The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-28
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

work of fastening together the sheets
of which a book is composed. were in
troduced in 1872. Before that time all
books were sewed by hand. The book
sewing machine reduced the cost about
one-half
The frequency of storms in Neb-as-
IA is due TO the fact that not only do
many originate there, but the storms
OF Dakota move southeast, and those of
Kansas and Texas northeast, generally
passing through Nebraska on their
easterly course.
knowing folks out on the old Bos-
ton road. near New York. are able TO
identify the sites of their houses To in
quiring friends by giving the number
OF the telephone pole opposite The gate.
The gigantic sticks of the Long Dis
tance Telephone line stalk along the
road for many miles. and, as every pole
is numbered, a very clear itinerary
may be made ont for strange traveller
by the aid of the poles.
Mr.. Nathan Straus. of New York,
has extended his wise system of prae-
teal charity which he inaugnrated IN
( his retail coal business. and has fol-
lowed it up with his sterilized milk sta
tiOns. He has established stands in
the various East Side and downtown
small parks where perfectly pure and
thoroughly sterilized milk viii be sold
by the glass or nursing bottle at the
nominal price of one cent
A New England street railway
company has been much exercised as TO
how the working of its transfer svs-
tenn could be placed on a more salts
factory basis. IL thinks il has solves
the question approximately by printing
on its new transfer tickets pictures OF
men without mustaches and side
whiskers and women with hats or bon
nets in the upper corner. The con-
ductors are 10 punch out the picture
nearest like the holder of the ticket.
We need not be surprised to hear before
long, as the natural development of
this line of improvement, that the
transferring conductor is provided with
q lightning camera that imprints the
photograph of the transferee on the
ticket he is supplied with.
There is strong disposition among
our naval officers TO stretch the right
of political asylum in the case of
Spanish-Amerieans to the utmost de-
gree. Spanish-American governments,
save those at Mexico, Chilli and the
Argentine Republic, are regarded with
scant respect by United States naval
officers because republican forms in
most Spanish-American countries seem
TO citizens of the United States the
mere mockery of free government.
Every ward room teens with stories
that Illustrate the pecuGarities of poll
tics and of the administration of Justice
in the smaller republics. Brazil, under
the empire, was considerably respected,
because there was at least the sem
blance of order, authority and Justice.
-Atalautis is the name that viii here
after distinguish location in the At
lantic ocean about sixteen miles east
of the Highlands of Nsvesink and thir-
teen miles south of the Long Island
shore. Here palatial structure is at
pnce to be erected on hugh iron stills.
The foundations of this building will
consist Of thirty-six iron cylinders if
teen feet in diameter and one hundred
and twenty feet in length. These piles
will extend thirty feet below rhe bed
Of the ocean, and will be secured 10
each other, according to the claim of
the engineers, by giriers, cross brac-
ings and in other ways, so as to defy
the mightiest storm wave that ever
rolled in the Atlantic. The officers
who will be responsible for the con-
struction of this ocean hotel are Capt.
K. ID. Evans. United States navy, in
charge; James c. Mcclure, engineer;
Capt. Howard Patterson, superintend-
ing engineer.-Harper's Weekly
A bronze cannon which has been
standing in front Of the government
building at Pittsburgh since Washing
tons birthday, has been taken away
to the melting pot. The piece, which
IS twelve-pounder. was given by the
government to be cast into badges and
souvenirs for the delegates to the ma
tional encampneut of the Grand Army
of the Republic, which meets at Pitts
burgh next September It's weight was
LIS pounds. and it was one Of nine
guns of the same size and pattern cast
at Cold Springs. opposite West Point,
in ls4I. II had been in the Allegheny
arsenal since 1850. and was Que Of the
cannons which Secretary Floyd ordered
10 be taken 20 New Orleans before
Fort sumter was fired upon, the at
tempt to move which ordnance from
the arsenal 10 the steam boat landing
caused such tremendous excitement in
Pittsburgh. The protest Of the citi-
zeus caused delay in shipping the
pieces, and finally the order was re-
scinded