The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-12

or GENERAL INTEREST.

New York is the only state that
allows an uncle to marry his niece. In
Florida and Georgia marriage is pro-
hibited within the ''Levitical degree"
these are set for n in Leviticus xviii.
and forbids marriages of nephews and
aunts, but seemin Fly not of uncles with
nieces No Europ Fan country considers
such marriage Ia awful
A government official sent out to
The northwest long before there were
any railroads in that part of the coun-
trv saws that the glaciers of the Sellirl1
range were pure white and blue then.
Now they have z greyish color, and in
some lights reddi sh appearance, and
or exami ing the surface of the ice it
IS found to be covered with little Jumps
of what seems TO be clay, The Official
SAYS that this substance is ashes from
forest fires
A few fig trees are kept out of
doors at Yonkers, and in ordinary
wears their fruit natures They are
grown against wall, and in autumn
are laid fat and carefully covered, SO
that the Young shoots may be protected
from frost Thus cared for they usu-
ally come through the winter without
harm. and it is probable that they have
Jared quite as we'll this winter as here
tofore. as Winchester county had
covering of from two to ten inches of
snow throughout most of the severe
weather.
"A citizen of La Grande, Wash, had
his ttention drawn, in some uneX-
y,lainable way. to a watch which q
stranger. standing on the depot plat
form drew from his pocket. He asked
to be allowed to examine it, and ex-
claimed that it was his brothers watch.
The stranger told how he took the
watch from the pocket of a union sol
dier whose body he helped to bury after
one of the battles of the civil war, over
twentv-six years ago. The La Grande
man clearly identified the watch as the
one his brother wore when ne set out
for the front.
The Howe who originally kept
Longfellow's ''Wayside Inn" was an
ancestor of Right Rev. Mark An
thony DelTolf Howe, Episcopal bishop
Of central Pennsylvania. For many
years past the house has been in the
hands of caretallers. who ordinarily
Gid not entertain the public. The large
ball ROOM however, was opened for the
use of picnic parties from the neigh
boring manufacturing villages. and
Z great many dishes are kept in the
house for the use of such visitors. A
charge was made for the china and the
use Of the room.
Every now and then we come in
contact with some gracious grand-dane,
glorifed spinster, or genial bachelor
who has kept his youthful freshness
and sympathy, while he has grown
wise and charitable with advancing
years. The companionship and pres
ence of such person Is a veritable
boon and helps to restore and keep
alive our faith in men and women and
tn the ultimate good of life. When it
is said that such one is 80 or so years
of age it conveys no idea of his person
ality or characteristics. He is younger
than many another at 80, and age, as
we think of it as whitening or harden
ing. has not touched him
Several singing comedians" write
their own songs, and occasionally make
hit with them, as Seaman did with
his 'Peelt-a- Boo" Emmett with his lul-
laby, and Mr.. Flynn with Down
Went McGinty." Among these lesser
composers is one whose songs have
been sold by thousands in the music
stores and made popular in the theaters
all over the country. lie confesses that
he is not much of musician, and says
that il often takes MIN a month or two
to write song that sounds as if it had
been "knoclled off, in ten minutes.
His songs he says. are mosaics, made
up of musical phrases that he catches
here and there, sometimes from hand
organs and gutter bands, sometimes
from the cries of street hawllers, and
occasionally from ideas that pop into
his head. Inartistic as this process of
manufacture seems to be his songs
bring him an income of several thou
sand dollars year