The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-05
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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Some of the flower badges O.
nations are as follows: Athens, violet
canada, sugar maple; Egypt, lotus
England, rose: France. fiepr-de-lis Qily)
Florence, CYCLIC (lily); Germany, Corn
flower: ireland. shamrock leaf: Italy
lily: Prussia. linden; Saxony, mignon-
cite: Scotland, thistle: Spain, pome.
granate; Wales, leell LEAF.
I'm the hope Of being able to dis
pense with walters a woman has
invented table which will wait on
itself. The table is round, with a
space ten inches wide for the plates,
cups. etc. Inside this circle there is a
revolving disk raised about two inches,
upon which the food is placed. BY
turning ii in any direction, YOU NAV
have bread. butter. olives or cream
without asking or waiting for them.
"A man who travels frequently by
ahe coastwise steamers To southern
ports. and who is liable to be sea-sicI1
when the water is rough, says he would
he sick much oftener, and often much
sicller. if he did not. instead of the
reclining steamer chair. use an ordinary
rocking chair during his voyages.
when the motion of the ship makes the
chair rock it seems perfectly natural
and just what might happen on hotel
porch.
Rather a striking illustration of
how trade and money getting make
strange bed fellows is furnished by the
.jaffa- Jerusalem railway. The conces-
sion for the railway was obtained by a
native of Jerusalem. it was built by a
French company. while the engines
and carriages, manufactured in the
[ nitad States, run over rails made in
Belgium. and the most remunerative
part of the traffic is drawn from British
tourists.
Three miles per hour is about the
average of the gulf stream, though at
certain places it attains speed of not
less than fifty-four miles an hour. In
the Yucca tan channel, for instance,
where it is ninety miles wide and I 200
fathoms deep, the current is not over
one-fourth of a mile an hour. In the
straits of Bemini the current is so rapid
the whole The appearance of being a
sheet of flames.
The latest invention of labor
saving machine is that of an appara tus
for picking cranberries. A harvester
of eranberries who uses his hands to
pick the cranberries can make only
from $3.50 TO So per day: but by en-
ploying the cranberry picking machine
he can make from s. to SO day. I'm
luckily, however, the owners of the
Gran berry marshes suspect the machine
harms the Gran berry bushes, and many
o. them will not permit it to be used.
Three years ago the wood buffalo
was supposed TO have become extinct.
Now il seems that last winter the In
hians brought in from the Slave lake
md Peace river districts 200 skins of
the wood buffalo. some of them of I'M
usual size and fine quality. The theory
IS that the remnant of the great herds
That formerly roamed in the northwest
found feeding ground out of the
route of Indians and hunters, multi
piled greatly, and were driven south by
the extreme cold of last winter
The latest proceedings in the nego-
tiation Of a preliminary treaty of peace,
5n 1882, was in relation to the refugee
American ioyalists. The American
commissioners consented to a compro-
mise. They agreed that there should
he no future confscations or prosecu.
tons OF loyaliStS. that all pending
prosecutions should be discontinued.
and that congress should recommend
10 the several states and their legisla-
lures. on behalf of the refugees. am
nesty and the restitution of their con- |
6scated property.
The origin Of the terms "six-pen. /
ny, ten penny" as applied to nails, |
though not commonly known, is in |
volved ii no mystery whatever. Nails !
hare made certain mum Der of pounds |
/" the thousan nd for many years. and !
are still recl1oned in that way in En-
gland, ten-penny being thou
sand rails to ten pounds, a six
penny. thousand to six pounds.
twenty-penny weighing TWEEN
TT pounds TO the thousand. and in or
dering buyers call for the three-pound.
slN-pound or ten-pound variety, etc,
until. by the Englishmen's abbrevia-
llon of pun for pound" the abbre-
Walton has been made to stand for pen-
NJ instead of pound, as originally in
tended.