The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-09-21
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Cne OF the courts OF New Jersey
has decided that husband who drives
his wife from home is guilty of aban-
donment, and that the wife has the
right TO control the domestic affairs of
the family, Notwithstanding the oppo-
sition of the husband or any of his
relatives-and the woman in this case
was a second wife, at that
The Lateran council of 1139 not
only condemned Arnold, of Brescia, 10
be burned for heresy, but also forbade
the use of the crossbOw as being a
cruel weapon. For time its use was
discontinued in the European armies,
but it was revived by Richard l., and
from his day steadily grew in favor
until supplanted by firearms.
Manager Al Sphinx, of ''The Derby
Winner" has among the other noted
steeds in the troupe the smallest horse
in the world. Baby Ruth was foaled
!. in Houston, Tex, is three years old.
| nineteen incnes high, and can stand
on an ordinary dinner plate. She is
remarkably pretty, and her owner,
Col. ]. Ii. Wood, of Texas, has been
offered and declined FIVE thousand dol
lars for her.
| Philadelphia has suffered greatly
lately from the caterpillar pest in her
parks and public squares, and now a
new pest has arrived there, which is
proving much more troublesome to in
dividual citizens 1t is a spider. said
TO be of "a new species, with a re-
markably poisonous sting. 1t has APP
peared among the trees in nearly al{
the public squares, and many citizens
have been bitten or stung by it. The
superintendent of the Penn Treaty
square was SO badly stung on the hand
recently that it swelled to an enor-
mons size, and he was obliged to have
it treated by a doctor.
Hitherto almost everything said of
the bicycle and its influence has been
in the wheels favor, but a very seri-
Gus accusation against it comes from
Arizona. 1t is accused there of being
a subverter of patriotism, aud as re-
suit of its baleful influence the First
infantry of the national guard, sta
toned at Tucson, is To be disbanded
and most of its memb bers dishoporably
discharged. The offense of the guards
men is that on last Fourth OF July they
failed TO turn up To take part in tho
official parade in honor of the day. pre-
ferring TO appear in the parade of a
bicycle club to which almost every |
member belonged. The adjuts MT gen.
ersl has ordered q court martial on the |
officers.
A sealed tin case, which on being |
opened was found To contain a copy Of !
Milton's Paradise Lost was picked |
up in the lower part of the Penobscot !
river, Maine, few days ago. Inquiry |
disclosed the fact that in small town |
mp the river lives an old sinsmith Of |
literary tastes and some odd ideas, and |
that il is his custom 10 enclose all sorts 1
Of excellent books in tin cans. tightly |
soldered, and so constructed as 10 foat !
easily, aud set them adrift in the river
in the hope that they will be picked up 1
by residents Of the many islands ~ the
mouth of the river, who are not kept /
in close touch with culture, or else by 1
sailors. He thinks the peculiarly Of
the way in which the books reach the
readers helps 20 secure for theGa =
reading.
Three half-breed Cherokee Indians,
man and wife and little girl, walked
into Kansas City the other day, the
woman barefooted, dragging small
huckster's cart on which was piled 4
curious assortment OF household
effects. The man said he was Bill
smith. and that they were making |
their way 20 the Indian territory, 20
take up their abode Ia the Cherokee
nation They had walked ali the way
from AbbvviIIe. Va. through West
Virginia. Kentucky. Illinois sn5 Ms
sour, distance of eleven hundred
miles, and were going - enter the
nation b. way Of Cotfevvills, Kan. /.
distance Of three hundred and s..y
miles more The woman, her husband
said. had hauled Tie cart TIE entire
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