The morning call., 1891-12-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| Turkey is rarely boiled in this country
| while 1t is dish highly esteemed in En-
| gland.
BARRIERS usually gamble with the money
earned by shaving dead men. 1t brings
| luck, they say.
Seventy-two years ago the Capitol at
| Washington was first occupied by the Con-
| gress OF the United States.
Eggs are fripd III shapes of hearts. stars
and other devices by means of pans having
| sunken places in these shapes.
| Addie Johnson. West Virginia, is skill
full machinist. For three years she has had
| entire charge of grist and planning mill.
Out of an Indian population of go, 4SS
| there are but 26l9 voters. The Indian vote
will not be an issue in the next campaign.
When flowers or other bright decorations
| are hard to obtain n most pleasing substi-
| tute Is afforded by the cones of pine or Nor
| way spruce.
Sallie Matthews of Cloverport, KY, has
been for six years agent of cOOperage
| company, with 200 men and several steam
boats under her command
Most bridal chambers have lost their value,
| and the best customers to give them to are
| old married people. They appreciate them
| more than the young ones do.
Somebody has said there is no more ele-
| waiting and poetic employment in the world
| than cooking. Perhaps it is so, yet it shOnld
| seem to depend mainly on the cook.
| sauntering about the Common in the very
| early morning. At that hour, he says, the
| place Is so still that one can almost hear the
| bark of the trees.
Licorice root come sprincipally from Asia
| Minor and IS the root of n bush not more
| than three or four feet high. The dried
| roots are sent to Bagdad aud thence to Lon
| don and America.
The Rothschilds annually give 100, 900
| francs to be distributed among the twenty
ACCOMPLISHMENTS of Paris for the assistance
Of deserving persons who have difficulty In
| paying their rents.
Miss Jennie FOrker of Brooklyn. q sales
woman, has fallen heir to $50, 900 and
| homestead near Yonkers. She has resigned
| gone 10 the estate, and young men are look
ing in that direction.
Isaac Anglln, perhaps the Oldest man in
Northern Indiana, died at his home near
Warsaw recently. He was one hundred
and three years old. and came to this
| country nearly siXty-five years ago.
Mrs. Hyack of Saltwater. Oklahoma, has
sued Joshua Mckinley. wealthy farmer
of the neignborh0od, for $4,000 damages
| Tor towing with her affections. He Is 65.
She is 10. Her husband has been dead six
months.
Thomas Mast, the cartoonist, lives in
MorristowD, n. j.. preferring the quiet of
| the country to the hustle of the city. Time
| has whitened his hair and his face is
| art work.
| Colonel d. 3. Sickles tells OF q little girl
| OF Harlem who had just returned from
seeing. church wedding, and swho de-
scribed the bride by saying: " She had a
mosquito net over her head, and there was
no flies on her."
Let rat come near a clamshell and If the
clam is alive it will seize the animal by the
tail and never let 60 till the tail comes of.
| ms is hint to people whose houses are
| troubled with rats. Let them get few live
CLANS and guard the rat holes.
The result of the recent attempt to raise
tea In North Carolina indicates that the soil
| and climate are favorable to such an in
dustry, but that, owing to the expense of
! picking and curing, none but the highest
grades could be produced proftably.
The gifted authoress of Uncle Toms
| Cabin now 50 years of age, is said to be
| falling rapidly. \ gentleman who recently
| visited her home in Hartford says that she
| has failed very much OF late and her mind
| Is so crOuded that she cannot talk consecu-
| lively on any subject.
Perhaps $1,000, 600 would not represent the
| value of the Vanderbilt jewels. Mrs. WILL
| lam h. Vanderbilt has superb diamond
crescent two inches in diameter, pearl
necklace owned by the Empress Eugenie
| and valued at $500 this rope of gems
| being about forty inches long.
| The ups and downs of life can be seen in
| the career OF Frederick Gleason of Boston.
| He established the first illustrated paper In
this country, and for years Gleas on's Picto-
rial had large patronage In 1851 his in
| come was $4,000 Now he is an inmate of
| the Old Mems Home in Boston.
The Superintendent of the Dead-Letter
| Office reports that during the last fiscal
year {, S29, 400 pieces of mail were returned
| as unbelievable. OF the number 422, 639
! were instructed letters, and 81, 677 with no
| direction whatever. Money to the amount
| OF S47,9S3 was found in the letters.
| Among the old Philadelphia wills is one
| Of Mary Farmer, dated October 80 1884, in
which she beaueaths the sum of e6 annually
to her maid servant, Elizabeth Mayo, as
| reward Tor her faithfulaess. Major Jasper
| Farmer, in will written in 1866, leaves his
| son Richard 10 shillings to buy a ring.
| Selia Sawtella, lawyer, says that in many
| OF the States will made by q single woman
becomes worthless on her marriage She
| should make new will and have her hus-
band give his written consent 10 it on the
| document itself. This consent is not neces-
| sary in every State, but can do no harm
anywhere.
The construction of the Congo Railroad
is progressing at fair rate of speed, and
| track is laid for good portion of the way
to Stanley Pool. Twenty two hundred
| la5orers are employed, 200 of which are
white men in charge OF various branches of
the work. Three locomotives are now on
| the track.
ne CEILING OF the entrance nail OF the i'm
| perial Museum Of Art at Vienna is covered
| with one immense painting by Munkacsy.
| The canvas on which this was painted was
| single immense Sheet woven expressly
for the purpose, and SO large that special
| building had to be constructed for the
studio in which 1t was painted.
| Some very pretty bits Of poetry have
| been written about church bells, but thew
were country bells. The city bell, espe.
| cially when 1t is attached to the fire alarm
| system. is as far removed from poetry or
music as the potato-bug is from the lark.
! IL is, besides, positive menace to the peace
OF mind OF the average citizen.
Amos Root, who died at Jackson, Mich.
| recently, at the age OF 76. was a pioneer
| and was identified with the building of
every railroad entering that city. He was
| the President and organizer of the did
Grand River Railroad, now operated by the
Michigan Central. He had held MANY i'm.
portant political offices and leaves large
| fortune.
| In 1016 an awful famine ragged throughout
| all Europe, and again from 1893 to 1195.
| when complete crop failures caused terribls
| suffering. In England and France the peo-
pie ate the flesh of dogs and cats, aud m any
| cases Oh cannibalism were recorded. Dur
| ing the latter three years thousands upon
| thousands peris ed from starvation.
The leopard is an inhabitant of Africa.
| India and the Indian Islands. Its height ia
| about two feet. These animals are accus
| toned to live much on trees, and on that ac-
| count are called tree-tigers by the natives.
Ihey are easily tanned and become very
1ond oil their keepers, and they like per.
Tunes as well as most girls do, showing de-
cided preference. however, for lavender
| water.