The morning call., 1890-05-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OF the $1,000 Hebrews In New York not
one is a saloOn-keeper.
Over 1900 live HOLSTERS were shipped
from Eastport, Me-, one day last week.
Speaking of brief names. there is a family
in France named B, one in Belgium named
q. river in Holland called the Y, and
village in Sweden named A
The law of divorce in France has been in
operation since 1885, and during four years
there have been 10, 521 divorces which is at
the rate OF % Tor 10000 marriages.
The total number of horses in Massachu-
settS Is 6a.o5S, and the losses during a year
amounted 10 only Is per cent. New York
has 6I3,9j0 horses and Texas !, $50, 344.
The measurement of 1000 students at
Cambridge, England, showed that success
IN literary examinations is in no way con-
nected with stature, strength or breathing
capacity.
The English Government thinks seriously
OF making Stanley Lord. 1t matters but
little how many handles are added to his
name, he viii always be known as Stanley,
the Explorer.
A man with gift of CAB has been selling
Michigan ladies Chinese lily bulbs, in
many cases advancing the money. The
agent IS now supposed to be in China
digging the bulbs.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
is pettioning the city Of Hartford, Conn,
Tor permission to put its wires under
ground. What funny things hunter meets
when he has no gun.
A new feature adopted for the lighting of
, the new hotel at Tampa, Fla, is the use of
lncandescent cartoons, by which the light
can he turned down dim if desired in
siek-room, or for other purposes.
A curious package was shipped from
Jacksonville to Baltimore. 1t was small
wnite casket, with silver trimmings. con-
tanning the embalmed remains Of Paris,
valuable dog which died at the Hotel Pla-
eide.
Ii you 20 trout fishing nowadays you
must tell your friends that you caught five.
They VIII believe you, whereas il you cap
tured from 90 TO loo, and you so Informed
them, they would put you down as an able
bodied prevaricator.
g. w. Wallingford, near North Bend,
Nebr., recently discovered a rabbit about
three weeks old enjoying the companion
ship of nest of kittens The little fellow
was made welcome and takes nourishment
from the mother cat the same as the rest of
the family.
Private Richardson, the only Manchester
mau now surviving of the Gallant Six
hundred, served twelve years, has no pen
sion, is nearly blind and drifts from work
| house to workhouse. A dozen other survi-
yors OF Balaklava are paupers either in or
out OF warehouses.
Mr.. Youngblood, an old settler in Coffee
County. Ca, but yet strong and robust
man for his advanced age, has killed 1913
deer in his time. He sticks to the old flint
and-steel rife, and says he can yet see to
cut turkeys head off with it at distance
OF seventy-fve yards.
Sumter County, Ga, is scourged with
millions OF tieas, from the attacks of which
small animals and chickens are said to be
dying by hundreds. The flea is of the Mex
lean variety, brought here by the hundred
OF Texas and Mexican horses scattered
over the country of late years.
In readmitting debarred attorney to
practice. on petition of eighty-seven men,
bers OF the Cumberland bar in Portland,
Me-. the other day Judge Walton remarked
that 1t was the first instance in the history
of the Maine courts where osbarred law
yer had been restored to his former priyi-
ieges.
Last year sixty-seyen persons in the Loo
choo Islands of Japan were bitten by the
poisonous habu snake, twelve of whom
succumbed and fifty-fye recovered. Forty
TWO OF the victims were males aud twenty
i've females, but the greater portion of
deaths occurred among the females, seven
out oil the tWeuty-fiye cases ending fatally