The morning call., 1891-12-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

ueclueu lHat the use Ol the WOru damn Is
not profanity.
There are over 100000 Hebrew residents
below Fourteeth street aud east Of the Bow
cry in New York.
A blacksmith's tools of the present day
are almost identical with those used in the
same trade over 800 years ago.
No man can exl ect to successfully wear
the trousers of comfort unless he buckles
on the Suspenders OF hard work.
The oldest liquor in any New York club
cellar Is supposed to be some SaYilac
brandy of the vintage Of 1903 at the Union
CLUB.
The glass-makers of Thebes forty centu-
ries ago possessed the art Uf staining glass,
and they produced the commodity in the
utmost prOluslon.
A girl in Norway must be able to bake
bread before she can have beau. The one
who takes the cake a cook is considered
the flower OF the family.
A Chehoygan (Mich.) man declares that a
mixture of wildcat grease and kerosene oil
will knock galley west the worst case of
rheumatism he ever saw.
Mrs. kendall, the great English actress, is
the inventor and patentee of lamp and
candle shade, from the sales of which she
derives handsome profit.
1t has been shown that the life of fish Is
very great. Hundreds of fish are still alive
in the royal aquarium in ST. etersburg
ago.
The proposed sale of the Planters Hotel
in ST. Louis recalls tie fact that in former
years this was the finest hosiery in the city,
and largely patronized by the elite Of the
South.
In Denmark women are distinguishing
them selves III literature and medicine. At
the University OF Copenhagen several
women students have honorable place IN
the classes.
A factory in Traverse City. Mich, turns
out 1859 names a day. On that scale it is an
uncommon industry, names being the pieces
OF wood used in the collars Of harnesses for
dTaught horses.
Among novel things In jewelry is a ring
composed of seven fue gold wires, each in
cruSted with small diamonds, rubies, sap
| phires or emeraldS The wires ale twisted
together in banu.
When the baby comes the first thing the
tond father does is 10 give 1t u weigh. After
few weeks he feels sometimes as If he
would like to give it away; but he never
| dares say SO to his wife.
A black bear jumped aboard construc-
| ton train near Falmouth, ONO, and was
| apparently enjoying the ride until some of
the tralnmen maue their way TO him from
the caOOose and dubbed him off.
An application has been received from a
Wilmington (Del) woman for space at the
| Chicago Fair for the exhibition Of a col
lection OF collins, containing subjects. sho W.
| ing the effects OF her embaming process.
Somebody besides the fishermen must be
making considerable money out Of Column
ba River sturgeon. 1t sells readily in New
York ana Boston at % cents pound, while
on the Columbia it is worth at most 2
cents.
II parents are obliged to ransom their
| children from klduapers, and trains are
| robbed In the suburbs of the great cities, is
| there not pretty strong intimation that
| civilized government needs TO reconstruct
| itself?
The Lombardy poplar never seeds; it is
| simply variety Of another poplar, and has
| to be increased wholly from cuttings. The
| pollen bearing form, so far as known, is net
in this country. The plant is wholly pis-
| tlliate.
In the hot regions of Africa more than
| 1000 laborers are engaged i'll building the
| Congo Railroad, and lii the cold regions of
| Siberia many thousands OF Russians are
employed is the construction OF the trans
| Siberian railroad.
| Zadkiel, the English planet reader, in his
| Sixty-secOud annual almanac, just issued,
| has found a message somewhere in his stel-
| lar readings to the effect that in November
| of next year there will be "a death of an
Empress or a Queen"
| Hypnotism is defined by Professor Bern
helm, one of its chief students and expert
| ents. as The induction of a psychcal con-
| dition in which the subjects susceptibility
TO suggestion and ability to act upon it are
| enormously increased"
| To tell mushrooms from toadstools with
| out eating and waiting for the results peel
| an onion and put with it the fungi while
| being cooked. LII the onion remains white,
ca: with confidence. If it turns black, cal
with au emetlc or stoD ach- pump at hand,
| Barbara Frietchie, namesake but no
| relative of Whitter's historic heroine, has
haAn "a "a nNlA
| She will 60 Waiting down the corridors OF
time to different music from that which
| Fame will sound for the more reputable
| Barbara.
OF late years the Dominion Government
has adopted many wise measures for I'M
| proving Canadian agriculture. Expert
| mental farms have been established in
widely separated provinces, and placed
under men who are at once practical and
scientific farmers.
When offered for sale In the local mark ct
in the Ihamas sponges are either piled I'D
| loose or made into strands or beads of from
two to ten sponges each. The best sponges
| are usually made into strings of from eight
| to ten sponges each, the price averaging
| about 60 cents per string.
The greatest market for wild animals In
the world, the place where circuses and mu-
seums purchase their wild beast curiosities,
Is the establishment of the firm of Hagen
bech, in Hamburg. In storehouse 5OOx6O(
they have in stock specimens Of every kind
and condition OF animal life.
Several of the most prominent women Of
Sea Cliff, l.. l., have begun n crusade
against the liquor traffic in that village
The women claim that the saloons are de-
moralzing the village and have been in
strumental in causing much of the crime
that has been committed there of late.
| A stony, waterless region of France has
evolved race OF animals that do not drink
The sheep feeding upon the fragrant herbs
have altogether unlearned the habit O
The much-esteemed RoQuefort cheese il
/ made from the milk of the non-drinkin,
cows.
Electricity has been tried In Sweden To-
blasting. A deep hole is drilled in the rocl
and Jablochkoff candle is inserted and th,
current turned on. The intense heat cause
tne rock TO swell at that point, and interna
best drilled into the solid parts, not, as IL
blasting in the seams and soft places.
A Mobile (Mo.) girl recently fell down
fOrty-foot we'll in which there was twent
feet Of water. She was unnjured, excep
that she was very wet when fishpd out
The well-cOyer had been left off and sh
walked right into it. Her screams brough
assistance in time. A rope was loweTe
and she was dragged OUT She was no
scared until she reached the upper all
when she almost tainted.
DR.. Boyle. most eccentric character O
Essex County, Ontario, is dead. He wa
81 years Of age. DR.. Boyle made q grea
United States, by handling patent medicine
having an office in New York. He leave
an estate valued at $l00, 600, of which $50,
Geo is in New York One Of his pecuiiarl
tie, was to appear upon the streets In oil
Oonunentai dress, with knickerbockers ant