Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-16
THE WORLD OVER.

A remarkable bird was shot near Dun
dee, Ind. the other day. 1t was snow
white. and, although ''seven feet high, 1t
weighed less than four pounds"
Russell Harrison has purchased in Lon
don, eight suits OF clothes, fourteen pairs
of trousers, four top coats, and boots
enough to fit out centipede, and the
name OF his white waistconts is legion.
Mrs Victoria Ciaflin Woodruff Martin
is now living at Hyde Park, London. The
English newspapers say that her husband
is descended in a straight line from Mrs
cambridge, the mother of Martha Wash
| ington.
A woman's proper figure on the modern
plan is said by the English authorities to
be twenty-three inches about the waist
and thirty-siX about the bust. There is a
has a waist Of eighteen and bust OF
thirty-eight.
Apache county, Arizona, is now without
a practicing physician within her borders.
An extent of territory larger than the
state Of Massachusetts and a population
OF several thousand people without doc
tor is, says an Arizona paper, one OF the
peculiarities incident to life in the wild
and wooliy west which would be regarded
rs utterly impossible by people who live i'll
the over-medicated eastern states.
Anonymous: have read somewhere the
legend Of one who, lay dreaming In his
chair, beheld q vision which stood before
him and beckoned him to follow her to
fortune. He waited, needed not her call,
until at last she grew dim and disappeared,
Just as the vision faded he sprang to his
feet and cried, Tell me who thou art"'
and received the answer, Il am Opportu-
nifty; once neglected L never return"
The play, as we'll as history, repeats it
self. AT least the following story has cur
rency: "The we'll known detection of a
crime, in Diplomacy through the per-
fume of a woman glove, was rep coduced
by recent occurrence in Paris. 4 man
who found his room robbed OF all his jew
elry perceived Il peculiar perfume, and a
few days later noticed 1t again when pass
ing two well dressed women in the street.
They were arrested and found TO be the
thieves
Who doesn't remember when it was the
received thing to send your sweetheart
every evening an enormous breastwork OF
flowers, where the roses We're stabbed into
position by wires and the whole effect of
which was stiff beyond expression.
Mademoselle had her corsage bouquet and
she would have felt that the world was
not quite right without it; that her beauty
must be fading and that her sweat heart
must be growing weary OF her. But now.
The young man gets down on his knees
and gives thanks because these belongings
are no longer demanded from him. II he
sends any flowers at all they must come In
big box, loose, low-stemmed and drip
ping with dew. They may be daisies
plucked from some county meadows, they
may be wild roses or they may be tAe
great. stiff scentless ones that have been
cultured in greenhouses But few or
many, they must not even be tied with a
ribbon or sent in a basket.
London letter in the New York Sun:
Next to the naval review, the military
sham fight at Aldershot interested the
German emperor. The ludicrous part of
the days business happened however, just
as the fight ended and the march past be
gan. A German admiral attached to The
London embassy, one of those officers who,
having spent his youth at sea- was put on
shore IN his old age, essayed TO make his
obeisance to his master from horseback, /
and came up at Il smart canter for that
purpose, emulating his military brother :
who preceded him. He pulled his horse ,
up short and described graceful parabola !
over the animals head, and sat down on [
his cooked hat that had reached the |
ground before him. There was roar Of !
laughter from the thousands of spectators !
which shook the hills. The emperor tired !
hard 60 preserve his gravity, but the sight !
of the fat sailor Sit ting or Toe peak OF his !
own hat was too much, and William final I
" laughed londest OF all. He made I
amends, however, by riding up TO the dis /
placed horseman and shaking hands, /
while he expressed the hope that the Off
GER was not hurt. He could not help laugh /
Jag, however, MS ne rode away, and the ,
admiral feels that his career Is blighted.