The morning call., 1890-04-26
ITEMS OF INTERE EST.

Inc population Of Brooklyn is estimated
az o39,6l2, an increase of 2S2, 923, or very
nearly oo per cent, since 1880.
over 100 papers in the United States are
now controlled by colored people The
coiored man is certainly getting move on.
senator ingalls, says poverty never will
10 aDollshed. Come to think of it, Con-
eteSs mas Kept many a man from begging.
:. a skeleton has recently been discovered
III Fonpen with pants on. Wen bet the
sheieton was the first fellow to die with his
boots on.
Five thousand punches of bananas were
tossed over to the mermaids from L Nicara-
guam steamer the other day to tighten the
shlp IN severe storm.
The total number of souls who have pro-
lessed salvation at the Salvation Army
penltent forms for the five mo nths ending
Win April list is 10000
bachelors and manageable gentlemen
should hasten to Massachusetts. Unmar-
Ileq women III that State have $50 600 900 to
thelr credit in the banks.
~, The King of Ashantee has 1888 wives.
1hey all live on one street in Coomassie,
ana when they go out for walk, preceded
by the eunuchs, everybody else has to walk
In the gutter
Science is daily spreading. The latest
novelty Is bread made from wood. Some
lhlhg like that has been needed these many
years, as 1t will leave more grain for the
A"huAaStuIe OI Spirits.
AN extraordinary feat in telephoniug was
recently accomplished between st. Peters
D0urg and Bouiogne, distance of 2465 miles.
conversation was kept up Notwithstanding
rather high induction.
A summer cottage built by New York
millionaire is of hemlock logs hewn on
tnfee sides, with the bark left on the fourth
sue. a veranda is constructed on three
SIDES OF hemlock logs in the rough.
Inc Intelligence cOmnS from AtchisOn
Glat senator ingalls, has built q new resi-
uehce upon the site of the family home
when was destroyed by fire, and that it is
old place.
. a farmer of Muhlenberg Township, Berks
county, Pa. who permitted thirty tramps
70 sleep In his barn over night, said it was
potteT lor the taxpayers than TO have them
arrested and maintained at the expense of
the county.
A couple of bulky and thoughtless oxen
maze a dive for a window full of green
Rl9use-plants III a restaurant at East Jordan,
Mich, and before they could be headed off
the sidewalk and window were smashed to
small pieces.
buiial0 Bill has purchased house in Ma
pies; lie has become an enthusiast regard
ing lie on the Continent, and he was of
Tered an old house in Naples at a ridiculous
~ small price. 1t Is place OF historical in
lerest, as King Bomba once owned it.
AN Englishman who insulated his bed
stead by ipiacing underneath each post n
DrOken OIL bottle says he had not been free
from rheumatism or govt for fifteen years,
ana mat he began to improve Immediately
AFTER the application Of the insulators.
Inc man who is credited with the orfgi-
mai device and manufacture of the revolver
pistol, benjamin Darling, died recently at
Woonsocket, X. l., at the age of 50 years,
out without having experienced any of the
substantial! rewards the invention brought
to others.
Matilda Louise Schumack, Is years old.
died at st. John, n. b.. from an electric
shock. While at the Salvation Army bar
racks she touched an electric lamp with an
iron poker, and at the same time she uncon-
sciously caught an iron post, thus complet-
Ing the circuit.
The testimonial fund to the Rev. DR..
theodore Cuyler of Brooklyn already
amounts to $4,000. DIR. Cuyler has preached
ESQ sermons and made %, 900 pastoral calls.
beside attending many Of Talmage's
funerals when the renowned pulpit orator
failed to turn up.
professor of Johns Hopkins University
has an original theory to account for race
color. lie attributes the color of tile negro
to the deficiency of oxygen in the warm air
he has breathed. This causes u weaker
respiration, and a deposit Of carbon is
made under the skin, just as a chimney
with defective draft is choked with SCOT