The morning news., 1889-05-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OF petritled pine stump, weighing about 800
pounds.
THE City of Rome consumes an average of
300 tons Of coal day in crossing the ocean at
top speed.
AT recent meeting Of the curators of the
Kentucky university, it was unanim usly de
cided to admit women into the insti ution.
FIFTYTvo cHIcKs from fifty eggs is a record
that Lenawee county (Ai.c liganl man proudly
presents in b half Of one of his Matching hens
THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY of Bremen has
commissioned DR.. Kuckenthal of Jena to under
take an tner journ to tho Arctlc regions, IN
order to make geological researches.
TEEHE are more pa er mills running more
machines in the United States than in any other
country in the world. Germany has nearly as
many, but no other country has half as many.
THREE TINES as much coal as ever before was
inn o ted into St. Petersburg last year, and
Russian government C mmissicn is investi-
eating the Russian mines, to find out what ails
them
IT is ESTIMATED that &C per cent of the an
thracite coal is wasted before it gets to market.
Fifty-6ve per cent. has to be left in the mines
for pilla S, and II per cent is lost after it gets
ABOVE ground.
WHEN father in Madagascar gets the idea
that his daughter ought marry he puts rope
around heRneck and leads her forth, and the
her or forfeit 100 yams.
ONE VOLUME of liquid benzine will render 49,
900 volumes Of air inhammaole and 5000 vol
umes Of air ig ily explosive, but nothing but
contact with flame a white-hot body will
touch of the most explosive mixture of Pc
troleuu1, vapor and air.
ENGLAND gets most Of its ice now from Nor
way. ScaudInl lvian competition having almost
entirely destroyed ths busin .ss of shipping ice
IN FIN .pbic
prof able Ice is sold in London for from So to
81 cents per hundred weight.
HOSPITAL. in which railway employees are to
receive free treatment, is to be erected in C IL
cago in memory of the la;e Thomas j Potter,
who was so promi lentlf identified with the
management OF the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy and Union Pacific rail ways.
ACCORDING to A. stutzer, in the zeitschrfft
fur GR9eWandte Che ME, the manufacture OF
artificial coffee from bur 1t flour or meal is car
rled o in Cologne. The artificial ANS are
made in specially devised machines ana re5em-
BILE closely IN appearance the natural ones.
ON SECOND STREET. Portland. Ore, is a hitch
ing post with ring at the Top The post is
neatly but not gaudily painted sckly yellow,
ters, Hitch no horses ' Just aJ the post is
| for is conundrum, but probably it is to hitcn
mules 30.
THERE is a desrth of byacinths In Londou
! this year on account of commercial reasons.
| Previous large sales of the flower have reduc d
the price of the root, so that the Dutch growers
will not permit the blooms to be collected.
| Tney are allowed to die upon the ground and
| then are carted off in heaps.
TEAM of four cows appeared in Bellevue,
Idaho not long ago, having been driven from
| Nebraska, a distance of 1000 miles. They mad
| actet as motive power for prairie schooner,
and had also furns led milk and butter t the
| family en- route. They we're in gooI condition,
with the exception of their feet, which needed
| shoes badly.
LEWIS BENTLEY of Maple Rapids, Mich, re-
| ports hen of his that is trying to mother a
litter of pigs The hen began sitting in the pig
| pen, and when the pigs were b jrn they de
| stroyed her nest, aud she then be gan hogeTng
| the pigs and has CONT ued that comicll scene
She will scratch and pick for the pigs as though
| they were chicks. a ID evidently feels proud
| OF them as their mother does.
A WASHINGTON WOMAN, prosecutor in al as
sault and battery case who called the courts
attentio to marks on her face, the result she
said OF the beating she had received, almost
tainted when the Judge ordered an officer to
c.osely examine Ie Injuries. He rubbed
handkerchief over her face, when the MARKS in
| stantly disappeared, having been made with
| paint. The case was then dismissed.
A DRUNKEN TNsMITH at Warssdin, Hungary
| assembled tue lofty steeple of the Franciscan
church there last Sunday by N cans Of the light
ming conductor, AMI st lod upright on the cross
| at the too. He remained in is periiouS posi-
| ton for fully fiflee minutes an Ge vered a
speech TO the crowd that was watching hm
| from blow. Afterwar he ca mly desceneed
| to the ground without being ia aay way hurt
DENMARK has a new aud unil ie society 1t is
called the 'Celibacy Assurance society" its OBJ
| ject bel lg t. prov lie for women who can't or
won't marry. Premiums b gin at the age of
lS and end at 40. Al the laster age an Unmar
ried woman receives an annuity for life. II she
MARI es at any time after king out a.policy she
orfeits ali Claims on e society. The profits
| OF the soc ETY. are expected to be enou b to
provide vel for members wno never marry.
a PovTooN BRIDGE for ordinary traffic has
| been laid across the Missouri river at Nebraska
| City. 1t is l, ,O7l feet long, 24>a feet wide and
consists of flooring iai d on anchored boats Tie
scheme was declared TO be ilpracticable on ac-
count OF the swiftness of the current and tn
amount of driftw bod. bat it is found that the
driftwood passes under the boats without injur
ing them. Tle brid ye il built Y shaped at tie
cham sl and draw allows shipping to pass
through.
SPoRTsMES IN INDIA are attacking a set of
rules lately promulgated by the chief commits
sioner Of the central provinces, the effect Of
which is to put practically prohioitive tax on
big game shooting in that part Of the peninsula
The ce Itral provinces contain many thousand
square miles Of forest land, which have been
the happy hunting ground Of the Anglo-Iudians
luH ltSesib is IudI blRefS. dlInefS anu Ollef
beasts have been getting c. and the local
officials have determined 10 preserve the
game for their own amusement.
IAN amusing story, writes a London cores
pondent of the Leeds (England) Mercury, lis
going about as TO how very young gentleman
received by mistake an invitation 10 a royal
dinner party. He was eStonis d at the com
mand, but did not jump at the conclusion that
IL might have been intended for his mature a d
more SCORING namesake. On re iAg the
house the royal host while not in the lie 81 rec
ognizing his 10 .rdless gust. received MIN on
the strength o. nis name with the utmost ur.
banity, and it only wnen. after waiting
awhile for tla real 81 non pure, that his royal
highneSs esSsd what had ccurred, and tHat
the card of invitation had been lett by his
equerry at the wrong address. He was, consA-
queutly all the more careful not to allow his
young guest to arrive at a similar solution. and
therefore, paid 'tim every attention. aud al
lowed MIN to cave without once limiting al the
mistake which had been made.
A STORY has been told at times during the
past ten years in this city, says the Kingston
IN. " Leader, of resident VIII ,, imagin ing he
was ill., went to bed, and when told oy tne physi-
clan who had been summoned TO atten him
that nothing was the matter with him, replied
that he was sick. he knew he was sick and
would be dead in less than a week. He fulfilled |
his prediction by dying. Another case some |
what similar. was III on Friday. A young man |
residing in the Ninth ward has the measles |
and ''caugh. it by imaginatio l." His home is |
IN the country, where he went a fortnight ago |