The morning call., 1891-07-15
INTEMS OF INTEREST.

Seven hundred and fifty passenger trains
leave Jersey City daily.
Philadelphia has its first Democratic City
Treasurer for twenty-five years.
A physician in St Paul by mistake vacci-
mated lot of girls with mucilage
Chicago talks of erecting a theater into
which only people In full dress can go.
Freemansburg, Pa, has the lowest tax
rate in tue State. 1t is mill on the dollar.
Ferdinand Kelley, for ffty-two years Post
master at Centeryllle, Mass, has resigned.
The colored people of Georgia are forming
law and order leagues TO control their own
race.
An Indiana man paid $50 for black wal
nut tree which yielded nearly $4,000 feet of
lumber.
In the gizzard of hen killed at Lubec.
Me-, was found a small gold pin lost ten
years ago.
A brave little fellow of s years at Parkers-
burg, w. Va, rescued his baby sister from
drowning.
The water from contaminated well at
Valley Falls, X. l., has created an epidemic
of typhoid fever.
A Boston man who sued a neighbor for
encroaching upon his land a quarter of an
inch was awarded $40 damages.
Three steamers which arrived at New
York recently brought seventy-one children
who were down with the measles.
The united efforts of twelve men were re-
qured to subdue lunatic at Peru, Ind,
who was terroriZug the neighborhood.
A barber who has Travelled says that
Philadelphia Is the most profane city in the
country, with Pittsburg a close second.
A Kansas woman expects to earn silk
dress this fall by renting her apple-butter
kettle to her neighbUTs at 10 cents apiece.
A discharged choriSter in an Ohio town
took revenge on the congregation by sitting
In a nay Durppsalv m nf f,n
A New Englander boasts of bed-spread
that was woven In 1853, and has been
handed down from generation to generation
ever since.
In the city of St Petersburg it begins to
freeze al the end of October. and a general
thaw rarely takes place before the begin
ming of April.
At Germantown, Pa, the redoubtable
John Smith has been jailed for six months
for eating the contents of follow work
mans dinner pail.
A man who was fiued SIS in Reading
pa court replied: "All right, Squire; the
relief was worth that much to me-" Then
he was fined again.
A Michigan grocer has a mouse that
catches flies. He keeps it in his shOw-wn-
cow, where itdoes better work than square
yard OF ordinary ly-paper.
A Chicago woman sued for divorce,
alleging non-support Her husband has
made affidavit that he had given her $4,000
during the last eight years.
AT a Philadelphia store where high-priced
hosiery Is specially. an apartment is
maintained where ladies may try On stock
ings before purchasing them.
Emanuel Greisner of Lebanon, Pa, Just
40 years old, has been in this country
twenty years, married twenty years. and is
the father of twenty children.
An order has been promulgated in Boston
fOrDldHinO DRINKS In ma M fol in
saloons. Hereafter in the bar-rooms of that
city toasts will be drunk standing.
Marshall Fell of Marshalltown, Pa, had
two beshiyes in the yard. The heat of the
sun melted the wax aud large number of
the bees we're drowned by flowing honey.
Kansas farmer proved by actual meas
urement That corn on his place grew three
inches between shutdown Sunday evening
and O'clock the following Monday morn
Ing.
A train on the New York Central roa
recently made the distance between New
b6 minutes. The regular schedule time is
about Is hours.
The United States is young vet, but 1t
leads the world In its libraries The public
Libraries OF all Europe put together contain
about y, 900 volumes; those OF this coun-
try contain about 100000.
England is about to become a country o!
States leads the world; and in this move
England, the mother country. follows in the
footsteps Of her Child in the West.
a house-breaker in Kalamazoo, Mich,
was almost captured because of his FOOLS H.
ness III using par!nr match to light his
way, the noise attendant upon striking the
match awakening a sleeper in the room.
1t is said that chocolate is used In the In.
terror OF South America for currency, as are
cocoanuts and tggs. Norway even now
uses corn for coin. In India cakes of tea
pass as currency, and in China pieces of silk
The local authorities of Bordeaux. France,
baye suspended the h0rSe-car seTvice pend
Ing the disputes existing between the d.iv-
ers and the companies. Several uetards
have been thrown IN the streets causing con-
siderable alarm.
An investigator of the effect of perfume
on animals in the Geological Garden, Lon.
don, discovered that most OF the lions and
leopards were very fond of lavender They
took piece of cotton saturated with it and
held II between their paws with great de-
light.
William Summerville Of Rush County
Ind, has cherry tree thrty-six years old
one branch Of which persists in ripening il.
fruit six weeks after the remainder of tn,
crop has been gathered. The tree has neyel
been budded nor grated with different
kind of cherry.
A fifteen ear-old negro boy in Talbo,
County, Georgia, whose lavorite sport was
butting contests with the boys OF the neigh.
borhood, has been adiudged a lunatic and
will be seat to the asylum. 1t is thought
that the insanity was caused by aeoncussloI
Of the brain in one OF more OF these con.
tests.
In Trinidad, West Indies. they are now
drying the banana for shipment 1t is a
new idea anu one that promises well, ii
reports from there be true. The fruit loses
one-third or thereab ut in weight, but this
loss is balanced three or four times over,
according TO accounts, by the increased
price obtained.
a revivalist in Portland, Me-, produces 9
mystic effect by closing his meetings in 6
singular way. He requests perfect silence
for sbout three minutes, and 1t Is so still
that one can hear the buzzing of fly. Tner
he asks the people to pass out without say
ing word, and the big congregation dis
perses in solemn Quietpess,