Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-09
ODDS AND EMO.

The price asked for Dickens house, near
Rochester, Is 81 900.
The tomb of Virgil at Posilippo, just out
side Naples, Is for sale.
A typewriting machine that will use script
type is promised before long.
Silver can be kept bright for months by
being placed In an air tight case.
There are no fewer than 2s,729 known
thieves over 10 years of age in England.
The Oldest city in the world Damascus. Is
about to have street cars and gas lamps.
The Long Island seventeeu-year locusts are
distinguished by their red eyes, others hay
ing black.
George Clements, of Gainesville, Ga, has
a bunch Of forty distinct heads of cabbage
on one stalk.
A mouse nest, made Of old fashioned shin
plasters, was found in drawer Of bank in
Fishkill, n Y.
During the last ten years Americans have
contributed go, 900 600 10 relieve suffering
caused by disasters or epidenics.
The income Of the Free Church Of Scotland
this year is ae38, 939, being an increase Of
e46, 600 as compared with last year
The food dumped fully 600, 600 worth Of
lumber which cannot be identified on a farm
near Milton, Pa Many poor men have thus
been enriched.
private soldier says that desertions from
the army are largely due TO the tyranny Of
the younger officers and the drunkenness Of
the older ones
Seeds Of the most valuable varieties Of Gin
chona bring thousand dollars per ounce in
Ceylon There are nearly one hundred thou
sand in an ounce.
Mr.. Angel says that the tight check rein is
generally put upon some poor animal whose
wearied and haggard appearance Is attempted
10 be disguised By this instrument Of torture
The police commissioner Of Brooklyn wants
the force Of patrolrnen increased from 800 30
Zoo. He claims that with the increased
force there would then be only one policeman
70 30 Inhabitants
A painting Of the Madonna, dated 1854. has
been discovered IN the village Of he,seunbria.
an old Greek colony, near Bourgax II has
been removed 10 Sophia. where il viii be
placed In the National museum
An American was arres.ed on the Austrian
frontier for having In bis luggage unriz.a1-
able dynamite bombs. On further investigs
ton they proved TO be cocoauutE, something
that the Austrian authorities had never sen
4 man In Tcnnille, Ga, dreamed tina. be
wes In a fight, and be rose up. grabbed pI-
low aud SCI. &. With al Dis might 8. a lamp
sitting On the csnter table, which be supposed
ras BIS antagonist TIE lamp wAs SMASHED
A teIezrarn from Sparta, IN Greece, az
nornces tia. tie inspector Of artLq1ities IN
the old Lacoaian town Ct PhAr1s has I'd
earthsi some ancient tozsbs containing OBJ
tsr.s d Greek art 10 gold, slver and precious
stones, az q great value.
DennysviIIe, Ne, q town q il peopla. has
no deb; and has O. 900 20 her credit There
has 10. been Ere for eighty y.ar& One
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