The morning call., 1890-07-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Women's secret societies are being doomed In
Boston under The impetus of fad.
Albany, Ga, has female jeweler, fair, young
and pretty, and who hold her own with any
matchmaker In the State.
The visible supply OF peanuts Is 100000 bush
els against 900, 600 last year al this date ana
the year before 100000.
Ten years ago there were 200, 900 commercial
travellers Ia TIE United States The census this
year will probably show 100000.
Thunder Bay River, Mich, is one log-1am
for a distance OF thirty miles. Many millions
OF feet are packed in an almost inseparable
mass.
Tie Garibaldi family has agreed 10 sell to the
Italian Government the Island OF Capfera for
100000, The house aud grave Of Garlbadi being
reserved.
E S. living Postmaster at Chester Cross
Roads, Quo, has received check drawn In his
favor from tile Government for one cent in set
Element Of his accounts.
If all the persons whose names are in the new
Government blue book were to form line four
abreast it would take ten hours for the process
sion To pass the White House.
Judge J. n. Lucas and wife, attorneys-at-law,
is The way new Lansing sign will read. The
Judge Is an:able NeOTa kan, and so Is his WIFE
They VIII practice henceforth IN Michigan.
If razor is in fairly good condition and not
In need Of the oistone, II III y soon be whetted TO
q hue eGge on the palm 0r tile hand or the inner
side Of the forearm The Latter is best II II Is Tree
from hair.
Some relic hunter has cut out and carried away
from The Union College building in Schenectady,
y. Y, section Of window sill IN which eX-Presi-
dent Arthur cut his name years ago when
student there.
A rainier arrested in Litchfeld, Conn, while
at work walked along quietly Tor rev minutes,
when be suddenly turned and dashed bis paint
brush into the Sherifs eyes. He then escaped.
Tie Sheriff IS badly injured.
Al the convict camp on the Scuffle plantation,
Florida, number Of the ennvicls we're leaning
against wire fence when the lightning Struck
The fence, killing one Of them instantly aud stun
ming several others very severely.
The invention of two new musical instruments
Is announced. One is bass fiddle big enough
10 make little catboat-fourleen and half feet
over all and eight and a half beam. The artist
that uses 1t must use stepladder.
A new aud popular development Of electrical
sclence Is the electrical halrcurler. 1t Is said TO
be equal TO lie most exaciGe demands Of the
feminine couture and tile beard or mustache can
be curled in a ny style III TWO minutes.
Manistque has an aqueous volcano a spring
$50 feet wide and 400 i,et long. The water aud
sand boil up from distance OF 90 feet and
throw the little lake no into cOnical shape. II
supplies CT eek 20 feet wide and feet deep the
year round.
One hundred and nnety-lOur OF them have taken
a regular course Of instruction IN their PROBES.
sion, and have received diplomas. Tbrty-0ye Of
them are between sixty and seventy years OF age
and six are over seventy.
Tie train which went through Range County
bridge, near COllinSyille, Tex, recently was
loaded with beer and liquors. The natives from
the surrounding country were not long in learn
ing how much liquor was going to wa-Ie, and in
few hours nearly the whole township was
drunk.
Jonn Tbayer was employed at the Canadian
end OF the ST. Clair tunnel, working IN the COM
pIessed-air chamber. When lie left the tunnel
on Monday blood began TO come from every pat
OF his body. The doctors could not give him any
relief, aud lie died on Wednesday
The British Medical journal, considering the
danger OF kissing tie usually greasy Bible OF the
law courts, recommends that clean wrapper OF
paper be tut from time to time. THIS was
done for tile benefit of the Duke OF Fife, recent
IL desiFanie
tice
Ralph Woodman, a workman In the Cushman
shoe-shop, Auburn. Me-, risked his own life to
snatch from iu front OF an On-cOmlng train Ill
lie three OF four year old child who was walking
on the track unconscious of Its DANGER As Mr..
Woodman snatched the child from the track the
engine snatcled his hat and carried II under the
wheels.
A young lady al The home of John struble OF
GalesbnIg, Mich, heard burglars downstairs.
She shOuldered gun, cautiously slipped below,
and before the men knew what was going OH,
they stood looking into the black depths OF
bunderbus. She thereupon called for help and
now has her prey III jail awaiting trial iu the
Circuit Court.
Professor Samuel Cushmau, :apIarist OF the
Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment Station,
maintains. as the result OF personal Observa-
ton, that bees do no damage to growing or fair
fruit. THE juice of fruit IS, in fact, injurious 10
them, ana they do not attack sound fruit, but
only bruised fruii, or that which has been previ-
Ously Injured by other insects"
One woman has made the silk gowns OF the
Justices Of The United States Supreme Court for
the past forty years. and she gets 500 for
each one OF them. They are all made alike, the
only difference being III the material, tie Chief
Justice wearing black Chinese satin, while his
associates are TODed III black Silk
The Chief OF Police OF MOSCOW has issued
orders that those who sell papers OF other printed
matter in The streets, shall not be allowed 10
pursue their vocation II they are not dressed IN
proper uniform, OF If they do mol appear clean
and tidy. From tile date OF this order TWO weeks
was allowed the vendors OF newspapers to get
their uniforms into proper shape.
" Joan of ARC" will be given as a spectacular
equestrian opera in The Paris Hppodrome.
thousand persons take paIt In IL, including
number OF hatpsts dressed as angels up In The
gallery, from where the archangel Michael and
his attendants fly down TO the arena In the final
scene Joan, who is Italian in this case,
rides as,ride, her horse costing $4,000.
Some feereant Individual h ad the audaclty to
take advantage OF tile opportunity of riding of
on the back OF mounted East Philadelphia
policeman's horse while that functouary was In
q neghb0rs place star-gaZing through the bot
tom Of an inverted cylindrical glass. The frry
Pegasus was chased by the dlsmounied officer
for mile, when the rattle OF the sIeelcIad hoofs
died away In the dis ance like the dim innuendo
notes Of an Indian gourd rattle, and the beautl-
ful figures described by the rosewood baton as
the finest" made his way back, would nave put
the author OF standard trlgon0metry TO the
blush.