The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-27
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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biggest Of all single specimens of HUI
man food is q fitting representative of
the cheese industry of Canada, which
has been developed enormously during
the past few years
-Shakespeare's cane very much like
the walking stick of to-day, and his
Jug of cream-colored earthenware were
sold in London recently for 500. A
little carved wooden panel. by inches,
sold for $1,000, and prayer book,
formerly the property of Queen Eliza
beth, bound in gold and enamel, sold
for $4,000 All these were a part of the
famous Field collection.
The tailless cats of the Isle of Man
have always been a puzzle. Where did
they come from? They are cut off
quite short in the tail, but otherwise
are much as other cats. The Spanish
Armada is supposed to have left them
when the Don's vessels were wrecked
In the Irish sea. But there is a breed
of tailless cats in Japan. Could the
Spaniards have got them in Mikado
land?
The quantity Of rouge worn by the
ladies who attended the Ascot and San
down racing meetings has aroused as
much comment as their costumes. The
fashion of painted cheeks and lips has
been revived with much intensity this
season and with little discretion, so
palpa BILE is the artifice. It is a bad
fashion returned, for the painting of a
ruby lip is as deplorabl an artistic
Jbiunder as the painting of lily.
The Barney Castle village at the
worlds fair contains specimens OF all
branches of cottage industry, and par
ticularly of the celebrated Carricl1na-
cross lace, whose making goes on under
the deft fingers of members of the third
generation of the Monaghan county vii
lagos who have practiced the art. The
Irish Industries association has also
fine exhibit in the woman's building,
and is represented by silk and linen
laces and embroideries in the depart
Elent of manufactures.
Watch macher ant clocks and jawl-
cry is the tiny written sign that greets
the eye from an area window in New
York street It reads like pretty bad
English, but it is praiseworthy at
tempt Of a German resident TO adapt
himself to strange conditions. Such a
sign for such shop in the French
quarter would have been all in French,
because the Frenchman clings not only
to his habits and prejudices, but as
well as 10 his language, while the Ger
man does what he can to reconcile beer
und limburger to the English tongue
The military cadets of Montana
college were on their annual camping
tour several weeks ago, and number
of ranchmen thought they would test
the valor of the young patriots, and
about midnight they bolted up to the
camp, and were commanded to halt,
which order the ranchmen answered
with a number Of pistol shots in the
air. Their fire was promptly returned
by the sentinel, and in less time than
it takes to tell it the other cadets were
shooting at the retreating forms, who,
in their haste to get away, fell into an
irrigating ditch, which probably saved
the lives of some of them.
-Ex-Secretary Lincoln told his class
mates at Harvard, when he diped with
them in Boston the other evening, sew
eral interesting stories of his expert
ence as United States minister to En-
gland. One concerned his attempt to get
into Westminster abbey on the occasion
of a special service there. Archdeacon
Farrar had told Mr.. Lincoln to go to
the east door of the cathedral to avoid
the crowd and to inform the usher that
he was the American minister, so that
he could be conducted at once TO the
archdeacon's pew. When Mr.. Lincoln
sent in his name and title the usher
came out and said with surprise: For
gracious sake, how many American
ministers are there?" 1t seems that sew
eral gentlemen of the cloth had each
deity made his way into the church
bv informing the usher that he was an
American minister.
One of the principal sources of
economy in street car traction is the
maintenance in perfect condition OF the
rails. Dirty rails are drag on the car
that represents so much in dollars and
cents, and many more or less efficient
methods have been proposed whereby
this source of waste can be stopped.
The newest of these is one in which the
principle of elasticity is introduced for
the first time. and in which. also, a
greater degree of lightness Of construc-
zion is attained. The expense Of the
various methods of rail cleaning usu-
ally adopted, is as follows: BY hand,
once day, % cents per mile of single
line in fine season. and 80 cents a mile
in the winter; watering by cart, twice
q dav, 90 cents per mile 1t has been
shown that the fractional resistance
met with BY car was from twenty
five pounds to thirty pounds less than
when running on dirty rails.