Wichita eagle., 1889-02-28
EXCHANGE EXTRACTS.

AN English joker took down the calendar II
business Office and hung up one two years
old Dates for important papers were taken
from 1t, and a loss of $4,000 was the result
Mrs. ANNIE MCCULLOUGH of Pittsburgh
died recently, and by the improper use il
her will of the word thereof" $4,000 will
be diverted from the object for which she in,
tended it.
A LEWISTON Me) man has invented de
vice for stopping runaway horses. 1t blinds
the animal by clapping something over his
eyes. The mechanism operates from the
drivers seat.
THE life-insurance agent who got General
Harrison to insure his life for $4,000 the
other day says that he arranged the whole
matter with the Presldent-elect in just
three minutes.
A BOOK published in 1882 describes the
devil fish as fish from ten to thirty feet
long, with single horn On either side of the
head. The real monster had not been seen
up to that date
Mrs. HELEN EDITH LUTHER died in San
Francisco seven years ago, and her remains
were recently discovered in an undertaker's
establishment, where they been enbalmed
and left to await the orders of friends
a PIEDMONT IS. c. clergyman married 5
couple and published q notice to that effect
before he learned that the contracting
parties were men. They wanted to have 8
little fun at the minis ters expense.
ANOTHER courtshlp. conducted exclu-
sively through the mails recently ended in
marriage. The groom resides in California,
whittier the bride, an Eastern girl, journeyed
to have the knot tied The couple met on
the wedding day for the first time.
TESTIMONY was lately given before the
grand jury at Russellville, KY, thata farmer
recently had an old OK he was driving stick
fast in the mud, whereupon he skinned the
animal alive, and, taking the hide. left the
poor brute TO die IN lingering agony.
A coBoNER's jury in New Rochelle. " Y,
after an investigation into the death of an
infant, reached the conclusion that "the
child came TO its death January 81. 1883,
through the ignorance of its mother and
her hus band, from causes unknown to the
jury"
WHEN young English lord, heir to an
Earldom. was taken seriously i'll with ty-
phoid fever, at Victoria B. c., his physician
consulted Sir Andrew Clarke in London, at
a distance of 5000 miles, by telegram and
cab!egram- The two physicians thus talked
over the case for three hours
An eH1plcye of a hotel in Denver lately
confessed TO the larceny of small sums and
was sent to jail but the bills continued to
disappear Subsequently a mouse nest was
found, and the currency used in its con-
struction, added TO that known to have been
stolen, balanced the books
A NORWICH Coma correspondent says
that longevity is far more prevalent in that
State now than il was half q century ago.
Within the past eighteen months. ne says.
not less than sixty old ladies. ranging in
ages from ninety-fve TO one hundred, have
passed away. Besides these there have
died during the past four years four per
sons between one hundred and two and one
hundred and SIX years old.
EvEKI well-reguls,ed household in Les
Angeles keeps boa. for use in case of
emergency. 1t doesn't rain there very
often, bet when it does the LOWE is con-
yszfed into lake Recealy Q housa