The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-13
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

leave his post to eat or sleep until he /
relieved by some one cspabl of stand
ing watch.
There was sold recently one hun
dred acres of the old Webster home
stead at Marshfieid. including the oil
observatory on Black mount. TIL,
deeds show that Daniel Webster pur
chased part of the property in 1874
The Boston woman who has bought tn
land coveted it on account OF its histor
zeal associations, which she wishes t,
see preserved
With the cheapening of silver ha!
come an extension of its use in the fin,
arts that promises in time to widen tn,
market for the products of the Colorado
mines. People are buying in solid sill
YER many small articles that used to bt
plated, and silver plate has been sub
stituted in other cases where hitherto
the baser metals have been almost ex
clusively used. 1t looks as if fashion
could have a great deal to do with sill
yer for the next five years
The increase of insanity in Georgia
has been so rapid that the capacity OF
the buildings provided for the insane i:
insufficient. The trustees say that
they are now so overcrowded as to in
terfere with the comfort and successful
treatment of the patients. There Were
only five hundred and fifty inmates OF
the asylum in 1878: this year nearly
two thousand were treated, and there
were over sixteen hundred on hand al
the close of the year.-Baltimore Sun.
-Crvsanthemums of any variety may
be propagated indoors from the slips,
and the blossoms that florists sell often
have stalk long enough to furnish
three or four cuttings The cuttings
have an astonishing vitality, and if
planted in pot of earth that is kept
constantly moist they will, in a large
percentage of cases, root and prosper
without once losing the appearance of
freshness. Some florists keep on hand
only single plant of each variety, and
from these make all their cuttings for
new plants
The only raven at the Central park
geological garden in New York is bird
of some accomplishments. He was inn
ported from Europe, and for some time
belonged to a gentleman living in the
upper part of Manhattan island. The
bird had learned to crow like cock
and to cluck like hen, and he turned
these accomplishments to account. 1t
was his habit to excite the. curiosity of
his masters chickens by a display of
his mimic powers, and whenever a
chicken thrust head into his cage to
nip off that head as if with pair of
sharp shears.
Matthew Arnold speaks somewhere
Of the crude pottery produced at great
English factory for the American and
colonial markets. Whatever may be
the truth as to the colonies of Great
Britain, the American market now de-
mands not only tasteful pottery, but
in the case of some manufacturers a
greater variety and beauty than are de-
manded in Great Britain. 1t is noto-
rious that while British housewives are
content with few old-fashioned pat
terms in the ma tier of table linen. the
English manufacturers are forced not
only to produceliEen of excellent quail
lty for the American market, but to en-
rich their product with great variety
of beautiful patterns.
The West Shore railroad owns the
remains of Old Round Top. historic
stone house near Canajoharie. The
house was built about 1850, and was
once dwelling and store. Its first
owners We're jeremiah Van Rensselaer,
and Archibald Kane. the latter an an
cestor of DIR. Kane, the Arctic explorer,
and of the KaneS of New York Here
the kanes carried on a great mercan-
tile business. and it was in the rear of
Round Top that one of the merchant
family fought duel with the father of
Gen. j. S. Wadsworth. Much of the
old house has been destroyed by fire,
as it was long the resort of tramps and
Italian laborers who recklessly built
fires within its walls.
Mr.. Kerr Craige. third assistant
postmaster-gencral, has submitted his
annual report to Postma ster-General
Bissell. His financial statement is as
follows: Letter postage paid in money
made up principally of balances due
from foreign postal administrations
So. 305.Sl box rents. 81. 492, $50. GO: fines
and penalties, 81, 341.0s; sales of post
age stamps, stamped envelopes, news
paper wrappers and postal cards, s72.-
$50, 1882: receipts from unclaimed dead
letters, 81. 537.51; miscellaneous re-
ceipts. sa4. l27. T.: total ordinary postal
revenue. s14, $50. S67.77 Receipts from
money order business. s9l4. oe5.39: total
receipts from all sources, s.5. s96. 933. I6
The profit to the government on
special delivery business was, $50,
976.59.
Although the system of proprietary
clubs. so common III London, has never
tiourished here. there are signs that
of the kind may come about.
since the difficulties OF running club
are in large part centered
in the fact that the officers, having no
BILE direct pecuniary interest |
in the club, are unable to give It's ex- |
penditurcs that close attention so
desperation throw themselves upon the |
mercy of their stewards. and permi; /
them TO be general purchasing agents, |
IF course with the privilege of masking |;
their little commissions The uuau- /
.horized exaction Of commissions from /
hub emplores Is so common as TO have /
become notorious and actual nbezzle- 1
nent OF club funds by cashiers and the |
ike are proba bly, more common than !
the public supposes
Difficult Operation.
Star Photographic is one OF the most +
tedious operations known IN some