Wichita eagle., 1889-07-18
STRAY BITS.

The moon is to be weighed from the top Of
the Eifel tower
California sent s, 50O, 900 pounds Of honey to
Europe last year.
There are more than $50 Indian dialects in
North America alone
In the Ninth and Tenth centuries the COM
mon form Of shoe in Europe was the wooden
shoe.
Among Michigan's teachers is a full blooded
Indian, who is said to be doing excellent work
In public school
Paris Figaro is now printing special edi-
ton at an office fitted UP on the second stage
Of the Eifel tower
More coal was mined in 1883, both anthra-
cite and bituminous, than was needed for con-
sumption in the United States
The food dumped fully 5000, 600 worth Of
lumber on poor mans farm near Milton,
Pa But little of 1t can be identified
1t is said that some of the students Of Yale,
having been Influenced by reading Robert
Elsmere," talk OF starting new church
DR.. Chaille states that the average life Of
woman is longer than that of man, and In
most parts of the United States woman's ex.
pectation Of life is greater.
During the month of May no fewer than
forty-three suicides were committed in Wen
ma, total which for that month has not been
reached for many years past.
The escape of a swindler by means Of bal
loon and his discovery through the pigeon
post is the latest sensation In criminal intelli-
gence that comes from Vienna.
The Russian army will soon be provided
with breech loading rifles which viii carry
distance OF 6,O0O feet Noiseless powder viii
also be used in future by the army.
A scheme for preventing the emigration of
Turkish arti6cers to foreign countries, with
out previous permission from the porte, has
been submitted to the council of ministers.
Enoch Townsend, of Saco. Me-, is credited
with accomplishing the feat Of riding from
Boston to Portland on bicycle in single
day, having left the Hub" at 5 a. n. and
arrived at Portland at s p. m.
Col Hahn, manager Of the elevated rail-
roads of New York, says that $1,000 New
Workers are out of town from June until the
middle of September. He bases MS opinion
from the daily traffic on the elevated roads
Naphtha is now much used as fuel in mid
die Russia Last year $50. 900 tons of 1t we're
sent up the Volga Cor fuel purposes and it is
expected that the export for the same pur-
pose will this year reach no less than 600 coo
tons.
a curious instance of the far reaching dis
tress growing out of the Johnstown food
comes from England. A London paper says
500 Cornwall families are reported to be
wearing Grape for relatives lost in the Cone
maugh valley.
Belgium is poor place for physicians A
writer to medical journal published there
says that they have the care of three-fourths
of the population, get nothing at all from
one-haf of their patients and very poor pay
from the rest.
One of Buffalo Bills buffaloes having gored
an Indian to death at his show in Pcris, the
Jeune Repubhque calls upon the minister of
the interior to put stop to the Wild West en-
tertainments, which, it thinks, are quite as
barbarous as Spanish bull fights.
pathetic incident of the triennial reunion
of the class of SO, Yale, was the presence of
the young widow of one of the most popular
members of the class, whose participation in
the still boyish fun Of the occasion had been
!
classmates
Besides the scientific expedition to Oregon,
Princeton will send out a second expedition
this season to investigate the waters between
the Gulf Stream and New England They
will ascertain the temperature and density Of
the water, also If there are certain kinds of
food there on which fish may live
The private detectives of railroad compa-
ny must be constantly shifted, so that their
faces may not become familiar to the en-
ployes and arouse suspicion The COS; of Sc
cret service to railroad is often very large,
but can never compare with the proportions
of adroit and successful freight robbing
Paper doors are said to be great improve
ments over wooden ones They are formed
OF two thick paper boards stamped and
nodded into panels and glazed together with
glue and potash and then rolled through
heavy rollers. After being covered with
waterproof coating and one that is fireproof,
they are painted, vanished and hung In the
usual way.