The morning call., 1890-04-28
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Paris Is reported to never have looked more
beautiful and never was more up to the
level of her reputation as the gay capital of
Europe than at present.
Within week the Sheriff of Atlantic
County, \. j., has sold 200 farms to fore
close mortgages, and over forty families
have been turned out without homes or
shelter.
The man who first suggested the worlds
fair is dead again. THIS is getting monotO-
nous, and if ii continues the originator Will
not be OF hand to give tone to the affair
when II opens.
Millet's ''L'Angelus" is now deposited in
the vaults of the Bank of Montreal. The
owners were obliged to remove it from the
United States or pay $780, 900 duty on it, and
they chose the former course.
One hundred districts in Victoria, Aus
tralia, Will soon take simultaneous action
toward the destruction OF the rabbit plague.
Poisoned grain will be used, and il is hoped
that IS per cent Of the rabbits will be killed.
A Kansas woman is the legal wife of two
husbands, her first having had decree of
divorce set aside after She had married her
second. 1t is not quite clear whether No.
is object was to get her back or to worry
the other fellow.
Those who take any interest in coinc-
dences may be able to find something sug-
gestlve in The remark of Governor Miller
OF North Dakota, who says that since the
lottery bill was killed NO more Sis, 900
prizes have been drawn in Dakota.
Senator ingalls, said to New York
World reporter that tremendous under
current of thought was moving with ire
slstlble force throughout the whole length
and breadth of the West. The Senator
should lose no time in getting in out of the
wet.
The most remarkable contribution in the
English periodicals on Bismarck's retire.
ment is said TO be paper in the "Con-
temporary Review" entitled King and
Minister; Midnight Conversation" The
conversation is imaginary, but very like
what such an interview would be.
professor in the University of Klausen-
burg claims TO have compounded u solution
which completely neutraizes the poison in
troduced into the system by the bite of
mad dog. This solution consists of chlorine
water, salt brine, sulphurous acid, perman-
ganate of potassium and eucalyptus oil.
The spring poetry that Senator Vance
sprung on the Senators the day the vote
was taken admitting the Montana dele
gates, is said 10 have changed the minds of
several members. The average Senator is
willing to put up with good deal of abuse
but they draw the line on poetry.
New York pickpockets have invented
new scheme 1or robbing people. 1t is to
pour kerosene or alcohol oven the back of a
mans coat and touch match thereto.
Then, while helping to eXtinguish the
flames, they lift" the victims watch and
whatever money or vauables he may have.
Some important DEVELOPMENTS in the ap-
plication of electricity to mining may be
looked for from the fact that Mir. Edison
and his assistants have taken quarters for
year in Charlotte, n. c., to pursue expert
ments in the adjacent district, which is de-
cared to be the richest mineral region in
the world.
An official stenographer of the German
Imperial Parliament has calculated the ex-
act rapidity of speech of some of the most
celebrated German statesmen. Rickert, a
leader of the free-trade Independents, he
says, talks in minute 153 words Count
Herbert Bismarck, IA, and Stumm, the
coal baron, 14S
The annual catch Of fish on the European
and North American coasts is computed by
German statistician to amount to $50, 600
tons. A ton of fish corresponds with twen-
ty-fve sheep in weight and with twenty
sheep In nourishing power Therefore the
total European and North American catch
equals in number AZ, 900, 600 sheep and in
n0urishing power 30,0o00O0.