The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-20
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The following advertisement was
printed III "a small western paper some
years ago. The firm in question was
the first esta blished in a Mississippi
town: 'Messrs Brown. Jenkins &
Waterbury dealers in sewing and knit
ting machines, stoves, scales, smut ma
chimes, cotton gins, pumps church bells,
gongs, gravestOneS and oil"
The habit the southern negroes
Lave of talking to themselves is noticed
by every one in the towns below Mason
and DiXon's line. One servant in a
southern family used to carry on con-
versations with herself, sometimes al
leging carelessness and disorder in one
tone of voice, then defending herself
from those charges in another tone.
The salmon syndicate of the north
west are all busted in encouraging the
increase of the Pacific coast salmon.
Fifty thousand million salmon are
turned loose into the rivers of Oregon
by the syndicate alone every year and
as the industrious female salmon LAYS
900 eggs to every pound of her weight,
the prospect of the fish seems encour-
aging.
The blue book of the city of New
York shows that there are 6,724 persons
paid by the city for their services. OF
these ., 122, including the mayor. alder
men heads of city departments and
teachers and other employees of the
board of education are exempt from
civil service rules. and 4, 00e are included
under the rules. of whom ESQ are APP
pointed only after competitive ex-
animation.
"A few years ago only the largest Of
the dry goods esta blishments employed
a servant TO stand upon the sidewalk,
answer questions, call carriages and
perform little services for the custom
ers. Now every shop of account in New
York. Brooklyn. Boston, Philadelphia
and Chicago keeps such a man. in the
morning, when the public does, not sec
much of him, he has TO sweep the walk
and help 10 wash the windows For
his various services he receives two dol
lars day and livery. Theater mana
gers are beginning to employ him
Although tipping has long been
Y.
country where there is any considerable
negro population. it Is still d refresh
ment and a delight TO tip the unspoiled
negro to whom the custom is unfamil-
lar. He accepts the gift with JOY and
surprise that register themselves n
face, figure and voice. Eyes and teeth |
play a specially important part in the |
demonstrate ton. and the white man VINO /
has had for the first time the good for /
tune n evoke all this goes away with /
the feeling that It Is truly more blessed I
to give than 70 receive
A resident 81 New York who passed !
nearly twenty-five years in the anthrs-
cite coal mines 81 Pennsylvania says
that few miners can easily snake Of 1
the horror that selves man upon find
ing himself alone a. the bottom ~ =
mine. with the knowledge that there -
no other human being within call y
happens that . miner, alb
sorhcd IN his WORK suddenly re<lizes
that all bnt himself have gone The
place Is as safe from ordinary accidents
then as at any tinne. and no other lIv-
ing creature more dangerous than "A
blind mule shares the miners solitude,
but ne finds j, impossible long 20 keep I
OF the pressing terror. and bail
nsha med. but completely conquered, hs
picks Up MS dinner pal and Rropes ~;
way 20 upper ar.
Many Of the hills sbozs, Pittsburgh
sre pierced with horizontal shafts adj
hitting TO tae rich deposits Of Dstunin-