Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1893-12-21
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

-Confagration In small stores eau
ing almost total destruction have for .
year puzzled the insurance companies
of Chicago. 10 has leaked out thst
these fires have been the work of fire
bugs Pigs bladders. filed with ben
zine, were scattered over each store,
and exploded with a time fuse.
The flower badges of nations are
- follows: Athens violet; Canada.
sugar maple; Egypt, lotus. England.
rose: France, feur-de-lis 0ily1; Flor
ence, CYCLIC (Iily): Germany. corn
flower; Ireland. shamrock leaf; Italy.
lily: Prussia, linden; Saxony, migno-
nette; Scotland, thistle. Spain, pome-
-grate; Wales leek leaf
Jeanette Emory. a negress, of Fort
Worth Tex. celebrated her tooth
birthday Recently. She never saw
George Washington, which marks her
as Out 81 the common run of gentleman
ians, but she distinctly remembers
that, when she was twelve years old
she heard her young mistress talking
about the preparations for Washing
ton's funeral.
One Of the bureaus of the treasury
department received n document last
week in which a claimants name was
spelled in two ways The Office sent
word to the claimant that he nust make
an affidavit as 90 the correct spelling.
On Wednesday the affidavit came. The
claimant spells his name in one way in
the body of the paper and signs il IN
another. Washington Capitol.
Now that the casualties of the
Louisiana storm have been footed up il
is found hat only fifty-three of the
zoos victims were negroes. The Aca-
dams. whom Longfellow im~mortaiized
in 'Evangelinc." outnumbercd all
other races. but there waa q large
admixture of Austrians Creoles.
Isiingues. Italians. Manillamen. Chi
nese and Spaniards in the list of the
dead.
An amateur student of architecture
finds that many of the pillars that
beautify old doorways in New York are
made in absolutely faultIcss proportion
according to classic models Ii is Just
this regard for right proportion that
gives these pillars their peculiar charm.
ttohkh AtbFNN-nluG lAtu O0b VI Uuo
hundred who should feel the defect Of
a disproportioued pillar could not say
wherein lay the disproportion
They don't call me a trunk ing.
gler any more" the baggagemaster
said as he laid his hand upon the han
die of the topmost of the pile of trunks
stacked up against the side OF Tia ear
they call me now a professor of trunk
ology:" and as he spoke he pulled the
trunk from the pile. swung il once
around his head like an Indian club.
and fired it through the opsn door Of
the cara trunk expert indeed
The Astounding faith In human ma
ture shown by the women who pro-
jected and managed the creche in the
ehildren's building at the worlds fair,
where babies were checked and cared
for while the owner saw the sights.
Just as wraps were checked in another
part of the binding, was entirely vim
Dictated. Cynical people said the creche
would wind up at the close of business
with i plenty of material for starting
n founding hospital But more fhaz
10. 0J0 babies were cared for dr-ing the
fair season. aud but one of the number
was abandoned by the person who
checked il at the crechc.
-Warburton Pike. a hunter and ex-
plore-. who recently returned from
NanaiIno. h. C.. from a fifteen months
trip 70 the interior Of Alaska, brought
. poor opinion and account of the
country he passed through. He fol-
lowed the Deasc river to its junction
with the Willard. q tributary Of the
Mackenzie. explored the Pelly river
country. following the river to its
source, padded down the Lewis river TO
the Yukon. and finally went down the
Kuskokium river TO the coast near
Fort Alexander He had very fne
hunting. but says most Of the country
he traverscd i worthless, except for
hunting. and much Of j. Is OF no value
at all lie found n great many mining
camps that we're abandoned EXCEPT by
men too poor to- leave