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

| killed by a bullet aimed at a target by a prac-
| ticing marksman.
A cAPITULATIoN of considerable moment has
bee1 that OF London to France landscape art.
The new rage is described as fast and furious
The e has never vet been modern French land
scape in the national gallery.
A HOSPITAL in which railway emplo es are to
receive free treatment, is to be erected in Chi
ca o in memory of the late Thomas J. Potter.
who was so promin eutly identified with tbs
management of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy aud Union Pacific railways
THE little town of Newark, in California, has
some good young men. They rode drunken
and abusive husband and father, named Chase
out OF town on rail, and then quartered the
wife an children in the principal ho el until
they had raised money enough to send them to
Louisville, KY, wuete the wIfe's parents reside
1T is not often tina such little matter as
three minutes stand between a man and the
penitentiary. Yet that was the case in Toledo
the other dav, when il was shown t1at a theft
was committed just that prrio before surset.
and hence was petty larceny and not a burg
larry. Great is the ingenuity CT the Toledo
lawyer.
A BROOKLYN MAN, in a ft of delirium, wan
dered about the country for two days with his
infant daughter, whom he ad originally taken
out for walk, He dually reached a farm
house, where he and the baby were cared for
until they could go home. The delirium is de-
scrbed as an old brain trouble that gives the
victim no warning of its coming.
Two wHEELNEN Messrs, Bourston and Stokes,
have reached Constantinoole from Egypt, after
travelling 1000 miles on bicycles, on their way
To England They will proceed to Italy, and
thence continue their wheelihg tour to the
channel After visiting Engl nd they will re-
turn horneward overland by new route. Tney
hope 10 complete tho trip by the autumn Of
next year.
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sion an original prica list Of slaves the property
OF JET Davis brother before the war. The list
emora cs 106 NEE Of both sexes. ranging
from infants TO tha aged patriarch. Babies are
quoted at 500, cp ldren Of - yelrs 5000, able
b died women $500 and thrifty rm b mis- at
Sl.l00. A man so years of age was wo tn but
500, while au lind woman was set down at
zero. Husband and wife are quoted separately.
Inc document is queer re aiding to the present
generation.
PROF ARNESTUs vAMBERy, during his last visit
to Constantinople, obtained the sultans perms-
sion or commission of five Hunga'ia ian sa ran IS
to explore the secret arc ives of the imperial
library at Sc smboul. in which there are many
historically i'm! ortant documents, carried away
from Hungary by the Turks during their wars
with that Kingdom. The Hungarian academy
OF sciences sent his ma iesty letter of thanks
for his graciousness. and has received an an
swer. promising that the delegates shall have
full liberty in their res aarches, The commits
sion will start toward the end of June.
AN eldrrly unmarried woman in Clifford
village near Scranton, has seventeen full
grown pet cats on her premises She has owned
more than that number at times and occasion
ally less Last fail she had twenty three but
dogs and cruel nei hbors have slaughtered half
a dozen of them since then. Her horde of cats
are welf and fat, and they have tie freedom
OF every room in the house but one Tha. one
room is the parlor into which the sunliyb
never enters, because the curtains ara always
nf fha ffrr11r
and very handsome.
APHAsIA in a most extraordinary form ia Mt
present under treatment by Dr. Oh arcot
Frenchman, aged 80, learned English through
living seventeen years in North America. and
then Spanish after his marriage with a Spanish
woman. He lost his command of these Ian
guages in the inverse order. First he was nm
able to speak Spanish, then English went from
MN, and LASTLY his -Iative tongue, French Tde
affctio was ascribe1 to the sOftening of the
third left lobe OF the brain, aad b. methodical
practice In conversation be eg4iued his normal
ability. recovering the languages in the order of
French, Enghs and Spanish.
An oLD-FAsH1oNEp HOUSEWIVES in a Clifton
Pa.) farm house will never permit her husband
10 be without at least one black sheep in mis-
flock She has got a notion that it is not
healthy to wear stoc ,inZs with auy, kind of dive
IN the wool, and as di likes to wear white
hosiery, her stockings are made out of
natural bl lck wool. She cards the wool into
rolls by hand. just as people did three or four
generations ago, spi the rolls he self. and
knits er own stockings. O ice a tree fell on
her OILY black sheep and killed it, ana her
husband had TO hustle around and find another
1t took him three days and miles of trave', but
he finally came across a black eve lamb fifteen
miles away and bought il.
THE Nevada Transcript says that the stage
men on the Graniteville road, aud also on the
Mountain House section of the Downevllle aud
Nevada g.
no SeS every winter II would be impOSSil q
for the horses to trlvel over the deep shows
without their aid One that is accustomed to
wearing item will travel our or five miles an
hour, where it uld b. imp1Ssib to 20 that
distance in a week without them The shoes
are made of thin Ste Vlale. about 9 by II
inales, fastened on the hoofs with clamps The
horSes are shod vita 10 y heal calk which go
through the snowshoes and prevent their slip
ping going up and down i'll.
SOME MAINE CAPITALISTS have a bill b9fore
the legislature providing for the Incorporate
of a construction company to be known as th
Persian Railway pany'' Its purpose will
be to construct railways in Persia, on the con.
tlnent OF Asia. and also to build steamships and
operate steau boat lines between ) Oiuts # any
C untry; ais to build ard maint ain Telegraph
aud telephone lines and electric lighting plants
in Persia. Power IS granted, besides TO operate
wires in rsia. The capital stock of the c m |
pany IS hxtd at sue sum as may be per
mitted by the government of Persia and viii be |
divided into shares of 500 each The in |
c operators already have q contract to build |
$50 miles of railroad direct through the west of
Persia.
a GERMAN PAPER ca Is attention to the guam |
tity o. inferior bempen rores nov MAUI |
factured. In some cases the rope is made with |
inferior kinds Of hemp inside, but well covered |
with yarns of good material, this deception |
however, being easily brought to Ii mt by dis |
5 citing p rtion of the rope or. in practical /
hands, by its behavior in use; dark or blac tish
color indicates that the nemp has suffered from |
fermentation in the process of curing ami |
brown spots show that the rope was spun wh le /
the hoers were damp, aud must co lsequentIy /
be weak and soft IN those la es; again. inferior !
r pes are made with short fbers, or with strands |
OF unequai strength or uuevenly spun, the rope |
IN the nrst case appearing woOily, on account |
of the nuube Of prof citing ends Of hbers and |
in the latter case the irreEuarity OF manu- |
facture is evident on inspection BY any GOOD |
Juogc. FREELY. a good hemp rope is I'd but |
plant. yellowish or greenish gray in color with |
a certain silvery or pearly luster.
SOME TINE AGO, says Chic lgo newspapers |
in a cnmraly of congenia' spirits, the conver. |
sation turned on sharks those scavenzers Of
the sea. Their vorac,ty. staying qualities, and
ability TO swallow anything aud everythln, that
came tneir way was discussed at some length /
young man, who had never be N to sea, said /
he had read stories Of monster man-.ating
sharks following ships for wee IS, accompaniel /
bv an aching void which able searnen alone /
could till with any degree OF satlsfaction-to |
the shark. He had also read of a sailor who
was on deck one day grinding bis knife, with a |
boy turning the stone. wcen the ship gave a |
sudden lurch. the whole oUtdt went q arbosrd |
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