The morning news., 1889-01-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


/ with great eciat.
| A FAMILY iu 1lattapoisit Mass, last year ate
| 799 pies. The size nor the health of the family
/ is not made mention of by the paper which fur
nshes the figures.
! CHURCHILL COUNTY, Nevada, is in danger of
/ breaking in two. crack has recently appeared
! three feet wide, several miles long, and how
/ deep no one can ind out
BIRD that belongs in the Desert of Sahara
and seldom is seen elsewhere (only once or
| twice in EUrOpe) was shOt on the island Of Aoen,
| in Denmark, some weeks ago.
| ONE OF Maine's interesting industries is at
| OrHeville, where one concern makes twenty
different kinds of log and board rules and four
| Different caliper rules The factory sends its
rules all over the world.
An OMNIBUS run by electricity, the only one in
the world. has made successful trips in London.
1t runs on any kind Of a street without the use
| Of rails while the so-called electric omnibus OF
| Paris Is in reality train of cars running on
! track.
JAMES BAILEY, of Iowa, who married his sec
ond wife two days after the death of the first
Mrs. Bailey, was the recipient of a coat of tar
| and feathers, and succeeded in rubbing off the
| last of the tar Just fifty-tlree days after the
| close of his last honeymoon.
INA ROW at Terre Haute, Ind. negro known
| as jasper" was struck on the head by bullet
fired from a revolver of heavy caliber held
| quite near him. The bullet was fiattened by the
| mans skull and fell to the floor, leaving only
| sore spot on Jasper head To remind him that
| his thick skull had saved his life.
The RESIDENTS of New Brunswick and its
suburbs have organized to kill, capture or MAIN
| an alleged monster which has been carrying off
| all the poultry thereabouts Some of the more
timid persons aver that it is lion; some that it
is wildcat, and still others that it is only the
| proverbial Colored man with a bag.
The UMPlREs LOT in England is no happier
| than is that of his professional brother in this
| country. Lately, at the conclusion of a base
| ball game between local and visiting teams one
| of the umpires, who had presumably given
| decision contrary to local prejudice, was
| mobbed, pelted with mud and severely kicked,
| while the captain of the visiting team was also
| maltreated.
The BALLOON JUMPING CRAZE seems to have
| spent itself here in America; at any rate, very
little jumping has been heard of lately. In Eng
| land where an American is giving exhibitions,
| the people are very enthusiastic over the jump
| ing, and more daring aeronaut leap from an air
panchored, at height of $50 feet This feat is
| said to be attended with much more danger
| than descending from great height, on account
| of the reduced opportunity for the parachute to
| open.
The Japanese Admiral Akamatsu is said to
| have invented new floating fort for coast de-
| fense. The fort is to be built on a kind of YES
sci made of steel and $50 feet in length. The
armOr is to be II inches thick. and the bridge
will be specially protected with a steel bulwark.
The vessel is to have Il double screw and en-
| gines of 200 horse power, capable of attaining a
speed of three miles an hour. On the first
| bridge will be placed twelve 15-Centimeter can
| non, and on the second eight 26-centimeter. The
crew will number $50 men.
| The chef denver of the art treasures owned
by Queen Victoria is her Sevres dessert set,
which is kept at Windsor castle. 1t is valued at
S250,000 This service was made for King Louis
| XVI of France and purchased by King
George ~ when prince regent. The ground is
| of gros blue, with wonderful gliding by the
renowned Leguay and exquisite medallion sub
jects painted by Dodin 1t will scarcely be cred
tied that this almost priceless service was for
many years in daily use at Carlton house. and
| at the cottage in Windsor park for the priva te
| table of George ", and during that period
| twelve pieces disappeared, being reported as
| broken.
A SENSATION has been caused in Cincinnati by
the declaration Of the janitor of medical col
lege that the building contains ghosts He
| hasn't seen any of them, but both he and his
| assistants and a couple of other persons on
| several nights lately heard their work. Doors
were slammed open and then closed, and heavy
noises made, as though of persons who were
| moving about. At the time Investigations were
| made, but nothing resulted. 1t was thought
| that the noises, etc, caused by mschiev-
| Gus students, but that idea has been abandoned
| x.
and it has been arranged for a squad of police
| to be on hand at the next visit
| WoRTHINGToN G. SMITH, the eminent micro
| scopist, finds that genuine honey can be readily
| distinguished from manufactured honey by the
microscope, The former has few or no sugar
| crystals and abOundS with pollen grains while
| the limitations have little else than these crys-
tails, with rarely a trace of pollen grains. The
| hOneyed taste of the manufactured article he
| thinks may come from honey comb or beeswax
being mashed up with the article used in the
| manufacture. Each class of plants has its own
| specific form of pollen grain, and Mr.. Smith
says that any one converSant with this branch
of botany could tell from what part of the
world the honey came by studying the pollen
grains that it might contain
NATURE presents curious variety in stom-
achs A plant performs both the function of
dgesting and that of breathing with its leaves.
Some plants, like the Venus fiy-trap of the Caro-
lnas, make a veritable stomach out of their
eaves-catch flies and other insects and then
digest them. In some lower orders Of the ami
NAL kingdom found in the southern seas one or
| gan performs the duty of stomach, lungs and
| heart. Some still more lowly creatures pos
| seSs no organs which may be called q stomach
| and yet are capable Of producing a stomach
upon the spot whenever one Is needed. Per-
haps, instead of saying that this singular Great
| uTe the ampba, is furnished with no stomach
| we should give it credit for being all stomach
| Certainly, to eat, digest and exist seems to be
|
| Foes of great density have prevailed recently
in London, and have frequently spread over
almost the whole of Great Britain and France.
1t will probably not have escaped notice by
those residing in the suburbs that on many oc-
casions lately while the fog has lasted. moist
ure has poured down from the leafless branches
| Of the trees as though they had been exposed to
| fall OF rain, and the various hygrometers have
| shown the air TO be completely saturated with
|
in London are always less injurious to life than
| those Of dryer nature, and 1t will be observed
that we have had no reports this year of cattle
being suffOcated at tho cattle show by London
| fog as they were a few years ago, What the
difference may be between the two conditions
would be an interesting subject for inquiry
AT BosToN cLUBthe other evening this story
was told Of a certain eminent judge, who was
! probably about the nearest man in the Old
Bay state, and that's saying good deal. His
thrift had naturally resulted in wealth, and he
| owned many houses In one Of them, a very
small one, lived an lrishman who got behind
with his rent. The judge worried over the mat
! ter greatly, and sought for some property Of
! the tenant that might be attached for the debt
| The poor fellow had nothing worth attaching
except a fine fat pig, and the law forbade a
| IandlOTu $ attaching poor mans only pig. But
! the Judge wanted roast pig, and, worse than all
| he wanted his rent, and so he thought hard:
| and the result OF his thinking was a complete
| ana 10 nm, very successful solution of the
problem. lie hunted around town until he
! found very poor, miserable little pig which
| ne b jught for almost nothing He gave this pig
I Its