The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-26

OF GENERAL INTEREST.

'SOAN
George Washington. The base plates
were ot'lead and perfectly nat some
of the teeth were Of ivory and others
had been extracted from living per-
Son.
80 The WAYS of auctioneers in differ
ent parts of the world vary greatly. |
In England and America the seller |
bears the expense OF the sale, but |
In France the purchaser pays the
cost, five per cent being added to the |
price he pays. In Holland it is still |
worse, the buyer being required to pay
ten per cent. additional for the ex-
penses of the sale.
The beautiful marble bust of Har-
riet Reecher Stowe was recently I'M
yelled in the library of the womens
building on the worlds fair grounds
b. Mrs. lisa bella Beecher Hooker, who
placed on the white marble choice
cluster OF pinks and ferns. Frederick
Douglas was present and read several
passages from Uncle Toms Cabin,
several copies of which, printed in many
languages We're placed near the bust.
All who were present were saddened by
the thought that the beloved authoress
40 longer can enjoy the honors be-
slowed upon her.
The story goes that Gen. Butler
had stormy wooing. The lady of his
love, Miss Sarah Hildreth, was school
teacher in New England. Becoming
tired of her profession, she went on the
stage, and this greatly enraged her
lover She paid no attention to his eX-
postulations, but one night, when she
was playing in The Lady of Lyons,
he suddenly appeared behind the scenes,
and gave her until the end of the play
to decide whether she would continue
to be The Lady of Lyons or become
plain Mrs. Butler. and she took the lat
ter and less conspicuous role.
-Ex-Secretary of the Navy Tracy is
quoted as saying, apropos of the dis
aster to the Victoria, that ine-of-
battle ship like her is always exposed
to the danger of capsizing, being top
heavy. '"The Victoria carried mon
strous gun, weighing 10 tons The
largest gun we have weighs only sixty
five tons. This tremendous weight
placed the ship at the mercy of the
waves as soon as the water began to
pour in This accident only re-enforces
what have repeatedly said in my an
nual reports, that however, it may be
for England. it is folly for us to keep
large battleship cruising in time OF
peace"
-Azaleas of every hue possible to
azaleas make the wooded island IN the
worlds fair grounds grand bouquet
and those accustomed TO see this dell
cate mountain flower in the pink-yelloW
or white dress which it assumes IN New
England, Virginia or California are
amazed at the many shades of pink
crimson and orange and the parti-col-
ored varieties produced by cultivation
Rhododendrons of the tall and draWfeo
varieties. brilliant japanese peonleS
and masses of lowly growing pansles'
contented to bloom wherever they are
: placed. give the island a festive ano
summary appearance, attractive TO al
pedestrians.
old chests and trunks have high
value as curios and are largely takeI
nv the dealers in the like. AS paper
was costly in the eighteenth century
many such articles were lined VIII
newspapers then current, and II pleas
antries of the period are to be trusted
even with rejected manuscripts. /
curious old trunk with pentagonal end
recently turned up in the SHOP OF
dealer in old furniture. 1t still bore
weather-stained card showing that IL
last delivery had been to somebody !
Pearl street. 1t was lined with a Phl
edelphia newspaper of 1913, and tn
pages eyposed bore the tax-list of tina
wear in pounds, shillings and pence.
1t is only within 2 few years, on
mi~ht almost say months, that the Wld
effect of the warm, moist Pacific WING
called chinoolls, has been known l
British Columbia and Alaska. TheS
winds. corresponding exactly TO tho'
that make England fertile country
the latitude of Labrador, keep the sno
melted from the plains at the easter
base of the Rockies. and they encouraa
q MAGNIFICENT growth OF root crop
cabbage. oats and grass thousan
miles north of New York. Wheat dot
not do well and berries are small
though little attempt has been made
cultivate sruit The winters are oltir
cold. but dry, and the summer, thong
short. is so hot that vegetation com
ont of the earth with rush.
One class of people regard our IA
cruisers and our whitc-wallcd, thu
5.rino ironciads with hearty dlSa
,roval-uamelv, the artists a marl
na;nter. looking at the big feet tn
recently Law stretched along the hu
CON exclaimed: YES. quite lntcre
inc. and ugly. Those are mere n
shines. and machinery Is always ug
All the time that ships have been ga
fnr in strength and speed they ma
been losing in picturesqueness q
Sa.utv There is nothing in that
81 tea kettles. as Napier called the
70 equal the old Constitution ana
ola Vermont. with their three rows
norris and their big towers OF canv
r. see one of the old frigates boWli
along with all sail set-wny' sT' Il
was a poem
a material lately introduced IN
consumption of American warshl
.bourh not vet effectually tested
-or or serious casualty. is called ce
,osa A naval man in Washingt
speaking of the sinking OF the veto
savs: Il hardly think that just s.
on accident could have happened
of o,r war vessels. Above the
.an,;ve deck in our boats we plac
,,,,-s,ial called cellulose. 1t Is SIX
a thickness all along the inside OF
,,s;5e and Is about seven fee