The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-07
Random Comment.

The late Senator Morrill,, of Vermont
had as q favorite story that of his con-
stituent who was sneerinsly asked what
they managed to raise in Vermont. The
reply was Men"
The $10o 600 collected for the widow and
daughter of the late Colonel waring will
be invested for them during life, the in
come - be paid quarterly. Eventually
the principal viii be used TO establish a
chair Of sociology in Columbia college
Colonel Warnings family will thus be
cared for and he will have perpetual
monument in line with his life studies
and labors.
A Boston paper, having perpetrated
that patriarchal jest of a Chicago girl
who found grand piano in her Christ
mas stocking. Chicago paper retaliates
by saying that all the close rolled UNI
brellas in Boston were sold out at Christ
mas. as in every instance Santa Claus
found they completely filed the stocking
hung on Christmas night.
An old lady who died in Rochester. n.
Y, a few days ago, was the daughter of
man who fought under Washington. and
her husband was a soldier in the war of
1872. She was young woman when she
heard of the battle OF Waterloo. The
ambition OF this old lady aged 102. was 10
survive until 101, so that she might say
she had lived in three different centuries.
Strange as it may seem, the Spanish
in their Mausers possess a rife that has
hardly an equal. II is said that Germany
would adopt ii in place of the Mannich-
er but for the expense entailed- The
Krag-Jorgensen, used in the American
| army, is to be furnished with a clip
containing five cartridges. to be inserted
with a single motion. This saving Of sec
onds would be important in repelling a
charge At other times deliberateness
OF fire is a merit and the prevention OF
the waste of cartridges a necessity. At
present the American army rife cart
| ridges are inserted one at time.
A characteristic OF the late William
| Black was his Ignorance of his own books,
And It was very difficult to get him
| to talk about his novels. 1t seemed that as
soon as the proof-sheets were returned
| to the printers Mr.. Black forgot all about
| his own creations. I'm talking to my
husband the other day" Mrs. Black once
said to q visitor, II suddenly remember
| ed an anecdote in one of his novels which
illustrated what I was saying. Mr..
Black laughed heartily at the story, and
then turned eagerly 10 me: But where
| did you hear such a good storyT My
husband wouldn't believe it was in one
| of his own books until I found it for
him"
An American residing in Jamaica writes
| with enthusiasm of the beauties OF that
| gem of an island few hours distant
from Cuba, dwelling upon the sea is
blue as indigo" and fine harbors "fringed
| by silvery-lined beaches, on which the
gigantic, but steady rolling waves, die in
slow-like FOAM" leaving the rarest shells
| as they recede. But, commercially, he
| reports the island in bad shape. OF its
| population of $50 900 a third are out CT
employment and trade is paralyzed by
the abandonment Of sugar and coffee rails
| ing through the competition of beet SUI
| gar and English commercial regulations.
1t is not easy to run American soil prof
itably under even the most liberal Euro
pean laws and policies,
| Eucation is a cause near to the Ameri-
! can heart. The gifts TO colleges in the
4 United States last year amounted TO S13,
I Os6 150 and libraries received S1,166, 800.
| Museums and art galleries, whose object
is party educational, were generously -e-
! nembered to the extent of sl.412,0o0. For
these various institutions the aggregate
of gifts was SIS, 724, 900 The colleges OF
this country are receiving from requests
and other forms OF liberality money
enough to reach billion dollars in the
course of eighty years. But there Is also
| a growth in the yearly average, and the
| time is coming when American schools,
| colleges and universities will be the
strongest and richest in the world.