The morning call., 1891-11-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| 1t would require 1000 horses to cart away
| the amount of SCOT which falls in London
| each month.
| A new colonial coin issued by Grea I
| Britain has on its diverse the Arabic word
| Adj, meaning justice.
There is tree in Merrimac. Mass, on
| one side OF which grow acornS and on the
| other side black cherries.
A shoemaker's shop in Taunton. Mass, is
| papered with certificates and bonds OF de-
| funct insurance companies.
There seems every probability that the
| next Congress will vote i'll favor OF Tree
| mail delivery in the smaller towns.
Russell Sage carries siXty-four curious
| coins for luck. One of the most precious is
| penny that he found In his boyhood.
America must at last pale it's Intellectual
| fires before the refulgent sunlight OF Eli
! gland. London has woman auctioneer
A Colebrook IN. h pack-peddler who
went to New York twelve years ago with
| $4,000, now owns, with his brother, 150
| tenement-houSes.
1t has been figured out that the onion crop
| in Sunderland, VT, this year, will put
| about $4,000 into the pockets of the farm
| ers in that vicinity.
Ii man has quarrelsome temper let
him alone. He will soon meet some one
who will fight him. A man may fight duels
| all his life if lie is disposed to quarrel.
| Up to the time of her death, which oc-
| Mrs. Butmer of Reading, Pa, was able to
| read the finest print without glasses.
The earliest cases OF algebraic knowledge
are found in Egypt. Ahmes, who lived in
| 400 b. c.. dealt with geometric and alge-
| braic problems in papyrus manuscript.
A woman can talk as sweet as peaches
and cream to the woman she hates, while
two men would be pounding each others
heads before they had exchanged ten words.
There are nearly forty members of the
House OF Commons who are the successors
to peers, and are thus liable at any mo-
ment to be transferred to the House Of
Lords.
A new cigar-lighter is loop of platinum
wire in holder When 1t is at rest on the
inkstand the current is broken, but on
raising 1t the loop glows and the light OBJ
tanned.
The speed of bees, says writer, has been
greatly overestimated, but the man Of eX-
perienee knows that the rapidly of the part
opposite the bees foresight is stern
reality.
More white children are color blind than
Indians. An examination of $50 white
children disclosed five who were color blind,
while among the same number of Indian
boys none were found.
Treasury officials estimate that Ameri-
cans spent S100000.000 abroad last summer.
1t will be interesting to learn how much for
eigners will spend in the United States in
Jealousy over the affections of a Browns
town CIV. Va0 young man has resulted in a
bloody combat between marketable widow
and handsome girl, the latter Of whom
was disfgured for life.
1t will astonsh no one to hear that Of
fowls pullet is to be preferred, while
brakes are fatter than ducks. But it may
be news to some to be told that old cocks
| and hens make the best soup.
Several aged farmers near Lima. Ohio,
have been buneoed out OF $1,000 within the
past ten days by atfixing their signatures to
so-called contracts which subsequently
turned up in the shape Of notes.
The cut of the winter overcoat will be
easy without being fullsome or long and it
will be made up principally IN the single
breasted style. On rough goods the velvet
collar will be deemed necessary.
One of the claims that Allen G. Thurman
will have upon posterlty would seem TO be
the fact that he loved both his wife and his
country. The average politician lets one or
the other occupy small space in his affec-
lions.
The Bishop of Chester. England. has told
a school of girls that if they only became
good plain cooks" he believed they might
do almost as much good to the community
at large as If they became senior wranglerS
| or senior classics.
The farm products OF Vermont this fall
will realize $50, 100000 which is the best
State farmers since tue war. Improved
methods of culture are largely credited
with the prosperity.
A crucial test of early adyantages-it had
| almost been written the" crucial test-es-
| pecially in the case of woman, is note
| writing. In no one way does the veneer
| show through more plainly than when
madam seats herself at her writing desk.
Omaha's athletic clubhouse will shortly
| be thrown open to the public. 1t has a
membership of 500, made up of the best
| young men in the city. 1t is the first COM
| plete clubhouse of the kind in Omaha aud
marks long step forward in metropolita II
| life.
| The new designs for quarters, dimes and
| ffty-cent pieces. which have practically
| been accepted by the Treasury Department,
| are said to be very beautiful The reverse,
which, like the diverse, will be the same for
all three cuinS, IS novel conception and
| slrikingly artistic.
A Bath (Me.) boy who came to this city
| on ship arrived home few days age. He
returned overland and is satisfied with his
sea experience. The voyage was six months.
| He says on those long voyages you might
| just as well be dead from the time you
| leave until you arrive.
| Azalia, an Indiana hamlet with only three
votes, has never had but one Postmas ter,
who was appointed by President Buchanan
| in 1859, and still holds the office. He was
retained by President Cleveland. although a
| Republican, because the other two were in
| competent to fill the position.
| A Hind9o baby is named when it is twelve
days old, and usually by the mother. Some
| times the father wishes for another name
| than that selected by tue mother; in that
| case two lamps are placed over the two
| names, and the name over which the lamp
| burns the brightest is the one given to the
child.
A Philadelphia man has brought suit to
| recover $1,000 damages, which he claims to
| have sustained by sitting down on a tack.
| The defendant in the case is street-car
| company and not the usual small boy. New
| erthelesS, the outcome OF the case will be
eagerly awaited by the village school-mas-
| tiers generally.
Keeping the head perfectly clean is a
| great aid to health. A distinguished ply
| stefan, who has spent much of his time AT
| quarantine, said that person whose head
| was thoroughly washed every day rarely
| ever took contagious disease, but when the
hair was allowed to become dirty and mat
ted it was hardly possible to escape infec-
| tiob.
Even in hats there is poison. Alcoholic
beverages, tobacco. tea, coffee, milk, water,
air, the money we interchange, all are dan
| gerOus, toxic; any Of them enough in fact,
to give nervous man nightmare. But the
stop" hat. this is the last blow. Man has
| chung to 1t so long and sc loyalty. Lead
poisoning is the danger in hats, particularly
| in new ones.
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