Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-01-12
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In average Mexican laborer supports
- s Iamlly on ten cents per diem, invested
IN corn and beans.
| DuhlSG the last year and a half tho cot
son manufacturing power Of japan has In
cleased more than $50 per cent
WHEN London lady urges . friend:
10 Jake on your skin,' - she merely means
ZOE ner to Lay aside her sealskin cloak
iAE Sultan of Turkey has decreed pro-
Moiuon Tor Constantinople and ordered
Tue ponce to close all the liquor shops in
that city
Prominent women of Paris are signing q
peuuon Tor the suppression or restriction
OF impure literature, and a League of Pub
hc Morals has been formed
AN Esquimau woman tells us that tho
people OF her country never wash or bethe,
have no rulers or form of government, and
every one does exactly as he pleases.
EVERY THING in the Cars kitchen is Kept
strictly under lock and key, and no one
can serve him any thing except the maitre
dhotel, a Frenchman named Brenger, who
alone attends the Gar at table.
The Swedish Government has declared
against the importation of pork from the
United States, unless it is well sailed. The
order is founded on a report that q hog
pestllence is raging in the United States.
NEAR the town of Soleure, in Switzerland,
birds nest was recently found which was
constructed entirely of the imperfect watch
springs thrown out from the workshops
1t has been deposited in the local museum.
AMERICAN authors are more read than the
English in Japan. Last year 81, 600 English
and $4,000 American books were imported
into that country, SO that the old question:
'Who reads an American book." was fairly
answered.
FRANCES VICTORIA ALEXANDRA is the name
bestowed upon child recently born to q
Sioux mother in Buffalo Bills camp. It is
the first Indian child born in England, and
is named for Mrs. Cleveland, the Queen
and the Princess of Wales.
THERE was queer exhibition in the high
est law court in England a few days ago.
The tables in front of the bensh were COW
cred with wOmen's bustles. A patent was
involved, and the various styles of bustles
were examined with curious interest by the
learned judges.
THERE is great store of gold as well as
OF coal in Corea, but an entire lack of proper
mechanical devices for mining. The pro-
duction OF gold last year was 5000, OOO
The main object of the Corean Embassy
to this Government is understood to be to
interest the citizens of this country In the
development OF Corean resources.
A CURIOUS, lucrative trade in Paris is
that of I" knot-maker," or " tier of cravats"
The trade flourishes chiefly in the season
when there are dinners, balls, soirees and
in, 80
The good knot-maker" jumps into his cab
and is whirled around to his customers,
doing his business in an incredibly brief
space of time.
THE Museum of Religions at Paris, which
is to contain collections of idols, paintings
and other objects having to do with the
various religions of the world, will cost
about 100000. 1t is rising near the
Trocadero, and will house the collections
made by II. Guimet and also afford rooms
and library for savants and those who
translate Oriental languages.
THERE has recently been discovered in
the high Alps, near the summit of the great
ST. Bernard. five large granite affairs and
numerous other relics of the stone age,
used in pagan epochs for sacrifices. Swiss
scientists consider this discovery q proof
that Mount st. Bernard was place Of sac
ritice in pagan times, and that the Canton
Of Valais must have been inhabited by
human beings as far back as the stone age.
THE French peasants, rather than trust
to savings banks, generally carry their
money in their stocking legs, and a misery
old woman who died lately left quite q
fortune In this way. She had lived in q
veritable pig-stye, and her emaciated body
was found on a heap of rags and rubbish.
In her coston stockings and sabots were
found notes and gold amounting to nearly
10000, numerous trinkets of considerable
value and securities worth more than 1885,
300.