The morning call., 1890-11-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Missouri is not bad State for water
melons. Mississippi County sent 5000 car
loads OF them 10 market.
In 1915 not house in Maine had pane of
glass In 1t.
About 1900 houses are added every year
to London.
About two hundred letters are mislaid or
miScarried every day because of the similar
ity Of the name of the State of Washington
and of the national capital.
prominent electrical engineer states
that about sixty storage battery street-rail-
rad motors are now in operation in various
cities of the United States and Europe.
Last year the most notorious trust was the
Bread Union in London 1t took in all the
important bakers. 277 in number, in the me-
tropolis. The failure and entire dissolution
of the trust is now announced.
Robert CARROTS cuStom-house broker in
Baltimore has paid S456S 70 as duty, at the
rate OF 80 per cent, upon the picture of the
Duchess of Cruye," painted by Rubens.
The painting was valued at SIS, 329 As.
Joseph Major, a wealthy colored man in
Virginia. died several days ago on the estate
of the late President William Henry Har-
rison on James River. Major was 101 years
old and was the father of thirty children.
English naval officers have made a de-
mand to be allowed to wear russell leather
boots at sea. The sudden popularity of un-
BACKED leather Is one of the freaks of fash
ion Very little else was to he met with in
Europe this year. Vacation boots are now
almost invariably made brown, and are
everywhere the fashion among foreign
tourists.
1t is strange that the use of points for pur-
poses of punctuation should be such COM
paratysy modern invention. OF the four
generally used points only the period O
dates earlier than the fifteenth century. The
colon (3 is said TO have been first introduced
n I'm mn ( \ rf, Gva
years later and the Semicolon @ about
1570.-BOStOn Globe.
The international telegraphic rates on the
Continent will conform after next July 1st
with the schedule fixed by the recent inter-
national telegraptic conference in Paris.
Between Germany and adjoining countries
the rate will be ~ cents per word; between
Germany and Great Britain SC ndinavia or
Italy 3R cents per word, and between Ger
many and Russia, Spain or the Balkans 8
cents per word.
Man is said not to be the only creature
that sbayes. The South American bird
called the mot-mot" the Moimotus bra
ziliensis, actually begins shaving en- arriving
at maturity. Naturally adorned with long
blue tail feathers it is not satisfied with
them In their natural state, but with its
beak Dips off the web on each side for
space of about two inches, leaving neat
little oval tuft Mt the end OF each.
The wisdom of the old negro, the Atlanta
Constitution says, was illustrated anew in
Georgia Justices Court the other day. A
young negro had been fined for some trivial
0ffense, and was beginning to talk of an ap-
peal. when his father broke in: "You pay
dat fine and 20 long about your business"
he said "Befo' you reach dat higher jedge
de lawyers III done gone troO you en- you
won't have enuf money lef' to buy coffin"
Records show that violence or capture
was a necessary feature of marriage in
nearly every land at one time or another,
and even at the present day among many
form. Perhaps the Bedouin Arabs of Mount
Sinai conduct their matrimonial arrange
ments in the strangest fashion, Tor when n
man desires to marry he goes to the maiden's
father and makes bid which may or may
MT ba accented.