The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-17
Or GENERAL INTEREST.

focil of geese as team of horses
which draw him over the ice in
specially prepared vehicle at the rat
of one and quarter miles minute
He is now making balloon n whic
he proposes to ride drawn by the sam
| team.
The man who orders plain butte
in New York restaurant and discop
ers it to be oleomargarine, or othe
kind OF substitute, can have the pro
/ prietor arrested and fined, and the in
| former receives half the fine. Th,
way in which the proprietor can pro
| fare the confession that his butter il
| not genuine.
| Uncle Joe Ardle, an old Georgia
darky living on the Savannah river
! thinks it about time to take to the
woods After the earthquake of 1885,
| he was afraid to live on the ground. sc
he built hut in the branches of a
| huge oak tree, where he lived content
edly until the storm of few week.
ago blew him and his hut clear out Of
the trees and almost into the river.
The keeper of cheap but clean
restaurant in the French quarter in
New York has hit upon the plan of ad-
vertising his wares by means of pictures
on the flags of the sidewalk. He hires
chalk artist for this work, and YOU
may see upon the flags just within the
stoop line well-drawn fish in groups of
three, and other lifelike representa-
tions of the viands that the place af-
fords.
An alligator eight feet two inches
in length and weighing two hundred
and twenty pounds was lately caught
in the Mississippi Alliga tors are quite
plentiful in southwestern rivers, but
they rarely attain length of more
than four feet. So far as known, this
one is. by far the largest ever taken
from the Mississippi. Some of it's teeth
are over two inches long and very like
the teeth of shark.
Towns county. Ga, boasts of a
novel specimen of the white" negro.
This one has been turning" for sew
eral years, until the left side of his
face is perfectly white, while the right
side remains almost jet black. Negroes
whose skin changes from black to a
light brown or reddish white are not
uncommon in the south but the change
mostly shows in blotches, giving them
a notified appearance.
Stock raising is a business beset
with many risks which do not cease un-
til the fiocks and herds are safely mar
keted. A flock of sheep was being
driven through Grant county, Ore, to
market at Baker City few days ago,
when, in passing through a narrow ra-
vine, the sheep stampeded, and after
the scare was over the stockman count
ed over sixty head of dead sheep that
had been smothered in the crush.
1t may distract the attention of
those who suffer from headache to
learn that in early English days there
were remedies ''for headache, and for
old headache, and for the ache of half
the head Eye work and the fend's
are also mentioned in
this catalogue. Ache of half the head,
or hermicrania, from which George
Eliot suffered so much, has been con-
Bidered distinctively modern disease,
but there is nothing new
Real and personal property in this
city to the amount OF s136, 271, ,377 is ex-
empted from taxation. In brief, it is
divided as follows: City of Boston,
personal property, actual, S26, ,472, 500;
nominal, 1886, 900, commonwealth of
real estate, S., 623, 500;
United States real estate, S11, $50, 600;
houses Of worship. sl4, 757, S0O charita-
BILE and scientific. and other bodies. !
real estate, SIS, ,s34, 800, and personal, !
BIS, 762, 30 Boston Transcript.
"A strange fatality hangs over the |
Weeks family of Albion, Ind Sher-
man was killed recently while climbing |
a tree. His brother entered the army |
during the war and died Of lockiaw.
Cornelius lost his life by swallowing a
copper cent. Thomas jumped from a
train and was killed. while Charles,
still another brother, committed suicide
ov swallowing poison. Edward Weeks,
also brother. moved west some years
ago and has never been heard of.
Miss Minnie Rush, of Lakeville. In
llama, has discovered for herself and,
perhaps for her sisters new field OF
For the past three years
'he has had charge of the passenger,
'reight and telegraph offices of the
Vandalia line in her town, the receipts
or which are fully ten thousand dol
ars a month. Miss Rush is only twen-
y-one years old, but she has organized
abroad excursions which have netted
handsome profits to her employers the
'ast year, besides conducting the or
'inary affairs of the office with skill
md success
An ingenious mechanic in the Cats
ills has long manufactured small arti-
les of use and ornament from the ex-
rescences that grow upon the maple
nd other trees of the mountain region.
ie travels far in search of these
lodules, seasons them for many years,
nd then fashions them into polished
ewel boxes and many other beautiful
hings He is especially careful that
rs material shall be well seasoned, a
act that means good deal when one
,nows that the wood that goes to form
ONE parts OF thoroughly well made
ianos should be seasoned thirty or
orty years
1ndiscriminating Youth.