Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-04-05
ODD, QUEER AND BURIOUs.


is on exhibition in q store In New York.
ALANsING, Mich, man made his wife
happy at Christmas by giving her bill
lard table; but the good woman was
enough for him. She hunted up the
bandsomest tea set in Michigan, and
made q present of it to her husband.
This is a negro brothers explanation
of race colors: Noah's sons war all
bawn white, but when Ham saw his
father lyin' drunk, he was so mortified
that he turned black. Shem didn't feel
so bad, an ownly turned yaller, and
Japhet hadn't no shame at all
NEAR Santa Rosa, Cal, is well from
which it is said, in drawing water, thou
sands of eyeIess fish, from half an inch
to six inches in length, have been taken
out. Occasionally, the bucket is drawn
up half full of fish. No subterranean
inlet to the we'll has yet been discov-
cred.
JEREMIAH SMITH, of Morgan County,
Ohio, has cat which is known by the
neighbors as solar spectrum From the
tip of its tail to the end of its nose there
are distributed all the colors of the rain
bow. Its nose shines like carbuncle,
and there are several shades of violet on
the forelegs-
THE daring of modern surgery IS
shown in an operation performed at
Jefferson College Hospital, Philadel-
phi. A 6-year-old patient, who was
troubled with epileptic fits, had his
skull opened, and a portion of the dis
eased brain removed The result con-
firmed the diagnosis and justified the
operation, and the child is doing well.
A LARGE. class of applicants for
teachers positions assembled in the
rooms of the Santa Clara, Cal, school
superintendent last week. They were
set to work on the examination papers,
and everything went smoothly until
this question cropped up in the history
division: "What was the name of the
head steward of Stanley's exploring
party, and was he any relation to the
Ameer of Swat?" The whole class
silently left the room, and walked out
into the drilling rain to cool off.
THE mobiles in China, both male and
female, cultivate extremely long nails
on the thumb aud all the fingers, except
the one nearest the thumb. Sixteen
inches is considered a good length, but
those who manage to attain the length
of seventeen or eighteen are regarded
with envious admiration. Probably the
idea of the impossibility of doing any
work with such long nails upon the
fingers may have given them their fash
ionable reputation. Among the Siamese,
silver cases are worn upon the fingers
to protect the long nails.
The smallest-sized newspaper in the
world is, we presume, weekly publ
cation appearing at Guadalajara, in
Mexico, under the title of The Teie-
gram. This miniature paper consists
of four pages of printed matter, az
ranged in three columns five inches
long and two inches wide. In this linn
tied space it contains news from all
parts of the world in condensed form.
This journalistic curiosity has adopted
as its device: Little straw and much
wheat" The northern-most paper in
the world is published at Hammerfest,
in Norway; and even Greenland boasts
the luxury OF paper, WHICH appears IN
that high altitude under the long-winded
title Of ArragagIiotio Nalingi1snaU7aik
ink.
A singular Asiatic people called the
Akas, who live among the hills north OF
Assam, dip the barbs of their arrows in
aconite, and they are SO made That when
any attempt Is made to pluck out the
arrow, the barb breaks off and remains
in the wound. The poison is so deadly,
that even a buffalo usually falls, after
running a few yards, when he has been
struck by one. Some of the supersti-
tons of the Akas are curious. If river
runs between an Aka's house and his
burying place, his soul can never go
home after death. This inability of the
spirit to cross water is, however, over
come by stretching a string across the
stream that divides the grave from the
house of the departed. The ghost can
easily cross when the slightest foothold
is given him.