The morning news., 1889-02-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

wrote.
SEVERAL CASES of blindness are reported
| amcng observers of the sun during the eclipse
il California.
A BEARD over ~ feet long is worn by Louis
Couon. & mechanic 63 years old, living in Mont
lucon, France.
TIE law library of congress contains over
5000 carefully selected Volumes exclusively
legal in character.
TIRE biggest steam derrick in the world is at
| the Hamburg docks. 1t can pick up ten-wheeed
locomotive ana place it on Z steamship.
Forty TONS Of stone have been left on scat
! fold 30 feet high in Mark Lane, London, for
two years past, and the peop.e have Just woke
up to the fact that they may feel something
drop.
YIsCOUNT FISToN still perambulstes London
with his barreiorgan and a placard attached,
setting forth that he is the stonebroke son of
Earl Poulett and he is said TO be doing roaring
business.
ALI the slow-going British gunboats on for
eign service are to be brought home and de
voted to coast defenseS and their former duties
assigned 20 new vessels of greater speed and
armaments.
A LAZY GENIUS in Maryland has invented an
! automatic fishing pole, which, by the aid of
stout spiral springs yanks out the unwary deni-
Zens of the streams while tue fisherman smokes
and reads in peace.
QUARTTcH, the London bibliopole. wants
96, go for a psalter of the fifteenth century he
has in stock, and which he calls the ''grandest
work ever produced by Typography. and one of
the rarest of the early monuments Of printing"
TIE new pencils introduced by Faber for
writing upon glass, porcelain and metals in red
white and blue, are made by ms ltng together
| four parts of spermaceti, three parts of tallow
and two parts of wax. this mixture being col
ored with white lead, red lead, or Prussian blue,
as desired.
The total immigration from Hungary and
Bohema, last year amounted to 1855, most Of
which found its way to the coal fields, coke
ovens and iron mills of Pennsylvania. Those
now in the coke region are getting ready to
strike, and possibly make places for some of
the new comerS
TEE strike of the New York street car men
has had a disastrous effect upon the theaters.
For several evenings the audiences have been so
small as to suggest the advisability of closing
up the more remote houses. Only those IN the
more central localities have earned enough to
cover their expenses.
A PLAcARD placed on the window of a shoe
makers shop near Cripplegats, London, many
years ago. is said to have read as follows:
Surgery performed on aged Boots and Shoes
broken Legs sett and bound upright dSordered
feet repaired the wounded heeled. The whole
Constitution mended and the body supported by
new sole. By T. T."
WALKING STICKS are now being made that are
useful as well as ornamental. From one silk
umbrella can be drawn and screwel to the cane;
another has a receptacle for nickes and cents,
| and IS convenient for those who ride on street
| and other city cars and cross ferries; another
| contains measure for the hight of horses aud
| has spirit level at achment: and still another
has good little watch set in the crystal handle.
| An AMERIcAN-BoRN MEMBER of the British
! House of Commons, Mr.. Claiming, a grand
nephew of the great Unitarian divine and anti
| slavery advocate, has placed himself on the
| radical side Of the British land taxation Quas-
! tiOn. In committee on the local government
| bill and on the huStIueS he has advocated the
| division Of all municipal and county rates be
/ tween the land owner and occupier. At present
| The occupier pays all.
! TIE IMITATION of western civilization by the
| Japanese has led them to regard Sunday, which
| in Japan has hitherto been decidedly cOntinen-
| tai in its character, as day of rest This be-
! gan with the closing of the government estab.
! lishmentS on Sunday. The Toxic citizens fol-
| lowed this example, and the closing spread
| from city to village, and now on a fine Sunday
| business is nearly suspended and the places Of
| popular resort aro crowded.
| For rapid government transit the territory of
Arizona stands almost pre-eminent. A bill to
remove the territorial capital of Arizona from
! Presc TT to Phenix passzd both houses dav or
| two ago, and has been signed by TIE e verno~
| AMI reported to the legislature Btu houses
! pas a resolution to aojoura az noon Monday
Jan. % ana meet in Phenix Thursday Feb. T.
| thus allowing week and a half for he latter
town 10 prepare for the duties Of capitalhood.
A BEST MAN asked at the conclusion of a mar
riage service in South Kensngton what fees
were due, aud received this statement Vicar
! 81 4s; chancel fee, &1 Is; clerk and slcristan.
81 Is; Orga iSt. 81 .; blower. 5s: red cloth 81
i lis total, e1O Is. And the vicar was not pres
| ent at that. The best maa refused to pay it,
| and inquiry revealed the decision of case in
! 1853 which held that a Zee of 10 shilings to the
| rector and shillinSs to the clerk was unreaSon-
| ably high
| IF the Missionary Reuie1c is correct, the
| 100000 converts in the foreign mi sson fields
are setting a good example to the many mill
| ions of christ ans at home, for these converts
| have sent out 3 eco missionaries. or one OF
| every hundred, while their more fortunately
| born brethren send but one in 5000. The con
| vertS serve as native preachers, teachers cate
| chsts ana lay helpers, and prove helpful to the
| regular miSSionaIy,force sent from England and
| this country.
| Mrs STANFORD wife of the California senator.
has Chinese cook in her employ who is becom-
! ing a nuisance. owing to his overweening au1bi-
| tion. Mrs. stanford sent MIN to a cooking
| school in New York in which he learned all the
| scientific features of the gastronomic art. The
! result was that on his return t. Washington l 6
dlSplaVed desire to serve a banquet every day.
| He IS not happy unless the Stanford's are Civ
| i7g dinner party eve"y twentv-four hours
| There is growing conviction in Mrs Stanford s
/ mind tEat the Chinese must go.
TIE most serious bow ever struck at fox
| hunting has been attempted by twenty-six
| farmers in Essex and Hcrtfordshire Mr Cos
/ lnZ as master Ot ioln "a and tn e TWENTY
SIX + 2rm1rS tod him nov 10 hunt or their land
and becau one o his do - ran ever lot tl.y
! brought him to court The Judge decided that
there Was no trcspass. there being no DANA ce
and NJ intention of treSpass; but the ca u W Ii
be brought up IN another way, a ii shows
cHrta MY a surprs ng Change in the attitude of
th- English farmers toward one of England's
greatest institutions
THE Legislature Of Maine is deluged with peti-
tions in favor of granting the municipal vote to
the women of tae state. They are signed by
people of both sex S, many OF the n prominent
CITIZENS. and tie agitation on the subject is
vigorously prosecuted. The advo ats OF { @
ne" system point proudly 10 the facts that
women can now vote at municipal elect tiJns in
Kansas; that they have the full right OF suf-
irage in Wyoming. and that they are eAtitled to
ateSt reports rom Maine lead to the opjnion
that the petitioners for mum cipal suffrage for
the women Of the state have good chance of
success in the gislature
The London Node Of Fashion says that the
Empress Of Japan is at the head of a powerful
movement for bettering the condition Of the
women OF that country. She has establis ed
college for women a. Toxic, under the manage
ment Of a committee Of European and American
women. Ipp STANDARD Of adupatiov, 10 ,,ar,r "a.