The morning news., 1888-09-27
ITEMS OF INTER EST.

OF the thirty persons who presented them
| selves at the Massachusetts state house Tuesday
| for examination as stenographers and type
| writers, twenty-five were young women.
ACCORDING to the recently completed survey
| of Massachusetts Plymouth county has more
woodland than any other county in the state.
| Fifty mine per cent of her territory is wood
| land.
SCARLET FEVER and diphtheria continue prev
alent in Paterson, n. j., and the local board of
health on that account has decided to post
placards on all houses in which there are cases
of either disease.
A ROCKLAND COUNTY, New York, man is
weather predicting in something of a whole
sale way. He has mapped out his prophecies
all the way up to New Years, and is now en-
gagged making his forecast for the first three
months of 1889.
SCoTCH BEADLE took his sweetheart to a
graveyard, and showing her dark corner, said:
Mary, my folks lie there. Would you like TO
lie there when you die?" 1t was a grim way of
proposing, but Mary was a sensible Scotch
laSsle, and accepted him
CANE made by prisoners confined in the
state prison at Carson, New, was on Saturday
last sent to Senator Stewart. The cane is COM
posed of ,674 pieces of wood. and thirty-fiye
different varieties are used in it's construction
coming from all quarters of the globe.
In the miscellaneous department of the
Waverly On. J.) fair there is exhibited the jaw
bone of a whale caught in New York harbor in
1897 and an OK skull from the battle of Gettys-
burg. There Is a great display of pumpkins,
the Jumbo pumpkin weighing 150 pounds.
A SYNDICATE is being formed in London at
| present for the purpose of experimenting in
| beet growing in Ireland, with view to the
| eventual establishment there of an extensive
| sugar industry. Experts in the manufacture of
| beet sugar are very ssnguine of the success of
| the scheme.
| Ex-Commander-in-C Chief Rea, of the Grand
| Army of the Republic, thinks that there is more
| work than glory connected with his place.
| During the last official year he held court
| on 200 days, travelled 26,000 miles. slept for
| hfty-two nights in sleeping cars and delivered
| 1OS speeches.
ST. PAUL has an 'Orange Peel Club" whose
| members agree to remove, not only orange peel,
| but other dangerous substances that they NAV
| see on the sidewalk, and themselves to refrain
| from throwing orange peel. banana skins or the
| ike where they may be likely to cause pedes-
| trians to fall
The american Banker notes the discovery
lately of deceptive $50 counterfeit. The paper
of the counterfeit is said to be fully as good as
| that of the gilt-edged $50 bills, but the counter
| felt can be easily discovered by reason of the
TACT that it is one-eighth of an inch shorter and
| narrower than the gold bills The engraving is
| also coarse.
On the Greek island of Himia no girl NAV
marry till she can dive and bring up the sponge
| that is known to grow only in the deepest water
as 1t is not thought before that time she is pre-
| pared to support family. Upon Niarus the
| rule is reYerSed-the girl saws or does nothing
and her father bestows her out of hand upon
| the diver who stays longest and brings most
| spongeS.
| FARMER LACROIX and his son, of Wright town
| ship, near Montreal, went out few days ago in
search of a bear which had been playing sad
havoc in their fields. Lacroix the elder shot the
| bear, whereupon the beast. standing upright
clasped the man in his paws, thrust its sharp
| claws into the flesh of his shoulders and wa,
| hugging all the breath out of him, when I.acrox
| the younger gave the bear its leaden quietus in
| the back of its head.
AMONG the callers at the Leonard street police
station, New York, on last Wednesday. was a
| bright lad aged 8, who, with tears in bis ewes.
| asked for assistance to find his sister Celia :"
| He explained that he had lived in Mauch Chunk
| but, his mother having died, he iourneyed alone
| to New York to take home with his sister who
once lived on Sixty-eighth street. An officer at
| the station knew the childs family, and took
| him to the sought-for sister.
| New YORK CIVIL ENGINEER has applied for
| patent for locomotive and tender, by which
he claims he can make ninety five miles an hour
| with ten coaches. The boiler is rectangular in
| shape, having large and permanent area of
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| tent of heating surface The cylinders are in the
| rear of, instead of between the truck wheels
| and the trebox is supported between the
| center of gravity of the driving wheels
THE Vienna correspondent of the London
Times records a curious relic of medieval super
stition in Austria. The burgomaster of Zuraki,
| in Galicia, has Just instituted a prosecution he.
fore the criminal court of Solotwina against a
| man named Jean Kowalesink for having 'by
his malicious sorceries and inca nations, caused
haistorm to devastate the fields of Zuraki on
| July -. The damages occasi oned by Kowal-
| esink's uncanny power over the elements are
| laid at 6,000 dorins.
| BY MEANS of the magnesium fash light, pho
| tograph has been been taken, at the sug-
gestion of NJ. Du Bois Raymond, of a
normal eye, lifesize, after a quarter of
| an hours rest in a completely darkened
| room, showing the pupil of the eye fully
| dilated, as its reaction does not begin until
| after exposure. Hitherto the effect of complete
| darkness on the pupil could only be observed it
| is said. by the light of the electric spark, but
| these photographs permit of measurements.
MINER McCAFFREY of the Yellow Jacket
mine, Virginia City, New, ignited the fuse of
blast and started to go to a safe place. As he
turned the charge exploded, and McCaffrey's
| back, from his loins to the top of his head was
| riddled with particles of sand and gravel rang
| ing in size from mustard seed to 60 Sc shot
| Not square inch of whole skin was left on his
| back. A doctor spent three hours picking out
| the largest fragments of rock. McCafGrey's in
| juries, though extremely painful, were not dan
| gerouS, but he must wait until he grows a new
| skin before he can work.
| THE will of NJ. Bord, the well-known piano
| maker of Paris, has given rise to some remark
| able proceedings on the part of the testator's
| heirs and of the workmen employed in the
| establishment, which had been organized by the
| deceased, and conducted by him with great
| prosperity for many years. NJ. Bord died a few
| months since, and under his will he left large
| legacies to his employees of every grade the
| smallest amount bequeathed being 500 to each
of those who had only been five years in his fac
tory. After the death of the testator his neph
ews found another will, in which no mention
was made of legacies to the employees, and this
| being dated 1884 invadated the first document
| NJ. Bord had in fact, it is said, disnherited his
| workmen, because they had struck for more
| wages in 1888. The workmen have gone to law
| with the executors, in order to contest the va
| lidity of the second will
| A GENTLEMAN living in Boston has a small
boy, not more than years old, who has an in
veterate habit OF running away. He is a sturdy,
| stout-legged little chap, of great courage and
| enterprise, but his father and mother have
4 been put to a good deal OF anxiety on his nc
4 count. Sometimes he is found in the next
4 town, sometimes by the railroad, and again in a
| certain pasture where he enjoys the congenial
| society Of several young colts, but it is always
matter of doubt where he will be discovered
| Recently, however, the family have acquired a
| mongrel little terrier, recommended for the
| purpose, who hunts up Sammy with unerrng
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