The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-26
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

An international newspaper exhi-
bition will be held at Milan this year.
English and American newspapers are
asked to cooperate in order that the
public may see what journalism is in
countries where it is more vigorously
appreciated and extended"
Auburn, a Kentucky town of 1000
Inhabitants, discourages the Kentucky
interest OF whisky making. The vii
lage has not had an open saloon for fif-
teen years Four elections in that time
have turned upon the question of icens-
ing the sale of strong drink, but at no
election has the affirmative vote reached
forty-five. Meanwhile the churches
flourish and Auburn is we'll pleased to
be singular among its sister villages.
The power of song is illustrated in
a custom on the railroads in northern
Florida Whenever a train crosses the
suwanee river, the conductor an
nounces the fact in each car. If any
passenger has never heard Way Down
Upon the Suwanee River this particu-
larization of the stream must seem pc
culiar, and the Suwanee is like dozen
other rivers in the same region, and
these are passed without comment from
the conductor.
The dead and gone New York hotel
used to have an almost continuous sue
cession of meals on the American
plan. There were breakfasts early and
late; there was a MONDAY dinner for
guests accustomed to such a meal;
there was a late luncheon; there was
the usual evening dinner, and, finally,
there was late supper between 10 p.
m. and midnight. There were guests
at all these meals, but an la carte
restaurant instituted late in the life Of
the hotel was never very successful
The United States geological sur
vey, says the report of Director Powell,
has carried on Typographical surveys in
twenty-eight states and territories in
1898, covering an area of about $4,000
square miles, at a cost of 1923, 022 or
less than $50 per square mile. Since
its organization this department has
surveyed an area of $4,000 square
miles, in forty-seven states and terrific
ries- The photographic force has been
tabulating statistics as to the value Of
running streams, and roughly foots up
this value at 5000, 900, 900.
Some of the odd personal names
met with in this country originated in
English warehouses, where it used to
be common thing, as Dickens init
mates in ''Oliver Twist" to name
foundlings for some utensil about the
asylum, or for anything else that might
strike the stupid fancy of the authori-
ties. Thus many persons were launched
upon the world bearing the names of
the days of the week, or some church
or street near the asylum. and of hun
dred and one other things furnishing
equally absurd eognomens
The germ theory is largely respon-
sible for some of the marvels of modern
surgery. Out of the germ theory grew
the scrupulous care of surgeons as to
the aseptic and antiseptic treatment of
wounds, so that the fevers and infiam-
nations that used to be the inevitable
consequence of surgical operations are
now unknown in well-managed hos
pitfalls Surgeons will now chip off the
top of a mans head, exhibit his brain
to a curious class of students, send him
to bed with his wound antiseptically
dressed, and bring him back a week
later with nothing TO show of the OPP
Grafton but a slight and well-healed
scar-N. Y. Sun.