Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-27
THE WORLD OVER.


the United States.
A Falkirk Scotland cat is bringing up
a brood of chickens.
| Eighty highway robbers were executed
OF Pekin on April 26.
A Georgia hen has hatched out eighteen
chickens out of thirteen eggs.
The New York Worlds new building
/ is to be seventeen stories high
The limbs of many Mifflin county, Pa,
trees are dying from locust stings.
Random, Pa, is proud of mongrel
| dog which taught itself to climb a
| ladder.
Artificial ice is cheaper and purer in
southern cities than the natural article
in New York.
A briar cut the hand of John Rhodes,
Newton, Pa, recently. He IS now dy-
ing from poison.
1t is stated that at the rate population
| is leaving Norway for the United States,
in the next fifteen years not one will be
left in that land.
Bill Nye prefers the Partisan barber
because if he does not like the lather he
is permitted TO spit it out.
The love between Sir Julian Paunce-
fote, the British minister, and the Amer
| lean public is increasing daily.
1t appears from the statistics of the old
country that women there do not always
marry again. In England there are over
500, 900 more widows than widowers. In
France there are 1914 widows for every
100 widowers.
A new French invention, the thermo-
graphic press, is made from printing on
wood by means of hot type. AS neat an
impression is claimed as is obtained in
photography, and by the use of specially
prepared ink it is said that cold type may
be used with equally good effect. Its
speed is 400 impressions an hour on fiat
wood
The Nineteenth Century.
Touching the houses of the people of
Persia and their household properties, |
once spent night i'll the house of a
trooper of the shah. His pay was so
year with ratiOns when on duty. He
gave me an excellent dinner in the up
per chamber, which was carpeted, and
in the inches of the false windows of
which rose leaves were piled up for fra
GRANGE. ] do not mean that the carpet
was other than the cheapest, or that the
atmosphere was all of rose leaves. but an
English groom gets e12 a year more or
less and ! doubt if he INDUCES in carpets
and flowers. A few cooking utensils.
brass tray or two, skins in which curdS
are made and kept, loom, a sheet of
leather which serves for the floor table
cloth-these are the articles that furnish
the ordinary dwelling. If the house
holder be very poor man he VIII eat
his meat off big flaps of unleavened
bread, and will eat, too, that which
serves him for a table cloth and is also
the bread which we find on our table
cloths You break off IA bit of bread and
dip your hand in the dish wherein are
curds at any rate, and possibly on feast
days kid or fowl.
New York Letter to Chicago News.
Some Of the richest women are the
least extravagant ii their clothes, as is
the case. for example, with old Mrs.
w. Ii. Vanderbilt, who does not spend
above 81 600 a year, and the late Mrs.
Gould not so much. Nelly Gould. who
Will inherit SIS, 200, 000 or $50. coo, 900
ana already has an income of $40, 900 q
year. spends about 81, 800 in dress. The
late Mrs. a. I. Stewart was fortune TO
the dressmakers, who put away g, 600 or
$4,000 year on her furbelows. When
she died and an inventory of her effects
was taken her great white mausoleum
of house on Fifth avenue was found 10
be overrun with the most marvellous
amount of clothes, laces, furs, bonnets /
and Jewels, most of them very youthful
in appearance, though she was over 20 !
wears Of age. Mrs. AstoT dresses with a
solemn. handsome expensIveness at the /
cost of 81 900 or s.. 600 year, and all !
the younger Vanderbilt women spend a
great deal Of money on their clothes. !
Mrs. George Gould. who was Edith /
Kingdom, the actress, and who has been /
the quietest and most careful OF women |
since her marriage, spends money like |
water when II comes TO a question Of 4
clothes. and must put a good 80. 600 4
year in the hands Of the dressmakerg. /
Her dressmaker, by the way. Is woman /
who had good deal OF social position. /
but who. when financial misfortune |
came. followed the example English /
women OF rank have set of late years, |
and went into the mIlliners business.