The morning news., 1889-03-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! asphalt in pavements IN Berlin, and the result
is said to be good, but expensive.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER will, it is
said lend both Christ Before Pilate' and
Calvary to the Paris Exposition
FEMALE PHYSICIANS are allowed to practice in
Turkestan but there is so little demand for
their services that they pay patients to employ
them
SEVERAL members of the faculty of Dart
mouth college voted against prohibition the
other day while twothirds of the boys voted
| for il.
CALIFoRNIANs are beginning to think the dan
delion nuisance. few years ago it was in
| troduced from the east and now it threatens to
| crowd out everything else.
IT has just been discovered that out of 25OO0
native Kanakas in the Island of Noumea, 1000
are afflicted with leprosy of the worst sort. Eff
forts TO stop the scourge are under way.
ZoLA has obtained permission to ride upon a
locomotive during one of its longest and fastest
| trips, and in his next book will introduce the
| experience, with remarks upon engine men and
| their work.
THERE are marriages still at famous Gretna
Green. One Willie Lang there takes the place
| Of the ancient blacksmith, and in the public
| house spices dozen or so of runaway couples
every year.
THE first metrical work produced in this
country is said to have been a translation by
George Sandys, colonial secretary of Virginia
of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" 1t was prepared
in 1921. and was printed In London in 1926
A 'THEATER OF AcTUALIrY'' is to be estab-
lished in London after the model of the French
Theater Libre. The idea is that authors may
| have the chance to produce their own plays
without the Intervention of the hated manager.
ASH WEDNESDAY no longer interferes with
| theatrical performances in London. Whereas
all the theaters used to close on that day, only
| two this year paid any attention to it, and
| these merely announced that they would keep
| open.
NINE persons were carried distance of 1000
| yards, and four of them killed outright, by an
avalanche near ST. Michel. Savoy, a week ago,
stroyed the village Of Nivolet in the same
i neighborhood.
The UNITED STATES possesses the largest
vault and the largest deposit of money in it of
| any government in the world. 1t can hold
$40, 900 900, but the prospects are favorable for
call for increased storage of silver. There are
| about $20,000000 in half dollars that do not
| bulge.
AN Englishman has produced piece of mech
anism containing 400 figures representing
| horses, cannon, artillery, infantry and a band
| of ffty-two men, each with an instrument A
| tiny windmill turned by the current from burn
| ing candles furnishes the power to move all the
| figures automatically.
Two Congregational churches in Maine have
pastor between them. Both desired his ser
vices at the same hour but as that was impos-
| sibe the matter was compromised by having
| the pastors wife oficiate at one of the churches
And the church at which she officiates thinks it
| has the best of the bargain.
Two POSTAL CARDS sent from a Ge rman town
to the German consulate at Yokohama, one by
| Canada and the other by Brndsi and there re-
| mailed to the SENDER each by the route opposite
| to that in which it had come, have arrived in
| the German town again, having been around
| the globe IN little less than three months.
THE BALDWIN PONY that has been coming
down from the top of London circus tent
| every night, apparently by means of a para
| chute, recently fell suddenly when the descent
| had just begun and was badly injured. The
| wire by which the lowering had really been ac-
| compliShed had broken. Tne act is now omitted
| from the programme.
| THE COMMANDER of the French National Mill
! tary Schoo! at st. Cyr has issued an order for
bidding card PLAYING. He defends the order by
| asserting that playing for money was so com
| mon in the school that young men of no for
tune had frequently mortgaged their pay for
| five, six and even ten years after leaving the
| college to pay gambling debts.
THE LADIES OF TEXAS are making huge map,
drawn on canvas, with all the 264 counties of
| the state laid off. One county, Tom Green, is
/ larger than the entire states of Massachusetts
| and Connecticut combined. The name of each
county will be worked with some beautiful
| product made in the county. The map will be
| exhibited IN the Texas Spring Palace to be built
| at Fort Worth.
ONE SMALL BOY, who ran away from his home
| in Camden, Me-, and was captured in Boston,
| explained to the police that he wanted to have
| some fun, and the manner in which he intended
| to get it can be imagined from the list of
| articles he had with him: Two travelling
bags, five revolvers, lot of comfortable cloth
ing, novels of the blood and-tnunder sort, some
cigarettes, five large rusty knives several boxes
| of CAPS and bag of powder
OWING so the limited opportunities for sol
emnizing marriages in Blaine county. Nebraska,
! the story goes, there is a great competition
| among the ministers and justices of the peace
| there when there is a prospect of a wedding
IL became known the other day that one of the
best citizen farmers living near Brewster was
daily expecting the arrival of his bride to be
from the Empire state. and the whole judicial
and clerical force in the county has camped on
his farm awaiting her arrival.
Two TEXAN WOMEN are the largest individual
sheep and stock owners in the world. One of
these, the Widow Callahan, owns $4,000 sheep.
and when a long train of wagons starts out
each spring and fall for market, loaded down
with the wool of her sheep, it is a sight worth
seeing. The other is Mrs Rogers the great
herd owner of Southwestern Texas who is
worth about 81 100000. Mrs Rogers owns no
carriage preferring to ride on horseback In the
Tree anu easy SIyle OF the COWBOY.
"IT is not generally known, says the London
Life, that New York has now a larger Jewish
population than London, or Paris or Berlin or
Rome or Constantinople. or Jerusalem Yet
such has become the case during the recent
years of persecution to the Hebrews in Russia
aud Germany-for most of them are Poles and
Germans-wnich happily has been lately dis
countenanced by the heads Of both these em-
pres. About the same time that the Kaiser of
Germany made known his opposition to anti
Jewish agitation in Germany, persecution Of
the children of the Israelites was also forbidden
in the cars Yminons."
AN OLD LADY who lives in Whitechapel Lon
don, spends weekly shilling as follows Her
rental is paid for her, and her weekly allowance
consists of relief tickets for IS cwt of coal one
4-b loaf o. OF tea, 16 n. sugar, and Is which
is spent as 70 lows: Clothing card, "a; oil and
wood id; meat, 3D.; soap Id, butter, 2I6d; vege-
tables, 119d; apples for dumpling), 11d flour,
ed. Total. Is. The meat means either bones
or the trimmings of fish and meat from an eat
ing house. She and another old WON n put by
one lump of coal each week and this lasts them
through the summer months, when the coal
tickets are not given out
EVERY American newspaper man will he glad
to learn that Edward King, for twelve or fifteen
years prominent member of the American
colony, has succeeded in settling all his obliga-
tlons and has been honorably discharged by the
courts before which ne was brought on charges
growing out OF the financial troubles in a cor
poration with which he was connected Mr.
King had incurred obligations with friends,