The morning news., 1889-05-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An old English dipomatist once said: "A
dinner lubricates negotiations" 1t has been
evident since the opening Of the Samoan nego-
| tiations in Berlin that Bismarck has not lost
sight Of this great idea of Lord SCowel.
PETER STEIN of St. Paul. walking along
bluff near Vermilior Falls, Mimi, with two
! young ladies' vas asked by one of them to pick
for her a sprlg of honeys4c5le blossoms that
| hung over the prscipice, He held to the limb Of
a tree as ne reached over for the flower, the
limb broke, ami he fell 90 feet 10 the rocks and
| was killed
THE French poodle belonging TO ex-Mayor
Irwin of Steubenville, o., committed suicide a
| few days ago He ran on the track in front of
| the approaching electric car several times, but
| was driven off. Finally he made dash and
was caught by the wheel, charged with enough
| electricity to kill an elephant He gave one
| yelp and died.
WHILE q couple of Easton Ga.) sisters were
eating breakfast alone a few mornings ago, their
mother being absent in New York, they were
startled at heavy footballs on the stairs Next
| instant a tramp who had got in unobseTved
and slept ell night in the attic, stalked into the
room, gave them glance and then passed out
without q word.
A DEAR hard pressed by pursuers ran into
Monns saw mill at Quincy, Franklin county,
Pennsylvania, last Sunday Mr.. Nom, who is a
| Seventhday Baptist. was at work, and thinking
| 1t was q boy that had come busthng IN, warned
him to look out for the saw His panic on dis
| covering his visitor was bear was promptly
allayed by a horse pistol shot from the pursuing
| party which killed the animal
MISS CLARA DAVIS. boarding with Prof W.
| Parnham, while in attendance upon the female
college at Millersbury, Ky, placed pet CUR
| rel in her trunk, where there was q box OF par
| lor matches The squirrel ignited the matches
| causing a combustion. which destroyed the
| tTunk and several huudred liars worth OF
/ fine clothing aud jeBely. The carpet was
| burned of the floor, but the building was saved
with great difficulty
| THE newest personal adornment takes the
| form of hairs from the tail Of the African ele-
phant. These hirsute apuecdages, with gold
| embellishments are strictly the fashion. The
| elephant Is just now the most valuable animal
under the face Of the sun. Not only are his
| caudal hairs worth more than their wei hit IN
| gold but his tusas cost $3.50 ton, and as re
| suit the great ''earth-Shaking' beast IS being
hunted down IN the most merclIeSs way.
GENERAL MANAGER COLEMAN of the North
Pacific Coast railroad has been asked by a num-
Der Of D ecple living along the line OF that road
| to change the roadbe1 above Duncau's Mills
for distance of some 100 yards so as to run he
| track through the trunk Of one OF the large red
woods in tlat n-ighborhood The ida is TO have
| the road tunnel, as It were the high stump OF
| one of the giants Of the forest recently CUT
| down, The tree trunk is sixteen feet il di
| ameter.
UNIQUE Fourth Of July illumination viii
take place in Washington territory A. c. War
ner, D. W. Bass, II. F. Mcclure and H. Shredder
| of Seattle, and W. G. Steele OF Portland viii
| ascend and illuminate Mount Rainier ON the
| night of July 4. The party will take along
| seventy-five pounds Of red fire and burn it at II
O'Clock at night. 1t is proposed to spend all
| night on the summit of tie mountain. Ine
| night before viii have been passed at an alti-
tude OF 10000 feet
| THE court Of errors and appeals of New Jer-
| sey decided q novel case. II was the suit of
| John Burns against the Erie railroad The
| question was whether Burns, as al cmploye of
/ the road, who was by contract paid a salary
and passage to and from work, could be elected
| from train by conductor when he refused to
| give up his seat in smoking car to a passenger
| who paid his fare. 1t was held that Burns could
| not be compelled to give up his seat, and had
| perfect right in the car
For some time past a new gunpowder has
| been made at the government powder factory
at Wetteren in Belgium. It is known as poudre-
| PAPER or paper powder, and il is stated that @
| charge of 2l5 grams. or 30 Grains. gives, in
rife Of small caliber, an initial velocity OF some
| G6O yards to the ball-ths being equal to, If it
| do not exceed. the celebrated Lebel powder
| The additional advantages attributed to this
| new powder are those Of not smearing the bar
! rel, OF producing no smoke, and Of causing but
| little reCoI,
| GEORGE GooDERL, the proprietor of meat
market at Barnesville, O., tells this story of
thin le and clic6en: Some time since his wife
| was engaged in feeding the chickens, when
| thimbIe She wore on her 1ng T at the time nys-
| terlouSy disappeared. Quite time -iapSed,
when the other day Mrs q. requested d r nus
| uand to oehead "A chicken, Win N was done, In
| di,sectiug he fowl the mi sing thim0le was
| found firmly lmbedded in the chicken 3 gizZard,
| The pr cess Of digestion having aimo-t worn
| the thimbla smooth. The hole f the thimhls
was found to b. completely plugged with ind,-
| gested rain which the hen with ostrich pro
| ChvitleS had swallowed
THERE was much speculation among the mem
bers Of the fire department for while as to
| what caused the alarm of fire which was runr
| Wednesday evening at Augusta, Me. Since the
| truth has been ascertained. Alec McClus.and,
| the city driver, resides in the engine house and
| While tue alarm bell on the building sounded he
| sprang out of bed only to find his little 3-year-
| Old son clad in nothing but his night shirt tug
| ging away at the bell rope. Mr.. McCauslsnd
| spoke to him, but he made no reply, ami the
| father was obliged to shake the yOuugster be
| fore he could be awakened. The little fellow
| in a somnolent state, had arisen and given the
| false alarm. and, singular to relate, it was al
| most exactly the time that an alarm Of fire had
| been given the evening previously.
| WIRE is now being manufactured-whether
iron, copper or brass-by a new and greatly i'm
| proved process, aud at a considerably reduced
| cost. The machine devised for this purpose
consists of series of rolls in q continuous train
geared with common driver, each pair of rolls
Il
| il, with an intervening friction clutch adapted
| to graduate the speed of tn rolls to the speed
Of the wire IN process of rolling. The entire op-
Grafton OF producing tle smallest sized wires
from rods Of one-half inch is done cold IL is al
| legged that this method obyistes the danger of
| unequal annealing and Of burning in the fur
| naces-in addition to this the wire being more
| flexible aud homogeneous than that maize by
| any ordinary method and capable OF sustaining
| greater longitudinal strain; in the case Of cop
! per wire there Is said 70 bs a greatly increased
| electrical conductvity,
IT appears that wood pavements have met
with greater success in some OF the countries
Of Europe than in our own, the reason assigned
for this being the fact of their having fOunda-
tion Of concT etc TO rest upon in the former, at
| the same time receiving more attention there
| in the way OF maintenance, than here. Owing
| to its hardness anu reSlnous quality. American
| yellow pine it is stated, has become the favorte
| wood for this purpose in Berlin and Hamburg.
| and an official report says that Fred rick )
| bridge, Berlin, which was paved in the spring
| of 1879 with the wood in question, Is still in
| good condition, while the approaches, paved
| with granite blocks, have twice since required
| repaving The Opera platz, also, in front oi tho
| EmperOr's palace was paved seven years ago
! partly with yellow pine and cypress, at a point
| where the traffic is greatest, while al other
points stone blocks were used, the laying Of tho
| different surfaces with these several materials
| being at the same time. According TO the re-
| port, the area covered with the wood pavement
is at present the one which is best preserved.
| ANOTHER device or method has been added to