The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-04
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Of 1ENkhAI INTEREST,"
The longest swim ever made in the
1ough sea was by Samuel Brock, Var,
mouth fisherman, on October "a, 1895
The vessel in which he sailed was
wrecked, and he swan seventeen miles
in seven and one-half hours through q
strong gale.
In the Kansas building at the ex-
position is banner made in 1858 by the
pupils of the Lombard school for the
Lincoln Douglas campaign: a spinning
wheel made in 1920: chair that came
over in the Mayfiower, and flag made
In 1915 and carried at Plattsburg in 1912.
Thomas and Phebe Shaddock, OF
San Francisco, are the champions in a
peculiar line. The parties were first
married in the east in 1882, and during
the forty-one years which have ensued
since that time they have been alter
nately attracted to and repulsed by
each other Ave times.
The other day some Luzerne, New
York. lads who had visited a country
fair and seen balloon ascension at
tempted to duplicate the novelty.
While their parents were absent from
home one climbed to the roof and put
big paper bag over the chimney. To
initiate this bag the other boy placed =
lot of kerosene-soaked powder in the
stove and touched it Off" The house
was insured for $780, and the criminal
clause had been omitted.
Large beds of oysters have been
discovered in the Pacific waters off
Alaska 1t had been thought that the
water was too cool. but there are places
where it is warmed by the Japan cur
rent which modifes the temperature Of
the Pacific coast more than the gulf
stream does that of the Atlantic coast
The Alaskan oysters are pronounced
very superior variety, much better than
the small oysters grown near the coast
of California. Cultivation.
-Excellency is now applied to am
bassadors. 1t was formerly royal title
and during the middle ages princes
were sometimes put to death for trea-
son because they assumed this title.
1t was first bestowed only on the am
bassadors of monarchs and denied to
those of republic, but in the seven
tenth century, Venide. after an inn
mense amount of correspondence, sue
doris, and since then it is applied to all
ENJOYS
The supreme judicial court OF Mas
sachusetts is to decide whether cred
itor who invades a debtors bedroom
and wakes him up early in the morning
in order to present his bill is guilty of
an assault. The aggravating party in
the dispute is a milkman and the ag-
grieved person is his customer, who
says that he forbade the milkman to
invade his privacy, and was awakened
by being shaken by the shoulder when
suffering from severe headache. The
lower court entered Judgment for tho
milkman and the plaintiff appealed to
the full bench of the supreme court
Several wild turkeys that had q
love for swallowing shining particles
that had been shot by hunter on one
of the branches near San Diego. Tex,
netted him quite handsome sum in
gold, which he found in their craws,
that they had picked up In South
Africa ostriches have been successfully
employed in finding gold deposits A
drove of the birds are turned loose to
feed in the territory where the precious
metal is supposed to exist. They are'
then given an emetic and the ejecta
carefully examined for nuggets. and if
anv are found the trail of the bird il
followed until the diggings are discov.
cred
How time is passing in all parts Of
the world is the interesting story which
every day was told by twenty-five
clocks in the terminal building of the.
worlds fair. These clocks have been
set Up by an euterprising New York
clock company and are every day in
spected by hundred of curious visitors.
The records made show that when it is
l. so in New York, Chicago timekeepers
say ~. 80; Paris, g. SO; London, 6. 30; San
Francisco. 1880; Buenos Ayres, 2.20;
Santiago, 1:4b; Honolulu, 40; Sydney,
4. 10; Yokohama, 9. IS; Hong Kong. 2. 05;
Bombay, 11.3o; Mecca. 9.1o: Jerusalem,
9. 03; St. Petersburg, g so; Cairo, s.35:
Rome, 7.a0; Madrid, 6.15, and SO on
Coin collectors have long appreci.
ated the difficulty of making a com.
plete collection of American specimens
The United States coinage of 1898 is
very rare and a dollar of the year 1894
has often sold for as much as 500. A
1895 half-cent is SO rare as to sell read
lily for Sis, and a half dollar of the
same year is worth sixty times its orig
inal value. While the half-cent of 1904
is common enough, all the other coins
of that year are rare, the dollar of that
particular date being tho rarest of all
American coins Only eight are known
to exist out of the 10 $40 that were
coined. The lowest price that one Of
these now changes hands for is $500.