The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

The grave OF a girl at Titusvllle
Pa, was robbed for the jewelry on th
body.
) "A Liberty county, Georgia, man ha
found oysters growing at the bottom c
J his sixty-foot well, and actually ha
n some of the shells to show his neighbor,
Mullins: Two eggs, two Tablespoon
} fuls of sugar, one cupful of milk
butter the size of an egg, three spoon
fuls of yeast powder, two cupfuls @
, -four, salt-Good Housekeeping.
J Three California lions were recent
~ killed by a hunter in Fresno county
One of them measured fully eight fee
from tip to tip, and is being stuffed
The other two were nearly as large.
-''Who is that lady that just passe,
Us with the charming face?" "Tha
was my wife, but we are now separ
ated." "Ah, yes, see, your late wife.
-Fliegende Batter.
Mrs. Tinkham, of Eagle Point
Mich, was fondling a pet dog, wher
her pet cat, in jealous rage, pounceC
upon her and cut her about the arm.
and head with teeth and claws unit
beaten off.
Dangers of Silence.-"How did YOU
get along with Miss Green?" 'Why, ]
said nothing and she talked; at the enc
of the conversation she announced that
we were-engaged. "-Fliegende Blat.
ter.
That is very poor joke, boys, 81
said the schoolmaster, rising suddenly
from the bent pin. 81 fail to see the
point" Its there just the same" said
the bad boy of the class soto gOcs -
Harper's Bazaar.
NO." he said, rising from the piano,
81 have not been able to give much
time to my music lately" 'And the
time you do give it." cheerfully re.
sponded his rival, sis simply atrocious'
Boston Post.
$50 you sat just behind me-" said
the girl who wears large hats to the
theater; ''it's SO odd that l shouldn't
have known it. Did you1ike the play?"
ut was out of sight," replied the
young man, earnestly.-Washingt
Post
"A SOW belonging to farmer of
Westtown, Chester county. Pennsyl-
vania, died a few days ago, leaving six
orphans. Upon the death of their par
ent, the farmer filed her place by big
milk bottle with six little hose attach.
ments-
1t seems that the Chinese preserved
ginger of commerce is not ginger at all.
The director of the botanical gardens
at Hong Kong has succeeded in obtain
ing the flower of the plant used and has
identified it as the Alpinia Galanga.
Though not ginger, it is very nice.
The mules in Ingle's coal mines,
near Evansville, Ind, were hoisted out
recently. Some of them had not seen
daylight for eight years. The smallest
thing frightened them, a flying bird
causing them to jump, while upon see
ing dog they would stand and tremble
with terror
Among the arrivals at the barge Of
fee In New York recently was little
old woman of wood. It was an auto
maton figure of an old lady knitting,
and the most curious part of it was that
it was actually a knitting machine. It
ran by clOckwork, and, to all appear
ances, had every movement of life.
"A jury at Spokane. Wash, after be-
ing out twenty-four hours, could not
agree, when the judge ordered them
back into the jury room to remain until
they reached verdict He also in
structed the bailiff not to give them
anything to eat until they had found a
verdict of guilty or not guilty in high
way robbery case. In ten minutes there
after the jury returned Il verdict finding
the prisoner guilty as charged.
There is on exhibition in Detroit a |
most remarkable freak of nature in the |
form of a pebble, one side of which is |
a miniature likeness of a face bearing |
the ilnprints of sorrow This little |
stone, which is about an inch long and |
of an inch wide, was
found on a roadway leading to the cross |
on the summit of Kofelspitze, a noun
tain overhanging the village of Oberam-
mergau, and held in reverence by the |
simple villagers, who consider it their
guardian spirit.
"A bright woman, who had the mis-
fortune not to be so handsome as most
of her friends had habit of continually
looking at herself IN the mirrors of any
apartment where she happened TO be.
A woman, friend of hers, who thought
his very inconsistent, resolved 10 speak
II 1t before party of people, SO she
jailed out: There is Mrs White. who
S forever looking at her own image"
Yes" was the quick answer: 1T is
rue l wish to know by experience
whether 1t is possible TO habituate ones
'elf to ugliness. IN. Y. Sun.
To obtain printing rollers without
seam. the engraved or relieve plates
in the ordinary way are bent
ogether, so as to form cylinder with
he design upon its outer surface. which
erves TO produce IN the galvauic way
n outer cylindrical mould with the de-
ign on its inner side; which mould
being separated from the cylinder and
trengtheaed by wrapping a heated
beet OF gutta peUcha around it. is then
ised 10 produce il the galvanic way an
'ther hollow cylinder which carries the
.esign upon its outer surface and is then
upon a solid metal core.
Two good listeners nav be iriepds
ut two good takers never.-Elmirs
Average Life OF Grow.
DO you know thai the average life