The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-12
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OF GENERAL INTEREST.


were given as the Pyramids of Egypt,
the temple of Ephesus, the mausoleum
erected by Arten1isia, the walls and
hanging gardens of Babylon, the Colos-
sus at Rhodes, the static of Olympian
Jupiter and the watch-tower of Alexan-
dria-
An English manufacturer, while
examining the texture and quality of
some bandaees found on a mummy,
was astonished to find that the arrange
tnent of the threads was exactly like
that which he had patented a few
months before, which he had supposed
to be an independent invention of his
own.
An unusual appointment was made
the other day by Gov. Russell, of Massa-
chusetts, of Henry Everett Rabbit, of
Boston, to be a justice of the peace
The unusual point of the matter is that
Mr.. Rabbit is a deaf mute, but being
of more than ordinary ability and at
tainments, his appointment was re-
uuested for the benefit of those similar
1y affected.
of all menagerie stock the monkey
tribe is the most precarious. The COM
parative comfort of roof tree does not
compensate for the activity of their
natural life, and considering that they
feed on fresh fruits in their prlmeval
forests, it is not amazing that after a
time an unlimited dietary of hazel nuts
and stale buns is apt to disagree with
the quadrumanal digestion.
"A good story is told of the encounter
which Miss Lucinda Q. Gore, school
teacher at Lackharabad, India, had
with tiger. Turning from the black
board. she was confronted by Royal
Bengal at the open school room door.
With woman's wit, she damned the
brush end OF broom into his eyes, and
when he drew back with grOwl of
pain, slammed the door in his face. Help
came before the man-eater could gain
ingress elsewhere, and the brave wom-
an and her pupils were rescued.
The French government has con-
scented that plaster casts be made for
the worlds fair of the numerous art
treasures in the Trocadero, Paris. The
exposition authorities will bear the eX-
pense. which will be something above
SOS. 900. The collection will be very
6ne,one and will occupy a conspicuous
place in the. fine arts building. After
che fair the collection will be placed in
The projected Chicago museum, where,
It is believed, it will prove of great
benefit to American artists and of much
interest to visitors
"A reason given for the use of the
third as the ring finger by some author
sties is that in the early Christian mar
riage ceremonies the bridegroom, talk
ing the ring put it first on the brides
thumb and then successfully on the first
and second fingers, pronouncing in each
case the name of one person of the
Trinity Immediately after the words:
''With this ring | thee wed''-namely,
in the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost, until, with
the final ''Amen," the third finger was
reached, and there the wedding was
suffered TO remain.
DIR. V. McGillicuddy, who, as col
onel on the staff of the governor of
South Dakota during the recent Indian
war, issued ammunition to the state
volunteers, estimates that it took eight
hundred pounds of lead to kill the two
Indians who fell victims to the prowess
of the state troops DIR. McGillicuddy,
also issued three hundred guns to set
tiers for their self-protection, and when
it became his duty to collect these arms
after peace was assured he found them
scattered all over the west. II was the
doctor who stopped ghost-dance
among the Sioux by ungraciously kick
ing old Red Cloud when the chief ques-
toned his authority.
Dwellings increased in number
more rapidly than population in the
dast decade, according to the census re-
turns, and there were only ga persons
to an occupied building or house in
1880, where in 1880 there were Sc per-
sons There has also been a decrease
of the number of persons to a family
from 5.04 in 1880 to T. "a in 1890. The
Aumber of dwellings in 1890 was H.
S3,3lS for the United States and the
number of families 1900, Believing
an excess of 1905 34 families over
dwellings, or 1915 per cent, which is
less than in 1880, when there was over
il per cent more families than dwell
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