jeweler loaned all his dia-
monds on the occasion of a "swell'' ball
given in that city recently.
PRESIDENT HARRISON. is the fourteenth
lawyer to hold the Executive chair Of the
Nation. He is also the fourteenth of pure
Anglo-SaXon blood.
FIFrY-FIvE women of Utica, N. Y, have
signed an agreement not to let man
crowd past them in a theater sunless he is
going out on some other business than that
of drinking"
TIE young ladies Of Kansas town got
together and decided that they would send
their beaux home promptly at ten o'clock
The boys are on strike, and the girls are
SAID to be weakening.
Down In Panama collins are hired, and
graves, too The latter cost twelve dollars
for eighteen months, and in case Of non-pay-
ment the body 10 thrown out Of the grave.
Collins can be hired for seven dollars.
A GREAT fume was lately completed at
San Diego, Cal. 1t extends fifty miles from
the western slope of Cuyamaca mountain,
where there is reservoir containing four
years. supply of water at IAN elevation of
$500 feet. The cost was 100000.
A Swiss writer attributes badness to q
microscopic fungus, which, however, he has
not as yet been able to describe or indeed
to discover. Hethinks that BARRIERS should
be compelled to disinfect their combs and
brushes.
THREE Cinnamon in Canyon City, near
Yellowstone Park, established laundry
over boiling spring, and did good bus
mess until the spring one night developed
suddenly the eruptive force of q geyser.
The tent was swept away, and the I'M
fortunate Celestials were boiled to death.
A WOMAN in Ridgeway, Can, had the
banns between herself and two Of her lovers
published in church. The clergyman was
interviewed, and gave it as his opinion that
the woman was free, so far as the church was
concerned, to make the final selection when
she came to the altar on the wedding morn
ing.
AN invention that is being used out West
for sending coin through the mails consists
Of piece of pasteboard about the size of an
envelope In it are holes the size of silver
quarter, half-dollar and dollar, with red
paper seals ready to paste across each slot.
A coin can be put in and sealed, enclosed in
an envelope, and sent through the mails in
safety.
THE athletic-culture fad, which originated
IN Boston and has been steadily spreading,
has now reached Milwaukee, where young
women are evincing lively interest in it.
A new feature of the fad is the craze for
fencing and boxing-two masculine ac-
complishments, which for some reason are
very dear to the feminine mind
'MEMoRY HOOPS are the latest fad in
Kansas City. A memory hoop is about ten
inches in diameter and will hold thirty to
forty bows or knots. And the thing for the
male friends of a young lady to do is to give
her handsome piece of colored silk, which
she ties On the hoop The girl who covers
the most hoops in this way Is considered the
reignlng belle.
Edison, the inventor, was a cake from his
servants. 1t was about two feet in diameter
and twelve inches high. 1t bore the inscrip-
ton, Thomas A. Edison, 1881 in frost
work, and around its edges were forty-two
tiny incandescent electric lights supplied
from battery placed in a cavity 10 the
center of the cake.
COLONEL FRED GRANT has a matchbox
which engages about as much of his atten-
ton as any thing else 1t is handsome af-
fair, being of Roman gold studded with
diamonds. One diamond in the collection is
as large as pea, and it is by pressing upon
this that the box is opened. The box was
given to ex-President Grant by the Shah of
Persia The Colonel is never tired of show
ING it and talking about 1t.