Wichita eagle., 1889-01-10
STRAY BITS
Oregon has probably doubloa aer popula-
ton during the last ten years


for eight days for piucking live turkey.
Over 100000 was invested in roller skat-
ing Kinks during the craze, and most Of it
proved total loss.
The number OF streets in London is now
upwards of 2S,0o0, and new ones are added
at the rate OF 500 per year.
When the last Indian census was taken
there were l3l 900 lepers in British India,
100000 of them being males
The school fund Of Texas is so large that at
the end of the school year, July l, there was
surplus of $500. 600 on hand
new volcano is reported from Human
guillo district, Tobasco, which is spouting
forth large streams of red water.
One out Of every five school children in
Philadelphia is obliged to wear glasses, and
the proportion is rapidly increasing.
Mobile has $500. 900 appropriation for her
harbor, and the largest ocean vessels win by
and by be enabled TO lie at her wharves
The football team at Durham, n c., has
had powerful electric lights suspended over
its grounds end proposes TO play evening
games.
Old boots and shoes, steamed to a pulp, are
now converted into the soft, stamped, orna-
mental leather SO popular for artistic book
binding
The London Metropolitan Board of Works
proposes TO expend nearly $500, 600 in wild
ening three thoroughfares of secondary i'm
portance.
The French mare Plaisanterie. who won
the Cambridgeshire and Czarewitch three
years ago, was sold to Sir Tatton Sykes at
Chantilly for e., 400.
1t is said very authoritatively that the
Russian war preparations are constantly in
creasing, a noticeable movement being the
yictualing of Warsaw to stand siege.
Every French bank has a photograph OF
every employe, and in the case OF the more
responsible ones they are under the surveiI-
lance Of private detectives most of the time.
Two Ocala, Fla, ladies are the happy pos
SCISSORS of pieces Of one of the court dresses
worn by Queen Isabella, wife of Edward II,
who reigned over England In the Thirteenth
century
The Brooklyn bridge is indicating its use
fulness. During the past twelve months S.
1856 people have passed over it, Of whom
2,7S5, 533 walked across and the rest went in
the cars.
An INSCRIPTIONS dentist of Paris, after
chloroforming patient, with the proposed
intention Of extracting a tooth, robbed the
helpless sufferer of $1,000 in money and then
decamped.
From recent archaeological discoveries it APP
pears that the Romans, at the height of their
civilization and spleudor. had no system of
street lighting. No trace of anything of the
kind has been discovered
Some sea urchins have been dredged from
the Pacific entirely different from any pre-
viously known. They are rigid and of no
particular shape, while all others previously
dredged have been round
There has just been consecrated in Phila-
delphia church for the exclusive use of the
deaf 1t is the first and only place of wor-
ship in this country, if not in the world, that
is managed entirely by deaf mutes.
Six British soldiers deserted at Etshowe,
and on going to Natal surrendered them
selves to the civil authorities They were
tried by court martial, and sentenced to five
years imprisonment, with hard labor.
Among recent camera achievements is
portrait copy taken by the light of a Cuban
FREELY in thirty seconds, and photograph Of
the aurora boreaIis. To obtain the latter
had been declared an utter impossility
The fragrant and savory nutmeg is placed
on the list OF active poisons by The Hospital
Of London. because a boy of years, after
eating two whole nutmegs, fell into coma
tose state and died within twelve hours.
A British surveying steamer of $40 tons has
been launched ready for duty with engines
aboard complete. 1t was remarked that
within a few years tho launch OF finished
ships would be the rule instead OF the ex-
ception.
The style Of hair dressing for 1889 is said
TO be a narrow fringe on the forehead, with
a narrow continuation Of coils running from
the top Of the head low down on the neck
The hair viii not be SO much hidden BY the
I hat as at present
There was recently discovered in Central
Africa a village of houses built along
street and having gabled roofs. The inhabi-
tants are of superior intelligence, keep good
order in the village and sleep IN beds raised
above the ground
Most Of the buhach grown in California is
raised around Stockton. From it Dalrnatian
insect powder is made, which retaIis at 81
the farmers Of California TO pay more at
tention to its cultivation.
The sling shot nuisance is just now helping
to make the life of pedestrians in Boston mis-
cradle. 4 day or two ego the police visited
several schools and seized seventy five of the
dangerous play toys. Some Of them were
strong enough to send large pebbles great
distance.
A new sort of coursing is complained Of in
the English journals, being regular hunt,
by well-to-do young men, Of cats with bull
dogs in the metropolitan streets. We have
heard Of that having been done in New
York. 1t is a much less NOBLE sport than the
coursing Of rabbits
The Puget sound single, commonly known
as the Oregon shingle, is said to be twice Is
durable as the same article made OF pine, and
capable of being placed on the market at the
same price. Lnmbermen prophesy that the
time is not far distant when this single VIII
drive all others out Of the eastern market.
Syracuse university has no fast set,D but
it has troubles Of another kind. The fresh
men recently organized prayer meeting
association, and failed to invite the sopho-
ruores to be present. This made some of the
sophomores mad, and they have been trying
TO break up tie devotional meetings Of the
freshmen.
curious piece ot gold was paid TO Lew
iston, Ne, man the other day. 1t is $50
slug, coined in 1851, In San Francisco. II Is
an eight cornered piece OF yellow gold, about
es big as the silver dollar. Ii bears the stamp
Of the coiner and his address in Frisco. II Is
said 70 be worth about Sc. a Lewiston lady