The morning call., 1890-07-22
ITEMs OF INTEREST.

Upward Of 30 500 volumes were added to the
library of the British museum last year.
The lath,s Tor turning The gun b0res of our
new and heavy ordnance VAL ccSt Sl25OO0.
The pioneer women 10 climb the Jungfrau are
Fraulelus Egglefs, Henners and Dusca. OF Berlin
The Georgia Watermelon Trust has collapsed.
We shall never have any faith IN Watered stock
any more.
Photographic excursions from Liverpool to
Iceland are being advertised. The cost for
three weeks itip Is $40.
A bolt Of lightning in Kansas town recently
struck house and set y on hre, and at the
same time touched of the fire alarm.
The last day of February and the 4th OF July
always occur on the same day of the year. The
same IS true OF May day and Christmas.
A forty year-old wagon is seen daily on the
streets OF Deuison, Tex. Ii was made OF bols
dare, known in the north as Usage orange.
The census enumtrator 10 East AndOyeF, n.
H., made the acquaintance OF man aud his wife
WHO were rejoicing over the birth OF their twenty
NTH child.
Twenty acres Of cotton in full bloom, with
pink and yellow blooms hanging on the same
stalk, is beautiful sight, and one that eau be
seen at ST. francis Fla.
A Waterville (NIe.), man was placed In the
lookup Tor being drunk. When he awoke in the
morning, lie discovered that lie had been sleep
ing with corpse all night.
An Illinois youth, II years OF age, while
drunk, tried TO drive his horse over high
treslle. His funeral took place two days after
ward, and his horse had TO be shot TO be put out
OF misery.
ombstoues, and advises people 10 hurry up
because there only few oil Them left. Here
is golden opportunity Tor people about 10 die
10 secure bargain.
A conspicuous Austrian peer, Prince Starhem-
berg, prOnounces boldly for general disarm-
ament. Austria. he says. is drilling rapidly to
financial ruin. But lie Tears That war must
come before disarmament.
The reason given why birds do not fall from
their perch is because they cannot open The foot
when the leg Is bent. Look at a hen walking,
and see ii close The toes as IL lifts It's foot and
oren them as it touches the ground.
A mathematician announces TO an expectant
world That two persons playing dOminoes ten
hours day and making four moves minute,
could continue I15,O00,o0o years without ex
hausting all the combinations of the game.
In The Third Tennessee District Henry Clay
SnodCrass Will cross 'lances with Henry CLAY
Evaus for Congress. The running qualities Of
the Henry Clay stock have always been safe
enough bet on, and tie race between these
thoroughbreds promises to be interesting.
One OF the largest stock farms IN the world is
The great Percheron horse farm of Mark w.
Durham. rear Aurora, Ill. Mr.. Durham started
by importing twenty horses in 1873. Since that
time his annual ImpOrtattons have reached 800,
and lie has become millionaire several times
over.
courageous woman in Galesburg, Mich
heard burglars downstairs the other night. She
shouldeFed gun, cautiously slipped below and,
before The men knew what was going on, they
stood looking into the blacE depths of the weapon
She thereupon called for help and now has the
rascals IN jail awaiting trial.
The Detroit Free Press who was beaten out of
$4,000 By three card monte men, says lie had
read The trick IN the papers hundred lines, but
supposed u was something put IN TO MI up on.
He was filed up pretty fun, and he will believe
every word iii the papers after This.
A Methodist church at Lowell Mass, has de-
cided 10 use water Instead OF VINE In the com.
muui0n service Que OF The members, who mas
been drunkard, according 10 his own state
meni, and had twice returned 10 his old habits
through The temptation placed IN his way at the
communion service was Tile cause OF the change
Wind observations at the Einel Tower show
that at low velocities of fifteen miles an hour or
less the velocity OF the wind at The top OF Tho
tower is II ON four to i've times great as at the
top of an ordinary building siXty-nine feet high,
but as the velocity increases this difference de-
creaSes until at high VelOclties The difference is
only as TWO 10 one.
Recent writers on Greenland say the Esqumos
have become so crossed by frequent intermar-
Rage with tue Danes that Scandinavian faces
are as frequently met as EsquimO In the native
huts. AT The present rate The native OF
Greenland bids fair to disappear entirely within
The next century unless II Is preserved in its
purity by The Isolated people OF Smiths Sound or
the east coast.
W. II. Record of Palatka has an interesting
souvenir Of The surrender OF Nicksburg. 1t is a
ling made OF the IT, e under which Generals Grant
and PeBberton met TO arrange terms for the
isndei. ne Tree stood nearly midway between
the hostile lines, which were about seventy
yards apart 1t was carried away root aud
branch literally by the Union soldiers
Mrs. Thomas A. Scotps residence In Philade-
phla IS one OF the largest private dwellings in the
United States. II contains as many rooms as a
good-slZed hotel. These are all under the super
vision OF young man, who goes about with so
many Keys 10 a broad girdle around his waist
that The tradesinen who visit the house call him
ST. Peter" There are seventeen bathrooms in
the house.
An athletic Cuban negro, about 80 years of
age escaped The other night IN Boston from q
strong cell in police headquarters. Reaching be-
tween the bars oil his door, he pried off the face
OF Il huge paddock with a case-knife aud the
wire handle OF a bucket pushed back The bolt
ana opened the door He got through corridor
window 10 tie top of q shed, dropped TO the
ground, climbed a fence or TWO and was off for
parts unknown.
III this thing keeps on" said map printer
the other day. well all have 10 10 into
bankruptcy We hadn't got our United States