Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-07-12
ODD, QUEER AND CURIOUS.

MOST of he butter made In Mexico
comes from goats milk.
DUG-oUT canoes have been found In
excavating a canal from Manchester TO
Liverpool, England
THE oldest college dormitory in the
United States Is that known as South
Middle at Yale. It was erected In
1752
A FAN made of human hair is dis
played at London store. Even what
appears to be beautiful lace fringing
the sticks is real hair.
THERE are 10 different varieties Of
strawberries growing in the expert
mental gardens at the Kansas Agricul-
tural College.
A PLEA was made to school children
to contribute one egg each for a hos
pital at Harrisburg. Pa, and the result
was collection of 5000 eggs.
BURGLARS entered the postofice at
Jupiter, Fla, and temporarily crippled
Uncle Sans mail agency by stealing
pint of whisky and a pound of nails.
THE art of making red glass for
church windows, as practiced In the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries, was
lost for a long time, and was only re-
covered in 1926. The modern product
is still inferior to the ancient.
The King of Ashsntee has 8. 333 wives.
They all live on one street in Coomassie,
and when they go out for walk in
body, preceded by the eunuchs, every
body else has to walk in the gutter.
A GERMAN photographer in Con-
stantinople recently came near losing
his life by taking q negative OF the
Sultan in violation of the Koran, which
prohibits the reproduction of the human
figure or countenance. I
A FOSSIL frog was recently found in
a scuttle of coal at the house of John
n. La Due, in Fishkill Hook, n. Y. It
is as black as the coal in which it was
found, but almost as perfect as when it
sung its vesper songs in its native
marsh.
A REYNOLDS ga woman has baby
six days old, perfectly formed, in good
health, and In peace with all its sur
roundings, whose face can be covered
by a silver dollar, and which will
UdI0lJ buIu bu0 SCaAoS ~ Ouo duu Ouc-
half pounds.
A GOOD suggestion has been made
by coin collector. 1t is that the coins
issued during any year shall have on
them the head of the president in Office
at that time. They would thus serve as
historical reminders, as do the coins of
ancient days.
If the quantity Of soap used IN q
nation indicates its degree of cleanli-
ness, this country takes the cake. For
every 100 pounds of soap used in the
United States, England uses So; Ger
many. SO; France, So; Sweden, 70;
Italy, 81; Bulgaria, 35, and Mexico, 81.
AN engineer on the Iron Mountain
road has perfected an automatic bell
ringer on his locomotive, and now,
when running In corporation limits, or
whenever the bell must be rung, he
just jerks spring, and the bell is kept
going by steam power till he turns off
the steam.
SOME moonshiners in Pearson County,
North Carolina, whose whisky had
been seized by revenue officers, went
masked to the Jail in Roxboro, and
forced Sheriff Pully to permit them to
remove the liquor. After the recap
tured whisky had been placed upon q
cart, they all kindly shook hands with
the Sheriff, and leisurely marched away
after the wagon.
NEXT month Congress of Beauty"
is to assemble in Rome. Only Roman
ladies will be permitted to compete,
and they must be between the ages of
sixteen and twenty-five, and represent
these four types of beauty-blonde.
brunette, faxer, and auburn red. The
lady who shall be considered the most
beautiful will receive q prize Of $4,000;
the second prize will be $1,000.