Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-03

Walker. Cheney.
A Canton, o., man undertook to eat
twelve boiled eggs in fifteen minutes, and i.
took two doctors bring him around again.
The Bennington battle monument, that is
to be 3Ol feet high. has reached height O;
1874 feet. The rainy summer has retarded the
| work.
! A feminine summer boarder who recently
| killed rattesnake in PasSaic county, n. j..
will wear the tanned skin of her victim as
girdle.
A deathbed marriage took place lately in
WInsted, Conn. The groom was well to do
and wiiled all his money to his wife. He was
"a years old
Somebody has discovered that nearly every
one OF the worlds famous beauties was born
In summer, at time when the earth seemed
| to srnilingly welcome them.
! The ITO ton gun at Shoeburyness is stated
to have cost Ga, 900, and the carriage, with
| Its various mechanical devices for handling
| it, Il 600, a total Of e260 900
1t is stated by one of the guides at the
capitol in Washington that fifteen brides an
hour is the average number of visits to the
| statuary hall each day of the year
The elm tree that shelters the Sheldon
homestead at Deerfeld Mass, is one of the
oldest in the state, and its history can be
traced back automatically for 200 years
young man from Philadelphia has lost
his job as school teacher in Accomac county,
Va, by ucking the girls under their chins
in study urs and kissing them at recess.
In San rancisco one day recently water
melons sold SO low that wholesale dealers
rather than still further glut the market,
threw consignment of 5000 into the bay
According to a German paper, there is now
living at St Hubert an old stager of 95, who
takes daily exercise on a bicycle, and is re-
nowued all over the country side as an expert
rider
The diary Of the famous Baron Friedrich
Won der Trenck, cousin Of the notorious Franz
Won der Trenck, which purports to be written
with his own blood while prisoner at Magde-
burg, is now offered for sale at Leipzig
The statisticians of the Pennsylvania
weather service have calculated the rainfall
of that state during the summer and find
that II gathered in one place it would form
a lake 1000 miles square" and IS feet deep.
man named William j Haines, 1902 years
old, has been converted and has joined
Methodist church in st. Louis He says be
was never sick day in his life He was an
orderly on Gen. Jacksons staff in the war Of
1872.
The craze for pearl fishing has extended
from Wisconsin into Illinois At Belvidere
on the Kishwaukee river, baker found 800
pearls, for which he has been offered in Chi
cago an average price OF thirty-fve cents
pearl
A remnant of the Seneca tribe of Indians
still fingers in Warren county, Pa, spearing
fish, ETC., for a living The tribe all told
barely numbers 1000 members and has so
dwindled that marriage among blood rela-
lions has become almost a necessity
Clinton A. Snowden, of Tacoma, saw bees
going and coming from hollow tree He
built a fire, smoked out the bees and cut
down the tree to get the honey. He found a
great lot of it; but, better still, large guam.
tity Of gold was In the hollow trunk
The house in which Oliver Wendell Holmes
was born is still standing on the common at
Cam bridge, Mass, and is now one Of the col
lege buildings 1t is an old gambrel rooted
house, and during the siege of Boston it was
the headquarters of the American officers
A party of fossil hunters are having good
luck in the North Fork country of Oregon. /
They have found the bones of small horses
with three toes on each foot; rhinoceros skulls |
and other bones that show, as they think, /
that Oregon had a tropical climate before the |
glaciers came down from the north and COW /
cred the land miles deep with ice.
One Of the jewels which Col North, til.
nitrate king" brought back with him from
Chill was miniature canoe. fashioned Of
gold, after the model used by the Peruvian
and Chllian warriors hundreds of years ago
in the construction of their war canoes Col
North announced that he felt much inclined
TO build racing boat on the lines Of this lit
tie canoe, and il is now rumored that he in
tends to remodel the Thistle in this manner |