The morning call., 1891-10-19
ITEMS OF INTER EST.

The Lords of the Admiralty have decided
| upon extra pay for officers qualified to act
| as interpreters.
A man at Little Valley, n. Y, is the
| proud possessor of pipe which was brought
from Germany in 1872.
The finest of all lace is the Brussels. and
| one-fOrtieth of the whole population OF that
| city is engaged in making 1t.
st. Joseph, No., has a serenading club
which is so bad that its members have been
| arrested for disturbing the peace.
An heroic clergyman NJ Allegan, Mich,
| has sacrificed his own life in saving a MAJ
and three children from death in run
away.
A nice looking young lady of Bridgeport.
Mich, is making a mOleskn cloak and all
the boys i'll town are helping her catch
moles
A woman in Springfield, Mass, who is but
"a years OF age is grandmother. She
mother at II, and her daughter is now
mother.
The largest locomotive yet built in Europe
| was recently sent out of the Hirshau works
| IN Munich. 1t is 46 feet over all anu weighs
81 tons.
An extremely youthful married couple
| live in Sterling, Conn. The husband is not
| quite fifteen and the wife is but few
months past that age.
Russia has very powerful fleet OF tor
podo-boats, numbering about $50 vessels amt
ottlcered by men who are especially expert
in that kind Of service.
Medical science has many valuable su-
dorifcs or means Of bringing out perspira-
ton, but nothing ever invented excels step
ping on strange dog in the dark.
A man has been arrested in Prussia for
saying that the crazy King OF Bavaria was
the most useful monarch IN Europe, because
he spends his time peelng potatoes.
Astronomers say a shot fred on the equa-
tor OF Jupiter would travel with a rotary
motion 40 times greater than that Of = can
| non-ball fired at the earth'S equator.
A Kansas orator who went to Ohio to
stump the State has landed i'll an inebriate
asylum. There is a wide difference be-
tween the OhiU and Kansas drug-stOreS.
Boston has the biggest fy-wheel in the
country. 1t is % feet in diameter, 10 leet
inches face, weighs so tons, runs 5000 feet
minute aad is backed by 2000-hoTSe power.
A little girl in Pennsylvania who had an
attack of dyspepsia described the sensation
very concisely when she said: II desS l
must have eaten my dinner on top Of my
breaE"
The farmer can buy more now with the
proceeds OF a months labor than he was ever
able to buy before, which means that he neei
not JON any new party In order to get what
justly belongs to him.
Daniel OConnell, the great Irishman, is
to have monument in Chicago. 1t is to oc-
that city, and WILL it is expected, be dedi-
Gated during the Columbian Exposition.
A man living in Central City, Nebr., who
is in the habit of whipping his wife, has been
notified that he cannot persist in the habit
and remain in good health. The warning
came from a large number of his neighbJrS.
A Chicago firm recently received a con-
signment of English china and earthen-ware
which filled twenty-five cars and the duty
on which amounted to S6l97 80. The goods
were transported from Montreal in special
train.
There are nearly 6C0O lighthouses laid
down on the words charts. Over 500 are
on the United States waters, and S90.O0O,000
has been spent on this service by tile United
States since tie organization of the Gov
eminent
Greenland has no postage Stamps. Not
great deal OF mail matter leaves that coun-
try. That which the Kites party sent was
stamped by the Governors with Danish
stamps, taken to Denmark in the trading
vessels and there mailed.
A farmer at Halls Stream, n H., having
discovered bear and TWO cubs on the
Canadian side of the line, where there is no
bounty, drove them over to the New Hamp-
Saire side and killed them, ald so, for mis-
thrift, will receive $50 from the State.
The remains Of about 100 elephants have
been found at Mont-Dall, IN Brittany
where they are gathered on a surface OF
are broken and it Is, thought that the ami
mails must have been eaten by prehistoric
men.
Philadelphia ia years ago must have
had some Of its present characteristics. The
British army occupied it then and there
alter had such good time and we're so
soOthed and Modified by the air of the place
that they did nothing for a long time but
stay there and enjoy themselves.
We are quite used to circuses that adver-
tise investments from 100000 to $780,
GOO, but there Is another side TO the picture.
In the small railroad towns of New Jersey
circus now making one-day stands uses
only two cars for its outfit and exhibits only
one horse and one rider in the ring.
The Jericho, Iaffa and Jerusalem Rail-
road through the Holy Land is progressing
very slowly. The Turks are very inefficient
contractors. They perform the easier parts
OF the work first, and then rain-stOrm
comes along and washes IL all away, and It
becomes necessary to begin it anew.
Several women at Fort Worth, Texas,
moving in the highest social circles, have
been indicted by the Grand Jury, charged
with playing cards in private club-roOms.
The games were purely social. no money be-
ing at stake. This questionable action has
caused the greatest kind of a sensation.
A red-haired girl in Hudson, Mich, was
struck by lightning and all her hair was
burned off. Fifteen minutes later a white
horse In the same town was struck by light
ming and had most OF its hair burned of.
Even lightning recognizes that red headed
girls and white horses must suffer together.
A figure of the Goddess of Liberty, sew
enteen feet high, surmOunts the dome of the
new Teas Capitol, at Austin, which Is 800
feet hight \ swarm of bees have made
their nest in the bronze head of the goddess
entering by tue nOStrilS and recent inspec-
tiOn indicates that they have stored up there
barrel or two of honey.
81 I,
HaTgous, at her wedding to Duncan Elliott
at Newport 1t is that of the bride giving
a wedding present to the groom, and IL is
likely TO grow in favor. Her gift to Mr..
Elliott was an exquisite pearl Scarf-pin,
which OF course he wore in his white silk
cFavat on his wedding day.
A report comes from Moberly, No., that
the young lady members of the Methodist
Church OF that town have started out 10 pay
off the church debt in somewhat novel
way. They have pledged themselves to pay
10 cents into the church treasury every
time they are kissed, the young men who do
the kissing 10 pay the freight.
The diamond Is always a barometer OF
finance. Ii money is plentiful everybody is
wearing hem. When there is q stringency
in the money market the diamonds are sold.
The New York money market has been in
a state of strDgepcy for some time, and that
accounts for the scarcity of diamonds in
that great city, which so many visitors have
noticed.
Nearly two years ago Louis Heeb put the
fire end of lighted cigar against the flank
of a horse in the Dubuque QOwa) fire de-
partment and the horse was badly burned.
The intelligent animal remembers his
enemy and whenever Heeb enters the
engine house the horse shows signs Of anger
and tries to get out Of his stall to wreak
vengeance on the man.
A convict in the Ohio penitentlary has
received check for $500 from a Cincinnati
firm for the right to manufacture a buggy
spring invented by him during his incar-
ceration. He was sent up from Ashtabula
County for five years for forgery, and his
sentence has nearly expired. He has Sc
cured patents on several valuable inven-
lions while doing time.
The sale of keys is an important trade in
the New York eastside teuement-house
region, because of the constant shifting Of
tenants. Most eastside junk-dealers care
fully treasure all the secondhand keys
they get and some such men have on hand
thousands of keys. The price is ordinarily
70 md ic rara 70 Ind tam