The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

: Els Impression. He-..Did you say
he furniture was Louis XIV?" She
"Yes- Why?' He-'.The bills suggest
the Reign of Terror. brooklyn Life.
III gave you ten cents just before
stepped into that store. Blind Beggar
We'll, you see, your new hat changes
yon so l didn't know you. Inter
Ocean.
Cure for the Maladv.-Patient-
say, doc. when do you think I'll be out
Of this?" Doctor-"Well, can cure
you at once for cash or in week for
thirty days. Judge.
"A Farmyard Episode. do
you cut up such antics when you feed
yorlr turkeys. Mr.. Farmer" 'sOh! I'm
trying to make game of them. De
troit Free Press.
-s'Lool a yer. yo', Sam Johnson.
De hoss dat yo' sole me las night is
daide..' Sam-''Daide? Lo'd. dat's S
funny He nevah did dat befo'. N.
Y. Herald
Free Posthumous Advertising.
Professor-''To what did Xenophon
owe his reputation?" Student-"Prin-
cipally to the fact that his name COM
1nenced with X and came in so handy
for headlines in alpha betical copy
books. World S Fair Puck.
Dentists are great users of costly
metals. Besides gold for stoppings,
two-sevenths of the worlds consump-
tion of platinum is employed by them
in making the wires by which the
artificial teeth are firmly fastened to
the plate.
One of the ugliest savage races on
earth are the Canoe Indians" who
spend all their daylight time on the
water At the bottom of each boat,
near the center, some earth is piled,
and on it a small fire Of sticks is kept
burning for the partial comfort of the
occupants.
An English sparrow met curious
and untirnely death in London recently
in trying to take drink of water from
the famous Temple fountain. gold
fish, it is declared by witnesses, jumped
up and seized the bird by the leg. A
second fish did likewise by the bird S
other leg, and between them the SPAR
row was dragged down and drowned.
philadelphia possesses collector
OF horshoes. Boston gatherer of
bricks, New Orleans a collector of
sugar samples. Louisville ga:herer
Of sample TASKS of whisky, but Ne
braska beats them all. She boasts of
man who takes locks of hair shaved
from the heads of noted criminals
which he labels and indexes with great
care.
One Of the best fishermen Of Glou-
cester, Mass, is dog owned by Capt.
George Winters. He is of mixed breed,
half Newfoundland and half wolf, and
is thorough water dog. 1t is fre-
quent occurrance for fish to escape
from the hook when at the surface,
and when this occurs the men call to
the dog, who jumps overheard and
dives for the fish, and is nearly always
successful in capturing him.
-Toothache is no longer a serious
thing to treat, and can now be stopped
III VIZ Icui 30 VI wv VI liz &C
at the outside, and often in half min
ute. The method is very simple
Thoroughly clean out the cavity, take
small piece of cotton, twist it up into
roll so that it will enter the cavity,
dampen the small end and place upon
that three or four granules of cocaine
about the size of a small pin head,
press these, with the cotton, into the
hole up against the nerve, and the
effect will be instantaneous. Every
throb will cease, and the sufferer will
think in a few moments he never had
the toothache.
A singular story is told by the
Abbevilie, Louisiana, correspondent of
the New Orleans Picayune. The writer
says: Two young men, after talk
on the road, gallopeo their horses off
in opposite directions. Each thought
OF something he wanted to say to the
other and turned back. They both
ran their horses and encountered each
other at full speed. The horses passed
but the riders legs struck as
they passed and both were thrown in a
manner to the earth and hurt alike
Each had his thigh broken, neither
more dangerously than the other
FOREIGN GOSSIP.