The morning call., 1890-08-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Why should not Louisiana change her
name to Lotteriana?
1t is said that jaguar will rather attack
a black man than white one.
A theatrical manager, like any other
man, is known by the company he keeps
Chicago Post.
1t is estimated that fully 1000 Pennsyl-
vanians are in the employ OF the United
States Government.
John Tess of Medaryvlle, Ind, was
struck by lightning the other day and every
bone in his body broken.
The King of Dahomey has sent an En-
bassadOr to Germany to engage band of
musicians to play, not serve, for his dinner.
Four of the 81 census enumerators in
Maine were women, and the supervisor
finds that their reports are without mis-
takes.
An international beauty show is to be
held in Voluna in September. All Compel
itors must send their photographs not later
than August Goth.
1t is said that there are 1000 vacant houses
in Kansas City, Mo-, and that it has lost
many thousands of population the past two
years since its boom" collapsed.
The ladies of st. Louis make life burden
to the gripmen on the cable cars by punch
ing them in the back with their parasols
when they want the cars stopped.
At rOrient Arsenal, in France, great
ironclad war-vessel OF 1l.O00 tons is nearly
completed. 1t is strongly armed with i'm
mense cannon in revolving towers.
The Italian Minister of Agriculture has
recently purchased in England a splendid
stallion named Melton for $4,000. 1t is in
tended for the royal stables at Venaria.
The longest American railroad tunnel is
the H0osac Tunnel on the Fitchburg Rail-
road. four and three quarter miles; the 81.
Gothard Tunnel IN Europe is nine miles
long.
An English medical writer asserts that
cancer is not hereditary in the vast ma
iority of cases, no less than S9per cent being
caused by internal influence upon the suf-
feTerS.
The Florida Central and Pennsular Rail-
road now awards premium OF SO to each
Of its engineers running schedule trains
who get through the month without killing
any cattle.
a Danish young lady, first-class passen-
ger ON a steamer which arrived in New
York recently, refused to travel to Detroit
III parlor car, preferring to go with her
compatriots on an emigrant train.
Miss Mary Tillinghast of North Stoning-
ton, Conn.,, IS an lnveterate snake killer.
Since the 4th of July she has settled the
fate Of ninety snakes of all kinds-black,
copperbead. adders and rattesnakes.
Ishmael Pacha was foolish enough to 90
TO Constantinople year ago, and now the
Sultan will not let him leave there. The
other day lshmael announced that he must
90 to Italy for change Of air, but the Sui
tan said no.
Three Chelsea, Mass, boys are under
arrest charged with train wrocking by
placing heavy tie across the track. One
of the boys has confessed that he put
stones on the track some time ago "to see
the train jump"
The Duchess of Aosta has the distinction
nf the elaborate
cloak ever made in Paris. 1t is OF heavy
lusterless silk, trimmed with fiat bands of
the richest ostrich plumes, headed by bands
of costly dull jet.
Hard times the coming winter are antici-
paled at Ottawa, the chief center of the
Canadian lumber trade. The business is
very SLACK this season, and there is a large
quantity of lumber unsold. Consequently
the cut next winter will be smaller than
usual.
The wire to be used for the telephone be-
tween Paris and London is made of bronze.
1t is estimated that the French share of the
expense OF establishing the telephone will
be about $50, 000.' Enthusiasts believe that
all the Geographic communication will be
superseded.
That England intends to go to Mecca one
OF these days is clearly indicated by recent
utterances in the English press. Pilgrims
have been treated so badly at Mecca of late
years that the Turks and Egyptians are be-
ginning to be very anxious to see Mecca in
neutral hands.
A good deal Of interest has been excited
at the antipodes by the appearance, after
twenty-seven years of submersion, of the
wreck of the British warship Orpheus, the
singular loss Of which, with nearly 200 hands,
caused such commotion at the beginning of
the last Maori war.
Count Tolstoi says: "The Moujk chill
dren are always brighter than ours
brighter than the children Of the rich and
noble up to certain age. But after 10 or
II years they begin to get duh and fall be-
hind. 1t is the hard life and the drudgery
of toiling In the fields"
Barnard Conn, New Hampshire farm
er's man. was scared almost into commissions
while listening to monograph in Dover
last week, and explained when he came to
that he recognized the voice of a man he
had stuck in a boss trade. Conn, science
makes towards of us all.
OF all the queer losses lately reported,
one oil the most exasperating must have
been that of Wilton (Aie.) woman, who
went berrying the other day and Just be-
fore she was ready to start for home lost
the ten-quart pail of raspberries that she
lad so laboriously filled. An hours search
failed to bring to light the missing pail, and
she had to go home without it.
A rather unusual marriage ceremony was
performed in Shapleigh, Me-, tile other day,
according to the Springyale Advocate. MIR.