The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-10
ITEMS IN GENERAL.

The maxim murder will OUT il
disproved by statistics. In the ten
years ended with 1856 there were 1,766
murders committed in England and
Wales, and in 1.094 OF these cases no
trace of the criminal was ever found
that led to his apprehension.
An attempt TO propagate blue
points and other noted varieties of east
ern oysters on the Pacific coast is soon
to be made by the United States fish
commission. A carload of oysters from
the east are to be planted in Willapa
bay, Washington, just above the mouth
of the Columbia river, where there are
extensive oyster fisheries
Kentucky has been rounding up
her fat children and has discovered
some notable youngsters. Carroll coun-
ty has a 9-year-old boy who weighs 151
pounds. Little Horace Lane, of Wyck-
Life. is the last prodigy heard OF. He
is Z years old, weighs 142 pounds, meas
ures 80 inches round the waist, fl round
the chest, Is round the biceps, and is
feet So inches tall.
The latest advertising device Is to
decorate shop windows with what APP
pear to be big cracks in the plate
glass. This is called a decoration add
visedly, for it is put on with French
chalk and paint. Gray or blush lines,
radiating from center, have sur
prising likeness to break, and the
device serves its purpose of causing
people to stop and look.
Ones surprise at the fact that no
two persons voices are perfectly alike
ceases when informed by an authority
on the subject that, though there are
only nine perfect tones in the human
voice. there are the astounding mum Der
OF 1882, 1s6, O44,4l5 different sounds.
OF these, fourteen direct muscles pro.
duce 16, 3s3 and thirty indirect muscles
produce 173, 741, sea, while all in CO.
operation produce the total given
above.
Delaware is not densely popu-
lated state, but were Texas as thickly
peopled her population would be
about $4,000, 900. Were Texas as nu-
merously peopled as Massachusetts, her
population would exceed by 10000, 900
the total population of the United
States according to the census of 1890.
More impressive still, if Texas were as
densely peopled as Rhode Island her
population would be more than 49,,
OOO,O 900.
1t is said that neck stocks and fine
handkerchiefs made up in long pieces
to be cut into sizes and hemmed are
sold at only one store in New York.
These things are kept to meet the de.
mand Of a few old-fashioned persons
who stick to habits formed long ago.
The store was recently out of handker-
chiefs made up in this style, because
the factory in France, where they are
made, was short of the articles, and
everybody had to await the new i'm.
portation.
George Vanderbilt having imported
several mongooses for his estate near
Asheville, n. c., United States Consul
Eckford, at Kingston, informs us that
the mongoose was brought to Jamaica
for the purpose of Kidding the country
of rats 1t performed its mission in a
highly satisfactory manner, but by
that time there were so many mon
gooses that they ate up pretty much
everything else in sight. ''All ground
birds" says the consul, ''all snakes and
land crabs, toads, turtles, game, pups,
young pigs and newly dropped calves
fell victims to the insatiate mongoose-"