The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-20
or GENERAL INTEREST.


The United States produce 2. aos
pounds of grain to each person; Cana.
da, 1.500: Germany, 700: Scotland, 400
and England, $780,
-One-legged men, when they buy 6
pair of shoes, convert one OF them into
dress shoe Thus, il the right leg Is
gone, they drive LETT last into the
right shoe, moisten the leather, and al.
low the shoe TO stand for a week AZ
the END of that time it has the shape OF
left shoe.
The japanese tattooers not oniv
picture dragons and flowers and mus
mees on the bodies of their patrons,
but 10 meet the artistic demands of Eu.
ropeans they now produce IN colors an
exact photograph of any cherished
friend whose image the tattooed person
may desire to have constantly with
him.
All roses We're white in the Garden
OF Eden before the fall. says an old ira.
dition. As Mother Eve strolled among
the flowers, she kissed a white rose.
and it blushed itself pink. When Eve
was driven from the Garden of Eden,
the rose covered itself with priclSles so
that no profane hand might pluck its
sweets.
Charles Bogard. of Morrison. Pa.
whose wife had died a few months ago,
suspected that she had not been prop
erly treated. He had the body disin-
TERED and it was discovered that the
unfortunate patient had been buried
alive! punches of hair were cenched
in her hands and her clothing was torn
to shreds.
Cycling has of late years made
wonderful advances in Ireland In the
remotest districts of Connemara people
may be seen to-day riding the latest
form of pneumatic-tyred machines.
Roads in Ireland are, on the whole,
very good for cycling, and the railways
are so few and the service so bad that
for people who want to get about much
cycles are an absolute necessity.
An orderly cat dwells in an Office
in South Manchester, Conn. A lady
clerk gives it piece of meat every day
for lunch, and first spreads piece of
paper on the floor before putting the
meat there The other day the lady
forgot the meal hour; but the cat went
to the waste basket, secured piece of
paper, spread it out on the floor for a
table-cloth, and then meowed for her
accustomed lunch.
"A contractor sinking a ten-inch
driven well at Dover, Del has hit upon
the plan of substituting rotary mo-
ton for the direct blow of the pile
driver inesinking his pipes After
pipe had been driven more than one
hundred feet by the pile driver the
other method was applied. and the
was sunk three feet in twenty minutes.
The contractor is going to patent his
invention if nobody has anticipated it.
In remote district of Alabama.
inha bited largely by Illicit distillers of
whisky, the life of the people is not far
removed from that of animals. None
of them can read, they do not know
when Sunday comes and the worst
crime that can be committed in their
estimation is to testify against neigh
Dor. The United States authorities
find it almost impossible to convict
these men because they swear for each
other.
There are many misconceptions
about aluminium that are widespread
and which it seems difficult to correct
in the public mind. Aluminium is not,
section by section, very strong metal
4 So ha! e.
iron. 1t has very low elastic limit
It is not rigid, but bends under trans
verse strain readily. 1t is in it's alloys
that its utility commences to appear
With eight to twelve per cent of cop
per, or aluminium bronze, we have one
Of the most dense, finest grained and
strongest metals known.
The first party to reach the top Of
Mount Rainier this year made the trip
a few weeks ago. 1t has been gener-
ally thought that it would be impossi-
bic to reach the summit this year be-
cause of the immense amount of snow
that fell last winter. DR.. Joseph Felix,
professor of geology in the university
1t Leipsic, who climbed Rainier few
lays ago, pronounces it far more in
teresting than any of the mountains of
Europe or of Mexico Mount Rainier.
aas seventeen glaciers, three large vol
,ano craters at its summit and several
other craters along its sides.
"A most inf1exible, upright, and.
merciful judge presides in the
,ity court Of Savannah, Ga His honor,
Judge Mcdonnell. went to his physi-
.ian on his way to court few morn
ngs since to have an injured arm
dressed. The doctor detained him
onger than he had expected, and the
Judge did not arrive in the court room
until ten minutes after the hour for
opening court. Said his honor as he
.ook his seat on the bench: I'm accord
lnce with the rules of this court every
,fhcer who comes in late is subject TO a
inc. The clerk viii therefore enter u
ine Of ten dollars against the court for
ardiness- Owing to the fact, however,
hat this is the first time that this
hing has happened, and also that the
.ourt had to be detained in ORDER TO
lave its arm dressed, the clerk win re-
nit the fine"
How the Gorilla Walks
The usual pictures of the gorilla do
lot represent him as | have seen him