Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-05
STRAY BITS.

Eomer NJ Waterbury's society circus IN
New York cost him about $30, 900 for a one
night stand
Los Angeles, Cal, last year shipped away
S,095 tons of fruit and imported from the
east 1921 tons of beer.
The Chinese laundrymen of Pittsburg, Pa,
bleach their washes with chloride of lime,
and the garments soon rot away.
C. F. Browk, of Malvern, Pa, has just
taken the first drink of water since Octobsr
last. He can go without water all winter.
At a sale of Bristol China the highest
priced specimen was cup and saucer by
Champion which sold for e45. It's last pre-
vious sale was for ESQ.,
A gold crown worth s25, 900 has been sent
to Vienna by the Austro- Hungarians of Bue-
nos Ayres. 1t is to be placed on the coffin Of
the late Crown Prince Rudolf.
The Philadelphia Call remarks that 1.-THE
downtown bobtail cars should bear the ie-
gend: Drop nickel in the slot and see how
much faster you could have walked home"
Dr.. Agnew says that healthy woman can
kill herself in about a year by horseback rid
ing, and all other physicians would prob
ably agree with him if they didn't want pa
tientS
A highway robber compelled George Fall
mouth, Of Indiana, to sign a check on bank
for $4,000, but George would have signed
one for 1886 just as gracefully. He isn't
worth over s. all told
The returns for accidents on the railways
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are interesting. Eleven passengers were killed
and 594 injured, as against 25 passengers
killedend 53S injured in 1887.
Professor Paul d'Nuce, whoever he is, says
he can cause a thunderstorm and fall of
rain in any district on two hours notice, and
that be can have the shower stop in fifteen
minutes OF continue half day.
NJ. Adolphe d'Assier has made q special
study of the great climatic cycle. He says
that the next ice period will reach its great
est height in the year II $50. 1t is a little
early yet to begin laying in coal
A negro in Rankin county, Miss, who had
stolen mule, was given the option of going
10 the penitentiary or receiving hundred
lashes on the back. He choose the latter,
taking the punishment like stole
In the quaint old Anglican church of Capel-
le-Ferne, near Dover, there is no provision
made for lighting it at night, and at the even
ing service those who attend are in the habit
Of bringing candles and lamps along with
them
A New York pilot says that if one sailing
craft can sneak past another in distress with
out being signaled she will do 1t nine times
in ten. 1t costs the owners money to feed
rescued people, and they don't encourage hu-
name actions.
The winter IN Iceland has been unusually
severe, When, the other day, the first post
snip of the season broke through the ice foes
and reached Reajkjavlk the first question
asked by the natives was whether Prince
Bismarck was still alive
The superintendent of Louisville employ
rent agency urges boys who desire TO take
up trades to learn cooking He has found
that there Is a great scarcity OF good male
cooks not only in Louisville. but also in every
city in the United States
A Pennsylvania hunter found a cave in the
mountains the other day which contained, as
be estimated, four tons OF solid honey, but
the bees pitched into him and stung him 8
score OF times and ran him of before he could
arrange 70 gather, pack and ship.
ST. Peters at Rome Is TO be further EN-
bellished by fresh mosaics. At present the
corrsce running around the nave and aisles Is
merely canvas imitation, but Pope Leo in
tends 70 replace it by real mosaic, according
TO the original designs by Raphael, Bramanie
and Michael Angelo.
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