The morning call., 1891-06-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

''Annie Rooney" is yet without a success
sOr as a national song.
Eleven children, OF whom one is dead,
have been bitten by mad dog near Jewett,
Tex.
A vicious youngster In New York stole
the family baby carriage and sold 1t Tor 81
cents.
A six-year-old Baltimore girl has been
committed to the House of Refuge as ineor-
rigib!P.
A burglar arrested at Pittsburg was dis
gused as IabOGer, and had his tools IN a
dinner-paiI.
Every cat In Asbury PARK aud Ocean
Grove, \. j., has been slaughtered since the
death Of Lawyer Bartine from bite OF that
animal.
A London dealer recently received in one
consignment $1,000 dead humming BIRDS,
$4,000 aquatic birds and 100000 pairs OF
birds wings.
A Pittsburg congregation disagreed over
the location Of proposed new church, so
the money was divided and two churches
Will be built.
A party Of twenty-five Poles have left
Chicago for their native land. They said
they were not satisfied with America and
would not return.
An Iowa man has been on trial since the
year 1876. No wonder the question of his
sanity has been raised; the wonder would
be in his reason surviving the ordeal.
The Balkwals, a learned community of
BrahminS in AhmeGabad, India, have held
q meeting and decided not to permit their
daughters to marry before the age OF II.
ill the sixteenth century alcohol was
used only as medicine. 1t was as drug,
and not as beverage, that it became
known as aqua yIt9"-the water OF life
from its great restorative powers.
The use of electric cranes is growing rap
/ ~ Sipaa hos hpQF found that thpV arr
comparatively economical, easy to handle
and are ready for work at moments no.
tice
A brakeman on the Boston and PrOvi-
deuce Railroad some time ago saved the life
Of Mrs. -Searle, aud she has re-
warded him with grOcery-stOTe and wagons
and furnished house.
Wilkesbarre PA.) merchant who had
placed a a-penny-in-the-slO machine
in his store opened il few days ago and
found sixty pennies and 400 iron washers.
The small boy hod got in his work.
The merchants in Butler County, Kans.,
keen infected chinchbugs on hand and ad
vertse that every customer who purchases
so many dollars worth of goods will be
presented with package of the bugs.
At Echternacb, a little German town,
they celebrate annually the extinction Of an
epidemic of spasmodic disease by a process
sion of jumpers. This year 5000 people par
ticipated and jumped along in procession.
Jonathan Kress OF Locust Valley, Lehigh
County, Pa. has in his possession box of
cigars made fOrty-seyen years ago by George
knausS, cgar-maker of that time, but has
not found any one courageous enough TO
smoke one OF them.
There is an old oak in the graveyard at
Midway, in Liberty County, GA. that meas
ureres eighteen feet six inches in circumfer-
ence three feet from its base. This Gene
terry dates back to the first settlement Of
Georgia rs a colony of Great Britain.
man who has tried it says that two or
three dandelion leaves, Chewed before going
to bed, will always produce sleep, no matter
how worried or nervous man may be.
And they cause no weakness or headache
such as follows the use Of choral or NOR
phine.
The only member now living OF the COM
miCtee of one hundred appointed to meet
General Lafayette when he arrived in this
country on his memorable visit is George
ShiraS, who boards at a hotel in Economy
Beaver County, Pa. Mr.. Shiras is sc years
old, hale and hearty, and still enjoys days
fishing sport
Rev. Mr.. Murphy of Chicago went to AT
RIGA as minister. While his success was
measurably good, he was never able to pre-
vent bis leading native deacon from taking
an annual TRIP into the mountains for the
worship If old gods. Eleven months he was
good Christian; IN June he was heather
beyond reclaim.
Two hunters near Reading, Pa, stole a
bears cub and were pursued by the mother.
After running until they were almost eX-
hausted. they stopped, and the man with
the cub, taking it by the hind legs, attacked
the mother. He beat her across The nose
with her offspring so hard that she finally
fed, leaving the hunters with the cub.
which was dead.
stOre-keeper at Glenmore, Montgomery
County, Pa, recently had two dozen boxes
of aXle-Rrease stolen from his place, and
making an investigation traced the theft to
some Hungarians employed in a neighbor-
ing quarry. He visited their hut one day,
and was shocked to find box of his axle
grease on the table and the Hungarians eat
ing 1t on their bread in place of butter.