The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-24
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The Egyptians believed that the
soul lived only as long as the body en-
dured, hence the philosophy OF EN-
balming the body TO make it last as
long as possible.
One Mummeius, during the reign
of Augustus, paid $3.50 for pigs
head STIMULATING that it was to be cut
off just at the shoulders, so it would
look well on the dish.
BY Diocletian's scale of prices. pub
lished by imperial edict in A. ID. 1908.
pint of Falernian wine cost 80 cents;
Sorrento and Sabine the same: common
wine was 20 cents, and country folks
wine" was cents.
In Rome, during the days of Nervs,
apples were cents a dozen; cherries
were l cent; walnuts, i cent; chest
nuts. l cent; cucumbers were sold at
twenty for 10 cents; lettuce, at twenty
heads for 80 cents, and artichokes at
twenty for 60 cents.
The preservation of the flesh Of the
mammoth for ages in Siberia is not re-
marka BILE. In most northern districts
of that country ground never thaws
beyond a depth of two or three feet.
Bodies of men buried two hundred
years ago have recently been exumed
and found unchanged, being frozen
perfectly solid.
English temperance men, headed
by the duke OF Westminster, have re-
Gently memorialized the German en-
peror, through Count Hatzfeldt, to as.
sist in restricting or prohibiting the
trade in LIQUOR in the German colonies.
This association la bors under the title
of THE British United Committee for
the Prevention of Decentralization OF
Native Races by Liquor"
The British museum has an ancient
weight, a unique object, in the shape
of bit of green diorite, about four
inches high. carved in Mesopotamia in
the year COS Il. c. 1t has long in
scription in Assyrian, which sets forth
that it was made in the time of Neb-
uehadnezzsr II. and is the exact copy
of the legal weight. 1t IS somewhat
| conical. with fiat bottom.
The British Medical journal states
that the comparison of figures obtained
| from various sources leads TO the belief
| that down to the middle of July the
mortality from the plague in Canton
alone amounted TO forty Thousand peo-
pie. In striking contrast stands out
/ the health of the foreign community in
/ Canton, who passed through the cpl
/ 5emic unscathed. This immunity they
/ owe in large measure to the excellent
: sanitary arrangements that prevail
| AT Rouen lately a tenore rObusto
/ was engaged by the theater manage
| ment OF whom the public disapproved-
/ On his venturing TO sing his part in
LA FaForita." the audience after
vainly trying 10 boot him down. arose.
turned its back TO the stage, and with
hats on sang popular songs After
this scene had lasted for an hour and
a half the MAYOR auieted the audience
: by issuing an order forbiddinc the IN
( lucky tenor from again entering tae
/ theateT
In the Farce islands, between SCOT
land aud Iceland. the temperature -
mild and eqnabie, the annual mean oe-
ing IS deg Fahrenheit that % the
summer - deg. and OF July the hot
test month. 81 deg Though the eli
mate i somewhat humid rheumatism
and rheumatic fever are rare The Ia
air gives the same advantages 20 Per
sons needing 20 recnPerste from over
work ana mental strain. saws he
Lancet, and they have the additional
advantages Of grandeur Of seenerT and
absolute quiet