The morning call., 1891-06-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The bird on the hat is almost as dead as
| the hustle. a miliiner says.
Three out of every five women who ride
| in street-cars sit with their toes in.
| A Dooly County (Ga) negro owns three
| farms, mill steam cotton gin and store.
| A three-year-old child of Centervile,
Mich, tips the scales at lightweight pounds.
| An egg-pickling concern in Michigan has
! over half million OF the fruit stored away
| In watts.
1t takes an expenditure of nearly 900
| to carry vessel like the Majestic across the
| Atlantic.
Two indianapolis girls climbed smoke
stack 100 feet high. winning box OF gloves
| and local fame
There were II, 000 banana punches i'm
| ported by the United States last year, an in
| crease of 3,500,000.
Two Paw Paw (Mich) women are to be
| tried for stealing flowers from soldiers
| graves after Memorial day.
! The Bank of Scotland issued 81 notes as
| early as 1704, and their issue has since been
| continued without Interruption.
Deppe suddenly appears as the home OF
| the most marvellous ivory carverS ever
| known, the Chinese and Swiss not excepted.
| A colored man, near Cochran, Ca. has
| six fingers on each hand, and three OF his
| four sons are said to possess the same num-
| Der.
An English statistican estimates the
| worlds Indebtedness at $4,000, 100000 If
| the world owes that much, who are its cred
| itorS?
| The man who has his shoes blackened
! every day by bOOtblack pays more money
to the ''Shiuer' than he does to the shoe
maker.
A number of skeletons were recently dis
| covered in a field near Tucker, \. j. 1t is
| thought to have been an old Indian burying
! ground.
! Thomas Rowland of Stroudsburg Pa, has
| limb of an apple tree on which grew rose
| two aud half Inches in diameter, aud per-
| feet in shape and color.
A Jersey City Amazon is on trial for
| whipping three policemen, who were too
| badly done up to appear against her.
| Witnesses finished the testimony.
The citizens of Hudson, n. H., are making
| a boast that no town in the State can match
a woman who lives there, who, though but
| 81 years Old, has had fifteen children.
A baby alligator brought from Florida
| five years ago and liberated in Lincoln Me-
| swamp, has grown to be monster that can
eat a dog-so the Penobscot Indians say.
A man in Pittsburg, Pa, adyertises
Guess the name of my dog. will write a
! song free OF charge Tor any minstrel, yaude-
vile or burleSque company that does so"
A man has been through several Michigan
counties capturing orioles by means Of a
bird call. The birds are shipped to Eastern
! cities and Europe to decorate ladies hats.
The cells Of the human lungs are 75.000,O 900
in number, covering a surface from two aud
! a half to three and half times greater than
the whole body surface Of ten full-grown
| men.
A cave-in on the farm OF J. H. Miller,
| eighteen miles from Sedalia, at the head of
Lake Greek, revealed an underground river.
The water is % feet deep and The stream is
very rapid
John NJ. Evitt reports seeing a buzzard
| with bell on its neck near Ringgold, Ga,
recently. Tie bird is quite large one, and
the linking Of the bell could be heard con-
siderable distance.
The case of Jonathan Jones, charged with
murder, is on trial in Council Bluffs. This
! case has been the first on the trial list for
thirteen years, and there have been various
reasons for rehearing.
Doyle ,town Pa) people are doing all
| sorts OF things to keep the birds from the
cherries on the trees, but none of them are
| successful. The latest idea was that Of
| hanging sleigh-bels on the trees.
In five counties, where the population is
nearly all native American" the Maine
Bible Society has found 10 Alb families who
! confess they never go to church and $50
families who do not own Bible.
John PAYNE. the transla' or Of the latest
| edition Of The Arabian Nights" is now at
work upon complete metrca translation
Of the writings of HatiZ, the great Persian
| poet. The work will be issued by the Villon
| Society
One gets some idea OF the size of the moth
tribe by contemplating the fact that the late
| Harry Edwards, the actor, owned collec-
| ton Of moths and butterflies containing
more than-300,0 900 specimens, which were in
| sured for S17, 600.
The stingieSt man in Georgia lives in VIII
| cox County He has been married eleven
| lurlnp that hnC iv Inn
| one sack OF -four aud one 25-cent calico dress
for his wife. The spinning wheel is still at
work in his house.
The great treasury vault at Washington
! covers more than quarter OF an acre and
| is twelve feet deep. Recently there was
S90,000,000 IN silver stored there-an amount
that weighed four thousand tons and would
load 175 freight-cars.
A Philadelphia surgeon says that by three
strokes OF the lancet he could paralyZe the
nerves acted on to make man get mad, and
| thereafter any one could pull his nose cuff
his ears and spit on his boots and be would
simply smile soft, bland smile.
A GreenVille (Me) man recently cut
slight cash in his thumb with u razor.
Shortly afterward he was seized with the
| most eXcrnclatlng pains in his arm and soon
died in great agony. His arm and body
were swollen 10 immense proportions.
One of the railway tunnels under the
Hudson connecting New YORK City with the
Jersey shore at Hoboken will be finished in
about six months. From end to end it will
be 1900 or 1900 feet long The motive
power of the trains will probably be cleo
tricity.
New Workers are endeayoring TO improve
household affairs by the introduction of
man-servants into domestic service. The
result is said TO be toward the introduction
of business-like methods and view below
stairs, and works well for employer and en-
ployed.
The best coffee that Is exported from
Mexico is raised by colony OF Confederate
refugees who settled in Cordona, in the
State of Vera Cruz. at the end of the war.
They have devoted all their attention to
this industry, and 1t has proved very profit
able to them.
At recent wedding in Phenxville, Pa,
just as the happy pair were starting away
and the guests we're showering them with
rice, the brides little dog, being of the mind
that his mistress was being abused, sailed in
and bit several Of those who attempted to
embrace her.
jack with which he was lifting second
hand buggy which he had just bought tore
through the bottom of the vehicle and re-
vealed TO Jonas Warner Of Passaic, N. j.,
several bank notes. There was false bot
tom in the buggy and in the space thus made
he found over $1,000 in greenbacks and other
odd notes.
Don't suffer from dyspepsia. Take Simmons
Liver Regulator. II always cures.