The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-26
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
-Tunis yields enormous quantities
of olive oil and dried fruits.
The principal crops Of New South
Wales are the grains and potatoes.
1t is reported that Frenchman has
invented an electric mosquito bar which
electrocutes insects which come in con
tact with it.
- A cheerful temper, joined with in
nocence, will make beauty attractive
knowledge delightful and wit good ma
tured.-Addison.
The French colonies are exceed
ingly expensive to the home govern
ment, the outlay far exceeding both
the income and commercial gains re-
sulting from their trade.
Who has not experienced how, on
nearer acquaintance. plainness becomes
beautified, and beauty loses its charm,
according to the quality of heart and
mind?-Fred1ika Bremen
-Hardup-''I wish this was the North
Pole, with nights six months long.
Chasup-''Why?" Hardup-''So that l
could tell my creditors to call again
tomorrow. Halo.
Il don't see how they expect to be
happy" "Why, they like the same
books, same plays and music and -"
80. yes, but she likes vanilla ice cream,
and he strawberry Inter Ocean.
-"Toodle had narrow escape at the
reception. He came near losing his head
from fattery." ''That's always the way
with him. All his chances for luck he
loses. Inter Ocean.
The COLONY of New Hampshire was
for many years a dependent of Massa.
chusetts. Its short line of seacoast was
probably first discovered by Martin
Pring in 1903. 1t was visited by Capt.
John Smith in 1914
India has 27,0oo, 900 acres in rice,
$4,000 600 in wheat. $4,000, 900 in other
food grains. 900, 600 in sugar cane,
PSI. 900 in tea, 10, 900. 900 in cotton, 1000
600 in indigo, 800, 600 in tobacco.
doctor, want to know if you can
pull tooth for me right away?" Doc
tor-''Certainly; viii you want some
thing to kill the pain?" 80. IL doesn't
matter; it's my husbands tooth. Inter
Ocean.
-Namma-"Didy you ask God to make
your little brother well. Freddie?"
Freddie-"Well, / should think so. How
could l forget it when he has to have
all the playthings while he's sick?"-
Inter Ocean.
st. Augustine, Fla. was sacked and
plundered in 1865 by John Davis, bold
buccaneer, who, with a feet of seven or
eight vessels. made a descent on the
coast of Florida and plundered the city.
The Spaniards there made no resist
a1ce.
The average rate of travel Of storms
across the country is about six hundred
miles a day; some have travelled from
the Rocky mountains to the Atlantic
coast in thirty-six hours, while others
have taken seven or eight days in cover.
ing the same distance.
I'm real friendship there is always
the knitting of soul to soul, the ex.
change of heart for heart. The high.
est of all examples Of friendship is &c
the mirror in which all true friendship
must see and measure itself.-Jamez
Stalker.
The Austrian army, at the close OF
1892. consisted Of 1.o44. 900 privates and
26. 600 officers of all ranks; the navy of
659 officers and u 900 seamen- There
were nearly 500 cases of suicide and at
tempted suicide in the army and navy
during the ysar-Chicago Army Maya
zine.
Only two strikes were ever known
10 occur in Turkey. One was Of dock-
yard la borers in the government en-
ploy for arrears in pay. and the other
was Of cigsrette-makers in government
factories for the exclusion Of women.
The dock men got their money and the
women were turned out
-Meteorities are growing common in
Australia One fell in the vicinity q
Pukekohe few weeks ago. bat did 10
damage. Another that fell during a
thunder storm ct Williamstown. Vic
toria, two days later. proved more de-
struetive. crashing through the roof Of
q house and capsizing the chimney
The statistics OF assertions from
the British army seem 70 indicate that
the service Is not very popular and Is
certainly not growing in favor Last
year the desertions cost the nation
80. 900. and the amount for rewards
for the capture Of deserters in the esti-
mates FOR this year is large increase
over last year.-Chicsgo Army Maya
zs1e.
according - some recent statistics
or the cost of living. reprinted IN the
Scientific American sn Englishuzn
spends, on an average. Sss rear fur
food: . Frenchman- So: German. So.
p Spanisrd, -: ar Italian. 50. and
Russian, So. OF raest. the Engiishulzn
eats log pounds a year: the FrenchDan.
eighty-seven; the German sixty-f0u--
the Italian. tventy-six- and tlss Rus-
sian. ffty-Nre- Of bread. the English
man consumes SO pounds; The French
ran. $40 the German so; the Spania-y4-
$50; he Italian. 800; and the Russian.
g.
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