The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-24
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


The tiny wooden lighthouses of the
Delaware and Chesapeake canal be-
speak the humorous perils OF inland
navigation. The lighthouses are so
placed as to gnide vessels into the locks
Each tiny house is about twenty-five
feet high. and it stands so that anyone
upon the deck of passing boat could
toss the traditional biscuit quite over
the light
There is an effective humor, whether
it is conscious or not in the cries of the
curbstone fakirs who are selling cheap
and useless tribes Genuine gold
watches, worth twenty dollars, stem
winder and patent lever, going al ten
cents" Here y'are, gents. Water
cooler paints, worth two dollars box.
at only seven cents" Solid gold pin
vid r-r-real diamond, clients, for only
ten cents" are examples of their invi-
tations to buy.
The keeper Of one of the largest
prisons in the state says: THE thought
of losing my liberty is horrible one to
me- j don't believe / could endure it.
Yet in all the years | have been in this
business can't recall a single instance
of man who showed i'll effects from
being locked up 1t does not even seem
TO make the convictS nervous. Still,
the pc ople in this institution are not OF
the ucSvous kind as rule. They are
Iumpish and slow-minded and phi ysio
ally inferior
Sunday. December 10, was the first
pay day at the Midwinter fair al San
Francisco, or rather, at the fair
grounds. The buildings and grounds
were nearing completion, and it was
decided TO henceforth charge small
fee for the privilege of seeing the
sights On the first day 1857 persons
paid twenty-five cents apiece to enter
the grounds This large attendance is
taken TO indicate an amount of public
interest that promises an immense sue
cess for the fair.
1t was to have been expected that
sooner or later some srch claim as that
OF the Pennsylvania Masts would be
made to valuable land in Baltimore.
The long lease system is more widely
esta blished at Baltimore than in any
other city of the union Thus far it
has not tended TO discourage improve
ment, and Baltimore. in spite of the
fact that its pre-eminence in some
lines of trade has passed away,
steadily grows in population 1t is a
city in which one may live very cheap
ly.
1t is not surprising to learn that a
small herd of buffalo has been found
in Routt county, Col. 1t is the extreme
northwestern county of the state.
large area of sparsely settled
mountain country, rich in big game
and i'll provided with railways and
other methods of transportation. No
hunter from the east ever went into
Routt county without hearing the ira
dition that few buffalo still remained
in part of the county. The skulls of
buffalo killed years ago are still found
occasionally by Routt county hunters.
Highest price paid for champagne
corbs' is New York sign. The high
est price, it appears, is one dollar per
gross for sound quart corks, removed
without the aid of a corkscrew from
imported bottles The purchaser is a
cork-cutter one of the few that have
survived the wholesale application of
machinery to cork cutting. He con-
verts champagne corlzs, which are of
the best quality into smaller corks for
various purposes. The price he pays
Of
unless, indeed, the labels on tn, inn
ported corlIs give them especial value.
New Workers, when they go into
the suburbs, or even into towns fifty
miles away. are amused at the borrow
ing of familiar names for places that
are made ridiculous by the assumption
of them. 'The Fifth Avenue" will be
the sign for small, ill-furnished cigar
shop: THE Delmonico" will stand for
a room in a small frame house where
twenty-five cent meals are served; The
Savarin" will be a lunch counter; THE
Hoffman House Cafe" will be ten by
twelve foot bar with half a dozen
chairs and dog, and there is always
New York Store" where clothes-pins
anu Dlue SnIr u are SOFA IOT "a penny of
so less than at the older shops down
street Imitation is fattery. but il is
pretty crude 1attery that New York
gets in these limitations.
Colorado is the state most talked |
about just now, especially by women,
for in future Colorado women viii have |
the right to vote on all questions on
which their fathers and brothers vote. |
This is the first state in the union TO !
grant this privilege to women by popu- |
lar vote. Wyoming came into the un.
ion with a woman suffrage clause il |
and this was ratified with |
the rest of the document The British |
house of commons also passed vote |
granting woman suffrage By vote of |
one hundred and forty-seven to one |
hundred and twenty-six. And whether |
A woman wishes to vote or not, il looks |
very much as IL the question would be
forced on her for decision In Colorado
The Equal Suffrage league is making
special study of the subject OF intelli-
gent voting.
Dogs in Belgium.
Belgium leads the way in the i'm
oortance which IL accords 70 dogs Ac-
cording 20 a decision just issued by
5he government. which controls all the