The morning news., 1889-04-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE BRITISH ARCHITECT tells of beautiful
houses, with all modern improvements situated
in Bush Hill Park large estate in the environs
Of London, which rent for only 300 year.
A DISCUSSION as to the hight of trees in the
forests Of Victoria, New South Wales, has elic-
tied from Baron Won Muellor, the government
botanist, the statement that he one 525 feet
tall
THE PRINCE DE LIGNE and the Baron de
Jonghe, who recently fought duel in France
at midnight by torchlight in forest, have
each been sentenced to a fine OF $40 for their
fun.
THERE is a school teacher in Tuscarawas
county, Ohio, who is 40 years old, and has
never been twenty-five miles away from home
New Philadelphia is the biggest town he has ever
seen.
A CHIMNEY SWEEPER in England, while looking
over his furniture prior to sending it to auction,
found 81 800 among rubbish in an old chest.
His wife died short time before, and he sup
poses that she hid the money.
MRS. BECKY STEVENS keeps a saloon in Gin
cinnati, and during the past five years she has
broken heads, arms and legs for seven different
men who wouldn't walk out like gentlemen.
wagon spoke is her favorite weapon
SINCE the purchase of Alaska, it can be said
of the United States what has been said of Eng
land for the last century-that the sun never
sets on her domnions. AT sunset in Alaska the
next mornings sun is an hour high in Maine
EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO a pane of glass was
broken in the window of a 10 lse in Hamilton,
o. On the 25th of last month the owner got
around to have it repaired, and it was recorded
among the great improvements" to the city.
A RINeTAILED RAccooN, kept by Lansing
(Mich.) man as a pet, broke loose the other
night and ate up wedding cake, sampled the
n a faas and do fha vii IL
80 mad that she almost postponed the wedding.
A KINGSTON IN. Y. MINISTER married a couple
one night recently, and when signatures were
asked to the certificate, it was found that
neither the bride, groom, best man nor brides
maid could write their names. They all signed
by making marks.
MOTHS Of some kinds are said to change color
to match the food that they happen to eat. A
goat moth inclosed In a box lined with pink
tissue paper turned from a gray green to pink
and when a white lining was put in the box the
moth became white.
New HAMPSHIRE FARMING PROPERTY is not
very valuable nowadays. A farm of fifty acres
in Springfield, with a decent house and barn in
good repair, with meadow land that cuts
enough hay for two cows and horse and with
good wood lot, was lately sold for $3.50.
w. G. MILLS, of Newcomerstown, O., has a
stone IDOL pipe and flint implements which
made Of fine stone and is perhaps a foot high
as he sits with his knees to the front He has
arms, but his hands are cut in relief upon his
shoulders. He has an idiotic head, closed eyes
and half-open mouth.
A STORY is told of two parrots that lived near
each other, in Philadelphia. One was accus--
toned to sing hymns, while the other was ad-
dicted to swearing The owner of the latter
obtained permission for it to associate with the
former. hoping that its bad habit would be cor
rected; but the opposite result followed for
both learned to swear alike.
FRANK NICHOLS, of Arlington, Mass, has a
red horse which was raised on Cape Cod and
weighs 800 pounds which is quite a curiosity
A description of the beast reads thus: ut re-
sembes a COW when looked at from one drec-
tion, mule frcm another, has the tail of a
mule, but not the ears, and no name, except a
ridge of curly white hair Its body is covered
with short woolly substance"
No fewer than 1000 ,rses are slaughtered
yearly in the market of erlin. Four thousand
seven hundred pigs annually pay the debt of
nature in tibute to BerlineSe appetiteS and find
their way to the table in shape of either sau-
sage or ham, Beside devouring this porcine
host, that city stands accountant yearly I lr the
violent death of 1877 800 head of cattle 231, 500
calves and Si6, 900 sheep, besides multitude Of
minor animals.
HoNoRs are accumulating on the venerable
head Of Mr.. Gladstone. Already a county in
Victoria, Australia, and town in Queensland
are named after him, and now there is talk of
the highest peak of the Finisterre range ia New
Guinea being chrstened Mount Gladstone No
white man, it is said. has yet reached the sum
init of this sky piercing peak, but a German
explorer DR.. Zoeler. claims to have ascended to
within 600 feet of it.
On the northern face of Castle Peak Nevada.
is furrow cut this winter by snowslide. The
slide started from point on Mount Scowden
high enough to overlook the intervening ridge
As 1t went down the mountain it increased in
volume until it reached the timber line. and
there it cut flrrow 100 feet wide and many
feet deep. not leaving tree standing for half a
mile along the base of the peak. Where it
finally stopped small mountain of huge
boulters, earth, and shattered trunks Of trees
many of them and feet in diameter, blocks
deep ravine.
COLUMBIA COLLEGE, in New York city, will
permit young women to enter an annex" by
passing the same entrance examination as the
young men. The ladies who have the annex"
in mind propose to furnish the money to rent or
TO build 1t. Columbia college has nothing to do
with the money, the discipline or the manners
of the new annex" 1t has bargained to fur
nish the learning only The annex is to be
known as Barnard college. The Young ladies'
for the present will be tethered to the course in
arts. Young ladies who want to be lawyers or
chemists or mining experts will still be barred
out of the university.
THERE is war in the jelly business year
ago forty-three firms formed a trust under
which all their establishments, except fifteen
we're closed down, and prices il was expected
would be put uD. Two large firms in Camden
however, refused to go in, and have been
making things interesting for the trust. Re-
Gently the trust cut prices on jelly to 214 and
21S cents pound. and guaranteed purchasers
against any lower prices from outside firms
The two Camden firms promptly put Jelly
down TO cent pound, and sold enough at
that rate TO give the patrons of the trust ground
to demand a rebate Of the difference between
trust prices and Camden prices.
AN EASTERN PAPER gives the following &C.
count of Maine woman: "a woman in Carl
bou, whose husband has been out of health for
many years, carries on the farm, drives the
team, holds the plow sows, plants, haryests
the crops markets her potatoes and grain. etc
Formerly she drove span of horses, but she
now uses oxen; she is never idle, for when she
is not at work the farm or getting up and
fitting wood for her family use. she may be
seen almost any day, fair or FOUL cold or hot
Harvesting up her oxen into two sleds and with
a load Of shingles on EACH driving them to the
depot six or seven miles away She will handle
bunch OF Shingles or a barrel of potatoes with
the best men in town"
THE latest little swindle in the peddling line is
being worked through the suburban towns in
New Jersey. man goes around TO each house
with bottle of medicine, box of salve and a
vial OF 'perfumed diSnfectant," the whole lot
for 81. The latter. he alleges, when the cork is
out, will difus- a pleasant odor through room
and will at the same time be a safeguard against
contagon. He insists upon leaving a bottle
and asks that it be tried. He will cali again in
q fA IA nd has Aan.