The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-25
MISCELLANEOUS.


fury.
If foreign visitors to the United
States wish to see our standing army,
they will do well to look into the horse
cars and elevated cars morning and
evening.
-"What makes you think she Is
looking upon your suit more favor
ably?' ''When she came into the par.
lor last night she spoke to me before
she did to Fido Inter Ocean.
The cost of the worlds wars since
the Crimean war has been a13, a65, ooo,-
600, or enough to give $40 gold piece
to every man, woman and child on the
globe.
Newton abandoned the idea of pub.
fishing several of his works for fear
of criticism. They were left in manu-.
script and were published after his
death.
DO you believe that practice al.
ways makes perfect?' ''No: it hasn't
made anything but a row ever since
that idiot upstairs commenced with
his flute. Inter Ocean.
-Professor-"And now, my boy
what is your ambition in life-the law
the ministry, politics, science"
Johnny-"Ef I can't be captain ]
wanter be half back. cleveland Plain
Dealer.
-Mamma-''Bessie, how many sisters
has your new playmate?" Bessie-''He
has one mamma. He tried to fool me
by saying that he had two half-sisters,
but l guess that he didn't know that
! studied fractions. IN. Y. Sun.
An absent-minded man boarded the
express for Boston, and in half reverie
greeted young man who sat in front
of him: Good morning, Willie. How's
your father?'' 1t was his own son.
Harper's Bazar
tive been looking for my hus.
band for the last two hours" said an
agitated woman to calm one. Don't
be excited, madam, - replied the latter.
1--WE been looking for a husband for
the last twenty-five years. "-Harper's
Bazaar.
Statistics just issued show that
during the past year but twenty-one
passengers and nine employees, thirty
persons in all, were killed in railroad
accidents in Great Britain and Ireland
In the same period nearly 900, 900, OOC
were carried.
"A single match requires from
1-2o0th to 1-1OOth of grain of phospho
rus for its production, yet the consump-
ton of matches is SO large that it is
estimated that the total of 1900 tons
is less than the amount consumed in
Europe in their manufacture.
"A woman mail carrier, Rose Shell
ley, carries the mail regularly between
Dexter and Goshen, an eighteen mile
stretch of lonesome road, IN Lane
county, Ore. Early or late, snow or
shine, she makes the trip, and no stress
of weather or fear of road agents has
yet interfered with her performance of
her duty.
Cinnamon in southern California
are taking to cycling for business
transportation. Quite number OF
Chinese in San Jose and Los Angeles
own wheels and use them in going
a bout for orders and delivering goods.
They have found using bicycle pays
in the time saved and the wider circle
OF customers gained.
The Russian authorities have in.
in behalf of the nightingale.
The police of Kew found some bird
catchers who were On their wav to
Moscow with COO nightingales in cages.
The bird catchers were captured and
fined, and their little victims were
taken to the Botanic gardens and re-
leased. 1t is said they rose in the air
IN song. which was responded to by the
other birds around.
The great oaks in Waverly, Mass, |
are surviyals of an oak forest that
must have existed in that region, ac-
cording to the biologists, as far back |
As the tenth century. They bear every
evidence OF great age, and an elm tree
n the neighborhood is now almost dis |
with its great limbs lvine |
around on the ground. Only one other
oak tree in New England is known that
IAN be compared with them: that i.
coated at Ipswich, and is larger and |
more venerable than the Wakerly oaks.
The so-called Russian thistle.
which has become such a pest in the |
states. is not properly |
| thistle at all, but an annual nearly |
Tiled to the saltworts. 1t has done
more than s2,O00,0 600 damage to the |
rops last year. 1t was accidentally |
Introduced seventeen years ago in
ONE flaxseed imported from Russia
" man in Scotland, s. D. 1t is esti.
mated that it will cost fully s., 900. 600
o eradicate it, and the department of
griculture has been appealed to to
AXE the matter in hand.
James farren, an eighty-four-year-
I'D hunter of Jackson county. Wash.
anne back from trip in the noun
aims a few days ago bearing a good
lied cougar skin. He was hunting
or bear, SO he says, when the cougar.
whose hide measures just seven feet in
rngth. appeared in his path. He
admit much ammunition, and wanted
all for the bears, whose tracks he
'as following, SO he snatched up a
iece of rock and hurled it at the cou-
ar. 1t struck the animal on the head
it, and before it could recover
arren jumped upon it and slit its
hroat with his knife.
The estimates for the support of
ne government during the next fiscal
ear aggregate 1896. 500. 7s9. which is a
ct reduction of 50. 554. 545 from the es-
mates submitted for the present fiscal
ear. This does not include an ssti-
late of Si1,000, 600 for sugar bounty.
he estimated receipts are 1854. 4a.,74s,
0 that there will be a deficiency in
&c government revenues. if the fuu !