Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-07

WESTERN KANSAS WORLD
Fl. S. GIvLER. Publisher
wA-KEENEY, KANSAS
Budapest, Hungary, has fifty
;churches in which divine service il
conducted in twelve different lam
,gaages.
A farmer in Addison, Me-, has a
sheep which this year yielded two
fieeces, one black as ink, and the other
as white as snow.
Russian engineers are experiment.
ing with military kite which will. it
is hoped, prove useful for recommend
ing accommodating purposes
The metric system of weights and
measures was adopted by France in
1880, by Holland in 1916, by Belgium
in 1920, and by Sweden in 1889.
A three-wheeled cab has made its
appearance in London. The third
wheel runs in front of the passenger
and is to save him from accident
should the horse fall.
The .best-lighted street in the world
is the famous thoroughfare of Berlin,
Unter-den-Linden. 1t is illuminated
by three lines OF electric lights, which
are separated by two lines of linden
trees.
The Alaska Indians have a violin
closely resem bling in form the print
tive instrument of the same kind used
among the Persians and Turks. 1t
has two strings and is played with a
small bow.
AS a rule, the men whom men draw
and the women whom women depict
are nearer the truth, for it is a blessed
law of nature that men and women
shall view one another through the
eyes of the Imagination.
An eccentric Ohio man made his own
coffin five years ago, and when he died
the other day it took considerable
muscular persuasion to get his in
creased girth into the box. 1t was
done, however, and two men sat on
the coffin lid on the way to the grave,
at the expressed wish of the dead man.
Red-headed Indians are very rare.
One of them, belonging to the Passa-
maquoddy tribes reservation at Pleas
ant Point, near Eastport Me-. recently
died there, aged SO. His name was
Sopiel Haney, and all through his life
he was Stunned by the other members
of his tribe because of his bright red
hair
Covington, Ga, has furnished new
boy preacher, Metz Joiner, 9 years of
age. who lately held one of the largest
congregations ever seen in the town
enraptured for thirty minutes. After
he had finished his sermon, several la
dies ran up to kiss him. but he told
them not to worship him, but the one
of whom he was preaching.
The cousins of Memo Shau1, of Her
kimer, n. Y, are coming into existence
with the fecundity of rabbits all over
the country. He died recently, leaving
S21 900 to be divided among his third
cousins, meaning. as he expressed it,
1.-The children of those persons related
to me as cousins There are already
$40 persons, from various parts of the
United States, who have sent in their
claims to the estate.
If the present plans of the board OF
appraisers appointed by the Probate
Court of Canton. Ohio to estimate the
value of the Mckinley estate are car
ried out, Mrs. Mckinley will be grant
ed an allowance of SIS, 900 annually to
pay her living expenses. The estimat-
ed value of the estate submitted by
the administrators is $4,000, of which
sum $4,000 is in real estate and $780,
900 in personal property.
James Farrell of Barboursville, w
Va. recently celebrated the 105th an
niversary of his birth. He is now pos
sibly the Oldest man in the United
States. Mr.. Farrell served in the war
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