The morning call., 1890-07-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There are 998 colleges IN the United STATES.
The Salvation Army comprises $3.50 bands.
Philadelphia Is planning 10 establish Con-
servatory oil Music.
During the last year AZ colleges received gifts
of money amounting 10 S2,675 900.
The twentieth anniversary of wedding is
never celebrated. Ii is considered very unlucky
10 do
Paris devotes $4,000 francs TO the ceebra.
ton OF The national festival On the l4tn OF July
this year.
The india-rubber Tree grows wild In Lee
County, Fla, and In Fort Myers ii Is used as 4
Shade and ornamental tree.
telephone line is about to be constructed be-
tween Reik jaViE and dayneford, Iceland. 1t
will be the most norlberly one IN the world
A Louisville woman of 28 married man of 81
years OF age WHO had twenty mine children. The
abuse of The latter finally drove her from home.
An English plaintiff has recovered damages
and costs for injuries done 10 his clothes by
baIbed-wiie fence While walking along public
path afteI dark.
DIR. Meredith, Brooklyn preacher has es-
tabiished second reading-ro0m for working
men, where no restriction Is placed on smoking
cigars ana pipes.
Glass manufacturers announce that the price
of mirrors will be greatly advanced, which
CAUSES the Boston Herald TO remark that IL Is
great blow 10 vanity.
MIR Louis Ledger OF New York Is the cham
piOn hard-boiled egg eater OF the worlo. That
dyspepsia defying young man has eaten thirty
eggs IN fifteen minutes.
The ''living'' portion Of the White House Is
quite small, Consisting only OF five bedrooms on
The second floor aud the dlnlng.roOm and one
other room on The first floor.
The most densely populated square mile in the
world is in the city OF New York. 1t is inhab-
lied By 10000 people, the larger part OF whom
Italians, who speak only their native lam
guage.
noted st. Louis detective says that all the
clever robDing schemes are originated and tried
In New York. and then, in the course OF from
one 10 nine months, tiled in all The other big
cities in the country.
On an uptown street in Philadelphia there are
six houses adjoining each other IN which the
wives are all sisters. The last was married
month ago. and last week secured the house ad-
joining those Of her sisters.
Mr. McGratb OF Woodord, Ky. possesses
remarkable feline. His cal was born with only
three legs, and as soon as the kitten became
large enough to leave It's mother he constructed
Il wooden leg and successfully adjusted it.
One OF New YOrk's famous young legal lights
recently adorned MS neckwear win pin headed
by a White enameled foolseap containing what
purportei TO be fyrewritten characters. In The
extreme corner cluster OF ruDes took the place
OF seal.
Senator ingalls, declares that the talk OF politi.
cal corruption proceeds from the tea-custard
and syllabup dlettlnllsm. the frivolous and
deSnltOry sentimentaiism OF epicenes." No one
suspects him OF having purloined this little
epiplexis.
The Fat woman's Club in New York City has
proved failure. At meeting few days ago
the weather was so hot that they were unable TO
gossip about their neighbors and the club imme-
dlately dlsbanded. l his hot weather Is doing a
heap OF good.
According TO recent figures the people OF this
country are longer lived than those OF Europe.
In this country Is persons out OF every 1000
die each year. In England the average Is 20,
and In Germany 80
james Merlin of Concord. Mass, has for II
years lain upor bed Without changing his posi-
ton. The osseous portions of his body have
united into one piece and from the crown OF his
head to the soes of his feet there is not joint
responsive to his Will.
A gambling club was ralded by the police OF
St. Petersburg recently and all of the inmates
were arrested. The players released with
tDe tie next day, but the PRINCIPALS were held
for trial. They were Tried and sentenced TO
exile In Siberia Tor five years.
a tradesman named Meekers was found at
night in street OF Eastborne. on the English
south coast, with seven long nails driven deep
into his skull. He was removed 10 the hospital
in dying state. The doctors say it is an aston
ishing case of deliberate suicide.
According 10 the Rast Aslatic Lloyd there are
1905 foreigners and Ala foreign business firms
IN Chinese ports. Great Britain has there 1926
citizens and 290 films; Germany 596 citizens
ana ~ firms; the United States 1861 citizens aud
81 firms; France SOL citizens and 20 firms.
A farmer near ST. Louis has nest OF owls In
his barn ana they keep 1t free from rats aud
mice. ! he birds lay up provisions night for
The next day. The farmer marked the bodies OF
the mice lie found by cutting of one foot with
pair OF SCISSORS. AT night all the marked mice
would be gone ana the next morning there would
be fresh supply
Hypnoiism has reached that poiut thar the
French authorities think Of creating superior
council OF medical Jurisprudence al The Ministry
of Justice to be composed of medical men and
magistrates, who will be required to give opn-
Ions as TO the responsibility OF criminals I'm con.
nection with The question Of suggestion and hyp-
notlsm, and OF heredity.
For those interested and who want 10 know
how turtle digs her nest, a gentleman who wilt
messed the performance says that after finding
suitable location The old 'hen" digs the hole,
something like a jug, using the hind fiippers
first Que and then the other, moving her boay
about as 10 be able to get at tile nest, If the
sand Is not TOO hard she will make nest in
II ON 25 to 80 seconds.