The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-28
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


ing almost total destruction have for
year puzzled the insurance companie
of Chicago. It has leaked out tina
these fires have been the work of sire
bugs" Pigs bladders, filed with ben
zine, were scattered over each store
and exploded with time fuse.
The flower badges of nations ar
as follows: Athens, violet; Canada
| sugar maple; Egypt lotus; England
rose; France, feur-de-ljs Qily); Flor
ence, CYCLIC Qily): Germany, corn
| flower; Ireland, shamrock leaf; Italy
lily: Prussia, linden; Saxony, migno
nette; Scotland, thistle; Spain. pome
CRATE; Wales, leek leaf.
Jeanette Emory, a negress, of For
Worth, Tex, celebrated her 1O6tf
birthday recently. She never saw
George Washington, which marks hel
as out OF the common run of gentleman
ians, but she distinctly remembers
that, when she was twelve years ole
she heard her young mistress talking
about the preparations for Washing
toms funeral.
One of the bureaus Of the treasury
department received document last
week in which claimants name was
spelled in two ways. The office sent
word to the claimant that he must make
an affidavit as to the correct spelling.
On Wednesday the affidavit came. The
claimant spells his name in one way in
the body of the paper and signs it in
another. Washington Capitol.
Now that the casualties of the
Louisiana storm have been footed up it
is found that only fifty-three of the
zoos victims were negroes. The Aca-
dians, whom Longfellow immortalized
in "Evangeline," outnumbered all
other races, but there was a large
admixture of Austrians, Creoles.
Islingues, Italians, Manillamen. Chi
nese and Spaniards in the list of the
dead.
An amateur student of architecture
finds that many of the pillars that
beautify old doorways in New York are
made in absolutely faultless proportion
according to classic models 1t is just
this regard for right proportion that
gives these pillars their peculiar charm,
though ninety-nine men out of one
hundred who should feel the defect of
disproportioned pillar could not say
wherein lay the disproportion.
They don't call me trunk Jug
gler any more" the baggagemaster
satd as he laid his hand upon the ham
DIE of the topmost of the pile of trunks
stacked up against the side of the car;
they call me now a professor of trunk
ology;" and as he spoke he pulled the
trunk from the pile, swung it once
around his head like an Indian club,
and fired it through the open door of
the cara trunk expert, indeed.
The Astounding faith in human ma
ture shown by the women who pro-
iected and managed the creche in the
children's building at the worlds fair,
where babies were checked and cared
for while the owners saw the sights,
juSt as wraps were checked in another
part of the building, was entirely vim
Dictated. Cynical people said the creche
would wind up at the close of business
with plenty of material for starting
a founding hospital. But more than
10, 900 ba bies We're cared for during the
fair season. and but one of the number
was abandoned by the person who
checked it at the creche.
-Warburton Pike, a hunter and ex-
plorer, who recently returned from
Nanaimo, b. c., from fifteen months
trip to the interior of Alaska, brought
a poor opinion and account of the
country he passed through. He fol-
lowed the Dease river to its junction
with the Willard, a tributary of the
Mackenzie, explored the Pelly river
country, following the river to its
source. padded down the Lewis river to
the Yukon, and finally went down the
river to the coast, near
Fort Alexander. He had very fine
hunting, but says most of the country
he traversed is worthless, except for
and much of it is of no value
at all. He found great many mining
camps that were abandoned except by
men too poor to leave.
On November 20. 1775. the congress
resolved. That a committee of five be
appointed for the sole purpose of cor
with our friends in Great
Ireland and other parts of the
world. and that they lay their cores
pondence before congress when direct
ed, and that all expenses that might |
arise by carrying on such correspond
ence, and for the payment of such
agents as the committee might send on
this service. should be betrayed by con-
yress-' This was the germ of our state |
and the initial step in our
foreign diplomacy. The mem oers |
chosen were BENJAMIN Harrison. DR. |
franklin, Thomas johnson. John Dick |
nson and John Jay. A correspondence |
was immediately opened with Mr. |
Arthur Lee in London and Mr.. c. ". |
Dumas "a Swiss gentleman, residing