The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-05
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Several years ago, Hamilton Heus
ton. tailor in San Francisco in the
early DAYS. made suit of clothes for q
patron, and received in payment there
for little piece OF land in the city
That lot was lately bought of thu
tailor's heirs for S727. 900. The Bald
win hotel is built on it.
The Bank of Venice was opened il
1857; of Geneva, in 1915; of Genoa, 1907
of Amsterdam, 1907; of Hamburg, 1919
of Rotterdam. 1885; of Stockholm, 1858
of Scotland, 1895; of Copenhagen, 1856
of Berlin, 1895; Caisse d'Escompte, OF
France, 1916; of Ireland, 1888; of St
Petersburg 1856; of France, 1903; the
Imperial bank of Germany, 1876.
The treaty of Utrecht, April IL
1918, secured the Protestant succession
to the throne of England, the separa'
ton of the French and Spanish crowns
the destruction of Dunkirk, the en-.
largement of the British colonies in
America and full satisfaction from
France of the claims of the allies,
England, Holland and Germany. This
treaty terminated Queen Anne's war
and secured peace for thirty years.
The word displacement" as ap-
piled to war ships is the quantity of
water or liquid displaced by ship or
other floating body. The weight of
the displaced liquid equals that of the
floating body. Thus the New York has
displacement of 800 tons (more or
Less, while her tonnage capa city would
be much less. A war ships capacity is
less than its displacement; it is the
other way with passenger vessels.
The oldest bank notes are the ely
ing money" or convenient money"
first issued in China, 2697 T. c. Origin
ally these notes were issued by the
| treasury, but experience dictated a
| change to the banks under government
| inspection and control. The notes
were printed in blue ink on paper made
from the fiber of the mulberry tree,
| One issued in 1899 B. c. is still carefully
| preserved in the Asiatic museum at ST.
Petersburg
The system of nomenclature in the
United States navy is very simple. The
great battleshipS are named after states
and the first class cruisers after large
cities The latter are represented by
the Philadelphia, the Chicago, the
Newark, the Atlanta. the Baltimore
and the San Francisco The gunboats
are christened after smaller towns
where celebrated battles have been
fought. The Bennington and the Con-
cord are the instances of the naming
OF this class of vessels.
The Chewsures-a race of 200 peO-
ple-in the department of Troust. gov
ernment of Tiflis, know nothing of the
use of money as a medium of exchange.
The unit of value among those primi-
tive people is the COW. A horse is
valued at three cows, and a stallion at
six. If Chewsure becomes enraged
and cracks his neighbours skull he is
obliged to pay sixteen cows. If he
breaks bone of his neighbours arm
five cows will reha bilitate him in the
eyes of society. A wound in the fore
head calls for three calves.
One is not in danger of mispelling
the name OF Shakespeare. Someone has
discovered 1000 ways, of which the
following, as they actually appear in
old documents, are sa mples Shakspere,
Shaxpere, Shakspire, Shaxspire, Schaxs-
per, Shakespeare, Shagspere, Schaks-
pyr, SHAKESPEARE, Shagspere, ShaXpur,
Shaxper, Shaksper, Shakespeare, Sax
pere, Shakespirs, SHAKESPEARE, Shackes-
peare, Shakaspear, Sharper, Shaks-
pear, Shaxpeare. Shakespeare. Shaxbure,
hal
etc. If the chirography OF Shakes
peare himself is any authority twenty
two of these ways are correct.
"A writer in London Truth suggests
that an association of girls be formed
who shall pledge themselves to propose
to any man whom they may consider
desirable for a husband. He believes
that proposing should not be limited to
men. and that men, who as he claims,
are naturally more bashful than girls,
often remain single because they have
not the courage to propose, and. as a
consequence, many girls are husband
les But there is this difference in
favor OF the present order OF things: II
d man Is refused, he soon forgets it and
III few days is ready 70 ask another
girl to marry him, while girl who had
suffered 4 failure would first cry her
eyes out with embarrassment. then
turn cynical and never look at man
again.
In travelling around the world from
east TO west day is lost for the same
reason that If one could go around the
world IN twentv-four hours in the me
direction he would retain the same rel
atlve position to the sun-he would
travel with the sun. as it were. and
there would be no succession OF day
and night SO. in travelling more leis-
urly westward, a certain amount of !
time X added to each day, which, in /
making the circuit of the earth, would !
amount 70 an entire dag. In order.
therefore, 10 adjust his reckoning 20 !
the calendar Of the place which he left. /
ne must a some point in the journey /
pass over one DAY o: that calendar as II !
he had not lived the whole time, by !
iengthening every day in his journey. |
Narlgators have agreed 10 make the /
change IN the one hundred and eight i
eth degree east or west OF Green gTich-
When they reach this meridian. sailing /
westward. they drop day: when they /
reach It sailing eastward, they repeat
a day There Il no other point or line
on the world surface 80 favora bic for i
making me change in reckoning. for
dropping or adding dav as that which
has been taken BIZ naYigators. the
rFriygas. rnfsrifIian one hundred and