The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-18

has decided to open her cottage this sea-

has decided to open her cottage this sea-
son.
Mrs. c. D. Estey was driving in Water
town. Conn, recently, when her horse
SHE'D and she saw an enormous black
snake as large around as a stovepipe in
the bushes.
The late John d. Bresnan. chief of the
New York fire department. killed on DUTY
last December. is to be honored by
bronze sculpture portrait TO be placed on
one Of the public buildings.
General Grants grandson. Aigeron Sar-
toris, is a youth nearly SIX feet tail ana
fair of complexion. He was born in
England. but is said to prefer his mothers
country TO his native land
Lolita says she has retired from the
stage for good and believes she is the only
actress who has entered private life with
out farewell engagement She is wealthy
and is going TO enjoy herself.
The phrase almighty dollar" was first
used. as far as known, by Washington
Irving. II has since passed into general
employment to indicate the worship OF
wealth, both in this country and in Eng
land.
Mrs. Mary F. Philbrook Of Jersey City.
who for two years has been fighting TO
open the doors Of the New Jersey courts
to women lawyers has successfully passed
her examination. and in the presence OF
class Of thir1y-two young men took her
oath.
1t is said that the history of wheat cult
walton in this country shows steady de-
crease. Fields in New York that formerly
produced twenty TO thirty bushels an acre
now bring from seven TO twelve. The
falling off is due 10 lack OF proper cult
walton.
In a coal mine in Monmouthshire, IN
Wales, there were found some years ago.
a flint axe sticking in the coal: and near
Stanley, in Derbyshiye. the miners in hol-
ing through into some old workings found
tools formed out of solid oak, without any
iron whatever.
The ordinary Chinese meal consists OF
eight dishes, two vegetables, eggs. fish.
some shellhsh, a bird and two dishes OF
meat. pork and goat in the south and NUT
ton or beef in the north Beside this
a large tureen of soup is served with rice,
which at Chinese tables takes the place OF
bread.
Ex-Governor Campbell Of Ohio, will not
accept a nomination for governor. He
says: 1T would be the most foolish
thing I possibly could do TO seek or ac-
cept the nomination al the hands OF my
party this year. don't mind saying.
however, that if my business affairs would
permit 1 would like TO give the boys a
little race this year"
William NJ. Evarts was going up once in
the elevator al the state department when
1t happened 10 loaded with an unusual
number of strangers, presumably appii-
cants for ministerships and consulships.
Turning to friend who accompanied him.
-Evarts said: This is the largest coiiec-
ton for foreign missions that have seen
taken up for some time"
The Eskimo dogs, with the equally saw
age mosquitoes, make life ashore a burden
during the summer in Labrador. A stick
10 beat off the dogs and veil as a pro-
lection against the mosquitoes are abso-
lutely necessary. IT is a curious fact that
the further north you go the more pestif-
erous mosquitoes become. They are worse
In Labrador than in New Jersey.
Jim Fisk was worth about 500, 900 whep
he was killed by Ed Stokes. Today
Fisk's widow is living in an humble frame
house in the tenement district of Boston
on an income of $5a month. And even
that beggarly stipend is derived, not from
her husbands estate, but from property
owned by her family In Brattleboro, VT.
Fisk's estate has vanished utterly.
There is a whaler in Provincetown nick
named "Ambergris Johnson" because his
vessel on the voyage is almost sure to
pick up some OF that strange and very
valuable commodity. He now writes home
from the West African coast that his YES
sci has taken $50 pounds OF sperm oil and
40 pounds of an;bergris. AS ambergris is
worth $500 a pound, this is about as good
as gold mine.
At the close of a matinee in Boston last
Wednesday, the manager of the theater
announced prize of a pair OF diamond"
slippers to the lady in the audience with
the smallest foot. Several score OF the
lady audience assembled TO the stage and
entered the contest. Only six could
squeeze their feet into the diuiuutive
prize slippers. Among these a second con-
test was arranged in which Miss Carrie
Ellis of Dedham was an easy winners.