The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-17
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Walter Besant, who has crossed the
ocean, and therefore ought to be an au-
thority on the subject, says: Next
time, dear madam, that you are sea-
sick place piece of ice in your mouth,
and keep it there. When it is gone
take another piece. After that lie
down and go to sleep in peace"
I'm round numbers the total amount
of life insurance written by the differ
ent insurance companies of the world is
e12, 900. 600, 600. OF this sum $500, 0oo,
600 is placed in the United States Be-
tween the years 1880 and 1890 there
was 81, 500, 900, 900 new life insurance
written in this country and but l,000.-
900, 600 in the whole of the British EN-.
pire.
While riding in her buggy, near
Iron mountain. Cal, Mrs Kamene saw
what she thought to be three little
dogs playing in the road. She stopped
to admire their antics, when mount
ain lioness sprang from the brush and
planted two paws on the buggy. She
struck the animal on the head with her
whip, dashed her horse and escaped.
The little dogs We're young lions
One of the curious inhabitants of
the far east side tenement district in
New York is a lamb, which disports it
self upon the low roofs in the vicinity.
1t capers about apparently at home and
at ease, though there is nothing green
in sight save some of the distant streets
of Brooklyn. The lamb was apparent
" once white, but is now dingy gray,
and east side associations promise to
transform it into q veritable black
sheep.
Meeting rooms and wedding rooms
to let" is sign met with in New York
The Hebrew custom of celebrating
marriage in public hall peculiarly fits
the exigencies of east side life. tmust
be an exceedingly private wedding that
could be performed in the ordinary
tenement-house apartment, and there
are many saloon keepers who find it
profitable to provide an apartment
where friends of couples about to be
made happy may come and see the GER
emory.
The proposition recently made in
New York club to sell on each day at
half price to members of the club the
newspapers received that day excited
considerab Bile derision in spite of the
fact that English precedent was cited
in support of the idea. The custom
originated in Great Britain when news
papers were higher priced than they
are now, and has survived because An
Englishman yields no privilege once
granted, and expects more out of his
club than Americans have learned to
expect
in 1872 congress Fixed the relative
value of silver aud gold at to Is; this
was an over valuation as compared
with that of foreign countries and as
result gold was exported: n 1854 the
standard was altered / T. Ia, while
among other nations il was about l TO
15%, and an outflow of silver began
and continued until 1853, when read
fustment was made 10 | TO li.sS and
silver was made a legal tender for
sums under five dollars In 1878 the
standard was again changed and fixed
at to 1895.
10 Bengula- king Of the Matabele
nation, in South Africa, who are said
TO have arisen against the whites, Is
seventy years old and weighs three
hundred pounds He has one hundred
wives and over two hundred AID fifty
sons. Lo bengula is the son Of the
great Chief MosiIikatze, succeeding his
father about twenty years ago He is
a friend OF the whites. but his oldest
son and the heir TO the throne Is bitter
IL opposed to them II the reports of
the uprising are correct il will prob
ably be found that this young man IS
responsible.
One Of the highest bridge structures
in America IS the kinzua creek viaauct.
situated on branch % the New York
& Lake Erie railroad which runs
through the Bradford oil regions into
the Elk county coal fields II i three
hundred and one feet high from the
top of the rail 20 the bottom Of the
stream below. tvvo thousand and atty
two feet loEg, Is single tracked and con-
taias exactly taree million, i've huu-
dred tfsousaDd pounds 81 iron work
The roadbesi OF the viaduct IS .wo thou
md and Eve feet . oove the sea level
Il was buiit IN 1887 ard COS. she com
parry t-vo hundred aid seventy-6ye
thousand collars
II book & Household Eleea1cics.=
-,uhlisned less than forty years go n
this country. giv>s an IDEA o. :a@ rapid
changes Il pablo taste IL a-s@-ia= "a
the mater OF what e eg.cs sEe ! - *
the beautiful Fnosn tsis /, appears
leather flowers and fruit varnis he'd. and