The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

line TURKISH ldDOrlnR DAY is 1rOh
sunrise to an hour before sunset, with
an hour for prayers and dinner.
If there is any person to whom you
feel dislike, that is the person of whom
you ought never to speak.-Cecil.
-Remorse is a mans dread preroga-
tion of responsibility, is an enigma in
human nature never to be explained.
Isaac Taylor.
How He Managed It--Willis-
''How do you manage to keep in a cook
all the time?" Wallace-"O, that's
easy enough. 1 have a standing 'ad. ;
in daily paper"-Truth.
-Dante's Inferno was not original
in its form. The dream of vision was
then popular style of writing. Sew.
eral dreamers had visited both the up
per and the lower regions before Dante
wrote.
What I need" said the man who
complains. sis change of climate. !"
''Well," replied his friend, you stay
right here in Washington for four or
five hours and you'll probably get it. "
Washington Star.
The talent Of success is nothing
more than doing what you can do we'll,
and doing well whatever you do with.
out thought of fame. If it comes at
all it will come because it is deserved.
not because it is sought after.-Long.
fellow.
japanese coal has found it's way to
Bombay. A quantity of it was lately
delivered alongside in Bombay harbor
at prices ranging from eleven to twelve
rupees per ton. The great Indian PEN
insula Railway Company is trying
some of il.
Its funny about Dawson; he
knows exactly how many stars there
are on silver dollar. and" Fiske
How many are there?" 81 don't
remember, and that's why I wanted to
ask you to lend me a dollar. Inter
Ocean.
Whenever cold snap visits Fort
Myers, far down in sub-tropical Flor.
ida, the inhabitants, who have no
method of heating their houses. come
out into the streets and keep warm By
sitting round great fires of wood. The
cold snaps are rare. but when they
come every body, even the northern Wis
itor' is thoroughly uncomfortable, and
poor folks with few and thin garments
really suffer.
In guns the old-style flint locks,
with stocks carved and painted in
colors and with the barrels painted in
peculiar hierogiyphics, are sold 10 the
Arabs and African tribes in quantities.
The South American takes a dainty
barrel of the smallest gauge. with the
stocks also elaborately carved and or.
namented. The European buys a gun
exquisitely finished and inlaid in trsc.
ings of gold.
The Emperor Duc-Tu. Of Cochin
China, protects his treasures by placing
them in followed trunks of trees
which float about in a huge tank stu.
ated in the center of the royal palace
There are twenty crocodiles in the tank
as well. When he wishes to draw upon
this bank. all of the reptiles are killed; |
but this cannot take place without the |
joint consent of the emperor and his |
minister of finance.
The earliest known scale OF wages |
Is that fxed for the whole Roman en- !
pire by the Emperor Diocletian in A. |
d. 3o3. A shepherd was TO be paid 2cc |
a day: day iaborer and mule driver |
received the same as the shepherd: . |
baker got 4oc. and the same was paid |
10 the mssons and carpenters and |
smiths; stcnecutters got Soc and paint
ers s0c. 4 brickmaker got 2+c per !, ,ooe /
bricks; sheep shearer got ss-ee per /
100 pounds A common school rnss.~. /
received e0c month for each pupil I
one who taught Greek or geomstry, a. /
per month. lawyers fee wss tiz
Jacob Stgslenger, who lives near
Piedmont. ". Va, lost a good rsny
chickens las. November. owing 20 /
big owls fondnsss for poultry. lie set 1
= steel fox trap in the top Ok . cherry !
tree, fastening Il with wire, 20 catch /
the owl One night the trap dis&p /
peared. and after that the chickens
were not uolesse1- stuaenger sup /
posed the owl would starve with ths
trap on his legs but he was mistaken.
for Oh the 9th of January the osl yas