The morning news., 1889-03-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Two miles ami a half were made in five min
utes.
| BILL has been introduced in the Kansas
legislature appropriating money for drilling
| four deep holes in the ground to see what can
| be found"
! AN EXCHANGE says that in the factories OF the
| great butchering towns out west. they are max.
| ing sucn articles combs, buttons, ETC., out Of
! compressed blood.
LARGE GAME, such as elk and bear, are re-
ported to be more numerous in certain noun
| famous sections f New Mexico and Texas than
| ever before known.
~ DE TcH1HATcHEF. a Russian writer, asserts
that the average flow OF petroleum in the Baku
region is So 0J0 barrels per day, as against 25, 800
| barrels in the United states.
THE kerosene used in Dakota freezes solid at
70 below zero and it is as much a part of the
| household work 10 melt the cake of kerosene
as it IS to wash the dishes or sweep the floor.
JOHN HEEG, of Newton, L. l., is the possessor
of a musket, presented to him by Capt. Bill
Sands, and which the latter claims was found in
the waters Of Flushing bay during the war Of
! 1879.
| A LIBRARY is to be established in Paris in
which only books and writings by women are to
be admitted Carmen Sylvia" the poetry
| writing Queen of Roumania, has accepted the
presidency Of the library.
| CIVILIZATION in Africa is failure. The saw
ages who murdered the British engineer, Pen
rose, swallowed the chemicals used for photog-
| raphy found in his baggage, supposing it was
rum or some other civiizing beverage
| AN ENGLISH EXCHANGE tells of a poor work
man in Birmingham, who is about to come into
| possession of a fortune of between 100000 and
SIPS, 600, left by relation who died three years
| ago. He learned that he was the heir through
| the merest chance
| THE OLDEST RESIDENT OF Easton, Mass, is
Aunt Phoebe Houghton, who has just celebrated
| her ninety ninth birthday. Her health and fac
| ulties are well preserved, and she takes much
| interest in politics and religion, being, as she
| boasts, a democrat and born Unitarian"
| AN OXFORD COUNTY, CIE) CLERGYMAN once
called on an unlucky farmer, who had lost
pair of valuable horses and tried to console
| him by quoting the scriptural account of Jobs
| Affections But the farmer refused to be com
| forted. job he said, never owned so good
a pair of horses as my Dick and Corey was
QUoDDY HEAD, Me, is the easternmost point
| OF the United States, Alton islands the wester-
most Point BarroHs the northermost and Key
| West the most southern. Taking these points
| as the basis for work, it is found that the geo.
| graphical center of she United States is about
270 miles west of San Francisco in the Pacific
| ocean.
ATHENS has a paper called in Greek the
| Womdn's Journal 1t is edited by Nine. Cal
|
in Greece the rights of women are almost nil,
| for secondary instruction has not yet been de
| creed, ana we can only ask and work for the
moral and Intellectual enfranchisement of
| Greek women
A BROOKLYN WOMAN was so pleased on hear
ing of the suicide of q despised acquaintance
that she celebrated the event by hanging an
| American flag out OF the window of her resi-
dence. Indignant neghbors asked the police
| TO haul down the flag, but they decided not to
| Interfere. the ground that their authority
did not extend SO far
WALTER BRIGGs, aged 20, seeing girl break
| through the ice on the lake in Syndicate park,
South Omaha quickly told his playmates to
| take each other by the hand and allow him to
go to her assistance. The boy reached her as
she was sindng for the third time and, seizing
her by the hand with the assistance of the rest
| of the line, pulled her ashore.
A FARMER in East Corinth Me-, wouldn't give
a copper for a bounty on crows. He is able to
| take care Of his owA property. When lie gets
| his corn planted he carries out two coops each
| holding rooster, and sets them on the two ends
of his field AS soon a it begins to grow light
| the roosters begin to challenge each other and
their music scares all the crows away.
THE graduates and students of Columbia col
lege have decided to appoint an advisory com
mittee, after the fashion of Yale, Harvard and
| Princeton. to take charge of the athletic inter
ests of the institution. During recent years the
|
| and foot ball. and its record in track sports
and rowing has been comparatively feeble.
THE records OF the Association of Collegiate
| Alumna show of the 524 members II physicians,
| 9 journalists. authors, librarians, 8 lawyers,
3 artists, printers, each of school principals,
musicians, elocutioulstS, and private secretaries,
| and one each OF lecturer, chemist, typewriter,
| government clerG. and merchant. Others are
| engaged in bookkeeping, dairy farming, stock
| raising. insurance, biology, the drama, and one
is the editor OF an agricultural paper.
JOSEPH G. PARKINSON of Chicago is said to be
the only deaf and dumb lawyer in the country
| He is associated with his twin brother. who does
| not share his disabilities. When Mr.. Parkinson
| was % years of age he was chief examiner in
| the patent office at Washington, a place he
| held for six years In 1879 he resigned and soon
| afterward was admitted to practice before the
| United States supreme court. lie now ranks
as one Of the most successful patent lawyers in
the country.
WHEN asked whether the Union Jacks and the
ensigns of the navy would have four new stars
added in recognition of the four new states of
| the union, Capt. Ramsay, commandant of the
| BROOKLYN naYy-yarl, said: The flags of the
| navy will not be changed to represent the four
| new states by stars until the final ratification
| OF the act Of congress is made 1t is no5 likely
that new flags will be made, but the four stars
| will be added to the Union Jack and the blue
| field of the ensign
WHEN Pundita Ramabai, the now well known
Hindo woman, landed in England, she had Just
| So 80 in her purse. She stayed in London three
| years studying English and teaching Sanscrit.
Ia looj she came here, owing s. 600 for ter own
| and her child's board She lectured l13 times,
and made 81 go. thus paying her debts She
| is now in Japan lecturing. At Toxic, the larg
est hall in the city has not been large enough to
| hold the crowds that thronged to hear her. In
! Japan she speaks through an interpreter
Mrs. f. PARKS, who lives near Bangor, Cal,
wanted to cross the fume of the Forbestown
Ditch Company, going from her place to the
residence Of her daughter near by. As she
could not jump she paced a board over the
ditch and started across. On the second step
| the board broke and she was precipitated into
| the water, which was running very rapidly. She
was carried through the ditch and fiume down
| to the dump about three-quarters Of a mile
| distant. Remarkable to relate, she escaped with
| out injury.
! A MARRIAGE of somewhat romantic nature
| took place at Portland Ind, last week. Hiram
| Clem, OF Harrison No. and Lucy Miller, resi-
dent Of Pennsylvania. met by agreement,
| neither having before seen the other, the ac-
| quaintance having grown out of an advertise
| ment ib a matrimonial paper The courtship
/ and engagement were conducted entirely by
| correspondence. The lady, by agreement, was
| TO wear a broa white ribbon he had sent her as
| the insignia by which he was TO know her. They
| met on the street, ne introduced himself and at
! once a marriage license was procured and the
/ knot was tied. At o'clock they boarded a train
| en- route for their western home, where the
| bridegroom owns a farm.