The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-04
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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and then had the colored man arrested
for theft and sentenced to two years
imprisonment
Ocean waves have on number OF
occasions dashed over the tops Of light
houses which are $50 feet high. AS a
wave in the open ocean is accompanied
by depression as deep as the wave is
high, a ship in the trough of the sea,
encounteripg such waves would be
banked by hills of water, if the term
may be used. three hundred feet high.
Experiments were recently made at
Toulon, France, for Illuminating the
bottom of the sea with electric lamps
The apparatus employed was sunk in
six fathoms and it illuminated the bot
tom TO a radius of one hundred feet 1t
is thought that the lamp will be of the
greatest value for surveying wrecks or
for recommending for concealed torpe-
does.
Numbers Of experiments have been
made TO test the speed and destination
of corlfed bottles thrown into the sea
in various parts of the world. The most
remarkab bic example was that in which
a bottle travelled 5000 miles in about
two years and half-roughly, at the
rate of ~ miles day. 1t travelled from
6S degrees south latitude and 60 de-
grees west longitude to western Aus
tralia-
The packinghouses in Chicago are
so arranged that the blood is all caught
in a great tank. and after it clots 1T is
carried off to a stampinghouse, where
numerous and powerful machines are
kept busy stamping it into buttons.
The buttons are made at one stamp of
the big dies, and they are said to wear
remarkably we'll These buttons are
easily distinguished by their peculiar
dark red color.
There are two hundred and seven
ty-six different kinds of plants which
are eaten and relished by cows. Goats
eat four hundred and forty-nine differ
ent plants or vegetables. Sheep eat
three hundred and eighty-seven varie-
ties, while the horse will taste of only
two hundred and sixty-two, and the
hog rejects all but seventy-two differ
ent kinds of food. Among the grains
J and grasses which are liked by all these
animals are: Timothy, clover, oats,
barley. wheat, rye, buckwheat. sorrel,
cowslips, sourgrass and sweet thistle
1t is told ola well-known Kentucky
colonel that once he invited gentle
man to dine with him at Chamberlin's
| in Washington. Among other things
ordered was porterhouse steak, with
onions His guest asked to be excused
from partaking of this dish. ut gives
me bad breath" he said. ''Never you
mind about that" remarked the colo
mel; wait till you get the bill-that
will take your breath away" The ease
with which the colonel changed from
host to guest nearly took his friends
breath away. The bill did SO COM
| pletely.
-Middle-aged Marylanders recall
that the Philadelphia, Wilmington d
Baltimore railroad crossed the Susque-
hanna at Havre de Grace on the ice in
February, 1852. In those days the river
was not bridged at that point and the
old steamboat Maryland, burned not
| long since in this harbor, carried the
! trains across on her deck. The river
! froze solidly in February, however, o
/ that the boat could not cross, and on
! February 10 the company finished lay
ing its track across on the ice For
some time trains crossed the river in
| this fashion
There is large manufacturing es-
| Enlistment in New York city in which
the Office is separated from the repair
shop by whole block. The two are
connected by what seems to be a tele-
phone, except that a jingle bell worked
by a string is substituted for crank
and gong. AS a matter of fact there is
no electricity about this affair. The
sound conductor is merely piece of
fine. strong Irvine, knotted at each end
is stretched like drum head over tin
cylinder not SO large as mans fist
Tov telephones" of similar descrip-
ton are sold in the streets. but this is
perhaps the first instance of their
adoption for practical business pur-
poses
-Areporter who was passing through
q uLStTiCG III tliC Io"CE pal VI
New York noticed a curious and unin-
telligible sign across the street. 1t was
an upright frame, covered with oil
cloth, on which was painted: oiled
ish." "ggs and acon,' ''ried lams, "
teak and Mons" ''udding and ie,'!
with other words of equally mysterious
! import Crossing the street to observe
more closely what this thing might be,
he found that the place was restau-
rant, and that the sign was a bill of
fare The initial letter of each word
had been painted in red, which had
been faded by the sun and rain to a
mere ghost of color. while the other
letters, being in black, had held their
their own. ''oIled ish," therefore, be-
come ''boiled fish," and other words re
solved themselves into eggs and ba
con, ''fricd clans. steak and onions,
pudding and pie.
Ontario, Cal, says the Orange Belt
has street railway that is operated
partly by horsepower and partly by
gravity. When the town was founded
an avenue two hundred feet wide wa:
laid out with a space in the center for {
street car line. This avenue is six mile:
long. running from the town of Ontario
to the mountains, with a steady ascen
varying from one hundred to two hun
bred and fifty rect to the mile. In Dec
ember. 1855. the railroad was completed
and horse-cars put on A couple o
ingenious mechanics. j. Z. Tays anC
James Birch. decided that the hors,
might as we'll ride on the down trip
and accordingly designed small plat
form car. which slides under the mail