The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-24
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II he present UreSS coat was the re-
suit of compromise. The ordinary
surtout coat being found on occasion,
inconvenient, it was the practice to
fasten back the lapels to two buttons
,on the bacit, with the result that in
time the same We're cut away altogether
and the coat eventually made without
them.
-Four e1. .000. 900 bank notes have
been struck at the Bank of England.
Samuel Rogers, the banker poet pos
sessed one of them; one went to George
". and is in the Windsor castle library;
another belongs to \. NJ Rothschild,
while the fourth remains at the Bank
of England, where it may now be seen
by visitors.
A poor oyster fisher who plies his
trade in Biloxi bay, an arm of the Gulf
of Mexico which indents the state of
Mississippi, recently discovered the
sunken wreck of an old French man-of-
war, which he is now trying To dispose
of to the government. The vessel was
one of feet OF Iberville. which was
used to colonize Louisiana some two
centuries ago, and many curious relies
were found within her hull.
There are two words in the English
language which contain the vowels in
their regular order, viz; 'Absteui-
Gus" and ''facetious' The following
words each have them in irregular or
der: Mendacious. authoritative. disad-
vantageous, encouraging, efficacious,
instantaneous. importunate, nefarious,
Objectionable, precarious, pertinacious.
sacrilegiOus. simultaneous, tenacious,
unintentional. unequivocal, undiscov-
era BILE and vexatious.
The mahara jah of Bhownugger is
the lion of the hour in London He IS
an oriental potentate who has Travelled
from India to England to attend the
opening of the Imperial institute and
to fulfill long cherished desire of pay
ing personal homage to the queen and
empress. He Is an enlightened young
man of thirty-fvc, who is considered
one of the most benevolent of the ma
tive rulers of India, having spent five
millions of dollars in charities.
John Hansen Craig, of Danville,
Ind, is undoubtedly the largest man in
the world. He is thirty-seven years
old and weighs nine hundred and seven
pounds. He is six feet and five inches
high, measures eight feet and foug
inches around the hips, eighteen inches
around the ankle, twenty-nine inches
around the knee and sixty-six inches
around the thigh next to the body. He
requires forty-one yards for suit Of
clothes, and three pounds of yarn for
stockings Mrs. Craig is a cookbook
ing blonde and weighs one hundred and
thirty pounds
Congressman Thomas +. Gearv. of
California. the author of the Chinese
registration law. has always employed
Chinese servants in his California home,
because they are practically the only
good ones to be obtained in that part
of the country. Since the law bearing
his name was enacted il is said that his
wife has been unable t. keep her Chi
nese servants or TO hire others, as a
boycott has been declared against the
Gearv household. The peddlers Of fruit
and other articles, who are principally
{ Chinese. also refuse 20 sell anv OF their
goods there.
--.Josenb Francis who died no. long
agoat The age ~ ninetr-.,,,, Years rrof,-
:, I,I,- AID as much ~, humanity as any
on. man Ue inveofed among other
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