The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-17
RANDOM COMMENT.

The death rate of the globe is estimated
at sixty-eight a minute, 1880 day, or
IS, 1850 Ca year. The birth rate is seventy
d minute, 1O0,SOO day, or 1892, 900 a year,
reckoning the year to be $50 days in
length.
Mrs. Mary L. Harrison, widow of the
late Benjamin Harrison, former Presi-
dent of the United States. will start
shortly on a trip around the world. She
will go to Japan via San Francisco. and
thence travel eastward.
Mrs Virginia Waterman, who is at
tendin gthe Northwestern Academy at
Evanston, Ill, is supposed to be the old
est preparatory student in the United
States Although sixty years old, she
takes front rank in her classes. She
also writes verse and translates French
poetry.
There is talk in London of forming a
Pepys club in honor of Samuel Pepys, the
two hundredth anniversary of whose
death fell Oh May %, though his life is
practically lost to us from May, 1863.
when the growing Inflammation of his
eyes, to which he so often refers, com
PEELED him to desist from the diary that
ne has kept so faithfully.
w. S. Gilbert. formerly of Gilbert and
Sullivan comic opera fame, wrote as fol-
lows to a London newspaper recently:
There is a line in your issue of May 10
that must have sent a thrill of JOY
through many a worthy home. l refer
TO the line in an article headed A Naval
Battle in which | am referred to as the
/ al
to spoil sport. out common candor COM
pels me to admit reluctantly that l am
still alive"
Charleston. s. c., has a white popula-
ton Of 3, 900 and a colored population of
81. OOo.
There are 10000 Negro voters in New
York. POO in New Jersey. 5000 in Rhode
Island 5000 in Delaware. $1,000 in Mary-
land. Is. 900 in West Virginia, $1,000 in In
diana, and 1900 in Kansas.
In describing a commencement the
Huntington. Va. Herald said: The stage
presented pretty scene. In the first
row were the graduates. ten young girls
dressed in white each carrying a large
bunch of carnations and one young man.
Pension Commissioner Wares sympathy
has been aroused once more. this time by
the pension application of battle-scarred
veteran who tells story Of domestic in
felicity, concluding in this fashion; / got
blood poison by being HIT wit ha hens
eg wen l cam bak from the frunt. The
eg was not good wen you send my PEN
shun l want the Deed made SOS my wife
can't get none Of it-she trode the es-
She war rebel -
Timber wolves have been found this
spring within two hours of Chicago In
Byron. a little town on the St. Paul road.
a Mr.. Blanchard found a little of ten on
his farm. He killed nine and gave the
tenth to his cat. who has since mothered
il as If 1t were her own In the same
neighborhood man has a time wolf
which he raised II does all kinds Of
tricks. and has had the honor of being
refused as a gift by President Roosevelt
Perfumes. according to a French man
of science have a great antiSeptic value.
but otherwise they act like alcohol. pro
ducing an excitement which is followed
by a reaction.
Formerly a Chinsman who gazed upon
the Emperor or Empress while they were
being carried along the street lost his
head. Since the Emperors return from
Shanghai this rule has been revoked, but
the populace has not yet mustered its
courage. and not long ago, when the
party were in Shanghai. the streets were
desterted.
EMPRESS EuGENIE's FATHER.