The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-08
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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| theft. He IS now in jail. but coolly de
clares there is more money in larceny
| than in literature
| One OF the prettiest spots in the land
| is the magnolia gardens on the Ashley
| river in South Carolina, which fame
| with azaleas. japonicas, and yellow jesr
samines in profusion. In the back
| grounds are the somber. moss-covered
| cypress trees and the big live oaks tina,
are as old as the state.
| 1t is a strange fact that while paper
| is being used for dozens of purposes
/ formerly monopolized by wood. or even
harder material, such as car wheels,
| boxes. barrels. tubs, pals, etc. wood
| is rapidly driving other ingredients &c
| the wall in the manufacture of nearly
all the cheaper grades OF paper.
| Oliver Wendell Holmes who devised
| the hooded stereoscope, with handle
| to it and partition between the lenses.
| since patented and sold by the thousand.
when told that he might make some
| money out of it, replied that he ''didn I
care to be known as the patentee of a
| pill or of a peeping continuance.
Judge r. r. Nelson. of the United
States district court of Minnesota, is the
only man on the district bench APP
pointed before the civil war. Judge
NJ. ?. Deadly. of Oregon, who died few
days ago, was the only other one
Judge Deadly was territorial judge in
Oregon, and on the admission of the
state was made district judge.
Clement Scott, the eminent English
dramatic critic, has just been making a
tour of Japan, and he bluntly charac-
terizes all of Sir Edwin Arnolds effu-
sions regarding Japanese women as
balderdash. Indeed, he says that it is
an insult to English or American wom-
anhood to institute any comparison be-
tween them and japanese women.
Hey, Chimmy. fought you said
dere wasn't no more silvers. Look at
dis 1t was an associate-emptier of
ash barrels who said this. or yelled it,
as he brandished dessert spoon of os-
tensible silver at the driver of an ash
cart on residence street in New York
He did not take it to the house in front
of which he had found it, but put it in
his pocket.
Agricultural depression does not
exist in Hungary. where there is only
a distressed condition of things among
some individual agriculturists, who
have mismanaged their estates or
squandered their revenue. The area
under cultivation has increased, the
yield per acre is greater and land is
worth twice and in some places three
times as much as it was twenty years
ago.
The four irst-class diplomatic mis-
sions from this country are to London,
Paris, Berlin and st. Petersburg, with
s17,500 salary. Second-class missions
have s12, 900 salary attached; third-class,
So 600; fourth-class $500: tifth-class,
Sc. 500; siXth-class. $4,000. In addition
to these ambassadors and ministers
there are ministers-resident and con-
suls general, secretaries of legations
and consuls at the principal cities.
"A branch of those Carnans for
whom the ancient village near Wash
ington Heights was named were tories
during the war of independence, and
as such they fed to Canada. They still
live there and one of them recently on
a visit to New York proved to be an in
tensely British person, with an odd
fondness of proclaiming himself an
American, and of disputing that title
with the people of the United States in
behalf of all native Canadians.
The proposed British Pacific rail-
road. to be built from Vancouver to the
northernmost limits of British Column
bia, Will open up timber belt exceed
ing in area the timber bets of Wash
hgton and Oregon. This road may at
no distant date become part of a sys-
tenn extending to Alaska and eventu-
ally to Behring straits and Siberia. The
route to Alaska has been travelled over
and found to contain few serious OBJ
stacles to the building of railroad
Railway Review.
Pine oil and pine cones are now
being imported from Norway, to be
sold as disinfectants against possible
cholera scare this summer. The cone
is placed in the mouth of sort of
lamp, and the latter contains the oil
A wick communicates with the cone.
and this is sufficiently porous to permit
the odor of the oil to escape. Pine oil
is much used in Italy as disinfectant
in eases of Roman fever. It's penetrat-
ing odor is unpleasant to most persons,
though some learn TO like it.
One of the largest fruit farms this
side of the Rocky mountains, according
to recent bulletin of the West Nir- |
ginia experimental station. is to be |
found on the foothills of the Blue ridge |
in jefferson county of that state. In |
1887 Becker Brothers set out 33, 900 |
peach trees, since which time eight |
adjoining tract have beer added, until /
the fruit farm comprises 2, 400 acres il /
one body. The planters have not /
stopped with peaches alone, but they /
have u large area in grapes. quinces and I
cherries. besides American and Japanese |
plums, apricots. Japan persimmous, /
nectarines English walnuts. Italian /
chestnuts and paper-sheil almonds
smuggiers' Tricks.
Smuggling of Chinese and opium .
fourishes in the Puget sound region. |