The morning news., 1889-04-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a LoNDoN PAPER thinks that telephones are
more generally. used Ia Sweden than anywhere
else io The world.
wALDRoN. Mica. has been settled more than
half a century. yet tie people have Just begun
to clear the stumps out Of the main street.
TIE London Lancet recently contained the
following advertisement: Home wanted for
homicidaI lady in house of medical man. Ad-
dress, stat ng terms" etc.
PROBABLY the most expensive carpet ever
manufactured is that owned by the Maharaiah
Of BAro1s IT took three years to make and
cost 100000. II IS mads entirely Of strings Of
pure coiored pearls. with the center and corners
Of diamcCds.
The interesting discovery Of a number of
oysters growing On a piece Of bark has been
made at Fort wrangel. ALASKA They are sup
posed TO have eeen rropasaced from oysters
thrown overheard from the California and
Oregon stea ers
SEVERAL Windsor Locks Comm residents,
who forwarded = each for music hex" ad-
vertised "as capable Of playing twenty youe
| tuues, received large package. en- which 60
| cents expressage was charged, containing
| three 5-cent harmoDlcas
OSE of the most accomplished young ladies
of Selma, Ala. was hailed on the street by a
| bystauder. who very politely knocked a rat of
! her bustie, where II was enjoying delightful
| ride. IS the varment struck the ground, and
! the lady saw that 1t was actua ly live rat, she
/ had lively foot race for some distance.
IL few Of the faminestricken districts of
| China. mothers are selling their children. A
missionary, who visited the market town of
| Wang CHA Cn uan. met many women on tle
| streets calling out: Who will buy this boy. |
| can't feed him any longer, and don't want 10
| hear him crying about FOR want OF food"
AT church party held recently il Melon
ougb, Cheuango county, New York, forty young
Z 1sdT s--fl l.-+ 81
| highest bidder. A hayseed believed the sale
| was bona hde and put up all his casa, 81 80, on
the prettiest lady bid of. 1t took considerable
! persuasion to convince him that he could not
| remove his purchase 10 the paternal rancn.
a RECORD of 100 times arrested was left by 4
New Haven man, who died insane this week,
| His arrests were chiefly for drunkenness and
it was through his excesses that his mind gave
| way. 1t was one OF his tricks. when arrested,
| to throw bis shoulder out Of joint and then by
| frantic groans to solicit the sym pathy Of the
| officers in charge. He was about 20 years Of
age.
SEVERAL rIPsY YOUNG MEN got into a house at
Castanea, near Lock Haven, lately, while the
family were out, and fell asleep, When a wander
| ing horse that had been nosug in a basin of
-four shifted at the faces Of the strangers 80
| closely as to imprint oB each ghastly white
| ness. When tie family got Uack at tHi
light their outcries could be heard three blo-k Ks
! away.
SAM ANDREWS has a curiosity in his barn on
Lacrosse street, Detroit, IN the shape of six
legged COW. The COW IS a thoroughbred Dur
| ham, years old, and gives pal fun Of rich
| milk twice a day. The two extra legs are Sus-
| pended from the rig t shoulder One OF them
is a fore eg and tne other is hind leg, aud they
are nearly as long aud have the joints and
| muscles and hoofs Of an ordinary cows leg.
The chartering of the iron steamship Shaw
nut to load 10000 bags of sugar at Metanzas,
and to tow the barge Atlas with full cargo
| from the same destination to the Delaware
| Breakwater marks a big innovation in the
shippin< trade. The voyage win be an ex-
| permeutal one, and the irst instance of
| barge being towed from a foreign port. Snip
ping people are taking great interest in the vent
| Ire
CAPT. E. HOPKINS of the schooner Henry
White, just arrived at New Lonlon, Conn,
| from Porto co, reports that during the gale
| Of April and 8 a ball Of fire struck tle fore
| tor m lst and burst, making report LOUD
| would the discha ge of a large ca non,
fiilinS the air with a sulphur 1uS smell and
! Dazzling the sight OF the officers and crew of
| tie vessel, all Of whom were on deck at the
| time.
| THE ATTENTION of the passengers in a Cana
dian smoking car was rfveted on a strangely
| behaved negro. He rocked himself from side
| to side without ceaSiny. What's the matter
with yOus" asked a traveller who was in the car.
| Does you know Dan dcIa y: Yes We'll,
| sah, he sold me sloer watch for twenty dol
| lars, continued the negro still swaying from
| side to side, an ef stops mo7ln dis Leie way,
| de watch don go no noah.
THE postofice at Jackson Michigan is puzzled
over the travels of photograph ma led TO Stur-
| gis, Michigan, last December. 1t lett for its des
! tiuation promptly, it was supposed; at least. II
| disappeared, and a few DAYS ago 10 was returned
to Jackson from the dead letter of: :e at Wash
| ington. The address plau, uu tue photo
| graph had meantime been to New TX. thpuce
| to England, and from there to BOuUav where
it went into the dead letter Office Feb. 4,
! 1889, and was returned TO Washiu Iton. From
| the latter place it was. through the al iress Of
| the photographer printed ON the card, sent back
! TO Jackson.
! NATHANIEL RoGERs and negro were plowi1g
in a pasture at Paris, KY, where some sheep
and lambs were grazing, when they discovered
| two large black snake, coiled around G. weeks
| lamb trying u crush the life out Of it The
| men went to the lambs assistance with cluos,
wnereupOn the sna es uucoled aad gave chase
TO the men. The latter were hotly pursued for
| over 100 ards, when they grabbed a teIce rail
and turned on the SNAKES. They succeeded ia
| killing one, which measured over feet, aud he
other ran into a hollow stump Later in the
| day it came out and coied Itself around the legs
| of one of the plow mules, aud the esrO abIn-
| done1 the team. The sHate soon returned TO
the stump. An endeavJr viii be made TO catch
| it alive
THE ARRIVAL of the wilkommen at Baltimore
| aroused much interest and curiosity, as she was
the first oil tank steamer ever seen in that port
She j. barkentine- -rigged vessel built of steel
and is 1926 feet long by Il feet beam. With B!
| feet depth of hold. Her capacity is 2,01
barrels Of oil in bulk. The Wilkomme is one OF
SIX tank steamers owned by Mr.. w. A. Reiie-
mann Of Bremen, and she is the largest ah lat.
! She is CONSIGNED to the Baltimore United Oil
| Co upany, which will load her with 1870, 90
gallons. or 24000 barrels of refined oil, al Of
which ia purchased on the account OF the
vessels owner. Other steam tank vessels are
expected 10 follow the vii ommen. Tue oil for
the Wkommen is pumpel through the pipe
line to Baltimore from the Pennsylvania oil
fields in a crude state, and reiineI at Baltimore.
A QUESTION has arsel for the decision Of a
bench Of magistrates In the Midlands. \ we'll
known lady has been charged with shooting
game without a license. The defense was that
she had acted on impulse having been asked 70
take gun bY one of the gentlemen at a shoot
ing party. But it appeared at size went on
with her sport for a coupe Of hours too long
for an impulse-so she was fined - and costs.
An alternative defense was offered that she did
not admit shooting game -only RABBITS. But It
came out that she had popped at the only
pheasant which she sa a.. The mo al is that
| ladies' who 80 out with the luncheon-an excel
| lent custom il they do not enci Oech upon 10 b.
walking with the guns--m lst be cireful to
restrain their momentary impulses II is no
defeuse for au unl elS ID lady who has shot at
pheasant that size missed it.
"IF rHE city OF Chicago writes the corre-
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