The morning call., 1891-08-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

SIo,OVu worth night.
Switzerland yearly receives about s25,-
UO0,0GO from foreign tourists.
A newspaper isn't made in day. glts
tnlns OF years, traditions, principles ana
clientage.
Bicycles can no longer be ridden in Dan
ish cities faster than the speed of cab, by
decree of the Government.
Grange County, Ind, has q corner on pet
rihed bodies. AT last accounts sixteen mad
Deen exhumed in graveyard there.
Snails have teeth on their tongues. hun
dreds oil them, but, as if these were not
enough, some have them also in their stom-
achs.
The young husband with an exalted Idea
OF parental authority gets his first rude
awakening when he finds he has to mind the
baby.
Hundreds of Sleeps are dying in Living
sion County, Mich, from the ravages OF an
Intestinal worm known as the strongylus
contortus.
AT Louisville, recently, as young man
was returning from call upon his sweet
heart. he was knocked down ana robbed by
her brother.
The cuttlefsh. which, among other strange
things. always walks with its head down.
ward, does not chew its food at ALL but mas
ucateS with its glzzard.
a carrier pigeon taken from Berlin to
LONDON recently made its escape and re-
turned to its old quarters. That pigeon has
the record by long odds.
A young man who was barely able to read
ana write when he Went TO the Kansas
Penitentiary some years ago now teaches the
highest class in that institution.
Dr.. Flers, President of Ecuador, celebrated
MS birthday by granting pardon to eighty
seven conyicts, and forty-six of them were
behind the bars again before week.
The latest improvements in the long dis
tance telephones have raised the question of
the probability of their being pat into oper-
alton between this country and Europe.
Hartford Comm smokers, il they are wise,
VIII lay III their stock of cigars on Saturday,
as an ordinance prohibiting the sale Of the
weed on Sunday is now rigidly enforced.
Inc neat sum of 500 was netted by the
CINCINNATI BARRIERS at Il recent picnic. One
knight of the razor, who sold 1862 tickets,
was given BARRIERS chair of the latest de-
sign.
In recent trial at Chattanooga, Tenn,
the stenographer took 2l0O pages OF notes,
which he Is now bng, the aggregate
iootlng up 100000 words. equal to large
book.
A tumble down building at South Omaha.
utilized Tor police station, fell in with
tremendous crash in the middle of the night,
without, however, injuring any Of the in
mates.
A substance resembling soap has been
found beneath the surface near Cold Spring
n. j. 1t hardens on exposure to the air,
ana being used with water makes a generous
lather.
By reason of the difficulty in conycting
a saloon-keeper at Logahsport, Ind, Of
violating the 11-o'clock liquor law the
Mayor OF that city is called the Butter
milk Mayer"
Residents of Portland, Ind, were treated
to novel spectacle few nights ago in the
n q lnyIraa f,.1
eral.car-loads of cedar posts ignitedand were
nearly consumed before the train was
stopped.
A Meriden Comm woman who placed
$500 in bills in Bible for safekeeping was
robbed OF the amount by boarder who
witnessed the operation. He was arrested.
on suspicion and the money found in one Of
his socks.
Maple sugar on snow was the attraction
at recent gathering near North Adams
Mass. The snow had been kept since win
ter under thick covering of spruce
branches.
Any people of temperate habits ale COM
petent TO be good advisers. 1t takes a clean
brain and good judgment to give good adj
vice, and liquor unbalances the mind and
makes 1t unreliable.
Minneapolis still refuses to accept Gov
eminent census figures as to her population.
The Tribune of that city now figures from
that the correct figures are 209.245.
The manuscript letters of Goethe to Frau
Won Stein are offered for sale by Goethes
grandson, who asks S37. 500 for them. En-
glish and American bidders are competing
with the German Government to secure
them.
Mrs. Mary Compton, who came from
Pennsylvania TO Ross County, Ohio, in 1880,
IS dead. She was born in 1897, and was
therefore in her ninety fifth year. She had
lived In the neghb0rhood in which she died
for ninety-one years.
AT Greencastle, Ind, recently, large guam
TUES OF hay were seen passing over the city.
They are thought TO have been propelled by
distant cyclone, but the curious phase Of
the occurrence is that the weather in the
vicinity was perfectly calm.
A homlng pigeon which was liberated at
Circleyille. ONO, two years ago has lust
arrived at its home in Buffalo, n. Y. 1t is
supposed to have been captured and held
prisoner en- route. The distance between
the two cities is 800 miles.
The people of the Duchy OF Gotha are
happy over the Furnishing state of their
public finance So plethoric has the treas
ury become that bill has been introduced
IN the House OF Representatives suspending
all taxation Tor three months.
Among the utensils of the Roman period
recently found in pit in the Roman British
city of Silchester was plane that bears a
striking esemblance to the modern article
1t looks very much as if the shrewd Yankee
has been getting in his work again.
Ecclesiastical troubles at Easton, Pa,
have eliminated in the exclusion of the
vestry from the church by the pastor, who,
however, rendered his resignation through
an open widow to the yestry which body
met ON the outside with tallow candies.
One way the summer girls at Bar Harbor,
NE, nave oil scraplng acq uaintances with
Tue young men IS through sham mistakes
while out riding. The young men are not
deceived, and even the intelligent saddle
horses are beginning to understand the
game.
Accommodations for at least 80, 900 strang-
ers in private residences have been secured
for the coming Grand Army Encampmeut
ut Detroit. Each person will have the
number, street and name of owner of the
house in which he is to stop before he starts
from home.
Ohio now comes to the front with six
foot rattlesnake 10 years old. The reptiles
career is said to have been ended at South
Charleston i'll that State, and it is reported a
four feet long, has been corraled at Ports
mouth, Ohio.
An unknown animal is killing the dogs
near Danyille, KY, by cutting hole in the
throat and sucking the blood. 1t is said to
DC De an Immense white animal. unlike any,
sHiur S'Oi pOIOiS DULL IL Is Oh Tie grey
hound pattern, but larger in every way,
being about feet high and feet long.
A rattesnake three feet long, with tin
cup fastened to its back by the handle was
Killed near Handbook, Pa, few days ago.
The snake had pulled its body through
the handle of the cup half the length of
It, where the fit became too tight, causing
the cup to stick TO the scales OF the snake.
The prisoners in the Mauch Chunk Pa)
Jail mutinied recently. They refused to
clean out the Jail as formerly. The mutt
neers were overpowered and put In solitary
confinement on bread and water, when they
begged for mercy and were released on
promising to resume their old occupation.
They have an ordinance in Monroe City,
Mo-, that many larger places might pattern
after and please long suffering public. A
resident of that town has recovered 500
from man who tied his mules to hand
some maple shade tree belonging to the viii
lager. letting the mules bark and kill the
tree, it being one his grandfather planted.
Mr.. Romanes of London has an ape that
has Tn for in