The morning news., 1888-07-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A LARGE meteor passed over Appleton, Wis,
on Monday afternoon, at. great hight. 1t was
visible for about half minute.
SIR ISAAC NEwToN's autograph in the shape of
letter brought 3315 at a recent sale in Eng and.
1t was bought for Trinity college, Cambridge.
AT a recent sale in Paris s. 800 was paid for
a velvet-pile Persian carpet. less fine one
went for $1,000, and tapestry of the fifteenth
and eighteenth centuries realized eXtraordl-
nary prices.
Essen, MASS, is proud of a certain venerable
pear tree which still bears leaves and blossoms,
and occasional fruit, and which was planted b y
John Coggswell, who sailed from Bristol Eng.
May %. 1875, and settled in the northern part of
the town.
A LITTLE FRENCH CANADIAN BOY in Oldtown is
credited with one of the shortest and most com
prehensive compositions on record. The tcacher
told him to write about onything he could see,
and this was the result: The stove. She be
cracked"
A FARMER near WalpOle, N. H., recently
ploughed up what is declared to be the skeleton
| "Kilburn fight" in 1715 1t was at this fight
that two men, two women and two boys de-
Tended themselves for six hours against 400 In
| dians.
AN ENRAGED BULL attacked funeral party in
Victoria, Australia, recently, paying particular
| duIenU on 10 Jne pail bearers. These ne DuUbeu
around IN way that tore their clothing almost
into ShredS, and prompted the remainder Of
the party! to take refuge behind headstones
Eventually the animal was driven off by the
| grave digger, when the corpse was buried.
THE first decision of the status of life in
surance policy where the wife, for whose ben
| eft it was taken out, died before the husband
| has just been made by Judge ScddOn in st.
| LOUIS. He holds that where a man insureS his
life for the benefit of his wife and then furvives
| her the policy will lnure to the benefit of the
| children Independently of the insurel's credl-
| tors.
SEVERAL years ago a valuable calf belonging
to +. G. Bancroft of Warehouse Point sucked
| diamond ring from his finger as he was teach
| ing 1t to drink milk. The calf grew and be
| came n valuable COW, and the other day died
| mysteriously. post mortem examination
showed that the ring had recently become de-
| tached from the muscle, where it had hitherto
| remained harmless, and had been the cause of
| death.
JOHN CARswELL, a deacon of the Scotch ma
| tional church at Bloomsbury, Eng, was re-
| Gently fined S. in a police court for assauting
the wife Of johnson, village painter, IN the
| church. The evidence was that he struck her
with the pedestal of the odertory box and
| pushed her so that she became i'll and had to
leave the church. The assault was a part of a
the Rev. j. Mackie
| pendent means, named Bromhead were recently
| fined S. in England for Systematically defraud-
| ing railroad by travelling without tickets un-
| til within mile of their destination and then
using tickets for that distance handed them by
friend, giving up those tckets at the end Of
| the trip as though that was all the distance
| which they had travelled. such a fraud being
possible under the English railway methods.
| THE captain of the bark D. H. Watien. at
| New York from Amsterdam, reports that when
! about $50 miles east of Sandy Hook, on Thurs.
| day, at O'Clock p. m, two carrier pigeons flew
on board his vessel. There was a gale blowing
| from the east, with a heavy sea, and rain fall
| ing. The birds had cards tied round their necks
from which 1t was found that they had been re-
| leased early the same morning from White
| star steamer Adrlatic when 300 miles east of
Sandy Hook. They were dispatched from the
| ship by John NJ. Grinnell, of Newark n J.. A
| passenger on board.
SOME few nights ago the railroad station at
Hampstead, l.. l., destroyed by fire, causing
loss of about $4,000 An air of suspicion
| surrounded the affair, which has now been I'M.
raveled by the arrest of two bows both less
| than IL years old-and the confession of one
/ that he and his chum started the fire II an.
! pears that they belonged to an organized gang
! VINO met under the station. At one of the meet
| lngS the gang decide to embark in the incen-
diary business, and they shortly after did So
| but none of their work proved destructive ex-
cept in the case of the station
| THE Duchess de Luynes returned to her honoa
in Paris the other day after a trip into the
| country and found her Italian waiting naid
! Strutting about arrayed in her mistress best
| bali dress. Before the duchess could remon-
| Strate another servant walked into the room
| and, remarking that the millennium had come
| began to throw brlc-a- brac, albums, and other
ornamental articles out of the window The
| police were called in, and on examination bv
physicians it was found that both girls had oon,
stark mad at the same time No one is abe to
find any reason for the coincidence
THE foreman of hook and ladder company
| in Cologne, Germany, had his attention at
tracted by the fluttering of a swallow high I'M
in church steeple. The bird had become fast
eheu 10 a Unread IN the nest and could not free
| itself fastening to the headquarters of his
company, the foreman telegraphed to the CEN
tral station, asking if it would be permissible 70
turn out the company, to save the swallow
The fire marshal regarded turnout allowable
| If viewed merely as necessary exercise An
alarm was rung in the department responded
and, amid the shouts of hundreds of ontoolers
Jhe s"aHow was rescued from his almost fatal
nest.
DAUGHTER of the Marquis Tseng Of China
married lately, and, as is customary on such oc
| casions, "a procession of the goods of the bride
took place. The cortege was headed nv forr
servants on horseback, bound round the cheat
with S Tx bands, followed by the brides brother
on horseback, and he again was followed NV a
commlSSary or police with four officers two
carrying chains and two banboos: then came a
full band of musicians followed by carriars
with lD tables containing the presents, and the
rear was brought up by a host of friends in
carts. The furniture and heavy goods were
not, as is usual, carried through the streets tna
new home OF the bride adjoining her old one
Some days previous similar procession
although less imposing, took place OF the Goods
of the bridegroom"
NJ. LoUBAT, member of the New York his
torical society, has donated a fund to the
Academic des Inscriptions ct Bellies I,ettres of
Paris, to establish prize of 3. .OOOf, which sholI
be given every three years for the best work on
the history, geography, archaeology ethno-
graphy, linguiSticS and numismatics of North
America. The academy has decided to admit
to the competition only works printed since la,
l, 1884 The prizes will be given for the first
time in 1880. Books in Latin, French Fnpiisb
Spanish and Italian will be admitted Two
copies OF all works entered for competition must
be sent before Dec 81 1898 to the Office of tho Soc
retary of the lnstitut de France, and the winner
OF the prlHS must give two additional comics Of
his works to the academy, to be transmitted b,,
the latter-one to Columbia colern of Ne;g,,
York, and the other TO the New York historical
society
French viscountess well known, it ia said
in society in Paris, has been arrested charged
with working new and clever scheme to mike
an income at the expense OF confding capital
lists She claimed TO be the lawful heir of n man
named Bonnet, who, after amassng a great