The morning call., 1891-06-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


There are 10, 900 different kinds of postage
stamps in the world.
The Chicago parks have eighty-Seven
miles Of driVeways.
In the gizzard of a hen killed at Lebec,
Me-, was found a small gold pin lost ten
years ago.
The Ceylon pearl fishery last season was
the second largest on record during tie pres
ent century.
A very large acreage is devoted to grape
growing In New Jersey, and the area Is eX-
tending yearly.
The ordinary watch crystal passes through
the hands Of thirty-hye wUrkmen before II
is ready for use.
Through ages of contact with civilization
the English sparrow has almost lost the IN
| stlnct for nest-buiding.
Atlantic City's resident population is
| $4,000. In the height Of the season it has
| been known to reach 100000.
Five manhoes recently blew up stimuli
| tanrOusly in New York. causing great dam
| age to property, but fortunately no Injury
| 10 human life.
| A grain of fine sand would cover 100 of
| the minute scales of the human skin, and
| yet each of these S aes in turn covers from
| 300 10 800 pores.
For arresting a woman on a Geographic
| order the Marshal of Ulysses, Nebr., has
| been bound over for trial on charge CT
| false imprisonment.
| There are twelve streets in Amsterdam on
| which no horse is ever allowed to be driven,
| either to draw hearse or fire engine. They
| are kept as clean rs floors.
Buddha is wOrshiped in Paris in various
| private temples, the deyOtees being chiefly
| Japanese, but among them are many French
men and few Engiishmen.
| According to the census Philadelphia Is
| the greatest manufacturing city in the
| Union, leading all other cities in the value
! OF It's products by $4,000, 900.
The Vermont maple-sugar crop for the
season just closed is set at II, 000, 900 pounds,
of which 40 per cent is syrup and It's mar
! ket value Is estimated at 81, 100000.
Mrs. Helen Conan of Boston, who has
kept a record since January l, 1889, says
that 1904 women have been murdered by
| drunken husbands since that period.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Potter of Fayette
! County. Iowa, celebrated the seVenty-third
anniversary of their wedding. Both are
over 81 years OF age and enjoy good health.
After the famine Of 1S47 lace-making was
revived in ireland Limerick, the most
| successful Irish lace, Is not really lace at
ali. 1t is tambour work upon net and mus
! lin.
| If you want fowls to thrive provide them
with pure water as well as good food. The
! one Is as necessary as the other. The drink
! Ing fountains should De en- piled and reflled
| daily.
Thomas Dollhouse, Rochester IN. y
| insurance agent, pawned his wlfe'S Bible,
! paid up an insurance policy with the pro-
| ceedS, AMI then committed suicide by jump
| ing IN the canal
There is still great deal OF superstitlous
| nonsense in the mind OF the average mari
| ner. Even the best educated sailors refuse
| to put to sea In vessel that carries the
| body of dead man.
! II Is proposed, If permitted, to introduce
| into the London streets the steam carriages
which have proved a success in Paris. They
are said to be more under the conLrUl.of the
| driver than is horse
The first known weather record was kept
| by Walter Merc for the years 1887 to 1874.
few Photographic copies of the original
Satln manuscript, now IN the BOdlelan Lii
brary, have just been made.
West Point cadets wear at least three pair
! OF white trousers a day, aud some of the boys
have fifty pairs each. La one sense they are
''hand-me-downs," since on graduation their
owners pass them down 10 friends ia the
lower classes.
Professor Blackie mentions the case OF
young man who lived during an entire col
Iege session on red behring's and one barrel
of potatoes which he had brought from
home. He finally succumbed to the weak
ness brought on by insufficient food.
A woman appeared at College Point
l.. l., few days ago with a beautiful col
lection OF birds which she called Australian
warblers. She sold them rapidly at 81 EACH
The birds turned ont TO be common English
spaTrows, with their feathers artistically
painted.
A Newburyport landlady has a black
BOARD protected by glass door placed at
one end of her dining-roOm. When any
boarder fails to pay for two consecutive
weeks his name is written IN large letters on
the bOard and is not erased until satisfac-
tory settlement is made.
ffteen-yeaI-oid New York boy, who
was examined as witness in case, said
he had never heard OF God nor the Bible
did not know who made the earth or the
SKY, nor what punishment would be meted
out hereafter TO wicked people who took
false oaths. He was told
The slot machine has been put to new
use in Birmingham, England, being applied
10 Tile GAS meter In tenement houses. When
gas is wanted you drop a two penny pi-ce in
the slot and get gas for an hour, at the end
OF which time 1t goes out and it requires
another coin to turn it on.
New York City is making a determined
move to establish cheap lodging houses for
women and seems likely to succeed. For
from 10 to 30 cents a woman can secure in
one OF these houses decent and private
lodging Tor the night, and can get her break
last Tor 10 cents Ia the morning,
A unique carpet is being made for the
Church OF LIE C9ur de Jesus Montmartre,
in Paris. by some Partisan ladies. 1t will
cost 94000, aud the names of the workers are
TO he embroidered around the border The
center represents MOntmartre and above
are to be the arms of the city of Paris.
For long time aprons of round or Brus-
sells point were allowed in full Dress Beau
Nash put them down. One night at AL
mack's he tore one from duchess and
flung 1t under foot, though 1t had cost 200
guineas, declaring that it was a badge of
servltude, aud fit only Tor nurse-girls when
away from home.
A workman of Elizabethport, n, j.. was
hit in the neck by steel splinter from a
machine. The chip penetrated the flesh
and lodged in the windpipe. The next day
he was seized with violent fit of coughing,
which loosened the steel and he elected It.
The wound bled freely after being inflicted,
but the man is now well.
John Whitside, aged Is, and Nellie Biggs,
daughter OF III. T. Biggs, the Mealthiest
farmer in Tamalco Township, H.. eluded
tbs vigilance of the girls father and were
married at Greenville The groom's face
had been seriously damaged by his father
in-law's fist As soon as they were married
they bought tickets Tor Texas.