The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-14
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

III inc HLutu Century IOoSt VI INC
clothes worn in Europe were made in
the monasteries which kept large stocks
of ready-made clothing.
Soap is first mentioned in the ninth
century. 1t was alluded 70 as in use
in Germany for cleansing clothing and
as an excellent medicine.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is spending
two hours a day in writing the story Of
his brilliant life - brilliant with
achievement and mirth. DR.. Holmes
was born two years before Edgar Allan
Poe, though he has survived him by
nearly half a century.
Joaquin Miller is growing on his
California ranch a mile Of roses. He
believes families live too close to-
gether; therefore, in place of building
one large house he has erected four
small oneS-one for his mother, one
for his brothers. one for his own use,
and the fourth for his guests.
. The title president occurs in the
Bible: 1T pleased Darius to set over
the kingdom 100 princes, which should
be over the whole kingdom; and over
these three presidents, of whom Daniel
was first; that the princes might give
accounts unto them. and the king
should have no damage" Daniel vi,
1-2.
In the Sierra Madre mountains it is
distressingly healthy. Lung diseases
are unknown, people live in defiance
OF all hygienic laws and are rarely
sick. When cholera reached the
mountains some years ago the sick
people took a bath-the Mexican cure
for all diseases-and promptly got
well.
1t is with butter as with eggs,
the tradesman has subtle distinctions
that puzzle the uninstructed mind. An
east side butter dealer makes these
seemingly inconsistent announce
ments: Very best butter, twenty-five
cents; do. fine, twenty-five cents; do.
good, twenty cents; cooking butter,
seventeen cents. N. Y. Sun.
At a recent meeting of Kyle Union
parochial board, AYR, Scotland, it was
reported that the board of supervision
visiting officer was of the opinion that
comfortable and had suggested that
If the use of tobacco was stopped and
tea-making prohibited the number Of
male inmates would soon decrease.
The members decided not to restrict
the privileges.
"A young girl, tall ,curly-hesded and
bright-eyed, sat near the fruit stand OF
iah f,Th &c ha
Brooklyn. Charles +. Erwin tried 10
kiss her and may have succeeded. She
screamed He was arrested, but pro-
testing 10 Justice Goetting that his ar
rest was an outrage, for the girl had
put her lips in kissing position, he
was discharged with a mild caution to
be more careful
"A French priest, who had usually
very small audience, was one day
preaching at the church in his village,
when, the doors being open, a gauder
and several geese came stalking up the
aisle. The preacher, availing himself
OF the circumstance. observed that he
would no longer find fault with his
district for non-attendance, because,
though they did not come themselves,
they sent their representatives"
Mr. H. H Dixon has been Studying
the locomotion of insects and spiders
by means OF instantaneous photo
graphs. He finds, says Nature. that
the limbs move together in diagonals.
In insects the first and third legs on
one side move with the second on the
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first leg on the same side. In the case
Of spiders, which have eight legs, the
first and third on one side move with
the second and fourth on the other.
Seasoned timber is but little liable
70 decay under the influence of a dry
atmosphere. and viii resist decomposi-
ton for an indefinite period when kept
totally submerged in the water. The
piles of old London bridge, driven 500
years before, were found 70 be in good
condition when the new bridge was
erected IN 1859. and those which served
as the foundation for Trojan's bridge
over the Danube. 4. d. los. are said %
be still visible az low stages Of water.
School and Home
There is a good story told OF the I
duke OF Northumberland. who. in
spite Of his vast wealth, IS very unaf- /
fectet and simple IN MS life When 7
ever he travels or a railway ne usually 4
takes third-class ticket. 20 the indi=- +
nation OF the railway officials Upon &
a day they determined % break him Of 4
this frugal habit. and they filed dis
com partuent with chimney sweeps +
carrying bags Of SCOT When the duke I.
arrived AZ his destination he took the f.
sweeps 20 the booking Office and .
oOuFht them each q arst-class ticket .
back again and pat one IA each G-s;- .
class czrrizye sack. and al
DATES TO TASTE.