The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-10
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

In 1855 a United States court Of
I claims was organized, the court being
| directed to hear and determine claims
against the United States and report
the cases and facts to congress, with the
opinion of the court thereon. In 1868
the court of claims was authorized to
render final judgments, with right OF
appeal to the supreme court
The rage for tho antique which
makes it profitable for tho purveyor to
this taste to visit daily score of junk
shops has extended even to warming
pans The utensils when made Of cop.
per fetch from two to four dollars
apiece, and are hung up against the
wall by their purchasers along with
other bric-a-brac, though they have a
practical use as corn-poppers, which the
collectors probably ignore.
The first piano made by the late
Jonas Chickering was sold to James H.
Bingham, June %, 1923. The factory
then consisted of two rooms in fremont
street in small building which stood
where the Probate court building now
is The piano then sold for $275. Since
that time it has been twice sold, and
was recently purchased from the last
proprietor by Mr.. George II. Chickering,
son of Jonas, and is to be kept by him
as memento.
On June I, 1910, resolution Of in
dependence was introduced into tho
Continental congress by Richard Henry
Lee, of Virginia. and referred to a COM
mittee consisting of John Adams,
Thomas jefferson. BENJAMIN Franklin,
Roger Sherman and r. r. Livingston.
The Declaration of Independence was
drawn by jefferson, and on the 4th Of
July was promulgated, the delegations
being generally instructed to that end
by the colonies.
Interesting photographic oddities
now and then meet the eye upon the
outskirts of New York. "Fryed"
chicken is advertised in staring black
letters at a basket picnic grounds
on the heights above Fort Lee. A
resort near Fort George announces
parties made here to order" On q
tight closed shanty near by someone
has painted in letters that betray an
unskilled hand: Danger powder dina
melt"
DIR. Susan Janeway Caltman. OF Ger
mantown, Pa, has remarkable collec-
ton of cats. which she values at Eve
thousand dollars 1t includes twenty
two cats, among them silver blue cat
from the Isle of Skye, a 'feather-tailed'
Turkish cat, a show-white Persian, a
black Norwegian cat with Gght-blue
eyes, a white Maltese, Manx or tail
less cat, japanese fishing wildcat
and several other raritieA The kittens
are sold IN New York and the proceeds
devoted to charitable purposes
One of the most significant curios
in New York Is copper globe in the
Lenox library. II is only four and
half inches in diameter, but il is be-
Iieved to be the earliest globe to lay
down the new discoveries by Columbus
II dates back to the first decade of the
sixteenth century. The little it shows
of this hemisphere is mostly wrong and
the few names would be recognized
only by experts ~ matters geographic
al, but the globe is rightly esteemed
one of the chief treasures Of . rare col
lection
A cave exceeding in size the eele-
hrated Mammoth Cave of Kentucky and
situated in the Ozark mountains near
t'aiena, Mo-, has recently been eS-
plored for a distance of several
miles Bones of both recent and pre-
historic animals have been found, in
Guiding the hvena and cave nsar. Fsint
arrow-heads nave been picked NJ on the
floor. but no human bones or other
relics Of man. 4 few animals Of the
usual forms found IN caves are still Ay-