The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-12
MISCELLANEOUS.


n this life are new diary and a sharp
lead pencil-Norristown Herald
Poor old Lushforth fell down and
broke the trestle of his nose Don't
you mean the bridge?" You might
call it bridge, but as no water passes
under it l thought the other word bet
ter. indianapolis Journal
Miss Fitzogre Well, good-by. Per-
cival, and be a good boy" Percival IA
very good boy, who has just been
specially warned not 10 make personal
remarks about people in their presence)
-"Good-by I'll not tell nurse what /
think OF your nose till you're gone!'-
Punch.
Maine has only nineteen cities
within its borders. Portland is the old
est city and Deering is the youngest,
having Just thrown off town govern
ment Cape Elizabeth. Brunswick.
Skowhegan, Dexter, Pennington, Cam
den, Carbon and Houlton are thinking
tavorabiy OF city government
The following are examples of eight
syllable words in the English languge:
Anthropometamorphosis. antisupernat-
uralism, anticonstitutionalis anhydro-
phepsiteriOn, iatromathematieian in
comprehensibility, NATURALIZATION,
syncategorematical, unconstitutional
ity, unintelligibility, Observation-Disclosures
and vicissitudinality
There are naturalists in this day
and age who believe that horse hairs
Will turn to living snakes: that toads viii
live for thousands of years in the cavity
of a rock without food or water: that the
barnacle goose was developed from the
shell-fsh of that name, and that the
bird called sora is a species of winged
frog.
"A New Jersey truck-farmer who
went TO New York few DAYS ago took
with him fifteen pearls which he had
taken from mussels found in a small
fresh water stream near his farm. The
pearls were scl@ for large sum upop
the opinion of New York expert, who
said they were the finest American
pearls he had ever seen.
"A new variation of the nickel-in.
the-slot machine is an apparatus by
which you LAY parcel on the shelf"
and have it delivered. The customer
steps on platform, on which is an OBJ
long box of steel The top flies open
and a steel shelf comes M. on which
the package is laid; the sender affixes a
stamp valued at fifteen cents, ana re
tires, when the box closes. Wagons
make hourly collections. The stamp
has coupon attached, which the sender
keeps as receipt.
Most people, says an artistic gar.
dener rake off the leaves from their
lawns and then to protect them smear
them over with some vile compost II
can't IL der stand why they prefer the
rank favored stuff to the beautifully
variegated blanket of leaves nature
provides for that very purpose. What
Is prettier than a wide stretch of the
restless, futtering things, and no better
protection can be given the grass than
they afford. Enough will decay in the
course of the winter to enrich the soil
sufficiently. and when ral1ed off in the
spring the lawn is as neat and clean a.
one can wish.
The invention OF the hand loom
antedates all authentic history, but I'M
doubtedly originated in either Hindus- /
tan, Egypt or China. The Old Tesla
ment, frequently refers to woven fab |
RIGS. The lsraelites carried with them
the art Of weaving when they lief, 1
Egypt, and Pliny accords the invention
to the Egyptians. The loom was prob
ably known in England prior to the
by Caesar, at which time
wooden and linen cloth were manu-
featured at Winchester, to supply the
Roman army.
Clocks, called water-clocks, were
irst used in Rome, 15S before Christ;
docks and dials first set up in churches
ll3; clocks made TO strike by the
IRA bians, sol; by the Italians. 1900: q
striking clock in Westminster 1868: the
irst portable one made, 1880; none in
England that went tolerably, till that
lated 1870, makers name n. o.. now at
Hampton Court palace; clocks with
,endulums, etc, invented by one Fro
nantil, a Dutchman, about 1853; repeat
ng clocks and watches invented by one
barlow, 1876. Till about 1851, neither
locks nor watches were general
The proportion of travellers killed
q railroad accidents in France from
SIS TO 1850 was one 70 every "a. 900, oOc
Z passengers, and one wounded &c
very !, 900, 600; in England for the same
ERIN one to every 81. 900, 900 Of passeu
ers was killed, and one 70 every sos,
90 was ounded; on the German rail !
Dads accidents are more frequent, al
dough the mum Der OF travellers is les
one TO every 1000 600 of passenger
7as killed; in Belgium between thu
ears 1851 and 1855 one % every 6. so,
% was killed, and one 70 40, 600 pas
engers was wounded; IN the United
tates there was one TO 9, 500, 900 killed,
nd one to as, 600 injured
Prof Biclmore has a good word for
le common house-fy, which, although
nuisance when l. has become Old
1ough 20 go about and alight on hu-
ian fesh, does valuable service 20 hu-
anity as scsvenger There are, be
ID IN North America alone over TO-
10 different varieties OF flea The
ouBg ones in their larval STATE con-
lme large quantities Of decaying veg
able and animal matter and il has
zen computed that were II not for this
ork foul odors and poisonous particles
ould 20 predominant n the ar IS 20
ICED disease Of a typhoid or maia-tal
sture. The service thus done 20 man