The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-03-16
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


coal had their photographs taken.
The great Polyglot petition, adj
dressed to the governments of the
world for the prohibition of the traffic
In Liquor and opium, is signed by over
1000, 600. is estimated to be fifteen
miles long, and has circulated for eight
years in more than fifty countries
Any height that commands COM
prehensive view of New York reveals
the fact that beyond the city's bound.
airy of water there is nearly in all di'
rections a horizon edged with wood.
land The city stands in the midst OF
an urban area of perhaps two hundred
square miles, but many hundred acres
of that area are still covered with
woodland, and the suburban edges are
all within easy reach Of some consider
able great area.
Toronto was the name of an Indian
village when Gov. Simcoe made it the
capital OF upper Canada in 1874 and
named il York There the seat of the
provincial government remained until
1841, when upper and lower Canada
tnow Ontario and Que bec) formed a
legislative union. When the confeder-
alton was formed in 1857 Toronto, the
name By which York had been known
since 1884, became the permanent seat
Of government for Ontario.
At Corydon fair this year two
swindlers con ucted a lottery of five
cents a ticket. A monkey did the
drawing. An observant policeman no.
ticed that all the prizes were drawn by
men he knew to be sharpers, SO, dis
trusting the innocence OF the monkey,
he investigated and found that there
between the tickets drawing prizes
and the others, and that the monkey
had been trained to distinguish be-
tween them and thus defraud the
public
There is a story to those calico
prints of cats and dogs and rabbits
which, sewed together and stuffed
with cotton. serve as admira bic toys
for small children. The idea of such
toy occurred to a woman, and she tried
vainly to convince several calico print
ers that the thing would be protita bic.
She found, at length, manufacturer
who was willing to undertake the ex-
pertinent of printing her toys and he
has since paid her many thousands OF
dollars in royalties upon the patent.
--Gunpowder teas are especially open
to adulterstion because of their granu-
lar or dusty form, and the Chinese are
marvelously expert in deceiving the
foreign devils with whom they deal
1t is very difficult thing to get con-
sstent statement as to the various
kinds and qualities of tea from dealers
in this country, partly, doubtless, from
the fact that few of them have inside
expert knowledge of the tea ira de in
China. 1t is noticeable that the tea
served in Chinese restaurants is lighter
in color than strong tea served else
where.
The well known fact that women
live longer than men is illustrated as
follows by an English journal: The
excess of females of all ages over males
Of al ages in England and Wales is on
IL about 3 y per cent lin round figures,
Is, oC0, 600 minus so, 600, to IA, 600, 900 plus
30, 1000. But when we begin to COM
pare women over 60 with men over &c
the female ma jority becomes much
greater, and when we pass IS the old
men are nowhere. The female nono-
gcnarians nearly double the male;
there are s54 women over 95 to only So
men and 104 gammers to ~ CATERS who
lwn to century.
The enthusiastic spirit of the true
westerner is exemplified in the modest
suggestion of a resident of the arid
country of southeast Colorado. On the
Missouri river region, he says, there Is
no navigation as formerly; immense
damage is done yearly at high water.
from the upper waters to New Orleans
and a powerful lot of water IS running
10 waste. Water commands a high
price in the arid regions, and he sug-
gests that the money speEt by tia
government in protecting Illinois. Mis-
sissippi. Arkansas and Louisiana against
ovsrfiows. and floods be used to dig
canal along She eastern foot of tile
Rocky mountains to turn the Missouri
river down into Dakota, Wyoming,
Colorado and northern Texas, where il
would be appreciated
The genius of advertisement. work
ing in the brain of a Brooklyn m-r-
chant, has inspired a novel application
IF the ancient sandwich man" device.
He has equipped a big Newfoundland
dog with sandwich boards and turned
il loose TO wander at will about the
city streets The dog is unusually large
and handsome. Fastened on its back
is white oilsl<in coat, fashioned like
a1 ordinary blanket, except that il is
So long as to almost sweep the ground.
and printed thereon in vivid coIors i.
an advertisement of the dogs owner.
The dog seems to know his business,
too. for he spends most OF his tins
trotting up and down the shopping
district of Fulton street, where the
crowds are thickest lie IS good
natEred and fra ternizes with the
children who accompany the shoppers
and in many ways makes himself con
soicuous and thus an efficient sdrcr-
tlSemeEt
Survival of an Ancient sumatra Custor,
3 ceremony exists among the tribes
% the iaterior OF SumaSra which i
~. hout doubt the survival OF an an.
GENT and very cruel custom. that has
passed in the course OF time into civil
and religious duty. These people. al
though. OF rather gentle disposition,
piously anu tremendously XIII and eat
their aged parents in the belief that
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