Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-04-21

pussy had not taken her food as quicH
as usual and she frequently yowled
in apparent distress, but no atten-
ton was paid to IL. One morning
last week, after a patient had left tho
chair, pussy jumped into the placs
he had occupied, and raising her head,
gave a pitiful cry, and then opened
her mouth. The doctor looked and
found the gum badly liberated from
a defective tooth. He drew the i'm
cisor out. and after having her gum
dressed the cat jumped down and ex-
pressed her thanks by purring in q
contented manner"
THERE Isl man in Washington who
has most uncommon name. His
mother was on the lookout for s.,,ne-
thing original, and one day, before
his christening, she noticed Oh tho
door OF building the word "Nosrno."
This struck her fancy. Now, for .
middle name. Later, coming along
by the same building, she saw OF the
door the name king" All, this
was what she was afterl "Nosmo
King Jones he shall be-" she said,
and he was christened so. On the
way home from church after the
christening she passed the sarne
building again. The doors were all
shut, and behold the doors with the
names on them she had selected wers
shut together, and she read. not
"Nosmo King" but mo Smoking"
and her heart was broken.
THE seven wonders Of Corda are de-
scribcd ut length by n Chinese paper
They consist Of II hot mineral spring
near Kin Shanto, locally credited
with having the power Of curing my
disease. no matter how serious; two
wells. one ut each end of the penin-
sula, which have the peculiar charnc-
teristic that when one is full the
other Is empty; cold cave, from
which issues constantly an ice-cold
wind Of great force; a pine forest
which cannot be eradicated; "hsv-
ering stone" Of massive rectangular
shape and free on all Sides u hot
stone, which has been lying from
time immemoriSl on the summit OF a"
hill, and evolving a glowing heat.
and sweating Buddha,' on which
not blade "a grass or flower OF
tree has fourished for thirty yenrs.
A MAGISTRATE Of q Liverpool court
recently had the odd experience OF
trying himself for an offence against
the law, and inhicting on himself ~
heavy penalty. A number Of names
Of persons charged with allowing
their chimneys to be afire, through.
neglect OF cleaning, came before him,
and among them was his own naine.
He was the only magistrate present.
and the clerk said TINT he could fine
himself, and suggested that If he in
f'icted double the usual penalty JUS
tice would he met. The Uiagis-
trate promptly fined himself to this
extent, and caused u smile in court
by lecturing another offender OF tho
same batch for his carelessness and :
warning him to be more careful In
future.
A HONEY bee sacrificed its life In
paying tribute to +. A. Penny, q.
Rochester artist who Is engaged In
decorative flower painting. Having
laid In with fresh color clusters Of
Marechal Neil roses, Mr.. Penny went
to dinner. 1t being a warm day, .
window OF the studio was left open
for ventilation. On his return the
artist was surprised to find u honey
bee clinging to one OF the newly
painted roses and making an effort to
eXtricnte itself from very unpleasant
position. All efforts to save the bee
were unavniling. The bee seeing the
roses had come in through the open
window undoubtedly to inspect
them.
4 FIRE caused by an October sun 10
n very unusual occurrence A bed in
an industrial home for girls ut Hump.
stead, England, was discovered to b
on fire, and the accident was regarded
Us the work Of an !ncendiary. Ex-
periments having been made, IL
eventually transpircd that the fire
was actually caused by the suns
rays falling upon u full water-bottle,
which was standing in the room be-
tween the open window and mack,
intosh OH the wall. The suns rays.
being concentrated by the water,
caused a burning liquid to fall from
the macintosh on to the bed.
THERE Is remarkable sand dune
near the lighthouse ut Cape Henry.
Mt the mouth Of Chesapeake Hay.
The sand from the beach has been
piled up nearly 200 feet at an easy
slope on the ocean side, but on the
inland side 1t descends in an almost
sheer prccipice, and pnrticles OF sand
blown up the slope fall over the edge
and are spread far and wide by thS
wind. 1t is supposed that the preci-
pice-like popularity OF the mound IL
due to the action OF conflicting wind
currents that blow about the cape.
SEVERAL hundred thousand per-
sons who went to the Werld's Fair
kissed what they were told was y
piece OF the real Blarney Stone. Il
now turns out that the stone in qnes-
ton was only a Chicago paving stone.
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