The morning news., 1888-05-11
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THE Excise Board of New York city issued
9606 licenses of all grades during the fiscal year
ending Monday, receiving the sum of $1,372, 040
from the liquor dealers.
A CHICAGO BURGLAR overlooked $50 in a
bureau drawer, and the papers announced it the
next morning He returned the next night and
not only secured it, but suit of clothes besides
GIANT poplar tree, that measured II feet
inches in diameter at the base, and was 24O feet
high was recently felled near Taylorsville, o.
1t is estimated that it will yield 10000 feet of
lumber.
FRANK COLLINS, of st. Cloud, Mimi, will
probably smoke pipe hereafter. The other
day he lit cigar, and finding it would not draw,
cut it in two and discovered a SIN all cartridge
in the middle.
COUNTERFEIT &c. PIECES are being circulated
in towns along the Hudson river. They are re-
ported to be clumsily executed, and some of
them are so brittle that they can be broken by
the pressure of the hand
THE Empress of Germany is sincere be-
lever in Gladstone's policy for Ireland. She
enjoys the honorable distinction of being the
only member of her mothers family who does
not regard liberty in Ireland as a crime.
The firm of Barbour Brothers, thread and
twine manufacturers of Paterson, N. j., en-
ployS 400 workers in that city and 2, 900 in Bel
fast, Ireland-the work performed being the
same in both cities. The monthly pay roll for
the ], 400 in Paterson amounts to within $500 as
much as the payroll for the 1900 in Belfast.
The University of Heidelberg recently con-
ferred the degree of NJ. D. on Carl Umbach,
who had written a brilliant dissertation on
THE Influence of Anti-Pyrine on heterogeneous
SecretionS." And now Umbach turns out to be
a quack, and the authorities of the famous
university are smoking their pipes in gloomy
silence.
THE post office authorities in Chicago re
Gently received from Tyler, Tex, a letter ad-
dressed to q Young Lady Who Wants to
Marry" The conditions inscribed on the en-
velope were that she should be u years old,
and at work In an office. The writer ntimates
that he is possessed of 800 acres of land, or
$4,000 in cash.
CREMATION is beginning to be taken up by
beneficiary societies. The German Working
mems Aid Society of New York, which has been
in the habit of paying the funeral expenses of
dead members, has voted to buy $500 worth of
stock in the crematory at Fresh Pond, Long
Island and eighty members have agreed, when
they die, to be cremated.
EUROPEAN CAPITALISTS propose to build a
railroad from Bagdad to Constantinople. The
distance is I, 400 miles, and it is estimated that
the cost of the road would be 915.500, 000 If the
project is carried out the distance between Eu-
rope and India will be shortened nine or ten
days, and it will also give route of commerce
independent Of the Suez canal
By an ingenious device the management of
the Battle of Gettysburg. in New York, con
tryes to watt warm breezeS over the spectators
platform by way of adding to the illusion that
the visitor is standing in the midst of a wheat
field similar to that over which Pckett's charge
swept. These breezes apparently blow down
from over the tops of the distant mountains.
THE latest sensation in New York is the
arrival of Liverpool detectives in search of an
aristocratic young lady who lately disappeared
from England, and who has a mania for
humility. They found by registry offic e that
she obtained work as a servant in a family on
Third avenue, but before they could get
glimpse of her she had changed to another
place.
AN English seer has discovered that the nu-
merical value of the letters in Boulanger's name
when added up amounts to 666, the number of
the beast of the Apocalypse This important
clew enables him to predict that Gen Boulanger
will play leading part in the affairs of the
world between this time and the second advent
of Christ, which is to occur at o'clock in the
afternoon of March 5, 1896"
MRS. MARY ANN WAIDLEY, at present an in
mate of the Lancaster County, Pa. hospital
has not swallowed a particle of food for forty
two days, and at the end of six weeks starva-
ton she cannot be induced to swallow any
thing but q small quantity of water daily a
half pint of which has been the only liquid
which passed her lips in that time 1t is truly
wonderful case and battles the physicians.
The PINEAPPLE SEASON has begun in New
York. Merchants there are receiving $500 bar
rels week, and by the middle of Nav. when
the season IS at its height, the quantity will
reach 10000 barrels a week. The barrels con-
tain from twenty-five to thirty extra large
pines, or forty to sixty small ones. The sea
son lasts from April until August. and about
5000, 900 pineappleS are imported each year.
In SkIATos, one of the Grecan isles, there
had been no case of diphtheria for over thirty
years until the summer of 1884, when q child
died of the disease, and in the course of five
months there were over 100 cases. with thirty
six deaths, in a community of about 1000
Careful Investigations of the origin of the epi-
demic resulted In tracing it to a flock of infected
turkeys rseeived from Salonica, and which, on
examination, showed unmistakable evidence of
the diphtheria process.
The other evening a laborng man lounged
into one of the chairs Of the parquette of the
Academy at Providence, r. L. just before the
performance, and promptly went to sleep. He
wasn't comfortable, however, and after few
uneasy turns he removed his coat and tossed
the garment into the aisle. He then resumed
his nap, but still missing the luxury of his
lounge at home, he began to slowly draw off
his shoes BY that time the audience had be-
come interested, and couple of ushers assisted
the tired stranger to the street.
LITTLE 6-YEAR-oLD GIRL in Cincinnati.
named Emma Byers, has pair of eyes that are
the wonder of all the people of that city. if the
Enquirer is to be believed. That paper saws.
In her right eye is a perfect form of a doll
baby. handsomely dressed, and with beautiful
features. In her left eye is a miniature cres-
cent. In spite of this her sight is excellent
The child is altogether very pretty, and the
parents exp ,ct, in time, to make q fortune by
exhibiting her. A well known Cincinnati
oculist says the figures in little Emma's eyes
are simply due to an error in the development
of the rides"
A TRICK once attempted to be played In a
game of poker at Hot Springs, Ark, was neatly
defeated. 1t was the old trick of sticking two
cards together, giving player to be feecei the
winning hand containing the double card. On
the "show down the next highest hand claims
the stakes, on the ground of misdeal to the
winner. The big hand in this game was given
to a Denver man. The betting was long and
heavy, and the stakes ran up into the thou
sands. The Denver player discovered the thin
card gently stuck to one of his aces, crumpled
il In his hand, called for glass OF beer sliDped
gulp of lager. He never WINGED as the card
scraped his throat nor balled an eve as he
reached over the table and pulled in an armfu
OF chips
THE following almost incredible story is told
Of New York young man who had a goats
eye inserted for his own diseased member. One
day while in mid-ocean he wandered near the
stewards apartments and fell into conversation
with that worthy. Suddenly he became aware
that his goateye was looking longingy at the