The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-13
roaElcN GOSSIP.

The practice in early English his
tory was to bury the heart and bowel.
of a prominent man in one church anG
his body in another. In 1888 the body
of Richard Cour de Lion was found
buried in Rouen cathedral. confirming
the historic statement. His body was
laid to rest at Fontevand, his bowels al
Chaluz.
France is soon to adopt an interest
ing innovation IN the postal-card sys
tenn. The cards will be issued in the
form OF check books, with stubs. The
sender of the postal card can make
memoranda of its contents on the stub,
and can have this stamped at the pos,
Office before the card is detached. sc
that a verified record of the correspond
ence can be kept.
No one who has ever stayed at q
Chinese hotel is likely to forget his ex.
perience. They are all built on the
same plaza large courtyard, around
the four sides of which are built row.
of small rooms, the restaurant and
Office being in front. The buildings are
built of sun-dried bricks, and are usual.
ly in the last stages of dilapidation.
Each small room contains brick bed,
in which fire can be lighted for
warmth IN winter. There is no furni-
ture but rough chair. and perhaps q
table, while the windows are nothing
but frames covered with paper.
-Sappho's Leap was the name given
to white cliff or promontory ancient
ly called Leucadia, now Cape Ducato,
at the southern extremity of Santa
Maura, one of the Ionian islands. It
was SO called because Sappho, the
poetess, is reported to have thrown
herself from this height into the sea.
A criminal, with birds attached to him
to break his fall, was thrown from the
cliff at the annual festival of Apollo;
and, if he reached the water unhurt,
he was picked up by boats placed there
for that purpose. This is the rock
from which, according to the story,
lovers threw themselves in order to be
free from the pangs of love.
"A fragment of bas-relief discovered
in Egypt has shown that the obelisks
and other large monoliths were trans
ported from the quarry to their site.
The stone is depicted upright on a great
galley or vessel, which is being towed
by number of small boats alongside
This method of detaching a monolith
from the mother rock is also explained
by semi-detached block in one of the
quarries of Syene. After having been
hewn clear GA three sides deep groove
was cut into the side still attached to
the rock, and the holes were pierced,
into which wooden pegs were driven.
The pegs were then wetted and the
wood in swelling broke of the mono
lith from the quarry.
The new British battle-ships, Ma
jestic and Magnificent, will head tho
list in point.of size. Theywin be 500
feet long, IS feet broad, s71s feet deep,
of IA 800 tons displacement. and 1711
knots maximum speed. Instead of 76-
ton guns, the biggest used in the later
ironclads, they will carry four 50 ton
ners, 1a-inch 'caliber, and capable Of
being loaded by hand as well as by
There will be twelve g.
inch quiek-firing guns, sixteen 12-pound
quick firing guns and five torpedo
tubes, three submerged, for 1s-inch
torpedoes. The big guns will be
on bafbettes. These vessels
are to have about four feet more free
board than the Royal Sovereign and
her sisters.