Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-22
STRAY BITS.
Kansas has produced colored baby that
weighed eighteen pounds at birth.

Kansas has produced colored baby that
weighed eighteen pounds at birth.
In Great Britain last year o19 persons were
killed and 1896 injured on the railways.
The little prayer beginning Now lay me
down to sleep" was written by John Rogers,
the martyr.
The effect of the electric light on the Eiffel
tower is to illuminate all Paris in a manner
unprecedented
The number of churches which burned last
year was Isl, and all but twelve of them took
fire from their own furnaces.
In many parts of China the Bibles given to
the natives by missionaries are used in the
manufacture of cheap boot soles.
In Roostoen, Holland, there is giant rose
tree belonginS to Nine. Regnen which few
years ago helc 6,000 roses at the same time.
A colored boy in Jacksonville, Ind, swal-
lowed lead pencil The pencil and the boy
were saved, but it took four doctors several
hours to do it.
There is one bar room in New York the
decoration and furniture of which cost $780,
600. There are scores Of them that are fitted
up at an expense of over $50 900 each.
A philosopher finds that only one person in
every sixty thousand dies i'll bed while asleep,
and concludes that it Is a waste of time TO
lie awake and worry over the danger OF that
1t has been found that the best thing to
dispense mob is cold water. Get out an en-
CINE and put on full stream, and your mob
is no sooner wet down than it scattcrs TO
dry up.
A brilliant Austrian general proposes that,
in order to prevent the enemy from recon
noitering the movements Of troops, the uni
forms of soldiers shall be made similar in
back and front.
The largest railway station in the world is
the terminus station Of the Peninsular rail
way at Bombay India, at which an army Of
workInen were ut work for ten years at mis-
cradle wages. 1t cost $l90o0,000.
A comparison Of the American and Euro
pean contributions at the Paris exhibition Is
said to develop two points-that the AGneri-
can constructive sense is superior 10 the
European, and that the American decorative
sense is inferior to the European.
The goddess Of liberty" on ono Of the
floats in the New York centennial parade
was observed to chew tobacco and expecto-
rate vigorously. She" was young maa
hired for the occasion, but this fact may not
have been patent to all those who viewed the
performance.
The last ship 10 touch ct Pitcairn Island,
the bark Firth Of Clyde, reports that there
are III souls on the island, IS males and %
females, and IS Of them are children. They
knew all about the last presidential election
and took lively interest in the outside
world They keep the Sabbath, Saturday.
The ingenuity Of the ''heathen Chinoe' Is
UNSURPASSED The native contractors for
closing the breach on the yellow river which
has caused 50 much ruin, when the stream
became frozen over laid plauks or the ice
aud covered them with nIilles stalks and
earth They then reported the breach 80
closed.
They have q great unknown II Tho St
Joseph, No, work housa. Hs was run IN as
a vag and Is doing time on the rock psle. Iis
Is way up In the law, medicine, literature,
politics, theology ard scieace. but Is con-
pIetely mum as regards himself Ii Shake
spears and tire Bibls the strange being is sad
20 10 9 giant
Peter Stein, Of 81. Paul, waking along |
a bluff near yerrljlion Falls, MINI viii tTo /
young ladies'. was asked By one q tbeLz % !
pick for Der sprig Ok hopeys1ckIs blossoEas /
that hung over the p-ecipIce. Re ha-d 70 It's +
LIMB q a ree as he reactei over fer TIE /
flower, the ltzzb broke and 10 fel sixty feet I
70 the rocks AID was killed
Tbs promenade Of tie Brooklyn Erldze -as j
tie eoe1s Of great E.azsacre tbs othr DAY /
Several thousand lives were sugfed CIT /
They VIII noi he ser1ouzly missed, a they -
ionged 20 potato bugs. a t-sussa6ozis swarm /
u which, probably borne sky~zrd Il I
= hiriwiDd froz-1 Jersey 3eidz, Lighted On iSs i
bss structure Thsy were cr-sssd under tbs /
Zee: q taouascdx a fridge cro@ss-x
Here ara few balls reoe-tlY p~-petrA.ad /
By frE. cizs Eagii2a pape-ss "Io I1Ts%s.ga's
.he qoss14cn EocId Lad es too essy2y I1so
tie dr~ and troubled waters IF roora- ralAes-
7phy" Several cszEneys is-l, b1ryt1z tbs
inmates u re runsn "a row & cottages
'el, bct fortunately tbs inmates wsrs e.!
5at" AT hrx Ezh;. tss eascsAsssee-tns I'd
4rezsxs sound tsn<o0griy prO.sr.4Szzss-N
4lse ix.es@ G. szA.sczs f&ocas l. 20 have /
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