The morning call., 1890-08-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

hC SIiS VI has oulp luo Va
S2,25O,0O0.
Il sell cigars in seven languages" is
sign in Philadelphia.
Reading, Mich, has girl II years old
who has been married four years.
The census men have found three citi-
zens of Taylor County, Fla, who own thir-
teen dogs each.
The people of Munich consume the enor-
nous quantity of 4S5 quarts of beer per
head per annum.
SchOharie, n. Y, according to the last
census, has about 1000 less people than she
had forty years ago.
A great cruiser named the Cecile, just
launched in France, has a speed of nine
teen and one-5alt knots.
At the present rate of consumption the
white pine of Wisconsin, Michigan and
Minnesota will be exhausted in twenty
years
Severe quarantine regulations have been
established at the port Of New York in
view Of the yellow fever now raging in
Havana.
At the marriage of Miss Klmer to Mr..
Butler at Rock City Falls the other evening
the arriving guests drove through nine
miles of Chinese lanterns.
Ham and Eggs or the Hog and the Hen is
the name of a new publication in the inter-
est of swine-breeders and poulterers, which
has made Its appearance at Topeka.
Three locomotives have been shipped
from this country to Palestine for the new
railroad between Jaffa and Jerusalem.
They are named Jaffa, Jerusalem and
Rameh
Some practical but inartistic German has
made up compound OF sugar and con-
densed milk and tea, from which cup of
tea can be had by simply pouring on boil
ing water.
Scotch physician has discovered that
playing on bagplpe wears away the play
eI's front teeth in four years. The effects
on the people that hear the noise come
sooner; their teeth are set on edge and
their PATIENCE worn away in about four
minutes.
Charlie Jackson. An eight-year- old lad of
Marlboro, Mass, last week picked up a
pocket-book containing S15,00 in gold GER
tlficates and checks. He found the owner,
sea-captain. soon after, and returning the
pocket-bOok to him was handsomely re-
warded.
The Baltimore American relates that a
couple from Pocahontas. W. Va, who went
TO Cumberland, Nd, to get married, we're
delayed 80 hours in having the ceremony
performed. because the groom was not old
enough by that number Of hours to get
a license.
Frank Hopkins of California, who has
been visiting the Ottoman Empire, declares
that the sale of women there has not been
stopped-only carried on little more pri-
vately. He quotes Circassian beauties at
$1,000 apiece and NubiaD maidens at about
S100 apiece.
OF the 1921, 200 people who crossed the
Brooklyn bridge during the month of June
1922, 600 were carried in the cars. The
most interesting Feature of the Brooklyn
bridge trustees report is, however, that
they spent S2723 for illegal expenses" and
but $1,000 for coal.
A big real estate deal at Newport is inter-
esting the cOttagers there. 1t is the place
known as FlnesterTe, and the price paid is
between $4,000 and SI50,000 1t was owned
by the heirs of Gardner Brewer, Boston
merchant, and goes to the wife Of IL. NJ.
Brooks of New York
the most thoroughly disgusted man In
Kansas is DR.. Burton, of Andover He
spent SD and large amount of work on
the cultivation of Russian mulberry trees,
and the one tree that survived developed
into healthy sycamore. The doctor has
returned to his patients.
Near Memphis there are two brothers
who closely resemble each other. Hello,
duplicate" remarked the younger to the
elder, as they CHANGED to meet the other
day. Hello. counterfeit" replied the
elder, and then they both helped to break
an original package.-N. Y. Tribune.
An explorer who has been collecting
specimens from the sea bottom and also
watching the habits of marine animals
says tlldL dItiSts are wrong In representing
divers as walking upright, as his expert
ence shows that it is necessary TO walk
with the body inclined forward at an angle
of forty-ive degrees.
Perhaps the most wonderful currant bush
ever seen is owned by r. Lonnen of Nav
vile. n. j. He found the bush growing
wild in the woods, brought it home and
ianted 1t by the side of the house. The
bush has grown up the side of the building
to the height Of about 20 feet, aud is about
z feet wide, bearing currants as large as an
ordinary cherry.
American naval officers who have adopted
the cholera belt In the tropics find 1t so
beneficial that they often retain il In ali
ATTITUDES. 1t is simply a broad band of
flannel worn night and day the year around
tight about the waist, so as to protect the
stomach from sudden changes in temper
ature. 1t is an excellent preventive Of
stomach disorders.
By the English law heirlooms are EXEMPT
from probate duty, so the Duke of Hamil-
ton paid nothing on the treasures of his
palace when he came into possession i'm
1868 But when he sold them they ceased
to be heirlooms, 1t appears, and the Board
OF Inland Revenue has shocked his Grace
with sudden demand for ELS, 900, or per
cent on the 93D0.000 realized from the
Hamilton palace sale.
An English woman resident in SYRIA re-
ports the discovery near BeyroOt of bed
stead made OF gold and silver and inlaid
with precious stones. An inscription upon
1t in English characters states that it be-
longed to Eleanor, Queen of England. The
bedstead was discovered in cave, and is
supposed to have been placed there for
security when Edward left the East
w. j. Ayers and his divorced wife were
married III Chicago the other day. Their
wedding,cards bore this startling and
original line: Whatever God Joined to-
gether let not rum put asunder." Dur
ing their former welded life Mr.. Ayers
became so dissipated that his wife could
not live with him. so she got divorce
has been Prohibition exhorter.