The morning call., 1890-06-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AS a rule women need about nine-tenths Of the
nourlshment requisite for nen.
| A woman at Mount Carbon, Pa, discovered an
Intruder in her room By fash OF lightning.
JOHN Coraty, an inmate Of the Hendricks
County Qnd9 Asylum, has been granted pen
sion OF $4,000.
There is such opposition among Manistiqae
(hiieh) saloon Keepers That beer Is now retailing
al ceut 4 glass.
There are thiriy-fve varieties OF granite IN
Maine. each OF which has easily recognized dis
tilctiye characteristics.
Burns manuscript of "ScOts Villa uae wi
Wallace Bed" has been sold by auction for $40.
I lie buyer Is an American.
Warden Brush of Sing Sing has received the
electric chair and appliances to be placed In the
death chamber for the killing of criminals.
The financial difficulties Of some Italian muule-
Qualities have Induced certain bankers OF Lon
don and Berlin 10 foim syndicate TO help them
out.
frances census OF carrier pigeons shows thai
III time OF The Government would have ~
Its disposal upward OF quarter OF milton oi
them.
DIR. ID. Hayes Agnew OF Philadelphia thinks
tile climatic changes which are taking place viii
In time bTIng The flora and animals Of the tropics
to flourish in this locality.
Ii is feared that the census enuInerators did
not catch on 10 the great army Of tramps. II
such Is the case, The population VIII not be SC
great by several millions as was expected.
F" kill-his-Popy," one OF Buffalo BilPs pet In
dians, has gone 10 his happy hunting grounds
after prolonged tour through foreign lands. tie
is now numbered among the good indians.
A remarkable run of striped bass Is reported
from the Susquehanna. AT Port Deposit iIIe
fish are said to be so numerous and so large thai
they have broken the nets OF several Of The siieE
men.
Tine Democrats intend making desperate
effort TO defeat Speaker Reed at the fall eee.
ton. The Speaker is up to SUM. and in all
probability Will be there TO DO j little election
eering and counting himself.
Drs. Gorham and stephens have Just extracted
a tooth for j. L. Mckenney OF Woolwleh. Me,
which is said to be tie longest human tooth on
record. Ii is an eye-tooth and measures one anu
nine-sixteenth inches In length
Charles X. Bennett. the Chicago editor who died
lately, once owned forty acres of land that Is now
days he was offered the entire possession oil
Mount Deseiet for trifitng sum.
well-known London lady OF rank has Just
had pair Of ten-butIon gloves made In winch
each button Is a diamond. The pair cost 5000.
Gentlemen In London are now wearing mousqus-
tare which 20 higher than the elbow.
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad is experimenting
with shaking CRATE on its freight engines, and
the result is said 10 be satisfactory. An engine
equi ped with CRATE ran over I'VE days without
clogging. aud the IRE continued brisk. No
blower was needed.
An Ann ArbOr (Mich.) man has secured
divorce from his wife because she refused To
sew on buttons. To guard against accidents he
had added In the Dill OF complaint something
about beiug petted with fat-irOus, fed on diet
OF bread aud milk and other minor orfenses
curious fact is noticed in connection with
In The majority OF cases there Is a much heavier
growth OF grass aud harnacles on one side than
on the other, and in numerous instances oDe
side will be almost flee, while the other Is as
foul as possible.
The railway book-staIls on the Stale lines In
Belgium are all TO be closed, as the Government
finds 1t impossible 10 prevent their keepers from
selling French books of the most Objectionable
Kind. All publishers and vendors OF works like
those OF NJ. lola are to be prosecuted with the
utmost rgor Of the law.
DIR. Wagner Of st. Johann Sarrebruek reports
the case OF man who for year aud a hall SUI
fered from most unpleasant cracking noises In
his left These occurred every five six
seconds and could be distinctly heard by per
son standing twenty cenlimeters away. Tho pa
tient had no deafness or infiammatory trouble,
but examination of the drum showed n split IN 1t
through which air was forced with each act Of
deelutiti0n.
A flock OF cranes made diversion In Georgia
There were probably mora Than hundred Of
the lank fowls i'll the flock, and quite number
of citizens watched them for nearly an hour As
they scared through the air high above the city.
They were as perfectly drilled as the average
military company. and there was not hitch or
hobble I'D their movements. They seemed TO be
governed by The movements Of \ leader, aud In
every wheel or turn there was not the slightest