The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-06
Miscellaneous Notes.

"A clepsydra, or water clock. was
worth, in the reign of Trajan, about S..
TO willful men the injuries that
they themselves procure must be their
schoolmasters. Shakespeare.
No story is the same to us after a
lapse of time; or, rather, we who read
it are no longer the same interpreters.
George Eliot.
The Lake Dwellers of Switzerland,
who are believed to be the contempt
raries of the Greeks who fought at
Troy, had a small-grained wheat, APP
parently much harder than the kind
now in use
Woodbridge, n Y, 9th a popula-
ton of 500, has two septugenarians,
eighteen octogenarians, and two mona
genarians, aggregating about loo
years. In 1885 there were in the town
twenty-five citizens ranging from eighty
to ninety. The average Is about the
same still.
Saints cut only small figure in
the geographical names of New En-
gland. They are abundant upon the
maps of most of the southern states
save Virginia and the Caroli1as, and
they are to be found scattered over the
rest of the country in three or four diff
ferent languages. 1t might be little
hard to find in any calendar the st.
Jones, of Delaware, the name OF a
small creek familiar to the river and
harbor bills if not 20 commerce.
A New York collector owns Louis
XIV. watch that is said to have once
belonged 10 Empress Josephine While
she lived at Malmaison she presented
il to Able Blanchard, and he in turn
gave it to his niece, Marie Fectig. OF
Strassburg. This watch. which was
purchased at the Fectig sale IN Strass-
burg in 1879, occupies the center OF
black enamel and gold cross and is
decorated with the figure OF kneelin2
angel and heads of saints
Napoleon married as his second
wife Marie Louise, archduchess OF
Austria, On April /, 1910, and on March
60. 1911, a son was born to him. He
was Napoleon Francois Charles Joseph,
King of Rome In 1915 his father des-
ignated him as his successor by II title
Napoleon IL He never reigned. After
the downfall of Napoleon, the boy was
created Duke of Reichstadt by his
uncle. the Emperor OF Austria He
died of consumption when tventy-one
years old, in 1889.
The Greeks played football, accord
ing to the National Encyclopedia. and
SO did the Romans; the latter using
their hands as well as their feet The
game is supposed TO have entered En-
gland with C:esa-, although, according
TO the Encyclopedia Britannica, the
first distinct mention Of IL was made in
the twelfth century, when William
Fitzstephen. in his History OF Lon
don" wrote Of the young men Of the
city going ont on certain festivals TO
play football after dinner
"A New York electrosyping firm IN
said TO have hi. upon the idea Of cleo
trotyping articles OF apparel which u
Is desired 20 preserve as menentoes
baby's first shoes, for example, may De
preserved indefinitely in metal We
might give other instances but. al
though we should De sorry 70 discour-
are the firm, so far as our OWL expert
ence goes menentoes do not generally
take the form Of wearing apparel Such
things as Tomny's first trousers and
Johnny's first ''tob- hat would scarcely
make good souvenirs
A citizen OF New Britain, Conn. has
n his possession pair OF queer.
wr;nkled, old-tir,e saddiebass, aud
there i abundant reason TO believe that
they belonged to Capt Nathan Hale,
the martyr spy. The present owner
does no. wish his name Published II
connection with then anti Re = able
90 recover certain papers proving the
genuineness Of the relics which have
been usisss;d- The ssddie6ags are heir
looms and csUe % hi1 s-ci->'~