The morning news., 1889-05-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The SCHOOLS in the town of Starks, Ne, have
been closed owing 10 the prevalence of measles
Los ANGELES, CAL. last year shipped s.o95
tons Of fruit and imported from the east 7,0al
tons Of beer.
THERE are more than eighty national ceme-
I terles IN America, containing ia all 1855
graves. OF these 133, l45 are the graves of un-
known soldiers.
| LOUISA LCaRNAN. aged 20 years has brought
suit in Galena, H., to recover $4,000 damages
for breach of promise against Samuel Cunning
ham, also aged 90,
Henry W. ROGERS, who went to Washington
on March in search of a consulate and failed
| to get it, has just been arrested as a vagrart.
lie IS now dIsconSulate.
YOUNG LADY, named Break who died re-
Gently at her home near Freehold, n j., left a
| goodly portion of her pro perty to the gentle
man to whom sne was engaged to be married.
THs latest treatment recommended for
diphthsria comes from Konigsberg, East Prus-
sa, where Dr.. Arthur Hening has had very sue
cesstui results from the use OF lime water and
ice bags.
AMERICA publishes more papers than all the
rest Of the world combined Last year its H.
:07 periodicals printed the enormous number Of
@'J3o' 800 3oJ-enough to supply every soul on
FoR forty-eight years there was not law case
in thetown of Meddybemps. Ne, neither wa 5
there q lawyer. But two weeks ago LAWYER
hung out his sign in this primitive paradise. and
now TWO citizens a-e going TO law over fence
line.
joan HEFFSER who died few days ago near
Reading, Pa, was one of q family of forty
one children. His father was a huuchbacked
dwarf, VINO was married three times, and was
Killed at the age of SO ina railroad accident in
1885.
CAPT. NATHANIEL H. FALKER of Maine,
although he has followed the sea steadily sixty
years, for forty of which he has been captain,
ne never lost man, never had a man die at
sea, never lost soar or sail and never called on
the underwriters for cent"
FISHERMAN at wirtlrop, Me- tells that ts
cauShta pickerel through the ice on Lake
Maranocook last January and found in its stom
ach roll OF undigested bank bills amounting TO
500. He THINKS that the money was lost by a
sporting man whose boat was upset on the lake
more than year ago.
The Electrical Revle,c figures out that If all
the telephone wires in tais country were
stretched in continuous line they would reach
seven times around the earth, and that if the
MESA es transmitted every day were sent
through one set of instruments, il would, allow
ing TWO minutes for each message, require
nearly ten years TO transmit them all.
TIE London Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals drac;ed it's officers to OBJ
serve the ''thoughtessness, heedlessness or
cruelty Of coach men who keep their horses
checked while waiting outside OF theaters and
public places At the last drawing room the
duration of waiting was three hours and quar-
ter, and out of 230 coachmen % only had
loosened the check rein.
ONE ALLEN, writing to the Bath Times. re-
n RI fr1ila hal in
Dresden, Ne, still stands the familiar "old
court house, - erected by the Plymouth Com
pany in 1851. John Adams once attended court
there, thirty years before he became second
President of the United States. The building is
now occupied as dwelling by Capt. Samuel
Goodwin, descendant Of Maj. Goodwin.
w. JOHNSTON. NJ. P, in letter to the London
Standard, mentions the following curious fact
respecting memorial trees: 1.-TWO Lombardy
poplars were planted at BallyEibeg, county
Down, in 1928, after the marriage Of my father
and mother. They grew side by side and were
In those years my mother first, and then my
father died, and the poplars. one in 1852 and the
g lhe next year, ceased TO exist"
BLUE LAW CRAZE in Rutland, Vi, has led
to le resurrection Of law of 1926, which
doesn't meet by long way with the approval
OF patriotic young Americans in Rutland. It
prohibits the sale, use or gift in Vermont of
any cracker squib, serpent or rocket Several
lawyers in the state however, say that any kind
OF fireworks or explosive not named in the law
can be used with ABSOLUTE impunity, so that
Rutland will likely have a noisy Fourth of
July after all
The DRESS CIRCLE SEATS in the new Garrick
theater in London are provided with a neat
little silk POCKET wherein to place the pro.
gramme. Underneath the seat is a convenient
box-llke aperture for hats and coats" The
seats in this part of the house do not turn up
Cfr hal a f1- fr,-r- 4
egreSs between each row. The pit has 60 n
Portable turn-up seats. and to each of them is
affixed loose cord wnereon to hang a coat or
anY other wrap, and an iron ring to hold the
umbrella or cane.
Mrs. ALICE ADAMS and a lady friend were
driving spirited horse in Kansas City. Tho
animal became frightened, and, making quick
jump, ierked the lines from Mrs. Adams HANDS
and started on a dead run down the crowded
/, uleyard. The ladies were frightened for the
moment and screamed for help, but realizing
their perilouS situation Mrs Adams quickly
climbed over the dashboard of the buggy onto
the horses bacl, and actually graSped the
bride relns stopping tae horse.
JOHN WrLKIN LOWRY of st. Paul, was almost
dumfounded some days ago on reading back
number of an English paper to find that John
Nlkln Lowry was heir to a vast estate abroad
and that unless the property was claimed before
May q it would pass into the court of chan
cery.' He instantly flashed a request across
the ocean for stay of proceedings and up to
laSt accounts had spent something like $500 in
cabling, but had re .eive1 n more Information
about his supposed good luck than was con
tanned in the advertisement,
A SPECIAL from Boston says: The first
freight train run over a new branch of the Ca
madam Pacific in Maine to-day was blockaded
for hours by an army of gray caterpillars
which swarmed upon the tracks on a slight
grade The wheels Of the locomotive crushed
the caterpalars, thus greasing tie rails Sand
was used but without success. a hundred rail.
road laborers with alter brushes tried tO sweep
the ca.erpillars from the tracks, but the supply
was ineXhaustible. The train finally made a
run OF fifteen miles in ten hours.
A CURIOUS INSTANCE of barbarism is reported
from Hucknall Torkard, village near Sheffield.
England II is stated that member of the
Salvation Army there sold his wife A friend of
his nal eyince1 an affection for the woman. and
the husband expressed his willingness to part
with her for d slight consideration. The sum of
one shilling was offered and accepted, and the
husband subsequently put a halter round his
wife's neck aud led her to the house of the pu-.
chaser. The affair caused no little excitement
in the district
The improved manufacture OF rustproof
paper, for wrapping metallic articles liable to
become tarnished, consists in incorporating
with the paper or applying to its surface fine |
metallic powder in such manner that II will |
adhere BY this means, when silver, copper |
brass or iron art cles are wrapped in the paper |
they are preserved from rusting or furnishing |
by reason of the greater affinity of the zinc for
hydrogen, chloride or acid gases or |
vapors, and preventing them from injuring ar
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