Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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The floral decorations alone cost $4,000.
"A resident Of Hartford, Conn, who
is ''stone deaf" declares that recently
by the aid OF IN car trumpet no heard q
heavy clap of thunder.
1t has become the fashion in Chica-
go for men to buy their wives bonnets.
The milliners like the change and say
that, as o general thing, man knows
better than woman what is suited for
her.
Tobacco smoking quickly contami-
mates delicate fruits of all kinds. A few
whifs blown upon q box of raspberries
will entirely destroy tho delicate flavor
OF tho fruit and render it unpalatable.
The samc may in degree be said Of
strawberries.
Two workmon in the Michigan gold
mine at Ishpcming quit work without
any just cause. When the authorities
searched their trunks over $1,000 worth
OF gold was found therein. 1t is sus-
pected now that many others of the men
have been doing similar business.
AN advertisement in q recent issue
of tho Chicago Tribune read: Person
all will donate twenty-five dollars to
charity, TO be named by the Tribune, II
l can not name the place where you get
the toughest steak and poorest service
on Madison street Y Ill, Tribune"
"A lady went 10 one of the groceries
In Winwood, Fla, and bought two
pounds of butter that had been bought
in tho country by the merchant When
the nice yellow lump was cut in two there
was found In the center OF 1t large
Irish potato, nicely peeled and carefully
covered over with butter.
The ancients designated the seven
metals by the names of tho planets, be-
cause each were supposed to have some
hidden relation; each being denoted by
particular symbol, representing both
the planet and metal Gold was the
sun; silver. the moon; mercury, Mer-
cury; copper Venus; iron, Mars; tin,
Jupiter; lead, Saturn.
An Australian schooner recently eff
fected the capture of the father Of
sharks. He belonged to the species
known as the basking shark, and was
forty-three feet long. When his jaws
wore 9yied open a pork-barrel could DO
rolled in, and there were eleven rows of
teeth in his jaws. He had tho mouth to
bite horse In two at clip.
-Quail-fghting was sport once pop
ular in ancient Rome in her most lux
urious days Even in Greece, where, to
the honor OF the race be 1t said, the
gladiatorial shows of tie Romans never
became popular, quails were kept for
fighting purposes; in China, sparrows
are set at one another; and the English
proverb, THAT beats cock-fghting,"
tells Of the coarse fiber Of the Anglo
Saxon only few years ago.
"A Finland paper mentions curious
stone in the northern part Of the country
which serves the people instead OF q
barometer. This stone, which they call
'Tlmakiur." turns black, or blacklist
gray, when foul weatheris approaching;
fine weather has the effect of turning It
almost white. The Films regard the
stone with superstitious reverence, but
the scientists say that Its changes in
color are due to salts contained in its
composition.
pasteboard box marked "Flowers,
was received at Gainesville, Ga, ad-
dressed to o lady of that city. Upon
opening the box she was Mortified to
find reclining on bed OF crushed roses
q half-grown snake that lay quietly con-
cealed and sluggish from its confine-
ment. A member of tho sterner sex
pacifed the nervous female by again
sealing up the package and returning 1t
to the post-oflce, where itremained until
a report of the case could be heard
from. The Attorney-General. in reply
to query from the inspector, said the
offender could not be punished; that
while the snake was On unavailable
article there was no statute furnishing
the sender. 1t Is thought that the
woman's husband, from whom she has
6aa1 aeDorafad waS the sender