The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-07

make public the following ruling re-
garding the placarding of goods at the
exposition: Foreign exhibitors In the
Worlds Columbian exposition will be
permitted TO state upon. placards at
tached to their exhibits the prices at
which said products will be sold at the
place of manufacture, and also the
prices in bond and out of bond, or ex-
elusive and inclusive of the customs
duties in Chicago"
The disappearance Of the Jim Fisk
restaurant recalls to an old New York
er that there were as cheap restaurants
in New York forty years ago as now.
In the fifties there was famous cheap
restaurant on Chatham square. Here
one could buy for 81 cents good slice
of beef with potatoes and turnips For
64 cents more he could have plum pud-
ding with rich sauce. Thus one OBJ
/ tanned for 12E cents, the old York shil-
ling, a wholesome and satisfying meal,
and not always in bad company.
| "A late census bulletin states that
there are about 1000, 900 more males
than females in the sixty-two and half
millions of population. In the New
England and Middle states there are
$1,000 more females than males. In the
south middle section, including the dis
trict, the females outnumber the males
by some 20 600. While in the northern
central section of the country, as far
/ west as Nebraska, the males are in the
majority by over 5000, in the south
central portion this excess reaches only
about 200, 600. In the western section
of the country the predominance of the
males is shown by majority of over
500, 600.
On the western prairie is found
what is called the compass plant, which
is Of great value to travellers. The long
leaves at the base of its stem are placed,
not Fat, as in plants generally, but in a
vertically position, and present their
edges north and south. The peculiar
propensity of the plant is attributed to
the fact that both surfaces of its leaves
display an equal receptivity for light
Whereas the upper surfaces of the
leaves of most plants are more sensitive
to light than the lower; the leaves thus
assume a vertical position, and point
north and south. Travellers on dark
nights are said to feel the edges of the
leaves to ascertain the point of the COM
pass.
Edwin Ellis, some of whose famous
Southdown sheep are to be exhibited
in this country at the coming worlds
fair, is not only a great landowner and
an energetic business man, but also a
philanthropist. He has built near his
home in Surrey, England. an expert
mental row of neat cottages for his
tenants, an ideal schoolhouse, and a
club house for the people. and his
daughter has a Woodworking class
among the tenants. The club house
has provision for billiards and other
games, prettily decorated social hall
capable of seating five hundred per-
sons, and library of eight hundred
or more volumes, with numerous peri
odicals.
"A witness in case recently on trial
in one of the courts in Boston testified
that the defendant was not drinking
man land only took cocktails" Judge
Blank, who presided, is a teetotaler
He noticed among the spectators we'll
known physician, bon vivant, and at
the recess called him up to the bench
and asked him to define cocktail. ga
cocktail" responded the doctor, sis
feather dipped in an emollient which is
applied to a dry or ;rritated throat for
the removal of dryness or irritation"
The learned judge thanked him, but
the story that the court subsequently
dipped feather in vaseline and touched
his palate with it under the impression
that he was taking cocktail is proba-
bly, lawyers yarn.