The morning call., 1890-11-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

y AOiucu pIOltsSui tlidJ lilOot "atcl-
filters tend to increase rather than diminish
bacteria in water
A girl of IS and boy of II were married
at Columbia, Mo-, the other day, with the
full consent OF their parents.
Owing TO a heavy cabbage crop the people
of Pennsylvania are preparing for an unu-
Sually fine season of SauerEraut
A Russian Lieutenant % years old, has
just completed a trip by bicycle from st.
Petersburg to Paris inside of thirty days
The foreman of one of the largest barber
shops in New York is authority for the
statement that the number of men who part
their hair in the middle is increasing every
day.-N. Y. World.
Twice within the year has Jay Gould re-
fused to serve on jury, and each time he
has been fined $780, Next year, owing to
the high tariff, Mr.. Gould Will try to get
along with one refusal.
" William, Emperor of the Workingmen,"
was inscribed on the arch of welcome,
erected by the workingmen under which
William IL and Emperor Franz Joseph
passed in entering LiegnitZ.
Pecan nut growing is one Of the rising in
dustries OF the Gulf States. After the trees
begin to bear they involve no labor or ex-
pense and yield, il is said, an income of $500
TO $1,000 per acre, according to the quality
OF the nut.
England paid e21. 600 GOO last year to Con-
tinental countries for dairy products alone.
The butter and margarine imported weighed
over 100000 hundred weight, and the
cheese nearly 100000. The eggs England
imported amounted to !, 100,0o0,000.
Berlin, with its 100000 inhabitants, has
1898 physicians, 107 dentists and 100 licensed
apothecaries. For every 10000 persons there
are therefore 932 physicians and four-fifths
of au apotbecary. There are thirty-four
hospitals, with 1875 BEDS in the city.
Japan has a rapid-transit style of divorce
which must excite the envy of Chicago. a
citizen Of Bizen has been divorced from his
thirty-ffth wife, and there are indications
in the neghbornood where he lives that he
is getting ready to marry his thirty-sixth.
A reporter in Denver went to siXty-three
different men, all intelligent citizens, before
he found one 10 tell him the meaning of the
ergo" He has now started out with
ibid" and has already accosted fifty-four
men without getting satisfactory answer.
A very smart young man in Savannah
tried to pay his street-car fare with a 800
bill. The conductor was accommodating,
and stopping the car he went into store
and got the bill changed, giving the young
man a shot-bag full of silver, amounting to
500 90.
Smoking is so common in Japan that all of
the men and most Of the ladies smoke, the
girls beginning when they are about 10 years
of age. The ladies have pipes with longer
stems than the men, and if one of then:
wishes to show gentleman special mark
of favor, she lights her pipe, takes a Whit,
hands it TO him and lets him smoke.
The worlds stock OF diamonds has in
creased enormously in the last fifteen years.
In 1876 the output of the African mines was
about 100000 carats; last year it was over
100000, and the great trust which controls
all the principal mines asserts that it has
16,0G0000 carats in sight at the present time.
One Of the latest novelties for gentlemen
is mustache-traiDer. 1t may be styled
companion to the feminine curl-paperS. 1t
is made of plate of thin metal, shaped like
the mustache, and is TO be worn at night.
The invention is from Paris, and it is said
that good many are already in use in New
York.
The City OF Mexico is as badly disap-
pointed in its census as New York. Not
withStanding there are evidences of growth
on every side, the new census shows less
population that the one taken about a year
ago. The total count is $4,000 and the
rive Republics says it is now apparent that
the population has always been overest-
mated.
The thoroughly conscientious and real
istic way in which Nine. Bernhard ap-
proaches M. Sardou's play OF 'Cleopatra"
is shown by the fact that she has read up
naval tactics in connection with the battle
of Actium, and is prepared to prove that
what has been hitherto considered ques-
tionable conduct on the part of Cleopatra at
tina: engagement was really very subtle
attempt at maneuverlng.
The new automatic machine now used for
stamping in the New York Postoflice will
cancel, postmark, count and stack the let
tiers and postal-eards at the rate Of about
$4,000 per hour In two hours and two min
utes it Cancelled, postmarked, counted and
stacked 46.480 letters and postal-cards, of
which 21,000 were letters. The machine is
driven by an electric motor, but it can be
run with foot power, like small printing
press.
A Texas paper makes this statement: "a
remarkable case OF premonItion of death oc-
CURED last week at Weatherford. II. q.
Angel, saddler of that place, told his wife
last Sunday that he would die Monday night.
The next morning he went TO his shop as
usual, arranged all his affairs and wrote his
will. Going home that night he dressed him.
self in his best suit of clothes and quietly
lay down on the bed and died as he had pre-
dicted."