Wichita eagle., 1889-10-10
STRAY BITS.

A four legged chicken is Wymore, Neb.,
curiosity.
The zouave uniform is to be abandoned by
the French army.
New Workers devour a million quarts OF
ice cream OF a Sunday.
In London the women are beginning to
wear the single eyeglass.
Wood pavement lasts about seven years in
streets where the traffic is heavy.
Buffalo, D, T., has a 3-year-old bov who
weighs eighty pounds and is four feet high
About 25,000, 900 letters pass yearly be-
tween the United Kingdom and North Amer
lea
A thief at Parkersburg, Pa, dug UP a field
of potatoes during the night and carried
them off.
Stuffed rats and mice are said to be one of
the fashions as ornaments in bonnets and hats
for 1890.
The mouth of Calumet river, emptying into
Lake Michigan, has moved east 2,SOO feet
since 1886.
An Ohio farmer says that one of his hens
has produced an egg every day for the past
six months.
More than 2OOO,O0 of the youth of India
are now receiving an education in the Eng
hsh language.
A West Virginia man suggests that the new
postage stamps be adorned with the picture
of Baby Mckee.
Cheesipe, the most recent American prod
uct, is said TO be composed of skim milk,
aikali and hog fats.
There are $1,000 benefit and burial clubs
registered III England and Wales, with funds
which amount TO 81, 100000
a pear tree at Sandy Hill, Pa, is well
filed with fruit, and one bough is covered
with blossoms People go miles TO see it.
Last year the value of the farm stock
cattle sheep and pigs-on the farms of the
United Kingdom was about e1i2 00o,O0
A western paper sallart!y remarks that
''the lady prisoners In our Jail are about the
most desperate lot We have seen in long
time
Two kinds Of divorces are granted in Cir
cassia- By the first the parties can imme-
diately marry again; by the second, not for
ayear.
a salesgirl employed by New York dry
goods house WAS polite and agreeable TO an
sged customer. who recently died, leaving
her $500
In 1871 each lamp in London cost e. lis.
Cd: this rose to Sc Is 3D. in 1872; it is now
eS Is I'd for square lamps, and IS S. l0d
for round lamps
John FredeTicks and his wife and Henry
" illiains and his wlIe. OF Laporte, Ind were
all bora on the 18th OF February. The men
are brothers-in-iaw.
A Louisville man the day after being bitten
by "a mosquito was seized with commissions,
his right side became p2ralyzod and he was
not expected TO live
a. wedding in Arizons recently the bride
received. with other gifts, furnished house,
a mule, 4 heifer, . barrel Of beer, q cask Of
wine, some whisky and a corkscrew.
silver bell has been hung in tower in
the village where the railroad accident TO the
cars train happened. and it viii be tolled
every day al the heur of the accident.
MaSsillon mother tried TO open her sons
eyes 70 rne ugliness OF the girl with whom be
was blindly in love by giving him a good
strapping. He thinks tee girl prettier than
ever.
a musical clock over one hundred years
old furnished twenty fcvr pieces of music for
the ENTERTAINMENT OF the guests az the golden
wedding anniversary Of Mr. snd Ms jacob |
Schneider, OF Eeilertown, Pa
Bombay newspaper announces two mar |
riageS. II one case tie bride bssng aged : !
years and in the other Is months, while TIE |
bridegroom vas 50. THIS is the system which |
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