The morning call., 1890-07-08

Country correspondents OF New Hampshire
papers report an agreeable scarcity OF potato
bugs.
The tallest schoolgirl In the world lives at
RiednauD, near STERLING. she Is III her eleventh
year and is about six feet high
The sweet girl graduate is tile persOnifcation
OF pulchritude the suOiimatiOn OF symmetry, the
embodiment OF enthusiasm ana the duplication OF
teuderness.-Utica Observer.
ARussian society has begun the publication Of
a newspaper IN London called Free Russia which
is designed to influence English opinion in favor
Of constitutional liberty III Russia.
Great excitement has been caused in France
recently by the mobilization Of a certain number
OF the German troops IN Alsace-Lorratne. The
Germans say that II is merely 'for practice"
II is said that through a livery monopoly viii CHI
owns all The carriages and controls number OF
shops, the uuWary Traveller at Niagara Falls is
plundeTed pretty much as lie used 10 be IN anti
reservation days.
Instead OF paying the clergyman a cash fee,
bridegroom The other DAY presented to the divine
who Offciated set OF yeStinents aud an ecclesi.
astical ring engraved on the inside 10 comnemo-
rate the occasion.
est cOurtships OH record. The groom was guest
al Canton hotel. lie became infatuated with
the cook on tile day OF his arrival, proposed and,
being accepted, married her at once.
For the first time since Harvard College was
founded the qulnqueunIal record Oh its alumni Is
issued in English instead OF Latin. DUNG its
254 years OF existence Harvard University has
graduated JIG, $50 pupils, OF whom little more
Than one-halt (S627) are stlll living.
The Apache Indian may not be fool after all E.
When he gels new plug hat he cuts out Tue top
aud lets his raven locks float out and dIngie all
around. AT this The pale-iace cachinnates and
makes many funny remarks. But did any pale
face ever see a bald.headed Apache?
statistical enthusiast has calculated that
pianist in playing certain presto played $685.
notes In four minutes. The striking of each note
involved TWO movements of the finger and one
movement each OF Tie elbow, wrist and arm.
From this it is calculated that seventy-two Yolun-
tary movements were made per second
Joseph Van NosiTaud, aged 10 years, of Ho-
boken, n. j., carried parcel for mau on board
the steamship Vera several days ago. The
vessel left The WHAT before he was aware of II
and lie has been carried across tbe ocean. A
cable message mas been sent 10 have him re-
turned
While the heavy rain and hail storm was pass
ing over Mars Hill Ca lightning struck small
oak tree under which SIX horses were tied. The
tree was completely shattered, bur, strange TO
say, none Of The horses we've hurt. Several per-
sons were also near, but they received 0aly
slight shock.
Ward McAlllster tells the fashionable young
men firmly, but eindiy, that they must not have
Wallets. " No gentleman should permit himselt
This sort OF association" lie says aud there are
those who dare suggest In this connection tie
principal OF selT-preserYation and tile saying that
man is 4 hero TO his valet.
The other day North Carolina woman started
for Tie iaymOw 10 see now ii hen WAS getting
along that was sitting on some eggs. On enter-
ing The barn the woman was surprised 10 see
the old hen taking her chicks down herself. She
would pick one up IN her mouth, fly down with
it, lay IL down aud continue the process until
she carried them all down, thirteen In number.
Southern papers are alarmed by the extensive
purchases OF The pine lands In that Sc ctlon by
Northern lumherman. Ii Is said that They are
quietly buying up all the plne lands they can
possibly get, with The view Of NOV Ing to the
South in The near future. The Southern people
are advised not 10 sell al The low prices they
have been taking.
A munstTous chunk OF ore was taken from the
Mountain Consolidated nine at Butte City,
Mont, a few days ago. 1t was too large to put
used. The ore Is estimated TO weigh nearly four
tons and Is nearly solid copper and silver. IL
has been bound with hoops OF iron and boxed up,
preparatory 10 shipment, probably 10 London.
a brutal German sub-lieulenant stood sword
In hand over private soldier aud compelled him
to keep his hand IN boiling water over ire
under the pretense that 1t was The doctors order
TO remove confusion. The hand was ruined
aud the man crippled for life. lie has been IN
yailded and given pension OF 81 20 month.
The inhuman officer was sent to prison for TWO
mOulhs
AT ten years OF age a boy thinks his father
knows great deal; at fifteen he knows as much
as his father; at twenty lie knows twice
much; al thirty lie is willing 10 take his advice;
al forty lie begins TO think his father knows
something after all; at nifty he begins 10 seek bis
advice, aud al sixly-afIer his father is dead-he
thinks lie was the snartest man that ever lived.
-Atchls0n Globe.
In the vicinity of Strackers Bend, His, wild
man has been seen on several occasions. lie
has appropriated a section OF timber to his own
use aud is being left severely alone. He forae es
Tor supplies al night and lives OD lie faI OF the
LAND, and lie residents are AFRAID TO venture out
after dark. Strong measures for his capture are
being contemplated, he Is the source Of much
terror 10 the settlement.
When the appraisers were making an lnyen-
tory Of the effects OF the late Alexander Smith,
a Pennsylvania, they shown silver
watch made In Belfast, Ireland, WHICH Mr..
Smiths father had given him when hSWas
boy, and which lie mad carried constantly Tor
seveDly-four years The watch is now the prop
erty OF Mrs. Mary BrOadhead, and IL still III good
running order aud good tmeplece.
A fOur-in-hand eOach-race lately took place
from Vienna 10 PTe5Durg. Tie participants
were among the elite OF Austrian aristocracy.
Count Wimpfel's team was the winner, covering
tile distance In three hours. The first prize was
1000 guden aud gold medal; a gold medal was
the second prize. Vienna aud Presburg society
turned out almost en- masse TO see the aud
The roads between The Two cltles were thtODged
with sighl-seers.
The French are certainly great on novel ideas.
new clock contains novel application of tile
magnet. The clock is shaped like tambourine
with circle OF flowers painted ON lis head.
Around the circle two bees crawl, the larger one
requiring Twelve hours 10 complete its circuit,
while the smaller one makes IL every hour.
Different flowers represent the hours, and the
bees, Which are OF iron. are moved by the mag
nets behind The head OF the tambOurine.
5932 want ads. in THE CALL last week.
More than in any other city paper.