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

tGd.l enterprise nau the IOlioWlng.
'sW. ". Archer requests us to state that
he has a son, a very lively young man,
who is very desirous of forming "a mat
rimonial alliance. All communications
will receive prompt attention
j. w. Prade, a confectioner of Waco,
Tex, several days ago received fifty
cents in letter from an unknown man,
who said that two years ago. while buy
ing candy, the clerk gave him too much
change, and since then his conscience
has troubled him so much that he de-
cided to return the money to him.
A novelty has been introduced by
Boston woman that bids fair to become
mania in the cultured society of that
city. She has complete breakfast
service of cups, saucers and plates for
her large family on which are given,
from photographs, the likenesses of the
members, SO that the servant can prop
erly place the china to be used.
Mrs. Horace Goodwin, of Boston,
owns and will exhibit in the Massachu-
sets building at the worlds fair the
torch said to have been carried into the
VOLTS den by Gen. Israel Putnam. The
torch is roll of birch bark about the
color of cigar. It is about eight
inches long and the size of mans
wrist. One end is charred and black
ened.
On May 4, 1776. the legislature of
Rhode Island passed an act releasing
the inha habitants of that colony from al
legiance to Great Britain. 1t was car
ried in the upper house by unanimous
vote. and in the house of deputies with
only six dissenting voices out of sixty.
This act was tantamount to declara-
tion of independence and the esta blish-
ment of a self-constituted republic.
Jacob Houghton writes to the De-
troit Free Press that the North Ameri-
can Indians would have boards if they
willed il. The medicine men have
taught that growth of hair on the
face or body is sinful and unseemly. 1t
is the custom of both sexes of the race
to pluck out these growths as fast as
they shall appear. This superstition
has been handed down for thousands j
of years
The cultivation of the sugar plant
was introduced into this country bout
the year 1851 by some Jesuits from
Santo Domingo, who, with some negro
slaves, settled on the banks of the Mis-
sissippi, just above New Orleans. The
first sugar mill was constructed about
1913. but the juice of the cane was not
converted into sugar until 1864. When
Louisiana was ceded to Spain, sugar
making ceased there and was not re-
vived until 1871.
columbus barracks, at Columbus, |
Ohio, is one of the army posts especially
coveted by officers. Life at Columbus |
is still simple enough to make it possible |
for an army officer with 10 income but |
his pay to help lead the society of the |
place. There is plenty of house room |
at the barracks, dress parade is a pop |
ular diversion with the people of Colum- |
bus, and no commissioned officer, save |
perhaps the quartermaster, has any |
very eXacting duties.
For the seven wears ended in 1921, |
the annual exporta ton of tobacco to |
England from Virginia averaged about |
143, 600 pounds. King James tried to |
suppress its inordinate use, and wrote |
"A Counter-blast to Tobacco;" and in |
May, 1921, parliament passed bill for
that purpose, by which no tobacco was |
allowed to be imported into England |
except from Virginia and the Somers
Isles, Bermuda, and none was allowed |
to be planted in England.
The first recorded public Thanks |
giving appointed by authority in Amer |
lea was proclaimed in Massac chusetts !
bay in 1881. Washingt n issued
proclamation for a general thanksgiv- !
ing by the continental army on Thurs
Valley Forge, May :, ITS. AS pres-
dent, Washington appointed Thursday, |
November %, 1899, day for general
throughout the union,
also Thursday, February 10, 17s5.
1t is reported that human face
can be traced on a tombstone in the !
cemetery at Stony Brook, l.. |. When |
examined at short range there is moth
ing peculiar about the grouping of dark
spots and viens in the marble, but seen
at distance of thirty or forty feet the
spots and lines all become part of
clearly outlined whole, with lights and |
producing regular face of
average size. The face appears on
the back of the stone, and the eyes
seem to be looking down upon the
ground.
In the United States there are 3d.
coo, 600 men and 81 900, 600 women. Men
are in the ma aiority in all the states and
territories except in the District of +
Columbia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island |
North Carolina, Maryland, Connecticut,
New Hampshire, New York, South Car
oiina, Virginia and New Jersey, in /
which there are more women than men. |
The District of Columbia has the larg- |
est proportionate excess of female pop |
and Montana contains the |
largest percentage of men. In New |
Jersey the two sexes are most nearly |
represented. Consti- /
tuition.
Wanted Everything Right.
A little boy had been extremely /
naughty at dinner, and had been sent /
away from the table just as his favorite I
dish-cabinet pudding. with sweet |
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