The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-16
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

| One tribe of the Congo negroes be-
| iieves that the good angels IN the
| heaven to come viii spend their whole
time pulling off the bills of mosquitoes
| This belief is said to have its origin in
! the fact that they are bothered day
and night here on earth with those
! troublesome insects.
! Annie Morris, a girl of fourteen,
| ran away from Halifax. n. s., in 1879
disguised as boy. She continued the
| deception for fourteen years. under the
| name of Frank Blunt, working at vari-
Gus occupations engaged in only by
| men, and her sex was never suspected
until recently, when she was arrested
| in Milwaukee.
Much displeasure was caused by a
wedding at Glendive, Montana, because
the residents did not approve of the
match. Miss Emma Wall, the bride. is
a colored girl; and the groom is white
| man. named John Orr. The people
tarred the groom and whitewashed the
| bride, rode them on rails, and forced
| them to leave town.
An immense trunk, which belonged
to newly welded couple, furnished
| plenty of amusement to passengers at
| the Baltimore & Ohio railroad depot in
| Pittsburgh the other day. The trunk
was decorated with old shoes, tied with
| gayly colore[s ribbons and two hearts
! pierced by cupid's arrow were drawn
on the side with chalk.
Cotton cloth was first made in In
dia. and was in use there as early as
| two thousand three hundred and forty
three years ago. About the year $50
| +. c., Herodotus spoke of this textile
| fabric. made from the trees of India,
| which bore as their fruit, heeces sur
! passing in beauty and delicacy those of
the sheep. From India cotton cloth
| was introduced in Greece and Rome.
Six toes were on the right foot of a
child born in GAINESVILLE, Ohio. When
| the child was eighteen months old, it
was decided to remove the superfiuous
| toe. AS the surgeon was about to per-
form the operation, the parents turned
! their heads away. In a minute the
surgeon held the dismem bered toe in
| his hand. To the horror of the parents,
tucv UIScOVSTel tildt tue DuHRiST Idu
had taken the toe off the wrong foot.
Train robbers were numerous in
Mexico some years ago. One day a
| train from Vera Cruz for the City of
Mexico was halted by highwaymcn.
| who lined both sides of the track. The
inmates of the cars arose. seemingly
| hidalgoes, poems, market women, etc. g,
and from the windows poured muir
derous volley One hundred bandits
| fell dead and others were pursued and
killed The inmates of the cars were
disguised zouaves.
Here are some themes discussed at
| various meetings by the Domestic
club, composed of young women of a
New York working-girls' society who
have married and have households of
their own: "What Can BE Done in
Day" How to Train Baby in Good
Habits" How Persons with a Small
Salary May Get the most Nutritious
Food with the Least Money" Children
are welcomed to the society meetings
and committee is appointed to amuse
them while their mothers are attend
ing to the discussions.
Mrs. Creigie ("John Oliver
Hobbes') is by birth an American,
but as she was taken to London from
her birthplace, Boston, when only
three months old, we can hardly in
justice claim her. The spirit of her
Puritan ancestors makes itself felt,
however. for she is in sympa thy with
the principles and institutions of this
country. The real character of the
woman is best seen in the fact that,
after her marriage at nineteen, she
read for B. A. degree at the London
university. She is clever talker and,
though somewhat cynical and ambi-
tious, is unselfish and kindly.