The morning news., 1889-04-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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THE EPISCOPAL BISHOP OF GLASGOW is alleged
to have inhibited Canon Wiloerforce from talk
ing temperance in the churches of that diocese
because he co-operates with the ministers Of
the Church of Scotland in his work
HARTFORD ELECTRIC LIGHT MEN complain that
birds attempt to build nests in the lamps and on
the frames of the lamps, and so cause much an
noyance. One or two unused lamps are Occu-
pied by nests on which sparrows are setting
CEYLoS PEOPLE are interested in rivalry as
to who shall find the highest palm tree. An
English railroad builder named Cantrell made
the first record at 110 feet, but Mr. Patton Cray
has just shown palm III feet high and takes
the medal.
A CINCINNATI FATHER bought his boy a drum.
The boy paraded and drummed on his drum.
Five of the neighbors went to law about it. and
the drum was hung up and the boy sent to
the country. Th- court held that it was pub
lie nuisance.
Ross WINANs, the American who scandalized
Great Britain by leasing the deer park of an
old Scotch family and then getting into law
suit over the payment of the rent, has just
hired the Kilmorack shootings in the same
country for 81 so a year.
A PROMINENT CLUB MAN of Philadelphia fire.
quently imbibes too freely, and on such occa-
sions his friends tie handkerchief to his St
Bernards collar, and by the man holding on the
dog leads him safely home, and actually sue
cessfully resists his owners efforts to stop in
saloons on the way.
Col. Copy, Buffalo Bill ~ has made the final
arrangements for the transportation of the
"Wild West" to Paris He has chartered the
PersiaR Monarch, of the Monarch line, to take
it as far as Havre. The show will leave New
York on April 10, and open in Paris May l.
1t will remain in Paris till the exhibition closes,
and then pay brief visits to Vienna and Berlin.
THE sophomores of Columbia college have
been greatly excited over the question of ''beer
or no beer at their Triumph next June. At
the class meeting Wednesday the question was
brought up. A great hubbub was raised, but
postponement WAS secured, the president of the
class casting the deciding vote on the tie If
the advocates OF beer win the college authori-
ties. it is said, will not allow the use Of the
campus for the celebration.
BOSTON DRUMMER says: ''One of the mean
est menit was ever my misfortune to have any
dealings with was a retail grocer, who at the
time was selling poor woman three pounds of
common crackers for 25 cents, for which he
paid at the rate of cents per pound, but to
make, his scales exactly balance he found it
necessary to break a cracker in two As this
man finally met death by falling down stairs
and breaking his neck, l thought he received
only his just dues"
DEAN STANLEY used to tell this story with
relish: He sent a note to shoemaker about a
pair of shoes that were making for him and
the writing was so bad that the shoemaker
could not maze it out. SO he returned the note
to the dean with a note of his own saying that
he was ''unaccustomed to the chirography of
the higher ella ,SeS' and asked for a translation.
In telling the story the dean said that he didn't
propose to be he'd responsible for the hand
writing of the entire British aristocracy.
The NEW STATUE of the Virgin in the chapel of
the Convent OF the Sacred Heart at st. Louis
has provoked considerable criticism, even from
nai irr,,d Of Tt ;e
being the figure of young girl in the bloom of
youth, and when it arrived the nuns were more
than astonished; but they were assured that it
done in Rome under the supervision of one
of the highest authorities of the church, the
desire being to have the Virgin considered in
her youth well as in her maturity. The
statue stands seven feet eight inches high and
was carved from single block of Carrara
marble.
ONE of the most wonderful things that have
been discovered of late is the new glass which
has just been made in Sweden. Common glass
contains only six substances, while the Swedish
glass consists of fourteen, the most important
elements being phCsphorous and boron, which
are not found in any other glass. The revolu-
tion which this new refractor is destined to
make is almost inconceivable, il it is true as
positively allegel, that. whe the highest power
of an oldfashioned micro pic lens reveals
only the one four hundred -thousandth part Of
an inch, this new glass will enable us to distin-
guish one two hr0oised- Observation-Disclosures
hundred-thousandth part of an inch.
A PECULIAR PHENOMENON occurred at Aitken
Mimi. Tuesday, and is told Of in a dispatch
from there: AT 4;45 o'clock it became so dark
that lights were necessary in business houses
and the air was filed with snow that was as
black and dirty as though it had been trampled
into the earth. Six ounces Of snow and one
fourth ounce of dirt and sand were found in the
bottom Of dish. The dirt is very fine some
thing like emery, and contains particles that
& mPfallIN luSfRr Irfy falIf
the depth of halt an inch. The atmosphere at
the time presented a peculiar greenish tinge
T. o c was little wind blowing at the time
from the northwest, though there seemed to BIZ
considerable wind higher in the air Solid
chunks of ice and sand are reported to have
been picked up in various places"
MARTIN RuBENIs and Joseph Drudel of San
Francisco were great friends Joseph, who
came from Austria, had corresponded with a
young woman there. Annie Swabeck by name
and was loud in her praises to Martin. Martin
fell in love with the picture drawn by Joseph
and asked him why he didn't send for Annie
Joseph said he hadn't the needful $13O III
let you have the money" said Martin, land il
she'll marry me III call the debt square, So
Annie was sent for and came and Martin was
introduced to her as her future husband
Give me time to think said Annie. She
thought for six months, and then rejected Mar
tins suit He asked Joseph for his money
Joseph refused saying that he DIDN'T control
Annie's affections. All this came to the public
the other day when Martin sued Joseph for the
S130.
A NEW SYSTEM Of canal construction has been
designed and recently patented by an English
man. TGe object is to do away entirely with
the necessity for steam or horse power in canal
traffic, and this end is sought to be attained by
the creation of a current of water strong
enough to carry the boats along from point 70
point. Mr.. P ckard has designed double canal
at one end OF which is a screw. resembling the
propeller of steamship. This screw, which is
worked by team-power. forces the current in
one direction and causes it to return in the par-
allel division of the canal, the direction of the
current being reversible at will. BY this ar
rangement all loss of water is obviated and the
bed Of the anal is kept clean This current is.
of course, confined to each separate level of
canal, and when locks intervene another cur
rent has to be created.
JOHN LEWIS, one of the pioneers Of Calaveras
county, California, tells of a remarkable shot
that he once made. It's true story, too. For
many months fox had been playing havoc
with Mr.. Lewis hens and, do what he would,
he could not catch or shoot the fellow. There
was big tree about 500 feet long that had
fallen just above bis cab n and when he tried
To shoot the fox the sly beast would dodge
around the upturned roots, sneak along the
farther side of the tree until IL reacned the ton
and then make a bolt and escape. One moon.
light night Lewis heard commotion among
the hens, and, running out with his gun, saw
the fox, as usual, slip around the root end of
the tree. He raised his gun, and with the
muzzle followed along the tree at about the rate
he thought the fox would travel. and when the
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