The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-20
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

-Mulhall estimates that the land Il
the United States is worth $12. 500, 600, :
600; the cattle, IS, 500, 600. 600: the
houses, <i4, zoo. 600. GOO; the furniture,
etc, $1,000, 900, 600: the railroads, s10,-
0o0. 000, 900; the shipping, $500. 000 600;
the total wealth per inha bitant, 81, ,050
Sixty per cent of the Hungarians
more than half of the Italians. S5 per
cent. of the Austrians and Bohemians
&c per cent. of the British IS per cent.
of the Germans, 40 per cent of the
Irish and 10 per cent of the Scandin-
avians who came to the United States
between 1880 and 1890 returned to their
native lands in the decade
Mr.. j. Richardson, of the firm Of
Messrs. William Mallinson & Co.
London. has purchased the immense
side of the Forestry building at the
Chicago exhibition. The log is forty.
two inches square and forty-one feet
long. 1t was adjudged an award by
the judges of forestry. 1t contains
6,027 feet of lumber, or 120, $40 square
feet Of veneers cut twenty to the inch.
The army of Xerxes has always
been greatly overestimated by histor-
ians. Commonly computed at 5000. 600,
the best evidence goes to show that
camp followers and all, it did not ex
ceed 1000. 900, the increase being due to
the natural inventiveness of the
oriental imagination and to the vanity
of the Greeks. who prided themselves
on having defeated its numbers. His
thousands of ships" numbered only
1000 to begin with. and of these 400
were lost in storm, so that he
reached the coast of Greece with about
500 ships
--Old-time controversies were often
vigorous in language. In controversy
with Milton, concerning the divine
right of kings, Salmasius called his Op-
ponent a puny piece of man. ho-
munculus, d dwarf not having human
figure, bloodless being. a creature of
skin and bones, contemplate peda-
gogue fit only to fog boys, rhinocer.
Gus, hangdog-looking fellow. The
great English poet not only answered
in kind, but entered into an extensive
correspondence with people in Holland
to obtain petty gossip and scandalous
anecdotes concerning his opponent
in 1866 the United States provost
marshal-general reported that 61, 363
men on the union side had been killed
in battle, "a, 727 had died of their
wounds, 1873, 2s7 had died of disease;
total deaths, 279, ,376; total desc rtions,
&...l to%o
confederate side declared that 1873, s21
men had died in battle of wounds OF
disease and 1O4, 42s had deserted. Dur
ing the war the union troops captured
476, 1859 confederate prisoners; the con-
federates captured 2I2,6GS union men.
OF the latter, %, 725 died in confederate
prisons, while 26, TIA confederates died
in confinement.
You may get cheap dinners almost
any where in New York now but there
is an interesting distinction between
the east side and the west side cheap
table d'hote The latter is mainly
French and italian, the former is usl-
ally German. A cheap dinner on the
west side means a great variety OF
highly seasoned things many of which
are not really good, and all of which
lie more or less under the suspicion of
having been bought where they were
going cheap. The best of the cheap
German dinners are simply more abund-
ant and more wholesome They are
served in a beer saloon without glitter
or pretence, and they really satisfy
hunger.
Scarlet fever was first introduced
into Boston in 1875. During that year
and 1876 it was very prevalent About
four thousand persons were sick with
it, of whom one in thirty-five died At
that time it spread generally through
the New England towns, carrying off,
in some instances, whole families. In
Kingston, where the usual annual NOR
tality was not above nine or ten, it
rose in 1885 to one hundred and two,
and this great increase of mortality
was not unusual in other places. 1t is
somewhat singular that after lapse
of just about century, it should have
prevailed again as one of the most
fatal diseases of New England. sin
gular report was made by prominent
physician of the city in 1864 on the
death of five-year-old child. The re-
turn came in January 81, 1854, stating
everything but the cause of death.
The blank was sent back to the physi-
clan with the request to make good the
omission 1t came back with: Cause
of death uncertain. Whether from
fried ham. scarlet fever or eating of
Bologna sausage, not known; some
thirty-six hours proba bic dura ton. "
And so the record now stands.
Ladies Pennea.
About the beginning OF the eighteenth !