The morning news., 1889-03-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| AN INVENTOR named DaForca, of Sioux City,
has perfected an apparatus which he claims has
| solved the problem Of perpetual motion. The
| plan OF the machine is at present kept secret.
| 1t has already turned a heavy grindstone six
| teen days without letting 60 its grip. A patent
! has been applied for.
AN ENGLIsHNAN named st. John has been
travelling in the vest. He got so tired explain
| ing to everyone that his name was pronounced
Siujun' that he finally hired a man TO do il for
| MIN, and at last accounts the man had got into
SIX nights with grOveling hotel clerks, who tried
| TO persuade him that he didn't know how to
| pronounce his employers name.
MEEK LITTLE CINGALEsE fully logged"
| arrived in New York Saturday, consigned to
| Walter Spaldng. He was picked UP at Ceylon
when the Chicago and All. America clubs played
there some time ago, and is 70 act as A. G.
| Spalding body servant and general mascot to
the Chicago club. He is a bright little fellow,
and speaks four languages duently, but En-
ghsh rather indifferently. His features are
| dark, but of the Caucasian type.
To the curiosities OF Paris belongs a placard
on the wooden shutter of a bakers shop in the
Rue de Rennes. 1t was posted in 1871 at the
| time of the commune, and exhorts the soldiers
| OF the Versailles army on their return to Paris
| to throw their guns away and to come and sit
| down at the hospitable hearth of the commun-
| lists. The shutter being only put up for a few
| hours during the night it has never been taken
| down, and the rain has only effaced few words
| OF uhe interesting document
In Justices court, at Bristol the other day,
| a dwarf, feet in hight, was tried for an assault
on a 6-footer, weighing 200 pounds 1t ap-
| peared in evidence that the little fellow loaned
| the big fellow some fish lines which were kept
year, and then, in response to a suggestion
Tor their return cotton twine. with bent pin
hooks. was sent in their place. The next time
| they met the little fellow gave the big fellow
| what the neighbors called ''lickn and the
| fish lines came back. The defense was provo
cation and the justice dismissed the case.
The admiring crowd promptly paid the little
fellows expenses
THE Duke Of Dureal, whose sold masters"
| are to be offered for sale next month, has been
making new acquaintance in Chicago, and an
interesting interview is published in that city.
| He describes his collection as lone of the two
or three most famous private collections in the
| world" which is certainly an impressive an
nouncement He states tDat the pictures are
price is from $500 900 to $1,000 00o.' There
| upon the reporter asked: You will make no
abatement in price2' None whatever" re-
| piled the duke Il estimate the collection at
| something like 81, 100000. If it will not bring
| that sum, shall take it back to Madrid
THE Eta ALBRo WILL CASE at Newport, R. l.,
which awakened great public interest little
| more than year ago, has had another curious
development. Eta Albro at her death be-
| queathed property, inherited from her father,
| to her stepmother. David Albro her uncle
contested the will on the ground of mental
weakness and undue influence. When the trial
| of the case was half over the court found the
| girl grandfather living. Being the nearest OF
KIN to the girls father, he was the only legal
suitor. The suit of the uncle was consequently
quashed. Later a petition for a new trial was
entered by the grandfather Peter Albro which
is still on the docket. Last week the petitioner
dled, rendering the petition null and a new suit
by the uncle necessary.
THE fashionable world, says the New York
Tribune is gossiping over remarkable sur
gical operation which has changed the decidedly
tip-tilted nose of an aristocratc young woman
into an organ of pure Grecian design. The sur
geons bill amounted to S1300. The operation
was long and tedious. involving much suffering.
But the patient is satisfied and happy-for the
present. Those who knew her before the
change maintain that the new nose does not
sult the general conformation Of her face
others meeting her now for the first time notice
a lack of harmony somewhere, but cannot til
what causes it, Another sensitive creature
who had her teeth Strengthened at great ex-
pense, is tortured by the horrible fear that
people will Say they are false.
AT recent meeting of the French Agricult-
| ural Society, NJ. Guerin of Grandvilles CVosges)
read paper on the new method of preserving
| milk. He showed. that when frozen milk
could be transported with the greatest ease
and that after being kept for days and weeks
and then simply thawed out, it retained all the
first with the method Of freezing, which could
be carried out in the ordinary ice machinery if
done a sufficiently large scale, and then de-
scribed the experiments made to ascertain the
precise temperature at which the best results
might be expected. In cooking. Weld of
c cam, and every other respect the frozen cor
responls with quite new milk, and on the
fourth day the cream is still excellent. Butter
and cheese can be prepared from it quite as
well as from new milk.
GEORGE HAMERsLEY of Franklin N. j. does
| not take much stock in secret societies. Some
time ago a number of Georges friends formed
| an organization of rather mysterious charac-
ter, known as the Friendly Brothers. They in
vited him to be one of them and he concluded
to accept the honor. a little initiation cere-
mOny was provided for the entertainment of
the new brother. He was blindfolded and con-
duc0ed to strange house, then gagged and
stripped of his clothing, after which he was
plunged in a bath of ice water, raised to the
ceiling by rope tied to his feet. lowered into
barrel, head first, rolled about the floor. and
finally told to sing and dance a Jig. This latter
request proved too much for Hamersley and
general fight ensued among the Friendly
Brothers Hamersley got home more dead
than alive. and is now looking for his former
associates with gun.
WHAT is the strictly tony breed of dog con-
tinues an interesting topic of discussion in fash
ionable circles. Girls express their partiality
for the terrier families, while the men bestow
their favors upon the huge settlers and mastiffs
The French poodle is a leading favorite with
both sexes, and is dog gifted with remarkable
intelligence. When the poodle has an ultra
fashionable master or mistress, that fact is tes-
titled by the solid silver bracelet which he wears
on his left fOrepaw He is a dainty little crea-
ture, and lifts each paw as he trots along with
amusing precision and delicacy. Very swell"
though they don't look it, are the bull
and much the same can be said of the clear
white brindle dog. To be quite zen regle," the
latter should have patch of darker colored
hair directly over one eve, which gives a pecu-
liarly ''raksh" appearance Flemish terriers
area recent English importation. They have coal
black bodies, legs like back-and-tan terriers
foxy-lookng heads, with sharp-pointed noses
and small, erect ears and they have no tails.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Pal Mall Gazette
has made the following interesting observations
with regard to the many Irish names borne by
continental families In Spain minister Of
war was called Organ, and Marshal O'Don-
nell; Gov ODonoghue was sent to Mexico
and Gov. O'Reilly to Cuba; the vice president
of the Spanish senate is called o ODonnel and
the private secretary of the king, Count
Morphy. An admiral is named MacM ahon. and
another distinguished official PrendeFgast.
France has countless MacMahons, ONeills
O'Connors and Nugents; Count Dillon has be-
come known through Gen. Boulanger. Austria's
Count Taaffe is still Irish peer; the cele-
brated Viennese actress, Wolter, il the Countess
OSullivan; the names Of O'Donnell and NuRent
are famous throughout Austria and the