The morning call., 1891-06-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There is no cure for stopping talking
while asleep
a famine that would be welcomed in New
Jersey is a mosquito famine.
The Bible has now been translated into
siXty-SiX Of the languages and dialects Oh
Africa.
hungry horse at Detroit made dinner
the other day off the tops of three baby
carriages.
A petroleum motor tricycle. has been in
vented that will run forty miles on one
gallon of oil
John Schneider of Middle Village, L. l..
has been taken to task for raising potatoes
in q cemetery.
The man who has a kind word for every;
body does more good than surly one could
do with money.
A lad but 10 years old is startling the
eredulOuS people around La Harpe, ILL.,, by
hi mind-readng feats.
+ ere wOuldn't be so many tired people
d the world If men would stop climbing
hills before they get to them.
The product of gold in the United States
the last sixteen years has aggregated the
enormous amount OF S572, 100000.
At Lowell Ark, recently child was
killed by lightning while In its mothers
arms. The mother was unlnlured.
A hen which grows a mustache every
spring and sheds it each following fall is
one of the cuTiOsities of Atchison, Kans.
The annual production of salt throughout
the world is estimated AT 100000 tons, the
Larger share coming fr IN English works.
The yells and other noises made by boys
playing base-ba IN a vacant lot IN New
York City drove a neighboring man insane.
The runaways on the Brooklyn Bridge
average two month III summer ana one a
month In winter. Arrests average four a
week.
There is a swell restaurant in New York
that boasts OF two noblemen and an accOuI-
pllshed man OF letters as being on its staff
of walters.
Probably the rarest stamp in existence
has just been sold in London for $3.50. 1t is
an American scent stamp issued al Brattle-
boro, VI, liz 1910.
Connecticut, the State gets per cent Of Mr..
BaTuum's personal estate over $4,000. Ii
amounts t. Sol, 229
A school-marm near Jacksonville. Mass,
who had taught her pupils to drill, marched
them out of the burning school-house in
good order the other day.
One or two leaves of the common gera-
mum bruised and dipped in not water to
soften are better than arnica for cut fin
ger, bruised nail or kindred injury.
The Maine Legislature has appropriated
$1,000 TO buy a silver service for Uncle
Sans biggest armOred cruiser Maine, about
reaching completion at the Brooklyn Navy
yard.
The number Of American pilgrms who
visit the tomb OF Shakespeare far surpasseS
that from other countries. Each year the
number grows larger, 10000 being the latest
figures.
-Four old maids Of O'Fallon, Mo-, couldn't
agree on the color of their joint home, so
they drew lots for four portions of the
house ana each painted portion 10 suit
herself
At Birmingham, England, man who was
charged with assuming the title of physi-
clan set up in his defense a diploma from a
medical college in indianapolis. for which he
paid $50
George Phillips, so years of age, residing
in Oeonre County, 5. c., has had gray
beard Tor twenty years. Recently Ii COM
menced turning black, and is now as black
as 1t ever was
A funeral procession was stopped at Cam
bridge Mass, by constables, who searched
every carriage for whisky. Cambridge is a
prohibition town. No whisky was found
| by the officers
Philadelphia is fast becoming a formid-
able rival of Chicago in the divorce line.
| Thirty-fve unhappy couples were recently
| freed from matrimonial bonds in the Quaker
| CITY in single day.
Gray, the noted poet, gives very minute
| account Of canary owned by woman
who kept cofIee-house in Pail Mall, Lon
| dou, aud states that this bird could whistle
no less than twenty different tunes.
Professor Wellington of the Kansas Uni
versity found in Smoky River Valley the
| skeleton OF pterOdactyl, whose skull
measures feet in length. This specimen is
| the most complete of any in existence.
Alderman Butt of Allentown, Pa. has
| had novel case in which the prisoner
young man without arms, was charged with
| aggravated assault and battery. The al
| legged assault was committed by his feet and
| mouth.
| 1t has been shown that the climate of
| many Italian provinces has been changed
| by the steady destruction OF the forests.
| The Government is seeking to remedy the
matter by Offering valuable prizes for tree
| planting
There is a spring in Bear Valley. near
! ChamberSburg, Pa, from the surface of
/ which bubbles Os sand and air ascend about
ten inches and then burst The spring is
ten feet in diameter. The water is pure and
| refreshing.
Anthony Shubert, third officer of the
/ British tramp steamship Strathdom, is one
| of the heirs of Schubert, the rich Phladel-
| phia piano maker. He expects to get
| S5,000,000 out of the estate and settle down
| to all easy shore life.
Mrs. Louise Burbank of Leominster.
| Mass, is almost l04 years of age. In her
| early years she walked from Quebec to BOs-
! ton, carrying her babe upon her back, the
| family finances compelling them to make
| the journey in that way.
| A Philadelphia vegetarian would not per-
init his wife ana children to eat meat. The
| contention finally found its way into the
/ courts The Judge recommended that they
| try pudding and beefsteak for a change and
this the man finally consented to do.
A great increase in eye disease in Brus-
sells has been traced TO a visit Of an Asiatic
| quack, who has treated many eyes with a
weak boracic acid solution, applied with the
same brush to all. Virus Of serious disease
has been conveyed by the brush to ewes
which before had only unimportant infiam-
| nation.
The manuscripts of all of George Eliot's
novels, except those of Scenes From Cler-
ical Life" have become the prope rty of the
British Museum through the death of Cap
tain Lewes. The penmanshp is said to be
very neat and legible, and a dedication 10
| George Henry Lewes is pIefixed to each
manuscript
| Department of Chemistry.
! A summer course in chemistry will be
| given in the new Chemical Laboratory of
| the University of California, beginning