The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-08
OF GENERAL INTEREST,

-Harebel Is properly Ayrhell. q
called from its shape and the district
/ of Scotland where il was first noticed.
Much is claimed for an improved
device in cotton spinning; that is by a
/ new i.iethod. The forming ~ COPS on
spindles without spindles revolving is
accomplished by mounting the cor
spindles in a frame having up-and.
down motions, regulated By any cop
ping motion.
When the great tower now beina
constructed at wembly park. near
Harrow, In England, is completed il
will be 175 feet higher than the Eitfel
tower. The height will be !. $50 feet.
and. as it stands on hill les feet high.
| it gains so much in extent OF panor,
/ anna It viii be built of steel
Explorers have recently visited the
wild Olympic mountains in western
/ Washington. They report that the
timber line disappears at about sin
thousand feet and at the base of III,
highest peak, on the five thousand-fooi
level, is system of meadows and lakes
where grass and flowers grow in grea.
| luXuriance.
Scientists arc exuberant at the dis.
covery of what is supposed to be new
metal or at least new combination
of old metals. The scene of the de-
posits is IN Alhiquin, n, NJ. In large
morass are several Thousand logs OF
timber petrified into copper ore. sver-
aging sixty per cent of copper and
from thirty TO forty ounces of silver to
the ton.
On the island of St George. one OF
the Pribylof group in Behring sea the
breeding of blue foxes has become very
profitable. They generate very rapid
ly, and when an island of good size
once becomes well stocked I; is impos-
sible to deplete ii, as the law provides
that they must not be shot, but
trapped. the restriction being imposed
mainly to keep them tame.
The town of Hart, Ca, boasts a
notable specimen of the albino negro.
The man was once pure black but for
years his skin has been changing until
now he is white all over with the ex-
ception of a few dark spots. Not only
IS he white, but much whittier than
most white men, his changed skin
being of a clear, milky whiteness The
transformation has been natural and
unattended by any pain or inconvenI
ence.
The largest pearl ever found meas
urcs two inches long and weighs three
ounces. This is of eastern origin The
largest found in the Gulf of California
did not exceed an inch and quarter
long and was somewhat larger than
the egg Of bluebird. Many of the
California pearls are black and
speckled. These are considered more
valuable than the white pearls Of Eu-
rope, but the most highly priced pearls
of all are pink.
A cure of rattlesnake bite BY the
chicken remedy is reported from Madi-
son county, Ca. and the incident has
recalled other like cures in that region
In times past The remedy IL TO XIII
chicken and apply the flesh as quickly
as possible to the wound: the poison,
IL is assumed, is absorbed by the
chicken flesh The patient in this in
stance was badly bitten. but suffered
little inconve nience and was soon quite
we'll There is belief in Georgia that
II the snake inficting the wound is
caught and killed and its flesh similarly
applied a cure will surely result
The custom Of bottling tear. is pe-
culiar 20 the people of Persia There
IL constitutes an important part Of the
obsequics of the dead As the mourn
ers are sitting round and weeping the
master OF ceremonies presents each one
with piece Of cotton wool or sponge
with which 70 wipe away the trarA
This cotton wool or sponge !s after
ward squeezed into bottle and the
tears are preserved as a powerful and
efficacious restorative for those whom
every other medicine has failed 20 re-
vive- II is 20 this custom that allusion
IS made in Psalms lvL. 3. Pat thou thy
tears into thy bottle
Among the ss. 600. 600 people IN the
United states there are probably net
300 ou fside 81 the locality who are
aware that at the mouth Of the hiasis-
sippi there is little village bull. upon
wooden piles standing far out in the
water This village. which Is called
Balize. Is reached from the mainland
by czzoes or boats, and its inha bstants
have to climb Kind Of pole ladder 20
get to the doorways of their homea
This = probably The only place ia the
United States Ia which pile dsseIlings'
ocear. but all along the Nsnsznsian
coast and AZ the mouths Of the Orinceo
aaa The Amazon similar villages are
frequently met with. many of them in
~ ted by the Indian hshlng ,rlbea Of
the amazon estuaEJ.