The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-01
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MISCELLANEOUS.

016 ANYWAY JOAu, Ia SuI0
hear burglars downstairs. John
''What would you do if you were in my
placer" Mrs Nuwife-"Do? Why tell
thcm about the baby's new tosth, OF
course."-Inter Ocean.
We comprehend nothing in the
world we are Ia, but By the light of the
world in which we ara not: we are
much nearer 70 what %scall the other
world than we are to tals.-Martin.
IT say" said Fadaaes. who some
times thinks he is smart, ''what sort Of
fruit oan you raise on an electric
plant?" But Paddles, who also thinks
he is smart occasionally, promptly re-
piled Currents. "-Washington Star.
-"How did it happen that Johnny got
60 DO head of the class? He is not
bright boy" ''The teacher asked
where the north pole was, and nobody
coult,tell. At last Johnny put up his
hands' "And where did Johnny say it
was?" "In the north
July was the fifth month in the Ro-
the fifth. Originally 1t contained
thirty-six days, but was reduced by
Romu1us to thirty-one, by Numa to
thirty but was restored to thirty-one
by Julius Cesar, in honor of whom it
was named July on account of his hav-
ing been born during this month. 1t
was also 50 called from the goddess
Juno.
You may see in small shops about
town horseshoes Naconspicuously hung
up, not for luck, but as souvenirs of a
somewhat famous horseshoemaking
contest in Madison Square Garden.
The shoes were turned out at the rate
Of enc every half minute, and were
seized at once as mementoes of the oc-
easiou. Some have been gilded and
used as ornaments, while others are
preserved in all their original crudity.
in villages near Chicago may still
be seen few log cabins of the pio-
necrs-cab bins that are as rude as any
on the frontier, if we have any frontier
now. Another architectural curiosity
in the neighborhood of the city is seen
in the houses raised above the ground
- piles to lift them out of the wet.
But wind mills and the eucalyptus
tree have sucked good deal of fever
and ague out of the soil within recent
years.
Wolves and coyotes are increasing
In mum bers on the stock ranges in
Southern Alberta. as in the Dakotas
causing serious trouble and loss to the
ranchers. At year old they begin
their depredations on sheep and young
cattle. and occasional hunts and round
ups afford only temporary relief. The
question how to deal effectively with
these pests is becoming serious all over
the range country of the northwest.
Port Penn, the little village at the
head of Delaware bay, now congratu-
lates itself that the quarantine station
recently established hard by on Reedy
Island will help to make market fo-
butter, eggs, and other country prod
uce and for shad. AS farming and
fishing comprise the entire business
interests of the place, the prospect Of
demand for the products of both land
and sea reconciles most Of the people
TO what at first seemed an unmitigatcd
evil
Two hotel cars, TO be run from the
east to Chicago, have just been finished
at Wilmington, Del, at cost OF $4,000
each. They are new in design and I'M
usually large. Each car has sixteen
passenger compartments, fitted up after
the fashion of the most luxurious hotel
rooms. A space twenty-five feet long
in tho cenier OF each car is occupied by
a complete kitchen, and beneath each
kitchen is a large space for storage.
Gas tanks supply both fuel and light.
Oregon newspapers tell of a don BILE.
headed lizard alleged to have been
found recently near The Dalles. The
heads are said to be at opposite ends Of
the body and the feet $50 arranged
that the reptile could propel itself in
either direction" The tail is not &C
counted for. The story comes suspi-
ciously close after one printed recently
about the "double-ender snakes" Of
California, which are described as being
built according to specifications similar
to The Dalles lizard.
In former days it was usual for a
couple seated together to eat from one
trencher, more particularly if the rela-
tions between them were of an intimate
mature, or again if it We're the master
and mistress of the esta blishment
Walpole relates that so late as the
middle of the last century the old Duke
and Duchess of Hamilton occupied the
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served the traditional manner by shar-
ing the same plate. 1t was a token OF
attachment and tender recollection of
unreturnable youth.
"A citizen of tie world being asked
what his russell shoes cost replied that
he did not know. This was not because
he had not paid the shosmaker for
them, but, as he explained. because
cost of maintenance must be taken
into account in estimating the price of
russell shoes. 1t happens that no man
polishes his own russell shoes, and that
the usual price for polishing them is
ter cents. or double that of polishing
black shoes. 1t thus comes about that
cost of maintenance in the case of rus
set shoes amounts, on the average. to
two dollars per month, and no man
knows the cost of his russell shoes until
they are worn out.
The foggers on an English farm
are the laborers who fodder the cattle
and carry out the hay morning and
evening. Their work begins with the
very earliest touch of dawn. and at
that hour, when the dew still lies
heavy, the wild things of the forest are
still out OF their coverts. The foggers