The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-03-10
Thr daea Daily Eagle: saturday norua areh TO- 1884.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Large OICCuS Va kIOuAtiy 0O AOt P0J
so well as the average or smaller ones
They eat twice as mnch and their eggs
are larger, but an egg is an egg and
big eggs sell for no more than those Of
average size A moderate-sized breed
is the best investment for a mans
money if he is raising poultry for profit
Another fertile resource of the great
her unemployed people, a week or SO
since, when the cowboys and farmers
about Lamar, Col, had a grand jack
rabbit roundup for the benefit of Dem
ver's hungry poor. Over two thousand
rabbits were secured and sent to Den
yer to feed the poor.
If election dispatches are to be
trusted, not only is there modern
Robinson Crusoe. but as well a man Fri
day. The names of Robinson Crusoe and
John Friday appeared a few years since
in an official capacity in connection
with contested election, and they
were set down as residents of an in.
terror county of New York state.
-Georgia's criminal superior court
Ids OlSCOAtlAuC Vic hiooiAS VI thO
Bible in the administration of oaths.
Judge Clark, in explaining the order
to that effect says: Holding up the
right hand is the more convenient
form. Then the kissing of the book is
q very nasty thing. l have heard of
persons catching disease in that way"
"A ventriloquist in Lancashire, En-
IL
bag, and initiated the animals cries SO
naturally that a bystander insisted that
the dog should be released. The VEN
triloquist refused, and the bystander so
thrashed the mimic that the latter
went to bed sick with the erysipelas
In a suit for damages the court sus-
tanned the defendant
Two years ago James Tobin, of La
doga, Ind. an athlete, weighing 240
pounds, had a severe attack of dyspep-
sia, and it was thought he would die.
lie suddenly fancied ice-cream, and
this has been his only diet ever since.
as nothing else would stay on his
stomach. He is the chief football
player of the Ladoga team, and re-
CcHtiy pidttu III
During the night your watch is
quiet, as it were-that is. hangs in your
vest without motion or touch. If you
don't wind it up at night the main
spring is then relaxed, instead of being
in that condition during the day. BY
winding it in the morning the main
spring remains close and tight all day.
1t keeps the movement steady at a time
when yon are handling it, running about
the city tending TO your daily affairs.
A relaxed handspring at this time &C
counts for fine watches varying slight
w.
One of the few places in this coun-
try where the curfew bell is yet rung
is Fayetteville, n. c. The village has
been settled more than two centuries,
and the practice has never lapsed. In
deed, SO quiet and undisturbed by the
outside world has this community re-
manned that the curfew has there al
most its original significance, and it is
considered time for all good folk to be
indoors when it's summons is heard.
The village has also town crier, but
it is not alone among southern towns
in this respect.
Up to a short time ago the marshal
of Portland, Mich, had naturally sup
posed that his sole concern should be
to keep people from breaking out of
Jail; he is now keeping careful watch
to prevent folks from breaking in. The
Jail was recently empty of prisoners,
and when he went away to pay some
calls he didn't think it necessary to
lock the doors. When he returned
about daybr next morning he found
a fire burning in the stove and three of
the cells occupied by sleeping tramps.
who had walked in unlimited and made
themselves comfortable
The reclamation of the arid wastes
OF southwestern desert lands proceeds
marvelously apace. Another reclarna-
ton company was Incorporated at San
Bernardino, Cal, few days ago, with
capital stock Of two million five hun.
bred Thousand dollars A dam is to be
erected at Victor narrows, on the Mo-
jave river, in San Bernardino county,
one hundred and fifty feet in height,
WHICH Will U1dke d lake nine miles long
and about three wide, whose water
will be used to irrigate about two HUN
dred thousand acres of land on the Mo-
jave desert, which will then be espe-
cially adapted for growing raisin grapes
and alfalfa
Salvador Pecani, under sentence OF
death at Tacoma. Wash, for whose
hanging scafold had twice been
erected, was pardoned by the supreme
court recently. Twice convicted of the
murder of his uncle, he averred that
the deed was committed by the Malta,
and declared he would rather be
hanged than released, because of his
fear OF the murderous brotherhood
At one time, when the prisoners hang
ing was imminent, the sheriff issued
number of elaborate invitations to his
execution, on black cards, with gilt
script lettering, and picture of Pecani
in the upper left-hand corner Pecani
was glad to get out of peril of hanging,
despite his fears of the Malta.
Selling n Home.
Men will sell home without much